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Znet Article Christini: none

Znet Article, January, 06 2006 Tony Christini
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  A bias against explicit, progressive political fi...

Znet Article Qumsiyeh: Israel & Palestine 2006

Znet Article, January, 05 2006 Mazin Qumsiyeh
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More than a year ago many in the US media focused on how the passing of an ailing Arafat would be the key to unlock the deadlocked peace process (we now know this to be untrue or was vastly exaggerated). There was hardly any US coverage of the nat...

Znet Article Zamparini: Guardians of Power

Znet Article, January, 05 2006 Gabriele Zamparini
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The following is an interview with David Edwards and David Cromwell editors of Medialens and co-authors of the new book ‘Guardians of Power: The myth of the liberal media’. UKWatch: Your new book is called ‘Guardians of Po...

Znet Article Lamrani: The politicisation of the Sakharov Prize

Znet Article, January, 05 2006 Salim Lamrani
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Translated by Barbara & David Forbes On 26th October 2005, the European Parliament awarded the Sakharov Prize jointly to the Nigerian lawyer Hauwa Ibrahim, the Women in White of Cuba, and the Paris-based organisation Reporters Without Frontiers. ...

Znet Article Chomsky: A Tale of Two Quagmires

Znet Article, January, 04 2006 Noam Chomsky
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Hastings: Where do you see Iraq heading right now? Chomsky: Well, it's extremely difficult to talk about this because of a very rigid doctrine that prevails in the United States and Britain which prevents us from looking at the situation realisti...

Znet Article Lendman: Venezuela's Bolivarian Movement

Znet Article, January, 04 2006 Stephen Lendman
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Venezuela today, under its democratically elected President, Hugo Chavez Frias, is imbued with the spirit of Bolivarianism and his Bolivarian Revolution. It's based on the vision of Simon Bolivar, the Caracas born 17th and 18th century general who...

Znet Article Early: Is The Strike Dead? Not According to Bob Schwartz

Znet Article, January, 03 2006 Steve Early
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Three years ago in Boston, downtown streets and office buildings were the scene of inspiring immigrant worker activism during an unprecedented strike by local janitors. Their walk-out was backed by other union members, community activists, student...

Znet Article Feinberg: The Bolivarian Revolution

Znet Article, January, 02 2006 Joe grim Feinberg
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Venezuela has produced the most unexpected of recent mass social movements. Nine years ago, before the first election of Hugo Chávez Frías, few leftists of the world looked toward Venezuela to lift our sagging spirits. Many Venezuelan radicals s...

Znet Article Schmidt: War Without End

Znet Article, January, 02 2006 Andréa Schmidt
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This was the year the "war on terror" - an obnoxious expression which we all parroted after 11 September 2001 - appeared to be almost as endless as George Bush once claimed it would be. And unsuccessful. For, after all the bombing of Afghanistan, ...

Znet Article Finkelstein: Israel & Palestine

Znet Article, January, 01 2006 Norman Finkelstein
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Israel laid siege to the Northern Gaza strip overnight, attacking roads and fields, shortly after Israeli occupation forces announced that they were implementing the so-called buffer zone after a home-made Qassam rocket was allegedly fired across ...

Znet Article Stainsby: Canada, the US, and the Tar Sands

Znet Article, December, 28 2005 Macdonald Stainsby
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You can be certain that there is a Canadian Federal election underway when a sitting Prime Minister of the Federal Liberal Party-- considered the party of permanent rule north of the 49th parallel-- takes direct shots at the President of the Unite...

Znet Article Chomsky: On War and Activism

Znet Article, December, 27 2005 Noam Chomsky
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First of all, happy birthday. Thank you. December 7th is also the anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor. It's also the anniversary of the Indonesian invasion of East Timor, authorized by Henry Kissinger, which probably wiped out a third of ...

Znet Article Varadarajan: Asian Interests and the Myth of Balance

Znet Article, December, 27 2005 Siddharth Varadarajan
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 THIS WEEK, the leaders of several Asian countries — India, China, Korea, Japan, and the ASEAN states — will meet in Malaysia for the first-ever East Asia Summit (EAS). Australia and New Zealand, which, like India, are on the perip...

Znet Article Evans: Canada's Shame, Empire's Profit

Znet Article, December, 27 2005 David Evans
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  When Canada secured the airport in Haiti and was instrumental in overthrowing its legitimate government (1,2,3), there was nothing new in its actions. Ever since the earliest beginnings of Canada, its history has been inextricably linked to the...

Znet Article Zamparini: Guardians of Power

Znet Article, December, 24 2005 Gabriele Zamparini
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“Guardians of Power. The Myth of the Liberal Media” is a new book by David Edwards and David Cromwell, the two editors of Media Lens, an excellent watchdog “correcting for the distorted vision of the corporate me...

Znet Article Avnery: The Pied Piper

Znet Article, December, 20 2005 Uri Avnery
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SOME 721 YEARS ago, the town of Hamelin in Germany was suffering from a plague of rats. A citizen called Bunting offered to get rid of them for an agreed fee. When he played on his flute, the entranced rats came out of their holes and followed him...

Znet Article Hunt: Evo Morales Elected Bolivian President in Landslide Victory

Znet Article, December, 20 2005 John Hunt
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According to exit polls, socialist Evo Morales received 51 percent of the votes in Bolivia’s December 18th presidential election, enough to secure his victory. Right-wing candidate Jorge Quiroga admitted defeat with 32 percent of the votes...

Znet Article Ramon: Institutionalised Hatred and Instigating Murder

Znet Article, December, 20 2005 Baheer Ramon
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All human beings are in truth akin; All in creation share one origin. When fate allots a member pangs and pains, No ease for other members then remains. If unperturbed, another's grief canst scan, Thou are not worthy of the name of man. Sa'adi, (1...

Znet Article Edwards: The Insane Society

Znet Article, December, 14 2005 David Edwards
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In his classic book, The Sane Society, published in 1955, psychologist Erich Fromm proposed that, not just individuals, but entire societies "may be lacking in sanity". Fromm argued that one of the most deceptive features of social life involves "...

Znet Article Lubow: Cuba: Computers, Automation, and the Internet

Znet Article, December, 13 2005 Dana Lubow
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Cuba's critics, the detractors, the anti-Cuban right continue to have an extremely difficult time acknowledging the Cuban reality today in the realm of computers and information technology. The denials continue to be regurgitated, refusing to admi...

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