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Commentary Shiva: India needs her small farmers For food security, livelihood security, peace and democracy

Commentary, April, 06 2007 Vandana2 Shiva
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India is a land of small farmers, with 650 million of her 1 billion people living on the land and 80 per cent farmers owning less than 2 ha of land. In other words, the land provides livelihood security for 65 per cent of the people, and the smal...

Znet Article Chomsky: What If Iran Had Invaded Mexico?

Znet Article, April, 05 2007 Noam Chomsky
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What If Iran Had Invaded Mexico?

Commentary Schechter: The Politics of Music and Music As Politics

Commentary, April, 05 2007 Danny Schechter
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On Friday night, I was doing my usual channel surfing when I came across a rebroadcast of the Rock N' Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony. And there was Patti Smith thanking the people who stood by her all these years and singing her heart out.

Znet Article Markland: This Magazine gets it wrong on Afghanistan

Znet Article, April, 04 2007 Dave Markland
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The cu...

Znet Article Naiman: Senator Obama, Congress Has Many Options Besides Full Funding Without Withdrawal

Znet Article, April, 03 2007 Robert Naiman
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One of the things that appeals to many progressives about Barack Obama's presidential candidacy is his background as a community organizer. It's not just that he can claim familiarity with the problems of the community that he worked in - it's tha...

Commentary Monbiot: Untroubled by Democracy

Commentary, April, 03 2007 George Monbiot
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The consultations surrounding the Olympic Games are a stitch-up.

Commentary Herman: Beyond Munich: The UN Security Council Helps Disarm a Prospective Further Victim of U.S. Aggression [*]

Commentary, April, 02 2007 Edward Herman
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Imagine that when Hitler was threatening to invade Poland, after having swallowed Czechoslovakia-with the help of the Western European powers' appeasement of Hitler at Munich in September 1938-the League of Nations imposed an arms embargo on Pola...

Commentary Glick: Uniting the Movements: Atlanta, Ga. in Late June

Commentary, April, 01 2007 Ted Glick
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How will we bring about significant change in the USA? There are a number of things that need to happen, but one bottom-line, essential requirement is the coming together of a critical mass of organizers and activists into a grassroots-based, poli...

Commentary Schechter: An Open Letter To Bono Re: Debt Relief

Commentary, March, 31 2007 Danny Schechter
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The News Dissector has a request for your upcoming special edition of VANITY FAIR: Link the growing debt burden of Americas and the better-known debt problems in Africa.

Commentary Solomon: The Pragmatism of Prolonged War

Commentary, March, 30 2007 Norman Solomon
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The days are getting longer, but the media shadows are no shorter as they cover the war in Iraq through American eyes, squinting in Washington's pallid sun.

Commentary Pilger: The Swimmer's Journey Home

Commentary, March, 29 2007 John Pilger
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Most days, growing up, I would walk down a steep hill past blocks of Aussie Gothic with stairwells that stank of cabbage and beer and dogs, through crooked alleyways of fresh tar turned to putty in the heat and rusted iron fences, beyond which wer...

Znet Article Glick: Voting for War, Again

Znet Article, March, 28 2007 Ted Glick
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Two days ago, over 90% of the 71 members of the Progressive Caucus in Congress voted to essentially give Bush and Cheney the money they need to continue the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and to start one against Iran, until they leave office 22 mo...

Commentary Marshall: Missing in Action: The Peace Movement's Silence on the Impact of War on Women

Commentary, March, 28 2007 Lucinda Marshall

On March 17 I joined the wonderful surge of patriotic Americans who braved horrendous weather to march from Constitution Gardens to the Pentagon in opposition to the Iraq war. One of the dominant themes of the day in signage, t-shirts and speech...

Commentary Zinn: Antiwar talk at the Boston Commons

Commentary, March, 27 2007 Howard Zinn
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Howard Zinn, addressing the crowd gathered for the March 24th 2007 antiwar rally at the Boston Commons.

Commentary Trigona: What does Bush want with Uruguay?

Commentary, March, 26 2007 Marie Trigona
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"The precise pain, in the precise place, in the precise amount, for the desired effect." These are the words of a US instructor in the art of torture teaching techniques in Uruguay during the nation's 1973-1985 military dictatorship. The US played...

Znet Article Administrator: Review of The struggle for Independent Politics in the United States

Znet Article, March, 23 2007 Site Administrator
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Independent Politics: The Green Party Strategy Debate, edited by Howie Hawkins. Haymarket (2006). Did the last presidential election campaign in the United States represent the nadir of Ralph Nader’s long and remarkable public life? Or, w...

Commentary Kagarlitsky: March 2007 vs. March 1917. Historical parallels

Commentary, March, 23 2007 Boris Kagarlitsky
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On March 3, Russia's liberal and leftist groups held the Dissenters' March in St. Petersburg. The rally seems to be the first successful social event of the liberal opposition so far. It gathered over 3000 people; but more importantly it revealed ...

Commentary Peters: Snapshots from Unschooling Part 3 of

Commentary, March, 22 2007 Cynthia Peters
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Part 1: "Snapshots from School" http://www.zmag.org/sustainers/content/2006-12/12peters.cfm

Commentary Blum: The Anti-Empire Report

Commentary, March, 21 2007 Bill Blum
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Flash! This just in! The Cold War was not a struggle between the United States and the Soviet Union. It was a struggle between the United States and the Third World. What there was, was people all over the Third World fighting for economic and pol...

Commentary Bond: Elite power and weakness across time and space

Commentary, March, 19 2007 Patrick Bond
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Who thinks coming hostilities with Iran are about military, material and religio-ideological support for Shiite militias, or even construction of a nuclear energy plant? Only in the context of a several-decade scan does the Bush regime's panicky n...

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