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Znet Article Weisbrot: "Revolt of the Rich"

Znet Article, September, 17 2008 Mark Weisbrot
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Newsweek's Michael Miller recently interviewed CEPR Co-Director Mark Weisbrot regarding the situation in Bolivia, where violence by right-wing groups, in conjunction with opposition prefects and politicians, claimed the lives of dozens of people a...

Znet Article Dangl: The Machine Gun and The Meeting Table: Bolivian Crisis in a New South America

Znet Article, September, 16 2008 Ben Dangl
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On Monday, September 15, Bolivian President Evo Morales arrived in Santiago, Chile for an emergency meeting of Latin American leaders that convened to seek a resolution to the recent conflict in Bolivia. Upon his arrival, Morales said, "I have com...

Znet Article Chomsky: Humanitarian Imperialism

Znet Article, September, 15 2008 Noam Chomsky
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Jean Bricmont’s concept “humanitarian imperialism” succinctly captures a dilemma that has faced Western leaders and the Western intellectual community since the collapse of the Soviet Union. From the origins of the Cold War, there was a reflexive ...

Znet Article Bello: Toward a new American isolationism

Znet Article, September, 14 2008 Walden Bello
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The Bush administration's imperial and corporate misadventures over the last decade have proven that the world would be much better off without the US interference. China, as the new rising power, should be wary not to replicate the West's old pat...

Blog Post Peterson: Is There a "Bush Doctrine"?

Blog Post, September, 14 2008 David Peterson
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Whether or not designated as "Bush Doctrine" (and the term refers to the name of the President ca. early 21st Century, not to the ideas inside this individual's head),

Znet Article Edwards: When News Is Noise - Georgia, South Ossetia And The Political Pipeline

Znet Article, September, 12 2008 David Edwards
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A Los Angeles Times editorial observed last month that China had persuaded world leaders to attend the Olympic Games “despite their misgivings about Beijing's horrific human rights record both domestically and abroad”. The horror, the editors note...

Znet Article Chomsky: Ossetia-Georgia-Russia-U.S.A.

Znet Article, September, 12 2008 Noam Chomsky
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Aghast at the atrocities committed by US forces invading the Philippines, and the rhetorical flights about liberation and noble intent that routinely accompany crimes of state, Mark Twain threw up his hands at his inability to wield his formidable...

Commentary Pilger: A Murderous Theatre Of The Absurd

Commentary, September, 12 2008 John Pilger
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Try to laugh, please. The news is now officially parody and a game for all the family to play.

Znet Article Jensen: Arrogance, ignorance, and cowardice: Lessons from 9/11

Znet Article, September, 11 2008 Robert Jensen
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Given the disastrous decisions made by U.S. officials in the seven long years since September 11, 2001, it would be easy tonight simply to catalog those many mistakes and condemn the bipartisan depravity of the Republican and Democratic politician...

Znet Article Halling: Participatory Law - A Law of No Gods, No Masters

Znet Article, September, 11 2008 Matt Halling
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It is understandable that, despite the wealth of material about participatory society, no one has written at length of the legal vision suggested by this new society. Lawyers are not a sexy subject for many activists to talk about: they reside in ...

Znet Article Prashad: The Indian Left And The Indo-US Nuclear Deal

Znet Article, September, 06 2008 Vijay Prashad
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In the 2004 general election, the Indian electorate denied the intransigent right-wing power over the State. The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led National Democratic Alliance lost out to the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance, although the l...

Video Zinn: Confronting Empire 3/5

Video, September, 05 2008 Howard Zinn
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Part of the Confronting Empire: Five Years of War in Iraq Lecture Series, Harvard Law School, March 17-19, 2008.

Znet Article Boyle: The Bush Administration Is an Ongoing Criminal Conspiracy Under International Law and U.S. Domestic Law

Znet Article, September, 04 2008 Francis Boyle
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Since the impeachable installation of George W. Bush as President in January of 2001 by the U.S. Supreme Court’s Gang of Five, the peoples of the world have witnessed a government in the United States that has demonstrated little if any respect fo...

Znet Article Weisbrot: U.S.-Russian Relations: Current Tensions Reflect Past Foreign Policy Failures

Znet Article, August, 30 2008 Mark Weisbrot
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Tensions between the United States and Russia have a long history, but one only need go back to the early nineties to see how our own government threw away its chance to have a better relationship with post-Communist Russia after the collapse of t...

Commentary Kagarlitsky: US & Russia: Limits of a Superpower

Commentary, August, 30 2008 Boris Kagarlitsky
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Internationally the war is a big blow for the US, at least in Central Europe and the Caucasus. It has suddenly shown that the influence and control of the sole superpower is limited. There are situations when the superpower cannot protect its clie...

Commentary Landau: The Georgian Dogs Of August - Or Shmucks Of Our Time

Commentary, August, 28 2008 Saul Landau
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Stupid leaders interpret words to satisfy their political desires. They miss vital nuances in dangerous international relations. On August 7, Mikheil Saakashvili ordered Georgia's armed forces to invade South Ossetia, a secessionist province borde...

Commentary Kagarlitsky: Russia's Upside in the Georgia Conflict

Commentary, August, 27 2008 Boris Kagarlitsky
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Fortunately, the Russia-Georgia war was short-lived, but its repercussions will be felt for longer. By defeating Georgia and showing that Washington was unable to defend its own ally, Russia humiliated the United States in front of the whole world.

Znet Article Podur: The Para-Uribe Regime, the Extraditions, and Justice in Colombia

Znet Article, August, 21 2008 Justin Podur
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Colombia's current President Alvaro Uribe Velez’ political history is intimately tied with paramilitarism. He was mayor of the then drug-trafficker controlled Medellin in 1982, and when he became governor of Antioquia in 1995-1997, he supported th...

Commentary Monbiot: The Magic Pudding

Commentary, August, 21 2008 George Monbiot
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It's a novel way to commit suicide. Just as Russia demonstrates what happens to former minions which annoy it, Poland agrees to host a US missile defence base. The Russians, as Poland expected, respond to this proposal by kindly offering to turn t...

Znet Article Street: Big Brother McBush: “Nations Don’t Invade Other Nations in the 21st Century”

Znet Article, August, 19 2008 Paul Street
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George Orwell Bush strikes yet again. And the “liberal” media and inauthentic opposition of the Democratic Party offer no relevant corrections, as has so often been the case over the last eight years.

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