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Baroud: Haider Abdul-Shafi: Passing Undefeated
Znet Article, October, 07 2007
Ramzy Baroud
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The recent death of Haider Abdul-Shafi could not have come at a worse time. Bearing in mind the grim shortcomings of the Palestinian leadership and the lack of any serious attempt to rectify the situation, the loss of this unique and iconic leader...
Wilpert: Changing Venezuela by Taking Power: The Policies of the Chavez Government
Book, October, 05 2007
Since coming to power in 1998, the Chavez government has inspired both fierce internal debate and horror amongst Western governments accustomed to counting on an obeisant regime in the oil-rich state...
Schechter: Shock Therapy On Wall Street: What's Next?
Commentary, October, 05 2007
Danny Schechter
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"Institutions and human psychology lead financial markets to bounce back and forth between exuberant greed and catatonic fear. Times of fear generate high unemployment. Times of greed are likely to be times of destabilizing inflation." - Economist...
Solomon: Let's Face It: The Warfare State Is Part of Us
Commentary, October, 04 2007
Norman Solomon
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The USA's military spending is now close to $2 billion a day. This fall, the country will begin its seventh year of continuous war, with no end in sight. On the horizon is the very real threat of a massive air assault on Iran. And few in Congress ...
Chomsky: A Revolution is Just Below the Surface
Znet Article, October, 04 2007
Noam Chomsky
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I read a quote of yours which said power is always illegitimate unless it proves itself to be legitimate. So in Venezuela right now we are in the process of Constitutional reform. And within that reform the People's Power is going to gain Constitu...
Fernandes: The Gender Agenda of the Pink Tide in Latin America
Znet Article, October, 04 2007
Sujatha Fernandes
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With the election of leftist leaders in many parts of Latin America, the subject of women seems to be coming up more frequently in public discourse. Hugo ChÃ
Ngugi: Thomas Sankara Lives!
Znet Article, October, 04 2007
Mukoma Ngugi
Ngugi's ZSpace page
In April this year, we celebrated 50 yrs of Ghana's Independence. In October, we are marking the 20th year since Thomas Sankara's assassination - a stark reminder that we are still in the state Odinga Oginga called Not Yet Uhuru. We will be re...
Hersh: Shifting Targets: The Administration's Plan for Iran
Znet Article, October, 04 2007
Seymour m. Hersh
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In a series of public statements in recent months, President Bush and members of his Administration have redefined the war in Iraq
Raina: Quiet Flows the Gutter Paved with Gold
Znet Article, October, 04 2007
Badri Raina
Raina's ZSpace page
The New Indian Middle Class will surely take us far; from hauteur, humbug, heartlessness to bloody civil war. (Badri Raina, Hippopotamus, Modest Proposal & Other Rhymes For the Times, Sahmat pub., Delhi, 2000) A week or so ago, one Prash...
Mian: How Not to Win Friends and Influence People
Znet Article, October, 04 2007
Zia Mian
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The United States sells death, destruction, and terror as a fundamental instrument of its foreign policy. It sees arms sales as a way of making and keeping strategic friends and tying countries more directly to U.S. military planning and operati...
Winter: Ontario Considers Proportional Representation
Znet Article, October, 04 2007
James Winter
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Ontario voters will consider their first-ever referendum on electoral reform on October 10th, as part of a provincial election campaign. The referendum is actually a no-brainer, but you'd never know it from most of the media coverage. Partially as...
Hedges: Israel's Toy Soldiers
Znet Article, October, 04 2007
Chris Hedges
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If you are a young Muslim American and head off to the Middle East for a spell in a fundamentalist "madrassa," or religious school, Homeland Security will probably greet you at the airport when you return. But if you are an American Jew and you j...
Bricmont: War in the Name of Peace
Znet Article, October, 04 2007
Jean Bricmont
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In 1999, the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation lacked any mandate from the United Nations when it attacked Serbia. In Afghanistan, the U.S. continued bombing in 2002, even when the government that replaced the Taliban asked it to stop (lest the c...
Glick: No War, No Warming, Rise Up!
Commentary, October, 03 2007
Ted Glick
Glick's ZSpace page
For months a movement has been developing that consciously and intentionally links the related issues of the war in Iraq/oil wars and the heating up of the earth that is disrupting the world's climate. On Monday morning, October 22, in Washington,...
Kagarlitsky: Like a crime story
Commentary, October, 02 2007
Boris Kagarlitsky
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Producers of the "Successor" reality show that incessantly surprises both the Russian audience and the critics seem to have borrowed the idea and the plot from classic detective stories. In the beginning, they made audience closely follow the riva...
Jacobs: The Mouth of a Graveyard: A Review of Dahr Jamail's Beyond the Green Zone
Znet Article, October, 02 2007
Ron Jacobs
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Beyond the Green Zone: Dispatches From an Unembedded Journalist in Occupied Iraq by Dahr Jamail (Haymarket, 2007)  As the U.S. occupation of Iraq and the accompanying war on its people heads into a fifth year, the Ne...
James: Bolivia's Evo Morales Wins Hearts and Minds in US
Znet Article, October, 02 2007
Deborah James
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While Iranian President Ahmedinejad stole the headlines during the United Nations meeting last week in New York, Bolivia's President Evo Morales - a humble coca farmer, former llama herder and union organizer - stole the hearts of the Am...
Sharma: US Farm Bill 2007: Cat among pigeons
Commentary, October, 01 2007
Devinder Sharma
Sharma's ZSpace page
As a child I had always wondered as to why pigeons shut its eyes when it sees a cat. After all, how na•ve or stupid depending on how you perceive the act, can the pigeons be to think that a visible threat to its life, which is as sure as death, ca...
Hayden: Northern Irish, South Africa Leaders in Secret Peace Discussion with Iraqi Parties
Znet Article, October, 01 2007
Tom Hayden
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Sunni and Shi'a leaders began a potential peace process at secret meetings with leaders of the new Northern Ireland and South Africa one month, signing draft set of principles which resemble the protocols that guided the peace settlements ...
Emersberger: COHA gets an "F" for their article on Haiti
Znet Article, October, 01 2007
Joe Emersberger
Emersberger's ZSpace page
COHA, The Council on Hemispheric Affairs, recently published a piece by one of its research associates, Michael Glenwick, entitled "Préval of Haiti — A Provisional Report Card: Grade B+." In it, Glenwick recycles the smears that contributed to Ha...
