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Mercille: Why the War on Drugs is Really a War on the Taliban
Znet Article, December, 13 2009
Julien Mercille
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So Mr. Obama is getting ready to surge-again-in Afghanistan partly to fight opium trafficking. But an important report just released by the World Health Organization entitled The Global Tobacco Epidemic shows that Obama cannot possibly be waging a...
Raina: Carting Off Medical Institute to Corporate Predators
Znet Article, December, 12 2009
Badri Raina
Raina's ZSpace page
No one can be perfectly healthy till all are healthy.
Kantar: International Law: The First Casualty of the Drone War
Znet Article, December, 11 2009
Max Kantar
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This report utilizes well-established principles of both treaty and customary international law as a measuring stick for attempting to determine the legal and moral legitimacy of the covert U.S. policy of using drones to attack targets in Pakistan...
Saba: Suicide bomber was my cousin
Znet Article, December, 09 2009
Sahar Saba
Saba's ZSpace page
Either the accomplice or the suicide bomber was my cousin, Abdul Rauf. He was 22.
Sagar: Corporations Out of My Hair!
Znet Article, December, 09 2009
Satya Sagar
Sagar's ZSpace page
"Scientists discover way to convert human hair into high grade fuel" read the innocuous looking news item tucked away in a corner of the technology pages of my daily newspaper.
Joya: A Woman Among Warlords:The Extraordinary Story of an Afghan Who Dared to Raise Her Voice
Znet Article, December, 05 2009
Malalai Joya
Joya's ZSpace page
Book excerpt...
Joya: Canada must withdraw troops from Afghanistan immediately
Znet Article, December, 02 2009
Malalai Joya
Joya's ZSpace page
I have just completed a two-week speaking tour across Canada, bringing a message to the great people of this country: The people of Afghanistan are fed up with the occupation of their country and with the corrupt, Mafia-state of Hamid Karzai and t...
Prashad: The Bombings, a Year Later
Znet Article, November, 26 2009
Vijay Prashad
Prashad's ZSpace page
Kashmir hangs over Mumbai, whose Gateway to India accepted the assailants who struck a year ago today. It haunts it.
Engelhardt: The Afghan Speech Obama Should Give
Znet Article, November, 19 2009
Tom Engelhardt
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The Afghan Speech Obama Should Give (But Won't)
Raina: Does Ideology Matter?
Znet Article, November, 16 2009
Badri Raina
Raina's ZSpace page
A government report just released on the situation of India’s tribals blames the government itself and companies like the Tatas and Essar for the disquiet in the tribal “hinterlands.â€
Joya: U.S. is doing no good in Afghanistan
Znet Article, November, 11 2009
Malalai Joya
Joya's ZSpace page
As an Afghan woman who was elected to Parliament, I am in the United States to ask President Barack Obama to immediately end the occupation of my country.
Bello: Neoliberalism as Hegemonic Ideology in the Philippines
Znet Article, November, 05 2009
Walden Bello
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Paper delivered at the plenary session of the 2009 National Conference of the Philippine Sociological Society held at the PSSC Building on 16 October 2009
Hoodbhoy: The Saudi-isation of Pakistan
Znet Article, November, 04 2009
Pervez Hoodbhoy
Hoodbhoy's ZSpace page
A stern, unyielding version of Islam is replacing the kinder, gentler Islam of the Sufis in Pakistan.
Akhtar: Turbulent Tribes
Znet Article, November, 04 2009
Aasim sajjad Akhtar
Akhtar's ZSpace page
The Pakistani state has for the best part of these 62 years ensured that Waziristan remains a strategic enclave for the pursuit of regional geo-political objectives.
Kolhatkar: A Call for Clarity on the Afghanistan War
Znet Article, November, 03 2009
Sonali Kolhatkar
Kolhatkar's ZSpace page
While President Barack Obama reviews his strategy on Afghanistan, a perfect moment to send a strong unified message to end the war is slipping through our fingers. Whether it's because we seem to have bought into the lies about the goals of this w...
Roy: The heart of India is under attack
Znet Article, October, 31 2009
Arundhati Roy
Roy's ZSpace page
To justify enforcing a corporate land grab, the state needs an enemy – and it has chosen the Maoists
Mukherjee: The hunger boom
Znet Article, October, 25 2009
Ananya Mukherjee
Mukherjee's ZSpace page
One billion people, 1.02 billion to be precise, are hungry.
Sulehria: Whither Pakistan
Znet Article, October, 25 2009
Farooq Sulehria
Sulehria's ZSpace page
'Whither Pakistan?'. This is a question now a days repeatedly raised in media globally in the wake of high-profile suicidal attacks in last two weeks.
Hayden: Kilcullen's Long War
Znet Article, October, 22 2009
Tom Hayden
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Let us say, hypothetically, that American forces kill or capture Osama bin Laden and Mullah Omar, enabling President Obama to declare victory and bring our troops home. Would he? Not according to the Pentagon's plan for a fifty-year "Long War" of ...
Raina: India’s Left-Wing Extremism
Znet Article, October, 13 2009
Badri Raina
Raina's ZSpace page
Even as the Indian state ponders the situation along its international borders with Pakistan, China, Bangladesh, and Nepal, it is increasingly challenged by the spread of left-wing armed extremism at home.
