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Znet Article 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...

Znet Article 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...

Znet Article 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...

Znet Article 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...

Znet Article 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...

Znet Article Barker: Friendly Dictators and Hostile Democracies

Znet Article, November, 03 2006 Michael Barker
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Friendly Dictators and Hostile Democracies

Znet Article 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...

Znet Article 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...

Znet Article 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...

Znet Article 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...

Znet Article 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...

Znet Article 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...

Znet Article 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...

Znet Article 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 ...

Znet Article 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...

Znet Article 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...

Znet Article 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...

Znet Article 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...

Znet Article 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...

Znet Article 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...

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