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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 ...

Znet Article Elmer: Peter MacKay in Israel and Palestine

Znet Article, January, 29 2007 Jon Elmer
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Peter MacKay in Israel and Palestine

Znet Article Christoff: Liberation Songs

Znet Article, January, 29 2007 Stefan Christoff
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In February 2004, rebel forces in Haiti launched a successful armed campaign to overthrow populist President Jean-Bertrand Aristide. Anti-Aristide militias, comprised mainly of soldiers from the disbanded Haitian army, seized power and a wave of v...

Znet Article Ritter: Iraq, Iran, and WMDs

Znet Article, January, 29 2007 Scott Ritter
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Foaad Khosmood: Let’s start with the Iraq war. There is a very popular line in Washington that gets repeated to this day and that was that “everyone thought Saddam had WMDs” and “both Republicans and Democrats were ...

Znet Article Ireland: Sarah Olson, The Pentagon, And The First Amendment

Znet Article, January, 27 2007 Doug Ireland
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Sarah Olson, The Pentagon, And The First Amendment

Znet Article Lamrani: Hugo Chvez and RCTV

Znet Article, January, 27 2007 Salim Lamrani
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The government of Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez chose not to renew the license of the audiovisual group Radio Caracas Televisión (RCTV), which will expire May 28, 2007. This decision, which is completely legal, created a lively debate in the in...

Znet Article Grima: Controlling Civil Society

Znet Article, January, 24 2007 Adrian Grima
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Perhaps it is no coincidence that in “the year of civil society,” the embattled government of Malta presented Parliament with an “over-regulatory” Voluntary Organizations Act that, according to an international expe...

Znet Article Sprague: Two Years Since the Murder of Abdias Jean

Znet Article, January, 24 2007 Jeb Sprague
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He was murdered on January 14, 2005 shortly after finishing his lunch  near his home in the Village de Dieu slum. The killing of Abdias Jean, a young Haitian journalist who reported  from Haiti for WKAT radio in Florida, was quickly condemned by ...

Znet Article Raina: Is Independence a Viable Option for Jammu & Kashmir?

Znet Article, January, 24 2007 Badri Raina
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On January 16, 2007, the Academy of Third World Studies at Jamia Milia Islamia University in Delhi organized an interactive meet to deliberate on the “Kashmir Problem.”  Some well-informed and well-regarded “Kashmir hands...

Znet Article Kovalik: Crimes & Misdemeanors: Reflections on The Death of Howard Hunt

Znet Article, January, 24 2007 Daniel Kovalik
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   Most telling about the AP story this morning regarding the death of E. Howard Hunt is what is glossed over in this story.   Thus, while the AP Story notes in passing that Hunt "helped orchestrate a coup in Guatemala," the story goes on to talk ...

Znet Article Terretta: The Flight To Freedom

Znet Article, January, 24 2007 Meredith Terretta
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The Flight to Freedom: A Review of Ngugi wa Thiongo’s Wizard of the Crow, translated by the author from Gikuyu (Gikuyu title: Murogi wa Kagogo).  Most of the reviewers of Ngugi’s latest novel, Wizard of the Crow, corral the book i...

Znet Article Rosenfeld: Jewish Like Me

Znet Article, January, 21 2007 Jesse Rosenfeld
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Like most kids growing up Jewish, I loved Israel. I identified with the country and saw my Jewish identity expressed in it. Maybe it was because I found inspiration in an Israeli culture that seemed to focus on youth. I liked how David Ben-Gurion...

Znet Article Cook: Forecasts on Israel

Znet Article, January, 21 2007 Jonathan Cook
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When I published my book Blood and Religion last year, I sought not only to explain what lay behind Israeli policies since the failed Camp David negotiations nearly seven years ago, including the disengagement from Gaza and the building of a wall ...

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