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Znet Article Ahmad: The Gujar Khan Intifada in Pakistan

Znet Article, July, 07 2006 Junaid Ahmad
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The complaints by friends and family never ended: nothing’s happening, nor will it happen, since people, even though the vast majority of them are suffering, are lazy and passive. My stay in Pakistan so far has often encountered such cynic...

Commentary Shiva: The US – India Nuclear Agreement

Commentary, April, 21 2006 Vandana2 Shiva
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India, a civilisation built on renewable energy and biodiversity economies is currently at a cross roads - will she continue on its renewable energy path based on biodiversity, and energy equity, or will she follow the non-sustainable energy path ...

Znet Article Rashid: Afghanistan & Pakistan

Znet Article, April, 06 2006 Ahmed Rashid
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Afghanistan & Pakistan

Znet Article Rashid: Afghanistan & Pakistan

Znet Article, April, 06 2006 Ahmed Rashid
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Afghanistan & Pakistan

Znet Article Ali: WSF in Pakistan

Znet Article, April, 01 2006 Tariq Ali
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While we were opening the World Social Forum in Karachi last weekend with virtuoso performances of sufi music and speeches, the country's rulers were marking the centenary of the Muslim League [the party that created Pakistan and has ever since be...

Commentary Bond: Water Activists Turn On The Taps And Turn Up The Pressure

Commentary, March, 24 2006 Patrick Bond
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On March 16 in Mexico City, thousands of grassroots water warriors marched against an equivalent number of establishment delegates from governments, corporations and international agencies at the World Water Forum.

Commentary Chomsky: Latin America And Asia Are At Last Breaking Free Of Washington's Grip

Commentary, March, 17 2006 Noam Chomsky
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The prospect that Europe and Asia might move towards greater independence has troubled US planners since the second world war. The concerns have only risen as the "tripolar order" - Europe, North America and Asia - has continued to evolve.

Commentary Blum: How I Spent My 15 Minutes Of Fame

Commentary, February, 16 2006 Bill Blum
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The Anti-Empire Report

Commentary Edwards: MEDIA ALERT: BEYOND THE 'BLOG-O-BOTS'

Commentary, January, 26 2006 David Edwards
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Robert Fisk On The British Media - Part 1

Commentary Raptis: Humans and the Divine

Commentary, January, 08 2006 Nikos Raptis
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This Commentary is addressed to Daniele Bennett, the blue-eyed girl whose photo is on the front page of today's (Jan. 5. 2006) International Herald Tribune. The girl, whose father died in a West Virginia coal mine not many hours ago.

Commentary Pilger: The Quiet Death Of Freedom

Commentary, January, 06 2006 John Pilger
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On Christmas Eve, I dropped in on Brian Haw, whose hunched, pacing figure was just visible through the freezing fog. For four and a half years, Brian has camped in Parliament Square with a graphic display of photographs that show the terror and su...

Commentary Joshi: Mediating for Peace: Lessons from the UN and Norway

Commentary, December, 04 2005 Sushma Joshi
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A conflict doesn't end overnight. It's a long, slow process, in which two parties, once they arrive at the table, go from small negotiations to more contentious ones.

Commentary Prashad: Primacy

Commentary, October, 30 2005 Vijay Prashad
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Finally, from an unlikely direction, the US media has asked the question:

Znet Article Ahmad: Pakistan's Dispensability

Znet Article, October, 10 2005 Junaid Ahmad
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Pakistan has just suffered its most horrific earthquake in nearly a century. At the time of writing the estimated number of dead and injured is 20,000 & 42,000, respectively. There is a high likelihood that these numbers will increase as more and ...

Commentary Pilger: News From Behind The Facade

Commentary, September, 20 2005 John Pilger
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When I lived in the United States in the late 1960s, my home was often New Orleans, in a friend's rambling grey clapboard house that stood in a section of the city where civil rights campaigners had taken refuge from the violence of the Deep South...

Commentary Landau: How The United States Supplied Iran With Nuclear Know How

Commentary, September, 18 2005 Saul Landau
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A doctor friend expressed concern over the proliferation of nuclear weapons. Sixty years ago, some 250,000 people died when US atomic bombs fell over Hiroshima and Nagasaki. You needn't become a scientist to understand that radioactivity from nucl...

Commentary Pandya: Citigroup, China and Hugo Chavez

Commentary, August, 31 2005 Chhandasi Pandya
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New YorkÕs Citigroup, the worldÕs largest financial services company, is hungry and has no problem taking food from othersÕ plates. The corporate behemothÕs chief executive, Chuck Prince, publicly disclosed news of his foreign investment appetite ...

Commentary Prashad: Every Generation Does Not Get Its 1968

Commentary, August, 21 2005 Vijay Prashad
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I recently read Tariq Ali's spectacular telling of his political coming of age, Street Fighting Man: An Autobiography of the Sixties (Verso, 2005).

Commentary Monbiot: The Treaty Wreckers

Commentary, August, 04 2005 George Monbiot
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Saturday is the 60th anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima. The nuclear powers are commemorating it in their own special way: by seeking to ensure that the experiment is repeated.

Commentary Prashad: The Bastards Love America

Commentary, July, 13 2005 Vijay Prashad
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The Pew Global Attitudes Survey (June 23) is remarkable for one statistic. Seventy-one percent of the Indian population surveyed this year loves the United States, and fifty four percent have a high regard for Bush. Sixty-three percent of Indians ...

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