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Podur: Colombia in 2004
Znet Article, January, 01 2005
Justin Podur
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Part 1 / Part 3 Mass arrests by the army, paramilitary massacres and assassinations were among the ongoing effects of Uribe's 'democratic security' policy. Even as the sham 'negotiations' for the 'demobiliza...
Podur: Colombia in 2004
Znet Article, January, 01 2005
Justin Podur
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Part 2 / Part 3 “President Alvaro Uribe badly wanted to show Colombians his only recent success: Bush’s re-election. But the US President had only three hours to visit the only supporter of his strat...
Podur: 886,000 black people died unnecessarily - in the world's wealthiest country - from 1991-2000
Blog Post, December, 28 2004
Justin Podur
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This story came from the LiP people who do a 'media picks' weekly mailing. You have heard of the Lancet study that conservatively estimates that the US killed 100,000 in Iraq. You have heard of the UN figures that suggested in 1996 that excess mo...
Podur: 886,000 black people died unnecessarily - in the world's wealthiest country - from 1991-2000
Blog Post, December, 28 2004
Justin Podur
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This story came from the LiP people who do a 'media picks' weekly mailing. You have heard of the Lancet study that conservatively estimates that the US killed 100,000 in Iraq. You have heard of the UN figures that suggested in 1996 that excess mo...
Podur: Gaza Explosion
Blog Post, December, 13 2004
Justin Podur
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Media will dutifully be reporting the deaths of five Israeli soldiers -- though some media are calling them simply 'Israelis', not specifying that they are soldiers -- in a Palestinian armed attack at a military checkpoint in Rafah. Israelis have...
Podur: Gaza Explosion
Blog Post, December, 13 2004
Justin Podur
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Media will dutifully be reporting the deaths of five Israeli soldiers -- though some media are calling them simply 'Israelis', not specifying that they are soldiers -- in a Palestinian armed attack at a military checkpoint in Rafah. Israelis have...
Podur: The Bush visit to Canada
Blog Post, December, 02 2004
Justin Podur
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Back from Ottawa. A couple more notes (previous blog on the demos). One, the estimates are out on numbers and I don't believe them. Sure, protesters exaggerate the numbers but I've never felt such a discrepancy. I have decent footage, standing at...
Podur: The Bush visit to Canada
Blog Post, December, 02 2004
Justin Podur
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Back from Ottawa. A couple more notes (previous blog on the demos). One, the estimates are out on numbers and I don't believe them. Sure, protesters exaggerate the numbers but I've never felt such a discrepancy. I have decent footage, standing at...
Podur: Iraqi Elections Delay
Blog Post, November, 27 2004
Justin Podur
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So the US and the Iraqi political parties it is sponsoring want to delay elections. Readers who follow this link will be impressed by the hypocrisy. Every story you read about Iraq now seems to have an obligatory feature about how many bodies the ...
Podur: Iraqi Elections Delay
Blog Post, November, 27 2004
Justin Podur
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So the US and the Iraqi political parties it is sponsoring want to delay elections. Readers who follow this link will be impressed by the hypocrisy. Every story you read about Iraq now seems to have an obligatory feature about how many bodies the ...
Podur: Punishing politicians for pointing out the obvious
Blog Post, November, 19 2004
Justin Podur
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Canadian politicians are showing their moral fiber by denouncing one of their own, Carolyn Parrish, who went on a comedy show and stomped on a Bush doll. The wide range of views on Parrish's act goes from people who think she shouldn't have done i...
Podur: Punishing politicians for pointing out the obvious
Blog Post, November, 19 2004
Justin Podur
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Canadian politicians are showing their moral fiber by denouncing one of their own, Carolyn Parrish, who went on a comedy show and stomped on a Bush doll. The wide range of views on Parrish's act goes from people who think she shouldn't have done i...
Podur: Bush in Canada
Znet Article, November, 18 2004
Justin Podur
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There used to be two mainstream politicians with a spine in Canada. Svend Robinson from British Columbia was a member of the social democrat New Democratic Party (NDP). He visited the Occupied Palestinian Territories and was virtually alone in c...
Podur: Unnecessary Concessions
Commentary, November, 18 2004
Justin Podur
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Is there something wrong with using a bomb to destroy a building that might have civilians in it just because there might be an `insurgent' hiding there?
Podur: Bush is coming to Canada November 30
Blog Post, November, 17 2004
Justin Podur
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The Globe and Mail story sets the date for November 30. It will "mark a thaw in bilateral relations, though his policies remain highly unpopular with Canadians." He may even speak at Parliament, which "raises the spectre of protests. Polls show t...
Podur: Bush is coming to Canada November 30
Blog Post, November, 17 2004
Justin Podur
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The Globe and Mail story sets the date for November 30. It will "mark a thaw in bilateral relations, though his policies remain highly unpopular with Canadians." He may even speak at Parliament, which "raises the spectre of protests. Polls show t...
Podur: Sudan and Hypocrisy
Blog Post, November, 17 2004
Justin Podur
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The fabulous magazine Left Turn invited me to update my September essay on Sudan, so I totally revamped it in light of the recent peace accords. Below is an early draft. For the final version, get Left Turn! The crisis in Sudan provides an extr...
Podur: Sudan and Hypocrisy
Blog Post, November, 17 2004
Justin Podur
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The fabulous magazine Left Turn invited me to update my September essay on Sudan, so I totally revamped it in light of the recent peace accords. Below is an early draft. For the final version, get Left Turn! The crisis in Sudan provides an extr...
Podur: Arafat
Blog Post, November, 11 2004
Justin Podur
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Palestine's leader, Yasser Arafat, has died. I expect that in the coming days there will be a lot of stupid things written about him on all sides. I have already read some of it. As when he was living, the point will not be to shower contempt on ...
Podur: Arafat
Blog Post, November, 11 2004
Justin Podur
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Palestine's leader, Yasser Arafat, has died. I expect that in the coming days there will be a lot of stupid things written about him on all sides. I have already read some of it. As when he was living, the point will not be to shower contempt on ...
