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Znet Article Fernandes: Political Parties and Social Change

Znet Article, March, 19 2007 Sujatha Fernandes
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Since Hugo Chávez of Venezuela proposed the dissolution of the 24 parties that support his government and the formation of a single party on December 15, 2007, there has been much debate among the parties involved. According to Chávez, the propo...

Znet Article Raina: End of the Tight-Rope Walk

Znet Article, March, 19 2007 Badri Raina
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So uncle Sam has spoken.  Musharraf is a good man after all, and the best bet for “democracy” in Pakistan.  This  only days after the U.S. Senate decreed that all future aid to  that country be tied to the General delivering in the...

Znet Article Mohanty: The Left Front and the rural bourgeoisie

Znet Article, March, 19 2007 Mritiunjoy Mohanty
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What is now called the Singur controversy was sparked off by the decision of the West Bengal government to acquire 997 acres (affecting approximately 12,000 owners) of agricultural land, which it planned to grant to the Tata Group for the purpose ...

Znet Article Tanter: The New American-led Security Architecture in the Asia Pacific:

Znet Article, March, 17 2007 Richard Tanter
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When Prime Ministers Abe Shinzo and John Howard signed Japan's first comprehensive security agreement in half a century, and its only one apart from the treaty with the United States, the two countries raised five crucial foreign policy signals, a...

Znet Article Zibechi: Let's All Stand With Cite Soleil

Znet Article, March, 14 2007 Raúl Zibechi
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In less than two years the troops of MINUSTAH (Mission of the Nations United for the Stabilization of Haiti) perpetrated three massacres in Cite Soleil, an outlying slum of Port au Prince. According to numerous testimonies, barely mentioned by the...

Znet Article Mishra: Monetary Policy in the Era of Globalization

Znet Article, March, 14 2007 Girish Mishra
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Willingly or unwillingly, the Government of India has come out with a number of measures to control the rising tide of inflation. Among them are the instruments of monetary policy, wielded by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), country’s cent...

Znet Article Chomsky: War, Neoliberalism and Empire in the 21st Century

Znet Article, March, 14 2007 Noam Chomsky
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It's not very clear. What you said is correct. The law was not even seen by the Iraqi Parliament until it was finished, so it's an inside job. Exactly what this entails is still kind of open. It allows for Production Sharing Agreements (PSAs) whic...

Znet Article Shrivastava: Development through industrialization?

Znet Article, March, 10 2007 Aseem Shrivastava
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Part  I â€œYou can’t save land and water unless you can save agriculture and forests.” - Prafullah Samantara, an activist from Orissa, speaking at the National Convention on Corporate Land-Grab at the Indian Social Institute...

Znet Article Dajani: Link TV

Znet Article, March, 10 2007 Jamal Dajani
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Jamal Dajani is an award winning producer and the Director of Middle Eastern Programming at Link TV.  Born and raised in Jerusalem, Dajani completed his early studies at Collège des Frères, and attended Columbia University in New York City where...

Znet Article Robinson: Why the Immigrant Rights Struggle Compels Us to Reconceptualize both Latin American and Latino/a Studies

Znet Article, March, 10 2007 William Robinson
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For LASA Forum What is Latin America?  Who is a Latin American?  What do “Latin American Studies” and “Latino/a Studies” refer to?  What ought they refer to?  These are not new questions.  But they are in my view a...

Znet Article Robinson: Globalization and the Struggle for Immigrant Rights in the United States

Znet Article, March, 10 2007 William Robinson
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Keynote Presentation for “El Gran Paro Americano II” Immigrant Rights Conference, Feb 3-4 2007, Los Angeles It is an honor and a privilege to be here with you today, with the leaders and organizers of one of the most vital, just a...

Znet Article Burbach: Bush Trip to Counter Chavez is Destined to Fail

Znet Article, March, 10 2007 Roger Burbach
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Bush's trip to Latin America is a calculated effort to counter Hugo Chavez's growing influence in the region and to separate the "bad left" from the "good left", namely Uruguay and to some extent Brazil. He hopes to add them to the dwindling bloc ...

Znet Article Raina: Hanging the Corrupt by the Lampost

Znet Article, March, 10 2007 Badri Raina
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On the 6th of March, a two-judge bench of the Supreme Court of India, hearing a fodder-scam related case, permitted itself a rather unusual but highly instructive majesterial “observation.”  Be it recalled that the fodder scam refe...

Znet Article Robledo: The Para-Scandal and the Bush Visit in Colombia

Znet Article, March, 10 2007 Jorge Robledo
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Jorge Robledo has been a Colombian senator with the Polo Democratico Alternativo (PDA), a democratic left party, since 2002. In recent years he has given a national voice to the opposition to the “free trade agreement” between the ...

Znet Article Ziadah: Palestinian Refugees of Iraq

Znet Article, March, 10 2007 Rafeef Ziadah
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On the border between Iraq/Jordan and Iraq/Syria today live hundreds of Palestinian families who fled the US war to find themselves stranded in no-mans land. These families live in tents, in squalor, with little certainty or hope for the future, l...

Znet Article Mamdani: The Politics of Naming: Genocide, Civil War, Insurgency

Znet Article, March, 09 2007 Mahmood Mamdani
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The similarities between Iraq and Darfur are remarkable. The estimate of the number of civilians killed over the past three years is roughly similar. The kille...

Znet Article Johnson: Chalmers Johnson: "Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic"

Znet Article, March, 07 2007 Chalmers Johnson
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AMY GOODMAN: Today, we spend the hour with the former CIA consultant, distinguished scholar, best-selling author, Chalmers Johnson. He's just published a new book. It's called Nemesis: The Last...

Znet Article Ammous: Apartheid Comes to New Jersey

Znet Article, March, 06 2007 Saifedean Ammous
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It was a cold Sunday morning in Teaneck, N.J. Some two-hundred-odd Jewish-Americans were entering the Orthodox synagogue Congregation B'nai Yeshurun where they were to hear a sales pitch by the Amana Settlement Movement aimed at convincing them to...

Znet Article Abunimah: How Barack Obama learned to love Israel

Znet Article, March, 06 2007 Ali Abunimah
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I first met Democratic presidential hopeful Senator Barack Obama almost ten years ago when, as my representative in the Illinois state senate, he came to speak at the University of Chicago. He impressed me as progressive, intelligent and charismat...

Znet Article Derakhshan: Stop bullying Iran

Znet Article, March, 05 2007 Hossein Derakhshan
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It's the ultimate hypocrisy of the west to punish Iran for a law Iran has not broken. When no one has found the tiniest evidence of Iran producing nuclear weapons - which is the whole purpose of the non-proliferation treaty that it has signed - ...

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