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Street: My Civil Rights Field Trip to the Capital of Inequality
Znet Article, April, 09 2005
Paul Street
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I recently spent three days in Washington D.C. as par...
Arnove: Talk to Brooklyn Parents for Peace
Znet Article, April, 08 2005
Anthony Arnove
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We find ourselves in a remarkable situation today. A majority of people in the United States now believe the invasion of Iraq was not worth the consequences, including (as of today) the death of more than 1,530 soldiers in Iraq. The official just...
Engelhardt: Drugs, Bases, and Jails
Znet Article, April, 05 2005
Tom Engelhardt
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If Iraq has been the disaster zone of Bush foreign policy, Afghanistan is still generally thought of as its success story -- to the extent that anyone i...
Engelhardt: More Buck for the Bang
Znet Article, April, 02 2005
Tom Engelhardt
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There's that classic line of career advice to the confused young hero of the 1967 film The Graduate: "I want to say one word to you. Just one word... plastics." With t...
Mahajan: WMD Commission -- Yet Another Intelligence Failure
Znet Article, April, 02 2005
Rahul Mahajan
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The "Commission on the Intelligence Capabilities of the United States Regarding Weapons of Mass Destruction" has done reasonably well what it was created to do. Unfortunately, it was created to provide political cover for the Bush administration i...
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...
Engelhardt: Pandora's Box
Znet Article, March, 17 2005
Tom Engelhardt
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Pandora's Box
Johnson: No Longer the 'Lone' Superpower
Znet Article, March, 15 2005
Chalmers Johnson
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I recall forty years ago, when I was a new professor working in the field of Chinese and Japanese international relations, that Edwin O. Reischauer once commented, "The great payoff from our victory of 1945 was a permanently disarmed Japan." Born ...
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,...
Scipes: AFL-CIO Foreign Policy Leaders Help Develop Bush's Foreign Policy
Znet Article, March, 10 2005
Kim Scipes
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AFL-CIO foreign policy leaders are helping develop U.S. State Department policy regarding labor through an initiative called the Advisory Committee on Labor Diplomacy (ACLD). AFL-CIO leaders have participated in ACLD since its beginning in May 199...
Bello: Desperate Martians Now Wooing Venusians
Znet Article, March, 05 2005
Walden Bello
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Desperate Martians Now Wooing Venusians
Gindin: What is Happening in Venezuela?
Znet Article, February, 08 2005
Jonah Gindin
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Alam: Jonah, thank you for taking the time to do this interview with Left Hook. First, tell us a little bit about yourself and your initial experience in Venezuela – you attended college at Canada’s McGill University, and now you h...
Sommers: Dimensions of Democracy: the US and Iraq
Znet Article, February, 06 2005
Jeff Sommers
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Far too early to tell what the Iraqi elections mean and what the outcome will be - hopefully good. To be sure, the US has developed to a hi...
Podur: War Profiteering and us
Znet Article, January, 23 2005
Justin Podur
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[A talk given in Ottawa on January 21 to an anti-imperialist group at the beginning of a national campaign against SNC-Lavalin, a Canadian engineering firm with a huge number of contracts including a large bullet contract with the US Military]. F...
Podur: Colombia in 2004
Znet Article, January, 01 2005
Justin Podur
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Part 2 / Part 3 “President Alvaro Uribe badly wanted to show Colombians his only recent success: Bush’s re-election. But the US President had only three hours to visit the only supporter of his strat...
Podur: Colombia in 2004
Znet Article, January, 01 2005
Justin Podur
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Part 1 / Part 3 Mass arrests by the army, paramilitary massacres and assassinations were among the ongoing effects of Uribe's 'democratic security' policy. Even as the sham 'negotiations' for the 'demobiliza...
Podur: Colombia in 2004
Znet Article, January, 01 2005
Justin Podur
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Part 1 / Part 2 Uribe returned to Europe - to Spain - at the end of May. As every tin-pot repressive politician in the world had tried to exploit 9/11 to crack down on political activity, so Uribe was hoping...
Weisbrot: Political Attacks Against Venezuela Continue
Znet Article, December, 24 2004
Mark Weisbrot
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The recent round of Venezuela-bashing from the U.S. State Department, Washington-based foreign policy organizations, and some newspaper editorial boards is symptomatic of a broader problem. And it's not Venezuela's problem: it's ours. Last week ...
Engelhardt: Iraq's Election
Znet Article, December, 13 2004
Tom Engelhardt
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Dec 13 - Even as the White House decries the ominous prospect of Iranian influence on the upcoming Iraqi national elections, US-funded organizations with long records of manipulating foreign democracies in the direction of Washington's interests a...
Weisbrot: CIA and Venezuela
Znet Article, December, 12 2004
Mark Weisbrot
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WASHINGTON, December 8. When it comes to Venezuela's rocky diplomatic relations with the United States, Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez is usually given the blame. His frequent denunciations of U.S. "intervention" in Venezuela are taken as indic...
