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Wolf: Schroeder and Chirac

Znet Article, February, 15 2005 Frieder otto Wolf
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The average newspaper reader will scarcely have noticed: Schroeder and Chirac are at it again.   After a concerted action of both at the Davos World Economic Forum where they took a stance in favour of the Tobin tax, Schroeder has now defined h...

Bremner: Bush and Chirac

Znet Article, October, 05 2004 Charles Bremner
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A new book says French leaders acted like cavalry officers in Iraq feud. America regularly eavesdrops on the telephone conversations of President Chirac and his entourage in the Elysée Palace in Paris, according to a book to be published tomorr...

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Forum Post, September, 02 2004 Nichols Nicholsj100
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Albert: Parecon and Society: Art

Blog Post, August, 13 2004 Michael Albert
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Here is another chapter in draft for the book in progress. This one does have a section missing on the conditions of artists in the U.S., etc. which will have stats about artists doing ads instead of art, and so on...but otherwise it is ready for ...

Bloice: The Global Economy Threat Moves to France

Znet Article, August, 01 2004 Carl Bloice
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It was, as French trade unions have said in no uncertain terms, blackmail. In mid-July the 820 workers at the Robert Bosch plant voted to accept a new contract that increases their work week by one hour - with no increase in pay - cuts bonuses a...

Engelhardt: The battered French fry and other lies of our times

Znet Article, June, 22 2004 Tom Engelhardt
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Who could catalogue the lies of our times? In fact, the category "lies" hardly covers the matter. Take a simple example, just now on front pages everywhere: the President invites the press in for a post-cabinet-meeting moment. It's the day after t...

Hallward: Haiti's elected leader was regarded as a threat by France and the US

Znet Article, March, 02 2004 Peter Hallward
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Jean-Bertrand Aristide was re-elected president of Haiti in November 2000 with more than 90% of the vote. He was elected by people who approved his courageous dissolution, in 1995, of the armed forces that had long terrorised Haiti and had overthr...

Reporting: When Are Nazi Comparisons Deplorable?

Znet Article, January, 18 2004 Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting
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The controversy over comparisons between George W. Bush and Adolf Hitler in two ads submitted to the anti-Bush ad contest run by the online activist group MoveOn.org says less about the state of left discourse than it does about the double standar...

Administrator: The Philippine Model

Commentary, October, 22 2003 Site Administrator
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Addressing a joint session of the Philippine Congress on Saturday, President Bush said to skeptical critics of his Iraq policy, "Some say the culture of the Middle East will not sustain the institutions of democracy. The same doubts were once expr...

Zinn: An Occupied Country

Commentary, September, 30 2003 Howard Zinn
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It has become clear, very quickly, that Iraq is not a liberated country, but an occupied country.

Street: Making Connections: Confronting Hierarchy At Home and Abroad

Commentary, March, 21 2003 Paul Street
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The Real Danger: Questioning Domestic Hierarchy

Administrator: The Friendly French Resistance

Znet Article, February, 17 2003 Site Administrator
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Only George W. Bush can match Jean-Marie Le Pen when it comes to bringing protesters into the streets of Paris. The estimated 250,000 people who demonstrated in the French capital on February 15 were clearly a cross section of the whole population...

Reinhart: Academic Boycott: In Support Of Paris VI

Znet Article, February, 04 2003 Tanya Reinhart
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In April 2002, following Israel's "operation" in Jenin, first calls for institutional academic boycott of Israeli universities appeared in England and in France.  The British petition called to freeze European Union contracts with Israeli u...

Dávalos: Indian Ocean: “Open Regionalism” or Naked Militarism?

Commentary, December, 28 2002 Pablo Dávalos
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A conference held in Chandigarh, India in November this year on the theme “The Indian Ocean in a Globalizing World: Critical Perspectives on the 21st Century” was significant for two things. First, for the reaffirmation of the need...

Zinn: Veterans Day

Commentary, November, 15 2002 Howard Zinn
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Veterans Day used to be called Armistice Day, because it was November 11, 1918, at 11 AM - the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month, that the first World War came to an end. It would be good to remember a few things about tha...

Administrator: The Irony of French Elections:

Znet Article, April, 30 2002 Site Administrator
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French presidential elections are vastly more democratic than the American system. The first round allows anyone who can get endorsement from 500 of France's 36,000 mayors (any small village will do) to be an official candidate. All get free telev...

Kagarlitsky: A French Lesson

Znet Article, April, 30 2002 Boris Kagarlitsky
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No-one was particularly excited about the presidential elections in France. The differences between the leading candidates were so minuscule that the victory of one or the other could have significance only for the candidate himself and for people...

Rebick: French Election Has Lessons For Us All

Znet Article, April, 26 2002 Judy Rebick
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The results of the French Presidential election are the latest, and perhaps most significant sign, that the shifts in global politics following September 11 are much greater than anyone on the left predicted. The failure of the French left to move...

Prashad: Shooting Stars

Commentary, June, 15 2001 Vijay Prashad
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On 21 April 1988, Mikhail Gorbachev turned to Colin Powell, then an aide of the US National Security Advisor, and said "What are you going to do now that you've lost your best enemy?" Gorbachev's unilateral disarmament of Soviet nuclear forces in ...

Ali: New Labour, New Bombs

Commentary, February, 19 2001 Tariq Ali
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As the future ripens in the past, so the past rots in the present. American leaders have long been used to treating the cracked British vase as a pisspot, but Attlee and Wilson, while dutifully kissing ass in the White House, did, at least, attemp...