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Podur: Between the hills and the lake: hello from Bukavu
Znet Article, June, 29 2009
Justin Podur
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I'm in Bukavu, in South Kivu, in the Democratic Republic of Congo. It's a big city! About a million people, in the uplands, on the coast of a strange and geologically fascinating volcanic origin Lake Kivu.
Podur: Uribe in Ottawa
Znet Article, June, 12 2009
Justin Podur
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So, Colombia's President Alvaro Uribe Velez came to Canada and spoke to Canadian politicians in order to try to resurrect the stalled CCFTA.
Podur: Canada Colombia Free Trade Agreement
Znet Article, June, 03 2009
Justin Podur
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The following set of questions and answers are intended to help those in Canada trying to stop the CCFTA (or see to it that it stays down).
Podur: Eelam War IV
Znet Article, May, 16 2009
Justin Podur
Podur's ZSpace page
The Sri Lankan military now (May 16/09) controls virtually all of the territory that was once controlled by the Tamil Tiger (Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, or LTTE) insurgents.
Barghouti: The South Africa Moment in Palestine
Znet Article, April, 04 2009
Omar Barghouti
Barghouti's ZSpace page
Omar Barghouti is an activist and writer based in Palestine. He was one of the early advocates of a Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions strategy against Israel's occupation and apartheid policies. He was one of the headline speakers of Israeli Aparthei...
Podur: Two Leaps, Two Ironies, and a Joke
Znet Article, March, 09 2009
Justin Podur
Podur's ZSpace page
Below are my annotations (notes in bold) to a memo written by Canadian Liberal Party leader Michael Ignatieff. Ignatieff's memo denounced a campus lecture series, Israeli Apartheid Week.
Podur: The gift that keeps on giving
Znet Article, March, 06 2009
Justin Podur
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One of Colombia's major magazines, Cambio, published a story quoting from the magic laptops that survived bombing in the Ecuadorian jungle and were retrieved after the Colombian government assassinated Raul Reyes just about a year ago (March 3/08)...
Podur: Canada's War on Terror Hangover
Znet Article, February, 28 2009
Justin Podur
Podur's ZSpace page
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
Podur's ZSpace page
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
Podur's ZSpace page
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
Podur's ZSpace page
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
Podur's ZSpace page
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
Podur's ZSpace page
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
Podur's ZSpace page
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
Podur's ZSpace page
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
Podur's ZSpace page
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
Podur's ZSpace page
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
Podur's ZSpace page
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
Podur's ZSpace page
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...
