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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...
Podur: A bombing in Islamabad; suspended operations in NWFP
Blog Post, July, 07 2008
Justin Podur
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Pakistan's editorial pages are full of opinion and analysis on how to deal with the insurgency.
Podur: Ingrid Betancourt Released
Commentary, July, 04 2008
Justin Podur
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Colombia's most high-profile hostage of the FARC guerrilla group, French-Colombian former Presidential candidate, Ingrid Betancourt was just freed (July 2/08) in a military operation by the Colombian armed forces.
Podur: Ingrid Betancourt Released
Znet Article, July, 02 2008
Justin Podur
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Colombia's most high-profile hostage of the FARC guerrilla group, French-Colombian former Presidential candidate, Ingrid Betancourt was just freed in a military operation by the Colombian armed forces. This is a major event in Colombian politics a...
Podur: Privatization for a prosperous Pakistan?
Blog Post, July, 02 2008
Justin Podur
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Pakistan's civilian government's economic policy is based on liberalization and privatization - perhaps not a good idea. Some commentary on the perils of privatization.
Podur: Pakistan's Economy and energy prices
Blog Post, July, 01 2008
Justin Podur
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Some thoughts on Pakistan's economy as a developing country trying to cope with rising global energy prices...
Podur: From Islamabad
Blog Post, June, 29 2008
Justin Podur
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A first blog post from Islamabad, Pakistan. Based mostly on reading the english-language media, which I could have done from Canada, but still hopefully of interest...
Podur: On a quest for secular piety
Znet Article, June, 21 2008
Justin Podur
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Tarek personally asked me to review his book, Chasing a Mirage: the tragic illusion of an Islamic State (CM). With a book being favorably reviewed in the Canadian (and US and UK) media, including the Globe and Mail, the Toronto Star, the Huffing...
Podur: Bursting the Dam of Containment
Znet Article, June, 13 2008
Justin Podur
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At its core, Peter Hallward's remarkable book, “Damming the Flood: Haiti, Aristide, and the Politics of Containment”, is the detailed story of the struggle between the Lavalas movement and the forces arrayed against Haitian sovereignty and democra...
Podur: The Academic Boycott Debate
Znet Article, April, 24 2008
Justin Podur
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On Wednesday November 28, 2007 I was in the audience for a debate on the question of whether Israel should be subjected to an academic boycott. In the midst of the farce of the Annapolis talks, it was refreshing that the terms of debate at least s...
Podur: Ecology & Climate Change
Audio, April, 05 2008
Justin Podur
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A talk about the science of climate change and its political implications.
Podur: Canada's newest political prisoners
Znet Article, March, 30 2008
Justin Podur
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The jailing of these leaders offers a window into a whole host of Canada’s irrationalities and cruelties – the callous dispossession of the indigenous, the search for quick profits to be torn out of the ground and turned into money whatever the co...
Rozental: Bolivia on the Brink
Znet Article, March, 05 2008
Manuel Rozental
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Bolivia is on the brink of civil war. With a popular government attempting to put forward a new constitution and an elite intent on blocking change, or failing that separating the resource-rich part of the country from the rest, events are moving ...
Podur: Colombia Assassinates Raul Reyes of FARC
Commentary, March, 03 2008
Justin Podur
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Raul Reyes was assassinated on Ecuadorian territory...
Podur: Life After Racism?
Znet Article, February, 25 2008
Justin Podur
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Talk prepared for Life After Capitalism Conference at World Social Forum, Porto Alegre, January 2003.
Podur: Colombia's war and Venezuela's foreign policy
Znet Article, January, 23 2008
Justin Podur
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This article will explain the Colombian context and what Chavez was, and is, probably trying to achieve with the humanitarian accord. The release of the hostages was a very positive development, for reasons that will be discussed below.
Podur: Defend the Border
Znet Article, January, 06 2008
Justin Podur
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The phrase “defend the border” wasn’t always a metaphor. And it isn’t just a metaphor in many parts of the world, even today: some states do have to worry about overland military invasions.
Podur: Exchange on the Academic Boycott
Znet Article, December, 11 2007
Justin Podur
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On November 28, 2007, Ryerson University in Toronto held a debate on “Academic Boycott and Academic Freedom†in the context of Israel/Palestine. Justin Podur wrote an article on the debate (http://www.zmag.org/znet/viewArticle/17261) and one o...
Podur: Exchange on the Academic Boycott
Znet Article, December, 11 2007
Justin Podur
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On November 28, 2007, Ryerson University in Toronto held a debate on “Academic Boycott and Academic Freedom†in the context of Israel/Palestine. Justin Podur wrote an article on the debate (http://www.zmag.org/znet/viewArticle/17261) and one o...
