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Znet Article Mukherji: Last Chance To Know What Really Happened

Znet Article, October, 29 2006 Nirmalangshu Mukherji
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A sessions court in Delhi has announced that Mohammed Afzal, sentenced to death by the Supreme Court of India on August 4, 2005, is to be hanged on October 20, 2006. While the judicial procedure is nearing its end in the Parliament attack case, ha...

Znet Article Fenton: Legitimizing Polyarchy

Znet Article, October, 29 2006 Anthony Fenton
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Introduction Since it signed NAFTA (1994) and joined the Organization of American States, the Canadian government has more closely aligned its foreign policy with that of the United States than at any point in recent history. At the same time, th...

Znet Article Fernandes: With or Without Fidel

Znet Article, October, 29 2006 Sujatha Fernandes
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For the first time ever on July 31, Fidel Castro, chief comandante of the Cuban Revolution, temporarily relinquished power. Incapacitated with severe intestinal bleeding, Fidel underwent emergency surgery and his brother Raúl Castro assumed the p...

Znet Article Barker: Promoting polyarchy in Serbia

Znet Article, October, 29 2006 Michael Barker
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For the most part scholars and activists alike have tended to uncritically accept overt foreign interventions that profess to be promoting democracy at face value: as noble and humanitarian activities. However, contrary to this rosy view of the pr...

Znet Article Various: Will Bradley Roland

Znet Article, October, 29 2006 Various
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From: Camilleviv @ aol.com Date: Sat, 28 Oct 2006 01:35:53 EDT Subject: Brad Will RIP, a companero and a journalist Brad Will, a friend and a friend to the international struggle for justice, was murdered. I meet Brad when went we traveled cross...

Znet Article Mishra: Meaning of Nobel Prize to Phelps

Znet Article, October, 21 2006 Girish Mishra
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The phenomenon of open or involuntary unemployment came up with the rise of modern industrial capitalism. This was because labour power became a commodity, that is, a subject of sale and purchase. People uprooted from land had no other means of pr...

Znet Article Ommani: Who supports Iranian women?

Znet Article, October, 18 2006 Eleanor Ommani
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An Iranian friend drew my attention to the September 29, 2006 ZNet article “Chavez’s Embrace of Iran Leader Insults Women” by Jennifer Fasulo, under Feminism/Gender, to which I feel compelled to respond.  While purporting t...

Znet Article Mann: The Dark Side of Democracy

Znet Article, October, 18 2006 Michael Mann
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Michael Mann is a British-born sociology professor of at the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA). He was a reader in sociology at the London School of Economics and Sociology from 1977 to 1987 and received his PhD in Sociology from Oxfo...

Znet Article Gibler: Paramilitary attacks continue in Oaxaca

Znet Article, October, 15 2006 John Gibler
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In the past week, gunmen have killed one and wounded four protesters from the Popular Assembly of the People of Oaxaca (APPO). The recent killings heightened tensions as the conflict again enters into a critical moment with the Minister of the Int...

Znet Article Raina: Capital Punishment

Znet Article, October, 11 2006 Badri Raina
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In recent weeks, the Indian public mind (often cutely managed by a savvy media world), has been much drawn towards two happenings. One of these concerns the propagation of “Gandhigiri” (a rather unfortunate analogue of “Ch...

Znet Article Annis: Canada/NATO Mission in Afghanistan

Znet Article, October, 11 2006 Roger Annis
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Canada/NATO Mission in Afghanistan

Znet Article Zoya: Five Years Later, Afghanistan Still in Flames

Znet Article, October, 11 2006 Zoya
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Transcript of a speech by RAWA member Zoya at a benefit for RAWA (Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan), called “Breaking the Propaganda of Silence,” organized by the Afghan Women’s Mission on October 7, 20...

Znet Article Mishra: Issues in the American Elections

Znet Article, October, 11 2006 Girish Mishra
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As the elections to American Senate and the House of Representatives are drawing nearer, more and more heat is getting generated. The Republicans are defending their crusade against worldwide terrorism by pointing out that the punitive actions aga...

Znet Article Gibler: Indigenous teachers defend ´a just cause´

Znet Article, October, 11 2006 John Gibler
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OAXACA CITY - Every night streets here become battlefields in waiting. But behind the commandeered city buses, burned trucks, and coils of barbed wire, a group of atypical urban rebels stands guard. Watching over a barricade where a small altar t...

Znet Article Roy: The Economy Of Gaza

Znet Article, October, 09 2006 Sara Roy
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In one of many reports and accounts of economic life in the Gaza Strip that I have recently read, I was struck by a description of an old man standing on the beach in Gaza throwing his oranges into the sea. The description leapt out at me because ...

Znet Article Lamrani: Reporters Without Borders and its contradictions

Znet Article, October, 04 2006 Salim Lamrani
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On September 12, 2006, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) published an open letter “in response to its detractors,” who denounce its lack of impartiality, the financing it receives from the United States and its political agenda âS...

Znet Article La botz: Mexico's Two Presidents and Two Governments

Znet Article, October, 04 2006 Dan La botz
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The Mexican Electoral Tribunal recognized Felipe Calderon as president-elect, while a massive National Democratic Convention has proclaimed Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador to be the "legitimate president of Mexico." AMLO is now creating an alternative...

Znet Article Epitropoulos: Magic, Deception, and Stalemate in Greece

Znet Article, October, 03 2006 Mike Epitropoulos
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David Copperfield, who is promoted as, "the greatest magician of all time," is coming to Athens in early November, and his shows are selling out.  That may very well be because the ruling, conservative, New Democracy party Economy and Finance Min...

Znet Article Reinhart: Road Map to Nowhere

Znet Article, October, 02 2006 Tanya Reinhart
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Your book covers the history of the Israeli occupation of Palestine in the last three years, a period dominated by Ariel Sharon's leadership. You argue that during this period it became evident that in Israel, decisions are taken by the military, ...

Znet Article Leal: Global Poverty and Global Wealth

Znet Article, October, 02 2006 Pablo Leal
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On September 19, 2006, the global civil society coalition, Social Watch, launched its annual Report “Impossible Architecture” in the city-state of Singapore . This report was launched in the same location and at the same time that ...

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