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Quinney: The World's Best Kept Secret
Znet Article, October, 27 2005
James Quinney
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In 1943, as Britain was facing the threat of Nazi invasion, Winston Churchill wrote: "The power of the executive to cast a man in prison without formulating any charge known to the law and particularly to deny him the judgement of his peers is in ...
Martin: Venezuelan trade unionists discuss workers' management and factory occupations
Znet Article, October, 26 2005
Jorge Martin
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Workers' representatives and trade union activists from around the country met in Caracas on October 21-22, in the National Gathering of Workers towards the Recovery of Companies. The main aim of this meeting, called by Venezuela's National Worker...
Solo: Varieties of imperial aggression
Znet Article, October, 26 2005
Toni Solo
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When the UN received the recent Mehlis report on the murder of former Lebanese President Rafik Hariri, one suggested tribunal for a possible prosecution was the International Criminal Court. Rejecting such a proposal, Secretary of State Condoleezz...
Weissman: Outing CIA Agents
Znet Article, October, 24 2005
Steve Weissman
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[Introduction by Tom Engelhardt: As many now know,...
Ireland: Urgent! NEW REPUBLICAN GAG RULE ON NON-PROFITS
Znet Article, October, 24 2005
Doug Ireland
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The group OMB Watch has issued an urgent appeal about a new Republican gag rule restricting the ability of non-profit organizations to do voter r...
Lendman: The Sorrows of Haiti
Znet Article, October, 20 2005
Stephen Lendman
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On February 28, 2004, in the middle of the night, the U.S. again invaded Haiti. It abducted and forcibly removed democratically elected President Jean-Bertrand Aristide by its staged coup d'etat and flew him against his will to the Central African...
Pilger: The Silence of Writers
Znet Article, October, 16 2005
John Pilger
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In 1988, the English literary critic and novelist, D.J. Taylor wrote a seminal piece entitled 'When the Pen Sleeps'. He expanded this into a book 'A Vain Conceit', in which he wondered why the English novel so often denigrated into 'drawing room t...
Pate: Haiti, Imperialism, and the Treachery of Liberals
Znet Article, October, 15 2005
Shirley Pate
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What liberals choose to overlook is dangerous. “Unfinished Country,†a film about Haiti by Jane Regan, aired on PBS on September 6. I’m not sure if I have seen a documentary so devoid of context. For the life of me, I d...
Turse: The Fallen Legion
Znet Article, October, 14 2005
Nick Turse
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The Fallen Legion
Albert: Interview with Michael Albert
Znet Article, October, 10 2005
Michael Albert
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AttacD-AWWO: Can you say something about the process, the discussion that lead to Parecon (participatory economics) and the book that is now also appearing in German translation this fall? Michael Albert: Sure. It was a long process. It started o...
Monbiot: Protesters as Criminals
Znet Article, October, 04 2005
George Monbiot
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"We are trying to fight 21st-century crime - antisocial behaviour, drug-dealing, binge drinking, organised crime - with 19th-century methods as if we still lived in the time of Dickens". Tony Blair, 27th September 2005.(1) "Down poured the wine l...
Fisk: How The World Was Duped:
Znet Article, October, 04 2005
Robert Fisk
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The 5th of February 2003 was a snow-blasted day in New York, the steam whirling out of the road covers, the US secret servicemen - helpfully wearing jackets with "Secret Service" printed on them - hugging themselves outside the fustian, asbestos-p...
Podur: Two Faced in Haiti
Znet Article, October, 01 2005
Justin Podur
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Last week we talked to Desmond Molloy, an old soldier who heads the 'DDR' program for MINUSTAH, the UN Stabilization Mission in Haiti. 'DDR' stands for Disarmament, Demobilization, and Reintegration. Molloy's previous experience, among other confl...
Podur: From the Embassy to the Prison
Znet Article, September, 21 2005
Justin Podur
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From the Embassy to the Prison
Fisk: Religious Terror
Znet Article, September, 18 2005
Robert Fisk
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In an age when Lord Blair of Kut al-Amara can identify "evil ideologies" and al-Qa’ida can call the suicide bombing of 156 Iraqi Shias "good news" for the "nation of Islam", thank heaven for our readers, in particular John Shepherd, princi...
Jamail: Warring on Voters
Znet Article, September, 17 2005
Dahr Jamail
Jamail's ZSpace page
For the last several days at least 6,000 US soldiers along with approximately 4,000 Iraqi soldiers (Read-members of the Kurdish Peshmerga and Shia Badr Army) were laying siege to the city of Tal-Afar, near Mosul in northern Iraq. It is estimated t...
Dowd: The United States Becomes Its Own Worst Enemy
Znet Article, September, 14 2005
Douglas Dowd
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Introduction. Since the 1970s the United States has become increasingly captive to consumeristic frenzy and religious zeal at home and to an arrogant and bloody militarism abroad. As we do so, has not the following description come to fit us as ...
Ireland: Padilla
Znet Article, September, 14 2005
Doug Ireland
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When a federal district court ruled last week in favor of President Bush in the case of Jose Padilla -- the only American imprisoned as an “enemy combatant†by Presidential order -- it struck a major blow at the Constitution, uphol...
Albert: Hannover Talk
Znet Article, September, 12 2005
Michael Albert
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Introduction First, I’d like to thank everyone here and especially the ...
Leopold: FEMA Chief Brown's Maneuvers
Znet Article, September, 10 2005
Jason Leopold
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FEMA Chief Brown's Maneuvers
