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Mehrdad: New-conservatives, regime crisis and political perspectives in Iran
Znet Article, August, 15 2005
Ardeshir Mehrdad
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In the recent presidential elections in Iran, Mahmood Ahmadinejad, an unknown conservative military commander, won. His victory was surprising as many had predicted Hashemi Rafsanjani would become Iran’s next president. Rafsanjani, perhaps...
Fisk: US Win?
Znet Article, August, 14 2005
Robert Fisk
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There’s the wreckage of a car bomb that killed seven Americans on the corner of a neighbouring street. Close by stands the shuttered shop of a phone supplier who put pictures of Saddam on a donkey on his mobiles. He was shot three days ago...
Engelhardt: Cindy, Don, and George
Znet Article, August, 14 2005
Tom Engelhardt
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Cindy, Don, and George
Bacon: Unions At War
Znet Article, August, 11 2005
David Bacon
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SAN FRANCISCO, CA - In Chicago's cavernous Navy Yard convention center, delegates were lined up at the four microphones scattered across the floor. San Francisco's Nancy Wohlforth stood at mic number 2. She'd been waiting for this moment for two y...
Hoodbhoy: Bin Laden And Hiroshima
Znet Article, August, 06 2005
Pervez Hoodbhoy
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The decision to incinerate Hiroshima and Nagasaki was not taken in anger. Whit...
Hobsbawm: Retreat of the Male
Znet Article, August, 01 2005
Eric Hobsbawm
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The family is a subject on which, for obvious reasons, there is no shortage of public or private views. Google records 368 million items under the word ‘family', as against a mere 170 million under ‘war'. All governments have tried...
Albert: Exploring Parecon
Znet Article, July, 25 2005
Michael Albert
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In a world riddled with suicide bombings, inconclusive conflicts, and terribly selfish politics, it is a relief to see there are people like Michael Albert creatively searching for salves for the ills in our economic system. With his books "Movin...
Achcar: Arab Spring: Late And Cold
Znet Article, July, 18 2005
Gilbert Achcar
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THREE recent events have marked the Middle East. The death of Yasser Arafat on 11 November 2004, followed by the election of Mahmoud Abbas as the president of the Palestinian Authority on 9 January; a big turnout in the Iraqi elections on 30 Janua...
Zirin: Edge of Sports
Znet Article, July, 17 2005
Dave Zirin
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In High School, I was a 5' 10" inch center for the fearsome Friends Seminary Quakers in New York City. It wasn't pretty, but I lived for it and didn't care if the opposing center could spit on my head. I just loved sports. My walls were shrines to...
Hass: There's A Settler In Every Israeli
Znet Article, July, 12 2005
Amira Hass
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The hunting season is at its height, and the settlers are the prey. They have become a target for criticism in the media to an extent whose like is hard to remember. They are criticized for sending their children to block roads, for hitting and cu...
Turse: An Army of (No) One
Znet Article, July, 12 2005
Nick Turse
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It's been a tough year for the U.S. military. But you wouldn't know it from the Internet, now increasingly packed with slick, non-military looking websites of every sort that are lying in wait for curious teens (or their exasperated parents) who m...
Han: Imitating the Colonizers:
Znet Article, July, 10 2005
Suk-jung Han
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Imitating the Colonizers:
Scipes: An Unholy Alliance
Znet Article, July, 10 2005
Kim Scipes
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The AFL-CIO's "Solidarity Center" (formally known as the American Center for International Labor Solidarity or ACILS) was actively involved in bringing together the leadership of the right-wing Confederation of Venezuelan Workers (CTV) and that of...
Cook: The Struggle Against Terrorism Cannot Be Won By Military Means
Znet Article, July, 08 2005
Robin Cook
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I have rarely seen the Commons so full and so silent as when it met yesterday to hear of the London bombings. A forum that often is raucous and rowdy was solemn and grave. A chamber that normally is a bear pit of partisan emotions was united in sh...
Pilger: From Iraq To The G8
Znet Article, July, 07 2005
John Pilger
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Over the past two weeks, the contrast between two related "global" events has been salutary. The first was the World Tribunal on Iraq held in Istanbul; the second the G8 meeting in Scotland and the Make Poverty History campaign. Reading the papers...
Herman: The Politics of the Srebrenica Massacre*
Znet Article, July, 07 2005
Edward Herman
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"Srebrenica" has become the symbol of evil, and specifically Serb evil. It is commonly described as "a horror without parallel in the history of Europe since the Second World War" in which there was a cold-blooded execution "of at least 8,000 Musl...
Dixon: It's Time to Build a Mass Movement
Znet Article, July, 06 2005
Bruce Dixon
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"Democracy... does not come from the government, from on high, it comes from people getting together and struggling for justice." - Howard Zinn, Spelman College commencement address, Atlanta, 2005. Politicians are elected and selected, but mass m...
Solomon: Withdrawal Would Cripple U.S. Credibility
Znet Article, July, 04 2005
Norman Solomon
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Obsession with seeming unequivocal and immovable has been frequent in the Oval Office. During the Vietnam War, such fixations were indifferent to the fact that the war was losing the U.S. government moral credibility around the world. But from the...
Street: Not in My Backyard
Znet Article, July, 02 2005
Paul Street
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The Chicago Tribune is concerned about racial justice - about racial justice in Mississippi 40 years ago. What about racial justice in the present and the Tribune's own metropolitan backyard?Well that's another story. On June 21, 2005, the Chicag...
Sadri: Exact opposite of paranoia
Znet Article, June, 30 2005
Ahmad Sadri
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As the velvet revolution of 1989 unrolled in Prague, Czech activists recalled the dark skies of the Spring of 1968. They had jubilantly arrived at 89 by turning 68 on its head. Today, Tehran feels like it has been on a runaway time machine going i...
