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Mahajan: Myths And Facts About The War
Znet Article, March, 20 2003
Rahul Mahajan
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Last night, our president announced a war to the nation and the world. Let us be clear about what this war is and what it is not. This war is not the result of a failure of diplomacy. This war is not a pre-emptive war. This war is not about wea...
Shalom: Reject Defeatism... Organize!
Znet Article, March, 19 2003
Stephen1 Shalom
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The onset of war does not negate the unprecedented antiwar activism in recent weeks and months, nor does it provide reason to diminish our efforts. Quite the contrary. Struggle for change should not be apocalyptic. The task is to steadily amass g...
Podur: The Empire is not Invincible
Znet Article, March, 18 2003
Justin Podur
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The Empire is not Invincible
Podur: The March on CNN
Znet Article, March, 09 2003
Justin Podur
Podur's ZSpace page
Jennifer Loewenstein recently wrote I've said it myself many times. I need a break from this awful business I can't watch any more news about Iraq or Palestine. I'm dreading this bloody war and want an escape. Spare me the euphemisms and lies, ...
Engler: The March 5 Student Actions Against War
Znet Article, March, 04 2003
Yves Engler
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On February 20th in Montreal the Student Society of McGill University had its first-ever successful general assembly. What was it that brought hundreds of McGill students together? A desire to hold a campus-wide strike against the pending war in I...
Kolhatkar: From Afghanistan To Iraq
Znet Article, February, 10 2003
Sonali Kolhatkar
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On August 29th 2002 in Little Rock, Arkansas, George W Bush said: "We liberated Afghanistan from the clutches of a barbaric regime... We're liberators, not conquerers here in America"(1). Addressing U.S. troops this January in Fort Hood, Texas, ...
Vera-zavala: An Extrordinary Coup At The WSF pt.1
Znet Article, February, 09 2003
America Vera-zavala
Vera-zavala's ZSpace page
When I listened to Lula speak at the World Social Forum I was moved and cried. I wish he had not come. For the first time since the Zapatista uprising, the MAI victory and Seattle the movement has taken a step back. The first steps have been tak...
Klein: More Democracy - Not More Political Strongmen
Znet Article, February, 03 2003
Naomi Klein
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The key word at this year's World Social Forum, held this week in Porto Alegre, Brazil, was "big". Big attendance: more than 100,000 delegates in all. Big speeches: more than 15,000 crammed in to see Noam Chomsky. And most of all, big men. Luiz In...
Roy: Confronting Empire
Znet Article, January, 28 2003
Arundhati Roy
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I've been asked to speak about "How to confront Empire?" It's a huge question, and I have no easy answers. When we speak of confronting "Empire," we need to identify what "Empire" means. Does it mean the U.S. Government (and its European satelli...
Street: Big Brother Bush, "Suicidal Saddam", And The Homegrown Threat To Liberal Democracy
Znet Article, January, 22 2003
Paul Street
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Beyond Democratic Constraint? It is hard to avoid the chilling conclusion that the corporate plutocrats and arch-imperialists in and around the Bush administration do not think they are required to speak or act with even moderate respect for the...
Pilger: We Say No To Bush's War: Voices Of The Anti War Opposition
Znet Article, January, 16 2003
John Pilger
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Socialist Worker has compiled an excellent anti war q&a based on interviews conducted with many different voices of the anti-war movement. Norman Solomon: Scene of a war crime to come You were recently in Baghdad. What do you think of the Bu...
Weisbrot: A Split Screen In Strike Torn Venezuela
Znet Article, January, 13 2003
Mark Weisbrot
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Walking around Caracas late last month during Venezuela's ongoing protests, I was surprised by what I saw. My expectations had been shaped by persistent U.S. media coverage of the nationwide strike called by the opposition, which seeks President H...
Chavez: Lessons of the April Coup
Znet Article, January, 09 2003
Hugo Chavez
Chavez's ZSpace page
[Translated by Alejandro Palavecino and Susan Nerberg. This is Part II of a long interview of Hugo Chavez conducted by Marta Harnecker and originally published in October 2002. It is long, an excerpt from a book, and so has been split ...
Chavez: The Military and the Revolution
Znet Article, January, 09 2003
Hugo Chavez
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The Military and the Revolution
Mondragon: Of "Lungos" And "Senoritos" A Colombian View Of Venezuela
Commentary, January, 02 2003
Hector Mondragon
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At the petroleum refinery of Barrancabermeja the workers who
Weisbrot: US is still intervening in Venezuela
Znet Article, December, 18 2002
Mark Weisbrot
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CARACAS (Dec. 18) "Where are they getting their money?" asks historian Samuel Moncada, as the television displays one opposition commercial after another. Moncada is chair of the history department at Central University of Venezuela in Caracas. We...
Wilpert: Coup D'Petrol In Venezuela
Znet Article, December, 17 2002
Gregory Wilpert
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Exactly one year after the opposition’s first “general strike,†on December 10, 2001, which launched the campaign to oust the democratically elected president of Venezuela, Hugo Chavez, the opposition is engaged in its four...
Podur: Venezuela's 'National Strike'
Znet Article, December, 10 2002
Justin Podur
Podur's ZSpace page
The 'general strike' called by the opposition in Venezuela is now on its eighth day. The strike is the fourth called by the opposition over the past year, including the failed coup attempt in April. The economy is suffering. Ther...
Wilpert: Chavez Hangs On
Znet Article, December, 09 2002
Gregory Wilpert
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The OAS-Mediated Negotiations, the Strike, and other recent events César Gaviria, the General Secretary of the OAS, has the unenviable job of mediating negotiations between Venezuela's government and its opposition, while the political situation...
