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Znet Article Raina: Nandigram and the Left

Znet Article, April, 11 2007 Badri Raina
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However much the  CPI(M),  including the rather overly ebullient chief minister of West Bengal, may regret the police firing at Nandigram on March 14, the last word does not seem to get said on the issue. Things have now come to a pass when as we...

Znet Article Ledebur: US Evaluation of Bolivian Drug Control Misleading and Inaccurate

Znet Article, April, 11 2007 Kathryn Ledebur
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US officials continue to cling to eradication figures and old yardsticks to evaluate Bolivia’s new approach to coca cultivation and drug control. The 2007 International Narcotics Control Strategy Report (INCSR)1 criticizes the Morales admi...

Znet Article Blum: Land of the free, home of the War on Terrorism

Znet Article, April, 08 2007 William Blum
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"They told us this was one of the world's worst terrorists, and he got the sentence of a drunken driver," said Ben Wizner, an attorney for the American Civil Liberties Union, referring to David Hicks, a 31-year-old Australian who in a plea bargain...

Znet Article Wheeler: Resisting the War on Science

Znet Article, April, 08 2007 Jacob Wheeler
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Sound science counts itself as one of the many victims of the Bush administration's assault on reason, and sound science is fighting back--finally, with support from Congress. Sen. Daniel Inouye (D-Hawaii), chairman of the Senate Committee on Comm...

Znet Article Mishra: Reservations in Globalization Era

Znet Article, April, 07 2007 Girish Mishra
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The issue of reservations in both jobs, and admissions to institutes of learning is once again being hotly debated. Passions have been aroused and emotions for and against reservations are running high. Demonstrations have taken place and clarion ...

Znet Article Fernandes: A View from the Barrios

Znet Article, April, 07 2007 Sujatha Fernandes
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Published in LASA Forum, Winter 2007 The radical trajectory of president Hugo Chávez in Venezuela has been a highly controversial topic among Latin Americanists, democratization experts, policy makers, and activists. Some lament what they see as...

Znet Article Naiman: Make the Presidential Primary a Real Referendum on the War

Znet Article, April, 06 2007 Robert Naiman
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We can only guess now how the confrontation between Congress and the President over a timetable for the withdrawal of U.S. forces from Iraq will ultimately play out. But given that the Senate legislation sets March 2008 as a target, and the House ...

Znet Article Raman: Singur and Nandigram

Znet Article, April, 05 2007 Akhila Raman
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 Be it Right or Left, it is becoming increasingly clear that many Governments across the world are eager to get in bed with the corporations. The message is clear in West Bengal: Economic development will be pursued at any human cost. Protesters w...

Znet Article Berkowitz: Anti-environment think tank promoting 'enviropreneurs'

Znet Article, April, 05 2007 Bill Berkowitz
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On the 15th anniversary of Terry Anderson and Donald Leal's book "Free Market Environmentalism" -- the seminal book on the subject -- Anderson, the Executive Director of the Bozeman, Montana-based Property and Environmental Research Center (PERC) ...

Znet Article Petras: The Political Ecology of Disaster

Znet Article, April, 05 2007 James Petras
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On Monday, March 26, 2007 in Northern Gaza a river of raw sewage and debris overflowed from a collapsed earth embankment into a refugee camp driving 3,000 Palestinians from their homes. Five residents drowned, 25 were injured and scores of houses ...

Znet Article Cohn: Coming Up Short on Habeas for Detainees

Znet Article, April, 05 2007 Marjorie Cohn
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The Bush administration has stopped the Supreme Court from giving the Guantánamo detainees their day in court - at least for now.In Boumediene v. Bush and Al Odah v. United States, forty-five men challenged the constitutionality of the habeas cor...

Znet Article Chehade: Listing Hezbollah as "Terrorist" Serves North American Imperialism

Znet Article, April, 05 2007 Ghada Chehade
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In the so-called war on “terror” the most powerful weapon being deployed is the word itself.

Znet Article Shrivastava: As India goes global the public goes private

Znet Article, April, 05 2007 Aseem Shrivastava
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Picture this. At an air-show in Los Angeles one of the biggest arms manufacturers in the world, British Aerospace, invites Mr. Bill Gates of Microsoft to have a go at flying one of the latest models of their Hawk fighter aircraft. Would the Americ...

Znet Article Markland: This Magazine gets it wrong on Afghanistan

Znet Article, April, 04 2007 Dave Markland
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The cu...

Znet Article Petras: Philippines: Death Squad Democracy

Znet Article, March, 31 2007 James Petras
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Nearly a thousand union leaders, clergy members, lawyers, human rights activists, peasants and elected officials of the social action party lists led by Representative Ocampo have been victimized.

Znet Article Castro: Foodstuff as Imperial Weapon

Znet Article, March, 31 2007 Fidel Castro
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More than three billion people in the world are being condemend to a premature death from hunger...

Znet Article Goodman: American Kangaroo Court Claims Its First Victim

Znet Article, March, 29 2007 Amy Goodman
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It is appropriate that a person from Australia, home of the kangaroo, should be the first one dragged before the kangaroo court at the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo Bay. David Hicks, imprisoned there for more than five years, pleaded guilty Monday...

Znet Article Hallward: Insurgency and Betrayal

Znet Article, March, 27 2007 Peter Hallward
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Guy Philippe was a commander in the Haitian National Police from 1995-2000, and in February 2004 he led an armed insurgency that helped to overthrow the government of Jean-Bertrand Aristide. Peter Hallward is a professor of philosophy at Middlesex...

Znet Article Raina: Parvenu Nationalism

Znet Article, March, 27 2007 Badri Raina
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I recall that some two decades ago Frederic Jameson noted how literary/creative productions from the “third world” tend to become “national allegories.” And I also recall   some noted Indian intellectuals taking umb...

Znet Article Elmer: Canada's Counterinsurgency Strategy

Znet Article, March, 27 2007 Jon Elmer
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Following closely behind their counterparts in the United States and Britain, Canada's Department of National Defence is preparing a comprehensive counter-insurgency field manual for its soldiers and officers. The manual will guide Canadian Forces...

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