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Znet Article Mishra: American Dream and Its Indian Vendors

Znet Article, June, 18 2006 Girish Mishra
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For many, many years the US official circles, the propertied classes and the media controlled by them have been propagating a myth. It is the myth of the American Dream, which means that in the United States, any person can climb up the ladder of ...

Znet Article Pilger: In Palestine, a War on Children

Znet Article, June, 17 2006 John Pilger
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Arthur Miller wrote, "Few of us can easily surrender our belief that society must somehow make sense. The thought that the state has lost its mind and is punishing so many innocent people is intolerable. And so the evidence has to be internally de...

Znet Article Akhtar: Not-so-failed states

Znet Article, June, 13 2006 Aasim sajjad Akhtar
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The term ‘failed state’ has gained widespread currency over the past decade or so, and has been used in reference to a host of countries with widely differing histories and political trajectories. Not surprisingly, the majority of ...

Znet Article Walia: Responding to the Toronto Terror Arrests

Znet Article, June, 13 2006 Harsha Walia
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Last weekend, in a pre-dawn raid, four hundred officers arrested seventeen Canadian Muslim youth and young men- mostly under the age of 25- in a grand anti-terrorism bust. Since then, Canadians have been subjected to sensationalist reports of the ...

Znet Article Majavu: Post Colonial Blacks

Znet Article, June, 12 2006 Mandisi Majavu
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This is the edited version of the paper presented at the “Native Club: Where are the Natives? The Black Intelligentsia Today.” There is a tendency by those who write books and essays for leading journals to downplay the seriousne...

Znet Article Chandra: Angels and Demons in the People's Movement in Nepal

Znet Article, June, 12 2006 Pratyush Chandra
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Today, the talk of people's power in Nepal is the order of the day. Even the Mainstream Media, Moriarty, Manmohan and their intellectual goons are full of that. Evidently they are having hysterical fits intensified by the return of the Cold War pa...

Znet Article Fernandes: Trade Treaties and Challenging US Hegemony in the Americas

Znet Article, June, 12 2006 Sujatha Fernandes
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Venezuela’s president Hugo Chávez, Brazil’s president Lula Inacio da Silva, and Nestor Kirchner, president of Argentina, met in Sao Paulo, Brazil on April 26 to discuss possibilities for integration and collaboration. On April 29,...

Znet Article Mouradian: The Truth Will Set You Free

Znet Article, June, 12 2006 Khatchig Mouradian
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In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act. George Orwell I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil...

Znet Article Marcos: Women Without Fear

Znet Article, June, 12 2006 Subcomandante Marcos
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Originally published in Spanish by the EZLNTranslated by irlandesa *Women:  Assembly Instructions? Words from the Sixth Committee of the EZLN for the public event "Women Without Fear.  We Are All Atenco." May 22, 2006 May 22, 2006 Good evening...

Znet Article Grandin: The Rebel and Mr. Danger

Znet Article, June, 12 2006 Greg Grandin
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There is something quaint—flattering, even—about the way Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez insists on calling George W. Bush “Mr. Danger.” The taunt, which Chávez delivers in English with rolled-out vowels and pinc...

Znet Article Raina: India and Nepal

Znet Article, June, 10 2006 Badri Raina
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Replicating the wishful follies of the eighteenth century Bourbon monarch, Louis XVI,  King Gyanendra Shah of Nepal  has finally been denuded of all his powers.  It hardly matters now what royal robes  he wears; the emperor will henceforth be effe...

Znet Article Hanieh: Canadian Union Takes Step Against Israeli Apartheid

Znet Article, June, 10 2006 Adam Hanieh
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At the annual convention of the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) Ontario, held 24-27 May 2006 in Ottawa, the union passed a resolution of historic importance. Resolution 50—adopted unanimously by the 900 delegates at the largest c...

Znet Article Joya: If I Arise

Znet Article, June, 10 2006 Malalai Joya
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On December 17, 2003, a 26-year-old woman named Malalai Joya joined hundreds of others in a large tent in Kabul, Afghanistan, to adopt a new constitution for their war-torn nation. The gathering, called a Loya Jirga (traditional grand assembly), w...

Znet Article Lendman: Sham US Proposal to Iran

Znet Article, June, 10 2006 Stephen Lendman
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It may be a new month, but it's the same old Wall Street Journal trumpeting the latest US gambit designed to hide its real intentions toward Iran. Again it was in a front page feature story on June 1 headlined: "In Shift, U.S. Offers to Talk to Ir...

Znet Article Ash: Another Brick in the (Apartheid) Wall

Znet Article, June, 10 2006 Gabriel Ash
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Another Brick in the (Apartheid) Wall

Znet Article Pilger: The Last Taboo

Znet Article, June, 07 2006 John Pilger
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John Pilger's new book, Freedom Next Time (Bantam Press, 2006; http://www.johnpilger.com/) has just been published. Containing chapters on Diego Garcia, Palestine, India, South Africa and Afghanistan, it is a devastating indictment of brutal sta...

Znet Article Sheehan: The Abominations of War

Znet Article, June, 06 2006 Cindy Sheehan
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This is the most difficult article that I have ever had to write, but I have to write it anyway, unfortunately. I, and just about anyone and everyone who criticizes George Bush and this war are accused of "not supporting the troops." Since my son...

Znet Article Wwsc: A Specter is Haunting the AFL-CIO's Foreign Policy Program:

Znet Article, June, 04 2006 Worker-to-worker solidarity committee -- Wwsc
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The room had been arranged, the speakers ready: with a last minute, unannounced substitution of Wilfredo Berrios of El Salvador's SUTTEL (telecom) union replacing Miguel Gonzalez Vargas from the Oil Workers Union of Venezuela who had not been able...

Znet Article Wetzel: Unionism and Workers' Liberation

Znet Article, May, 31 2006 Tom Wetzel
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Unionism and Workers' Liberation

Znet Article Keady: Timor

Znet Article, May, 31 2006 Maryann Keady
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Three years ago, I wrote a piece talking about attempts to oust Prime Minister Mari Alkatiri in East Timor, then a new struggling independent nation. I wrote that I believed the US and Australia were determined to oust the Timorese leader, due to ...

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