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Znet Article Gold: Impunity in Colombia

Znet Article, December, 08 2006 Robert Gold
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On Thanksgiving Day in the USA, Nov.23, 2006, I traveled to Bogota,Colombia, in order to attend an International Tribunal on Impunity. My friend Patricia Dahl had agreed to be one of the judges on this Tribunal, and I decided that this would be an...

Znet Article Fons: Love from Latvia for Bush

Znet Article, December, 08 2006 Christopher Fons
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When George Bush finds himself isolated from all others as a last resort he can always call Vika Vira Freiberga, the President of Latvia, for “love.”  Most recently this was done on November 28, 2006 where George Bush used the NATO...

Znet Article Baroud: Hudna or Not

Znet Article, December, 08 2006 Ramzy Baroud
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Palestinian groups have recently suggested a ceasefire, in exchange for a cessation of Israeli violence. Ehud Olmert responded with a conciliatory speech, cleverly timed with President Bush's arrival to Jordan on November 29 for a two-day conferen...

Znet Article Winter: Canada's Media Wannabe Americans

Znet Article, December, 08 2006 James Winter
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We Canadians like to think of ourselves as more than friendly neighbours, as global citizens with a penchant for peacekeeping. Since former prime minister Lester Pearson won a Nobel Peace prize in 1957, we have opposed U.S. international aggressio...

Book Albert: Moving Forward: Program for a Participatory Economy

Book, December, 07 2006

By Michael Albert

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If not capitalism, then what? Something's not working, but there's a dearth of material on what could be right - and more important how to change things. Laying out strategy & vision for his "participatory economics," Albert argues that we must ch...

Znet Article Keeble: Crimes Against Humanity in Chad

Znet Article, December, 04 2006 Richard Keeble
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One of the most remarkable human rights campaigns of recent years has gone largely unreported in the British mainstream media. During the 1980s Hissène Habré, installed as head of state in Chad following a CIA-backed coup in 1982, had presided o...

Znet Article Safty: Palestine

Znet Article, December, 04 2006 Adel Safty
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American influential opinion makers, who generally managed to remain indifferent to the plight of the Palestinian people, are finding that ignoring Palestine is getting harder everyday. This is largely the result, not of a fundamental change in ...

Znet Article Burbach: Confrontation in Bolivia over Agrarian Reform

Znet Article, December, 04 2006 Roger Burbach
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The government of Evo Morales and the indigenous social movements of Bolivia have won an historic victory with the passage of an agrarian reform law that calls for the "expropriation of lands" that "do not serve a just social-economic function." A...

Znet Article Carastathis: Dust in the Eyes of the World

Znet Article, December, 04 2006 Anna Carastathis
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The claim that the war in Afghanistan will liberate Afghan women has been circulating since before the bombs began to drop, on October 7, 2001. By mid-October of that year--the day before World Food Day--the UN High Commissioner for Refugees repor...

Znet Article Sagar: The Show Trial of Saddam Hussein

Znet Article, December, 04 2006 Satya Sagar
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In the run up to the US invasion of Iraq in March, 2003 there was one unusual but very interesting proposal for peace circulating among taxi drivers in Bangkok. The idea was simply to call off the impending war and instead organize a bout of Tha...

Znet Article Gindin: To Sow the Oil, or Give it Away?

Znet Article, December, 04 2006 Jonah Gindin
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With the recent surge in oil prices, long-standing debates about Canadian and Albertan oil policy have been infused with new vigour. Is Canada getting the most out of this precious natural resource? What are we doing with our wealth? Canada and V...

Znet Article Shalom: Perilous Power: The Middle East and U.S. Foreign Policy Dialogues on Terror, Democracy, War, and Justice By Noam Chomsky and Gilbert Achcar. Edited by Stephen R. Shalom. Boulder, CO; Paradigm Publishers, 2006.

Znet Article, November, 30 2006 Stephen1 Shalom
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(1) Can you tell ZNet, please, what your new book, Perilous Power, is about? What is it trying to communicate? Perilous Power is a dialogue about U.S. policy in the Middle East between two of the most astute analysts of this part of the world: Noa...

Znet Article Cook: Palestinians are being denied the right to non-violent resistance

Znet Article, November, 30 2006 Jonathan Cook
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If one thing offers a terrifying glimpse of where the experiment in human despair that is Gaza under Israeli siege is leading, it is the news that a Palestinian woman in her sixties -- a grandmother -- chose last week to strap on a suicide belt an...

Znet Article Fox: Venezuela's Secret Grassroots Democracy

Znet Article, November, 30 2006 Michael Fox
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  With all international eyes on the December 3rd Venezuelan presidential elections, a totally new and revolutionary experience of Venezuelan grassroots democracy has completely slipped below international radar.  An experience that has already...

Znet Article La pepa: Ecuadorians Vote for Systemic Change

Znet Article, November, 29 2006 La pepa
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On October 15, 2006, Ecuadorians went to the polls to vote in the first round of the presidential elections. The results were surprising, if not suspicious, when the supreme electoral tribunal declared Alvaro Noboa, a banana magnate and the riches...

Znet Article Davies: An Affront to the People of Oaxaca

Znet Article, November, 28 2006 Nancy Davies
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There was scarcely time for the blood to dry on the pavement, or for the teams of street cleaners to eliminate signs of ash and broken glass, when the Popular Assembly of the Peoples' of Oaxaca (APPO) called for its next meeting on Sunday morning,...

Znet Article Avnery: Kill Them! Kill Everyone! All Of Them!

Znet Article, November, 28 2006 Uri Avnery
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During the first Lebanon war, I visited Jounieh, a town some 20 km north of Beirut. At the time, it served as a port for the Christian forces. It was an exciting evening. In spite of the war raging in nearby Beirut, Jounieh was full of life. The ...

Znet Article Cockburn: Slaughter House Iraq

Znet Article, November, 28 2006 Patrick Cockburn
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Iraq is rending itself apart. The signs of collapse are everywhere. In Baghdad, the police often pick up more than 100 tortured and mutilated bodies in a single day. Government ministries make war on each other. A new and ominous stage in the dis...

Znet Article Baroud: Democrats Must Truly Change Course

Znet Article, November, 25 2006 Ramzy Baroud
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The Democrats' ascendancy within the US Congress could signal the regaining by the public, of its country's direction The astounding results of the US Congressional elections of 7 November were undoubtedly a welcome sign of change, not in the Ame...

Znet Article Raina: Irom Sharmila

Znet Article, November, 25 2006 Badri Raina
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I have before me a national English Daily which is much given to spreading the word about the beauties of “reform” and modern “development” in India.  Never a day passes when it does not remind us and the world how ...

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