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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...

Znet Article Weisbrot: Venezuela's Recall

Znet Article, September, 13 2003 Mark Weisbrot
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Venezuela appeared to take a couple of steps closer to a recall referendum on the presidency of Hugo Chávez in recent weeks, but there is little chance that he will be removed by electoral means. This is not because, as major US and Venezuelan me...

Znet Article Weisbrot: Venezuela's Recall Referendum

Znet Article, August, 30 2003 Mark Weisbrot
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WASHINGTON  All too often White House statements about Iraq's pursuit of weapons of mass destruction, and other dubious justifications for war, were taken at face value by the American press. Now there is another example of the triumph of mis...

Znet Article Podur: To a (Social Democratic) Youth

Znet Article, August, 18 2003 Justin Podur
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It is a pleasure to have the chance to speak to you.  I suspect that there is a lot that we share.  As the young activists of the NDP, you are a part of this party because you have some progressive ideals.  If you just wanted a tast...

Znet Article Podur: Two Venezuelan Mayors

Znet Article, August, 03 2003 Justin Podur
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A recent Human Rights Watch report, which was harshly criticized by supporters of Venezuela's 'Bolivarian Revolution', said that "there are few obvious limits on free expression in Venezuela. The country's print and audiovisual media operate witho...

Znet Article Bello: Crisis of the Globalist Project

Znet Article, July, 15 2003 Walden Bello
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(Prepared for the McPlanet Conference, Berlin, June 27, 2002. The original version of this piece will appear in the Fall issue of New Labor Forum.) "Capitalism constantly erodes man and woman's being-in-nature (creature) and being-in-society (cit...

Znet Article Podur: Uribe's Onslaught

Znet Article, June, 30 2003 Justin Podur
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At the end of May, the 'Rio Group' of Latin American countries discussed how to handle Colombia's civil war.  Colombia's president, Alvaro Uribe Velez, was seeking a declaration from the group that asked Kofi Annan to give the FARC-- the main...

Znet Article Chomsky: What's Happening?

Znet Article, June, 14 2003 Noam Chomsky
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Atilio A. Boron: Looking at the recent US policies in Iraq, What do you think was the real goal behind this war? Noam Chomsky: Well, we can be quite confident on one thing. The reasons we are given can't possibly be the reasons. And we know that,...

Znet Article Chomsky: Does The USA Intend To Dominate The Whole World By Force?

Znet Article, June, 02 2003 Noam Chomsky
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ANDY CLARKHello and welcome to Amsterdam Forum - Radio Netherlands' interactive discussion programme.Today a special edition featuring the world-famous author and political activist Noam Chomsky.Professor Chomsky, once described by the New York Ti...

Znet Article Albert: Parecon Interview

Znet Article, May, 29 2003 Michael Albert
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Parecon Interview

Znet Article Ali: The UN Has Capitulated

Znet Article, May, 24 2003 Tariq Ali
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Unsurprisingly, the UN security council has capitulated completely, recognised the occupation of Iraq and approved its re-colonisation by the US and its bloodshot British adjutant. The timing of the mea culpa by the "international community" was p...

Znet Article Chomsky: Imperial Ambition

Znet Article, May, 16 2003 Noam Chomsky
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David Barsamian: What are the regional implications of the U.S. invasion and occupation of ...

Znet Article Dahl: Carlos Castano, Honorable Senator?

Znet Article, May, 08 2003 Patricia Dahl
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The U.S. Department of State's American Bureau of Consular Affairs decided that "based on all relevant information," there are areas in the world that pose "significant risks to the security of American travelers."  The danger of "anti-American vi...

Znet Article Chomsky: Wars of Terror

Znet Article, April, 30 2003 Noam Chomsky
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It is widely argued that the September 11 terrorist attacks have changed the world dramatically, that nothing will be the same as the world enters into a new and frightening “age of terror”—the title of a collection of acad...

Znet Article Weisbrot: Us Economic Prescriptions Still Failing In Latin America

Znet Article, April, 25 2003 Mark Weisbrot
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With the war in Iraq receding from the media spotlight, the Bush Administration is now turning some attention to our traditional "back yard" of Latin America. U.S. Treasury Secretary John W. Snow has just completed a visit to Brazil, Ecuador, and ...

Commentary Mondragon: The South American Israel

Commentary, April, 24 2003 Hector Mondragon
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Here is a state used by an imperial power to impose its order in a region. In every sphere, with every dollar of military aid it receives from the US, the Colombian state is heading down this route. And it's in this sense that researchers from Ven...

Znet Article Bricmont: Regression and Resistance

Znet Article, April, 24 2003 Jean Bricmont
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The slogan was repeated around the world: "no blood for oil". But blood and oil have flowed together for a long time. From the betrayal of the Arab world by the French and the British following the fall of the Turkish empire in 1917 to the latest ...

Znet Article Jensen: For Self-determination In Iraq, The U.s. Must Leave

Znet Article, April, 14 2003 Robert Jensen
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The U.S. attack on Iraqi has brought the collapse of Saddam Hussein's brutal regime, which is cause for celebration. For the first time in at least 35 years, the conditions could exist for Iraqis to chart their own destiny. Now the United States ...

Znet Article Podur: What is the Colombian Army doing Attacking Venezuela?

Znet Article, April, 03 2003 Justin Podur
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Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez announced on Venezuelan radio on March 31 that: "A short while ago, I ordered an air force operation and we bombed an area where we detected the presence of a group" of Colombian irregular forces along the border.&...

Znet Article Stokes: Counterinsurgency, coups, and coercion: History and the US Empire in Latin America

Znet Article, April, 02 2003 Doug Stokes
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The conventional understanding of US Cold War policy in Latin America portrays a defensive and reactive posture on the part of the US. The 'containment doctrine' is popularly understood to have been the US's core Cold War Grand Strategy and allege...

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