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Znet Article Tokar: WTO vs. Europe: Less-and Also More-Than it Seems

Znet Article, February, 15 2006 Brian Tokar
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In the late Spring of 2003, amidst the political fallout of "Old Europe's" refusal to support the US invasion of Iraq, the Bush administration threw down a gauntlet that threatened to permanently aggravate transatlantic hostilities. As a political...

Znet Article Safty: Manipulating the Evidence to Start a War

Znet Article, February, 12 2006 Adel Safty
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Last November, the US Senate Intelligence Committee was pressured by the Democrats to commence the long-delayed investigation of whether the Bush administration had deliberatel...

Znet Article Podur: Kofi Annan's Haiti

Znet Article, February, 10 2006 Justin Podur
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In the vast corrugated-iron shanty town of Cité Soleil, home to quarter of a million people, all the schools are shut down and the one hospital closed. White armoured UN personnel carriers patrol the perimeter, half a dozen blue-helmeted heads po...

Znet Article Concannon: Election Day and Beyond

Znet Article, February, 07 2006 Brian Concannon
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If Haiti’s much awaited (and four times postponed) elections take place on February 7, many questions will be answered: are the reduced number of voting centers sufficient, as the government promises? Did the troubled process of registerin...

Znet Article Johnston: On the Road to Apartheid? Japan and the Steve McGowan Case

Znet Article, February, 06 2006 Eric Johnston
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On January 30th, the Osaka District Court turned down a racial discrimination suit filed by Steve McGowan, a 41 year old African-American designer and Kyoto resident, against ...

Znet Article Walia: The Row over the Danish Cartoons

Znet Article, February, 06 2006 Harsha Walia
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From the burning of its flag to a boycott of its brands of butter and cookies, Denmark is feeling global outrage over newspaper cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad. The Danish paper Jyllands-Posten first published the cartoons on Sept. 30, 2005. The...

Znet Article Fatah: What Would the Prophet Have Done?

Znet Article, February, 05 2006 Tarek Fatah
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/Keep to forgiveness (O Mohammed), and enjoin kindness, and turn away from the ignorant. /- The Koran, Chapter 7, Verse 199 During his lifetime, Prophet Mohammed endured insults and ridicule on a daily basis. His opponents mocked his message and ...

Znet Article Baroud: Punishing Denmark

Znet Article, February, 05 2006 Ramzy Baroud
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Only an irresponsible and intellectually inept individual would sketch such insulting images as those depicting Prophet Mohamed by a cartoonist in the Danish Jyllands-Posten newspaper. And no self-respecting newspaper would allow itself to run suc...

Znet Article Sommers: 1984 Redux

Znet Article, February, 04 2006 Jeff Sommers
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Using American veterans as props, on November 11, 2005 President George Bush delivered a speech designed to justify his foreign policy failures since 9/11. Throughout his talk he intoned his audience to recognize the goodness of American foreign p...

Znet Article Mishra: Disturbing News on the World Economy

Znet Article, February, 01 2006 Girish Mishra
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The recent UN report, World Economic Situation and Prospects, 2006, has come out with disquieting tidings for the world in general and developing countries in particular. If carefully reflected on, the political and social implications are going t...

Znet Article Fisk: The problem with democracy

Znet Article, February, 01 2006 Robert Fisk
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Saturday 28 January 2006 And now, horror of horrors, the Palestinians have elected the wrong party to power. Oh no, not more democracy again! Didn't we award this to those Algerians on 1990? And didn't they reward us with that nice gift of an Is...

Znet Article Hanieh: The End of a Political Fiction?

Znet Article, January, 31 2006 Adam Hanieh
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Hamas’ landslide victory in the January 25 elections for the 132-seat Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC) is an unprecedented turning point for politics in both Palestine and the broader Middle East. Arguably for the first time since the...

Znet Article Wise: Chocolate City?

Znet Article, January, 30 2006 Tim Wise
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  If you're looking to understand why discussions between blacks and whites about racism are often so difficult in this country, you need only know this: when the subject is race and racism, whites and blacks are often not talking about the same ...

Znet Article Bello: Humanitarian Intervention

Znet Article, January, 25 2006 Walden Bello
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(Revised version of a speech delivered at the Conference on Globalization, War, and Intervention sponsored by the International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War, German Chapter, Frankfurt, Germany, January 14-15, 2006.) As war clouds ...

Znet Article Varadarajan: India, China, and the Asian axis of oil

Znet Article, January, 25 2006 Siddharth Varadarajan
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 In less than a year, India and China have managed to confound analysts around the world by turning their much-vaunted rivalry for the acquisition of oil and gas assets in third countries into a nascent partnership that could alter the basic dynam...

Znet Article Chomsky: Irish Times Interview

Znet Article, January, 24 2006 Noam Chomsky
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Q First of all, I wanted to clear something up. I understand that some remarks you made about Bertie Ahern and “shoe shining ” may have been reported inaccurately. A The Press Association story on December 26th said that on his wa...

Znet Article Loewenstein: Paying the Price for a Crazy War

Znet Article, January, 23 2006 Antony Loewenstein
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2005 will be remembered as the year citizens across the world started to awaken to the rules of the game in the “war on terror”. Extraordinary rendition, US supported and administered torture, unauthorised spying on citizens, priva...

Znet Article Curtis: Deepening Corporate Globalization

Znet Article, January, 21 2006 Mark Curtis
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An onslaught against some of the world’s poorest people is about to enter its next phase in a remote Swiss ski resort. Unlike over Iraq, the world's richest countries are united in this big push which would reorganize the global economy in...

Znet Article Debito: The Coming Internationalization: Can Japan assimilate its immigrants?

Znet Article, January, 16 2006 Arudou Debito
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With the recent ethnic riots in France, The Economist (London) ran a thoughtful article ("Minority Reports") on their causes. It posed an i...

Znet Article Bricmont: Humanitarian Imperialism

Znet Article, January, 11 2006 Jean Bricmont
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In his new book, Humanitarian Imperialism, Jean Bricmont denounces the use of the human rights pretext to justify attacks against countries in the South. He is a pacifist and a committed intellectual. How is it that a professor of theoretical phy...

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