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Cook: Divide and rule, Israeli-style
Znet Article, June, 27 2007
Jonathan Cook
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The boycott by Israel and the international community of the Palestinian Authority finally blew up in their faces with Hamas' recent bloody takeover of Gaza. Or so argues Gideon Levy, one of the saner voices still to be found in Israel. "Starving,...
Abu-jamal: CHOMSKY: COLUMNIST WITHOUT A PLACE
Znet Article, June, 08 2007
Mumia Abu-jamal
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CHOMSKY: COLUMNIST WITHOUT A PLACE
Raina: The Turnaround in Uttar Pradesh
Znet Article, June, 06 2007
Badri Raina
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Epigraph By the pricking of my thumbs,Something pregnant this way comes. (with apologies to the bard for the plagiarism). Why does the feeling persist, certainly with this hack, that notwithstanding some astute and trustworthy analyses of the e...
Fox: Venezuela's Co-op Boom
Znet Article, June, 01 2007
Michael Fox
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To end poverty, put poor people in charge of their livelihood. A co-op boom turns the jobless into worker/owners. When Estrella Ramirez's 14-year-old son signed her up to participate in the government's free literacy program, Mission Robinson, sh...
Deshpande: West Bengal
Znet Article, June, 01 2007
Sudhanva Deshpande
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Isn't our life a tunnelbetween two clarities? Pablo Neruda, Libros de las preguntas, 1974. In August 2006, Mamata Banerjee traveled to Singur, home to around 20,000 people in the state of West Bengal. Banerjee, who was once an activis...
Raina: Mullah Modi
Znet Article, May, 14 2007
Badri Raina
Raina's ZSpace page
If the just concluded elections in Uttar Pradesh have been phenomenally significant on account of the acknowledgement of Dalit leadership in a state that has traditionally been the high-seat of Brahminism in North India, a collateral consequence h...
Bennis: The Bush Veto, Iraq Funding and Permanent Occupation
Znet Article, May, 01 2007
Phyllis Bennis
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The anticipated veto of the Iraq war funding bill demonstrates the extent of White House extremism. Bush is not rejecting a "bring all the troops home and end the war" bill but rather rejecting a compromise bill that would provide $100 billion to ...
Chomsky: In Rare Joint Interview, Noam Chomsky and Howard Zinn on Iraq, Vietnam, Activism and History
Znet Article, April, 17 2007
Noam Chomsky
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Today an hour with Howard Zinn and Noam Chomsky in a rare interview with them together, and I welcome you both to Democracy Now!
Raina: Nandigram and the Left
Znet Article, April, 11 2007
Badri Raina
Raina's ZSpace page
However much the CPI(M), including the rather overly ebullient chief minister of West Bengal, may regret the police firing at Nandigram on March 14, the last word does not seem to get said on the issue. Things have now come to a pass when as we...
Zibechi: Let's All Stand With Cite Soleil
Znet Article, March, 14 2007
Raúl Zibechi
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In less than two years the troops of MINUSTAH (Mission of the Nations United for the Stabilization of Haiti) perpetrated three massacres in Cite Soleil, an outlying slum of Port au Prince. According to numerous testimonies, barely mentioned by the...
Barker: Conform or Reform?
Znet Article, February, 07 2007
Michael Barker
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Abstract: The mass media is an important outlet for social movements, where the quality and nature of media coverage strongly influences how they are perceived in the public eye. This paper examines the complex interface existing between the mass ...
Albert: Remembering Tomorrow Interview
Znet Article, February, 02 2007
Michael Albert
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(1) Can you tell ZNet, please, what your new book, Remembering Tomorrow, is about? What is it trying to communicate? Remembering Tomorrow is not organized in a linear historical flow, as are most memoirs. Instead, Remembering Tomorrow's main sec...
Ireland: Sarah Olson, The Pentagon, And The First Amendment
Znet Article, January, 27 2007
Doug Ireland
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Sarah Olson, The Pentagon, And The First Amendment
Emersberger: Canada's Haitian Political Prisoner
Znet Article, December, 27 2006
Joe Emersberger
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Jean Candio has been imprisoned in Windsor, Ontario since December 13, 2006. He left Haiti in March, 2004, following the Coup d'etat which culminated in the kidnapping of democratically elected Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide. He left a...
Winter: Canada's Media Wannabe Americans
Znet Article, December, 08 2006
James Winter
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We Canadians like to think of ourselves as more than friendly neighbours, as global citizens with a penchant for peacekeeping. Since former prime minister Lester Pearson won a Nobel Peace prize in 1957, we have opposed U.S. international aggressio...
Shalom: Perilous Power: The Middle East and U.S. Foreign Policy Dialogues on Terror, Democracy, War, and Justice By Noam Chomsky and Gilbert Achcar. Edited by Stephen R. Shalom. Boulder, CO; Paradigm Publishers, 2006.
Znet Article, November, 30 2006
Stephen1 Shalom
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(1) Can you tell ZNet, please, what your new book, Perilous Power, is about? What is it trying to communicate? Perilous Power is a dialogue about U.S. policy in the Middle East between two of the most astute analysts of this part of the world: Noa...
Fox: Venezuela's Secret Grassroots Democracy
Znet Article, November, 30 2006
Michael Fox
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With all international eyes on the December 3rd Venezuelan presidential elections, a totally new and revolutionary experience of Venezuelan grassroots democracy has completely slipped below international radar. An experience that has already...
Raina: Irom Sharmila
Znet Article, November, 25 2006
Badri Raina
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I have before me a national English Daily which is much given to spreading the word about the beauties of “reform†and modern “development†in India. Never a day passes when it does not remind us and the world how ...
Colman: Teachers and APPO in Oaxaca and Mexico
Znet Article, November, 09 2006
George Colman
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In the summer and fall of 2006, 70,000 public school teachers and approximately 350 organizations united in a new Asemblea Popular Pueblo Oaxaca (APPO) occupied the center of the city, took over local radio and television stations, blocked t...
Monbiot: Asserting Our Right to Kill and Maim Civilians
Znet Article, November, 08 2006
George Monbiot
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The central mystery of the modern state is this. The necessary resources, both economic and political, will always be found for the purpose of terminating life. The project of preserving it will always struggle. When did you last see a soldier sha...


