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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...
Ssoldz: The 1914 Christmas Truce and the Possibility of Peace
Znet Article, December, 29 2005
Stephen Ssoldz
Ssoldz's ZSpace page
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...
Ssoldz: Total surveillance state takes giant leap in Britain
Znet Article, December, 29 2005
Stephen Ssoldz
Ssoldz's ZSpace page
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...
Tiwari: Kong Yee Sai Mau
Znet Article, December, 24 2005
Pranjal Tiwari
Tiwari's ZSpace page
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...
Hirsch: The New York City Transit Strike:
Znet Article, December, 22 2005
Michael Hirsch
Hirsch's ZSpace page
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...
Ssoldz: Is prejudice a mental illness?
Znet Article, December, 20 2005
Stephen Ssoldz
Ssoldz's ZSpace page
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...
Hirsch: Breaking the Beast of Bentonville
Znet Article, December, 15 2005
Michael Hirsch
Hirsch's ZSpace page
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...
Macmichael: In Growing Numbers, Public Opposes Iraq War, While Most Congressional Democrats Play It 'Safe'
Znet Article, December, 09 2005
David Macmichael
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U.S. Rep. John Murtha, a conservative Democrat from Pennsylvania, shook up the status quo on Capitol Hill when he recently called for the speedy withdrawal of American forces from Iraq. Murtha, a decorated Vietnam War veteran and an ally of the Pe...
Gberie: A Dirty War in West Africa
Znet Article, December, 07 2005
Lansana Gberie
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Can you tell ZNet, please, what your new book, “A Dirty War in West Africa†is about? What is it trying to communicate? Gberie: The book is about the very brutal, nihilistic conflict that ravaged the small West African state of Si...
Hirsch: Federal Court Allows Employers to Muck Up Organizing Drives
Znet Article, December, 06 2005
Michael Hirsch
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It's a sorry way to kick-off a week's worth of labor activities leading up to International Human Rights Day, but then who said it had to be a walk in the park. Yesterday, a three-judge federal appeals panel in Chicago overturned a Milwaukee Count...
Leopold: Rediscovered testimony given by CIA director in 2001 suggests manipulation of pre-war intelligence
Znet Article, December, 05 2005
Jason Leopold
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President George W. Bush's attempt Friday to silence critics who say his administration manipulated prewar intelligence on Iraq is undercut by congressional testimony given in February 2001 by former CIA Director George Tenet, who said that Iraq p...
Gberie: Liberia's Elections
Znet Article, December, 05 2005
Lansana Gberie
Gberie's ZSpace page
In the end, bizarrely, they made it all look like an anticlimax. Liberia’s recent elections, the milestone of the country’s difficult transition from brutal low-intensity warfare to peace, had been choreographed in advance to fit a...
Schwartz: Arguing about the War
Znet Article, December, 04 2005
Michael Schwartz
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I often receive emails -- pro and con -- about my postings on the war in Iraq, and I try to respond to any substantive questions or critiques offered. But when I received an email recently entitled "10 Questions" in response to a ...
Skerrett: Haiti is 'fixed'
Znet Article, December, 01 2005
Kevin Skerrett
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Recent Canadian policy in Haiti has been remarkably successful, having achieved most of its objectives. This is the case in much the same way that US policies in places such as El Salvador and Nicaragua in the 1980s were smashing successes â...
Ssoldz: To heal or to patch?
Znet Article, November, 29 2005
Stephen Ssoldz
Ssoldz's ZSpace page
To heal or to patch?
Shiva: Earth Democracy: Justice, Sustainability and Peace
Book, November, 26 2005
With 'Earth Democracy', Shiva uncovers their link to the rising tide of fundamentalisms, violence against women, and planetary death.
Ssoldz: Press Freedom or Freedom to Bomb the Press?
Znet Article, November, 22 2005
Stephen Ssoldz
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Press Freedom or Freedom to Bomb the Press?
Sommers: The Uses of France's Riots
Znet Article, November, 20 2005
Jeff Sommers
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The French riots of late October and November were immediately pressed into service for ideological heavy lifting to serve several causes. First, the "Clash of Civilizations" crowd immediately wished to place the riots in the context of a neocons...
Curtis: Their Right To Return
Znet Article, November, 09 2005
Mark Curtis
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Today, a British-engineered occupation enters its fifth decade. There will be no commemoration, despite the human toll and murkiness surrounding what is going on there. Yet an entire population, exiled from their homeland and betrayed by the Briti...
Leopold: Vice President Lied As White House Sought To Defuse Leak Inquiry
Znet Article, November, 07 2005
Jason Leopold
Leopold's ZSpace page
Did Vice President Dick Cheney help cover-up the outing of covert CIA operative Valerie Plame Wilson in the months after conservative columnist Robert Novak first disclosed her identity? That’s one of the questions Special Prosecutor Pat...
