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Znet Article Podur: Aristide the Film

Znet Article, December, 13 2005 Justin Podur
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Review: Aristide and the Endless Revolution. 2005. Baraka Productions. 83 min. Movie site: www.aristidethefilm.com  Available from www.firstrunfeatures.com Each fact is disputed. Haiti’s President, Jean Bertrand Aristide, was overthrown ...

Znet Article Hallinan: The Fate of Gaza

Znet Article, December, 11 2005 Conn Hallinan
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There is a moment in Jeffery Goldberg's New Yorker profile of Brent Scowcroft, George Bush Senior's former National Security Advisor, when the current Administration's combination of arrogance and cluelessness crystallize. Over dinner, Secretary o...

Znet Article Tidwell: Goodbye New Orleans

Znet Article, December, 11 2005 Mike Tidwell
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AS WE REACH THE 90-DAY mark since Katrina hit, it's time we ended our national state of denial. Turns out House Speaker Dennis Hastert had it right all along, though his reasons were flawed. We should call it quits in New Orleans not because the c...

Znet Article Weinberg: The Politics of the Antiwar Movement

Znet Article, December, 09 2005 Bill Weinberg
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The Sept. 24 antiwar protest in Washington, D.C., was hailed as a revival of a movement which had become somewhat moribund even as the quagmire in Iraq deepens with horrifying rapidity. The march brought out 300,000 protesters, by organizers' esti...

Znet Article Zamparini: Watching Human Rights Watch

Znet Article, December, 08 2005 Gabriele Zamparini
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Dear Mr. Kenneth Roth, Executive Director Human Rights Watch On December 2, 2005 the New York Times published an article with the title “Rights Group Lists 26 It Says U.S. Is Holding in Secret Abroad”. The article quotes Marc Garla...

Znet Article Monbiot: Worse Than Fossil Fuel

Znet Article, December, 07 2005 George Monbiot
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Over the past two years I have made an uncomfortable discovery. Like most environmentalists, I have been as blind to the constraints affecting our energy supply as my opponents have been to climate change. I now realise that I have entertained a b...

Znet Article Pinter: Art, Truth & Politics

Znet Article, December, 07 2005 Harold Pinter
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In 1958 I wrote the following: 'There are no hard distinctions between what is real and what is unreal, nor between what is true and what is false. A thing is not necessarily either true or false; it can be both true and false.' I believe that t...

Znet Article Fisk: The Great War for Civilization

Znet Article, December, 07 2005 Robert Fisk
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Robert Fisk is one of the world's best known journalists. He has been based in the Middle East as the UK Independent's Middle East correspondent for nearly 30 years, during which he has reported on two U.S. wars in Iraq, two Afghan wars, the Israe...

Znet Article Krebs: The Crisis in Kashechewan

Znet Article, December, 01 2005 Mike Krebs
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VANCOUVER BC--The crisis on the Kashechewan Native reserve in northern Ontario has once again placed the brutal social and living conditions of indigenous people in Canada onto the center stage of politics. On October 14th, Health Canada alerted ...

Znet Article Chomsky: Q/A on the Iraq War

Znet Article, November, 29 2005 Noam Chomsky
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Q/A on the Iraq War

Znet Article Adey: Canada Sponsors Illegal Membership of Haiti to Caribbean Development Bank

Znet Article, November, 22 2005 Marcella Adey
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On February 29, 2004, Canada played an integral role in the illegal removal of one of Haiti’s first democratically elected presidents, Jean Bertrand Aristide, effectively assisting in the propulsion of the U.S.’s neo-liberal restru...

Znet Article Bouteldja: A ghettoised, post-colonial France is upon us

Znet Article, November, 22 2005 Naima Bouteldja
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In 1991, after violent riots between youths and police scarred the suburbs of Lyon, French sociologist Alain Tourraine predicted that "it will only be a few years before we face the kind of massive urban explosion of the American experience". The ...

Znet Article Buncombe: Incendiary Weapons

Znet Article, November, 22 2005 Andrew Buncombe
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The Iraqi government is to investigate the United States military's use of white phosphorus shells during the battle of Fallujah - an inquiry that could reveal whether American forces breached a fundamental international weapons treaty. Iraq's a...

Znet Article Ireland: France After The Riots

Znet Article, November, 21 2005 Doug Ireland
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France After The Riots

Znet Article Fisk: War for Civilization

Znet Article, November, 21 2005 Robert Fisk
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YE: How is it going with the process of releasing your new book (Great War for Civilization)? RF: Well, it should be a time when you sit back and enjoy the glow, but actually it’s too hard to do that. I’m still exhausted from writ...

Znet Article Whitney: Chavez and the Crawford Madman

Znet Article, November, 21 2005 Mike Whitney
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Hugo Chavez seems to take great pleasure in tweaking George Bush’s nose. He’s repeatedly called Bush a “terrorist” and disparaged the US as a “terrorist state”. Just last week, Chavez fired off anoth...

Znet Article Mian: Blinded by the Bomb

Znet Article, November, 18 2005 Zia Mian
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For decades, leaders of India and Pakistan have been bewitched by the power of the bomb. Regardless of their various other differences, they seem to have believed that the threat of massive destruction represented by nuclear weapons is a force for...

Znet Article Resta: "We've Seen the Inner Workings and Felt the Consequences"

Znet Article, November, 16 2005 Patrick Resta
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(Patrick Resta is the New England organizer for IVAW (www.ivaw.net). He can be reached at iraqvet@mail.com). I want to discuss Iraq Veterans Against the War (IVAW), but first a little background on you. Can you tell us about your service in Ira...

Znet Article Resta: Veterans Against the War

Znet Article, November, 15 2005 Patrick Resta
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(Patrick Resta is the New England organizer for IVAW (www.ivaw.net). He can be reached at iraqvet@mail.com). I want to discuss Iraq Veterans Against the War (IVAW), but first a little background on you. Can you tell us about your service in Iraq?...

Znet Article Welsh: Haiti Action

Znet Article, November, 15 2005 Dave Welsh
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Flashpoints Radio’s Nora Barrows-Friedman interviews Dave Welsh, Haiti Action Committee   Flashpoints: The paltry coverage of the situation in Haiti these days mainly consists of speculation and U.S. response to the upcoming elections, w...

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