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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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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 ...
Ziadah: Palestinian Refugees of Iraq
Znet Article, March, 10 2007
Rafeef Ziadah
Ziadah's ZSpace page
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 - ...
Fox: In Search Of Justice Under the Argentine Witness Protection Program
Znet Article, March, 05 2007
Michael Fox
Fox's ZSpace page
Two large undercover security guards arrive first in a separate car to survey the parking garage. They radio "all clear" back to the second car, carrying her and her escort. The first guards then scout out the route to the restaurant and stake ...
Fox: In Search Of Justice Under the Argentine Witness Protection Program
Znet Article, March, 05 2007
Michael Fox
Fox's ZSpace page
Two large undercover security guards arrive first in a separate car to survey the parking garage. They radio "all clear" back to the second car, carrying her and her escort. The first guards then scout out the route to the restaurant and stake out...
Nasser: U.S. Tactics of Containing Regional Roles in Middle East
Znet Article, March, 05 2007
Nicola Nasser
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Two-pronged U.S. tactics of confrontation and engagement unfolded last week and described by some media as “turnabouts†in the strategy of containment of what Washington perceives as adverse regional roles in the Middle East, but i...
Zahalka: A State of all its Citizens
Znet Article, February, 28 2007
Jamal Zahalka
Zahalka's ZSpace page
Jamal Zahalka is a member of the Israeli Knesset as part of the Balad Party list that includes Wasil Taha and Azmi Bishara. He was in Toronto delivering the keynote address at Israeli Apartheid Week at the University of Toronto on February 16, 200...
Elmer: No Fishing in Gaza
Znet Article, February, 25 2007
Jon Elmer
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GAZA CITY, Feb 14 (IPS) - In the driving rain, Suhail el-Amoudi stands on the wharf of the Gaza City port looking out over the aged and weathered fishing boats as they bob perilously amid the swells of a Mediterranean winter storm.But for el-Amoud...
Levy: Victims of the fence
Znet Article, February, 25 2007
Gideon Levy
Levy's ZSpace page
A still-life image: a building covered with Jerusalem stone, a large memorial poster hanging high up on one of the floors, and below, a sign in broken English over the "Paradise Cafe." Second image: a makeshift soccer field, empty, on which a huge...
Cook: Another small indignity at an Israeli checkpoint
Znet Article, February, 25 2007
Jonathan Cook
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The scene: a military checkpoint deep in Palestinian territory in the West Bank. A tall, thin elderly man, walking stick in hand, makes a detour past the line of Palestinians, many of them young men, waiting obediently behind concrete barriers for...
Mishra: Inflation in India
Znet Article, February, 25 2007
Girish Mishra
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The people of India have been greatly troubled by the rising prices, especially of essential commodities, for almost a year. The wholesale price index (WPI) that officially measures the level of inflation rose by 3.98 per cent during the last fina...
Pandya: Indian Development
Znet Article, February, 22 2007
Chhandasi Pandya
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Indian economist Prabhat Patnaik currently serves as the Vice-Chairman of the Kerala State Planning Board. Patnaik is a Marxist thinker and professor of economics at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. He is the author of several books such as...
