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Monbiot: Asserting Our Right to Kill and Maim Civilians
Znet Article, November, 08 2006
George Monbiot
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The central mystery of the modern state is this. The necessary resources, both economic and political, will always be found for the purpose of terminating life. The project of preserving it will always struggle. When did you last see a soldier sha...
Abunimah: Letter: European inaction and complicity as Gaza burns
Znet Article, November, 07 2006
Ali Abunimah
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H.E. Mr. Erkki Tuomioja Minister of Foreign Affairs Ministry for Foreign Affairs Helsinki Finland Dear Minister Tuomioja, I am writing about the statement issued by the Government of Finland in its capacity as President of the European Union, co...
Fasulo: Reply re: Iranian Women
Znet Article, November, 07 2006
Jennifer Fasulo
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This commentary is in response to “Who Supports Iranian Women? A reply to Jennifer Fasulo†by Eleanor Ommani. Fasulo's original article is here. Eleanor Ommani’s response to my editorial “Chavez Emb...
Fox: Venezuelan Ties to US Voting Machines? What About the Others?
Znet Article, November, 07 2006
Michael Fox
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With the United States November congressional elections, electronic voting machines are back in the news. HBO aired it’s new documentary entitled, “Hacking Democracy†last Thursday, which asked the question, “are e...
Morris: Views of the Other Colombia
Znet Article, November, 04 2006
Hollman Morris
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Hollman Morris is a veteran journalist from Colombia who visited Canada to receive the International Press Freedom Award from the Canadian Journalists for Free Expression (CJFE). His career spans more than two decades, and includes his role as pro...
Barker: Friendly Dictators and Hostile Democracies
Znet Article, November, 03 2006
Michael Barker
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Friendly Dictators and Hostile Democracies
Mishra: Enron Verdict and American Double Standard
Znet Article, November, 03 2006
Girish Mishra
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Jeff Skilling, the Enron CEO, was sentenced to a jail-term of 24 years 4 months on October 23, 2006. It means, if this judgment is not reversed by a higher court, he will come out of prison only in 2031 at the age of more than 76. He was found gui...
Gutierrez: Harsher Measures Don't Cut Crime
Znet Article, November, 03 2006
Raul Gutierrez
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SAN SALVADOR, Nov 1 (IPS) - Tough policies against youth gangs in Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras have only contributed to increasing crime, and an integrated approach that tackles the causes of the problem is urgently needed, according to civ...
Elie: What Future for Haiti?
Znet Article, November, 03 2006
Patrick Elie
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This article was originally published on NACLA News, a new source of news and analysis on Latin America and the Caribbean produced by the North American Congress on Latin America (NACLA). In February 2004, U.S. Marines whisked away then-President...
Ezln: Oaxaca is Not Alone
Znet Article, November, 01 2006
Ezln
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October 30, 2006 Message from theCLANDESTINE REVOLUTIONARY INDIGENOUS COMMITTEE-GENERAL COMMANDof theZAPATISTA ARMY OF NATIONAL LIBERATIONMEXICO. October 30, 2006. To the people of Mexico:To the people of the world:To the Other Campaign in Mexi...
Barker: Regulating revolutions in Eastern Europe
Znet Article, November, 01 2006
Michael Barker
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“The promotion of ‘low-intensity democracy’ is aimed not only at mitigating the social and political tensions produced by elite-based and undemocratic status quos, but also at suppressing popular and mass aspirations for mo...
Kolhatkar: Enforcing insecurity in Afghanistan
Znet Article, November, 01 2006
Sonali Kolhatkar
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The following is an excerpt from “Bleeding Afghanistan: Washington, Warlords, and the Propaganda of Silence†(Seven Stories, 2006) by Sonali Kolhatkar and James Ingalls. Once touted as a success in the “War on Terror,âS...
Raina: The Last Straw
Znet Article, November, 01 2006
Badri Raina
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When Jack Straw the other day encountered a muslim woman, face veiled in niqab, it spelt in his mind the last straw for white-dominated multiculturalism in Britain. Surely and soon enough the post-9/11 discourse centring on the ostensibly unco...
Roy: 'And His Life Should Become Extinct'
Znet Article, October, 29 2006
Arundhati Roy
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We know this much: On December 13, 2001, the Indian Parliament was in its winter session. (The NDA government was under attack for yet another corruption scandal.) At 11.30 in the morning, five armed men in a white Ambassador ...
Mukherji: Last Chance To Know What Really Happened
Znet Article, October, 29 2006
Nirmalangshu Mukherji
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A sessions court in Delhi has announced that Mohammed Afzal, sentenced to death by the Supreme Court of India on August 4, 2005, is to be hanged on October 20, 2006. While the judicial procedure is nearing its end in the Parliament attack case, ha...
Fenton: Legitimizing Polyarchy
Znet Article, October, 29 2006
Anthony Fenton
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Introduction Since it signed NAFTA (1994) and joined the Organization of American States, the Canadian government has more closely aligned its foreign policy with that of the United States than at any point in recent history. At the same time, th...
Fernandes: With or Without Fidel
Znet Article, October, 29 2006
Sujatha Fernandes
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For the first time ever on July 31, Fidel Castro, chief comandante of the Cuban Revolution, temporarily relinquished power. Incapacitated with severe intestinal bleeding, Fidel underwent emergency surgery and his brother Raúl Castro assumed the p...
Barker: Promoting polyarchy in Serbia
Znet Article, October, 29 2006
Michael Barker
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For the most part scholars and activists alike have tended to uncritically accept overt foreign interventions that profess to be promoting democracy at face value: as noble and humanitarian activities. However, contrary to this rosy view of the pr...
Various: Will Bradley Roland
Znet Article, October, 29 2006
Various
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From: Camilleviv @ aol.com Date: Sat, 28 Oct 2006 01:35:53 EDT Subject: Brad Will RIP, a companero and a journalist Brad Will, a friend and a friend to the international struggle for justice, was murdered. I meet Brad when went we traveled cross...
Mishra: Meaning of Nobel Prize to Phelps
Znet Article, October, 21 2006
Girish Mishra
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The phenomenon of open or involuntary unemployment came up with the rise of modern industrial capitalism. This was because labour power became a commodity, that is, a subject of sale and purchase. People uprooted from land had no other means of pr...
