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Znet Article Schiffman: Mumia Is Still the Issue

Znet Article, August, 29 2005 Michael Schiffman
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In April 1999, a crowd of up 20,000 people marched trough downtown Philadelphia, celebrating the 45th birthday of one of the most famous prisoners in the world, the Black former radio journalist Mumia Abu-Jamal, demanding loudly not only that "the...

Znet Article Fisk: How Easily We Have Come To Take The Bombs And The Deaths In Iraq For Granted

Znet Article, August, 28 2005 Robert Fisk
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Taking things for granted. Or, as a very dear friend of mine used to say to me, "There you go." I am sitting in Baghdad airport, waiting for my little Flying Carpet Airlines 20-seater prop aircraft to take me home to Beirut but the local Iraqi sta...

Znet Article Aljawhary: Worker Unions in Iraq

Znet Article, August, 26 2005 Amjad Aljawhary
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  Amjad Aljawhary is the North American Representative of The Federation of Worker Councils and Unions in Iraq. In this interview he discusses his union’s main objective...

Znet Article St-vil: Fair Elections in Haiti

Znet Article, August, 26 2005 Jean St-vil
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All indicators suggest a fiasco for the scheduled fall elections in Haiti. The International Crisis Group (ICG) observed that 18 months after former President Jean Bertrand Aristide was forced out of the country, Haiti remains insecure and volatil...

Znet Article Pilger: The Rise Of The Democratic Police State

Znet Article, August, 18 2005 John Pilger
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Thomas Friedman is a famous columnist on the New York Times. He has been described as "a guard dog of US foreign policy". Whatever America's warlords have in mind for the rest of humanity, Friedman will bark it. He boasts that "the hidden hand of ...

Znet Article Davis: The Coming Avian Flu Pandemic

Znet Article, August, 17 2005 Mike Davis
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The Coming Avian Flu Pandemic

Znet Article Abed: Disengagement and the Politics of Post-National Realism

Znet Article, August, 17 2005 Mohammad Abed
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I The Meaning of Disengagement Maintaining or intensifying oppressive policies requires the manufacture of a diversion, a 'smokescreen' that buys time and accumulates political capital. One reliable way of accumulating political capital is to ...

Znet Article Holloway: Can We Change The World Without Taking Power?

Znet Article, August, 16 2005 John Holloway
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John Holloway: I don’t know the answer. Perhaps we can change the world without taking power. Perhaps we cannot. The starting point—for all of us, I think—is uncertainty, not knowing, a common search for a way forward. Bec...

Znet Article Mehrdad: New-conservatives, regime crisis and political perspectives in Iran

Znet Article, August, 15 2005 Ardeshir Mehrdad
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In the recent presidential elections in Iran, Mahmood Ahmadinejad, an unknown conservative military commander, won. His victory was surprising as many had predicted Hashemi Rafsanjani would become Iran’s next president. Rafsanjani, perhaps...

Znet Article Z: Vermin And Souvenirs

Znet Article, August, 10 2005 Mickey Z
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Because Japan chose to invade several colonial outposts of the West, the war in the Pacific laid bare the inherent racism of the colonial structure. In the United States and Britain, the Japanese were more hated than the Germans. The race card was...

Znet Article Hobsbawm: Retreat of the Male

Znet Article, August, 01 2005 Eric Hobsbawm
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The family is a subject on which, for obvious reasons, there is no shortage of public or private views. Google records 368 million items under the word ‘family', as against a mere 170 million under ‘war'. All governments have tried...

Znet Article Nozaki: The 'Comfort Women' Controversy: History and Testimony

Znet Article, July, 31 2005 Yoshiko Nozaki
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The 'Comfort Women' Controversy: History and Testimony

Znet Article Choudry: Monkey-Wrenching the Globalization Gang

Znet Article, July, 23 2005 Aziz Choudry
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I went to Bretton Woods, but all I got was this lousy t-shirt. Amazingly, it's not a 'one size fits all' and it's not full of holes. Walking through the Mount Washington Hotel in Bretton Woods two years ago, in the New Hampshire mountain resort a...

Znet Article Chomsky: Resort To Fear

Znet Article, July, 21 2005 Noam Chomsky
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The resort to fear by systems of power to discipline the domestic population has left a long and terrible trail of bloodshed and suffering which we ignore at our peril. Recent history provides many shocking illustrations. The mid-twentieth centur...

Znet Article Curtis: Brown's Doleful Role At Gleneagles

Znet Article, July, 10 2005 Mark Curtis
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The government will try to pull off a PR coup in the aftermath of the G8 summit by posturing as Africa's champion - hiding Britain's real agenda and how agreements on debt and aid will further impoverish the continent. While the G8 agreement com...

Znet Article Han: Imitating the Colonizers:

Znet Article, July, 10 2005 Suk-jung Han
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Imitating the Colonizers:

Znet Article Scipes: An Unholy Alliance

Znet Article, July, 10 2005 Kim Scipes
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The AFL-CIO's "Solidarity Center" (formally known as the American Center for International Labor Solidarity or ACILS) was actively involved in bringing together the leadership of the right-wing Confederation of Venezuelan Workers (CTV) and that of...

Znet Article Bacon: Stories from the Borderlands

Znet Article, July, 08 2005 David Bacon
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The world of the border turns labor law on its head-old, established legal rights are just so much ink on paper, and even the decision of federal judges to enforce the law are simply ignored. NAFTA's labor and environmental "side- agreements" have...

Znet Article Cook: The Struggle Against Terrorism Cannot Be Won By Military Means

Znet Article, July, 08 2005 Robin Cook
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I have rarely seen the Commons so full and so silent as when it met yesterday to hear of the London bombings. A forum that often is raucous and rowdy was solemn and grave. A chamber that normally is a bear pit of partisan emotions was united in sh...

Znet Article Pilger: From Iraq To The G8

Znet Article, July, 07 2005 John Pilger
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Over the past two weeks, the contrast between two related "global" events has been salutary. The first was the World Tribunal on Iraq held in Istanbul; the second the G8 meeting in Scotland and the Make Poverty History campaign. Reading the papers...

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