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Mishra: Crony Capitalism and Its Implications
Znet Article, September, 17 2006
Girish Mishra
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In Western Uttar Pradesh, the State government has allotted agricultural land, acquired from peasants on very low rates, to industrialist Anil Ambani for building power plants and setting up a special economic zone. This has led to great disconten...
Baroud: Bush PR Campaign
Znet Article, September, 17 2006
Ramzy Baroud
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Removed from reality, self-consumed and desperate, the Bush administration went on another PR offensive, in what is considered the “third most major public relations effort†in the last year. In his first of a series of speeches, ...
Ngugi: Africa and Latin America
Znet Article, September, 17 2006
Mukoma Ngugi
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Roots of Optimism and Contradictions The Berlin Wall is dismantled brick by brick in November of 1989. It becomes a symbol of freedom and new beginnings. A few months into 1990 the Soviet Union collapses and from its ruins a plethora of nations...
Lubani: Solidarity for Palestinian Human Rights
Znet Article, September, 17 2006
Tarek Lubani
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Justin Podur interviews Tarek Lubani of Solidarity for Palestinian Human Rights, University of Western Ontario The University of Western Ontario is a medium-sized University campus at which typical campus activism takes place. Like many North Am...
Albert: Why Parecon?
Znet Article, September, 14 2006
Michael Albert
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Fifteen years ago, Robin Hahnel and I published a book titled Looking Forward. It was the first in-depth presentation of the economic vision called participatory economics, or parecon for short. Of course Robin and I worked hard on parecon and rel...
Sprague: Authors of Lancet Medical Journal Study On Haiti Claim To Be Targets Of Intimidation Campaign
Znet Article, September, 11 2006
Jeb Sprague
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You are a dog ... you should die. We are going to necklace you," whispered a British-accented caller into the phone. It was the latest in a round of death threats that Athena Kolbe, Human Rights Investigator and Master's level social worker at Way...
Varadarajan: India and the quest for world order
Znet Article, September, 11 2006
Siddharth Varadarajan
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IN INTERNATIONAL affairs, minor details often tell us more about the big picture than ponderous declarations and weighty documents. Next week, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will travel to Brasilia and Havana for important meetings aimed at cementi...
Loewenstein: My Israel Question
Znet Article, September, 11 2006
Antony Loewenstein
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Jamie Glassman is a British Jewish writer on The Ali G show, a comedy program known for intentionally offending deserving establishment figures. Glassman recently attended the Edinburgh Arts Festival and was disturbed. He wrote in the London Times...
Baroud: Kidnapped in Gaza
Znet Article, September, 11 2006
Ramzy Baroud
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Two Fox News journalists, Steve Cantani and Olas Wing were released by their Palestinian kidnappers in the Gaza Strip on Sunday, August 27. Just one day earlier, two Reuters’ cameramen were seriously wounded in an apparently deliberate Isr...
Cockburn: The 9/11 Conspiracy Nuts
Znet Article, September, 10 2006
Alexander Cockburn
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You trip over one fundamental idiocy of the 9/11 conspiracy nuts -- -- the ones who say Bush and Cheney masterminded the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon -- in the first paragraph of the opening page of the book by one of their...
Cockburn: 'Gaza is a jail. Nobody is allowed to leave. We are all
Znet Article, September, 10 2006
Patrick Cockburn
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Gaza is dying. The Israeli siege of the Palestinian enclave is so tight that its people are on the edge of starvation. Here on the shores of the Mediterranean a great tragedy is taking place that is being ignored because the world's attention has ...
Guego: 'Quiet transfer' in East Jerusalem nears completion
Znet Article, September, 08 2006
Elodie Guego
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Israel is close to implementing a long-term plan to transform the demographic structure of annexed East Jerusalem. Policies to revoke the residency permits of Palestinian Jerusalemites and to Judaise the city have been described as ethnic cleansin...
Guego: 'Quiet transfer' in East Jerusalem nears completion
Znet Article, September, 08 2006
Elodie Guego
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Israel is close to implementing a long-term plan to transform the demographic structure of annexed East Jerusalem. Policies to revoke the residency permits of Palestinian Jerusalemites and to Judaise the city have been described as ethnic cleansin...
Knight: The Rebirth of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS)
Znet Article, September, 08 2006
Alexander Knight
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A small kitten scampers up the steps of ivy-laden Cobb Hall at the University of Chicago. Nearby, a mohawked student attempts to spear a stale, "dumpstered," bagel mid-air with a PVC pipe. He's surrounded by dozens of other young radicals mingli...
Chomsky: Comments on Dershowitz
Znet Article, September, 06 2006
Noam Chomsky
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Alan Dershowitz’s regular little performances are eminently ignorable, including the one reproduced below. But since I’ve been asked several times for comments on this one, a few follow. Dershowitz’s opens by writing that ...
Cook: Will Robert Fisk Tell Us The Whole Story?
Znet Article, September, 06 2006
Jonathan Cook
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Nazareth. More than a little uncomfortably, I find myself with a bone to pick with one of our finest champions of humanitarian values and opponents of war. During Israel's attack on Lebanon this summer, the distinguished British journalist Robert ...
Kolko: The Great Equalizer
Znet Article, September, 05 2006
Gabriel Kolko
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The United States had a monopoly of nuclear weaponry only a few years before other nations challenged it, but from 1949 until roughly the 1990s deterrence theory worked - nations knew that if they used the awesome bomb they were likely to be devas...
Hawkins: Rebuilding the Labor Movement in the United States
Znet Article, September, 05 2006
Howie Hawkins
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Unions need to offer a vision of how a just society should be organized. We need to organize for real solutions like fair trade, national health insurance, labor law reform, internal union democratic reforms to re-engage the rank and file, and a m...
Morales: Capitalism Has Only Hurt Latin America
Znet Article, September, 04 2006
Evo Morales
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Bolivia's President Evo Morales, 46, talks to DER SPIEGEL about reform plans for his country, socialism in Latin America, and the often tense relations of the region's leftists with the United States. SPIEGEL: Mr. President, why is such a large...
