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Shalom: Antiwar Questions and Answers
Znet Article, February, 12 2003
Stephen1 Shalom
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1. As anti-war sentiment grows and the anti-war movement gains momentum, what are the most important priorities for peace and justice organizations? To build a movement able to marshal sufficient numbers of sufficiently informed and committed peo...
Albert: Organize, Demonstrate!
Znet Article, February, 09 2003
Michael Albert
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I hate apocalyptic politics. I was radicalized by the civil rights movement and Vietnam. People shouted all kinds of furor about the environment imploding, about fascism rising, and about imminent Armageddon. The hollering had provocation. We ...
Albert: WSF: Where To Now?
Znet Article, February, 03 2003
Michael Albert
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[This is an essay in progress...modest changes will be incorporated until its final version appears in Z Magazine, in March 2003. Ideas for improvements are welcome -- mail to sysop@zmag.org -- most recent changes 02/05] The worldwide...
Hoodbhoy: Is It A War On Islam?
Commentary, February, 03 2003
Pervez Hoodbhoy
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Street opinion in Pakistan, and probably most Muslim countries, holds that Islam is the sole target of America's new wars. Even moderate Muslims are
Bond: Cultivating African Anti-Capitalism
Zmag Article, February, 01 2003
Patrick Bond
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W hen it comes to anti-capitalist resistance, the most economically marginalized sites are among the most interesting. Not because the greatest number of militant activists are out in force&mda...
Amin: For Struggles Global And National
Znet Article, January, 31 2003
Samir Amin
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The antecedents of the World Social Forum (WSF) can be traced to January 2000 when a small group of about 50 activists, representing trade unions, intellectuals, peasant organisations and other social groups, gathered in Davos. Samir Amin, an inte...
Zunes: A US Invasion Of Iraq Can Be Stopped
Znet Article, January, 17 2003
Stephen Zunes
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Despite increased preparation for war, there is a growing perception that a U.S. invasion of Iraq can be stopped. There is little question that were it not for the anti-war movement, the United States would have gone to war against Iraq already. ...
Bond: "Deglobalization"? Sure, but...
Commentary, January, 13 2003
Patrick Bond
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My favorite haunt, Zimbabwe, is the delight of aggressive bourgeois commentators, one of whom wrote a month ago about that country's meltdown in the Economist (30 November 2002):
Cook: Crossing Which Borders?
Znet Article, January, 02 2003
Jonathan Cook
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Earlier this year the Israeli novelist A B Yehoshua wrote at length about Zionism, the Jewish nation- building ideology formulated by Theodor Herzl, explaining that at its core lay the concept of a border. Jewish identity in the diaspora, he obser...
Shiva: On Pests, Weeds And Terrorists: Weaving Harmony Through Diversity
Commentary, December, 03 2002
Vandana2 Shiva
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Lack of harmony characterizes our times -- There is disharmony between humans and nature, between religions, between cultures, between genders. Non-sustainability, injustice, war are different expressions of disharmony which has its roots in a wo...
Bond: Southern Africa: support for ex-SLA fugitive and opposition to commodification
Commentary, December, 02 2002
Patrick Bond
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Johannesburg: Most ZNet readers will have heard of the November 8 arrest of former Symbionese Liberation Army fugitive, James Kilgore, known here as John Pape. Across this region, first reactions--an outpouring of support from comrades, friends an...
Hoodbhoy: The India Pakistan Conflict
Znet Article, November, 24 2002
Pervez Hoodbhoy
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These are dismal times for peace. Since the tests of May 1998 and their overt nuclearization, Pakistan-India relations have visibly deteriorated. Crisis has followed crisis and nuclear weapons have played an inc...
Cook: Alone With The Settlers
Znet Article, November, 21 2002
Jonathan Cook
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Alone With The Settlers
Shiva: In Praise Of Cowdung
Znet Article, November, 20 2002
Vandana2 Shiva
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In India we worship cow dung as Lakshmi, the goddess of wealth. Gobur-dhan puja is literally the worship of gobur (cowdung) dhan (wealth). Cow dung is worshipped because it is the source of renewal of soil fertility and hence the sustainability ...
Shiva: In Praise Of Cowdung
Commentary, November, 17 2002
Vandana2 Shiva
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In India we worship cow dung as Lakshmi, the goddess of wealth. Gobur-dhan puja is literally the worship of gobur (cowdung) dhan (wealth).
Cook: Finishing The Job
Znet Article, November, 14 2002
Jonathan Cook
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What caused Benny Morris's recent conversion to the racist ideology of transfer? The "new historian" who began unravelling Israel's narrative of the war of 1948 -- that the Palestinians fled rather than that most were expelled or terrorised from...
Cook: Of Fences And Crossings
Znet Article, November, 09 2002
Jonathan Cook
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Small red ribbons fluttered in the early evening breeze among the olive groves of the West Bank village of Falamia, leading like a child's paper trail from the greenhouses and fields of vegetables up a gentle rocky slope towards the brow of a wide...
Shiva: Deconstructing Market Access
Znet Article, November, 02 2002
Vandana2 Shiva
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Deconstructing Market Access
Albert: Resisting the War
Zmag Article, November, 01 2002
Michael Albert
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In trying to raise consciousness and inspire activist resistance regarding the currently threatened invasion of Iraq, critics repeatedly confront variations on relatively few themes. The ...
Cook: Olives And Lives
Znet Article, October, 31 2002
Jonathan Cook
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Olives And Lives
