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Znet Article Gibler: Pistol Policy

Znet Article, August, 16 2006 John Gibler
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Throughout the past week gunmen of have opened fire on members of the People’s Assembly of Oaxaca (APPO for its initials in Spanish) killing four and wounding at least 10. Organizations and citizens across Oaxaca formed the APPO shortly ...

Znet Article Gibler: Designer Uprising

Znet Article, August, 07 2006 John Gibler
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Mexico City is in the grip of a designer uprising, a massive civil disobedience campaign organized by a national political party—the Party of the Democratic Revolution, or PRD—and involving thousands of grassroots citizens. The mov...

Znet Article Gibler: Scenes from the Oaxaca Rebellion

Znet Article, August, 04 2006 John Gibler
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On Tuesday, August 1, about 3,000 women marched through downtown Oaxaca City banging metal pots and pans in an oddly melodious cacophony that served as the background for their chants demanding the ousting of governor Ulises Ruiz. They stopped by ...

Znet Article Zibechi: Paraguay

Znet Article, August, 02 2006 Raúl Zibechi
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 The Pentagon seems to have understood the risks posed to the continuity of United States dominance by social movements in Latin America. The option of militarizing societies serves two aims : it guarantees control of natural resources and protect...

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 Lendman: The Crime of Lebanon and Palestine

Znet Article, July, 26 2006 Stephen Lendman
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By any interpretation of international law, Israel today is committing massive and egregious war crimes and crimes against humanity against the defenseless people of Palestine and Lebanon.  It's doing it with the full support and encouragement of ...

Znet Article Albert: Parecon and France

Znet Article, July, 23 2006 Michael Albert
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An economy has to produce goods and sevices that we then enjoy both for survival and pleasure. It also has to facilitate our getting those outputs of economic activity, which is to say, consumption. And between production and consumption comes wha...

Znet Article Wilpert: The Meaning of 21st Century Socialism for Venezuela

Znet Article, July, 22 2006 Gregory Wilpert
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In what appeared to be a surprise to almost everyone, on January 30, 2005, in a speech to the 5th World Social Forum, President Hugo Chavez announced that he supported the creation of socialism of the 21st century in Venezuela. According to Chavez...

Znet Article Raina: We The People

Znet Article, July, 19 2006 Badri Raina
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In perhaps the first public statement he made after the event of December 13,2001 when the Indian Parliament became the target of a terrorist attack, (although there are those who still speculate about who the real attackers might have been), the ...

Znet Article Zibechi: The Wished-For Technical Draw in Bolivia

Znet Article, July, 13 2006 Raúl Zibechi
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from La Jornada, published in Rebelion, 11-07-2006 The recent elections for the Constituent Assembly mark the end of the political transition in Bolivia. The developing scenario, despite the solid victory of the Movimiento al Socialismo (MAS) of...

Znet Article Zirin: Why Today I Wear My Zidane Jersey

Znet Article, July, 11 2006 Dave Zirin
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  Imagine Michael Jordan in his last game, with the score tied in overtime, knocking out his defender with a punch to the throat. Imagine Derek Jeter in game seven of the World Series, at bat with the bases loaded, thrashing the opposing team's c...

Znet Article Lendman: Democracy in Mexico Part II

Znet Article, July, 11 2006 Stephen Lendman
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There's much happening in Mexico in the aftermath of the nation's most contentious election ever, but it began many months before the first vote was cast. The popularity of leftist opposition candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador of the Party of t...

Znet Article Gibler: Mexican Elections Mired in Anomalies

Znet Article, July, 11 2006 John Gibler
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For five days following the July 2 presidential elections, Mexico was in the grip of anticipation as the Federal Electoral Institute (IFE) labored to tally—or rig—the votes. On Thursday, July 6, the anticipation passed into a spli...

Znet Article Lendman: Mexico's Fixed Election

Znet Article, July, 07 2006 Stephen Lendman
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What do these presidential elections all have in common: Mexico, 1988, US, 2000, US, 2004, Colombia and Peru, 2006 and the just concluded Mexican election on July 2? In each case, the outcome was "arranged" and known in advance before voters went ...

Znet Article Lendman: The Federal Reserve

Znet Article, June, 29 2006 Stephen Lendman
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Years ago I read William Greider's excellent book published in 1987 on how the US Federal Reserve System works. It was detailed and explicit and makes wonderful and informative reading, except for the solution he suggests to a huge problem. His wa...

Znet Article Hayden: Mexico's Presidential Front-Runner May Roil U.S. Conservatives

Znet Article, June, 28 2006 Tom Hayden
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Though the progressive media and bloggers are paying scant attention, a progressive populist is the front-runner in Mexico's July 2 election, a man who would demand a revision of NAFTA, add a powerful workers' voice to the roiling U.S. debate on i...

Znet Article Lendman: The Wall Street Journal's Chavez Commentary

Znet Article, June, 24 2006 Stephen Lendman
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You won't find commentary and language any more hostile to Hugo Chavez than on the editorial page of the Wall Street Journal. Their June 23 piece by Mary Anastasia O'Grady in the Americas column is a clear, jaw-dropping example. It's practically b...

Znet Article Gibler: The Orphans of July Third

Znet Article, June, 24 2006 John Gibler
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I. When the Zapatistas launched the Other Campaign in San Cristobal de Las Casas on January 1, 2006—exactly twelve years after they took that city by force—they made clear that the stakes would be high. “We are putting e...

Znet Article Edwards: A Superb Demolition?

Znet Article, June, 23 2006 David Edwards
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PART 1: A Gauntlet Is Thrown On June 16, the Observer's editor Roger Alton made a bold announcement on his newspaper's website: "And to all my many enemies on the Left, and in various organisations like the pernicious MediaLens, I commend a sple...

Znet Article Dangl: 1491

Znet Article, June, 19 2006 Ben Dangl
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In many high school history classes students are told that before Columbus arrived the Americas were full of untamed wilderness loosely populated with savage Indians. Charles Mann’s book, 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columb...

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