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Znet Article Gindin: Fighting Oil With Oil

Znet Article, November, 26 2004 Jonah Gindin
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In what White House press secretary Richard Boucher dubbed a “continuing process of personnel changes,” US Secretary of State Colin L. Powell resigned last week, along with Attorney General John Ashcroft and other members of Geor...

Commentary Mondragon: A Quick Visit

Commentary, November, 25 2004 Hector Mondragon
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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 strategic project in South America.

Znet Article Johnson: How to Create a WIA -- Worthless Intelligence Agency

Znet Article, November, 24 2004 Chalmers Johnson
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Two weeks after George Bush's reelection, Porter J. Goss, the newly appointed Director of Central Intelligence, wrote an internal ...

Znet Article Bello: The Republican Right's Challenge to the Global Peace Movement

Znet Article, November, 16 2004 Walden Bello
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There continue to be credible allegations of fraud, particularly in the vote count in the state of Ohio, but most of the United States, including the Democratic Party, has recognized that George W. Bush has been reelected to the presidency with a ...

Znet Article Engelhardt: The morning after

Znet Article, November, 03 2004 Tom Engelhardt
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The last time I spent a late night biting my nails watching an election, I was in Venezuela observing the referendum. Like the US elections of November 2, the outcome was important not only to the people who voted, but to the whole world. There we...

Znet Article Morduchowicz: The Take

Znet Article, October, 27 2004 Daniel Morduchowicz
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Derrick O'Keefe of Seven Oaks Magazine (www.SevenOaksMag.com) caught up with Naomi Klein and Avi Lewis after a special Vancouver showing of their documentary, The Take. Derrick O'Keefe: What was your initial motivation in making this film? Avi ...

Znet Article Gindin: Reorganizing Venezuelan Labor

Znet Article, October, 20 2004 Jonah Gindin
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When Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez was elected in 1998, inaugurating a process of radical political and social changes, it looked as though labor might be left behind.  The main labor central, the Confederation of Venezuelan Workers (CTV) was ...

Znet Article Gindin: The Possible Faces of Democracy in Venezuela

Znet Article, October, 17 2004 Jonah Gindin
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In the eastside Caracas barrio of Petare, an elderly former guerrilla addresses his neighbours: “In the 1960s and 70s when we were fighting the government,” notes Renardo Tovar, “we had to create our own media of communicat...

Znet Article Flanders: Haitian Blood is on our Hands

Znet Article, September, 30 2004 Laura Flanders
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Will someone give us our priorities back? Who do you think needs taxpayer dollars most: an anti-choice Catholic health insurer, or the flood-stricken Haitian people? Just wondering. The New York Times reported Sunday that the Bush administration...

Znet Article Podur: Getting Beyond Hypocrisy on Humanitarian Intervention

Znet Article, September, 29 2004 Justin Podur
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Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin gave a moving speech at the United Nations on September 22, 2004.  "Tens of thousands have been murdered, raped and assaulted,” he said. “War crimes and crimes against humanity have been committe...

Znet Article Bennis: The Other America

Znet Article, September, 28 2004 Phyllis Bennis
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Phyllis Bennis is a leading analyst and writer on the Middle East, the war in Iraq, the United Nations, and on U.S. foreign policy. She is a long-time activist, and works closely with United for Peace and Justice and the U.S. Campaign to End the...

Znet Article Bello: Beirut 2004

Znet Article, September, 23 2004 Walden Bello
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We are assembled here in Beirut at a critical moment. It is a moment marked by crosscurrents: In Iraq, the US gets deeper and deeper into a Vietnam-style quagmire, with the number of American soldiers killed since the March 20, 2003 invasion passi...

Znet Article Wilpert: August 15

Znet Article, September, 15 2004 Gregory Wilpert
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Venezuela’s presidential recall referendum was one of Latin America’s most historic electoral events of the past twenty five years. Such a statement probably sounds like an exaggeration to most northerners. However, this is the f...

Znet Article Ireland: Congress keeps School of the Americas alive

Znet Article, September, 11 2004 Doug Ireland
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Remember how congressional leaders on both sides of the aisle deplored the torture of prisoners at Abu Ghraib as "un-American"? Last month, the House of Representatives quietly passed a renewed appropriation that keeps open the United States' most...

Znet Article Achcar: Seven theses on the current period, the war and the anti-war movement

Znet Article, September, 09 2004 Gilbert Achcar
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Seven theses on the current period, the war and the anti-war movement

Znet Article Bohmer: The Cuban Revolution: Present and Future

Znet Article, September, 09 2004 Peter Bohmer
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Understanding Cuban society objectively is incredibly difficult, given 45 years of unremitting US propaganda against Fidel Castro, the Cuban government and Cuban society. Even for those individuals critical of the U.S. mainstream media, constantly...

Znet Article Scipes: California AFL-CIO Rebukes Labor's National Level Foreign Policy Leaders

Znet Article, September, 05 2004 Kim Scipes
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The 25th Biennial California State AFL-CIO Convention in July handed a stunning rebuke to national-level foreign policy leaders of the AFL-CIO at their state convention in San Diego. By a unanimous decision, over 400 representatives of the state's...

Znet Article Docena: Silent Battalions of "Democracy"

Znet Article, September, 03 2004 Herbert Docena
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While the likes of Halliburton and Bechtel get all the press, other US companies are hard at work trying to refashion Iraq's legal, economic, political and social institutions-and usher in a US-friendly democracy. Sheikh Majid al-Azzawi was one...

Znet Article Gindin: From Chavismo to Revolution in Venezuela

Znet Article, September, 01 2004 Jonah Gindin
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Overlooking the mass of revellers outside the Presidential Palace at 5am on August 16th, Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez Frías made the declaration that his followers were waiting for: “The recall referendum was not just a referendum on...

Znet Article Galeano: Between Venezuela and Nothingland

Znet Article, August, 30 2004 Eduardo Galeano
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Strange dictator this Hugo Chávez. Masochistic and suicidal: he created a Constitution that permits the people to throw him out, and he risked this occurring in a recall referendum. This referendum that took place in Venezuela was the first of it...

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