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Znet Article Fuentes: The Battle For Bolivia's Future

Znet Article, June, 19 2007 Federico Fuentes
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The breaking of a six-month deadlock in Bolivia's constituent assembly has paved the way for the opening of an intense debate on the future of this politically polarised country nestled in the heart of South America. Beginning to lose the battle w...

Znet Article Rose: Why pick on Israel? Because its actions are wrong

Znet Article, June, 19 2007 Steven Rose
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The University and College Union annual congress last week voted by a two-thirds majority to organise a campus tour for Palestinian academic trade unionists to explain why they had called for an academic and cultural boycott of Israel, and to enco...

Znet Article Monteforte: Maize of Deception

Znet Article, June, 19 2007 Eliana Monteforte
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Ethanol Fuels Are Not Necessarily The Universal CureAs the Bush administration continues to push its alternative fuels agenda, it has become increasingly evident that corn-based ethanol could be as much the global villain as a boon to society. I...

Znet Article Mishra: Globalization

Znet Article, June, 19 2007 Girish Mishra
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Gone are the days when globalization based on Washington consensus was hailed as a new dawn in the history of mankind. It was claimed that the emergence of the New Economy would make business cycles ineffective, and people from Henry Kissinger to ...

Znet Article Ngugi: Africa Uniting Less, Perishing More

Znet Article, June, 19 2007 Mukoma Ngugi
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When in 1946 Winston Churchill called for a United States of Europe, so soon after the World War II, many must have thought him still shell-shocked. Then it was unimaginable that a mere generation later there would be a European Union with a singl...

Znet Article Fox: Uruguay's Frente Amplio

Znet Article, June, 19 2007 Michael Fox
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How one of Latin America's most radical progressive coalitions finally achieved their country's presidency, and how those at the helm are now turning the...

Znet Article Raina: India Steals a March

Znet Article, June, 19 2007 Badri Raina
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Epigraph Here is what we say:recognize the altered night and day;men and women must together findan honest will to put behinda habitually distorted humankind. (Badri Raina, Our Share of the World, Museindia.com) Since all evaluations nowadays o...

Znet Article Hughes: Dr. Rafil A. Dhafir and the War on Terror

Znet Article, June, 19 2007 Katherine Hughes
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Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, May-June2007, pages 12-13Special ReportDr. Rafil A. Dhafir at Terre Haute Prison's NewCommunications Management Unit AT PRECISELY 7 a.m. on Monday, Dec. 11, 2006, 17 federal prisoners across the country w...

Znet Article Ricker: False HOPE for Haiti

Znet Article, June, 19 2007 Tom Ricker
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[Note from Haitianalysis Editor: This is an updated article from a piece previously published on the Quixote Center Blog] Earlier this month President Bush certified that Haiti was "prepared" to take advantage of trade preferences extended under...

Znet Article Hess: A Dirtier War

Znet Article, June, 19 2007 Jake Hess
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In response to years of sustained pressure from the Colombia solidarity movement, Congressional Democrats have proposed positive amendments to the Bush administration's annual foreign aid appropriations request for Colombia.  If the Democrats have...

Znet Article Warschawski: A Return to the 1950s? The Bishara Affair

Znet Article, June, 19 2007 Michael Warschawski
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The Israeli media is full of articles, interviews and reports concerning "the Bishara affair." No one, however, is allowed to tell the readers what this is all about, and rumors, guesses and the Israeli security officials' leaks are replacing real...

Znet Article Preston: Canada's Third World

Znet Article, June, 19 2007 Cosanna Preston
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Imagine a community with no running water, where temperatures bottom-out below minus 40 degrees Celsius and the closest bathroom is an outhouse across the yard, through knee-deep snow. Imagine a community where a single 900-foot house is home to t...

Znet Article Zipperer: Union Busting is Big Business

Znet Article, June, 19 2007 Ben Zipperer
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As the Senate considers reforming national labor law, the percentage of American workers in unions continues its long and severe decline. What is causing the downturn, and what is prompting the legislation, is not a decreased need for unions -- ac...

Blog Post Khan: Relevance of Marx and Marxist Tradition

Blog Post, June, 15 2007 Nasir Khan
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Leaders of the capitalist world order rejoiced when the Soviet system impolded. Then started the U.S. rulers their new wars of aggression and destruction.

Znet Article Abu-jamal: CHOMSKY: COLUMNIST WITHOUT A PLACE

Znet Article, June, 08 2007 Mumia Abu-jamal
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CHOMSKY: COLUMNIST WITHOUT A PLACE

Znet Article Hedges: Sanctions are needed to save Israel from itself

Znet Article, June, 06 2007 Chris Hedges
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Israel captured and occupied the Gaza Strip and the West Bank 40 years ago this week. The victory was celebrated as a great triumph, at once tripling the size of the land under Israeli control, including East Jerusalem. It was, however, a Pyrrhic ...

Znet Article Fernandes: Democracy and Constitutional Reform

Znet Article, June, 06 2007 Sujatha Fernandes
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After gathering proposals during a six-week trip around the country, members of Bolivia's National Constituent Assembly met on April 30, 2007, to present the proposals and draft recommendations for synthesizing these proposals into a new constitut...

Znet Article Edmonds: In Gag We Trust?

Znet Article, June, 06 2007 Sibel Edmonds
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FBI language specialist Sibel Edmonds was fired from her job with the FBI's Washington Field Office in March 2002. Her crime was reporting security breaches, cover-ups, blocking of intelligence, and the bribery of U.S. individuals including high-r...

Znet Article Miles: The Ugly Canadian

Znet Article, June, 06 2007 Jim Miles
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Review of: Whose War Is It? How Canada Can Survive In The Post 9/11 World. By J. L. Granatstein. (Harper Collins, Toronto, Ontario, 2007.) The 'ugly American' - arrogant, ignorant, hubristic, militaristic - has in this instance a good Canadia...

Znet Article Bisharat: 40th Anniversary of the Six-Day War

Znet Article, June, 06 2007 George Bisharat
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Forty years ago this week, Israel conquered the West Bank and Gaza Strip, re-establishing a political system in which one sovereign ruled over all of former Palestine. Unnoticed by the world, this brought about a version of a "single state solutio...

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