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Bricmont: Humanitarian Imperialism
Znet Article, January, 11 2006
Jean Bricmont
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In his new book, Humanitarian Imperialism, Jean Bricmont denounces the use of the human rights pretext to justify attacks against countries in the South. He is a pacifist and a committed intellectual. How is it that a professor of theoretical phy...
Hayden: Pacifying Iraq: Insurgent Scenarios
Znet Article, January, 11 2006
Tom Hayden
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AMMAN, JORDAN--Iraq's armed national resistance is willing to support an honorable American troop withdrawal and recognize "the interests of the US as a superpower," according to a Baghdad source with intimate knowledge of the insurgents. He was i...
Mondragon: Freedom for Mother Earth!
Znet Article, January, 09 2006
Hector Mondragon
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If there had been justice and reparation for the victims of hundreds of massacres committed in the last twenty years in the Colombian countryside, as well as those committed between 1946 and 1958 and in previous waves of violence, the principal m...
Chomsky: A Tale of Two Quagmires
Znet Article, January, 04 2006
Noam Chomsky
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Hastings: Where do you see Iraq heading right now? Chomsky: Well, it's extremely difficult to talk about this because of a very rigid doctrine that prevails in the United States and Britain which prevents us from looking at the situation realisti...
Lendman: Venezuela's Bolivarian Movement
Znet Article, January, 04 2006
Stephen Lendman
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Venezuela today, under its democratically elected President, Hugo Chavez Frias, is imbued with the spirit of Bolivarianism and his Bolivarian Revolution. It's based on the vision of Simon Bolivar, the Caracas born 17th and 18th century general who...
Early: Is The Strike Dead? Not According to Bob Schwartz
Znet Article, January, 03 2006
Steve Early
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Three years ago in Boston, downtown streets and office buildings were the scene of inspiring immigrant worker activism during an unprecedented strike by local janitors. Their walk-out was backed by other union members, community activists, student...
Finkelstein: Israel & Palestine
Znet Article, January, 01 2006
Norman Finkelstein
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Israel laid siege to the Northern Gaza strip overnight, attacking roads and fields, shortly after Israeli occupation forces announced that they were implementing the so-called buffer zone after a home-made Qassam rocket was allegedly fired across ...
Chomsky: On War and Activism
Znet Article, December, 27 2005
Noam Chomsky
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First of all, happy birthday. Thank you. December 7th is also the anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor. It's also the anniversary of the Indonesian invasion of East Timor, authorized by Henry Kissinger, which probably wiped out a third of ...
Brecher: Fixing the Torture Fix
Znet Article, December, 24 2005
Jeremy Brecher
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Congress passed just before Christmas legislation allowing evidence obtained by torture to be used against Guantánamo captives and denying them the right to habeas corpus--the right to make the government justify their captivity before a court. C...
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. ...
Podur: Aristide the Film
Znet Article, December, 13 2005
Justin Podur
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Review: Aristide and the Endless Revolution. 2005. Baraka Productions. 83 min. Movie site: www.aristidethefilm.com Available from www.firstrunfeatures.com Each fact is disputed. Haiti’s President, Jean Bertrand Aristide, was overthrown ...
Street: Letter to the Friends of a Fallen Soldier
Znet Article, December, 11 2005
Paul Street
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Does it dishonor the memory of a fallen U.S. soldier to argue that he or she was unjustly sacrificed in George W. Bush's criminal war on Iraq? That is the accusation I have been receiving from one such soldier's friends in the wake of an article...
Monbiot: Worse Than Fossil Fuel
Znet Article, December, 07 2005
George Monbiot
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Over the past two years I have made an uncomfortable discovery. Like most environmentalists, I have been as blind to the constraints affecting our energy supply as my opponents have been to climate change. I now realise that I have entertained a b...
Solomon: Hidden in Plane Sight: U.S. Media Dodging Air War in Iraq
Znet Article, December, 07 2005
Norman Solomon
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The U.S. government is waging an air war in Iraq. “In recent months, the tempo of American bombing seems to have increased,†Seymour Hersh reported in the Dec. 5 edition of The New Yorker. “Most of the targets appear to be ...
Podur: Detestable Murderers and Scumbags
Znet Article, December, 05 2005
Justin Podur
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ON JULY 11, 2005, WITH great nuance and tact, Canada’s Chief of Defence Staff General Hillier described the forces arrayed against the NATO mission in Afghanistan: “These are detestable murderers and scumbags, I’ll tell...
Chomsky: Q/A on the Iraq War
Znet Article, November, 29 2005
Noam Chomsky
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Q/A on the Iraq War
Pilger: A News Revolution Has Begun
Znet Article, November, 25 2005
John Pilger
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The Indian writer Vandana Shiva has called for an "insurrection of subjugated knowledge". The insurrection is well under way. In trying to make sense of a dangerous world, millions of people are turning away from the traditional sources of news an...
Jamail: Life Goes On in Fallujah's Rubble
Znet Article, November, 24 2005
Dahr Jamail
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SAN FRANCISCO, California, Nov 23 (IPS) - A year after the U.S.-led "Operation Phantom Fury" damaged or destroyed 36,000 homes, 60 schools and 65 mosques in Fallujah, Iraq, residents inside the city continue to suffer from lack of compensation, sl...
Landau: Who We Are
Znet Article, November, 22 2005
Saul Landau
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G. W. Bush returned from a brief but difficult November learning foray in Latin America: "Wow, Brazil is big." Meanwhile, US citizens grew impatient with his performance. CBS polls rated him at 35% approval in early November. Even his supporters a...
Fisk: War for Civilization
Znet Article, November, 21 2005
Robert Fisk
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YE: How is it going with the process of releasing your new book (Great War for Civilization)? RF: Well, it should be a time when you sit back and enjoy the glow, but actually it’s too hard to do that. I’m still exhausted from writ...
