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Znet Article Han: Imitating the Colonizers:

Znet Article, July, 10 2005 Suk-jung Han
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Znet Article Scipes: An Unholy Alliance

Znet Article, July, 10 2005 Kim Scipes
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The AFL-CIO's "Solidarity Center" (formally known as the American Center for International Labor Solidarity or ACILS) was actively involved in bringing together the leadership of the right-wing Confederation of Venezuelan Workers (CTV) and that of...

Znet Article Cook: The Struggle Against Terrorism Cannot Be Won By Military Means

Znet Article, July, 08 2005 Robin Cook
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I have rarely seen the Commons so full and so silent as when it met yesterday to hear of the London bombings. A forum that often is raucous and rowdy was solemn and grave. A chamber that normally is a bear pit of partisan emotions was united in sh...

Znet Article Monbiot: Africa's New Best Friends

Znet Article, July, 07 2005 George Monbiot
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I began to realise how much trouble we were in when Hilary Benn, the secretary of state for international development, announced that he would be joining the Make Poverty History march on Saturday. What would he be chanting, I wondered? "Down with...

Znet Article Herman: The Politics of the Srebrenica Massacre*

Znet Article, July, 07 2005 Edward Herman
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"Srebrenica" has become the symbol of evil, and specifically Serb evil. It is commonly described as "a horror without parallel in the history of Europe since the Second World War" in which there was a cold-blooded execution "of at least 8,000 Musl...

Znet Article Solomon: Withdrawal Would Cripple U.S. Credibility

Znet Article, July, 04 2005 Norman Solomon
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Obsession with seeming unequivocal and immovable has been frequent in the Oval Office. During the Vietnam War, such fixations were indifferent to the fact that the war was losing the U.S. government moral credibility around the world. But from the...

Znet Article Sadri: Exact opposite of paranoia

Znet Article, June, 30 2005 Ahmad Sadri
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As the velvet revolution of 1989 unrolled in Prague, Czech activists recalled the dark skies of the Spring of 1968. They had jubilantly arrived at 89 by turning 68 on its head. Today, Tehran feels like it has been on a runaway time machine going i...

Znet Article Cherrington: Venezuela: Workers Taking Back Control

Znet Article, June, 28 2005 Katie Cherrington
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The Bolivarian revolution in Venezuela, which is working to change the political and economic structures of Venezuelan society in favour of the poor majority, is also creating a mini-revolution in the nation's labour movement. In May 2003, the N...

Znet Article Hélie: The U.S. Occupation and Rising Religious Extremism

Znet Article, June, 24 2005 Anissa Hélie
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On February 8, 2005, the international feminist and anti-militarist network Women in Black (WIB) launched an urgent appeal for the immediate liberation of Giuliana Sgrena, an Italian journalist and WIB activist, who had been kidnapped in Iraq by a...

Znet Article Wearing: Iraq's future: the present course and the alternatives

Znet Article, June, 14 2005 Dave Wearing
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 "There are some who feel like that if they attack us that we may decide to leave prematurely. They don't understand what they're talking about, if that's the case. My answer is, bring them on. We've got the force necessary to deal with the secu...

Znet Article Bix: Emperor, Shinto, Democracy:

Znet Article, June, 14 2005 Herbert Bix
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Japanese archaeologists and historians have long rejected the government's claim that Japan has had 124 emperors from the mythical Jimmu, descendant of the Sun Goddess, to the controversial Showa Emperor Hirohito, whose pre-World War II reign brou...

Znet Article Mccormack: Disputed Bones: Japan-North Korea Clash

Znet Article, June, 13 2005 Gavan Mccormack
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On 24 June 2005, a three day "sit-in" will commence in front of the offices of the Japanese Prime Minister, organized not by a radical leftist group but by some of Japan's most famous and respected citizens and enjoying powerful backing in the Nat...

Znet Article Robinson: The Battle for Global Civil Society

Znet Article, June, 13 2005 William i. Robinson
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Over the past two decades US foreign policy has radically changed. While the interests and objectives have remained more or less the same despite the fall of Communism, the mechanisms for obtaining them have continued to evolve. Beginning in the e...

Znet Article Mian: Lingering Shadows

Znet Article, June, 11 2005 Zia Mian
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Recent weeks have seen many events commemorating the 60th anniversary of the defeat of Nazi Germany in the second world war. There has been little or no discussion of some of the most important and enduring legacies of that war that have cast a lo...

Znet Article Baheer: Killing Yet Another Hope

Znet Article, June, 09 2005 Baheer
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I had a chat with an American friend recently and he claimed .. “ It seems that the Afghans are not happy with anything given to them and continue to hope and fight for something else.” I thought I had to explain a few things looki...

Znet Article Vltchek: Aceh: Take Action Now

Znet Article, May, 30 2005 Andre Vltchek
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ACEH: There is no “Ground Zero” in Banda Aceh – no single point which can be defined as the epicenter of disaster. A tremendous wave leveled entire neighborhoods to the ground. Closer to the coast, what remains of the city ...

Znet Article Shalom: The Anti-War Movement and Iraq

Znet Article, May, 24 2005 Stephen1 Shalom
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Znet Article Kogure: Turning back the clock on gender equality

Znet Article, May, 22 2005 Satoko Kogure
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As the government emphasizes patriotism as part of the national school curriculum and discussion continues apace over revising Article 9, some ...

Znet Article Chomsky: State and Corp.

Znet Article, May, 18 2005 Noam Chomsky
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Q: We want to talk about the two dominant power structures of the modern era: the national state and the transnational corporations. The first question is, could you please talk about the rise of this concept of the national state: Why was it crea...

Znet Article Tanaka: Firebombing and Atom Bombing

Znet Article, May, 16 2005 Yuki Tanaka
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The firebombing of Tokyo, or for that matter the bombing of any city, whether it be Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Dresden or London, cannot be fully comprehended unless it is examined in the context of the history of indiscriminate bombing throughout the t...

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