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Znet Article Burr: How Many and Where Were the Nukes?

Znet Article, August, 21 2006 William Burr
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[The National Security Archive has released an important series of documents revealing the reversal of several decades of efforts to make available for public scrutiny the numbers of US nuclear missiles during the early decades of t...

Znet Article Carroll: The Nagasaki Principle

Znet Article, August, 08 2006 James Carroll
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Today is the anniversary of what did not happen. Sixty-one years ago yesterday, the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima. The scale of nuclear devastation was apparent at once. The next day, no decision was made to call off the bombing of Nagasaki...

Znet Article Engelhardt: Hiroshima Story

Znet Article, August, 07 2006 Tom Engelhardt
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Hiroshima Story

Zmag Article Harris: Immigrants Are Not the Enemy

Zmag Article, July, 01 2006 Mark t. Harris
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I grew up hearing stories about how one of my ancestors arrived on the Mayflower. I also knew my father’s family of English and Welsh immigrants were among the original Mormon pioneers to the...

Znet Article Ward: Fireworks Deferred

Znet Article, June, 30 2006 Chip Ward
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Shock and awe is coming home. The Bush administration is planning to conduct future preemptive wars with "mini-nukes" and, to that end, wants to set off a nuclear-sized explosion at the government's Nevada Test Site, sixty-five miles northwest of ...

Znet Article Wilkins: Mexico welcomed fugitive slaves and African American job-seekers

Znet Article, June, 12 2006 Ron Wilkins
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In 1829, AfroMexican President Vicente Guerrero signed a decree banning slavery in the Mexican Republic. There are, of course, many angles from which to view the escalating immigration debate. Mexican immigrants, who constitute the largest share o...

Znet Article Galeano: Interviewing Galeano

Znet Article, May, 20 2006 Eduardo Galeano
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JUAN GONZALEZ: We spend the rest of the hour with one of Latin America's most acclaimed writers: Eduardo Galeano. His works from the trilogy Memory of Fire to the classic Open Veins of Latin America are a unique blend of history, fiction, journali...

Znet Article Smith: An Opposition Party, Minus The Opposition

Znet Article, May, 16 2006 Michael george Smith
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Last night, in a live address to the nation on the immigration debate, George W. Bush did what he does best – scapegoat people of color and invoke the War on Terror to get what he wants.  It is a familiar theme, played out in Afghanistan, ...

Znet Article Raju: Kennedy-McCain Bill

Znet Article, May, 16 2006 Suvrat Raju
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The past two months have witnessed an explosion in the immigrant rights movement in America. When Representative Sensenbrenner introduced his bill, proposing the large scale deportation of undocumented immigrants, little did he suspect that millio...

Znet Article Raju: The Kennedy-McCain Bill

Znet Article, May, 16 2006 Suvrat Raju
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    The past two months have witnessed an explosion in the immigrant rights movement in America. When Representative Sensenbrenner introduced his bill, proposing the large scale deportation of undocumented immigrants, little did he suspect that mi...

Znet Article Kwoba: Immigrant Rights

Znet Article, May, 14 2006 Brian Kwoba
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The demonstrations, walk-outs, boycotts, marches, work-stoppages, and protests of the past few weeks are more than just an inspiring example of resistance to reactionary government legislation; they may signal the birth of a new left. In response ...

Znet Article Street: Note To Jimmy Kimmel and Roger Daniels

Znet Article, May, 11 2006 Paul Street
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I doubt that many ZNet readers will be shocked to hear that ABC television's "Jimmy Kimmel Live" show does not provide an especially incisive or critical take on United States history and current events. Still, I found two found comments Kimmel ma...

Znet Article Jones: On Being Black at a Latino March

Znet Article, May, 06 2006 Van Jones
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At Monday's "Dia Sin Inmigrantes/Day Without Immigrants" march in San Francisco, I saw a beautiful, exciting and hopeful vision of the future of this country. I also caught a glimpse of a familiar past, fading away. And I shed a few tears for both...

Znet Article Hayden: Who Are You Calling An Immigrant?

Znet Article, May, 04 2006 Tom Hayden
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I wore the multicolored Aymaran flag of Bolivia to the May Day march in Los Angeles, the same day that Evo Morales, the first indigenous president of Bolivia, nationalized the oil and gas fields. It seemed right to recognize the reappearance of th...

Znet Article Soul_sacrifice69: On Streets Of New York, Solidarity Reigns

Znet Article, May, 03 2006 Juan Soul_sacrifice69
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All you had to do was take one look down normally bustling St. Nicholas Ave. in Washington Heights yesterday afternoon to sense an astonishing event was underway. Around 12:30 p.m., Luis Carillo and Abimael Classen stood in front of their shutter...

Zmag Article Bacon: The People Shout No

Zmag Article, May, 01 2006 David Bacon
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N o! That’s what hundreds of thousands of people were saying as they came out of their homes into the streets all over the country—a million in Los Angeles, half a million in Chicago, t...

Znet Article Gibler: No Choice for Migrants

Znet Article, April, 29 2006 John Gibler
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No Choice for Migrants

Znet Article 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...

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 Wittner: Bush's Latest Nuclear Gambit

Znet Article, April, 18 2006 Lawrence s. Wittner
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In 2005, U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, recognizing that the Bush administration's favorite new nuclear weapon--the "Bunker Buster"--was on the road to defeat in Congress, told its leading antagonist, U.S. Representative David Hobson (...

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