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St-vil: Fair Elections in Haiti
Znet Article, August, 26 2005
Jean St-vil
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All indicators suggest a fiasco for the scheduled fall elections in Haiti. The International Crisis Group (ICG) observed that 18 months after former President Jean Bertrand Aristide was forced out of the country, Haiti remains insecure and volatil...
Plitnick: Gaza Withdrawal Backgrounder
Znet Article, August, 17 2005
Mitchell Plitnick
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The Gaza withdrawal, while a positive step forward in some ways, signifies the perpetuation of Israeli control over Palestinians albeit in a different form. The US must maintain pressure on Israel to continue to vacate settlements and outposts in ...
Abed: Disengagement and the Politics of Post-National Realism
Znet Article, August, 17 2005
Mohammad Abed
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I The Meaning of Disengagement Maintaining or intensifying oppressive policies requires the manufacture of a diversion, a 'smokescreen' that buys time and accumulates political capital. One reliable way of accumulating political capital is to ...
Holloway: Can We Change The World Without Taking Power?
Znet Article, August, 16 2005
John Holloway
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John Holloway: I don’t know the answer. Perhaps we can change the world without taking power. Perhaps we cannot. The starting point—for all of us, I think—is uncertainty, not knowing, a common search for a way forward. Bec...
Morris-suzuki: Free Speech -- Silenced Voices:
Znet Article, August, 15 2005
Tessa Morris-suzuki
Morris-suzuki's ZSpace page
At the start of each week, the commuter trains and subways of Japan are adorned with a mass of multi-colored advertisements, enticing the passengers to buy the latest of issue of the country's many weekly magazines. The advertisements are an art f...
Z: Vermin And Souvenirs
Znet Article, August, 10 2005
Mickey Z
Z's ZSpace page
Because Japan chose to invade several colonial outposts of the West, the war in the Pacific laid bare the inherent racism of the colonial structure. In the United States and Britain, the Japanese were more hated than the Germans. The race card was...
Hoodbhoy: Bin Laden And Hiroshima
Znet Article, August, 06 2005
Pervez Hoodbhoy
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The decision to incinerate Hiroshima and Nagasaki was not taken in anger. Whit...
Fletcher jr.: Labor Needs a Hard Left Turn
Znet Article, July, 23 2005
Bill Fletcher jr.
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Bill Fletcher is president of TransAfrica, a national policy organization in Washington dealing with issues surrounding Africa. After the reform administration of John Sweeney was elected in 1995, Fletcher became the labor federation's director of...
Choudry: Monkey-Wrenching the Globalization Gang
Znet Article, July, 23 2005
Aziz Choudry
Choudry's ZSpace page
I went to Bretton Woods, but all I got was this lousy t-shirt. Amazingly, it's not a 'one size fits all' and it's not full of holes. Walking through the Mount Washington Hotel in Bretton Woods two years ago, in the New Hampshire mountain resort a...
Achcar: Arab Spring: Late And Cold
Znet Article, July, 18 2005
Gilbert Achcar
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THREE recent events have marked the Middle East. The death of Yasser Arafat on 11 November 2004, followed by the election of Mahmoud Abbas as the president of the Palestinian Authority on 9 January; a big turnout in the Iraqi elections on 30 Janua...
Curtis: Brown's Doleful Role At Gleneagles
Znet Article, July, 10 2005
Mark Curtis
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The government will try to pull off a PR coup in the aftermath of the G8 summit by posturing as Africa's champion - hiding Britain's real agenda and how agreements on debt and aid will further impoverish the continent. While the G8 agreement com...
Scipes: An Unholy Alliance
Znet Article, July, 10 2005
Kim Scipes
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The AFL-CIO's "Solidarity Center" (formally known as the American Center for International Labor Solidarity or ACILS) was actively involved in bringing together the leadership of the right-wing Confederation of Venezuelan Workers (CTV) and that of...
Monbiot: Africa's New Best Friends
Znet Article, July, 07 2005
George Monbiot
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I began to realise how much trouble we were in when Hilary Benn, the secretary of state for international development, announced that he would be joining the Make Poverty History march on Saturday. What would he be chanting, I wondered? "Down with...
Herman: The Politics of the Srebrenica Massacre*
Znet Article, July, 07 2005
Edward Herman
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"Srebrenica" has become the symbol of evil, and specifically Serb evil. It is commonly described as "a horror without parallel in the history of Europe since the Second World War" in which there was a cold-blooded execution "of at least 8,000 Musl...
Solomon: Withdrawal Would Cripple U.S. Credibility
Znet Article, July, 04 2005
Norman Solomon
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Obsession with seeming unequivocal and immovable has been frequent in the Oval Office. During the Vietnam War, such fixations were indifferent to the fact that the war was losing the U.S. government moral credibility around the world. But from the...
Baroud: Managed Democracy
Znet Article, June, 30 2005
Ramzy Baroud
Baroud's ZSpace page
US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice’s highly publicized tour in the Middle East, Asia and Europe carried with it little or no surprises. But even then, one must not altogether write off the possibility of some lessons to be learned, eve...
Hélie: The U.S. Occupation and Rising Religious Extremism
Znet Article, June, 24 2005
Anissa Hélie
Hélie's ZSpace page
On February 8, 2005, the international feminist and anti-militarist network Women in Black (WIB) launched an urgent appeal for the immediate liberation of Giuliana Sgrena, an Italian journalist and WIB activist, who had been kidnapped in Iraq by a...
Robinson: The Battle for Global Civil Society
Znet Article, June, 13 2005
William i. Robinson
Robinson's ZSpace page
Over the past two decades US foreign policy has radically changed. While the interests and objectives have remained more or less the same despite the fall of Communism, the mechanisms for obtaining them have continued to evolve. Beginning in the e...
Klein: Torture's Part of the Territory
Znet Article, June, 08 2005
Naomi Klein
Klein's ZSpace page
Brace yourself for a flood of gruesome new torture snapshots. Last week, a federal judge ordered the Defense Department to release dozens of additional photographs and videotapes depicting prisoner abuse at Abu Ghraib. The photographs will elicit...
Boxall: South Africa and Palestine
Znet Article, May, 30 2005
Lawrence Boxall
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Lawrence Boxall is an anti-war activist and socialist; a member of Jews for a Just Peace, Stopwar.ca and the International Socialists, as well as being a veteran of the anti-Apartheid struggle in South Africa. Before moving to Vancouver in time to...
