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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, ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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
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...


