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Znet Article Schwartz: Why Immediate Withdrawal Makes Sense

Znet Article, September, 22 2005 Michael Schwartz
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That we are in a military quagmire in Iraq has become a fact of life among Americans of all political persuasions. Though Administration officials still sometimes speak of troop reductions in early 2006, and some top military men clearly no longer...

Znet Article Burbach: Hugo Chavez: A Bolivarian Socialist at the United Nations

Znet Article, September, 22 2005 Roger Burbach
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Caracas, Venezuela.  Hugo Chavez has moved onto the world stage as an advocate of profound change within his own country and abroad. At the gathering of world leaders at the United Nations this week he proclaimed: "The United Nations has exhausted...

Znet Article Davis: The Struggle Over The Future Of New Orleans

Znet Article, September, 21 2005 Mike Davis
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THE CATASTROPHE on the Gulf Coast was the most widely anticipated “natural disaster” in U.S. history. Yet the response of the U.S. government was universally condemned as a failure. What happened? HURRICANE KATRINA occurred on the ...

Znet Article Podur: From the Embassy to the Prison

Znet Article, September, 21 2005 Justin Podur
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From the Embassy to the Prison

Znet Article Galloway: Reply to Greg Palast

Znet Article, September, 20 2005 George Galloway
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Until a couple of days ago I hadn't heard of Greg Palast in years, the man who claims to have been pursuing me with questions for two months. He has never phoned, written, emailed or made any other contact with me, which is curiously reminiscent o...

Znet Article Chavez: Chavez at the UN

Znet Article, September, 18 2005 Hugo Chavez
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Your Excellency and Friends The original intention of this meeting has been totally weakened. We have been prevailed upon, as center of our debate, to consider some badly named "reforms". These reforms relegate as unimportant all that the world'...

Znet Article Fisk: Religious Terror

Znet Article, September, 18 2005 Robert Fisk
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In an age when Lord Blair of Kut al-Amara can identify "evil ideologies" and al-Qa’ida can call the suicide bombing of 156 Iraqi Shias "good news" for the "nation of Islam", thank heaven for our readers, in particular John Shepherd, princi...

Znet Article Jamail: Warring on Voters

Znet Article, September, 17 2005 Dahr Jamail
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For the last several days at least 6,000 US soldiers along with approximately 4,000 Iraqi soldiers (Read-members of the Kurdish Peshmerga and Shia Badr Army) were laying siege to the city of Tal-Afar, near Mosul in northern Iraq. It is estimated t...

Znet Article Cagan: Interviewing Cagan

Znet Article, September, 17 2005 Leslie Cagan
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[Leslie Cagan is national coordinator of United for Peace and Justice, a coalition of more than 1,300 local and national groups that have "joined together to oppose our government's policy of permanent warfare and empire- building." (http://www....

Znet Article Hass: Workers of Gaza unite!

Znet Article, September, 17 2005 Amira Hass
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Another demand was added last week to the list of demands of the Independent Workers Committees in Gaza, which they have been presenting in the past few months to institutions of the Palestinian Authority and its leadership. The new demand is the ...

Znet Article Kolhatkar: Giving Democracy a Bad Name

Znet Article, September, 16 2005 Sonali Kolhatkar
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The United States has supposedly created new "democracies" in Afghanistan and Iraq, but these endeavors give democracy a bad name. Sure, the two countries have some ingredients of representative democracy (elected officials, a constitution). But b...

Znet Article Flaherty: Back Inside New Orleans

Znet Article, September, 14 2005 Jordan Flaherty
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What actually happened in New Orleans these past two weeks? We need to sort through the rumors and distortions. Perhaps we need our version of South Africa’s Truth And Reconciliation Commission. Some way to sort through the many narratives...

Znet Article Dowd: The United States Becomes Its Own Worst Enemy

Znet Article, September, 14 2005 Douglas Dowd
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Introduction. Since the 1970s the United States has become increasingly captive to consumeristic frenzy and religious zeal at home and to an arrogant and bloody militarism abroad. As we do so, has not the following description come to fit us as ...

Znet Article Ireland: Padilla

Znet Article, September, 14 2005 Doug Ireland
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When a federal district court ruled last week in favor of President Bush in the case of Jose Padilla -- the only American imprisoned as an “enemy combatant” by Presidential order -- it struck a major blow at the Constitution, uphol...

Znet Article Madra: A Modest Dream

Znet Article, September, 13 2005 Omer Madra
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The United Nations Organization was founded by the people of this world to bring peace and welfare to themselves after having been viciously attacked by Nazism and Fascism. This huge assault resulted in some 60 million people being killed, an innu...

Znet Article Street: Framing Katrina

Znet Article, September, 13 2005 Paul Street
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The Personal brilliant and prolific left sociologist C. Wright Mills once said that the core purpose of meaningful analytical work on social and political affairs was to make relevant connections between individual pain and structural inequality. ...

Znet Article Albert: Hannover Talk

Znet Article, September, 12 2005 Michael Albert
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Introduction First, I’d like to thank everyone here and especially the ...

Znet Article Mishra: Whither Globalization?

Znet Article, September, 10 2005 Girish Mishra
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Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, on the morrow of Independence Day, was interviewed by Rajat Gupta of The McKinsey Quarterly. Towards the end of the interview what Manmohan Singh, in response to the question: “What message would you like to ...

Znet Article Agee: Use of a Private U.S. Corporate Structure to Disguise a Government Program

Znet Article, September, 10 2005 Philip Agee
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  Part 2 of 3 C. Venezuela: Some Examples of the Current U.S. Intervention Against the Bolivarian Revolution In Venezuela the administration of George W. Bush is intervening in the political process with a combination of activities very similar...

Znet Article Mian: Feeding the Nuclear Fire

Znet Article, September, 09 2005 Zia Mian
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This article was first published in Economic and Political Weekly, August 27, 2005. The July 18 joint statement by US president George Bush and prime minister Manmohan Singh has attracted a great deal of comment. The focus has been the possible c...

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