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Znet Article Agee: How United States Intervention Against Venezuela Works

Znet Article, September, 09 2005 Philip Agee
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Summary, CIA Electoral Interventions, and Nicaragua as a Model for Venezuela Summary It is no secret that the government of the United States is carrying out a program of operations in favor of the Venezuelan political opposition to remove Pres...

Znet Article Ngugi: New Orleans and the Third World

Znet Article, September, 08 2005 Mukoma wa Ngugi
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Introduction The devastation of New Orleans by Hurricane Katrina is being compared to disasters in the “Third World” but with no specific countries or disasters named. And if not compared to this black hole or repository of disa...

Znet Article Abed: Disengagement Invigorates Israeli Apartheid

Znet Article, September, 08 2005 Mohammad Abed
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The territory of historical Palestine is home to two ethnic groups, Israelis and Palestinians. Today, this entire territory is under the full political and military control of Israel, a state that defines itself as serving the interests of only on...

Znet Article Gordon: Where is the Government?

Znet Article, September, 08 2005 Gretchen Gordon
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I'm sitting in a gas line a block and a half away from a Texaco station in Mobile, Alabama four days after hurricane Katrina swept through this region. It's about 85 degrees at 4 o'clock in the afternoon as I sit in my father's pickup. The engine ...

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

Znet Article, September, 08 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 a...

Znet Article Leopold: More People Die than Prosper Under President Bush's Leadership

Znet Article, September, 07 2005 Jason Leopold
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Another few thousand bit the dust. Chalk another one up for the Bush administration. That'll be President Bush's long lasting legacy when we look back on the first few years of the 21st Century. Thousands of people killed on U.S. soil because the...

Znet Article Solomon: Firing Michael Brown Is Not Enough

Znet Article, September, 06 2005 Norman Solomon
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Calls for firing Michael Brown are understandable. Aptly described as "the blithering idiot in charge of FEMA" by columnist Maureen Dowd a few days ago, he's an easy and appropriate target. President Bush met with Brown last Friday and publicly t...

Znet Article Bradshaw: Real Heroes and Sheroes of New Orleans

Znet Article, September, 06 2005 Larry Bradshaw
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 TWO DAYS after Hurricane Katrina struck New Orleans, the Walgreens store at the corner of Royal and Iberville Streets in the city’s historic French Quarter remained locked. The dairy display case was clearly visible through the widows. It...

Znet Article Solo: Katrina

Znet Article, September, 06 2005 Toni Solo
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Failure to prioritize anyone's needs but their own is to be expected of the mendacious, cunning Bush regime. But the wretchedness and misery endured by people in the southern US States abandoned to their fate after hurricane Katrina has broader as...

Znet Article Nettnin: Who Supports Palestinians in the U.S.?

Znet Article, September, 05 2005 Sonia Nettnin
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 While the Israeli-Palestinian conflict continues most people think the most ardent advocates of Palestinians’ right to self-determination are Arabs and Muslims worldwide. In the United States, the Arab-American and Muslim communities h...

Znet Article Flaherty: Don't Let New Orleans Die

Znet Article, September, 05 2005 Jordan Flaherty
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August 27 - September 3, 2005 Its been a day since I evacuated from New Orleans, my home, the city I love. Today I saw Governor Blanco proudly speak of troops coming in with orders to shoot to kill. Is she trying to help New Orleans, or has she d...

Znet Article Podur: Refugees and Citizens

Znet Article, September, 05 2005 Justin Podur
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Jesse Jackson and Bruce Gordon are just two of many high-profile Black leaders who have expressed indignation at the description of those displaced by Hurricane Katrina as ‘refugees’. ‘It is just wrong’, Jackson sai...

Znet Article Chomsky: The Afghanistan Food Crisis

Znet Article, September, 04 2005 Noam Chomsky
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The following was a ZNet Sustaiiner Forum Post replying to a question about the aftermath of bombing Afghanistan. It also appeared in the ZNet Blog, where a subset of Chomsky's forum posts are placed. For all the forum posts, become...

Znet Article Lobe: Iraq War Splurge Hits Home at 230 kph

Znet Article, September, 03 2005 Jim Lobe
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WASHINGTON, Sep 1 (IPS) - With state, local, and federal officials still grappling with the extent of the devastation and human suffering inflicted by Hurricane Katrina on New Orleans and points east, suggestions that the already plunging politica...

Znet Article Albert: Business As Usual

Znet Article, September, 03 2005 Michael Albert
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The growing outrage over the willful ignoring of warnings and overt cutting of local expenditures that paved the way for New Orleans’ disaster is of course valid. The growing outrage over the unavailability of resources spent on immoral ...

Znet Article Whitney: Rumsfeld's National Guard

Znet Article, September, 02 2005 Mike Whitney
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"Free people are free to make mistakes and commit crimes and do bad things. For suddenly the biggest problem in the world to be looting is really notable." Sec-Def Donald Rumsfeld 4-11-03; comments on the looting of Baghdad The changes that are ...

Znet Article Dominick: The Wholesale Looting of the Gulf Coast

Znet Article, September, 02 2005 Brian Dominick
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If you are more interested in and disgusted by rumors of civilian "troublemakers" on the streets of New Orleans and other Gulf Coastal communities than in the massive failings of the United States government before, during and since this tragedy b...

Znet Article Wise: Of Disasters, Natural and Otherwise

Znet Article, September, 02 2005 Tim Wise
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Of Disasters, Natural and Otherwise

Znet Article Swanson: Yuppies and the Peace Movement

Znet Article, September, 01 2005 David Swanson
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PART 1 The single biggest reason that the peace movement is not larger and more aggressive is that people with one foot in it are focused on trying to be respectable in the eyes of the corporate media, for their own sake and – in their mi...

Znet Article Solomon: The National Guard Belongs in New Orleans and Biloxi. Not Baghdad

Znet Article, August, 31 2005 Norman Solomon
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 The men and women of the National Guard shouldn’t be killing in Iraq.They should be helping in New Orleans and Biloxi.  The catastrophic hurricane was an act of God. But the U.S. war effort in Iraq is a continuing act of the president. A...

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