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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...

Znet Article Surya: Indo-US Nuclear Agreement

Znet Article, May, 22 2007 Radha Surya
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Have negotiations on Indo-US civilian nuclear cooperation reached an impasse with both sides refusing to cede ground? Is the agreement that was announced with so much fanfare in July 2005 by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and President Bush now hea...

Znet Article Prashad: Letter to a Young American Hindu

Znet Article, May, 22 2007 Vijay Prashad
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Dear Friend, Like you, I was raised in a mixed family. My parents' families came to Bengal from Punjab, and from Burma. One side leans towards Hinduism; the other to Sikhism. The city, the metro, provided its own cultural mooring, and in secular ...

Znet Article Mian: Pakistan in the region

Znet Article, May, 18 2007 Zia Mian
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Pakistan in the region

Znet Article Hoodbhoy: Islamabad succumbs

Znet Article, May, 18 2007 Pervez Hoodbhoy
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After his ill-advised dismissal of the chief justice of Pakistan's supreme court ignited violent protest, President Pervez Musharraf may be banking on Islamic fanatics to create chaos in the nation's capital, Islamabad. Many suspect that an engine...

Znet Article Raina: Mullah Modi

Znet Article, May, 14 2007 Badri Raina
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If the just concluded elections in Uttar Pradesh have been phenomenally significant on account of the acknowledgement of Dalit leadership in a state that has traditionally been the high-seat of Brahminism in North India, a collateral consequence h...

Znet Article Administrator: Mining in the Ituri Province of the Congo

Znet Article, May, 14 2007 Site Administrator
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Most people who became aware of the 2nd Congo War (1998-2003) did so because of the violence unleased in the (then) Ituri District, which was created in June of 1999 by General James Kazini of the Ugandan People's Defense Force (UPDF).  After the ...

Znet Article Awwad: Open Letter to the Members of the US Congress who Oppose the War on Iraq

Znet Article, May, 12 2007 Hassan jum'a Awwad
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Open Letter to the Members of the US Congress who Oppose the War on Iraq

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 ...

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