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Znet Article Scipes: An Unholy Alliance

Znet Article, July, 10 2005 Kim Scipes
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The AFL-CIO's "Solidarity Center" (formally known as the American Center for International Labor Solidarity or ACILS) was actively involved in bringing together the leadership of the right-wing Confederation of Venezuelan Workers (CTV) and that of...

Znet Article Bacon: Stories from the Borderlands

Znet Article, July, 08 2005 David Bacon
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The world of the border turns labor law on its head-old, established legal rights are just so much ink on paper, and even the decision of federal judges to enforce the law are simply ignored. NAFTA's labor and environmental "side- agreements" have...

Znet Article Chomsky: What We Know

Znet Article, July, 05 2005 Noam Chomsky
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Thirty-five years ago I agreed, in a weak moment, to give a talk with the title “Language and Freedom.” When the time came to think about it, I realized that I might have something to say about language and about freedom, but the w...

Znet Article Solomon: Withdrawal Would Cripple U.S. Credibility

Znet Article, July, 04 2005 Norman Solomon
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Obsession with seeming unequivocal and immovable has been frequent in the Oval Office. During the Vietnam War, such fixations were indifferent to the fact that the war was losing the U.S. government moral credibility around the world. But from the...

Znet Article Gindin: Latin America and Venezuela Promote Holistic Vision Despite US

Znet Article, June, 09 2005 Jonah Gindin
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Ft. Lauderdale, FL.—The 35th Organization of American States General Assembly (OASGA) closed this evening, after approving a joint declaration aimed at “Delivering the Benefits of Democracy.” The “Declaration of Flo...

Znet Article Chomsky: State and Corp.

Znet Article, May, 18 2005 Noam Chomsky
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Q: We want to talk about the two dominant power structures of the modern era: the national state and the transnational corporations. The first question is, could you please talk about the rise of this concept of the national state: Why was it crea...

Znet Article Palast: Ecuadors' Debt

Znet Article, May, 16 2005 Greg Palast
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George Bush has someone new to hate. Only twenty-four hours after Ecuador's new president took his oath of office, he was hit by a diplomatic cruise missile fired all the way from Lithuania by Condoleezza Rice, then wandering about Eastern Europe ...

Znet Article Morduchowicz: Manufacturing militants.

Znet Article, May, 08 2005 Daniel Morduchowicz
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The occupied factory movement in Argentina sprung out of the economic disaster that befell the country during the last decade - brought about by years of neoliberal policies and strict adherence to the dictates of the International financial insti...

Znet Article Chavez: Capitalism Is Savagery.

Znet Article, April, 10 2005 Hugo Chavez
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The following are excerpts from a speech given by Hugo Chávez at Gigantinho Stadium during the 2005 World Social Forum. A DVD containing the entire speech is available at the Z Store. To find out more, click here. Inspiration. Ignacio Ramonet...

Znet Article Hahnel: Winnowing Wheat From Chaff

Znet Article, March, 26 2005 Robin Hahnel
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For the Political Economy Seminar at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst on March 8, 2005 Social Democracy: Giving Credit Where Credit Is Due I mean it as a great compliment when I say that capitalism functions poorly indeed without soc...

Znet Article Bello: Iraq, the U.S., and the Challenges to the Global Peace Movement

Znet Article, March, 20 2005 Walden Bello
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Speech delivered in Vancouver, Canada, at an event sponsored by StopWar.ca, March 18, 2005, held on the occasion of the March 19-20 Global Protest against the War in Iraq. Over the next few days, millions of people throughout the world, from V...

Znet Article Mokhiber: Global Bully Goes to Guatemala

Znet Article, March, 20 2005 Russell Mokhiber
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There's something profoundly disturbing -- sickening, really -- about watching a bully at work. You feel either complicit, or powerless, or both. The global bully, the United States, has just coerced Guatemala, its latest victim, into repealing ...

Znet Article Landau: Payout for Pinochet Victims Shines in Dark Times for Human Rights

Znet Article, March, 16 2005 Saul Landau
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On February 25, Riggs Bank agreed to pay $9 million into a fund for victims of Augusto Pinochet to settle a case over the bank's role in hiding the former dictator's ill-gotten gains. This latest development in the decades-long fight to hold Pinoc...

Znet Article Franklin: Who's Afraid Of Venezuela-Cuba Alliance?

Znet Article, March, 14 2005 Jane Franklin
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For a long time there was only one country in Latin America offering free health care to all its citizens. Now there are two. The governments of both countries regard health care as a basic human right. So Cuba, rich in health care, and Venezuela,...

Znet Article Mate: In the shadow of Aristide

Znet Article, March, 09 2005 Aaron Mate
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The one-year anniversary of the overthrow of Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide was marked by events all too familiar to the poorest nation in the hemisphere, events that should give Canadians pause to reflect on our role in its ongoing trag...

Znet Article Churchill: What Did I Really Say? And Why Did I Say It?

Znet Article, February, 22 2005 Ward Churchill
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Thanks to Clarke Iakovakis for the transcription. Emma Perez: I'm Emma Perez; I'm the new chair of the Department of Ethnic Studies [applause]. I'm very proud to be the chair of the Department of Ethnic Studies; I'm very proud of my colleagues; I...

Znet Article Ngwane: 10 Reasons Why The WSF 2007 Should Not Come To South Africa

Znet Article, February, 08 2005 Trevor Ngwane
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10 Reasons Why The WSF 2007 Should Not Come To South Africa

Znet Article Glick: The Green Party in 2004: More Than Party Survival

Znet Article, February, 07 2005 Ted Glick
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(The article below is an account of the genesis, experiences and accomplishments of the David Cobb/Pat LaMarche 2004 Green Party Presidential/Vice-Presidential campaign. I was active from the early days of that effort and am proud of my involvemen...

Znet Article Lilley: Paving the Amazon with Soy

Znet Article, December, 22 2004 Sasha Lilley
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The sprawling state of Mato Grosso, in central west Brazil, could be thought a paradise of sorts, at least from a distance. The lush rainforest of the Amazon basin, often called the "lungs of the world," straddles the state, as does the grassy Bra...

Znet Article Chomsky: Imperial Presidency

Znet Article, December, 17 2004 Noam Chomsky
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It goes without saying that what happens in the US has an enormous impact on the rest of the world – and conversely: what happens in the rest of the...

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