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Podur: Canada's War on Terror Hangover
Znet Article, February, 28 2009
Justin Podur
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On February 20, the Federal Court of Canada dropped most of the conditions it had placed on one of the prisoners of its “security certificate†regime, Adil Charkaoui. While much of his life is still lived in the rights-free zone widened under ...
Podur: Not a ceasefire
Znet Article, January, 18 2009
Justin Podur
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Israel used the word "disengagement" in 2005 to mean continued occupation, control of movement, periodic massacre, and blockade. Now Israel is using the word "ceasefire" to mean continued ground occupation and supervised societal collapse. The wor...
Podur: Turn off the Canadian Media, Please
Znet Article, January, 08 2009
Justin Podur
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If national media help make a nation, then we all need to stop reading and listening to conventional Canadian media if we want to make a decent Canada.
Podur: This kind of "war"
Znet Article, January, 05 2009
Justin Podur
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The current crisis in Gaza began with Israel's breaking the ceasefire with Hamas on November 4, 2008. The five-month ceasefire was unsustainable for two reasons.
Podur: Palestine doesn't get to have a 9/11
Znet Article, December, 29 2008
Justin Podur
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In September 2001, a group of terrorists from al Qaeda killed several thousand Americans in New York. US friends and enemies alike condemned the attacks and the attackers.
Podur: A break in the Liberal-Conservative coalition
Znet Article, December, 02 2008
Justin Podur
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In Canada, the Conservative minority government might just become the opposition in parliament this week, replaced by a Liberal-NDP coalition with support from the Bloc Quebecois from the outside.
Podur: The Toronto Palestine Film Festival
Znet Article, November, 07 2008
Justin Podur
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I spent the week Oct 25-Nov 1 at the Toronto Palestine Film Festival (TPFF). Walk through my journey with me.
Podur: The financial economy and the real economy
Znet Article, October, 14 2008
Justin Podur
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Writers on financial or economic matters rarely see the need to explain the basics of the field or justify them at the best of times, let alone in the middle of unfolding crises. What are these 'financial instruments' – futures, options, and swap...
Podur: Canadian election taboos - and possibilities
Znet Article, October, 07 2008
Justin Podur
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The 2008 Canadian election has some of the features of the past few elections. The majority of the population faces the quandary of how to defeat a reactionary party that just might have the largest plurality of support. Will they get a majority o...
Podur: Bolivia’s elites seek a media coup
Znet Article, September, 15 2008
Justin Podur
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Bolivia's popular movements are attempting to use democracy and a legitimate government to advance an agenda of sovereignty, greater equality, and development. Their opponents, led by several governors of the wealthier provinces in a part of the c...
Podur: The desperate lies of a criminal regime
Znet Article, August, 30 2008
Justin Podur
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So now the computer of an assassinated guerrilla leader, a computer that survived a missile attack and 48 hours of tampering by Colombian authorities according to INTERPOL, yields email evidence "linking" the decimated guerrillas to a peace activi...
Podur: The Para-Uribe Regime, the Extraditions, and Justice in Colombia
Znet Article, August, 21 2008
Justin Podur
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Colombia's current President Alvaro Uribe Velez’ political history is intimately tied with paramilitarism. He was mayor of the then drug-trafficker controlled Medellin in 1982, and when he became governor of Antioquia in 1995-1997, he supported th...
Podur: The Para-Uribe Regime, the Extraditions, and Justice in Colombia
Znet Article, August, 21 2008
Justin Podur
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Colombia's current President Alvaro Uribe Velez’ political history is intimately tied with paramilitarism. He was mayor of the then drug-trafficker controlled Medellin in 1982, and when he became governor of Antioquia in 1995-1997, he supported th...
Podur: The NATO Occupation and Fundamentalism
Znet Article, August, 13 2008
Justin Podur
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The Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan (RAWA) is a women's organization that runs underground schools and other projects, educates Afghan girls, runs a periodic journal, and agitates politically for women's rights, human rights,...
Podur: The Continuing Relevance of the Left in India
Znet Article, August, 06 2008
Justin Podur
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First of all, thank you for allowing me to be a part of the honouring of TK Ramachandran. I did not know him, but I have done a little bit of research now, enough to know that he was not someone who shrunk from a debate or a discussion. I hope we ...
Podur: Empires Don't Build Rivals
Commentary, August, 03 2008
Justin Podur
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In the background of the Indo-US nuclear deal now going into "overdrive", as well as the increasing economic co-operation and (most importantly) the joint military excercises and interoperability efforts and acquisitions made by India, there is a ...
Podur: A Day in Delhi
Blog Post, July, 19 2008
Justin Podur
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On my way from Pakistan to Kerala, I stopped for a day in Delhi - I have a couple of hours left in this very interesting city. Thanks to friends I had an excellent 48 hours, though I could have stayed much longer and learned much more.
Podur: So, what am I doing in Islamabad?
Commentary, July, 17 2008
Justin Podur
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I am currently sitting in my very reasonable apartment in the Iqbal International Institute for Research and Dialogue guest house, typing at a laptop that is sitting on a dresser and using a wireless connection set up for me by my host, Junaid Ahm...
Podur: On drug wars and opium fueled insurgencies
Znet Article, July, 13 2008
Justin Podur
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Over the past few days the Americans have hit the Pakistanis at the border and are increasing threats of hot pursuit. Some of the peace deals between frontier forces and militant groups are holding. In other areas, the Taliban have besieged Pakist...
Podur: The writ of the state
Znet Article, July, 08 2008
Justin Podur
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Another couple of days of bombings in Pakistan and Afghanistan, each with its own message and each by a different group. A couple of days ago the Americans hit a wedding party and killed over 20 people in Afghanistan. In Kabul yesterday the Indian...
