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Znet Article Chandra: Singur and the Official Left's Crisis in India

Znet Article, December, 31 2006 Pratyush Chandra
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The Singur events are signs of a crisis borne out of a disjuncture between the Left Front's pragmatic policies and the legacy of the movement and class interests that empowered it. For a long time, the open eruption of this crisis was evaded by th...

Znet Article Casmii: CASMII Statement on UN Sanctions against Iran

Znet Article, December, 27 2006 Casmii
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The Campaign Against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran (CASMII) is gravely concerned about the latest development in the United Nations Security Council. The imposition of sanctions by the Council is ill-advised and destructive to peacef...

Znet Article Toensing: Behind The Gaza Breakdown

Znet Article, December, 27 2006 Chris Toensing
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The latest convoluted set of events within Palestine, and at its borders, form a depressing tableau that mirrors the conflict as a whole. Ismail Haniyeh, the prime minister compelled by an Israeli-Arab-Western financial blockade to seek his gover...

Znet Article Emersberger: Canada's Haitian Political Prisoner

Znet Article, December, 27 2006 Joe Emersberger
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Jean Candio has been imprisoned in Windsor, Ontario since December 13, 2006. He left Haiti in March, 2004, following the Coup d'etat which culminated in the kidnapping of democratically elected Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide. He left a...

Znet Article Akhtar: The metropolitan left and the Muslim world

Znet Article, December, 27 2006 Aasim sajjad Akhtar
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In much of the western world, progressive political and social forces have rallied to the defence of Muslim immigrant communities that face systematic discrimination following the launching of the ‘war on terror’. In the anti-war m...

Znet Article Mishra: India in American Perspective

Znet Article, December, 24 2006 Girish Mishra
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Ever since the early 1990s India has been moving closer to the United States of America. The collapse of the world socialist system, the disintegration of the Soviet Union, and China becoming a capitalist-roader hastened this process. The forces...

Znet Article Tutu: Apartheid in the Holy Land

Znet Article, December, 20 2006 Desmond Tutu
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In our struggle against apartheid, the great supporters were Jewish people. They almost instinctively had to be on the side of the disenfranchised, of the voiceless ones, fighting injustice, oppression and evil. I have continued to feel strongly w...

Znet Article Baroud: Aljazeera

Znet Article, December, 18 2006 Ramzy Baroud
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The launch of Aljazeera International on November 15, the English arm of Aljazeera Satellite Television was hardly an ordinary event. It was another notable addition to the growing global efforts aimed at counterbalancing American-European domina...

Znet Article Barker: Catalyst for Iranian Resistance

Znet Article, December, 18 2006 Michael Barker
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The Iranian question is on everyone’s lips at the moment, and judging by the ongoing discussions in both the mainstream and alternative (progressive) media, it is apparent that, one way or the other, the US (and its coalition of willing cr...

Znet Article Leopold: Army Targets Truthout for Subpoenas in Watada Case

Znet Article, December, 18 2006 Jason Leopold
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In a case that cuts right to the heart of the First Amendment, a US Army prosecutor has indicated he intends to subpoena Truthout Executive Director Marc Ash, a Truthout reporter, and two of the nonprofit news organization's regular contributors, ...

Znet Article Manriquez: The need to de-nazify Chile

Znet Article, December, 15 2006 Roberto Manriquez
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The crowd that stood in line to bid farewell to the mortal remains of the dictator Augusto Pinochet, and the inflammatory speeches claiming the work and legacy of the tyrant, both at the Military School of Santiago, reveal a deep and open wound in...

Znet Article Al-safadi: Other Victims of Denial

Znet Article, December, 15 2006 Mahmoud Al-safadi
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  Mr. President, I write to you following the announcement of your intention to organize a conference on the Holocaust in Teheran on 11-12 December, and I sincerely hope that this letter will be brought to your attentio...

Znet Article Raina: Sachar Committee Report on Indian Muslims

Znet Article, December, 15 2006 Badri Raina
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India’s majoritarian fascists, represented in parliament by the Bharti Janata Party (BJP), are in a blue funk.  The findings of the “Prime Ministers’ High Level Committee” (set up on 9th March,2005) headed by former...

Znet Article Ngugi: Africa and the Middle East

Znet Article, December, 12 2006 Mukoma wa Ngugi
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Violence without Borders Africa is in the thick of the conflicts in the Middle East.  With Iraq up in flames and an estimated 50,000 innocent Iraqi civilians dead and the threat of Syria and Iran being dragged into the War, the Middle East is now...

Znet Article Ash: Whither Israel?

Znet Article, December, 12 2006 Gabriel Ash
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Israel is in crisis. The recent Lebanon War has heightened all its internal and external contradictions. Gabriel Ash looks at the economic and political foundations of this deeply militaristic and ideological state. The recent military defeat, bre...

Znet Article Rawi: Afghanistan

Znet Article, December, 12 2006 Mariam Rawi
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Five years ago, America and their allies attacked Afghanistan in the name of bringing "Human Rights", "Democracy", and "Freedom" to our war-torn country. The Taliban regime fell and Hamid Karzai's puppet regime, which included the well-known North...

Znet Article Mishra: Mafia in Jharkhand

Znet Article, December, 12 2006 Girish Mishra
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Not many people outside Jharkhand, the newly state in India, richest in minerals, would have heard the name of Ram Ashray Singh. There is absolutely no question of giving attention to this little educated and rustic gentleman by our booming electr...

Znet Article Burbach: The Atrocities of Augusto Pinochet and the United States

Znet Article, December, 12 2006 Roger Burbach
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In Santiago on September 11, 1973 I watched as Chilean air force jets flew overhead. Moments later I heard explosions and saw fireballs of smoke fill the sky as the presidential palace went up in flames. Salvador Allende, the elected Socialist pre...

Znet Article Spencer: Roots of Conflict in Sri Lanka

Znet Article, December, 12 2006 Jonathan Spencer
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In 2006, Sri Lanka was witness to the worst violence between the government of Sri Lanka and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam since a ceasefire was signed between the two groups in 2002. Jonathan Spencer is the Professor of the Anthropology o...

Znet Article Administrator: Carbon trading: a carbon tax, blindfolded and handcuffed, with its shoelaces tied together

Znet Article, December, 11 2006 Site Administrator
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"Mommy, where do carbon offsets come from?" "Well, you see sweetheart, when a major polluter and a consultant love money very, very much, they express that love in a special way. Nine months later, the consultant produces an extrem...

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