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Blog Post Peterson: Crocker and Petraeus Do Washington

Blog Post, September, 10 2007 David Peterson
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  All Europe contributed to the making of Kurtz; and   by and by I learned that, most appropriately, the   International Society for the Suppression of Savage   Customs had entrusted him with the making of a re-   port, for its future guidance...

Znet Article Christoff: Battle of the Ballot Box Part II

Znet Article, September, 09 2007 Stefan Christoff
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Violence surrounding the Philippine elections, including multiple assassinations and targeted bombings, has raised concerns internationally. Controversy over the mid-term elections of 2007, however, remains but one element of a broader political c...

Znet Article Derakhshan: Two sides of sanctions

Znet Article, September, 09 2007 Hossein Derakhshan
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On a sunny day in Washington, DC, my imaginary American scholar, Hannah Esfandiari, was sitting in her Kalorama-located house, opening a letter she had just received from Tehran, Iran. It was a job offer from a prominent think tank at the heart ...

Znet Article Miles: Making Globalization Work?

Znet Article, September, 09 2007 Jim Miles
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Making Globalization Work.  Joseph Stiglitz.  W. W. Norton & Company, New York, 2007. Having read Stiglitz' first work, "Globalization and its Discontents", having thought at the time that it was a strong work, then having read his second book "F...

Znet Article Barker: Do Capitalists Fund Revolutions?

Znet Article, September, 09 2007 Michael Barker
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Part one of this article reviewed some of the ways by which liberal philanthropists work to co-opt the activities of progressive groups all over the world. This second part of the article will continue to review the recent literature pertaining to...

Znet Article Hallward: Aristide and the Violence of Democracy

Znet Article, September, 09 2007 Peter Hallward
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Part 1 of 2 Go to Part 2 A review of Alex Dupuy, The Prophet and Power: Jean-Bertrand Aristide, the International Community and Haiti. New York: Rowman & Littlefield, 2007. ISBN 0-7425-3831-1, 238 + xi pages. The basic argument of Alex Dupuy's ...

Znet Article Hallward: Aristide and the Violence of Democracy

Znet Article, September, 09 2007 Peter Hallward
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Part 2 of 2 Go back to part 1 III Having thus proved to his own satisfaction that in 2001 Fanmi Lavalas sought to monopolise the spoils for political power for itself and itself alone, Dupuy now moves on to make the third and most damaging of hi...

Znet Article Bricmont: When wishful thinking replaces resistance

Znet Article, September, 09 2007 Jean Bricmont
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Many people in the antiwar movement try to reassure themselves: Bush cannot possibly attack Iran. He does not have the means to do so, or, perhaps, even he is not foolish enough to engage in such an enterprise. Various particular reasons are put f...

Znet Article Cruz: Elephant Cemetery: the UN in Lebanon

Znet Article, September, 08 2007 Alberto Cruz
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(03-09-2007) The main ideological battlefield  in the Middle East is Lebanon. However much United Stat...

Blog Post Peterson: No End In Sight

Blog Post, September, 07 2007 David Peterson
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   If, say, the Overlords in Arthur C. Clarke's sci-fi    novel Childhood's End had shocked and awed    the planet Earth some time in early 2003, and    were currently occupying large swaths of the    continental United States, then I, not on...

Blog Post Street: NYC Transport Workers Union Snubs Clinton By Endorsing John Edwards, the Most Electable Democratic Presidential Candidate

Blog Post, September, 07 2007 Paul Street
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 AP Photo: TWU Local 100 president Roger Toussaint smiles while speaking to the Transit Workers By JESSE J. HOLLAND, AP Labor Writer Thu Sep 6, 7:31 PM ET WASHINGTON - The Transport Workers Union of America endorsed John Edwards on T...

Znet Article Christoff: Battle of the Ballot Box, Part 1

Znet Article, September, 04 2007 Stefan Christoff
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MANILA--Across the Philippine archipelago, millions of voters cast ballots in the 2007 mid-term elections in May while a wave of political violence swept the country, including multiple assassinations and fire-bombings of polling stations. Accord...

Znet Article Lamrani: Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton and Cuba

Znet Article, September, 04 2007 Salim Lamrani
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On August 21, 2007, democrat and U.S. presidential candidate, Barack Obama called for an end to the inhumane economic sanctions that were imposed by the Bush administration in 2004 and 2006, which mercilessly divide Cuban families (1). The draconi...

Znet Article Barker: Do Capitalists Fund Revolutions? (Part 1 of 2)

Znet Article, September, 04 2007 Michael Barker
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To date capitalists have financially supported two types of revolution: they have funded the neoliberal revolution to "take the risk out of democracy",[1] and they have supported/hijacked popular revolutions (or in some cases manufactured 'revolut...

Znet Article Polo democratico alternativo: Regarding death squads, vigilantes, and paramilitary politics in Colombia

Znet Article, September, 04 2007 Polo democratico alternativo
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[Bogotá, August 20, 2007] Every Colombian expresses public support for the cessation of violent acts which bloody the nation. There is also apparent consensus that restorative justice must be the foundation to any peace process, that victims sho...

Znet Article Barker: Do Capitalists Fund Revolutions?

Znet Article, September, 02 2007 Michael Barker
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To date capitalists have financially supported two types of revolution: they have funded the neoliberal revolution to "take the risk out of democracy",[1] and they have supported/hijacked popular revolutions (or in some cases manufactured 'revolut...

Znet Article Fuentes: Venezuela's Revolution

Znet Article, September, 02 2007 Federico Fuentes
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"The internal situation will intensify over the next months, more contradictions will emerge, simply because we have no plans to hold back the march of the revolution", said Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez on March 24, speaking to more than 2000 ...

Znet Article Hallward: If stones could float

Znet Article, September, 02 2007 Peter Hallward
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Updated on 6 September 2007[1] Every now and then something happens which helps to shed a little light on the way our newspapers distinguish between what counts as news and what doesn't. Consider how the British press handled two very different d...

Blog Post Peterson: To Bomb Iran

Blog Post, September, 01 2007 David Peterson
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   The Washington regime continues to lay out its    case for war with Iran -- not the least of which is    how little success it has enjoyed at militarily sub-    jugating the population of Iraq.  In a speech    Tuesday before the National Co...

Znet Article Naiman: Slam Dunk: The Bush Administration Is Trying to Provoke Iran

Znet Article, September, 01 2007 Robert Naiman
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The Bush Administration is once again escalating its confrontation with Iran. Clearly they have multiple motivations for doing so. They're trying to "change the channel" from the...

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