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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 Chomsky: War, Neoliberalism and Empire in the 21st Century

Znet Article, March, 14 2007 Noam Chomsky
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It's not very clear. What you said is correct. The law was not even seen by the Iraqi Parliament until it was finished, so it's an inside job. Exactly what this entails is still kind of open. It allows for Production Sharing Agreements (PSAs) whic...

Znet Article Johnson: Chalmers Johnson: "Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic"

Znet Article, March, 07 2007 Chalmers Johnson
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AMY GOODMAN: Today, we spend the hour with the former CIA consultant, distinguished scholar, best-selling author, Chalmers Johnson. He's just published a new book. It's called Nemesis: The Last...

Znet Article Marable: The Iraq War and America's Economic Imperialism

Znet Article, January, 13 2007 Manning Marable
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Several weeks ago, with much media fanfare, the James Baker-Lee Hamilton Committee submitted to President George W. Bush its long-awaited, bipartisan report on the U.S. war in Iraq.

Znet Article Raina: The Saddam Murder

Znet Article, December, 31 2006 Badri Raina
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Finally the democratic deed is done.  The benign imperialists have set Iraq and the world on the road to peace and justice. They may have “handed” him over to the Quisling regime, but, forestalling all potential risk, hung him wit...

Znet Article Zinn: If History is to be Creative

Znet Article, December, 09 2006 Howard Zinn
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This essay is the first chapter of Howard Zinn's new book, " A Power Governments Cannot Suppress," published by City Light...

Znet Article Gindin: To Sow the Oil, or Give it Away?

Znet Article, December, 04 2006 Jonah Gindin
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With the recent surge in oil prices, long-standing debates about Canadian and Albertan oil policy have been infused with new vigour. Is Canada getting the most out of this precious natural resource? What are we doing with our wealth? Canada and V...

Znet Article 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...

Znet Article 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 ...

Znet Article Cook: Syria is a convenient fallguy for Gemayel's death

Znet Article, November, 23 2006 Jonathan Cook
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Commentators and columnists are agreed. Pierre Gemayel’s assassination must have been the handiwork of Syria because his Christian Phalangists have been long-time allies of Israel and because, as industry minister, he was one of the leadin...

Znet Article Kolko: Iraq and Vietnam

Znet Article, November, 09 2006 Gabriel Kolko
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President Bush’s acknowledgement in late October that the comparison between the Ramadan attacks in Iraq and the Tet offensive in Vietnam “could be right” brought into focus the Iraq-Vietnam debate This debate suggests, amo...

Znet Article Kolhatkar: Enforcing insecurity in Afghanistan

Znet Article, November, 01 2006 Sonali Kolhatkar
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The following is an excerpt from “Bleeding Afghanistan: Washington, Warlords, and the Propaganda of Silence” (Seven Stories, 2006) by Sonali Kolhatkar and James Ingalls. Once touted as a success in the “War on Terror,âS...

Znet Article Raina: The Last Straw

Znet Article, November, 01 2006 Badri Raina
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When Jack Straw the other day encountered  a muslim woman, face veiled in niqab, it spelt in his mind the  last straw for white-dominated multiculturalism in Britain. Surely and soon enough the post-9/11 discourse centring on  the ostensibly unco...

Znet Article Roy: 'And His Life Should Become Extinct'

Znet Article, October, 29 2006 Arundhati Roy
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We know this much: On December 13, 2001, the Indian Parliament was in its winter session. (The NDA government was under attack for yet another corruption scandal.) At 11.30 in the morning, five armed men in a white Ambassador ...

Znet Article Gibler: Indigenous teachers defend ´a just cause´

Znet Article, October, 11 2006 John Gibler
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OAXACA CITY - Every night streets here become battlefields in waiting. But behind the commandeered city buses, burned trucks, and coils of barbed wire, a group of atypical urban rebels stands guard. Watching over a barricade where a small altar t...

Znet Article Engelhardt: George Bush's Iraq in 21 Questions

Znet Article, September, 29 2006 Tom Engelhardt
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Recently, in one of many speeches melding his Global War on Terror and his war in Iraq, George W. Bush said, "Victory in Iraq will be difficult an...

Znet Article Raina: The Beginning of the End of the Neocon Empire?

Znet Article, September, 26 2006 Badri Raina
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Mr. David C. Mulford is formally the American ambassador to India. Over the last year or two, however, he has off and on made public pronouncements suggesting that he fancies himself more a neocon Viceroy than an ambassador who is required to fun...

Znet Article Podur: Abandoning Hypocrisy

Znet Article, September, 26 2006 Justin Podur
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[Talk given at the Canadian launch of Bleeding Afghanistan September 21, 2006] Just over five years ago I visited Colombia for the first time. I walked through some farmers’ fields that had been fumigated as part of the ‘war on dr...

Znet Article Palast: Hugo Chavez

Znet Article, September, 24 2006 Greg Palast
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You'd think George Bush would get down on his knees and kiss Hugo Chavez's behind. Not only has Chavez delivered cheap oil to the Bronx and other poor communities in the United States. And not only did he offer to bring aid to the victims of Katri...

Znet Article Cook: Will Robert Fisk Tell Us The Whole Story?

Znet Article, September, 06 2006 Jonathan Cook
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Nazareth. More than a little uncomfortably, I find myself with a bone to pick with one of our finest champions of humanitarian values and opponents of war. During Israel's attack on Lebanon this summer, the distinguished British journalist Robert ...

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