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Znet Article Klein: The Threat of Hope in Latin America

Znet Article, November, 04 2005 Naomi Klein
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When Manuel Rozental got home one night last month, friends told him two strange men had been asking questions about him. In this close-knit indigenous community in southwestern Colombia ringed by soldiers, right-wing paramilitaries and left-wing ...

Znet Article Ireland: Urgent! NEW REPUBLICAN GAG RULE ON NON-PROFITS

Znet Article, October, 24 2005 Doug Ireland
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The group OMB Watch has issued an urgent appeal about a new Republican gag rule restricting the ability of non-profit organizations to do voter r...

Znet Article Pilger: The Silence of Writers

Znet Article, October, 16 2005 John Pilger
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In 1988, the English literary critic and novelist, D.J. Taylor wrote a seminal piece entitled 'When the Pen Sleeps'. He expanded this into a book 'A Vain Conceit', in which he wondered why the English novel so often denigrated into 'drawing room t...

Znet Article Pilger: Suharto to Iraq

Znet Article, October, 15 2005 John Pilger
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"The propagandist’s purpose,” wrote Aldous Huxley, “is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.” The British, who invented modern war propaganda and inspired Joseph Goebbels, wer...

Znet Article Albert: Interview with Michael Albert

Znet Article, October, 10 2005 Michael Albert
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AttacD-AWWO: Can you say something about the process, the discussion that lead to Parecon (participatory economics) and the book that is now also appearing in German translation this fall? Michael Albert: Sure. It was a long process. It started o...

Znet Article Monbiot: Protesters as Criminals

Znet Article, October, 04 2005 George Monbiot
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"We are trying to fight 21st-century crime - antisocial behaviour, drug-dealing, binge drinking, organised crime - with 19th-century methods as if we still lived in the time of Dickens". Tony Blair, 27th September 2005.(1) "Down poured the wine l...

Znet Article Podur: Two Faced in Haiti

Znet Article, October, 01 2005 Justin Podur
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Last week we talked to Desmond Molloy, an old soldier who heads the 'DDR' program for MINUSTAH, the UN Stabilization Mission in Haiti. 'DDR' stands for Disarmament, Demobilization, and Reintegration. Molloy's previous experience, among other confl...

Znet Article Engelhardt: 'No Iraqis Left Me on a Roof to Die'

Znet Article, September, 25 2005 Tom Engelhardt
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'No Iraqis Left Me on a Roof to Die'

Znet Article Achcar: An Open Letter to Juan Cole

Znet Article, September, 23 2005 Gilbert Achcar
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An Open Letter to Juan Cole

Znet Article Schwartz: Why Immediate Withdrawal Makes Sense

Znet Article, September, 22 2005 Michael Schwartz
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That we are in a military quagmire in Iraq has become a fact of life among Americans of all political persuasions. Though Administration officials still sometimes speak of troop reductions in early 2006, and some top military men clearly no longer...

Znet Article Wainwright: Lula's Lament

Znet Article, September, 21 2005 Hilary Wainwright
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'When there is such an overwhelming disaster and you see yourself as part of this disaster, you begin to question your whole life. Why so many years of sacrifice and struggle?' Congressman Fernando Gabeira expresses the feelings of many petistas -...

Znet Article Davis: The Struggle Over The Future Of New Orleans

Znet Article, September, 21 2005 Mike Davis
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THE CATASTROPHE on the Gulf Coast was the most widely anticipated “natural disaster” in U.S. history. Yet the response of the U.S. government was universally condemned as a failure. What happened? HURRICANE KATRINA occurred on the ...

Znet Article Chavez: Chavez at the UN

Znet Article, September, 18 2005 Hugo Chavez
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Your Excellency and Friends The original intention of this meeting has been totally weakened. We have been prevailed upon, as center of our debate, to consider some badly named "reforms". These reforms relegate as unimportant all that the world'...

Znet Article Cagan: Interviewing Cagan

Znet Article, September, 17 2005 Leslie Cagan
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[Leslie Cagan is national coordinator of United for Peace and Justice, a coalition of more than 1,300 local and national groups that have "joined together to oppose our government's policy of permanent warfare and empire- building." (http://www....

Znet Article Ireland: Padilla

Znet Article, September, 14 2005 Doug Ireland
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When a federal district court ruled last week in favor of President Bush in the case of Jose Padilla -- the only American imprisoned as an “enemy combatant” by Presidential order -- it struck a major blow at the Constitution, uphol...

Znet Article Wainwright: The Remaking of the Left in Europe

Znet Article, September, 10 2005 Hilary Wainwright
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Fifteen years after the collapse of the Soviet bloc, few would expect western Europe's once-powerful communist parties and their various successor organisations to have anything more than the weakest of pulses. But increasingly there are surprisin...

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...

Znet Article Pilger: The Rise Of The Democratic Police State

Znet Article, August, 18 2005 John Pilger
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Thomas Friedman is a famous columnist on the New York Times. He has been described as "a guard dog of US foreign policy". Whatever America's warlords have in mind for the rest of humanity, Friedman will bark it. He boasts that "the hidden hand of ...

Znet Article Holloway: Can We Change The World Without Taking Power?

Znet Article, August, 16 2005 John Holloway
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John Holloway: I don’t know the answer. Perhaps we can change the world without taking power. Perhaps we cannot. The starting point—for all of us, I think—is uncertainty, not knowing, a common search for a way forward. Bec...

Znet Article Engelhardt: Cindy, Don, and George

Znet Article, August, 14 2005 Tom Engelhardt
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Cindy, Don, and George

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