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Aronowitz: On the AFL-CIO Split
Znet Article, August, 19 2005
Stanley Aronowitz
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In some respects it was fitting that four important affiliates declared their withdrawal from the AFL-CIO in the days running up to the 50th anniversary convention in July 2005. A merger which was conceived in a unity that signified complacency wa...
Davis: The Coming Avian Flu Pandemic
Znet Article, August, 17 2005
Mike Davis
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The Coming Avian Flu Pandemic
Abed: Disengagement and the Politics of Post-National Realism
Znet Article, August, 17 2005
Mohammad Abed
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I The Meaning of Disengagement Maintaining or intensifying oppressive policies requires the manufacture of a diversion, a 'smokescreen' that buys time and accumulates political capital. One reliable way of accumulating political capital is to ...
Holloway: Can We Change The World Without Taking Power?
Znet Article, August, 16 2005
John Holloway
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John Holloway: I don’t know the answer. Perhaps we can change the world without taking power. Perhaps we cannot. The starting point—for all of us, I think—is uncertainty, not knowing, a common search for a way forward. Bec...
Morris-suzuki: Free Speech -- Silenced Voices:
Znet Article, August, 15 2005
Tessa Morris-suzuki
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At the start of each week, the commuter trains and subways of Japan are adorned with a mass of multi-colored advertisements, enticing the passengers to buy the latest of issue of the country's many weekly magazines. The advertisements are an art f...
Mehrdad: New-conservatives, regime crisis and political perspectives in Iran
Znet Article, August, 15 2005
Ardeshir Mehrdad
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In the recent presidential elections in Iran, Mahmood Ahmadinejad, an unknown conservative military commander, won. His victory was surprising as many had predicted Hashemi Rafsanjani would become Iran’s next president. Rafsanjani, perhaps...
Solo: Ecuador
Znet Article, August, 15 2005
Toni Solo
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Just as the long-standing political crisis in Bolivia hangs fire pending future elections, so too in Ecuador people await some serious attempt at a new political settlement. In both countries the fundamental cause of unrest is widespread popular r...
Engelhardt: Cindy, Don, and George
Znet Article, August, 14 2005
Tom Engelhardt
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Cindy, Don, and George
Bacon: Unions At War
Znet Article, August, 11 2005
David Bacon
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SAN FRANCISCO, CA - In Chicago's cavernous Navy Yard convention center, delegates were lined up at the four microphones scattered across the floor. San Francisco's Nancy Wohlforth stood at mic number 2. She'd been waiting for this moment for two y...
Z: Vermin And Souvenirs
Znet Article, August, 10 2005
Mickey Z
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Because Japan chose to invade several colonial outposts of the West, the war in the Pacific laid bare the inherent racism of the colonial structure. In the United States and Britain, the Japanese were more hated than the Germans. The race card was...
Hoodbhoy: Bin Laden And Hiroshima
Znet Article, August, 06 2005
Pervez Hoodbhoy
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The decision to incinerate Hiroshima and Nagasaki was not taken in anger. Whit...
Hobsbawm: Retreat of the Male
Znet Article, August, 01 2005
Eric Hobsbawm
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The family is a subject on which, for obvious reasons, there is no shortage of public or private views. Google records 368 million items under the word ‘family', as against a mere 170 million under ‘war'. All governments have tried...
Nozaki: The 'Comfort Women' Controversy: History and Testimony
Znet Article, July, 31 2005
Yoshiko Nozaki
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The 'Comfort Women' Controversy: History and Testimony
Jager: Re-writing the Past/ Re-Claiming the Future
Znet Article, July, 31 2005
Sheila miyoshi Jager
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The outbreak of the Korean War in June 1950 led to one of history's worst atrocities. Known as the Taejon massacre, an estimated 5000 to 7500 civilian deaths have been attributed to a single incident committed by the North Korean People's Army (NK...
Albert: Exploring Parecon
Znet Article, July, 25 2005
Michael Albert
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In a world riddled with suicide bombings, inconclusive conflicts, and terribly selfish politics, it is a relief to see there are people like Michael Albert creatively searching for salves for the ills in our economic system. With his books "Movin...
Choudry: Monkey-Wrenching the Globalization Gang
Znet Article, July, 23 2005
Aziz Choudry
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I went to Bretton Woods, but all I got was this lousy t-shirt. Amazingly, it's not a 'one size fits all' and it's not full of holes. Walking through the Mount Washington Hotel in Bretton Woods two years ago, in the New Hampshire mountain resort a...
Chomsky: Resort To Fear
Znet Article, July, 21 2005
Noam Chomsky
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The resort to fear by systems of power to discipline the domestic population has left a long and terrible trail of bloodshed and suffering which we ignore at our peril. Recent history provides many shocking illustrations. The mid-twentieth centur...
Zirin: Edge of Sports
Znet Article, July, 17 2005
Dave Zirin
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In High School, I was a 5' 10" inch center for the fearsome Friends Seminary Quakers in New York City. It wasn't pretty, but I lived for it and didn't care if the opposing center could spit on my head. I just loved sports. My walls were shrines to...
Turse: An Army of (No) One
Znet Article, July, 12 2005
Nick Turse
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It's been a tough year for the U.S. military. But you wouldn't know it from the Internet, now increasingly packed with slick, non-military looking websites of every sort that are lying in wait for curious teens (or their exasperated parents) who m...
Han: Imitating the Colonizers:
Znet Article, July, 10 2005
Suk-jung Han
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Imitating the Colonizers:
