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Podur: Resolution 1441
Znet Article, November, 11 2002
Justin Podur
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With the passage of UN Security Council Resolution 1441, the US has removed another obstacle in its path to an escalated war against Iraq. Those countries who had been holdouts in the Security Council claim that they went along because their fea...
Podur: 10/7
Znet Article, October, 07 2002
Justin Podur
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10/7 will not go down in history or live in infamy the way 9/11 did. Those who wish that it would are guilty of something called moral equivalence. It's not clear what moral equivalence is, but those who are guilty of it evidently be...
Podur: South Asia, 'Stiffed'
Znet Article, September, 26 2002
Justin Podur
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With terror feeding terror all over the world, with the United States preparing to escalate a war against Iraq that has killed hundreds of thousands over the past ten years, to think of the kind of voice, the kind of force, India should have been ...
Podur: The Government's Mask Comes Off In Chiapas
Commentary, September, 06 2002
Justin Podur
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Two years ago, just after Vicente Fox's election ended the PRI's 71-year long dictatorship over Mexico and just before Pablo Salazar's election as governor of Chiapas raised such high hopes of change, there was a literacy class in the Tzotzil, Abe...
Podur: Welcome to the Nightmare
Commentary, August, 14 2002
Justin Podur
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Alvaro Uribe Velez was being sworn in as Colombia's president on August 7 while mortar shells were hitting the presidential palace. He was swearing that his war plan, that includes the creation of a 'civilian intelligence network' of spies who are...
Podur: The Pope Squat
Commentary, August, 07 2002
Justin Podur
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The pope has left the city, and the Ontario Coalition Against Poverty still has the building.
Podur: What Happened In Jenin? What Is Happening In Jenin
Znet Article, August, 05 2002
Justin Podur
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What happened in Jenin? What is happening in Jenin? The second question is more important than the first, but the two are related. With the United Nations report on Jenin having been published, and the Human Rights Watch Report tabled some time ag...
Podur: The Pope Squat
Commentary, August, 03 2002
Justin Podur
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The pope has left the city, and the Ontario Coalition Against Poverty still has the building.
Podur: A Conversation with Justin Podur in Gaza
Znet Article, July, 01 2002
Justin Podur
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Tell me about Gaza. During my first few hours here in Gaza, just after I crossed the Erez checkpoint, I passed an orange grove being knocked down by Israeli armored bulldozers. We started to take pictures of what was going on, but nearby tanks ...
Podur: Turning the West Bank and Gaza into Prisons
Znet Article, June, 26 2002
Justin Podur
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1. Describe what's happening in Jenin.This is a society that's slowly being choked to death. It is marked by fear, random violence, and irrational destruction. No one is allowed peace of mind. Even the relatively well-off -- those with jobs and so...
Podur: Q&A with Justin Podur in Ramallah
Znet Article, June, 20 2002
Justin Podur
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On Tuesday, June 18, shortly after a Palestinian suicide bomber killed 19 people on a bus outside Jerusalem, Ariel Sharon announced his intention to invade areas formally controlled by the Palestinian Authority, and not leave until Palestinian sui...
Podur: Instead of Nation States
Commentary, June, 14 2002
Justin Podur
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"It's disturbing to see how neatly nationalism dovetails into fascism. While we must not allow the fascists to define what the nation is, or who it belongs to, it's worth keeping in mind that nationalism, in all its many avatars-socialist, capital...
Podur: Prepare for 4 years of the Uribe Model
Znet Article, May, 30 2002
Justin Podur
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"A dignified President, doctor Alvaro Uribe Velez, has been elected conclusively and consciously in the first round, by and for a Fatherland that wants to make itself peaceful and to grow in solidarity." -- Salvatore Mancuso, Commander of the Auto...
Podur: Movements of Resistance in the Americas
Znet Article, May, 29 2002
Justin Podur
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A proposed view of history Much of Latin America won independence from Spain in the 19th century. All countries that were independent faced the same problem: the former imperial powers continued to control decisive military, financial...
Podur: Against Fear and Invisibility
Znet Article, May, 03 2002
Justin Podur
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The struggle of Colombians is a struggle against fear and a struggle against invisibility. These are two of the worst weapons used against Colombians. Fear, because it causes the silence elites need to fulfill their agendas. Invisibil...
Podur: Re-colonization Is Still On Schedule
Commentary, April, 16 2002
Justin Podur
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What does the recent coup in Venezuela mean for those struggling for social justice in Latin America? Are there lessons to be learned?
Podur: Nation States?
Commentary, April, 07 2002
Justin Podur
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A state can be defined as a 'coercion-wielding organization that exercises priority over all other organizations in a definite territory', after Charles Tilly. Tilly says that the logic of states is to try to expand their power territorially by ma...
Podur: The War Foretold
Znet Article, April, 05 2002
Justin Podur
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Most of the victims of the perpetual war in Colombia are unarmed poor civilians. For every military casualty there are six civilian deaths. In the words of one peasant leader, the Colombian war 'is not a civil war. It's a war aga...
Podur: Cut Through The Lies In Palestine
Commentary, April, 04 2002
Justin Podur
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It's possible that there are more distortions and lies printed about
Podur: Colombia Interview
Znet Article, March, 22 2002
Justin Podur
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Steve Shalom. The New York Times ran a story on February 25 by Juan Forero titled "Colombian Rebels Sabotage Peace Hopes." Perhaps you can address some of the questions raised by the article. Let me begin, however, by asking about the political p...
