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Znet Article Monbiot: Request for Climate References

Znet Article, May, 12 2007 George Monbiot
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Request for Climate References

Znet Article Podur: Global Warming Suspicions and Confusions

Znet Article, May, 11 2007 Justin Podur
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In recent years, a number of important contributions have influenced the growing debate on global warming. Paul Baer and Tom Athanasiou's book, Dead Heat, from a few years ago, was excellent. Noam Chomsky's latest book, Failed States, mentions glo...

Znet Article Gordon: The Death of Samir Dari

Znet Article, May, 11 2007 Neve Gordon
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Almost a year and a half has passed since our friend Samir Dari was gunned down by an Israeli policeman. Samir, an Israeli resident and father of two, approached a group of policemen who had just detained his brother on a street corner not far awa...

Znet Article Levy: Enough confusion

Znet Article, May, 11 2007 Gideon Levy
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The pretzel man was offering three for 10 shekels. On his crate there was an "Elections Now" sign, and apparently he thought this would promote sales. The peddler's protest was no different from that of the tens of thousands of Israelis who finall...

Znet Article Raina: 2007

Znet Article, May, 11 2007 Badri Raina
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"The question of the relationship of political emancipation to religion becomes. . .the question of of the relationship of political emancipation to human emancipation." -Marx It has taken a long time in happening, but at long last modern India...

Znet Article Tutu: This fatal complacency

Znet Article, May, 11 2007 Desmond Tutu
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What if dealing with climate change meant more than a flick of a switch? Would our friends in the industrialised world think differently if the effects of climate change were worse than extended summer months and the arrival of exotic species? Cus...

Znet Article Swanson: Anti-U.S. Uproar Sweeps Italy

Znet Article, May, 11 2007 David Swanson
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The U.S. government has proposed to make Vicenza, Italy, the largest US military site in Europe, but the people of Vicenza, and all of Italy, have sworn it will never happen. As with the story of the Downing Street Minutes two years ago this week...

Znet Article Mishra: Human Smuggling and Trafficking in era of Globalization

Znet Article, May, 06 2007 Girish Mishra
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The increasing incidents of human smuggling and trafficking in the wake of the arrest of an M.P. belonging to the Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) have become a major topic of discussion and pontification in public forums in general and the media in pa...

Znet Article Gberie: Child Soldier

Znet Article, May, 06 2007 Lansana Gberie
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The most difficult ones to deal with, the earnest UN official told me, are the "teenage ruffians." I was talking to him in Monrovia, capital of Liberia, in 2004. A large UN force, 15,000 strong, was desperately trying to disarm the mostly deranged...

Znet Article Mann: The CO2 Rise. Whodunit?

Znet Article, May, 06 2007 Michael Mann
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[Editors Note: Click here for Alexander Cockburn's precipitating article "From Papal Indulgences to Carbon Credits Is Global Warming a Sin?" Go here for ensuing...

Znet Article Bennis: The Bush Veto, Iraq Funding and Permanent Occupation

Znet Article, May, 01 2007 Phyllis Bennis
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The anticipated veto of the Iraq war funding bill demonstrates the extent of White House extremism. Bush is not rejecting a "bring all the troops home and end the war" bill but rather rejecting a compromise bill that would provide $100 billion to ...

Znet Article Morello: A one-man musical revolution

Znet Article, April, 29 2007 Tom Morello
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Former Rage Against the Machine and Audioslave guitarist Tom Morello embarks on a revolutionary solo mission as "The Nightwatchman." Musician and political activist Tom Morello has just released his first solo album, "One Man Revolution," as his...

Znet Article Osuoka: Nigeria: Oil, Elections and the International Community

Znet Article, April, 29 2007 Isaac Osuoka
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Today (April 23/07), the electoral commission of Nigeria has announced the candidates of the ruling PDP as winner of massively rigged general elections. During the past week, the international media has been replete with stories about the violence...

Znet Article Ismail samatar: Bloodbath in Mogadishu

Znet Article, April, 29 2007 Abdi Ismail samatar
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The United Nations refuge agency (UNHCR) has declared that the war in Somalia has produced, since the beginning of the year, more refugees than any other country including conflicts in Sudan and Iraq. Such a terrible statistic is the product of th...

Znet Article Lamrani: The moral bankruptcy of the European Union in its policies towards Cuba

Znet Article, April, 29 2007 Salim Lamrani
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The European Union as a political entity is on its deathbed. Its role on the international scene is considerably diminished by its inability to form a foreign policy independent of the lines set down by Washington. It obediently follows the bellic...

Commentary Street: "I Know How Black Folks Think": Reflections on an Outrageously Non-Scandalous Remark From Bill Clinton

Commentary, April, 24 2007 Paul Street
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Imagine that George Bush Senior was heard to say this about why the Jewish-American vote went a certain way in a New York City mayoral election: "well, that doesn't surprise me because I know how Jews think."

Znet Article Mishra: Wolfowitz at World Bank

Znet Article, April, 24 2007 Girish Mishra
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Whether Paul D. Wolfowitz remains at the helms of the affairs or is pushed out, the credibility of the World Bank is so dented that it can neither be restored easily nor very soon. The paradox is that the self-proclaimed crusader against corruptio...

Znet Article Ali: Single State?

Znet Article, April, 24 2007 Tariq Ali
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Milan, April - Editor of the New Left Review, well-known essayist, author of a series of suggestive historic novels about Islam, Tariq Ali visited recently Italy to participate at the presentation of the Italian translation of his "Shadows of th...

Znet Article Grima: Prospects for fairer trade in the Mediterranean

Znet Article, April, 24 2007 Adrian Grima
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In 2010 a free trade area will be established within the so-called Euromed zone that will make matters worse for poorer communities in the Mediterranean region. The renowned academic and activist Tonino Perna anticipates that some four million sma...

Znet Article Sader: The New Strategy of the Left

Znet Article, April, 24 2007 Emir Sader
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The postgraduate course in Development Sciences (CIDES, UMSA [Universidad Mayor de San Andrés, La Paz]), the Colectivo Comuna and the Fundación por la Europa de los Ciudadanos [Foundation for a Citizens' Europe] organized the seminar "Pensar el ...

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