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Monbiot: Worse Than Fossil Fuel
Znet Article, December, 07 2005
George Monbiot
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Over the past two years I have made an uncomfortable discovery. Like most environmentalists, I have been as blind to the constraints affecting our energy supply as my opponents have been to climate change. I now realise that I have entertained a b...
Gberie: A Dirty War in West Africa
Znet Article, December, 07 2005
Lansana Gberie
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Can you tell ZNet, please, what your new book, “A Dirty War in West Africa†is about? What is it trying to communicate? Gberie: The book is about the very brutal, nihilistic conflict that ravaged the small West African state of Si...
Fisk: The Great War for Civilization
Znet Article, December, 07 2005
Robert Fisk
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Robert Fisk is one of the world's best known journalists. He has been based in the Middle East as the UK Independent's Middle East correspondent for nearly 30 years, during which he has reported on two U.S. wars in Iraq, two Afghan wars, the Israe...
Gberie: Liberia's Elections
Znet Article, December, 05 2005
Lansana Gberie
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In the end, bizarrely, they made it all look like an anticlimax. Liberia’s recent elections, the milestone of the country’s difficult transition from brutal low-intensity warfare to peace, had been choreographed in advance to fit a...
Podur: Detestable Murderers and Scumbags
Znet Article, December, 05 2005
Justin Podur
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ON JULY 11, 2005, WITH great nuance and tact, Canada’s Chief of Defence Staff General Hillier described the forces arrayed against the NATO mission in Afghanistan: “These are detestable murderers and scumbags, I’ll tell...
Avnery: Two Earthquakes
Znet Article, November, 28 2005
Uri Avnery
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A POLITICAL earthquake is itself a rare event. When two major political earthquakes follow each other in quick succession, this is almost unheard of. One such earthquake was the election of Amir Peretz as leader of the Labor Party. The other is S...
Zibechi: Regional Integration After the Collapse of FTAA
Znet Article, November, 24 2005
Raúl Zibechi
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Although every Latin American government pays lip service to integration, taking the concrete steps needed to attain it is much more difficult than simply issuing declarations. In the wake of the collapse of the Free Trade Agreement of the Amer...
Baroud: Gaza Border Deal
Znet Article, November, 24 2005
Ramzy Baroud
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Starting Nov. 25, Palestinians from the Gaza Strip may, in theory, be able to freely cross the Rafah border into Egypt, according to an agreement brokered by US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. Typically, Israel wished to have the final say o...
Landau: Who We Are
Znet Article, November, 22 2005
Saul Landau
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G. W. Bush returned from a brief but difficult November learning foray in Latin America: "Wow, Brazil is big." Meanwhile, US citizens grew impatient with his performance. CBS polls rated him at 35% approval in early November. Even his supporters a...
Bouteldja: A ghettoised, post-colonial France is upon us
Znet Article, November, 22 2005
Naima Bouteldja
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In 1991, after violent riots between youths and police scarred the suburbs of Lyon, French sociologist Alain Tourraine predicted that "it will only be a few years before we face the kind of massive urban explosion of the American experience". The ...
Hallinan: Destabilization won't be easy
Znet Article, November, 22 2005
Conn Hallinan
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It would be easy to make fun of President Bush's recent fiasco at the 4th Summit of the Americas in Mar del Plata, Argentina. His grand plan for a free trade zone reaching from the Artic Circle to Terra del Fuego was soundly rejected by nations fe...
Ireland: France After The Riots
Znet Article, November, 21 2005
Doug Ireland
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France After The Riots
Fisk: War for Civilization
Znet Article, November, 21 2005
Robert Fisk
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YE: How is it going with the process of releasing your new book (Great War for Civilization)? RF: Well, it should be a time when you sit back and enjoy the glow, but actually it’s too hard to do that. I’m still exhausted from writ...
Mian: Blinded by the Bomb
Znet Article, November, 18 2005
Zia Mian
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For decades, leaders of India and Pakistan have been bewitched by the power of the bomb. Regardless of their various other differences, they seem to have believed that the threat of massive destruction represented by nuclear weapons is a force for...
Welsh: Haiti Action
Znet Article, November, 15 2005
Dave Welsh
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Flashpoints Radio’s Nora Barrows-Friedman interviews Dave Welsh, Haiti Action Committee Flashpoints: The paltry coverage of the situation in Haiti these days mainly consists of speculation and U.S. response to the upcoming elections, w...
Chomsky: Master Mind
Znet Article, November, 15 2005
Noam Chomsky
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Three weeks ago, Prof. Noam Chomsky was voted the most important public intellectual in the world today. About 20,000 people took part in the poll, which was conducted jointly by a British monthly called Prospect and the Washington-based Foreign P...
Ireland: WHY IS FRANCE BURNING?
Znet Article, November, 06 2005
Doug Ireland
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Saturday night was the 10th day of the spreading youth riots that...
Zunes: Bush Again Resorts to Fear-Mongering to Justify Iraq Policy
Znet Article, November, 04 2005
Stephen Zunes
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President George W. Bush's October 6 address at the National Endowment for Democracy illustrated his administration's increasingly desperate effort to justify the increasingly unpopular U.S. war in Iraq. The speech focused upon the Bush administra...
Ngugi: Can Zimbabwe Become Africa's Cuba, Part 2
Znet Article, November, 04 2005
Mukoma Ngugi
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Back to Part 1 Which Way Out: ZANU PF, MDC or Moyo’s Third Way? If ZANU PF has been hurt by the state of the economy and US led sanctions, so has the MDC. The sanctions were called for by the MDC. However sanctions work when most of t...
Shrivastava: Civilization and compassion at the dawn of the twenty-first century
Znet Article, November, 04 2005
Aseem Shrivastava
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Civilization is on a mission from God to free the world from the evil of tyranny and bring democracy and human rights to all peoples of the planet. Presumably, there is human concern and compassion behind such a quest, more grand than any conceive...
