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Avnery: Junkies of War
Znet Article, August, 09 2006
Uri Avnery
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FOR ME it was a moment of shocking revelation.I was listening to one of the daily speeches of our Prime Minister. He said: "We are a wonderful people!" He said: We have already won this war, it is the greatest victory in the history of our state...
Gopegui: What's happening in Cuba.
Znet Article, August, 09 2006
Belén Gopegui
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A while ago I used to think literature might be useful. I read several texts on its possible usefulness, but they weren't especially clear. I have found a small way of making literature useful as I continue to mull over this question. Now and then...
Ribeiro: The faithless gardener
Znet Article, August, 09 2006
Silvia Ribeiro
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Pharmaceutical companies use Third World populations for experiments not permitted in their own countries. Fabrizio and Jordano, two of the 140 Peruvian babies used in an experiment with substances derived from genetically manipulated rice by the...
Ngugi: War, Silence and the Politics of Language
Znet Article, August, 09 2006
Mukoma Ngugi
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War on Silence (I) When they came for the Irish, Blacks and Jews Iremained silent. You see, I was yet to be born.And when it happened again I was too young and - waiting to go into college. Later when they jailed anti-war protestors, waiting t...
Jamail: The Damage in Lebanon -- and Beyond
Znet Article, August, 09 2006
Dahr Jamail
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[This article first appeared on Tomdispatch.com, a weblog of the Nation Institute, which offers a steady flow of alternate sources, news, and opinion from Tom Engelhardt, long time editor in publishing, co-founder of the American Empire Project ...
Herman: Ethnic Cleansing: Constructive, Benign, and Nefarious (Kafka Era Studies, No. 1)
Znet Article, August, 09 2006
Edward Herman
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Some years ago Noam Chomsky and I found it useful to distinguish between three categories of terrorism--constructive, benign and nefarious--the classification based strictly on the utility of the terrorism to U.S. interests as perceived by the rul...
Fernandes: Way Forward for the Left?
Znet Article, August, 09 2006
Sujatha Fernandes
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Following the rejection by the Mexican Electoral Tribunal this past Saturday August 6 of a full recount of the vote from Mexico’s recent elections, protesters have taken to the streets in support of center left PRD (Democratic Revolution P...
Achcar: The Sinking Ship of U.S. Imperial Designs
Znet Article, August, 07 2006
Gilbert Achcar
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The Sinking Ship of U.S. Imperial Designs
Chandra: Ambush Journalism on Nepal
Znet Article, August, 07 2006
Pratyush Chandra
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A spate of print media reports, mainly in the Times of India, but also elsewhere (kantipuronline.com), point to tendencies in the media that have their provenance in geopolitical games. All the reports taken up here have the Maoists as their point...
Monbiot: Israel responded to an unprovoked attack by Hizbullah, right? Wrong
Znet Article, August, 07 2006
George Monbiot
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Whatever we think of Israel's assault on Lebanon, all of us seem to agree about one fact: that it was a response, however disproportionate, to an unprovoked attack by Hizbullah. I repeated this "fact" in my last column, when I wrote that "Hizbulla...
Cook: The UN Resolution on Lebanon
Znet Article, August, 07 2006
Jonathan Cook
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If there were any remaining illusions about the purpose of Israel’s war against Lebanon, the draft United Nations Security Council resolution calling for a “cessation of major hostilities†published at the weekend should fi...
Gibler: Designer Uprising
Znet Article, August, 07 2006
John Gibler
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Mexico City is in the grip of a designer uprising, a massive civil disobedience campaign organized by a national political party—the Party of the Democratic Revolution, or PRD—and involving thousands of grassroots citizens. The mov...
Surya: The Indo-U.S. Civilian Nuclear Agreement and the Indian Axis of Evil
Znet Article, August, 06 2006
Radha Surya
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For the first time since the break up of the former Soviet Union, a significant challenge is being mounted to American military and economic hegemony. Even as the U.S. seeks to maintain a stranglehold over proven and conjectured oil and natural g...
Wallerstein: What Can Israel Achieve?
Znet Article, August, 06 2006
Immanuel Wallerstein
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The State of Israel was established in 1948. Ever since, there has been continuous violence between Jews and Arabs in Israel, and between Israel and its neighbors. Sometimes, the violence was low-level and even latent. And every once in a while, t...
Kanazi: Out to Lunch
Znet Article, August, 06 2006
Remi Kanazi
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The US media's biased coverage of the crisis in Lebanon should come as no surprise. While the White House and Congress claim a "special relationship" with Israel, our news outlets are not supposed to have a "special relationship" with anyone. Thei...
Lopez obrador: Mexico
Znet Article, August, 06 2006
Andres manuel Lopez obrador
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[This speech was given on July 30, 2006, in Mexico City] Friends, I thank you with all my heart for the effort you have again made to come from all the regions of Mexico to this third information assembly. To all of you men and women of good will...
Annis: Haiti's Election
Znet Article, August, 06 2006
Roger Annis
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Haiti’s occupiers and elites badly needed the legitimacy of a “democratic†election. Unfortunately for them, the poor majority took them at their word…. Sometimes even the best-laid plans of the powerful go astray....
Gibler: Scenes from the Oaxaca Rebellion
Znet Article, August, 04 2006
John Gibler
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On Tuesday, August 1, about 3,000 women marched through downtown Oaxaca City banging metal pots and pans in an oddly melodious cacophony that served as the background for their chants demanding the ousting of governor Ulises Ruiz. They stopped by ...
Cook: Israel, not Hizbullah, is putting civilians in danger on both sides of the border
Znet Article, August, 04 2006
Jonathan Cook
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Here are some interesting points raised this week by a leading commentator and published in a respected daily newspaper: “The Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert embeds his soldiers in Israeli communities, next to schools, beside hospitals,...
Safty: The Necessity of Conflict and the Primacy of Force in Zionist Thought
Znet Article, August, 04 2006
Adel Safty
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The ferocity of the Israeli war against the people of Lebanon and the Palestinian people, and it is a war against peoples rather than armies or guerrilla groups, is embedded in strategic orientations and founded on basic tenets of Zionist thought....
