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Edwards: Paved With Good Intentions - 1
Znet Article, January, 27 2006
David Edwards
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On the rare occasions when the issue of civilian casualties is discussed in the mainstream media three words are invariably mentioned: Iraq Body Count (IBC). IBC describes itself as a project which maintains "the world's only independent and com...
Bello: Humanitarian Intervention
Znet Article, January, 25 2006
Walden Bello
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(Revised version of a speech delivered at the Conference on Globalization, War, and Intervention sponsored by the International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War, German Chapter, Frankfurt, Germany, January 14-15, 2006.) As war clouds ...
Varadarajan: India, China, and the Asian axis of oil
Znet Article, January, 25 2006
Siddharth Varadarajan
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In less than a year, India and China have managed to confound analysts around the world by turning their much-vaunted rivalry for the acquisition of oil and gas assets in third countries into a nascent partnership that could alter the basic dynam...
Bohmer: Olympia Community Stand Up to Nazis
Znet Article, January, 25 2006
Peter Bohmer
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On Sunday, January 21st, 150 to 200 people rallied at Noon by the Texaco gas station on the Eastside of Olympia, Washington near where the National Socialist Movement, an openly Nazi organization was supposed to rally. When they didn't appear, we ...
Baroud: Diplomacy as a Real Option
Znet Article, January, 25 2006
Ramzy Baroud
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Newly elected Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is the new face of evil, US officials and media want us to believe. The dialectics that yielded such a conclusion have been offered in abundance within thousands of news broadcasts, commentaries...
Frank: War with Iran
Znet Article, January, 24 2006
Joshua Frank
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Secretary of State Condi Rice doesn't think the United States and European Union should continue talking to Iran about their potential nuke development. Diplomacy should end and the UN Security Council must now take action, she says. Rice admitted...
Chomsky: Irish Times Interview
Znet Article, January, 24 2006
Noam Chomsky
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Q First of all, I wanted to clear something up. I understand that some remarks you made about Bertie Ahern and “shoe shining †may have been reported inaccurately. A The Press Association story on December 26th said that on his wa...
Avnery: Have Pity on a Poor Orphan!
Znet Article, January, 24 2006
Uri Avnery
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IT WAS a colorful day in Bil'in. Political flags of many colors were fluttering in the brisk breeze, the vivid election posters and the colorful graffiti on the walls adding their bit. It was the biggest demonstration in the beleaguered village fo...
Edalat: Iran, War, and Sanctions
Znet Article, January, 23 2006
Abbas Edalat
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UK based professor Abbas Edalat is a founding member of the newly formed Campaign against Sanctions and Intervention in Iran (CASMII). He recently traveled to the US and spoke at MIT and San Francisco regarding the coming hostilities against Iran....
Lakoff: Canada, Haiti, the UN
Znet Article, January, 21 2006
Aaron Lakoff
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In his book “The Uses of Haitiâ€, author Paul Farmer writes; “...the world's privileged are protected from suffering violence, they are protected from having to perpetrate it – directly – and they are protec...
Macleod: Silence on Haiti in Canada
Znet Article, January, 19 2006
Andrew Macleod
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Last Tuesday, Liberal prime minister Paul Martin made his pre-election stop in Victoria, meeting with supporters at a rally at the Hotel Grand Pacific. There, in what must have felt like a strange replay of countless such events across the country...
Bagg: Haiti's Elites Pressure the UN
Znet Article, January, 18 2006
Leslie Bagg
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HIP - Haiti — Pressure from the elite sector of Haitian society has been mounting against the U.N. Mission in Haiti during the past several weeks. As the on again, off again elections approach the renewed deadline of Feb. 7, the United Nat...
Chomsky: Chomsky: 'There Is No War On Terror'
Znet Article, January, 16 2006
Noam Chomsky
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Geov Parrish: Is George Bush in political trouble? And if so, why? Noam Chomsky: George Bush would be in severe political trouble if there were an opposition political party in the country. Just about every day, they're shooting themselves in the...
Debito: The Coming Internationalization: Can Japan assimilate its immigrants?
Znet Article, January, 16 2006
Arudou Debito
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With the recent ethnic riots in France, The Economist (London) ran a thoughtful article ("Minority Reports") on their causes. It posed an i...
Mishra: Hunger in the Midst of Plenty
Znet Article, January, 16 2006
Girish Mishra
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While the celebrations on the eve of 2006 were going on all over the world and the people with means were bursting crackers, drinking champagne and dancing enthusiastically, one person was desperately reminding them of widespread incidence of pove...
Bricmont: Humanitarian Imperialism
Znet Article, January, 11 2006
Jean Bricmont
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In his new book, Humanitarian Imperialism, Jean Bricmont denounces the use of the human rights pretext to justify attacks against countries in the South. He is a pacifist and a committed intellectual. How is it that a professor of theoretical phy...
Hayden: Pacifying Iraq: Insurgent Scenarios
Znet Article, January, 11 2006
Tom Hayden
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AMMAN, JORDAN--Iraq's armed national resistance is willing to support an honorable American troop withdrawal and recognize "the interests of the US as a superpower," according to a Baghdad source with intimate knowledge of the insurgents. He was i...
Whitney: China and the Dollar
Znet Article, January, 09 2006
Mike Whitney
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“It's the death blow to the US dollar,†said Peter Grandich, editor of the Grandich Letter. On Thursday, The People’s Republic of China fired off the first volley in what could turn out to be economic Armageddon. China ...
Chatterji: Now, Hindu Nationalists Rewriting California Textbooks
Znet Article, January, 08 2006
Angana Chatterji
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The attempts of diasporic Hindu nationalist organizations in the United States to intervene in revising segments on India, Indian history, and Hinduism in 6th grade textbooks in California State schools is disturbing. On December 2, 2005, the Curr...
Bagg: Bel Air
Znet Article, January, 08 2006
Leslie Bagg
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Our second day in Haiti brought us to the slum of Bel Air, an area extremely different than other areas of Port au Prince. Not far from the glistening Palais Nationale, Bel Air is a poor neighborhood which has been hit hard since the February 200...


