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Znet Article Gberie: Blood Diamond

Znet Article, February, 13 2007 Lansana Gberie
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For brief, fleeting moments almost every decade now, the rich world tends to embrace Africa – a continent badly wracked by poverty, wars and related crises – as pet project. Africa as the object of the fantasies of the West is an o...

Znet Article Bronner: The Sudan and the Crisis in Darfur

Znet Article, February, 13 2007 Stephen eric Bronner
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The Middle East is not merely a geographical designation, but a cauldron of ideological and material conflicts. Like all territories once subject to colonialism, its borders are arbitrary. Neither religious intolerance nor ancient tribal and ethni...

Znet Article Administrator: Barriers to Peace in the Congo

Znet Article, February, 13 2007 Site Administrator
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David Baroudski's Book, Laurent Nkundabatware, is available on ZNet as a free download. (1) Can you tell ZNet, please, what your new book,  Laurent Nkundabatware, his Rwandan Allies, and the ex-ANC Mutiny: Chronic Barriers to Last...

Znet Article Scherr: BP-University Liaison Raises Questions

Znet Article, February, 09 2007 Judith Scherr
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Seven years ago, the Atlantic Monthly published “The Kept University,” a story about a $25 million five-year liaison between the giant Swiss pharmaceutical company Novartis and California’s premier public university, UC Ber...

Znet Article Chandra: Neoliberalism and Primitive Accumulation in India

Znet Article, February, 09 2007 Pratyush Chandra
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Recent events in Singur - a town which is less than 40 kms away from Kolkata (Calcutta), where the West Bengal government is struggling to acquire and sell 1000 acres of agricultural land to Tata Motors - indicate the extent to which capitalist-pa...

Znet Article Raina: Kashmir Calling

Znet Article, February, 09 2007 Badri Raina
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Epigraph Did you kill this man?I did;Did you know he was not a militant?I did;Then why did you do so?For reward;Do you know you committed a crime?But, sir, he  was only a Kashmiri. Even as utterly bigoted and power-drunk rogues amo...

Znet Article National committee: The Future Vision of the Palestinian Arabs in Israel

Znet Article, February, 09 2007 National committee
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Report, The National Committee for the Heads of the Arab Local Authorities in Israel, 12 January 2007 The following is an excerpt from "The Future Vision of the Palestinian Arabs in Israel," a report issued in December 2006We are the Palestinian ...

Znet Article Raina: The Meaning of Modi

Znet Article, February, 07 2007 Badri Raina
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[NOTE: This piece was written immediately after the carnage that took place in Gujrat in 2002. We thought it appropriate to run it on the 5th anniversary of the massacres.] After the true purposes of the Nazi party began to reveal themselves in H...

Znet Article Elmer: War Enters the Classrooms

Znet Article, February, 07 2007 Jon Elmer
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GAZA CITY, Feb 5 (IPS) - The United Nations has indefinitely suspended elementary school classes for tens of thousands of Gaza City's children following a weekend of unprecedented factional violence, which turned this isolated enclave into a war z...

Znet Article Elmer: U.S. Backing for Fatah Stirs New Conflict

Znet Article, February, 07 2007 Jon Elmer
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GAZA CITY, Feb 2 (IPS) - Explosions, fierce gunfights and ambulance sirens ripped through the Gaza strip again Thursday, only two days after a ceasefire ended a bloody week of factional fighting that left more than 30 Palestinians dead. As night f...

Znet Article Grima: The Mediterranean as Segregation

Znet Article, February, 07 2007 Adrian Grima
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Over one hundred civil society activists from all over the Mediterranean and beyond met in Rome to renew their commitment against war and colonialism and to discuss ways of working towards peace, democracy, human and civil rights, justice, peacefu...

Znet Article Ngugi: African Democracies for Sale

Znet Article, February, 07 2007 Mukoma Ngugi
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Some of the most important threats to democracy in Africa are the International Republican Institute (IRI), USAID and other international NGO’s that are directly funded by the United States Congress.  These are US foreign policy institutio...

Znet Article Setalvad: Civil Liberties in India

Znet Article, February, 07 2007 Teesta Setalvad
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Nani A Palkhivala Award  2006       Acceptance Speech Friends, As I stand here to accept this award given in memory of a man who has been described alternately as a passionate democrat, a patriot and above a good human being I cannot but recall...

Znet Article Beinin: Silencing critics not way to Middle East peace

Znet Article, February, 07 2007 Joel Beinin
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Last Sunday in San Francisco, the Anti-Defamation League sponsored "Finding Our Voice," a conference designed to help Jews recognize and confront the "new anti-Semitism." For me, it was ironic. Ten days before, my own voice was silenced by fellow ...

Znet Article Barker: Conform or Reform?

Znet Article, February, 07 2007 Michael Barker
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Abstract: The mass media is an important outlet for social movements, where the quality and nature of media coverage strongly influences how they are perceived in the public eye. This paper examines the complex interface existing between the mass ...

Znet Article Emersberger: Amnesty International's Track Record in Haiti since 2004

Znet Article, February, 07 2007 Joe Emersberger
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The coup that ousted Haitian President Jean Bertrand Aristide on February 29, 2004 led very predictably to the worst human rights disaster in the Western Hemisphere over the following two years.[1] It is worth reviewing how the world's most famous...

Znet Article Albert: Remembering Tomorrow Interview

Znet Article, February, 02 2007 Michael Albert
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(1) Can you tell ZNet, please, what your new book, Remembering Tomorrow, is about? What is it trying to communicate? Remembering Tomorrow is not organized in a linear historical flow, as are most memoirs. Instead, Remembering Tomorrow's main sec...

Znet Article Mishra: Fiasco at Davos

Znet Article, January, 30 2007 Girish Mishra
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There is not even an iota of doubt that the World Economic Forum (WEF) 2007 that opened with much fan fair at Davos, a well known mountain resort in Switzerland, ended in a fiasco. For five days (24-28 January) 2400 participants from as many as 90...

Znet Article Mishra: Our Indian Neros

Znet Article, January, 29 2007 Girish Mishra
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It was five years ago, in 2002, that a holocaust took place in the Indian State of Gujarat. One of the gruesome massacres took place in the Best Bakery of Vadodara. The BJP-led government tried its level best to cover up the incident and allow the...

Znet Article Educators for peace and justice: Israel Boycott and Its Discontents

Znet Article, January, 29 2007 Educators for peace and justice
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None of us looked to see if they had ordered extra sandwiches for the OSSTF District 12 January 18 council meeting, but then this crowd was not here to eat. The room that Thursday night was packed to capacity with teachers who had never come to a ...

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