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Mishra: Booming Market of Antiques
Znet Article, August, 01 2007
Girish Mishra
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In the West there has emerged a booming market in antiques, which include old idols, icons, coins, manuscripts, old books, paintings, etc. The volume of demand for them has been soaring at an ever-accelerated rate. To match this almost insatiable ...
Raina: Teach Them Not to Think
Znet Article, August, 01 2007
Badri Raina
Raina's ZSpace page
There is no such thing as a value neutral educational process. (Richard Shaull, Foreword to Pedagogy of the Oppressed) After the initial attempts by a section of Christian-bourgeois souls (Dickens, Carlyle, Chadwick, Mayhew, Mrs.Gaskell, even th...
Albert: Parecon as a New Path for the Balkans?
Znet Article, August, 01 2007
Michael Albert
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The following interview was prepared for ZMag Balkans, a new print magazine, produced by "Freedom Fight collective" f...
Schwartz: The Benchmarks That Matter
Znet Article, August, 01 2007
Michael Schwartz
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President Bush has called upon Congress, the American public, the Iraqi people, and the world to suspend judgment -- until at least September -- on the success of his escalation of the war, euphemistically designated a "surge." But the fact is: It...
Hass: Back to a corrupt occupation
Znet Article, August, 01 2007
Amira Hass
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In one of the alarming news items of the past week, it was reported that Israel has green-lighted the transfer of 1,000 rifles from Jordan to the security forces loyal to Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas. This is not the first time Isr...
Cook: The Saker interviews Jonathan Cook
Znet Article, July, 31 2007
Jonathan Cook
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The Saker interviews Jonathan Cook This Q&A email exchange with Jonathan Cook, a British journalist who lives in Nazareth, Israel, was first published on the Vineyard of the Saker website ...
Mishra: Indian Socialists and Anti-Congressism
Znet Article, July, 31 2007
Girish Mishra
Mishra's ZSpace page
Ever since Indian socialists parted company with the parent organization, the Indian National Congress (hereafter the Congress), and constituted themselves into a separate entity, a large segment of them has been afflicted with the virus of anti-C...
Trigona: Clergyman to Stand Trial for "Dirty War" Crimes in Argentina
Znet Article, July, 29 2007
Marie Trigona
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A much awaited human rights abuse trial is underway in Argentina. The accused is a catholic priest charged with carrying out human rights abuses while working in several clandestine detention centers during the nation's 1976-1983 military dictator...
Edwards: FROM BLAIR TO BROWN - THE KILLING WILL CONTINUE
Znet Article, July, 24 2007
David Edwards
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The first truth of American foreign policy is that it is formulated to maximise corporate profits and state power. The second truth is that it is perennially sold to the public as a mission to spread freedom, democracy and human rights. The third ...
Klein: Argentina: Where Jobless Run Factories
Znet Article, July, 21 2007
Naomi Klein
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As journalists, we had to ask ourselves what we were doing there. What possible relevance could there be in this one factory at the southernmost tip of our continent, with its band of radical workers and its David and Goliath narrative, when bunke...
Tajik: Interview with The Iran Daily
Znet Article, July, 20 2007
Amir Tajik
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This is the full text of an interview, conducted by Amir Tajik, published in the English-language Iran Daily on 16 July 2007. Jonathan Cook is a British journalist based in Nazareth, Israel. He is the author of "Blood and Religion: The Unmasking o...
Nasser: Communists, Leftists Defy Indian Politics of Liberal Economics
Znet Article, July, 20 2007
Nicola Nasser
Nasser's ZSpace page
The accelerated pace of India's liberal economics and pragmatic ties with the United States and Israel risks polarizing Indian domestic politics and invoking a deep-seated communist as well as Islamist anti - Americanism with a realistic potential...
Dixon: Israeli Apartheid
Znet Article, July, 16 2007
Bruce Dixon
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Imagine, if you will, a modern apartheid state with first, second and eleventh class citizens, all required to carry identification specifying their ethnic origin. First class citizens are obliged to serve in the armed forces, kept on ready reserv...
Jensen: Lessons from the Lal Masjid tragedy
Znet Article, July, 16 2007
Robert Jensen
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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan -- For my first three days in Pakistan, no conversation could go more than a few minutes without a reference to the crisis at the Lal Masjid (Red Mosque) compound. I had landed in Islamabad on July 8, and by then it seemed clea...
Avnery: An Israeli Love Story
Znet Article, July, 16 2007
Uri Avnery
Avnery's ZSpace page
NOT SINCE the resurrection of Jesus Christ has there been such a miracle: a dead body buried in a cave has come to life again. The "Jordanian Option" gave up its ghost almost twenty years ago. Even before that, it never was very healthy. But in...
Abu marzook: Hamas' stand
Znet Article, July, 16 2007
Mousa Abu marzook
Abu marzook's ZSpace page
Damascus, Syria — Hamas' rescue of a BBC journalist from his captors in Gaza last week was surely cause for rejoicing. But I want to be clear about one thing: We did not deliver up Alan Johnston as some obsequious boon to Western powers. It was d...
Toussaint: Congo plunder and submission
Znet Article, July, 16 2007
Eric Toussaint
Toussaint's ZSpace page
The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is a textbook case for those who wish to understand complex notions like the pillage of a country's wealth, the intolerable loss of a State's sovereignty, or the concept of odious debt. The manner in which t...
Ngugi: Africa and Nuclear Weapons
Znet Article, July, 16 2007
Mukoma Ngugi
Ngugi's ZSpace page
Africa - Unite or Perish! Kwame Nkrumah might as well have been referring to the threat from the ever diversifying number of countries in the nuclear armaments race - India, Pakistan, China, North Korea and in the near horizon, Iran. To this lis...
Raina: Vedic Mantra in the American Senate
Znet Article, July, 16 2007
Badri Raina
Raina's ZSpace page
Even as "Potter Mania" overtakes India, the American Senate has been overtaken by Hindu-Vedic mantras. Fascinating conjuncture. Fascinating because the conjuncture invites such diverse reads, depending on where and how we are located as historic...
