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Znet Article Raina: New Ringtones from Condy Rice

Znet Article, July, 09 2007 Badri Raina
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Epigraph(s) History is a moral necessity for a nation which is the world's dominant power. It is the best antidote to delusions of ominipotence and omniscience.        Arthur Schlesinger The longer you look back, the further you can look forwar...

Znet Article Varadarajan: Between the Nimitz and the deep blue sea

Znet Article, July, 05 2007 Siddharth Varadarajan
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Between the Nimitz and the deep blue sea

Znet Article Hess: Africa needs less, not more, World Bank intervention

Znet Article, July, 05 2007 Jake Hess
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"Robert Zoellick, who has been nominated to become the president of the World Bank, said that he would make Africa his top priority", The International Herald Tribune recently reported.  "Clearly, there needs to be a big focus on Africa", Zoellick...

Znet Article Niaz: One swallow does a summer make!

Znet Article, July, 05 2007 Anjum Niaz
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Can one woman carry a crusade for democracy? Can one woman take on the military and the powerful establishment to demand an end to army rule? Yes if she happens to be a former judge of the Lahore High Court. Yes if her name ends with Iqbal. And ye...

Znet Article Lamrani: Reporters Without Borders and RCTV

Znet Article, July, 05 2007 Salim Lamrani
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The rejection to renew the 20-year-old concession license of the private Venezuelan television channel RCTV that expired May 27, 2007, set off extraordinary media hysteria worldwide. For several weeks, press from all over the globe focused on a ba...

Znet Article Kagarlitsky: The Blockade of Heiligendamm

Znet Article, July, 04 2007 Boris Kagarlitsky
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"God knows what's happening here! There are ...

Znet Article Fulchieri: Latin America Eye Care Project

Znet Article, June, 29 2007 Bibiana Fulchieri
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English translation by Paul Legato Sunday night, near National Highway 34 in Salta, just a few miles from Professor Salvador Mazza, the last Argentinian town before the border with Bolivia. Any time now, a truck from the "A Better World Is Possi...

Znet Article Raina: Coronation by Divination, History by Hearsay

Znet Article, June, 29 2007 Badri Raina
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In my last offering ("India Steals a March," ZNet, June 19,2007) I expressed my delight at the prospect that the next President of the Indian Republic was likely to be a woman. That, even as I qualified the delight by stating "I must confess I ha...

Znet Article Mishra: New Maharajas in India

Znet Article, June, 27 2007 Girish Mishra
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With the change of era, the old people and classes occupying the positions of power and influence give way to new ones. This happened in England in the 17th century and in France after 1789 when capitalism began pushing out feudalism. During the f...

Znet Article Avnery: Saving President Abbas

Znet Article, June, 27 2007 Uri Avnery
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EHUD OLMERT is the opposite of Midas, King of Phrygia. Everything the king touched turned into gold, according to Greek legend. Everything Olmert touches turns into lead. And that is no legend. Now he is touching Mahmoud Abbas. He lauds him to hi...

Znet Article Cook: Divide and rule, Israeli-style

Znet Article, June, 27 2007 Jonathan Cook
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The boycott by Israel and the international community of the Palestinian Authority finally blew up in their faces with Hamas' recent bloody takeover of Gaza. Or so argues Gideon Levy, one of the saner voices still to be found in Israel. "Starving,...

Znet Article Warschawski: The Crisis in Gaza

Znet Article, June, 24 2007 Michael Warschawski
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The old dream of Ariel Sharon is becoming a reality: Palestinians are killing Palestinians, and Israel is counting the number of victims with great satisfaction. The tears of Israeli leaders are crocodile tears, and their claims that they are sorr...

Znet Article Nabulsi: The Drivers of Violence in Gaza

Znet Article, June, 24 2007 Karma Nabulsi
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There is nothing uglier and more brutal to the human spirit, nothing more lethal to that universal hope for freedom, than to see a people struggling for liberty for such a long time begin to kill each other. How and why did we get here? Above all:...

Znet Article Stefanoni: On the verge of a racial revenge?

Znet Article, June, 24 2007 Pablo Stefanoni
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Ever since the inauguration of Evo Morales, the right wing have begun to raise the spectre of a "racial revenge", supposedly promoted by the new government. Even Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa - who never loses an opportunity to attack "populi...

Znet Article Hovsepian: The Palestinian Refugee Camps in Lebanon

Znet Article, June, 24 2007 Nubar Hovsepian
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The fierce clashes between the Lebanese army and the Fatah Al-Islam in and around Nahr Al-Bared Palestinian refugee camp in Tripoli (north Lebanon) have occasioned myopic observations regarding the causes of this flare-up. The CNN's of this world ...

Znet Article Tilley: Whose Coup, Exactly?

Znet Article, June, 24 2007 Virginia Tilley
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 Having sacked Ismail Haniyeh of Hamas and dissolved his democratically-elected government, Palestinian Authority (PA) president Mahmoud Abbas has now installed Salam Fayyad as the new Prime Minister, to the clear delight of the West. Mutual accus...

Znet Article Abunimah: In search of justice in the Middle East

Znet Article, June, 24 2007 Ali Abunimah
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 The US decision to back Palestinian Authority president Mahmoud Abbas in the recent turmoil virtually guarantees an escalation in violence. Abbas has installed an unelected "emergency" government to replace the democratically elected Hamas-led na...

Znet Article Fuentes: The Battle For Bolivia's Future

Znet Article, June, 19 2007 Federico Fuentes
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The breaking of a six-month deadlock in Bolivia's constituent assembly has paved the way for the opening of an intense debate on the future of this politically polarised country nestled in the heart of South America. Beginning to lose the battle w...

Znet Article Rose: Why pick on Israel? Because its actions are wrong

Znet Article, June, 19 2007 Steven Rose
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The University and College Union annual congress last week voted by a two-thirds majority to organise a campus tour for Palestinian academic trade unionists to explain why they had called for an academic and cultural boycott of Israel, and to enco...

Znet Article Monteforte: Maize of Deception

Znet Article, June, 19 2007 Eliana Monteforte
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Ethanol Fuels Are Not Necessarily The Universal CureAs the Bush administration continues to push its alternative fuels agenda, it has become increasingly evident that corn-based ethanol could be as much the global villain as a boon to society. I...

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