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Robinson: Aqui Estamos Y No Nos Vamos
Znet Article, April, 23 2006
William Robinson
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Latino immigrants have launched an all-out fight-back against the repression, exploitation, and racism they routinely face in the United States with a series of unprecedented strikes and demonstrations. The mobilizations began when over half a m...
Levy: Who is the Terrorist?
Znet Article, April, 23 2006
Gideon Levy
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The scenes from Gaza are heartbreaking. Heartbreaking? That's not for certain. The sight of the Aben family from Beit Lahiya mourning its 12-year-old daughter Hadil last week did not stir any particular shock in Israel. Nor did anyone take to the ...
Halper: Sumud vs. Apartheid
Znet Article, April, 23 2006
Jeff Halper
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This is, as they say, the crunch. This is the political moment all Israeli governments - all of them, Labour, Likud and 'National Unity' - have been working towards the past four decades of Occupation: the final push for an expanded Israel, the pe...
Keith-jennings: Whose democracy is the U.S. supporting in Nicaragua?
Znet Article, April, 23 2006
Brynne Keith-jennings
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In Nicaragua, the US government continues to flex its muscles to achieve an electoral defeat of Daniel Ortega in the November presidential elections. Ortega, president during the Sandinista revolution in the 1980s, is running for president for ...
Cook: The real meaning of deporting Hamas Members of Parliament
Znet Article, April, 23 2006
Jonathan Cook
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The policy of "hitnatkut", or unilateral disengagement, developed by Ariel Sharon needed a swift facelift following the withdrawal of settlers from Gaza last year. And Israel's prime minister-designate, Ehud Olmert, has found it in the related con...
Staples: Canada's military-corporate complex and its services rendered to George W.Bush
Znet Article, April, 23 2006
Steven Staples
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In Why We Fight, documentary filmmaker Eugene Jarecki reminds us of Dwight D. Eisenhower's famous 1961 farewell address to the American people - a warning really - when he added a new concept into our vocabulary: the military-industrial complex. ...
Baroud: The Case for the Palestinian Government
Znet Article, April, 23 2006
Ramzy Baroud
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Responding to successive decisions made by the US, the European Union and various European and non-European countries to boycott the Palestinian Authority and deprive it of urgently needed funds, Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh described...
Street: Iraq Is Not Vietnam
Znet Article, April, 22 2006
Paul Street
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Making historical analogies is often like eating a thin bowl of soup with a fork: you might catch something nutritious if you're lucky but much of the substance gets lost. The strong analogy that many commentators and authorities r...
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 ...
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...
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...
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 ...
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 ...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...


