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Znet Article Cohn: Supreme Court Checks and Balances in Boumediene

Znet Article, June, 16 2008 Marjorie Cohn
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After the Supreme Court handed down its long-awaited opinion, upholding habeas corpus rights for the Guantánamo detainees, I was invited to appear on The O'Reilly Factor with guest host Laura Ingraham...

Znet Article Mokhiber: Bugliosi Wants Bush Charged with Murder

Znet Article, May, 26 2008 Russell Mokhiber
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Former California prosecutor Vincent Bugliosi wants President Bush charged with murder.

Znet Article Finkelstein: Power, Politics & Scholarship

Znet Article, April, 22 2008 Norman Finkelstein
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Interview on the Israel lobby, American Zionism, the Arab-Israeli conflict, Venezuelan politics, teaching, Palestine solidarity, and much more.

Znet Article Zirin: Crackdown: China's Brutal Olympic Echo

Znet Article, March, 24 2008 Dave Zirin
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Even after decades of occupation, the ruthlessness of the crackdown has shocked much of the world...

Znet Article Roy: Taslima Nasrin & "Free Speech"

Znet Article, February, 25 2008 Arundhati Roy
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I would like to caution us all against looking at this issue, in particular the issue of Taslima Nasrin, through the single lens of a battle between religious fundamentalism and secular liberalism. Taslima Nasrin herself sometimes contributes to t...

Znet Article Trigona: Human Rights in Argentina: A Year Without Julio Lopez

Znet Article, September, 20 2007 Marie Trigona
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Human Rights groups in Argentina rallied September 18 to mark the one year disappearance of a key witness who helped convict a forme...

Znet Article Cook: A Year After Israel's Second Lebanon War

Znet Article, August, 16 2007 Jonathan Cook
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This week marks a year since the end of hostilities now officially called the Second Lebanon war by Israelis. A month of fighting -- mostly Israeli aerial bombardment of Lebanon, and rocket attacks from the Shia militia Hizbullah on northern Israe...

Znet Article Cohn: Coming Up Short on Habeas for Detainees

Znet Article, April, 05 2007 Marjorie Cohn
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The Bush administration has stopped the Supreme Court from giving the Guantánamo detainees their day in court - at least for now.In Boumediene v. Bush and Al Odah v. United States, forty-five men challenged the constitutionality of the habeas cor...

Znet Article Goodman: American Kangaroo Court Claims Its First Victim

Znet Article, March, 29 2007 Amy Goodman
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It is appropriate that a person from Australia, home of the kangaroo, should be the first one dragged before the kangaroo court at the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo Bay. David Hicks, imprisoned there for more than five years, pleaded guilty Monday...

Znet Article 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...

Znet Article Cook: Palestinians are being denied the right to non-violent resistance

Znet Article, November, 30 2006 Jonathan Cook
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If one thing offers a terrifying glimpse of where the experiment in human despair that is Gaza under Israeli siege is leading, it is the news that a Palestinian woman in her sixties -- a grandmother -- chose last week to strap on a suicide belt an...

Znet Article Pappe: Genocide In Gaza

Znet Article, September, 04 2006 Ilan Pappe
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A genocide is taking place in Gaza. This morning, 2 September, another three citizens of Gaza were killed and a whole family wounded in Beit Hanoun. This is the morning reap, before the end of day many more will be massacred. An average of eight P...

Znet Article Brecher: "Unite for Peace" in Lebanon?

Znet Article, July, 26 2006 Jeremy Brecher
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Israel, the U.S., and the yet-again submissive Britain are now totally isolated in their collusive attack on Lebanon.

Znet Article Ali: Islam and the Left

Znet Article, April, 02 2006 Tariq Ali
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The following interview with Tariq Ali was conducted by Alex De Jong and Paul Mepschen of the SAP (Dutch section of the Fourth International) at the Ernest Mandel symposium held in Brussels in November 2005. It was published in the March-April 200...

Znet Article Cook: Britain's Duplicity and the Siege of Jericho Jail

Znet Article, March, 20 2006 Jonathan Cook
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In the looking-glass world of Middle East politics, it is easy to forget that Ahmad Saadat, the imprisoned Palestinian leader Israel summarily arrested in Jericho late on Tuesday, is wanted for masterminding the killing of the Jewish state's most ...

Znet Article Marshall: 30,000 Iraqis, More or Less

Znet Article, December, 16 2005 Lucinda Marshall

12/15/05 "ICH" -- -- George's face was eerily matter-of-fact as he said it. "30,000 Iraqis more or less" have been killed so far in the 'War on Terror'. No remorse or sadness, he seemed wholly unaffected in any way by the enormity of such a loss o...

Znet Article Zirin: Sneering at Redemption

Znet Article, December, 14 2005 Dave Zirin
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In the end, we can only assume the decision wasn't so "agonizing" after all. Last night Stan Tookie Williams was legally lynched by the state of California, at the behest of Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger who denied Williams' appeal for clemency. ...

Znet Article Podur: The Polls of Bel Air

Znet Article, September, 23 2005 Justin Podur
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The post-coup Haitian presidential election, currently planned for November 20, has a list of 54 candidates. The Canadian Prime Minister's 'special advisor on Haiti', Denis Coderre, suggested yesterday that this sprawling list of candidates was a ...

Znet Article Podur: From the Embassy to the Prison

Znet Article, September, 21 2005 Justin Podur
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From the Embassy to the Prison

Znet Article Wise: A God With Whom I am Not Familiar

Znet Article, September, 06 2005 Tim Wise
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This is an open letter to the man sitting behind me at La Paz today, in Nashville, at lunchtime, with the Brooks Brothers shirt: You don't know me. But I know you. I watched you as you held hands with your tablemates at the restaurant where we b...

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