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Znet Article Snow: Gertler's Bling Bang

Znet Article, February, 07 2008 Keith harmon Snow
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In the world of bling bling and bling bang, some things change, some stay the same. The CIA, the MOSSAD, the big mining companies, the offshore accounts and weapons deals—all hidden by the Western media. The holocaust in Central Africa has claimed...

Znet Article Snow: Over 5 million dead in Congo, 1500 daily

Znet Article, February, 01 2008 Keith harmon Snow
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The International Rescue Committee in late January 2008 released a new report on the mortality in the war-torn Democratic Republic of Congo. The report caught the eye of some news agencies, who quickly whipped up trite little articles as suppos...

Commentary Bond: Jacob Zuma's Election

Commentary, December, 23 2007 Patrick Bond
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Congratulations are due Jacob Zuma – apparently far more Machiavellian than even his arch-opponent since 2005, Thabo Mbeki – and the tireless band of warriors from the Congress of SA Trade Unions, SA Communist Party and African National Congress Y...

Commentary Majavu: Xenophobia and Society

Commentary, December, 17 2007 Mandisi Majavu
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Various research studies conclude that South Africans, black and white, are xenophobic. In 1997, the South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) identified xenophobia "as a major source of concern to human rights and democracy in the country." T...

Znet Article Hayden: Northern Irish, South Africa Leaders in Secret Peace Discussion with Iraqi Parties

Znet Article, October, 01 2007 Tom Hayden
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  Sunni and Shi'a leaders began a potential peace process at secret meetings with leaders of the new Northern Ireland and South Africa one month, signing draft set of principles which resemble the protocols that guided the peace settlements ...

Commentary Franklin: Panama: Background And Buildup To Invasion Of 1989

Commentary, September, 18 2007 Jane Franklin
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In November 1989, three weeks before the U.S. invasion, I attended a conference in Panama hosted by Panama's Center for International Studies to inform 118 U.S. delegates about what was taking place. Panamanians were already under constant attack...

Znet Article Ireland: CRISES ACROSS AFRICA: Gays Under Government Attack in Nigeria, Cameroon, Uganda

Znet Article, August, 23 2007 Doug Ireland
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August has proven to be a perilous months for gays in Nigeria and Cameroon, where large-scale arrests have taken place, and in Uganda, where gay activists have gone into hiding after government ministers this week called for their arrest. Â...

Znet Article Benson: Solidarity with Zimbabwe

Znet Article, August, 13 2007 Koni Benson
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The dominant story in the mainstream press these days is that the South African poor act out of desperation when migrants and refugees are violently attached. That the 'problem' is competition for scarce resources and that SA must first get its ho...

Znet Article Toussaint: Congo plunder and submission

Znet Article, July, 16 2007 Eric Toussaint
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The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is a textbook case for those who wish to understand complex notions like the pillage of a country's wealth, the intolerable loss of a State's sovereignty, or the concept of odious debt.  The manner in which t...

Znet Article Ngugi: Africa and Nuclear Weapons

Znet Article, July, 16 2007 Mukoma Ngugi
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Africa - Unite or Perish!  Kwame Nkrumah might as well have been referring to the threat from the ever diversifying number of countries in the nuclear armaments race - India, Pakistan, China, North Korea and in the near horizon, Iran.  To this lis...

Znet Article Hess: Africa needs less, not more, World Bank intervention

Znet Article, July, 05 2007 Jake Hess
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"Robert Zoellick, who has been nominated to become the president of the World Bank, said that he would make Africa his top priority", The International Herald Tribune recently reported.  "Clearly, there needs to be a big focus on Africa", Zoellick...

Znet Article Ngugi: Africa Uniting Less, Perishing More

Znet Article, June, 19 2007 Mukoma Ngugi
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When in 1946 Winston Churchill called for a United States of Europe, so soon after the World War II, many must have thought him still shell-shocked. Then it was unimaginable that a mere generation later there would be a European Union with a singl...

Znet Article Osuoka: Nigeria: Oil, Elections and the International Community

Znet Article, April, 29 2007 Isaac Osuoka
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Today (April 23/07), the electoral commission of Nigeria has announced the candidates of the ruling PDP as winner of massively rigged general elections. During the past week, the international media has been replete with stories about the violence...

Commentary Street: "I Know How Black Folks Think": Reflections on an Outrageously Non-Scandalous Remark From Bill Clinton

Commentary, April, 24 2007 Paul Street
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Imagine that George Bush Senior was heard to say this about why the Jewish-American vote went a certain way in a New York City mayoral election: "well, that doesn't surprise me because I know how Jews think."

Znet Article Ramonet: Somalia

Znet Article, February, 13 2007 Ignacio Ramonet
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The American sponsored UN Security Council Resolution on Somalia in December 2006 prepared the grounds for an Ethiopia invasion of Somalia. This resolution authorized the deployment of an African Union force, excluding Ethiopia, Kenya, and Djibout...

Znet Article Bronner: The Sudan and the Crisis in Darfur

Znet Article, February, 13 2007 Stephen eric Bronner
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The Middle East is not merely a geographical designation, but a cauldron of ideological and material conflicts. Like all territories once subject to colonialism, its borders are arbitrary. Neither religious intolerance nor ancient tribal and ethni...

Znet Article Ngugi: African Democracies for Sale

Znet Article, February, 07 2007 Mukoma Ngugi
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Some of the most important threats to democracy in Africa are the International Republican Institute (IRI), USAID and other international NGO’s that are directly funded by the United States Congress.  These are US foreign policy institutio...

Znet Article De waal: I Will Not Sign

Znet Article, January, 14 2007 Alex De waal
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Military intervention won’t stop the killing. Those who are clamouring for troops to fight their way into Darfur are suffering from a salvation delusion. It’s a simple reality that UN troops can’t stop an ongoing war, and t...

Znet Article Raina: The Saddam Murder

Znet Article, December, 31 2006 Badri Raina
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Finally the democratic deed is done.  The benign imperialists have set Iraq and the world on the road to peace and justice. They may have “handed” him over to the Quisling regime, but, forestalling all potential risk, hung him wit...

Znet Article Toensing: Behind The Gaza Breakdown

Znet Article, December, 27 2006 Chris Toensing
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The latest convoluted set of events within Palestine, and at its borders, form a depressing tableau that mirrors the conflict as a whole. Ismail Haniyeh, the prime minister compelled by an Israeli-Arab-Western financial blockade to seek his gover...

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