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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...
Schwartz: A Formula for Slaughter
Znet Article, January, 10 2006
Michael Schwartz
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A Formula for Slaughter
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 ...
Prosten: The Union Steward's Complete Guide: a Survival Manual
Book, January, 03 2006
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...
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...
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
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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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
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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
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To heal or to patch?
