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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
Bagg's ZSpace page
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...
Christini: none
Znet Article, January, 06 2006
Tony Christini
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A bias against explicit, progressive political fi...
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...
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...
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. ...
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...
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...
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...
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 FrÃas, few leftists of the world looked toward Venezuela to lift our sagging spirits. Many Venezuelan radicals s...
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, ...
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 ...
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...


