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Swamy: The case against collaboration between India and Israel
Znet Article, August, 31 2006
Raja Swamy
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After thirty-four days of relentless aerial bombardment and a ground invasion, Israel's brutal assault on Lebanon's civilian population has come to a halt, at least temporarily. As the dust from the rubble of Lebanon's ruined cities, villages, and...
Kunin: Supporting CUPE's Israel Boycott
Znet Article, August, 31 2006
Jason Kunin
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Not many people in North America were paying attention in July 2005 when The Palestinian General Federation of Trade Unions, along with over 170 Palestinian unions, political parties, and organizations called for a global campaign...
Lendman: Alternatives To the Collapsed WTO Doha Round Talks
Znet Article, August, 23 2006
Stephen Lendman
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On July 24, 2006, World Trade Organization (WTO) Director-General Pascal Lamy was forced to halt the five years of negotiating of the so-called Fourth WTO Ministerial Doha Round that began in Doha, Qatar in November, 2001 and ended (for now, at le...
Lendman: Venezuela Leading the Race For the UN Security Council Seat
Znet Article, August, 22 2006
Stephen Lendman
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In October, elections will take place for five non-permanent UN Security Council seats to be held in 2007. One of them will be for the Latin American seat now held by Argentina. The two leading regional contenders vying to fill the opening are V...
Ngugi: War, Silence and the Politics of Language
Znet Article, August, 09 2006
Mukoma Ngugi
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War on Silence (I) When they came for the Irish, Blacks and Jews Iremained silent. You see, I was yet to be born.And when it happened again I was too young and - waiting to go into college. Later when they jailed anti-war protestors, waiting t...
Annis: Haiti's Election
Znet Article, August, 06 2006
Roger Annis
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Haiti’s occupiers and elites badly needed the legitimacy of a “democratic†election. Unfortunately for them, the poor majority took them at their word…. Sometimes even the best-laid plans of the powerful go astray....
Barahona: Reporters Without Borders and Washington's Coups
Znet Article, August, 02 2006
Diana Barahona
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British press baron Lord Northcliff said, "News is something that someone, somewhere wants to keep secret, everything else is advertising." If this is true, then U.S. government funding of Reporters Without Borders must be news, because the organi...
Beeton: What the World Bank and IDB Owe Haiti
Znet Article, August, 02 2006
Dan Beeton
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For several years Haiti, the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere, has been left out of the World Bank’s “Heavily Indebted Poor Country†(HIPC) debt relief initiative. At last, Haiti may soon see some of its IMF and...
Mandic: Why Didn't You Bring Pinochet?
Znet Article, July, 15 2006
Danilo Mandic
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Princeton University has become, in mainstream discourse, virtually synonymous with American liberalism, antiwar sentimentalism, or worse. To honor the second anniversary of the occupation of Iraq, the Daily Princetonian ran a David Horowitz colum...
Keady: Australia in the Region
Znet Article, July, 05 2006
Maryann Keady
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When Australia’s ally, the United States made the Asia Pacific its top strategic priority in the 2001 Quadrennial Defence Review, it was clear to all defence analysts that the ‘peer competitor’ was China. Indeed, in the las...
Zinn: Patriotism & The Fourth of July
Znet Article, July, 03 2006
Howard Zinn
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The following essay is an excerpt from Zinn's forthcoming book, A Power Governments Cannot Suppress (City Lights Books, ISBN 0-87286-475-8, www.citylights.com) In celebration of the 4th of July there will be many speeches about the young people...
Lendman: The Wall Street Journal's Chavez Commentary
Znet Article, June, 24 2006
Stephen Lendman
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You won't find commentary and language any more hostile to Hugo Chavez than on the editorial page of the Wall Street Journal. Their June 23 piece by Mary Anastasia O'Grady in the Americas column is a clear, jaw-dropping example. It's practically b...
Sprague: Reverse Solidarity
Znet Article, June, 21 2006
Jeb Sprague
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Dennis Bernstein/ Flashpoints: Many in the U.S. see the AFL-CIO as a huge effective union [federation] representing tens of thousands of workers in this country, which may be true and is but it is not widely understood that the union joined han...
Walia: Responding to the Toronto Terror Arrests
Znet Article, June, 13 2006
Harsha Walia
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Last weekend, in a pre-dawn raid, four hundred officers arrested seventeen Canadian Muslim youth and young men- mostly under the age of 25- in a grand anti-terrorism bust. Since then, Canadians have been subjected to sensationalist reports of the ...
Grandin: The Rebel and Mr. Danger
Znet Article, June, 12 2006
Greg Grandin
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There is something quaint—flattering, even—about the way Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez insists on calling George W. Bush “Mr. Danger.†The taunt, which Chávez delivers in English with rolled-out vowels and pinc...
Wwsc: A Specter is Haunting the AFL-CIO's Foreign Policy Program:
Znet Article, June, 04 2006
Worker-to-worker solidarity committee -- Wwsc
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The room had been arranged, the speakers ready: with a last minute, unannounced substitution of Wilfredo Berrios of El Salvador's SUTTEL (telecom) union replacing Miguel Gonzalez Vargas from the Oil Workers Union of Venezuela who had not been able...
Solo: Venezuela and Brazil
Znet Article, April, 30 2006
Toni Solo
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COPA the Panamanian airline is now flying the Brazilian company Embraer's E-190 commercial airliners on routes previously dominated by Boeing 737s. This detail highlights broader shifts in the economic balance of power in Latin America away from U...
Chomsky: Afterword: Failed States
Znet Article, April, 26 2006
Noam Chomsky
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We began by considering four critical issues that should rank high on the agenda of those concerned with the prospects for a decent future. Two of them are literally matters of survival: nuclear war and environmental disaster. The first danger is ...
Robinson: Aqui Estamos Y No Nos Vamos
Znet Article, April, 23 2006
William Robinson
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Latino immigrants have launched an all-out fight-back against the repression, exploitation, and racism they routinely face in the United States with a series of unprecedented strikes and demonstrations. The mobilizations began when over half a m...
Neatby: The Politics of Finger Wagging
Znet Article, April, 19 2006
Stuart Neatby
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Both Paul Raymond and his wife had been living in the Dominican Republic in exile for several months. In the months following the removal of elected Haitian President Jean Bertrand Aristide in February of 2004, a removal which was carried out by ...
