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Znet Article Pilger: The Rise Of America's New Enemy

Znet Article, November, 10 2005 John Pilger
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I was dropped at Paradiso, the last middle-class area before barrio La Vega, which spills into a ravine as if by the force of gravity. Storms were forecast, and people were anxious, remembering the mudslides that took 20,000 lives. "Why are you he...

Znet Article Albert: Venezuela's Path

Znet Article, November, 06 2005 Michael Albert
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Going to Venezuela? There are beautiful waterfalls and mountains. There is rich surf, sand, and sun. But nowadays the biggest attraction is revolution. This October I spent a week in Caracas. That's not much information to work with but for what ...

Znet Article Klein: The Threat of Hope in Latin America

Znet Article, November, 04 2005 Naomi Klein
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When Manuel Rozental got home one night last month, friends told him two strange men had been asking questions about him. In this close-knit indigenous community in southwestern Colombia ringed by soldiers, right-wing paramilitaries and left-wing ...

Znet Article Solomon: Media at a Huge Crossroads, 25 Years After Reagan's Triumph

Znet Article, October, 24 2005 Norman Solomon
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By a twist of political fate, the Oct. 28 deadline for special counsel Patrick Fitzgerald to take action on the Plamegate matter is exactly 25 years after the only debate of the presidential race between Ronald Reagan and incumbent Jimmy Carter. H...

Znet Article Lendman: The Sorrows of Haiti

Znet Article, October, 20 2005 Stephen Lendman
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On February 28, 2004, in the middle of the night, the U.S. again invaded Haiti. It abducted and forcibly removed democratically elected President Jean-Bertrand Aristide by its staged coup d'etat and flew him against his will to the Central African...

Znet Article Pilger: The Silence of Writers

Znet Article, October, 16 2005 John Pilger
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In 1988, the English literary critic and novelist, D.J. Taylor wrote a seminal piece entitled 'When the Pen Sleeps'. He expanded this into a book 'A Vain Conceit', in which he wondered why the English novel so often denigrated into 'drawing room t...

Znet Article Emersberger: The Enemy of My Donor is My Enemy

Znet Article, October, 15 2005 Joe Emersberger
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[Note: This is a reply to Pierre Beaudet of the Canadian-government-funded NGO 'Alternatives', whose article was a reply to Nik Barry-Shaw, who argued that 'Alternatives' was a tool of C...

Znet Article Albert: Interview with Michael Albert

Znet Article, October, 10 2005 Michael Albert
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AttacD-AWWO: Can you say something about the process, the discussion that lead to Parecon (participatory economics) and the book that is now also appearing in German translation this fall? Michael Albert: Sure. It was a long process. It started o...

Znet Article Engelhardt: 'No Iraqis Left Me on a Roof to Die'

Znet Article, September, 25 2005 Tom Engelhardt
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'No Iraqis Left Me on a Roof to Die'

Znet Article Podur: The Polls of Bel Air

Znet Article, September, 23 2005 Justin Podur
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The post-coup Haitian presidential election, currently planned for November 20, has a list of 54 candidates. The Canadian Prime Minister's 'special advisor on Haiti', Denis Coderre, suggested yesterday that this sprawling list of candidates was a ...

Znet Article Wainwright: Lula's Lament

Znet Article, September, 21 2005 Hilary Wainwright
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'When there is such an overwhelming disaster and you see yourself as part of this disaster, you begin to question your whole life. Why so many years of sacrifice and struggle?' Congressman Fernando Gabeira expresses the feelings of many petistas -...

Znet Article Davis: The Struggle Over The Future Of New Orleans

Znet Article, September, 21 2005 Mike Davis
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THE CATASTROPHE on the Gulf Coast was the most widely anticipated “natural disaster” in U.S. history. Yet the response of the U.S. government was universally condemned as a failure. What happened? HURRICANE KATRINA occurred on the ...

Znet Article Albert: Hannover Talk

Znet Article, September, 12 2005 Michael Albert
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Introduction First, I’d like to thank everyone here and especially the ...

Znet Article Franklin: Miami Vice

Znet Article, September, 06 2005 Jane Franklin
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The Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals has now provided legal recognition of the fact that the city of Miami is so inflamed with passion against Cuba that it is unfit as a site for the trial of any case involving Cuba where the defendant is not in ...

Znet Article Monbiot: How to Stop Civil War

Znet Article, August, 30 2005 George Monbiot
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Between the idea and the reality falls the shadow of occupation. Whatever the parliamentarians in Iraq do to try to prevent total meltdown, their efforts are compromised by the fact that their power grows from the barrel of someone else's gun. Whe...

Znet Article Pilger: The Rise Of The Democratic Police State

Znet Article, August, 18 2005 John Pilger
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Thomas Friedman is a famous columnist on the New York Times. He has been described as "a guard dog of US foreign policy". Whatever America's warlords have in mind for the rest of humanity, Friedman will bark it. He boasts that "the hidden hand of ...

Znet Article Holloway: Can We Change The World Without Taking Power?

Znet Article, August, 16 2005 John Holloway
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John Holloway: I don’t know the answer. Perhaps we can change the world without taking power. Perhaps we cannot. The starting point—for all of us, I think—is uncertainty, not knowing, a common search for a way forward. Bec...

Znet Article Engelhardt: Cindy, Don, and George

Znet Article, August, 14 2005 Tom Engelhardt
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Cindy, Don, and George

Znet Article Fletcher jr.: Labor Needs a Hard Left Turn

Znet Article, July, 23 2005 Bill Fletcher jr.
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Bill Fletcher is president of TransAfrica, a national policy organization in Washington dealing with issues surrounding Africa. After the reform administration of John Sweeney was elected in 1995, Fletcher became the labor federation's director of...

Znet Article Choudry: Monkey-Wrenching the Globalization Gang

Znet Article, July, 23 2005 Aziz Choudry
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I went to Bretton Woods, but all I got was this lousy t-shirt. Amazingly, it's not a 'one size fits all' and it's not full of holes. Walking through the Mount Washington Hotel in Bretton Woods two years ago, in the New Hampshire mountain resort a...

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