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Znet Article Fatah: Stop the deportation of Palestinian Peace activist Issam Al Yamani from Canada

Znet Article, April, 16 2006 Tarek Fatah
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April 11, 2006The Right Honourable Stephen HarperPrime Minister of Canada,Office of the Prime Minister,80 Wellington Street,Ottawa, OntarioK1A 0A2 Re: The deportation from Canada of Palestinian peace activist Issam Al Yamani Dear Prime Minister...

Znet Article Barker: Fidel Ramos and the Australian Centre for Democratic Institutions

Znet Article, April, 16 2006 Michael Barker
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CANBERRA – On 26 November 1998, Fidel Ramos (former president of the Philippines) was invited to Australia to give the Inaugural Annual Address at the newly created “democracy promoting” organisation - the Australian Centre...

Znet Article Barghouti: When is Killing Arab Civilians Considered a Massacre?

Znet Article, April, 10 2006 Omar Barghouti
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Recent reports from Iraq indicate beyond doubt that the U.S. occupation army has embarked on a new “tactic” from its menu of atrocities, in an attempt to counter the burgeoning Iraqi resistance attacks against its soldiers. â€...

Znet Article Gberie: Charles Taylor on Trial

Znet Article, April, 04 2006 Lansana Gberie
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Inside the UN-Sierra Leone Special Court’s massive fortification, at a spot close to its small detention centre, is a helicopter landing strip. The strip was furtively constructed about two years ago. When a foreign visitor wondered aloud ...

Znet Article Barghouti: The Israeli Elections

Znet Article, April, 03 2006 Omar Barghouti
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Israel votes for disengagement and final borders" and "Israelis abandon the dream of Greater Israel" were the main themes in the spin that characterized mainstream, even some progressive, media coverage of the Israeli parliamentary elections which...

Znet Article Emersberger: Haiti and Human Rights Watch

Znet Article, March, 29 2006 Joe Emersberger
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In a world dominated by the wealthy the temptation will always exist for NGOs to acquire funds, and respectability, by saying at least some of what the powerful want to hear. It's an understandable temptation. Nobody should seek out oblivion - es...

Znet Article Schwartz: Does the Media Have It Right on the War?

Znet Article, March, 28 2006 Michael Schwartz
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The media loves anniversaries, the grimmer the better. On the third anniversary of the invasion of Iraq, our newspapers and TV news were filled to the brim with retrospectives on the origins of the Iraq war, reassessments of how it was conducted b...

Znet Article Docena: The Economic Restructuring Of Iraq

Znet Article, March, 27 2006 Herbert Docena
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Three years after the invasion, Iraq remains a living nightmare for many Iraqis. Up to half of Iraq's labor force are unemployed; more than 60 per cent of the population depend on government rations to survive; over 20 per cent live below the pove...

Znet Article Ssoldz: Sending mentally ill soldiers back to Iraq:

Znet Article, March, 26 2006 Stephen Ssoldz
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As the US military has difficulties recruiting and retaining soldiers for its never-ending war of occupation in Iraq, the armed services are resorting to increasingly desperate means of coping. The Stop-Loss option in soldiers' contracts has allow...

Znet Article Leopold: GOP Bids to Take ANWR While Region was Ravaged by Major Oil Spill

Znet Article, March, 19 2006 Jason Leopold
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The Senate passed approved a measure in a budget bill Thursday that included a provision to open up the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to drilling - just as the region suffers through one of the worst oil spills in history. The provision to perm...

Znet Article Ariel: Amateur Activist Starter Kit

Znet Article, March, 17 2006 Tal Ariel
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So I'm driving to work this morning, nauseatingly contemplating how screwed the world is, how my excruciatingly long commute was contributing to environmental devastation, how I should be doing more, and how contrary to my self-image I wasn't a se...

Znet Article Schweickart: I Still Think It's Nonsense

Znet Article, March, 15 2006 David Schweickart
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I Still Think It's Nonsense

Znet Article Ssoldz: The Avian Flu Threat is Real

Znet Article, March, 13 2006 Stephen Ssoldz
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One of the many serious dangers arising from the Bush administration's persistent record of lies and distortions is that, for many, whatever visceral faith they had that the government would attempt to deal sensibly with emergencies has dissipated...

Znet Article Schwartz: The Campaign to Pacify Sunni Iraq

Znet Article, March, 12 2006 Michael Schwartz
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  The December elections in Iraq did not initiate a period of state building, but instead marked an expanding, many-sided conflict whose latest major horror was the bombing of the Golden Mosque in Samarra and the carnage it triggered. All the con...

Znet Article Schwartz: A Government with No Military and No Territory

Znet Article, March, 10 2006 Michael Schwartz
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President Bush marked the Iraqi election of December 2005 as the beginning of a new era. A freely selected permanent government would begin asserting its sovereignty over the country, building an administrative infrastructure, and rising to the ch...

Znet Article Gberie: Sierra Leone

Znet Article, March, 10 2006 Lansana Gberie
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The UN-Sierra Leone Special Court began work nearly four years ago, and it has already spent more than $80 million dollars. This is mostly as salary for its mainly expatriate staff, amounting to $16 million a year – more than that for the ...

Znet Article Lindsay: Bordering On Apartheid

Znet Article, March, 08 2006 Hillary Lindsay
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 Abdelkader Belaouni is telling me about his day. "Every day I wake at seven," he begins. "Ten after seven at the latest. I make my bed, listen to the news. Around seven twenty or seven thirty I head down to the kitchen." He methodically lists his...

Znet Article Loewenstein: Spinning us to war in Iran

Znet Article, March, 08 2006 Antony Loewenstein
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During former US President Bill Clinton’s recent trip to Australia, he said the two greatest threats facing the 21st century were terrorism and global warming. The Age welcomed Clinton’s presence in Melbourne as the coming of an al...

Znet Article Docena: State of Emergency in the Philippines:

Znet Article, March, 05 2006 Herbert Docena
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MANILA -- ON THE VERY DAY WHEN FILIPINOS were to mark the 20th anniversary of the 'People Power' uprising which ended Ferdinand Marcos' dictatorship, Marcos-style dictatorship sprang a come-back: this time, in an attempt to prevent another 'People...

Znet Article Ssoldz: Why Leave Iraq: A Brief Summary

Znet Article, March, 05 2006 Stephen Ssoldz
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The invasion of Iraq was justified as an attempt to protect our country by removing weapons of mass destruction. As former government officials have spoken out and secret documents have been leaked, we now know that this justification was but an e...

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