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Znet Article Leopold: Energy Appointment

Znet Article, June, 30 2005 Jason Leopold
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The audacity inside the Bush administration never ceases to amaze. The latest example of chutzpah from Bush and co. is the announcement that Joseph Kelliher, a former policy adviser with the Department of Energy who currently serves as a commi...

Znet Article Baake: Prospects for Libertarian Socialism

Znet Article, June, 30 2005 David Baake
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Global capitalism is an overwhelming catastrophe, perhaps the most dangerous the human species has ever faced. As a result of Social-Darwinist economic policies, billions live in abject poverty and desolation; slowly dying from the moment of their...

Znet Article Carr: Eritrea and the 'International Community'

Znet Article, June, 29 2005 Oyeshiku Carr
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Eritrea, Africa's youngest nation, was one of a handful of African states that favored the re-election of George W. Bush last November.   Conversations with members of Eritrea's government revealed an undisguised animosity towards the Clinton-era ...

Znet Article Fatah: Sharia Law Controversy

Znet Article, June, 23 2005 Tarek Fatah
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In 1991, as the full impact of a recession hit the NDP government in Ontario, it explored all avenues to cut costs. Budgets were slashed and many promises, such as public auto insurance, fell by the wayside. However, one cost-cutting initiative in...

Znet Article Mahajan: Anatomy of a Coverup

Znet Article, June, 23 2005 Sanjoy Mahajan
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  On May 1 the London _Sunday Times_ published leaked minutes -- the Downing Street Memo -- of a high-level British cabinet meeting held on 23 July 2002 that discussed contingencies, political and military, for invading Iraq. In the Cabinet meet...

Znet Article Skerrett: Faking Genocide in Haiti

Znet Article, June, 23 2005 Kevin Skerrett
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The unpalatable truth is that Haiti just does not matter very much. - editorial, The Guardian, February 17, 2004, 12 days prior to coup On to Part 2 The US, Canada, and France-backed coup d’état that overthrew Haiti’s elected P...

Znet Article Skerrett: Faking Genocide in Haiti

Znet Article, June, 23 2005 Kevin Skerrett
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Back to Part 1 Canadian Government Funding for NCHR As noted above, NCHR is a favoured beneficiary of Canadian government funding agencies and aid organizations.  By all accounts, it appears as though both the Canadian and US governments (through...

Znet Article Leopold: Bush Radio Address

Znet Article, June, 20 2005 Jason Leopold
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“We went to war because we were attacked,” President Bush said Saturday in his weekly radio address. Yeah, by al-Qaeda not Iraq. For President Bush to say publicly that the United States attacked Iraq because of 9/11 is not ...

Znet Article Baake: G8 Bribery

Znet Article, June, 16 2005 David Baake
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The mainstream media’s response to the announcement that the G8 had agreed to cancel $40 billion dollars in debt for eighteen countries in third world, mainly African, was of sheer awe at the magnanimous generosity of the leaders of the wo...

Znet Article Leopold: When is Someone Going to Toss Rumsfeld into a Cage?

Znet Article, June, 05 2005 Jason Leopold
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If you want to ensure that the media doesn’t cover an important political story, send out a press release on a Friday, preferably at the end of the day. By the time reporters return on Monday, the story will be old news and will either be ...

Znet Article Leopold: Watergate Proves That Even Presidents Will Break Laws To Achieve Goals

Znet Article, June, 02 2005 Jason Leopold
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Tuesday’s revelation that W. Mark Felt, the former number two man at the FBI, was the anonymous source known as Deep Throat, who helped Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein unravel the Watergate scandal in the pages of the Washington Post 30 ...

Znet Article Barghouti: The AUT Boycott:

Znet Article, June, 01 2005 Omar Barghouti
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On May 26, the Association of University Teachers (AUT) in Britain reversed its previous decision -- taken on April 22 -- to boycott Israeli universities. Intimidation and bullying aside, no tool was as persistently used, abused and bandied a...

Znet Article Schwartz: Major Sweep By Iraqi Troops in Baghdad

Znet Article, June, 01 2005 Michael Schwartz
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On Friday, May 27, Iraqi military officials announced that as many as 40,000 Iraqi troops -- supported by the U.S. military -- would be sweeping through Baghdad and cleaning up the resistance fighters there. This huge operation is a respo...

Znet Article Schwartz: The Car Bombings in Iraq

Znet Article, May, 31 2005 Michael Schwartz
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The Car Bombings in Iraq

Znet Article Boxall: South Africa and Palestine

Znet Article, May, 30 2005 Lawrence Boxall
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Lawrence Boxall is an anti-war activist and socialist; a member of Jews for a Just Peace, Stopwar.ca and the International Socialists, as well as being a veteran of the anti-Apartheid struggle in South Africa. Before moving to Vancouver in time to...

Znet Article Nack: Reply to 'Country of Parallels'

Znet Article, May, 28 2005 Jonathan Nack
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[NOTE: This is a reply from a reader to America Vera-Zavala's article, 'Venezuela, Country of Parallels'] Hello Ms. Vera-Zavala, I appreciate your thoughtful column, and like your analysis of how the revo...

Znet Article Miller: Glasgow and Globalization

Znet Article, May, 25 2005 David Miller
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Everyone, even the most die-hard defender of the established order recognizes that we face serious social and environmental problems. The news media regularly circulate the latest figures on the latest social problems. The country with the worst p...

Znet Article Feakins: An Excess of Civility

Znet Article, May, 24 2005 Thomas Feakins
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Georgia Governor Zell Miller, most famous for his angry defence of George Bush at the 2004 Republican convention, has released a new book, entitled A Deficit of Decency. Miller rails against secularism, the decline of Christian values, and writes ...

Znet Article Loewenstein: Media lacks self-criticism

Znet Article, May, 19 2005 Antony Loewenstein
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Veteran political commentator Michelle Grattan gave a speech recently at the Deakin lectures in Melbourne. She argued that the relationship between media and politicians was at an all-time low: When I arrived in Canberra in the 1970s, if you wer...

Znet Article Tiwari: Paper Tiger, Rising Dragon

Znet Article, May, 19 2005 Pranjal Tiwari
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May 18 is annually celebrated as Flag Day in Haiti. It is a day for remembering the struggle that led to the creation of the “world’s first Black Republic”, and for celebrating its liberation from slavery and colonialism. T...

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