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Znet Article Walker: Profile of a Political Prisoner

Znet Article, December, 01 2005 Cameron Walker
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Imagine being thrown in a filthy prison, where your cell mates mysteriously ‘disappear’ overnight, just for waving your country’s flag. for many years this was a reality for my West Papuan friend Fransiskus Kandam. To unde...

Znet Article Roediger: Whiteness

Znet Article, December, 01 2005 David Roediger
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David Roediger, professor of history at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and a scholar of critical whiteness studies, delivered a talk titled "The Dilemmas of Popular Front Antiracism: Looking at The House I Live In" on November 17 ...

Znet Article Krebs: The Crisis in Kashechewan

Znet Article, December, 01 2005 Mike Krebs
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VANCOUVER BC--The crisis on the Kashechewan Native reserve in northern Ontario has once again placed the brutal social and living conditions of indigenous people in Canada onto the center stage of politics. On October 14th, Health Canada alerted ...

Znet Article Hersh: Up In The Air

Znet Article, November, 29 2005 Seymour m. Hersh
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In recent weeks, there has been widespread speculation that President George W. Bush, confronted by diminishing approval ratings and dissent within his own party, will begin pulling American troops out of Iraq next year. The Administrationâ€...

Znet Article Tanaka: Japan's Kamikaze Pilots and Contemporary Suicide Bombers: War and Terror

Znet Article, November, 28 2005 Yuki Tanaka
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Japan's Kamikaze Pilots and Contemporary Suicide Bombers: War and Terror

Znet Article Turse: Bush's Burgeoning Body Count

Znet Article, November, 28 2005 Nick Turse
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Bush's Burgeoning Body Count

Znet Article Lean: The Big Thaw

Znet Article, November, 28 2005 Geoffrey Lean
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Greenland's glaciers have begun to race towards the ocean, leading scientists to predict that the vast island's ice cap is approaching irreversible meltdown, The Independent on Sunday can reveal. Research to be published in a few days' time shows...

Znet Article Pilger: A News Revolution Has Begun

Znet Article, November, 25 2005 John Pilger
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The Indian writer Vandana Shiva has called for an "insurrection of subjugated knowledge". The insurrection is well under way. In trying to make sense of a dangerous world, millions of people are turning away from the traditional sources of news an...

Znet Article Solomon: Thanksgiving and more Taking

Znet Article, November, 24 2005 Norman Solomon
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When Thanksgiving arrives, the media coverage is mostly predictable. Feature stories tell of turkeys and food drives for the needy. We hear about why some people, famous and unknown, say they feel thankful. And, of course, holiday advertising camp...

Znet Article Zibechi: Regional Integration After the Collapse of FTAA

Znet Article, November, 24 2005 Raúl Zibechi
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  Although every Latin American government pays lip service to integration, taking the concrete steps needed to attain it is much more difficult than simply issuing declarations. In the wake of the collapse of the Free Trade Agreement of the Amer...

Znet Article Baroud: Gaza Border Deal

Znet Article, November, 24 2005 Ramzy Baroud
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Starting Nov. 25, Palestinians from the Gaza Strip may, in theory, be able to freely cross the Rafah border into Egypt, according to an agreement brokered by US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. Typically, Israel wished to have the final say o...

Znet Article Landau: Who We Are

Znet Article, November, 22 2005 Saul Landau
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G. W. Bush returned from a brief but difficult November learning foray in Latin America: "Wow, Brazil is big." Meanwhile, US citizens grew impatient with his performance. CBS polls rated him at 35% approval in early November. Even his supporters a...

Znet Article Hallinan: Destabilization won't be easy

Znet Article, November, 22 2005 Conn Hallinan
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It would be easy to make fun of President Bush's recent fiasco at the 4th Summit of the Americas in Mar del Plata, Argentina. His grand plan for a free trade zone reaching from the Artic Circle to Terra del Fuego was soundly rejected by nations fe...

Znet Article Ireland: France After The Riots

Znet Article, November, 21 2005 Doug Ireland
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France After The Riots

Znet Article Rawa: A Miracle or Mockery in Afghanistan

Znet Article, November, 21 2005 Rawa
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Ms. Diane Tebelius, Republican congressional candidate and observer in the Afghan elections sponsored by the International Republican Institute, is perhaps the first election observer in Afghanistan who wasted no time to communicate her impression...

Znet Article Rawa: A Miracle or Mockery in Afghanistan?

Znet Article, November, 21 2005 Rawa
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Ms. Diane Tebelius, Republican congressional candidate and observer in the Afghan elections sponsored by the International Republican Institute, is perhaps the first election observer in Afghanistan who wasted no time to communicate her impression...

Znet Article Zangana: The Right To Rule Ourselves

Znet Article, November, 20 2005 Haifa Zangana
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The photograph of an elderly Iraqi carrying the burned body of a child at Falluja, widely shown during the chemical weapons controversy of recent days, is almost a copy of an earlier one that Iraqis remember - from Halabja in March 1988. Both chil...

Znet Article Morris: Wasting Fallujah

Znet Article, November, 19 2005 Scott Morris
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"Swarming…the specter in broad daylight accosts the passerby.--  T.S. Eliot, "The Wasteland" "We have now awakened to the barbarians...Retribution has been visited on the barbarians,and more will follow."--  Naval War College Review "W...

Znet Article Mian: Blinded by the Bomb

Znet Article, November, 18 2005 Zia Mian
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For decades, leaders of India and Pakistan have been bewitched by the power of the bomb. Regardless of their various other differences, they seem to have believed that the threat of massive destruction represented by nuclear weapons is a force for...

Znet Article Arnove: Iraq Under U.S. Occupation: "It Was Never As Bad As This"

Znet Article, November, 16 2005 Anthony Arnove
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WHEN U.S. and coalition troops invaded Iraq in March 2003, many Iraqis hoped that at least their conditions of life would improve--after a decade and a half of living under the strictest system of economic sanctions ever known. Now, they know diff...

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