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Znet Article Masri: Note from Lebanon

Znet Article, July, 17 2006 Rania Masri
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 Dear friends, Thank you all for your letters of concern. Yes, I am in Lebanon, and, yes, I am safe, as safe as one can be when one's country is under attack. I appeal to you all: we need your voices of outrage to be heard. Since Wednesday, ...

Znet Article Pappe: What Does Israel Want?

Znet Article, July, 17 2006 Ilan Pappe
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Imagine a group of high ranking generals who simulated for years Third World War scenarios in which they can move huge armies around, employ the most sophisticated weapons in their disposal and enjoy the immunity of a computerized headquarters fro...

Znet Article Cook: Israelis are dying

Znet Article, July, 17 2006 Jonathan Cook
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Here we go again -- another “serious escalation” has begun in the Middle East, or so BBC World was telling audiences throughout Sunday. So what prompted the BBC’s judgment that the crisis was escalating once more? You can b...

Znet Article Hallinan: Israel/Palestine

Znet Article, July, 15 2006 Conn Hallinan
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AMY GOODMAN: We're joined on the phone right now by Noam Chomsky, professor of linguistics and philosophy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, author of dozens of books. His latest is Failed States: The Abuse of Power and the Assault on D...

Znet Article Mandic: Why Didn't You Bring Pinochet?

Znet Article, July, 15 2006 Danilo Mandic
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Princeton University has become, in mainstream discourse, virtually synonymous with American liberalism, antiwar sentimentalism, or worse. To honor the second anniversary of the occupation of Iraq, the Daily Princetonian ran a David Horowitz colum...

Znet Article Hirst: Israel's monstrous legacy brings tumult a step closer

Znet Article, July, 14 2006 David Hirst
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The Lebanese people, habitues as few people are of the lethal, violent and unexpected, yesterday awoke to the kind of news they thought they had put behind them. Their brand-new airport, the pride of their postwar reconstruction, had been bombarde...

Znet Article Crumpacker: Planning for the Re-Colonization of Cuba

Znet Article, July, 13 2006 Tom Crumpacker
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The Bush Administration's "Commission for Assistance to a Free Cuba," co-chaired by our Secretaries of State and Co...

Znet Article Baroud: Racism Plagues Western Media Coverage

Znet Article, July, 13 2006 Ramzy Baroud
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Racism is "the belief that one 'racial group' is inferior to another and the practices of the dominant group to maintain the inferior position of the dominated group. Often defined as a combination of power, prejudice and discrimination." This is...

Znet Article Zibechi: The Wished-For Technical Draw in Bolivia

Znet Article, July, 13 2006 Raúl Zibechi
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from La Jornada, published in Rebelion, 11-07-2006 The recent elections for the Constituent Assembly mark the end of the political transition in Bolivia. The developing scenario, despite the solid victory of the Movimiento al Socialismo (MAS) of...

Znet Article Haniyeh: Aggression Under False Pretenses

Znet Article, July, 11 2006 Ismail Haniyeh
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  GAZA, Palestine -- As Americans commemorated their annual celebration of independence from colonial occupation, rejoicing in their democratic institutions, we Palestinians were yet again besieged by our occupiers, who destroy our roads and buil...

Znet Article Almeyra: Words and Acts

Znet Article, July, 11 2006 Guillermo Almeyra
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Originally published in Spanish by Memoria*********************************Translated by irlandesa The events in San Salvador Atenco compel us to address the issues of what phase the country is in and what the left can and should do in order to b...

Znet Article Zirin: Why Today I Wear My Zidane Jersey

Znet Article, July, 11 2006 Dave Zirin
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  Imagine Michael Jordan in his last game, with the score tied in overtime, knocking out his defender with a punch to the throat. Imagine Derek Jeter in game seven of the World Series, at bat with the bases loaded, thrashing the opposing team's c...

Znet Article Lendman: Democracy in Mexico Part II

Znet Article, July, 11 2006 Stephen Lendman
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There's much happening in Mexico in the aftermath of the nation's most contentious election ever, but it began many months before the first vote was cast. The popularity of leftist opposition candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador of the Party of t...

Znet Article Raina: Kashmir

Znet Article, July, 11 2006 Badri Raina
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  Experience teaches us that often those sections of society who profit the most from historical change are the first to lament when calls go up for further change. The fact, nonetheless is, as atleast one school of political epistemology recogn...

Znet Article Gibler: Mexican Elections Mired in Anomalies

Znet Article, July, 11 2006 John Gibler
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For five days following the July 2 presidential elections, Mexico was in the grip of anticipation as the Federal Electoral Institute (IFE) labored to tally—or rig—the votes. On Thursday, July 6, the anticipation passed into a spli...

Znet Article Caputo: Ransacking Chile

Znet Article, July, 11 2006 Orlando Caputo
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The rise in copper prices has produced euphoria in the government and ruling elites, despite relative complications for certain exporters. The price rise seems not to be a momentary phenomenon. Although abundance is not noticeable in the daily lif...

Znet Article Sagar: Review of Amartya Sen's "Identity and Violence"

Znet Article, July, 11 2006 Satya Sagar
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‘Identity and Violence: The Illusion of Destiny’Amartya Sen, Allen Lane, 2006, 215 pg. ‘Arab-looking Sri Lankan journalist’ said the caption of the photo in the Sunday edition of the Philippine Daily Inquirer. That...

Znet Article Administrator: Between Electoral Theater and Revolution

Znet Article, July, 10 2006 Site Administrator
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Before Evo Morales won a landslide victory in the Bolivian presidential election on December 18, 2005, one of his key campaign promises was to organize a constituent assembly to rewrite the constitution. The election for representatives to that as...

Znet Article Achcar: Italian Antiwar MPs - A call for International Solidarity

Znet Article, July, 09 2006 Gilbert Achcar
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Italian Antiwar MPs - A call for International Solidarity

Znet Article Cook: Kidnapped By Israel

Znet Article, July, 07 2006 Jonathan Cook
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Few readers of a British newspaper would have noticed the story. In the Observer of 25 June, it merited a mere paragraph hidden in the "World in brief" section, revealing that the previous day a team of Israeli commandos had entered the Gaza Strip...

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