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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...
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...
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, ...
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...
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...
Barker: Friendly Dictators and Hostile Democracies
Znet Article, November, 03 2006
Michael Barker
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Friendly Dictators and Hostile Democracies
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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
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...
Ssoldz: Protecting the Torturers:
Znet Article, September, 07 2006
Stephen Ssoldz
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Protecting the Torturers:
