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Baroud: Managed Democracy
Znet Article, June, 30 2005
Ramzy Baroud
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US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice’s highly publicized tour in the Middle East, Asia and Europe carried with it little or no surprises. But even then, one must not altogether write off the possibility of some lessons to be learned, eve...
Baroud: EU States Also Need To Deal with Israel
Znet Article, June, 27 2005
Ramzy Baroud
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Hamas' electoral success since the first round of local elections in Gaza in December has signaled a dramatic shift in the way the movement is perceived both nationally and internationally. The defining moment was not Hamas' direct participation ...
Hélie: The U.S. Occupation and Rising Religious Extremism
Znet Article, June, 24 2005
Anissa Hélie
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On February 8, 2005, the international feminist and anti-militarist network Women in Black (WIB) launched an urgent appeal for the immediate liberation of Giuliana Sgrena, an Italian journalist and WIB activist, who had been kidnapped in Iraq by a...
Nettnin: Iraqi Union Leaders Speak About Occupation
Znet Article, June, 21 2005
Sonia Nettnin
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(Chicago) – Falah Awan and Amjad Ali Aljawhry spoke about the effects of military occupation on Iraqi society and the country’s labor union movement. Awan is president of the Federation of Workers Councils and Unions of Iraq (FWCU...
Wearing: Iraq's future: the present course and the alternatives
Znet Article, June, 14 2005
Dave Wearing
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"There are some who feel like that if they attack us that we may decide to leave prematurely. They don't understand what they're talking about, if that's the case. My answer is, bring them on. We've got the force necessary to deal with the secu...
Bix: Emperor, Shinto, Democracy:
Znet Article, June, 14 2005
Herbert Bix
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Japanese archaeologists and historians have long rejected the government's claim that Japan has had 124 emperors from the mythical Jimmu, descendant of the Sun Goddess, to the controversial Showa Emperor Hirohito, whose pre-World War II reign brou...
Robinson: The Battle for Global Civil Society
Znet Article, June, 13 2005
William i. Robinson
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Over the past two decades US foreign policy has radically changed. While the interests and objectives have remained more or less the same despite the fall of Communism, the mechanisms for obtaining them have continued to evolve. Beginning in the e...
Mian: Lingering Shadows
Znet Article, June, 11 2005
Zia Mian
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Recent weeks have seen many events commemorating the 60th anniversary of the defeat of Nazi Germany in the second world war. There has been little or no discussion of some of the most important and enduring legacies of that war that have cast a lo...
Baheer: Killing Yet Another Hope
Znet Article, June, 09 2005
Baheer
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I had a chat with an American friend recently and he claimed .. “ It seems that the Afghans are not happy with anything given to them and continue to hope and fight for something else.†I thought I had to explain a few things looki...
Klein: Torture's Part of the Territory
Znet Article, June, 08 2005
Naomi Klein
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Brace yourself for a flood of gruesome new torture snapshots. Last week, a federal judge ordered the Defense Department to release dozens of additional photographs and videotapes depicting prisoner abuse at Abu Ghraib. The photographs will elicit...
Grodzinsky: In the Shadow of the Holocaust
Znet Article, June, 07 2005
Yosef Grodzinsky
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Spannos: Maybe you could begin by summarizing the reasoning underlying the belief that Zionism and its product -- the state of Israel -- is the ultimate manifestation of Jewish identity? Where does this reasoning come from? Grodzinsky: Zionist d...
Engler: Haiti and Media
Znet Article, June, 05 2005
Yves Engler
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Extra, extra, read all about it ... but only in ZNet. Here are just a few of the recent non- or under-reported stories involving Canada and Haiti. Did you read in your local paper that in mid-May, 250 people braved a rainy Sunday morning in downt...
Boxall: South Africa and Palestine
Znet Article, May, 30 2005
Lawrence Boxall
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Lawrence Boxall is an anti-war activist and socialist; a member of Jews for a Just Peace, Stopwar.ca and the International Socialists, as well as being a veteran of the anti-Apartheid struggle in South Africa. Before moving to Vancouver in time to...
Whitney: The EU Constitution; savaging national sovereignty
Znet Article, May, 30 2005
Mike Whitney
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The EU constitution is a Trojan horse slapped together by corporate and banking elites with the clear purpose of undermining national sovereignty and accelerating globalization. Thank God the French had the common sense to read the document and vo...
Wagner: Knocking over Dominos in Latin America
Znet Article, May, 29 2005
Sarah Wagner
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On Monday, May 16th tens of thousands of Bolivian Indigenous descended from the shantytowns surrounding La Paz, the capital, demanding that the government of Carlos Mesa increase royalties on foreign transnational corporations from 18% to 50%. By ...
Palast: British Memo Indicates Bush Administration Fixed Intelligence to Justify Iraq Invasion
Znet Article, May, 24 2005
Greg Palast
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Just before Britain's parliamentary elections, the Sunday Times of London published a leaked British government memo that laid out the Bush administration plan for an invasion of Iraq to remove Saddam Hussein from power, justified on intelligence ...
Shalom: The Anti-War Movement and Iraq
Znet Article, May, 24 2005
Stephen1 Shalom
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Chomsky: State and Corp.
Znet Article, May, 18 2005
Noam Chomsky
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Q: We want to talk about the two dominant power structures of the modern era: the national state and the transnational corporations. The first question is, could you please talk about the rise of this concept of the national state: Why was it crea...
Tanaka: Firebombing and Atom Bombing
Znet Article, May, 16 2005
Yuki Tanaka
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The firebombing of Tokyo, or for that matter the bombing of any city, whether it be Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Dresden or London, cannot be fully comprehended unless it is examined in the context of the history of indiscriminate bombing throughout the t...
Palast: Ecuadors' Debt
Znet Article, May, 16 2005
Greg Palast
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George Bush has someone new to hate. Only twenty-four hours after Ecuador's new president took his oath of office, he was hit by a diplomatic cruise missile fired all the way from Lithuania by Condoleezza Rice, then wandering about Eastern Europe ...
