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Znet Article Galati: Multi-Culturalism or Multi-Segregation?

Znet Article, May, 16 2005 Rocco Galati
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The word "multiculturalism" evokes, in Toronto, images of a sausage-fest on College Street's "Little Italy," or a Souvlaki-fest on the Danforth's "Greek Town," Kebob-fests on Gerrard Street's South Asian Quarter, or any of the other food-fests, da...

Znet Article Engelhardt: Iraq 'Uptick,' Superpower Downtick?

Znet Article, April, 25 2005 Tom Engelhardt
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Iraq 'Uptick,' Superpower Downtick?

Znet Article Fuentes: Bolivia: A Nation Holds Its Breath

Znet Article, March, 29 2005 Federico Fuentes
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As the dust settles from a wave of mobilisations that paralysed a nation, Bolivia finds itself with a president increasingly unable to govern. Once again, the indigenous peoples of Bolivia have shown that real power lies in the streets. On March...

Znet Article Hahnel: Winnowing Wheat From Chaff

Znet Article, March, 26 2005 Robin Hahnel
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For the Political Economy Seminar at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst on March 8, 2005 Social Democracy: Giving Credit Where Credit Is Due I mean it as a great compliment when I say that capitalism functions poorly indeed without soc...

Znet Article Curtis: Britain and Africa: The new propaganda

Znet Article, March, 21 2005 Mark Curtis
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A major feature of the invasion of Iraq was media commentators falling for obvious government propaganda. Without such complicity, the invasion would have been politically impossible. Yet this willful self-deception is now being repeated in anothe...

Znet Article Bello: Iraq, the U.S., and the Challenges to the Global Peace Movement

Znet Article, March, 20 2005 Walden Bello
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Speech delivered in Vancouver, Canada, at an event sponsored by StopWar.ca, March 18, 2005, held on the occasion of the March 19-20 Global Protest against the War in Iraq. Over the next few days, millions of people throughout the world, from V...

Znet Article Perez roque: Human Rights and Cuba

Znet Article, March, 19 2005 Felipe Perez roque
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Statement Delivered By H. E. Mr. Felipe Pérez Roque, Minister Of Foreign Affairs Of The Republic Of Cuba, At The High-level Segment Of The 61st Session Of The Commission On Human Rights Excellencies: The Commission on Hu...

Znet Article Baroud: A Series of Unfortunate Events, The Iraq Edition

Znet Article, March, 19 2005 Ramzy Baroud
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I visited Baghdad as a reporter a few years before the US invasion. There were posters and statues of the ousted President Saddam Hussein everywhere. But not one checkpoint. Those lucky enough, or maybe unfortunate enough to report from the occup...

Znet Article Landau: Payout for Pinochet Victims Shines in Dark Times for Human Rights

Znet Article, March, 16 2005 Saul Landau
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On February 25, Riggs Bank agreed to pay $9 million into a fund for victims of Augusto Pinochet to settle a case over the bank's role in hiding the former dictator's ill-gotten gains. This latest development in the decades-long fight to hold Pinoc...

Znet Article Bottoms: Justice Delayed is Justice Denied!

Znet Article, March, 16 2005 Geoff Bottoms
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In his cell at US Penitentiary Victorville, California Gerardo Hernández receives a mountain of mail each day from all over the world, yet still there is no word from Atlanta, Georgia on the results of his appeal hearing last March. Together with...

Znet Article Milne: It Is Not Democracy That's On The March In The Middle East

Znet Article, March, 15 2005 Seumas Milne
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For weeks a western chorus has been celebrating a new dawn of Middle Eastern freedom, allegedly triggered by the Iraq war. Tony Blair hailed a "ripple of change", encouraged by the US and Britain, that was bringing democracy to benighted Muslim la...

Znet Article Franklin: Who's Afraid Of Venezuela-Cuba Alliance?

Znet Article, March, 14 2005 Jane Franklin
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For a long time there was only one country in Latin America offering free health care to all its citizens. Now there are two. The governments of both countries regard health care as a basic human right. So Cuba, rich in health care, and Venezuela,...

Znet Article Mate: In the shadow of Aristide

Znet Article, March, 09 2005 Aaron Mate
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The one-year anniversary of the overthrow of Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide was marked by events all too familiar to the poorest nation in the hemisphere, events that should give Canadians pause to reflect on our role in its ongoing trag...

Znet Article Sgrena: This is the truth

Znet Article, March, 07 2005 Giulian Sgrena
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I'm still in the dark. Friday has been the most dramatic day of my life. It had been many since being kidnapped. I had spoken only a short while ago with my kidnappers that had been saying for many days that they would set me free. And so I was sp...

Znet Article Scott et al: A Bottom-up Southern Strategy for Power in the 21st Century

Znet Article, February, 27 2005 Jerome Scott et al
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Jerome Scott, Project South & Walda Katz-Fishman, Project South & Howard University Overview To build today's movement to fight for and to win justice, equality, peace and popular democracy we must understand how the ruling class has historica...

Znet Article Achcar: WHITHER IRAQ?

Znet Article, February, 25 2005 Gilbert Achcar
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WHITHER IRAQ?

Znet Article Hallinan: Cornering The Dragon

Znet Article, February, 24 2005 Conn Hallinan
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When newly appointed CIA Director Porter Goss recently warned that China's modernization of its military posed a direct threat to the U.S., was it standard budget time scare tactics? Or did it signal the growing influence of hard-liners in the B...

Znet Article Churchill: What Did I Really Say? And Why Did I Say It?

Znet Article, February, 22 2005 Ward Churchill
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Thanks to Clarke Iakovakis for the transcription. Emma Perez: I'm Emma Perez; I'm the new chair of the Department of Ethnic Studies [applause]. I'm very proud to be the chair of the Department of Ethnic Studies; I'm very proud of my colleagues; I...

Znet Article Peterson: Ward Churchill

Znet Article, February, 20 2005 David Peterson
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Between ourselves, I would never want to work for the Racial Statistics Branch of the Population Division of the Census Bureau in Washington. Nevertheless. It appears that some of my fellow Americans would. Thus a friend tells me that a recent e...

Znet Article Reinhart: From Aqaba To Sharm - Fake Peace Festivals.

Znet Article, February, 13 2005 Tanya Reinhart
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The Sharm-el - Sheikh summit of Sharon and Abbas is hailed in the Western media as the opening of a new era. This is the climax of a wave of optimism that has been generated since the death of Arafat. In the last four years, the Israeli leadership...

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