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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...

Znet Article Hayden: Pacifying Iraq: Insurgent Scenarios

Znet Article, January, 11 2006 Tom Hayden
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AMMAN, JORDAN--Iraq's armed national resistance is willing to support an honorable American troop withdrawal and recognize "the interests of the US as a superpower," according to a Baghdad source with intimate knowledge of the insurgents. He was i...

Znet Article Dieterich: Evo Morales, Communitarian Socialism, and the Regional Power Block

Znet Article, January, 09 2006 Heinz Dieterich
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 1.  Evo Morales and Socialism "Evo, what do you and the MAS understand by 'socialism,'" I asked him, when I was invited by the Executive Committee of the Bolivian Labor Central (COB). "To live in community and equality," he answered.  "Fundamen...

Znet Article Elam: The Myth of Sharon's political change

Znet Article, January, 09 2006 Shraga Elam
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The need for fairy tales is still very strong in our so-called enlightened society, and Sharon has just the stuff needed for the creation of such myths. The dominant legend at the moment is that one of the worst war criminals of the 20th. Century ...

Znet Article Christini: none

Znet Article, January, 06 2006 Tony Christini
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  A bias against explicit, progressive political fi...

Znet Article Qumsiyeh: Israel & Palestine 2006

Znet Article, January, 05 2006 Mazin Qumsiyeh
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More than a year ago many in the US media focused on how the passing of an ailing Arafat would be the key to unlock the deadlocked peace process (we now know this to be untrue or was vastly exaggerated). There was hardly any US coverage of the nat...

Znet Article Lamrani: The politicisation of the Sakharov Prize

Znet Article, January, 05 2006 Salim Lamrani
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Translated by Barbara & David Forbes On 26th October 2005, the European Parliament awarded the Sakharov Prize jointly to the Nigerian lawyer Hauwa Ibrahim, the Women in White of Cuba, and the Paris-based organisation Reporters Without Frontiers. ...

Znet Article El amrani: Kifaya and the Politics of the Impossible

Znet Article, January, 04 2006 Issandr El amrani
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Social movements and activist groups in the Arab world are rarely acknowledged or heard about in the west. Even worse, recently the Bush administration has tried to take credit for the work of these grassroots groups, who struggle and protest unde...

Znet Article Early: Is The Strike Dead? Not According to Bob Schwartz

Znet Article, January, 03 2006 Steve Early
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Three years ago in Boston, downtown streets and office buildings were the scene of inspiring immigrant worker activism during an unprecedented strike by local janitors. Their walk-out was backed by other union members, community activists, student...

Znet Article Schmidt: War Without End

Znet Article, January, 02 2006 Andréa Schmidt
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This was the year the "war on terror" - an obnoxious expression which we all parroted after 11 September 2001 - appeared to be almost as endless as George Bush once claimed it would be. And unsuccessful. For, after all the bombing of Afghanistan, ...

Znet Article Finkelstein: Israel & Palestine

Znet Article, January, 01 2006 Norman Finkelstein
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Israel laid siege to the Northern Gaza strip overnight, attacking roads and fields, shortly after Israeli occupation forces announced that they were implementing the so-called buffer zone after a home-made Qassam rocket was allegedly fired across ...

Znet Article Baroud: Palestinian Democracy at the Crossroads

Znet Article, December, 28 2005 Ramzy Baroud
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Palestinian political life seems to be unwittingly embracing a distinctive style, contradicting its own traditional political parameters. The last few weeks clearly attest to this political divergence. Predictably any serious transformation is no...

Znet Article Chomsky: On War and Activism

Znet Article, December, 27 2005 Noam Chomsky
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First of all, happy birthday. Thank you. December 7th is also the anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor. It's also the anniversary of the Indonesian invasion of East Timor, authorized by Henry Kissinger, which probably wiped out a third of ...

Znet Article Wise: Racism, Free Speech, and the College Campus

Znet Article, December, 27 2005 Tim Wise
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As has been the case every year for as long as I can recall, an American college campus is once again embroiled in controversy over the expression of racism in its hallowed halls, and what it may seek to do in response. This time the place is Bel...

Znet Article Baroud: The US 'Image Problem' is rooted in history, not media

Znet Article, December, 24 2005 Ramzy Baroud
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US President George W. Bush yet once again blamed Arab media for his country’s image problem. "I recognize we got an image issue, particularly when you have television stations, Arabic television stations that are constantly just pounding...

Znet Article Avnery: The Pied Piper

Znet Article, December, 20 2005 Uri Avnery
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SOME 721 YEARS ago, the town of Hamelin in Germany was suffering from a plague of rats. A citizen called Bunting offered to get rid of them for an agreed fee. When he played on his flute, the entranced rats came out of their holes and followed him...

Znet Article Ramon: Institutionalised Hatred and Instigating Murder

Znet Article, December, 20 2005 Baheer Ramon
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All human beings are in truth akin; All in creation share one origin. When fate allots a member pangs and pains, No ease for other members then remains. If unperturbed, another's grief canst scan, Thou are not worthy of the name of man. Sa'adi, (1...

Znet Article Elie: Taking us to democracy like cattle to a killing house

Znet Article, December, 14 2005 Patrick Elie
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Interviewed by Anthony Fenton, Justin Podur, and Andréa Schmidt Patrick Elie is a Haitian activist, based in Port-au-Prince, with a long history of involvement in the Lavalas movement. He served as Haiti’s drug czar and Minister of Defe...

Znet Article Hallinan: The Fate of Gaza

Znet Article, December, 11 2005 Conn Hallinan
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There is a moment in Jeffery Goldberg's New Yorker profile of Brent Scowcroft, George Bush Senior's former National Security Advisor, when the current Administration's combination of arrogance and cluelessness crystallize. Over dinner, Secretary o...

Znet Article Weinberg: The Politics of the Antiwar Movement

Znet Article, December, 09 2005 Bill Weinberg
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The Sept. 24 antiwar protest in Washington, D.C., was hailed as a revival of a movement which had become somewhat moribund even as the quagmire in Iraq deepens with horrifying rapidity. The march brought out 300,000 protesters, by organizers' esti...

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