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Znet Article Kutalik: Comeback for Labor?

Znet Article, April, 21 2006 Chris Kutalik
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As labor activists from around the country and world converge on Dearborn, Michigan in early May for the Labor Notes Conference, it's worth reflecting back on a year that has brought back hopes for a revitalization of the labor movement. Several ...

Znet Article Lendman: The US Gulag Prison System

Znet Article, April, 21 2006 Stephen Lendman
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No, not the one you think, outrageous as it is. I'm referring to the US prison system that's with no exaggeration about as shockingly abusive as the gulag abroad. It qualifies for that label by its size alone - more than 2.1 million as of June, 20...

Znet Article Hasnain: Baltistan

Znet Article, April, 19 2006 M Hasnain
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M. Hasnain is a leading activist and ideologue from Baltistan, in Pakistan-Administered Kashmir. He is deeply involved in Baltistan's movement for self-determination. In this interview he talks about the situation in his homeland and prospects for...

Znet Article Neatby: The Politics of Finger Wagging

Znet Article, April, 19 2006 Stuart Neatby
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Both Paul Raymond and his wife had been living in the Dominican Republic in exile for several months. In the months following the removal of elected Haitian President Jean Bertrand Aristide in February of 2004, a removal which was carried out by ...

Znet Article Lendman: US Planning Fourth Attempt To Oust Hugo Chavez

Znet Article, April, 18 2006 Stephen Lendman
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This essay has a dual purpose. I began it initially to explain how sophisticated and effective the dominant corporate media is in programming the public mind to believe whatever message they deliver regardless of whether it's true which it rarely ...

Znet Article Bogado: On The Myth of Sleeping Giants

Znet Article, April, 18 2006 Aura Bogado
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"Democracy is not something you put away for ten years, and then in the 11th year you wake up and start practicing again." Chinua Achebe In March and April of 1966, Cesar Chavez and a group of National Farm Workers Association strikers wal...

Znet Article Athialy: Forgotten people

Znet Article, April, 18 2006 Joe Athialy
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 The country's two best known struggles are waging a battle for justice under the trees of Jantar Mantar in the capital ­ the Narmada dam oustees and Bhopal gas victims. Both have a 20-year history, albeit emerging from different contexts. Having ...

Znet Article Administrator: The New York Times Whitewashes the Israeli Takeover of East Jerusalem

Znet Article, April, 18 2006 Site Administrator
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Despite a practiced guise of objectivity, the US corporate media’s reporting on Israel/Palestine is dominated by the Israeli narrative.  An April 16, 2006 feature article by Steven Erlanger, The New York Times’ Jerusalem Bureau Chi...

Znet Article Ngugi: Fela Kuti

Znet Article, April, 16 2006 Mukoma Ngugi
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Arrest the Music!  Fela and his Rebel Art and Politics by Tejumola Olaniyan. Indiana University Press, 2004.  In 1977, Tejumola Olaniyan narrates, Nigerian soldiers armed with AK 47’s invaded a musical concert by Fela Anikulapo-Kuti.   T...

Znet Article Chatterji: Don't Damn Narmada

Znet Article, April, 16 2006 Angana Chatterji
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Dams are not the temples of India, they have become its burial grounds. In dissent to the brutal refusal of state and Central governments to honour the legally-bound commitment to resettlement and rehabilitation of adivasi and other disenfranchise...

Znet Article Mehmooda: Defense of Abdul Rahman Misses the Mark!

Znet Article, April, 16 2006 Mehmooda
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When Abdul Rahman, an Afghan Christian convert was arrested in Kabul, the U.S. and many other governments in the West seemed to wake up! Suddenly over this one man, there was an overwhelming --even global-- response to the fundamentalist Chief Jus...

Znet Article Avnery: The Big Wink

Znet Article, April, 16 2006 Uri Avnery
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"Advance and be recognized!" the recruit on sentry duty calls out when he hears somebody approaching. "Sergeant Johns!" comes the answer. "Advance and be recognized!" the sentry calls again. "I told you already, I'm Sergeant Johns!" comes the ans...

Znet Article Fatah: Stop the deportation of Palestinian Peace activist Issam Al Yamani from Canada

Znet Article, April, 16 2006 Tarek Fatah
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April 11, 2006The Right Honourable Stephen HarperPrime Minister of Canada,Office of the Prime Minister,80 Wellington Street,Ottawa, OntarioK1A 0A2 Re: The deportation from Canada of Palestinian peace activist Issam Al Yamani Dear Prime Minister...

Znet Article Barker: Fidel Ramos and the Australian Centre for Democratic Institutions

Znet Article, April, 16 2006 Michael Barker
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CANBERRA – On 26 November 1998, Fidel Ramos (former president of the Philippines) was invited to Australia to give the Inaugural Annual Address at the newly created “democracy promoting” organisation - the Australian Centre...

Znet Article Concannon: Making Our Country Safe For Democracy in Haiti

Znet Article, April, 16 2006 Brian Concannon
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[These are Brian Concannon Jr.'s remarks at the 2006 TransAfrica Forum Annual Foreign Policy Conference, Washington, DC. Panel: Haiti: From a Human Rights and Foreign Policy Debacle Towards a Democratic Justice and Peace. April 1, 2006] I would...

Znet Article Prosen: Privilege Meets Protest at Duke University

Znet Article, April, 14 2006 Kevin Prosen
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In Durham North Carolina, a scant three miles separate Duke from historically black North Carolina Central University (NCCU), but the divide more resembles a canyon. The seismic shock of the recent and now notorious rape charges levied against the...

Znet Article Hass: The Uber-Wardens

Znet Article, April, 13 2006 Amira Hass
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Two weeks ago, on Election Day, at 8 A.M., drivers wishing to leave Tul Karm from the eastern exit (toward Anabta) discovered that their permits were invalid. A soldier at the checkpoint, who prevented the passage of the drivers, apologized: Today...

Znet Article Lendman: The War On Immigrants

Znet Article, April, 11 2006 Stephen Lendman
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"Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore." Once that was true, but no longer. Emma Lazarus’ beautiful and memorable words we’ve all heard many times and...

Znet Article Pandya: A New Civil Rights Movement?

Znet Article, April, 11 2006 Chhandasi Pandya
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Many observers and participants are calling the waves of demonstrations across the U.S. over the last two weeks the birth of the “new civil rights movement.” The truth of this observation will be seen in the days to come, and the s...

Znet Article Hersh: The Iran Plans

Znet Article, April, 10 2006 Seymour m. Hersh
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The Bush Administration, while publicly advocating diplomacy in order to stop Iran from pursuing a nuclear weapon, has increased clandestine activities inside Iran and intensified planning for a possible major air attack. Current and former Americ...

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