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Patel: Dalits in Gujarat
Znet Article, November, 15 2005
Valjibhai Patel
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Valjibhai Patel, Director of the Ahmedabad-based Council for Social Justice, is a noted lawyer and Dalit activist. In this interview with Yoginder Sikand he talks about his work and the Dalit movement in Gujarat Q: As one of the pioneers of ...
Resta: Veterans Against the War
Znet Article, November, 15 2005
Patrick Resta
Resta's ZSpace page
(Patrick Resta is the New England organizer for IVAW (www.ivaw.net). He can be reached at iraqvet@mail.com). I want to discuss Iraq Veterans Against the War (IVAW), but first a little background on you. Can you tell us about your service in Iraq?...
Lakdawala: Muslims in Gujarat Today
Znet Article, November, 15 2005
Hanif Lakdawala
Lakdawala's ZSpace page
Hanif Lakdawala is the head of Sanchetna, an NGO-based in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, working primarily with Muslims and Dalits. In this interview he talks to Yoginder Sikand about Muslims and inter-communal relations in Gujarat today. Q: Three years a...
Chomsky: Master Mind
Znet Article, November, 15 2005
Noam Chomsky
Chomsky's ZSpace page
Three weeks ago, Prof. Noam Chomsky was voted the most important public intellectual in the world today. About 20,000 people took part in the poll, which was conducted jointly by a British monthly called Prospect and the Washington-based Foreign P...
Mishra: Reserve Bank of India and Globalization
Znet Article, November, 11 2005
Girish Mishra
Mishra's ZSpace page
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) is, by its position as central bank, the guardian of country’s banking sector. With the help of suitable monetary policy instruments, it manages and directs the various financial institutions of the country ...
Wadlow: Burma
Znet Article, November, 11 2005
Rene Wadlow
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The Burmese military have held power in the country since 1958 and show no signs of yielding it to civilian political leaders. They have prevented discussion of the most burning political issues which have divided Burma since independence: the ...
Pilger: The Rise Of America's New Enemy
Znet Article, November, 10 2005
John Pilger
Pilger's ZSpace page
I was dropped at Paradiso, the last middle-class area before barrio La Vega, which spills into a ravine as if by the force of gravity. Storms were forecast, and people were anxious, remembering the mudslides that took 20,000 lives. "Why are you he...
Zunes: Bush Again Resorts to Fear-Mongering to Justify Iraq Policy
Znet Article, November, 04 2005
Stephen Zunes
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President George W. Bush's October 6 address at the National Endowment for Democracy illustrated his administration's increasingly desperate effort to justify the increasingly unpopular U.S. war in Iraq. The speech focused upon the Bush administra...
Shrivastava: Civilization and compassion at the dawn of the twenty-first century
Znet Article, November, 04 2005
Aseem Shrivastava
Shrivastava's ZSpace page
Civilization is on a mission from God to free the world from the evil of tyranny and bring democracy and human rights to all peoples of the planet. Presumably, there is human concern and compassion behind such a quest, more grand than any conceive...
Klein: The Threat of Hope in Latin America
Znet Article, November, 04 2005
Naomi Klein
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When Manuel Rozental got home one night last month, friends told him two strange men had been asking questions about him. In this close-knit indigenous community in southwestern Colombia ringed by soldiers, right-wing paramilitaries and left-wing ...
Joshi: Water, Water Everywhere
Znet Article, November, 04 2005
Sushma Joshi
Joshi's ZSpace page
As a child growing up in Kathmandu, I became familiar with the splutter of a pipe trying to pull water and coming up with empty air. Kathmandu is a paradox - it is a Valley surrounded by the Himalayas, the mountain range which fulfills the water n...
Whitmont: The Case of David Hicks
Znet Article, November, 03 2005
Debbie Whitmont
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The Case of David Hicks
Quinney: The World's Best Kept Secret
Znet Article, October, 27 2005
James Quinney
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In 1943, as Britain was facing the threat of Nazi invasion, Winston Churchill wrote: "The power of the executive to cast a man in prison without formulating any charge known to the law and particularly to deny him the judgement of his peers is in ...
Martin: Venezuelan trade unionists discuss workers' management and factory occupations
Znet Article, October, 26 2005
Jorge Martin
Martin's ZSpace page
Workers' representatives and trade union activists from around the country met in Caracas on October 21-22, in the National Gathering of Workers towards the Recovery of Companies. The main aim of this meeting, called by Venezuela's National Worker...
Solo: Varieties of imperial aggression
Znet Article, October, 26 2005
Toni Solo
Solo's ZSpace page
When the UN received the recent Mehlis report on the murder of former Lebanese President Rafik Hariri, one suggested tribunal for a possible prosecution was the International Criminal Court. Rejecting such a proposal, Secretary of State Condoleezz...
Weissman: Outing CIA Agents
Znet Article, October, 24 2005
Steve Weissman
Weissman's ZSpace page
[Introduction by Tom Engelhardt: As many now know,...
Nolsø aaen: A Leak in the Ecuadorian Oil Adventure
Znet Article, October, 24 2005
Karoline Nolsø aaen
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While rivers are being polluted, rainforests cut down and the health of citizens severely threatened by the oil industry, this black gold continues to flow through Ecuador. I am in the...
Abedin: How Britain Botched the Iran Standoff
Znet Article, October, 24 2005
Mahan Abedin
Abedin's ZSpace page
As anticipated, the British government officially accused Iran of complicity in the targeting and killing of its troops in southern Iraq. However, the accusations are weak and clumsily constructed, to the point of being silly. The bomb technology ...
Brecher: Attack Syria? Invade Iran? By what Constitution?
Znet Article, October, 20 2005
Jeremy Brecher
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Testifying before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on October 19, Condoleezza Rice was asked whether the Bush administration was planning military action against Syria. She answered, “I don’t think the President ever takes an...
Lendman: The Sorrows of Haiti
Znet Article, October, 20 2005
Stephen Lendman
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On February 28, 2004, in the middle of the night, the U.S. again invaded Haiti. It abducted and forcibly removed democratically elected President Jean-Bertrand Aristide by its staged coup d'etat and flew him against his will to the Central African...
