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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...

Znet Article Raina: The Turnaround in Uttar Pradesh

Znet Article, June, 06 2007 Badri Raina
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Epigraph By the pricking of my thumbs,Something pregnant this way comes. (with apologies to the bard for the plagiarism). Why does the feeling persist, certainly with this hack, that notwithstanding some astute and trustworthy analyses of the e...

Znet Article Pepper: Deconstructing "Return to Sender"

Znet Article, June, 06 2007 Margot Pepper
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Recently, sending a message of resistance to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), Berkeley and Oakland, California adopted sanctuary city measures disallowing the use of city funds and staff time in aiding Immigration and Customs Enforc...

Znet Article Wilpert: RCTV and Freedom of Speech in Venezuela

Znet Article, June, 04 2007 Gregory Wilpert
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As far as world public opinion is conc...

Znet Article Akhtar: Popular movement in Pakistan?

Znet Article, June, 01 2007 Aasim sajjad Akhtar
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Since March 9 when Pakistan's military ruler General Pervez Musharraf fired the Chief Justice, a popular movement has been in the making. Ostensibly the Chief Justice was surplus to the general's requirements because he had made one objectionable ...

Znet Article Fox: Venezuela's Co-op Boom

Znet Article, June, 01 2007 Michael Fox
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To end poverty, put poor people in charge of their livelihood. A co-op boom turns the jobless into worker/owners. When Estrella Ramirez's 14-year-old son signed her up to participate in the government's free literacy program, Mission Robinson, sh...

Znet Article Fenton: Propafghanda

Znet Article, June, 01 2007 Anthony Fenton
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If maintaining Canada's Afghan occupation requires a "perception war" on Canadian soil, then are Canadians now the enemy? Anthony Fenton investigates. Few Canadians know that the transformation of Canada's military and foreign policy establishmen...

Znet Article Oja jay: Mark Mackinnon's New Cold War

Znet Article, June, 01 2007 Dru Oja jay
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Mark Mackinnon's new book opens with a tale of two large buildings blown up by terrorists. The president, until then an unremarkable leader with deep ties to the country's secretive intelligence agency, seizes on the tragedy by launching a war aga...

Znet Article Avnery: To the Shores of Tripoli

Znet Article, June, 01 2007 Uri Avnery
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THE BLOODY battles that have erupted around the Nahr al-Bared refugee camp near Tripoli in Lebanon remind us that the refugee problem has not disappeared. On the contrary, 60 years after the "Nakba", the Palestinian catastrophe of 1948, it is agai...

Znet Article Miles: Canada and the US Empire

Znet Article, June, 01 2007 Jim Miles
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Holding the Bully's Coat - Canada and the U.S. Empire.  Linda McQuaig.  Doubleday Canada, Toronto. 2007.  ...

Znet Article Deshpande: West Bengal

Znet Article, June, 01 2007 Sudhanva Deshpande
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Isn't our life a tunnelbetween two clarities? Pablo Neruda, Libros de las preguntas, 1974. In August 2006, Mamata Banerjee traveled to Singur, home to around 20,000 people in the state of West Bengal. Banerjee, who was once an activis...

Znet Article Carlsen: NAFTA Kicked Up A Notch

Znet Article, June, 01 2007 Laura Carlsen
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The North American Free Trade Agreement is the world's most advanced example of the U.S.-led free trade model. It's not just about economics any more. The expansion of NAFTA into the Security and Prosperity Partnership reveals the road ahead for o...

Znet Article Mishra: World Bank in Historical Perspective

Znet Article, May, 22 2007 Girish Mishra
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The World Bank, a prominent Western financial institution, has played a major role in the changed strategy of imperialism, pursued after the Second World War. This strategy has been known as Neocolonialism. One can hardly understand the role of th...

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