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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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: Venezuela's Constitutional Reform Fails (For Now)
Commentary, December, 04 2007
Justin Podur
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Venezuela's Constitutional Reform Fails (For Now)
Podur: Shawn Brant
Znet Article, September, 19 2007
Justin Podur
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On August 30, about two weeks before Canada became one of only four countries to vote against a UN declaration on indigenous rights, Tyendinaga Mohawk father and activist, Shawn Brant was released from Quinte Detention Centre on bail. Bail had bee...
Podur: Global Warming Suspicions and Confusions
Znet Article, May, 11 2007
Justin Podur
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In recent years, a number of important contributions have influenced the growing debate on global warming. Paul Baer and Tom Athanasiou's book, Dead Heat, from a few years ago, was excellent. Noam Chomsky's latest book, Failed States, mentions glo...
Podur: An Open Letter to Mitch Potter, on Truly Disgusting Racism
Znet Article, February, 13 2007
Justin Podur
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Dear Mitch Potter, It has been some time since you wrote me on September 10, 2006, in response to my blog post at killingtrain.com of July 28, 2006. You wrote me with serious concerns that I had maligned your reputation – attaching, in y...
Podur: Abandoning Hypocrisy
Znet Article, September, 26 2006
Justin Podur
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[Talk given at the Canadian launch of Bleeding Afghanistan September 21, 2006] Just over five years ago I visited Colombia for the first time. I walked through some farmers’ fields that had been fumigated as part of the ‘war on dr...
Podur: In whose interests are the "residents" rallies in Caledonia?
Znet Article, May, 23 2006
Justin Podur
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On May 22, 2006 - after holding a blockade of the Highway 6 at Caldeonia, Ontario (Canada) since February - the indigenous of Six Nations unblocked the highway. The dismantling of the blockade - initially erected by the indigenous to enforce their...
Podur: Race, Culture, and Leftists
Znet Article, May, 21 2006
Justin Podur
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My presentation is motivated by what I believe is a weakness across the political spectrum: handling the interaction of different cultures and identities in accordance with principles of equality, solidarity, and liberty. My optimistic belief is t...
