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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 Fox: Venezuela's Secret Grassroots Democracy

Znet Article, November, 30 2006 Michael Fox
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  With all international eyes on the December 3rd Venezuelan presidential elections, a totally new and revolutionary experience of Venezuelan grassroots democracy has completely slipped below international radar.  An experience that has already...

Znet Article Bogado: Golden Cages

Znet Article, November, 22 2006 Aura Bogado
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"Chiquito, chiquito, chiquito..." she says quietly, shaking her head as she describes how incredibly small the airplane looks in the sky from the fertile land she stands on. But Doña Maria, a Quechua woman no more than five feet tall, should be t...

Znet Article Colman: Teachers and APPO in Oaxaca and Mexico

Znet Article, November, 09 2006 George Colman
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     In  the summer and fall of 2006, 70,000 public school teachers and approximately 350 organizations united in a new Asemblea Popular Pueblo Oaxaca (APPO) occupied the center of the city, took over local radio and television stations, blocked t...

Znet Article Monbiot: Asserting Our Right to Kill and Maim Civilians

Znet Article, November, 08 2006 George Monbiot
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The central mystery of the modern state is this. The necessary resources, both economic and political, will always be found for the purpose of terminating life. The project of preserving it will always struggle. When did you last see a soldier sha...

Znet Article Fox: Venezuelan Ties to US Voting Machines? What About the Others?

Znet Article, November, 07 2006 Michael Fox
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With the United States November congressional elections, electronic voting machines are back in the news.  HBO aired it’s new documentary entitled, “Hacking Democracy” last Thursday, which asked the question, “are e...

Znet Article Barker: Friendly Dictators and Hostile Democracies

Znet Article, November, 03 2006 Michael Barker
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Friendly Dictators and Hostile Democracies

Znet Article Barker: Regulating revolutions in Eastern Europe

Znet Article, November, 01 2006 Michael Barker
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“The promotion of ‘low-intensity democracy’ is aimed not only at mitigating the social and political tensions produced by elite-based and undemocratic status quos, but also at suppressing popular and mass aspirations for mo...

Znet Article Barker: Promoting polyarchy in Serbia

Znet Article, October, 29 2006 Michael Barker
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For the most part scholars and activists alike have tended to uncritically accept overt foreign interventions that profess to be promoting democracy at face value: as noble and humanitarian activities. However, contrary to this rosy view of the pr...

Znet Article Gibler: Paramilitary attacks continue in Oaxaca

Znet Article, October, 15 2006 John Gibler
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In the past week, gunmen have killed one and wounded four protesters from the Popular Assembly of the People of Oaxaca (APPO). The recent killings heightened tensions as the conflict again enters into a critical moment with the Minister of the Int...

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 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 Barker: Corporate fronts, astroturf groups and co-opted social movements

Znet Article, September, 17 2006 Michael Barker
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Challenging power is crucial to the stability of democracy, without dissent there would be few checks on unbridled power. The overwhelming power of dissent and popular democracy to effect social change is widely acknowledged by corporate and gover...

Znet Article Lendman: CNN's Vice President of Racism and Associates

Znet Article, September, 03 2006 Stephen Lendman
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Move over Bill, Chris, Michelle, Rush, Sean, & Company.  Make way for a worthy challenger to the title of leader of the racist rant pack holding court weekday evenings on his hourly show on CNN.  Who would have thought back in the days when this w...

Znet Article Cohen: Notes on the Ecological Dimension

Znet Article, August, 31 2006 Mitchel Cohen
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(A talk by Mitchel Cohen at the "Another World is Necessary" conference on July 24, 2006 in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, sponsored by the Center for Global Justice.) There is a kind of environmentalist who argues that police clubs must be made...

Znet Article Lendman: Courage and Resistance in Oaxaca and Mexico City

Znet Article, August, 29 2006 Stephen Lendman
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It began on May 15 this year when teachers belonging to the 70,000 strong National Union of Education Workers in Oaxaca, Mexico took to the streets for the first time to press their demands to the state government to address their long-neglected n...

Znet Article Ross: Mexico Approaches The Combustion Point

Znet Article, August, 25 2006 John Ross
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Mexico City. The Congress of the country is ringed by two-meter tall grilled metal barriers soldered together apparently to thwart a suicide car bomb attack. Behind this metal wall, 3000 vizored, kevlar-wearing robocops -- the Federal Preventative...

Znet Article Lendman: Alternatives To the Collapsed WTO Doha Round Talks

Znet Article, August, 23 2006 Stephen Lendman
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On July 24, 2006, World Trade Organization (WTO) Director-General Pascal Lamy was forced to halt the five years of negotiating of the so-called Fourth WTO Ministerial Doha Round that began in Doha, Qatar in November, 2001 and ended (for now, at le...

Znet Article Lendman: Venezuela Leading the Race For the UN Security Council Seat

Znet Article, August, 22 2006 Stephen Lendman
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In October, elections will take place for five non-permanent UN Security Council seats to be held in 2007.  One of them will be for the Latin American seat now held by Argentina.  The two leading regional contenders vying to fill the opening are V...

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