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Leopold: Funeral Corp.
Znet Article, September, 18 2005
Jason Leopold
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A funeral services company which recently learned that one of its subsidiaries is negotiating a lucrative contract with the Federal Emergency Management Agency to remove dead bodies in areas ravaged by Hurricane Katrina, paid $100 million to settl...
Scottmontreal: Progressives, Firefighters And Nurses Need To Run Disaster Response
Znet Article, September, 15 2005
Scott Scottmontreal
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Take the huge disaster we saw in the planning for Hurricane Katrina and in providing relief, and imagine an alternative scenario where progressives, firefighters and nurses were in power. While the natural disaster might not have been avoided, the...
Leopold: FEMA Chief Brown's Maneuvers
Znet Article, September, 10 2005
Jason Leopold
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FEMA Chief Brown's Maneuvers
Barghouti: Re-Thinking the Mediterranean
Znet Article, September, 09 2005
Omar Barghouti
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In a world where the “clash of civilizations†is unfolding as a self-fulfilling prophecy, reclaiming the Mediterranean as a cultural bridge acquires unprecedented import and urgency. Countering the United States’ crusade of...
Leopold: More People Die than Prosper Under President Bush's Leadership
Znet Article, September, 07 2005
Jason Leopold
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Another few thousand bit the dust. Chalk another one up for the Bush administration. That'll be President Bush's long lasting legacy when we look back on the first few years of the 21st Century. Thousands of people killed on U.S. soil because the...
Zawerucha: SP4 Trial
Znet Article, September, 03 2005
Christina Zawerucha
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Former Marine and Vietnam War Veteran Peter DeMott and Theresa Grady, two Ithaca defendents in the St Patrick's 4 Trial, met with Cindy Sheehan in Crawford, Texas on August 16th. Thousands of people from across the US and many in “Camp C...
Leopold: Stage of Marriage vs. State of Louisiana
Znet Article, September, 03 2005
Jason Leopold
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Why is President Bush more concerned with the state of marriage than the state of Louisiana? That's what the New Orleans City Business paper asked in early February, a couple of weeks after Bush's State of the Union address, in which the presiden...
Dahl: Witness Near Dawn
Zmag Article, September, 01 2005
Patricia Dahl
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T he organizers of Colombia’s Second National Encounter of Victims of Crimes Against Humanity and Human Rights Violations predicted 500 delegates would participate. By the end of the third and last day of the con...
Curtis: How The G8 Lied To The World On Aid
Znet Article, August, 23 2005
Mark Curtis
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World leaders are now preparing for the millennium summit to be held in New York next month, described by the UN as a "once-in-a-generation opportunity to take bold decisions". Yet the current draft outcome simply repeats what was agreed on aid an...
Schwartz: The Ironies of Conquest
Znet Article, August, 09 2005
Michael Schwartz
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In 1998, neo-conservative theorist Robert Kagan enunciated what would become a foundational belief of Bush Administration policy. He asserted that "a success...
Brodhead: A New Look at Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Znet Article, August, 06 2005
Frank Brodhead
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For the last 60 years we have been taught that the atomic bombs used on Hiroshima and Nagasaki ended World War II. To be sure, there has been an intense debate about whether the bombs were necessary to end the war, or whether there were alternati...
Mate: Democracy Progresses in Haiti
Znet Article, July, 30 2005
Aaron Mate
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On July 16, the Council of Sages, the Western-backed body that has overseen Haiti's political affairs since the February 2004 ouster of President Jean Bertrand Aristide...
Skerrett: Canadian Imperialism Helps Smash Haiti for Profit
Znet Article, July, 28 2005
Kevin Skerrett
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Canadian anti-war activists, anti- imperialists, socialists, anarchists, some social democrats, and even some pro- gressively-minded liberals contributed in various ways to building an impressive mass anti-war movement that helped prevent Canadaâ&...
Baake: The Ideology of Harry Potter: Fascism vs. Liberalism
Znet Article, July, 17 2005
David Baake
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It is difficult to think of any other pop culture phenomenon in recent memory as utterly bizarre as that of J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter book series. The books and movies have developed a quasi-religious cult surrounding them, reminiscent o...
Feakins: The Silent Side of Occupation
Znet Article, July, 15 2005
Thomas Feakins
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Despite the softly spoken mantra of “there may finally be peace in Israel†and what has been called a precarious cease-fire, children continue to die in Palestinian towns and refugee camps. In East Jerusalem the wall goes up while ...
Gberie: Liberia Journal
Znet Article, July, 11 2005
Lansana Gberie
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The flight from Ghana began almost four hours late. It was the SLOK Airline, a new company. About seven months ago when the airline – owned, I am told, by a Nigerian politician who had it tactfully registered in the Gambia – starte...
Curtis: Brown's Doleful Role At Gleneagles
Znet Article, July, 10 2005
Mark Curtis
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The government will try to pull off a PR coup in the aftermath of the G8 summit by posturing as Africa's champion - hiding Britain's real agenda and how agreements on debt and aid will further impoverish the continent. While the G8 agreement com...
Skerrett: Yolanda Tsangarakis interviews Kevin Skerrett
Znet Article, July, 07 2005
Kevin Skerrett
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Yolanda: Kevin Skerrett, from Ottawa, is a researcher at CUPE and a member of Canada-Haiti Action Network (CHAN) and Ottawa-Haiti Solidarity here to talk to us about a very important direct action at a recent international conference that took pla...
Brodhead: London, Iraq, and Vietnam
Znet Article, July, 07 2005
Frank Brodhead
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In February 1965, a unit of the National Liberation Front in South Vietnam launched an attack on a US base near the Central Highlands city of Pleiku. Eight US military personnel were killed and ten aircraft were destroyed. Seizing the moment, th...
Chenelle: Taking on the Christian Right
Zmag Article, July, 01 2005
Susan Chenelle
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L ess than a week after religious conservatives held “Justice Sunday: Stopping the Filibuster Against People of Faith,” a nationally televised rally featuring Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist in Louisville, ...
