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Boxall: South Africa and Palestine
Znet Article, May, 30 2005
Lawrence Boxall
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Lawrence Boxall is an anti-war activist and socialist; a member of Jews for a Just Peace, Stopwar.ca and the International Socialists, as well as being a veteran of the anti-Apartheid struggle in South Africa. Before moving to Vancouver in time to...
Whitney: The EU Constitution; savaging national sovereignty
Znet Article, May, 30 2005
Mike Whitney
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The EU constitution is a Trojan horse slapped together by corporate and banking elites with the clear purpose of undermining national sovereignty and accelerating globalization. Thank God the French had the common sense to read the document and vo...
Vltchek: Aceh: Take Action Now
Znet Article, May, 30 2005
Andre Vltchek
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ACEH: There is no “Ground Zero†in Banda Aceh – no single point which can be defined as the epicenter of disaster. A tremendous wave leveled entire neighborhoods to the ground. Closer to the coast, what remains of the city ...
Wagner: Knocking over Dominos in Latin America
Znet Article, May, 29 2005
Sarah Wagner
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On Monday, May 16th tens of thousands of Bolivian Indigenous descended from the shantytowns surrounding La Paz, the capital, demanding that the government of Carlos Mesa increase royalties on foreign transnational corporations from 18% to 50%. By ...
Engelhardt: Star Wars XXII
Znet Article, May, 26 2005
Tom Engelhardt
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Star Wars XXII
Shalom: The Anti-War Movement and Iraq
Znet Article, May, 24 2005
Stephen1 Shalom
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Kogure: Turning back the clock on gender equality
Znet Article, May, 22 2005
Satoko Kogure
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As the government emphasizes patriotism as part of the national school curriculum and discussion continues apace over revising Article 9, some ...
Chomsky: State and Corp.
Znet Article, May, 18 2005
Noam Chomsky
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Q: We want to talk about the two dominant power structures of the modern era: the national state and the transnational corporations. The first question is, could you please talk about the rise of this concept of the national state: Why was it crea...
Tanaka: Firebombing and Atom Bombing
Znet Article, May, 16 2005
Yuki Tanaka
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The firebombing of Tokyo, or for that matter the bombing of any city, whether it be Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Dresden or London, cannot be fully comprehended unless it is examined in the context of the history of indiscriminate bombing throughout the t...
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...
Engelhardt: Iraq 'Uptick,' Superpower Downtick?
Znet Article, April, 25 2005
Tom Engelhardt
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Iraq 'Uptick,' Superpower Downtick?
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
