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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...

Znet Article Barker: Corporate fronts, astroturf groups and co-opted social movements

Znet Article, September, 17 2006 Michael Barker
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Challenging power is crucial to the stability of democracy, without dissent there would be few checks on unbridled power. The overwhelming power of dissent and popular democracy to effect social change is widely acknowledged by corporate and gover...

Znet Article Ngugi: Africa and Latin America

Znet Article, September, 17 2006 Mukoma Ngugi
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Roots of Optimism and Contradictions The Berlin Wall is dismantled brick by brick in November of 1989.  It becomes a symbol of freedom and new beginnings.  A few months into 1990 the Soviet Union collapses and from its ruins a plethora of nations...

Znet Article Varadarajan: India and the quest for world order

Znet Article, September, 11 2006 Siddharth Varadarajan
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IN INTERNATIONAL affairs, minor details often tell us more about the big picture than ponderous declarations and weighty documents. Next week, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will travel to Brasilia and Havana for important meetings aimed at cementi...

Znet Article Loewenstein: My Israel Question

Znet Article, September, 11 2006 Antony Loewenstein
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Jamie Glassman is a British Jewish writer on The Ali G show, a comedy program known for intentionally offending deserving establishment figures. Glassman recently attended the Edinburgh Arts Festival and was disturbed. He wrote in the London Times...

Znet Article Cockburn: The 9/11 Conspiracy Nuts

Znet Article, September, 10 2006 Alexander Cockburn
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You trip over one fundamental idiocy of the 9/11 conspiracy nuts --   -- the ones who say Bush and Cheney masterminded the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon -- in the first paragraph of the opening page of the book by one of their...

Znet Article Kolko: The Great Equalizer

Znet Article, September, 05 2006 Gabriel Kolko
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The United States had a monopoly of nuclear weaponry only a few years before other nations challenged it, but from 1949 until roughly the 1990s deterrence theory worked - nations knew that if they used the awesome bomb they were likely to be devas...

Znet Article Pappe: Genocide In Gaza

Znet Article, September, 04 2006 Ilan Pappe
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A genocide is taking place in Gaza. This morning, 2 September, another three citizens of Gaza were killed and a whole family wounded in Beit Hanoun. This is the morning reap, before the end of day many more will be massacred. An average of eight P...

Znet Article Swamy: The case against collaboration between India and Israel

Znet Article, August, 31 2006 Raja Swamy
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After thirty-four days of relentless aerial bombardment and a ground invasion, Israel's brutal assault on Lebanon's civilian population has come to a halt, at least temporarily. As the dust from the rubble of Lebanon's ruined cities, villages, and...

Znet Article Safty: The Failure of Total War against Palestine and Lebanon

Znet Article, August, 31 2006 Adel Safty
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Total War The celebrated 19th century Prussian general Carl von Clausewitz described attacks on the enemy’s territory, property and citizens as total war. With the horrors of World War II, total war became associated with war crimes. The...

Znet Article Cook: Hurtling towards the Next Intifada

Znet Article, August, 31 2006 Jonathan Cook
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This is an edited version of an interview published in German in the newspaper Die Junge Welt on 1 July 2006 between Andrea Bistrich and the British journalist Jonathan Cook, based in Nazareth, Israel, about his new book “Blood and Religio...

Znet Article Kunin: Supporting CUPE's Israel Boycott

Znet Article, August, 31 2006 Jason Kunin
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  Not many people in North America were paying attention in July 2005 when The Palestinian General Federation of Trade Unions, along with over 170 Palestinian unions, political parties, and organizations called for a global campaign...

Znet Article Miller: A Little Poverty Never Hurt Anybody

Znet Article, August, 25 2006 Jason Miller
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"It is like paradise and hell. They throw our petitions in the dustbin. They have everything. We have nothing… If we protest, they send soldiers. They sign agreements with us and then ignore us. We have graduates going hungry, without jobs...

Znet Article Lendman: Alternatives To the Collapsed WTO Doha Round Talks

Znet Article, August, 23 2006 Stephen Lendman
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On July 24, 2006, World Trade Organization (WTO) Director-General Pascal Lamy was forced to halt the five years of negotiating of the so-called Fourth WTO Ministerial Doha Round that began in Doha, Qatar in November, 2001 and ended (for now, at le...

Znet Article Bogart: "Fear! Fear!": Birth of the War on Terror

Znet Article, August, 23 2006 Brian Bogart
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As soon as it came out that the apparent "new 9-11" airliner threat between the US and UK had been thwarted with the help of Pakistani Intelligence Services (ISI), it also became clear that it was a political tool for further legitimizing the lucr...

Znet Article Lendman: Venezuela Leading the Race For the UN Security Council Seat

Znet Article, August, 22 2006 Stephen Lendman
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In October, elections will take place for five non-permanent UN Security Council seats to be held in 2007.  One of them will be for the Latin American seat now held by Argentina.  The two leading regional contenders vying to fill the opening are V...

Znet Article Engler: WTO: Best Left For Dead?

Znet Article, August, 18 2006 Mark Engler
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With the failure of the Doha round of negotiations in late July, some optimistic defenders of corporate globalization will tell you that the World Trade Organization (WTO) is taking a "time out." Most observers, however, are calling the suspension...

Znet Article Hersh: Watching Lebanon

Znet Article, August, 16 2006 Seymour m. Hersh
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In the days after Hezbollah crossed from Lebanon into Israel, on July 12th, to kidnap two soldiers, triggering an Israeli air attack on Lebanon and a full-scale war, the Bush Administration seemed strangely passive. “It’s a momen...

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