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Barghouti: Palestinian Defiance
Znet Article, July, 12 2005
Mustafa Barghouti
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Could you tell us about your origins and early trajectory? I was born in Jerusalem, in 1954, but I spent my childhood here in Ramallah. My family is from Deir Ghassaneh, a village about fifteen miles away, near Bir Zeit; but after 1948, my father...
Administrator: Sir No Sir
Znet Article, June, 19 2005
Site Administrator
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Donald Duncan is a familiar kind of man, his face lined and weathered, his husky voice flavored by a regional American accent. His eyes are thoughtful as he tells a familiar American story, of how he dreamed of being a war hero, until the brutalit...
Nettnin: Waiting for Quds
Znet Article, June, 05 2005
Sonia Nettnin
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In April 2005, “Waiting for Quds†premiered at the Chicago International Documentary Film Festival where it was selected as a “Favorite Pic.†It screened at the DocAviv Film Festival in Tel Aviv also. Blachor worked...
Gordon: Frontiers, Ghettos, and Gaza
Znet Article, May, 20 2005
Neve Gordon
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A Review of James Ron, Frontiers and Ghettos: State Violence in Serbia and Israel, University of California Press. In what direction are Israeli-Palestinian relations heading? Will the imminent withdrawal from the Gaza Strip lead the two partie...
Panitch: What you need to know about May Day
Znet Article, May, 11 2005
Leo Panitch
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For more than 100 years, May Day has symbolized the common struggles of workers around the globe. Why is it largely ignored in North America? The answer lies in part in American labour's long repression of its own radical past, out of which intern...
Gordon: Before the Law
Znet Article, April, 19 2005
Neve Gordon
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A review of the book "Courting Conflict: The Israeli Military Court System in the West Bank and Gaza", by Lisa Hajjar. University of California Press. An Israeli Jew and a Palestinian meet in transit right after having been sentenced in court. ...
Glick: Ella Baker and the Process of Social Change
Znet Article, April, 11 2005
Ted Glick
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I was immensely privileged as a young activist in my 20's to meet Ella Baker and work together with her in the same organization, the Mass Party Organizing Committee. This was in the late '70s and early '80s. At the time I knew that she was a wide...
Loewenstein: God Under Howard
Znet Article, March, 20 2005
Antony Loewenstein
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Many voters had never heard of the Family First party before the 2004 election. When candidate Steven Fielding won a Victorian Senate seat (due to an ALP preference deal gone wrong), many Australians thought that a far-right, Christian-based moral...
Loewenstein: In Praise Of Soeharto The Despot
Znet Article, March, 19 2005
Antony Loewenstein
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In a speech to the Australian Parliament on November 23, 1999, Prime Minister John Howard articulated his reasons for the country leading a peacekeeping force to East Timor, the former Portuguese colony invaded by Indonesia in 1975 with Australian...
Swanson: Nursing Against the Odds: The Workers' View
Znet Article, March, 13 2005
David Swanson
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"Nursing Against the Odds: How Health Care Cost Cutting, Media Stereotypes, and Medical Hubris Undermine Nurses and Patient Care," by Suzanne Gordon, Cornell University Press, 450 pages. Nurses. Nurses. Nurses. Already I've guaranteed that more...
Gberie: Sorious Samura: Commitment And Voyeurism
Znet Article, March, 05 2005
Lansana Gberie
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On a trip to war-wracked Vietnam in the 1950s---the country was then enmeshed in a bloody anti-colonial war pitting patriotic Vietnamese against the French---the English writer Graham Greene had one of his mordantly conflicted moments. Boarding a ...
Stauber: Managing Activism: PR Advice for "Neutralizing" Democracy
Znet Article, February, 28 2005
John Stauber
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When I first picked up Denise Deegan's book, Managing Activism: A Guide to Dealing with Activists and Pressure Groups, I imagined a roomful of uniformed pest applicators at the Orkin company, sitting on benches like military aviators before a bomb...
Ebert: The Take Documentary Tracks Workers Who 'Take' Chance at Revival
Znet Article, February, 21 2005
Roger Ebert
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As one documentary after another attacks the International Monetary Fund and its pillaging of the Third World, I wish I knew the first thing about global economics. If these films are as correct as they are persuasive, international monetary polic...
Administrator: Documenting the Bolivarian Revolution:
Znet Article, February, 03 2005
Site Administrator
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Hugo Chavez, the leader of Venezuela’s Bolivarian Revolution, was at first kept at arm’s length by many of the progressive movements worldwide. The Left, shy of state power after the collapse of the Soviet bureaucratic bloc, tended...
Chen: News Incorporated
Znet Article, January, 29 2005
Michelle Chen
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Reviewing News Incorporated: Corporate Media Ownership and Its Threat to DemocracyEdited by Elliot D. CohenPrometheus Books, 2005 You don’t have to be an information junkie or a policy expert to get the sense that there is something awry...
Johnson: Abolish the CIA!
Znet Article, November, 05 2004
Chalmers Johnson
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Abolish the CIA!
Podur: Crossing the Lines
Znet Article, October, 23 2004
Justin Podur
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Reviewing: Crossing the Lines: Kashmir, Pakistan, India A story of people at war over borders and boundariesA documentary film by Pervez Hoodbhoy and Zia MianEqbal Ahmad Foundation, 2004, 45 minutes and Between Past and Future - Selected Essays...
Solomon: A Time of Butterflies and Bombers
Znet Article, August, 13 2004
Norman Solomon
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We saw butterflies turning into bombers. ...
Prashad: Farenheit 9/11
Znet Article, July, 19 2004
Vijay Prashad
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Robert Jensen's review of F9/11 irritated me. It seems to have missed the wood from the trees. There is the phenomenon of F9/11 which deserves comment -- those who see the movie are not only seeing what Moore has edited for us, but many have been ...
Podur: The Congo Conflict
Znet Article, March, 05 2004
Justin Podur
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Reviewing Georges Nzongola-Ntalaja. The Congo From Leopold to Kabila: A People's History. Zed Books, London, 2002. Nzongola-Ntalaja was interviewed in preparation for the review on Jan 29, 2004. John F. Clark. The African Stake...
