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Dowd: The United States Becomes Its Own Worst Enemy
Znet Article, September, 14 2005
Douglas Dowd
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Introduction. Since the 1970s the United States has become increasingly captive to consumeristic frenzy and religious zeal at home and to an arrogant and bloody militarism abroad. As we do so, has not the following description come to fit us as ...
Ireland: Padilla
Znet Article, September, 14 2005
Doug Ireland
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When a federal district court ruled last week in favor of President Bush in the case of Jose Padilla -- the only American imprisoned as an “enemy combatant†by Presidential order -- it struck a major blow at the Constitution, uphol...
Tanaka: Last Words of the Tiger of Malaya, General Yamashita Tomoyuki
Znet Article, September, 14 2005
Yuki Tanaka
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One of the major reasons for Chinese and Korean public criticism of Prime Minister Koizumi's visit to Yasukuni Shrine is that 14 out of 28 A-Class Japanese war criminals are enshrined there. Seven among them including...
Street: Framing Katrina
Znet Article, September, 13 2005
Paul Street
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The Personal brilliant and prolific left sociologist C. Wright Mills once said that the core purpose of meaningful analytical work on social and political affairs was to make relevant connections between individual pain and structural inequality. ...
Albert: Hannover Talk
Znet Article, September, 12 2005
Michael Albert
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Introduction First, I’d like to thank everyone here and especially the ...
Mishra: Whither Globalization?
Znet Article, September, 10 2005
Girish Mishra
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Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, on the morrow of Independence Day, was interviewed by Rajat Gupta of The McKinsey Quarterly. Towards the end of the interview what Manmohan Singh, in response to the question: “What message would you like to ...
Agee: Use of a Private U.S. Corporate Structure to Disguise a Government Program
Znet Article, September, 10 2005
Philip Agee
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Part 2 of 3 C. Venezuela: Some Examples of the Current U.S. Intervention Against the Bolivarian Revolution In Venezuela the administration of George W. Bush is intervening in the political process with a combination of activities very similar...
Mian: Feeding the Nuclear Fire
Znet Article, September, 09 2005
Zia Mian
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This article was first published in Economic and Political Weekly, August 27, 2005. The July 18 joint statement by US president George Bush and prime minister Manmohan Singh has attracted a great deal of comment. The focus has been the possible c...
Agee: How United States Intervention Against Venezuela Works
Znet Article, September, 09 2005
Philip Agee
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Summary, CIA Electoral Interventions, and Nicaragua as a Model for Venezuela Summary It is no secret that the government of the United States is carrying out a program of operations in favor of the Venezuelan political opposition to remove Pres...
Dowd: The United States Becomes Its Own Worst Enemy
Znet Article, September, 08 2005
Douglas Dowd
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Introduction. Since the 1970s the United States has become increasingly captive to consumeristic frenzy and religious zeal at home and to an arrogant and bloody militarism abroad. As we do so, has not the following description come to fit us a...
Monbiot: The Man Who Betrayed the Poor
Znet Article, September, 06 2005
George Monbiot
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Two months have not elapsed since the G8 summit, and already almost everything has turned to ashes. Even the crustiest sceptics have been shocked by the speed with which its promises have been broken. It is true that they didn't amount to much. T...
Solo: Katrina
Znet Article, September, 06 2005
Toni Solo
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Failure to prioritize anyone's needs but their own is to be expected of the mendacious, cunning Bush regime. But the wretchedness and misery endured by people in the southern US States abandoned to their fate after hurricane Katrina has broader as...
Flaherty: Don't Let New Orleans Die
Znet Article, September, 05 2005
Jordan Flaherty
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August 27 - September 3, 2005 Its been a day since I evacuated from New Orleans, my home, the city I love. Today I saw Governor Blanco proudly speak of troops coming in with orders to shoot to kill. Is she trying to help New Orleans, or has she d...
Chomsky: The Afghanistan Food Crisis
Znet Article, September, 04 2005
Noam Chomsky
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The following was a ZNet Sustaiiner Forum Post replying to a question about the aftermath of bombing Afghanistan. It also appeared in the ZNet Blog, where a subset of Chomsky's forum posts are placed. For all the forum posts, become...
Sustar: Katrina Exposes Racism
Znet Article, August, 31 2005
Lee Sustar
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DECADES OF OFFICIAL neglect, racism and the impact of global warming magnified the destructive impact of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans and other parts of the South. The mainstream media focused most on the big-money property losses--for exampl...
Zunes: The U.S. and Iran: Democracy, Terrorism, and Nuclear Weapons
Znet Article, August, 31 2005
Stephen Zunes
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The election of the hard-line Teheran mayor, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, over former President Ayatollah Hashemi Rafsanjani as the new head of Iran is undeniably a setback for those hoping to advance greater social and political freedom in that country. ...
Goodman: Lockdown
Znet Article, August, 27 2005
Amy Goodman
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Imagine living, eating, sleeping, relieving ...
Aljawhary: Worker Unions in Iraq
Znet Article, August, 26 2005
Amjad Aljawhary
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Amjad Aljawhary is the North American Representative of The Federation of Worker Councils and Unions in Iraq. In this interview he discusses his union’s main objective...
St-vil: Fair Elections in Haiti
Znet Article, August, 26 2005
Jean St-vil
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All indicators suggest a fiasco for the scheduled fall elections in Haiti. The International Crisis Group (ICG) observed that 18 months after former President Jean Bertrand Aristide was forced out of the country, Haiti remains insecure and volatil...
Reinhart: How we left Gaza
Znet Article, August, 19 2005
Tanya Reinhart
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We will never know with certainty what took place in the mind of Ariel Sharon in February 2004, when he first declared, without consulting anyone, that he is ready to evacuate the Jewish settlements in Gaza. But if we try to put together the piece...
