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Ali: WSF in Pakistan
Znet Article, April, 01 2006
Tariq Ali
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While we were opening the World Social Forum in Karachi last weekend with virtuoso performances of sufi music and speeches, the country's rulers were marking the centenary of the Muslim League [the party that created Pakistan and has ever since be...
Emersberger: Haiti and Human Rights Watch
Znet Article, March, 29 2006
Joe Emersberger
Emersberger's ZSpace page
In a world dominated by the wealthy the temptation will always exist for NGOs to acquire funds, and respectability, by saying at least some of what the powerful want to hear. It's an understandable temptation. Nobody should seek out oblivion - es...
Cromwell: The Curiosities of Utopian Thinking
Znet Article, March, 28 2006
David Cromwell
Cromwell's ZSpace page
Sean O'Grady wrote recently in the ad-filled motoring supplement of The Independent: "in answer to the many letters we get criticising some of our coverage, we don't make cars. We just write about them. [...] We try to concentrate on telling our r...
Trigona: Recuperated Enterprises in Argentina
Znet Article, March, 27 2006
Marie Trigona
Trigona's ZSpace page
Argentina’s worker-run factories are setting an example for workers around the world that employees can run a business even better without a boss or owner. Some 180 recuperated enterprises up and running, providing jobs for more than 10,00...
Edwards: The Media And The Death Of Slobodan Milosevic
Znet Article, March, 20 2006
David Edwards
Edwards's ZSpace page
"If we don't know history, then we are ready meat for carnivorous politicians and the intellectuals and journalists who supply the carving knives. But if we know some history, if we know how many times presidents have lied to us, we will not be fo...
Arnove: The Logic of Withdrawal
Znet Article, March, 20 2006
Anthony Arnove
Arnove's ZSpace page
We find ourselves in a remarkable situation today. Despite a massive propaganda campaign in support of the occupation of Iraq, a clear majority of people in the United States now believes the invasion was not worth the consequences and should neve...
Dangl: Latin America's Leftist Shift
Znet Article, March, 20 2006
Ben Dangl
Dangl's ZSpace page
Within the last six years in Latin America numerous social movements have gained momentum in the fight for human rights, better living and working conditions and an end to corporate exploitation and military violence. Recently, left of center ...
Bello: Military Radicalism in Venezuela: How Relevant for Other Developing Countries?
Znet Article, March, 15 2006
Walden Bello
Bello's ZSpace page
“An Army of the People†That something interesting and unusual is taking place in Venezuela first really struck me when, in response to a sarcastic comment about an anti-war meeting of the 2006 World Social Forum taking place in a...
Gibler: Maquila Violence in Mexico
Znet Article, March, 14 2006
John Gibler
Gibler's ZSpace page
On February 14, the day sub-comandante Marcos arrived in the city of Puebla as part of his six-month journey across the country to listen to the voices of the underdogs of the Mexican left, the national newspaper La Jornada carried on its front pa...
Lindsay: Bordering On Apartheid
Znet Article, March, 08 2006
Hillary Lindsay
Lindsay's ZSpace page
Abdelkader Belaouni is telling me about his day. "Every day I wake at seven," he begins. "Ten after seven at the latest. I make my bed, listen to the news. Around seven twenty or seven thirty I head down to the kitchen." He methodically lists his...
Lendman: Closing Haiti's Open Veins
Znet Article, March, 04 2006
Stephen Lendman
Lendman's ZSpace page
On February 7, 2006 (and with due homage to the great Uruguayan writer Eduardo Galeano) the people of Haiti were not to be denied. Few people anywhere have endured more oppression and human misery or for a longer period of time (with all too few p...
Gibler: Notes from the Other Oaxaca
Znet Article, February, 28 2006
John Gibler
Gibler's ZSpace page
Walking across the central plaza in Oaxaca City time slows down. Stepping into the expanse of cobblestone walkways that weave through trees and flower beds, surrounded by old colonial government buildings and sidewalk cafes, one feels one's hurry ...
Engler: No Activism?
Znet Article, February, 27 2006
Yves Engler
Engler's ZSpace page
Sometimes, activism can seem like a lot of sound and fury signifying nothing. Every activist has heard people say: “Nothing ever changes. Things are the way they are and that’s how it is and always will be. All your complaining an...
Podur: Stop the Deadly Rumours
Znet Article, February, 21 2006
Justin Podur
Podur's ZSpace page
In the 1960s and 1970s, the US political police, mainly in the form of the FBI, infiltrated, spied upon, and violently attacked various social movement organizations. This effort, documented in Ward Churchill and Jim Vander Wall’s book, â&...
Gibler: Who's Not Listening
Znet Article, February, 13 2006
John Gibler
Gibler's ZSpace page
The Los Angeles Times article “Masked Marxist, With Marimbas†(January 23, 2006) describes the Zapatistas’ Other Campaign like a bizarre provincial circus. By excluding information, using delegitimizing descriptive terms, a...
Gibler: Who's Not Listening
Znet Article, February, 13 2006
John Gibler
Gibler's ZSpace page
The Los Angeles Times article “Masked Marxist, With Marimbas†(January 23, 2006) describes the Zapatistas’ Other Campaign like a bizarre provincial circus. By excluding information, using delegitimizing descriptive terms, a...
Gibler: The Politics of Listening
Znet Article, February, 05 2006
John Gibler
Gibler's ZSpace page
In the city of Campeche, under the slow-turning ceiling fans of a converted carport behind a pastry shop, 66-year old Emiliano Centurron picked up a microphone for the first time. He stood between a crowd of 200 people packed under the shade, fann...
Fisk: Deja Vu
Znet Article, February, 01 2006
Robert Fisk
Fisk's ZSpace page
If ariel Sharon had not been in a deep coma, he would have jumped out of his bed for joy. The Hamas victory fulfils his most ardent hopes. For a whole year now, he did everything possible to undermine Mahmoud Abbas. His logic was quite obvious: ...
Fisk: The problem with democracy
Znet Article, February, 01 2006
Robert Fisk
Fisk's ZSpace page
Saturday 28 January 2006 And now, horror of horrors, the Palestinians have elected the wrong party to power. Oh no, not more democracy again! Didn't we award this to those Algerians on 1990? And didn't they reward us with that nice gift of an Is...
Solomon: Domestic Lying
Znet Article, January, 29 2006
Norman Solomon
Solomon's ZSpace page
With great fanfare, Oprah Winfrey asked James Frey a question that mainstream journalists refuse to ask George W. Bush: "Why would you lie?" Many pundits and news outlets chortled at the unmasking of Frey as a liar. The reverberations spanned fro...
