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Znet Article Ssoldz: When Promoting Truth Obscures the Truth:

Znet Article, February, 05 2006 Stephen Ssoldz
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When Promoting Truth Obscures the Truth:

Znet Article Sommers: 1984 Redux

Znet Article, February, 04 2006 Jeff Sommers
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Using American veterans as props, on November 11, 2005 President George Bush delivered a speech designed to justify his foreign policy failures since 9/11. Throughout his talk he intoned his audience to recognize the goodness of American foreign p...

Znet Article Leopold: Enron

Znet Article, February, 01 2006 Jason Leopold
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Opening arguments in the long-awaited criminal trial of former Enron chairman Kenneth Lay and company president Jeffrey Skilling is expected to start soon now that a jury has been selected for the case.  For many people familiar with the high-fl...

Znet Article Ash: Bravo Abbas! Bravo Hamas!

Znet Article, January, 28 2006 Gabriel Ash
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Elections results in the Occupied Territories show that Fatah has lost its majority in the Palestinian parliament by a stunningly large margin. This is a transformational event with lasting geopolitical importance, for Hamas and Fatah, for Palesti...

Znet Article Loewenstein: Paying the Price for a Crazy War

Znet Article, January, 23 2006 Antony Loewenstein
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2005 will be remembered as the year citizens across the world started to awaken to the rules of the game in the “war on terror”. Extraordinary rendition, US supported and administered torture, unauthorised spying on citizens, priva...

Znet Article Curtis: Deepening Corporate Globalization

Znet Article, January, 21 2006 Mark Curtis
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An onslaught against some of the world’s poorest people is about to enter its next phase in a remote Swiss ski resort. Unlike over Iraq, the world's richest countries are united in this big push which would reorganize the global economy in...

Znet Article Leopold: How Dick Cheney Used the NSA for Domestic Spying Pre-9/11

Znet Article, January, 20 2006 Jason Leopold
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In the months before 9/11, thousands of American citizens were inadvertently swept up in wiretaps, had their emails monitored, and were being watched as they surfed the Internet by spies at the super-secret National Security Agency, former NSA and...

Znet Article Model: The Prosecution Rests Its Case: Verdict - Guilty

Znet Article, January, 15 2006 David Model
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There is a growing awareness among the chattering classes in th...

Znet Article Ssoldz: Narcissism, the Public, and the President

Znet Article, January, 10 2006 Stephen Ssoldz
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President Bush spoke last week to wounded soldiers at Brooke Army Medical Center and uttered these immortal words indicating a lack of true appreciation for the suffering of t...

Znet Article Schwartz: A Formula for Slaughter

Znet Article, January, 10 2006 Michael Schwartz
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A Formula for Slaughter

Znet Article Leopold: Spying on the UN

Znet Article, January, 04 2006 Jason Leopold
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President Bush and other top officials in his administration used the National Security Agency to secretly wiretap the home and office telephones and monitored private email accounts of members of the United Nations Security Council in early 2003 ...

Book Prosten: The Union Steward's Complete Guide: a Survival Manual

Book, January, 03 2006

By David Prosten

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To most workers, their steward is the union. The steward is the only union presence the workers see day to day, the only personal contact they have with the union unless -- don't hold your breath -- they come out to union meetings. In a very liter...

Znet Article Ssoldz: The Sex Lives and Sexual Frustrations of US troops in Iraq:

Znet Article, January, 02 2006 Stephen Ssoldz
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Well over a hundred thousand American men and women, most younger than 30, spend a year or more at a time in a foreign country where they are almost totally isolated from the indigenous population. Are all these troops really chaste for those long...

Zmag Article Ross: British Columbia Teachers' Strike

Zmag Article, January, 01 2006 E. Wayne Ross
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I n British Columbia 42,000 teachers walked out of the classroom and on to the picket line in October, demanding improved working and learning conditions from the government, as well as salary...

Znet Article Ssoldz: The 1914 Christmas Truce and the Possibility of Peace

Znet Article, December, 29 2005 Stephen Ssoldz
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A new French film, Joyeux Noel, brings the 1914 Christmas truce, that moment when a world of peace could be imagined, to a wider audience. An article on t...

Znet Article Ssoldz: Total surveillance state takes giant leap in Britain

Znet Article, December, 29 2005 Stephen Ssoldz
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The headline in the Independent tells it all: Britain will be first country to monitor every car journey: From 2006 Britain will be the first cou...

Znet Article Tiwari: Kong Yee Sai Mau

Znet Article, December, 24 2005 Pranjal Tiwari
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  Sat Dec 17, Hong Kong—It’s 1:30 am in Hong Kong. We have just returned to the house after being in the Hong Kong streets all afternoon and evening in the most intense street battle that we have ever seen. We are taking turns sho...

Znet Article Hirsch: The New York City Transit Strike:

Znet Article, December, 22 2005 Michael Hirsch
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          The now three-day-old strike by New York's 34,000 bus and subway workers, crippling mass transit and estimated to have affected some 3.5 million daily commuters, is being played out in the media -- particularly tel...

Znet Article Ssoldz: Is prejudice a mental illness?

Znet Article, December, 20 2005 Stephen Ssoldz
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Bigotry and extreme prejudice are repugnant to many, including the victims and those engaged in furthering progressive social values. Various attempts have been made to encompass that reaction in social mores and attitudes. A new approach among ce...

Znet Article Hirsch: Breaking the Beast of Bentonville

Znet Article, December, 15 2005 Michael Hirsch
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          Outside Trinidad, Colorado, in 1914, militiamen, professional gunmen and street toughs in the employ of John D. Rockefeller's Colorado Fuel and Oil Company erased a striking miner's enc...

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