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Sommers: 1984 Redux
Znet Article, February, 04 2006
Jeff Sommers
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Using American veterans as props, on November 11, 2005 President George Bush delivered a speech designed to justify his foreign policy failures since 9/11. Throughout his talk he intoned his audience to recognize the goodness of American foreign p...
Rebick: Socialism in the 21st Century
Znet Article, January, 29 2006
Judy Rebick
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Socialism in the 21st Century
Albert: Anti Capitalist Strategy
Znet Article, January, 26 2006
Michael Albert
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A viable and desirable strategy for transcending capitalism will certainly include leaving capitalism behind. Capitalism is despicable. It will also include, however, attaining something worthwhile in capitalism's place. What we win must be de...
Weisbrot: Latin America Shifts Left
Znet Article, January, 21 2006
Mark Weisbrot
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Evo Morales' election in Bolivia, with an unprecedented (for that country) 54 percent of the vote, is seen and analyzed here mostly in political terms. He is a former head of the coca growers union and opposes the U.S.- sponsored attempts to erad...
Solomon: Ted Koppel at NPR
Znet Article, January, 18 2006
Norman Solomon
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No doubt many people are glad that Ted Koppel will become a regular voice on National Public Radio. He recently ended 25 years with ABC's "Nightline" show amid profuse media accolades. But what kind of journalist goes out of his way to voice ferve...
Chomsky: Chomsky: 'There Is No War On Terror'
Znet Article, January, 16 2006
Noam Chomsky
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Geov Parrish: Is George Bush in political trouble? And if so, why? Noam Chomsky: George Bush would be in severe political trouble if there were an opposition political party in the country. Just about every day, they're shooting themselves in the...
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...
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...
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 ...
Edwards: The Insane Society
Znet Article, December, 14 2005
David Edwards
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In his classic book, The Sane Society, published in 1955, psychologist Erich Fromm proposed that, not just individuals, but entire societies "may be lacking in sanity". Fromm argued that one of the most deceptive features of social life involves "...
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...
Weisbrot: Venezuelan Elections
Znet Article, December, 03 2005
Mark Weisbrot
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The decision of four opposition parties in Venezuela to withdraw from elections this weekend raises important questions for the media. It is clear to anyone familiar with the situation that this is an attempt to discredit the election, by parties ...
Chomsky: Q/A on the Iraq War
Znet Article, November, 29 2005
Noam Chomsky
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Q/A on the Iraq War
Zibechi: Regional Integration After the Collapse of FTAA
Znet Article, November, 24 2005
Raúl Zibechi
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Although every Latin American government pays lip service to integration, taking the concrete steps needed to attain it is much more difficult than simply issuing declarations. In the wake of the collapse of the Free Trade Agreement of the Amer...
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...
Chomsky: Master Mind
Znet Article, November, 15 2005
Noam Chomsky
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Three weeks ago, Prof. Noam Chomsky was voted the most important public intellectual in the world today. About 20,000 people took part in the poll, which was conducted jointly by a British monthly called Prospect and the Washington-based Foreign P...
