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Ramonet: Spain: This Fall Will Be A Hot One
Znet Article, September, 27 2012
Ignacio Ramonet
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Do they want us to forget that a new wave of cuts is on the way and that the second bailout of Spain will be even more painful?
Ramonet: European Democracy And The Financial Coup D'etat
Znet Article, December, 29 2011
Ignacio Ramonet
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What has been happening is less a matter of mediocrity and incompetence than active complicity with the markets
Ramonet: The Derailing of the Left
Znet Article, June, 29 2011
Ignacio Ramonet
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Every day people find it harder to tell the difference between "leftist" and "rightist" policies since both do the bidding of the financial bosses of the world
Ramonet: Private equity is on the prowl
Znet Article, April, 27 2008
Ignacio Ramonet
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While critics of the economic horrors of globalisation argue, a new and even more brutal form of capitalism is in action. The new vultures are private equity companies, predatory investment funds with vast amounts of capital at their disposal and ...
Ramonet: Money and Power Shift East
Znet Article, February, 12 2008
Ignacio Ramonet
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There are many signs of alarm. There is a renewed interest in gold reserves and a rush to buy...
Ramonet: Africa says no – and means it
Znet Article, January, 03 2008
Ignacio Ramonet
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The unimaginable has happened, to the displeasure of arrogant Europe. Africa, thought to be so poor that it would agree to anything, has said no in rebellious pride. No to the straitjacket of the Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs), no to the c...
Ramonet: Sarkozy
Znet Article, October, 09 2007
Ignacio Ramonet
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Like the pied piper of...
Ramonet: Kosovo
Znet Article, July, 07 2007
Ignacio Ramonet
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The question of Kosovo...
Ramonet: Somalia
Znet Article, April, 29 2007
Ignacio Ramonet
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AMY GOODMAN: In Somalia, fierce fighti...
Ramonet: Polish witchhunt
Znet Article, April, 15 2007
Ignacio Ramonet
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The Poles call it the law of lustration, a term meaning ritual purification; the word has strong connotations of repentance and penitence in Poland, where history and Catholicism are so closely intertwined. Under the law, which was passed last...
Ramonet: Somalia
Znet Article, February, 13 2007
Ignacio Ramonet
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The American sponsored UN Security Council Resolution on Somalia in December 2006 prepared the grounds for an Ethiopia invasion of Somalia. This resolution authorized the deployment of an African Union force, excluding Ethiopia, Kenya, and Djibout...
Ramonet: Pacific overtures
Znet Article, November, 18 2006
Ignacio Ramonet
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North Korea’s first nuclear test on 9 October was not the only recent shock in northeast Asia. The region had been just as disturbed two weeks earlier by the election of Shinzo Abe as Japan’s new prime minister on September 26. Ab...
Ramonet: Liberty, Equality, Security
Znet Article, April, 13 2006
Ignacio Ramonet
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A group of rightwing “declin-ologists†(1), prompted by the avian flu scare, have diagnosed France as an organism in collapse and in urgent need of treatment. Recent events have confirmed the pessimism and, by reinforcing the perce...
Ramonet: Democracy To Order
Znet Article, March, 18 2006
Ignacio Ramonet
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Democracy may have been promoted as the best of all political systems, but it has long been a rare form of actual government. It is difficult for any regime entirely to live up to the democratic ideal that the strong should treat the weak well and...
Ramonet: London, Twinned With Baghdad
Znet Article, August, 11 2005
Ignacio Ramonet
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NOTHING can justify the 7 July attacks in London, which killed 56 people along with their suicide bomber perpetrators. Murdering innocent civilians in the name of a supposed just cause is never a defence of a just cause. It is just murdering innoc...
Ramonet: Open Door To Hope
Znet Article, June, 21 2005
Ignacio Ramonet
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FRANCE, with its resounding and rebellious vote against Europe's constitutional treaty, has again shown itself to be a political nation to its core. The vote, which created shock waves throughout Old Europe, was a moment of hope for the peoples of...
Ramonet: The China that isn't China
Znet Article, April, 13 2005
Ignacio Ramonet
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SUDDENLY international concern is focused on the Taiwan Strait, a scene of major tension since 14 March, when the Chinese parliament passed an anti-secession law that for the first time authorises Beijing "to use non-peaceful means" against Taiw...
Ramonet: The road to Damascus
Znet Article, March, 14 2005
Ignacio Ramonet
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WAS Syria responsible for the assassination on 14 February of the former Lebanese prime minister, Rafik Hariri? A part of Lebanese public opinion, which has been profoundly shocked, believes so. The denunciation by the Syrian president, Bashar al-...
Ramonet: Media Trends & Us
Znet Article, January, 21 2005
Ignacio Ramonet
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WHAT could be more symbolic of the disarray of the French press, as it faces an alarming fall in sales figures, than that the erstwhile Maoist daily Libération recently decided to cede a major shareholding to the banker Edouard de Rothschild? Las...
