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Commentary Choudry: Laser-Guided Liberalization and Latin America

Commentary, January, 31 2004 Aziz Choudry
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Are bilateral deals the Òsmart bombsÓ of US trade and investment policy?

Znet Article Mondragon: An Outbreak of Yellow Fever in Colombia

Znet Article, January, 29 2004 Hector Mondragon
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Here is another crisis thrown into the daily national disorder.  An emergency.  The Uribe government has admitted that the 2004 outbreak of yellow fever has already killed 8 people in 25 days.  The number who have contracted the ill...

Znet Article Street: Dean, Democrats, and Democracy

Znet Article, January, 26 2004 Paul Street
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A Screaming Nut Maybe…. Left democrats should not mourn the Iowa debacle and possible unraveling of Howard Dean’s supposedly populist Democratic presidential campaign. There are at least two reasons for them to hold back the tears...

Znet Article Pilger: Power, Propaganda and Conscience in The War On Terror

Znet Article, January, 26 2004 John Pilger
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I would like to thank The University of Western Australia for inviting me here today, and especially Nigel Dolan for his warm welcome and smooth organisation. I am a reporter, who values bearing witness. That is to say, I place paramount importan...

Znet Article Mahajan: State of the Union 2004

Znet Article, January, 21 2004 Rahul Mahajan
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George W. Bush's most recent state of the union address didn't contain the caliber of bald-faced, smoking-gun lies that we have come to expect from him, like the "sixteen words" in the last one (about Iraq supposedly seeking uranium from "Africa")...

Znet Article Wilpert: How Many Signatures?

Znet Article, December, 18 2003 Gregory Wilpert
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Part I: Watching a Train Wreck in Progress Watching Venezuelan politics now is like watching a train wreck in progress, with two trains rushing towards each other and the date of the collision being the announcement of the CNE’s signature...

Znet Article Palast: Chavez Versus The Free Trade Zombies Of The Americas

Znet Article, December, 03 2003 Greg Palast
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Caracas. It's as if they were locked in a crypt for the last ten years. The finance ministers of every Latin American nation last week signed on to a resolution in principle to join the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA), the hemispheric expan...

Znet Article Chavez: Interview Pt. 1

Znet Article, December, 02 2003 Hugo Chavez
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This interview was conducted last May by Mark Weisbrot, and published by the North American Congress on Latin America (NACLA) website www.NACLA.org M: First I would like to try to set the record straight. This is for a U.S. audience. I have spoke...

Znet Article Pandya: The Chavez Government's Economic Policies

Znet Article, November, 21 2003 C.p. Pandya
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Despite attempts by the Venezuelan opposition and the US business press to paint the Chavez government as the cause of Venezuela's economic problems, the economic crisis in Venezuela, and indeed throughout the poor countries, is more widespread, d...

Znet Article Landau: FTAA

Znet Article, November, 20 2003 Saul Landau
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As kids we swapped baseball cards, or sold them for money (10 cents). But today trade means something very different. Indeed, every child in the Americas should understand that those attending the Free Trade Agreement of the Americas (FTAA) meetin...

Znet Article Bacon: NAFTA AT TEN

Znet Article, November, 19 2003 David Bacon
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SAN FRANCISCO, CA (11/16/03) -- This week thousands of demonstrators will fill Miami streets, in a show of opposition to free trade unseen (at least in this country) since the battles in Seattle four years ago. Opponents plan to hit the proposal f...

Znet Article Wilpert: Venezuela's Mission To Fight Poverty

Znet Article, November, 13 2003 Gregory Wilpert
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Over the past two years or so there has been much polemic between the government and the opposition over the issue of poverty. Chavez was originally elected on a platform to pay particular attention to the needs of Venezuela’s poor. Also, ...

Znet Article Street: "Bush's Best Speech"

Znet Article, November, 13 2003 Paul Street
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Shunning the Mirror According to the Buddhist writer Pema Chodron, "not harming ourselves or others is the basis of enlightened society.  It is how there could be a sane world."   In Chodron's view, "the first and most fundamental harm" is done...

Znet Article Chomsky: Cuba in the cross-hairs:

Znet Article, October, 24 2003 Noam Chomsky
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[In his new book, Hegemony or Survival, America's Quest for Global Dominance, Noam Chomsky continues his powerful analysis of state viole...

Znet Article Podur: Q & A on Bolivia

Znet Article, October, 17 2003 Justin Podur
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What is happening in Bolivia? A massive popular mobilization is demanding the resignation of the President, Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada, and several ministers, including the Minister of Defense.  On October 16 hundreds of thousands of demonstr...

Znet Article Stokes: Imperial Pretexts

Znet Article, October, 14 2003 Doug Stokes
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This article explains how we can account for the continuity of US counter-insurgency (CI) in post-Cold War Colombia. I make three main arguments in relation to this continuity. First, I argue that the US has considerable economic interests in Sout...

Znet Article Wilpert: Venezuela in USNews

Znet Article, October, 04 2003 Gregory Wilpert
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An article recently appeared in one of the largest U.S. news magazines, an article which will remind well-informed readers of a typical disinformation campaign. The article in question, "Terror Close to Home," by Linda Robinson, appeared in U.S. N...

Znet Article Weisbrot: Washington's Dangerous Policy in Venezuela

Znet Article, September, 26 2003 Mark Weisbrot
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In recent weeks U.S. officials have made a series of remarkably unfriendly statements against the government of Venezuela, and its President Hugo Chavez. This breach of diplomatic norms can only serve to worsen relations between the two countries....

Znet Article Wilpert: U.S. in Venezuela

Znet Article, September, 20 2003 Gregory Wilpert
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"We have proof of the CIA's clandestine activities in Venezuela". Chavez talks to foreign journalists Thursday, Sep 18, 2003 In a three-hour lunch meeting with foreign journalists yesterday, Venezuela¡¯s president Hugo Chavez roamed over a wide v...

Znet Article Podur: When Terrorists Talk of Human Rights

Znet Article, September, 18 2003 Justin Podur
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On September 8, Colombian President Alvaro Uribe Velez said "when terrorists start feeling weak, they immediately send their spokesmen to talk about human rights."  He said while some human rights groups were "respectable", others were "polit...

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