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Znet Article Akhtar: The metropolitan left and the Muslim world

Znet Article, December, 27 2006 Aasim sajjad Akhtar
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In much of the western world, progressive political and social forces have rallied to the defence of Muslim immigrant communities that face systematic discrimination following the launching of the ‘war on terror’. In the anti-war m...

Znet Article Tutu: Apartheid in the Holy Land

Znet Article, December, 20 2006 Desmond Tutu
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In our struggle against apartheid, the great supporters were Jewish people. They almost instinctively had to be on the side of the disenfranchised, of the voiceless ones, fighting injustice, oppression and evil. I have continued to feel strongly w...

Znet Article Ngugi: Africa and the Middle East

Znet Article, December, 12 2006 Mukoma wa Ngugi
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Violence without Borders Africa is in the thick of the conflicts in the Middle East.  With Iraq up in flames and an estimated 50,000 innocent Iraqi civilians dead and the threat of Syria and Iran being dragged into the War, the Middle East is now...

Znet Article Ash: Whither Israel?

Znet Article, December, 12 2006 Gabriel Ash
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Israel is in crisis. The recent Lebanon War has heightened all its internal and external contradictions. Gabriel Ash looks at the economic and political foundations of this deeply militaristic and ideological state. The recent military defeat, bre...

Znet Article Zinn: If History is to be Creative

Znet Article, December, 09 2006 Howard Zinn
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This essay is the first chapter of Howard Zinn's new book, " A Power Governments Cannot Suppress," published by City Light...

Znet Article Winter: Canada's Media Wannabe Americans

Znet Article, December, 08 2006 James Winter
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We Canadians like to think of ourselves as more than friendly neighbours, as global citizens with a penchant for peacekeeping. Since former prime minister Lester Pearson won a Nobel Peace prize in 1957, we have opposed U.S. international aggressio...

Znet Article Keeble: Crimes Against Humanity in Chad

Znet Article, December, 04 2006 Richard Keeble
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One of the most remarkable human rights campaigns of recent years has gone largely unreported in the British mainstream media. During the 1980s Hissène Habré, installed as head of state in Chad following a CIA-backed coup in 1982, had presided o...

Znet Article Cook: Palestinians are being denied the right to non-violent resistance

Znet Article, November, 30 2006 Jonathan Cook
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If one thing offers a terrifying glimpse of where the experiment in human despair that is Gaza under Israeli siege is leading, it is the news that a Palestinian woman in her sixties -- a grandmother -- chose last week to strap on a suicide belt an...

Znet Article Abunimah: No choice but to live together

Znet Article, November, 17 2006 Ali Abunimah
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As I watched the images last week of destruction from the Gaza Strip, where an Israeli shelling attack had killed an entire family, as a Palestinian I could understand the feelings of one survivor who said, "I cannot see a day when we will live in...

Znet Article Massad: Pinochet in Palestine

Znet Article, November, 14 2006 Joseph Massad
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Before the United States government subcontracted the Chilean military to overthrow the democratically elected government of Salvador Allende in 1973, it carried out a number of important missions in the country in preparation for the coup of 11 S...

Znet Article Monbiot: Asserting Our Right to Kill and Maim Civilians

Znet Article, November, 08 2006 George Monbiot
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The central mystery of the modern state is this. The necessary resources, both economic and political, will always be found for the purpose of terminating life. The project of preserving it will always struggle. When did you last see a soldier sha...

Znet Article Barker: Friendly Dictators and Hostile Democracies

Znet Article, November, 03 2006 Michael Barker
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Friendly Dictators and Hostile Democracies

Znet Article Elie: What Future for Haiti?

Znet Article, November, 03 2006 Patrick Elie
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This article was originally published on NACLA News, a new source of news and analysis on Latin America and the Caribbean produced by the North American Congress on Latin America (NACLA). In February 2004, U.S. Marines whisked away then-President...

Znet Article Raina: The Last Straw

Znet Article, November, 01 2006 Badri Raina
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When Jack Straw the other day encountered  a muslim woman, face veiled in niqab, it spelt in his mind the  last straw for white-dominated multiculturalism in Britain. Surely and soon enough the post-9/11 discourse centring on  the ostensibly unco...

Znet Article Barker: Promoting polyarchy in Serbia

Znet Article, October, 29 2006 Michael Barker
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For the most part scholars and activists alike have tended to uncritically accept overt foreign interventions that profess to be promoting democracy at face value: as noble and humanitarian activities. However, contrary to this rosy view of the pr...

Znet Article Ommani: Who supports Iranian women?

Znet Article, October, 18 2006 Eleanor Ommani
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An Iranian friend drew my attention to the September 29, 2006 ZNet article “Chavez’s Embrace of Iran Leader Insults Women” by Jennifer Fasulo, under Feminism/Gender, to which I feel compelled to respond.  While purporting t...

Znet Article Mann: The Dark Side of Democracy

Znet Article, October, 18 2006 Michael Mann
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Michael Mann is a British-born sociology professor of at the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA). He was a reader in sociology at the London School of Economics and Sociology from 1977 to 1987 and received his PhD in Sociology from Oxfo...

Znet Article Lamrani: Reporters Without Borders and its contradictions

Znet Article, October, 04 2006 Salim Lamrani
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On September 12, 2006, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) published an open letter “in response to its detractors,” who denounce its lack of impartiality, the financing it receives from the United States and its political agenda âS...

Znet Article Baroud: The Next Palestinian Struggle

Znet Article, September, 26 2006 Ramzy Baroud
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LONDON - An expert in international law and an old friend of the Palestinian people wrote me with utter distress a few days after Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and Prime Minister Ismael Haniyeh were reported to have reached an agreement Sept...

Znet Article Podur: Abandoning Hypocrisy

Znet Article, September, 26 2006 Justin Podur
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[Talk given at the Canadian launch of Bleeding Afghanistan September 21, 2006] Just over five years ago I visited Colombia for the first time. I walked through some farmers’ fields that had been fumigated as part of the ‘war on dr...

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