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Znet Article Colman: Teachers and APPO in Oaxaca and Mexico

Znet Article, November, 09 2006 George Colman
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     In  the summer and fall of 2006, 70,000 public school teachers and approximately 350 organizations united in a new Asemblea Popular Pueblo Oaxaca (APPO) occupied the center of the city, took over local radio and television stations, blocked t...

Znet Article Fox: Venezuelan Ties to US Voting Machines? What About the Others?

Znet Article, November, 07 2006 Michael Fox
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With the United States November congressional elections, electronic voting machines are back in the news.  HBO aired it’s new documentary entitled, “Hacking Democracy” last Thursday, which asked the question, “are e...

Znet Article Ramanathan: Reservation in India: History, Challenges and Lessons

Znet Article, November, 06 2006 Karthik Ramanathan
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"It seems in the social realm, some kind of  a counter-revolution is taking place in India.... [among other things] our privileged classes are getting tired of (the) affirmative action..."                     - K R Narayanan, President of India, ...

Znet Article Schwartz: The Couch Potato's Guide to Election Night

Znet Article, November, 06 2006 Michael Schwartz
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If you have a political bone in your body -- even if you're usually a cynic about elections -- you're undoubtedly holding your breath right now. With the 2006 midterm elections upon us, the question is: Will the Democrats recapture at least the Ho...

Znet Article Farbod: Of Real and Manufactured Crisis:

Znet Article, November, 04 2006 Faramarz Farbod
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A popular joke in the United States of the late 1980s depict...

Znet Article Barker: Friendly Dictators and Hostile Democracies

Znet Article, November, 03 2006 Michael Barker
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Friendly Dictators and Hostile Democracies

Znet Article Barker: Regulating revolutions in Eastern Europe

Znet Article, November, 01 2006 Michael Barker
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“The promotion of ‘low-intensity democracy’ is aimed not only at mitigating the social and political tensions produced by elite-based and undemocratic status quos, but also at suppressing popular and mass aspirations for mo...

Znet Article Barker: Promoting polyarchy in Serbia

Znet Article, October, 29 2006 Michael Barker
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For the most part scholars and activists alike have tended to uncritically accept overt foreign interventions that profess to be promoting democracy at face value: as noble and humanitarian activities. However, contrary to this rosy view of the pr...

Znet Article Miller: Nike to the Rescue?

Znet Article, October, 21 2006 John Miller
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In Praise of the Maligned Sweatshop WINDHOEK, Namibia—Africa desperately needs Western help in the form of schools, clinics and sweatshops. On a street here in the capital of Namibia, in the southwestern corner of Africa, I spoke to a ...

Znet Article Schwartz: The More Force You Use, the Less Effective You Are

Znet Article, October, 16 2006 Michael Schwartz
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Recently, the New York Times broke a story suggesting that the U.S. Army and the Marines were about to turn the conceptual tide of war in Iraq. The two ser...

Znet Article Miller: Nike to the Rescue?

Znet Article, October, 03 2006 John Miller
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Nicholas Kristof has been beating the pro-sweatshop drum for quite a while. Shortly after the East Asian financial crisis of the late 1990s, Kristof, the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and now columnist for the New York Times, reported the stor...

Znet Article Shah: Military Commissions Act 2006—Unchecked Powers?

Znet Article, October, 02 2006 Anup Shah
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US Senate votes to rollback habeas corpus, use torture, and provide immunity for US officials from torture prosecution September 29, 2006, the US Senate agreed to the Military Commissions Act of 2006 which gives US President George Bush unprece...

Znet Article Emersberger: Discrediting the Lancet Study on Haiti

Znet Article, October, 02 2006 Joe Emersberger
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Some of the best work from Medialens reveals how the corporate press shields the powerful from their most formidable critics. High level UN administrators Hans Von Sponeck and Denis Halliday; former chief UN weapons inspector Scott Ritter; leading...

Znet Article Doherty: Scruton Smears Chomsky

Znet Article, September, 30 2006 Alex Doherty
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In Tuesdays Wall Street Journal(1) Roger Scruton - Philosopher and hired hand of the  tobacco industry launched a feeble attack on Noam Chomsky. Entitled 'Who Is Noam  Chomsky' the piece runs through the usual litany of lies a...

Znet Article Barker: Corporate fronts, astroturf groups and co-opted social movements

Znet Article, September, 17 2006 Michael Barker
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Challenging power is crucial to the stability of democracy, without dissent there would be few checks on unbridled power. The overwhelming power of dissent and popular democracy to effect social change is widely acknowledged by corporate and gover...

Znet Article Fox: Chavez Announces Plans for Second Full Term at Welcome Home Rally

Znet Article, September, 15 2006 Michael Fox
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Chavez Plans Caracas, Venezuela, September 1, 2006—Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez was welcomed home from his international tour today by a sea of red. Thousands of supporters paraded with him from western Caracas to downtown Plaza Oâ...

Znet Article Gberie: Guinea: on the Brink?

Znet Article, September, 15 2006 Lansana Gberie
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There is something almost freakish about Guinea, a West African nation of deceptive size (it is as big as the UK but with a population of only about 8 million) and a heroic history. It seems to have remained on the brink, but never falling off the...

Blog Post Lynch: A quail of a tale in Pakistan

Blog Post, September, 12 2006 Damon Lynch
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Cultural change in the North West Frontier Province of Pakistan

Znet Article Loewenstein: My Israel Question

Znet Article, September, 11 2006 Antony Loewenstein
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Jamie Glassman is a British Jewish writer on The Ali G show, a comedy program known for intentionally offending deserving establishment figures. Glassman recently attended the Edinburgh Arts Festival and was disturbed. He wrote in the London Times...

Znet Article Ssoldz: Protecting the Torturers:

Znet Article, September, 07 2006 Stephen Ssoldz
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Protecting the Torturers:

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