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Miller: Spinning the G8
Znet Article, May, 13 2005
David Miller
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It would be very odd if people came to protest against this G8, as we're focusing on poverty in Africa and climate change. I don't quite know what they'll be protesting against. Tony Blair in Dundee, March 2005. ...
Baake: The CIA's New Client in Sudan
Znet Article, May, 12 2005
David Baake
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It was Woodrow Wilson who called the Armenian Holocaust ‘sad, but necessary to quell an internal security threat.’ Today it appears that the Bush administration, only eight months after former Secretary of State Colin Powell annou...
Docena: US Military Aid To The Philippines
Znet Article, May, 10 2005
Herbert Docena
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WHENEVER THE PHILIPPINES' foreign policy towards the United States is discussed, the latter's "military assistance" to the Philippines never fails to come up. When Filipino worker Angelo dela Cruz was abducted in Iraq last July, for example, certa...
Tiwari: Hong-Kong's Democracy Movement
Znet Article, May, 09 2005
Pranjal Tiwari
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[Author’s Note: This article was originally written in late November 2004 and published on the weblog In The Water . It was meant to provide some wider analysis on the mainstream democracy movement in Hong Kong that was particularly active...
Morduchowicz: Manufacturing militants.
Znet Article, May, 08 2005
Daniel Morduchowicz
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The occupied factory movement in Argentina sprung out of the economic disaster that befell the country during the last decade - brought about by years of neoliberal policies and strict adherence to the dictates of the International financial insti...
Weiss: A Comparison of Economic Democracy and Participatory Economics
Znet Article, May, 04 2005
Adam Weiss
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Introduction Many advocates of economic justice have long believed that capitalism needs to be transcended. However, positive programs for a just economy have been lacking compared to the hailstorm of anti-capitalist critiques that the left has p...
Keefer: Hugo Chavez Frias and the Sense of History
Znet Article, May, 03 2005
Michael Keefer
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Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez Frias delivered a major summary of his government's current international initiatives today at an event which combined a moment of intense Venezuelan-Cuban diplomatic and commercial interactions with the meetings o...
Smith: Know Thine Enemy
Zmag Article, May, 01 2005
Michael Smith
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S ometimes the fates line up right and you get a day that really says something about the world. March 16, 2005 was one of those days. Paul Wolfowitz, the neocon who masterminded the Iraq War, was named head of the Wor...
Schwartz: The Draft
Znet Article, April, 27 2005
Michael Schwartz
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After two years of intensive fighting in Iraq, the Pentagon is feeling the strain in every military muscle and has been looking for relief in just about every direction but one -- the draft. All across the United States today, young people are won...
Jones: A Founding Member Of Monty Python Blasts Bush And Blair's War On Terror
Znet Article, April, 26 2005
Terry Jones
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As the daily attacks on U.S. forces and their allies in Iraq step up after a post-election lull, increasing numbers of citizens are becoming skeptical of a White House forecast for stability and a reduction in the number of American troops in the...
Sommers: The Contradictions of a Contrarian: Andre Gunder Frank
Znet Article, April, 25 2005
Jeff Sommers
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Among academic activists I know the two names most frequently cited for inspiring us to pursue our work are Noam Chomsky and Andre Gunder Frank. Yesterday we lost one of them in Andre Gunder Frank. Gunder must have put, literally, thousands on tha...
Petrovato: Israel/Palestine Democracy
Znet Article, April, 18 2005
John Petrovato
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On April 14th, the Boston Globe published an editorial called “Does Israel want Arab Democracy?†The author of the article, Jeff Jacoby, began with the question of whether Palestinian political culture (which he refers to as an unc...
Jones: Let Them Eat Bombs
Znet Article, April, 14 2005
Terry Jones
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A report to the UN human rights commission in Geneva has concluded that Iraqi children were actually better off under Saddam Hussein than they are now. This, of course, comes as a bitter blow for all those of us who, like George Bush and Tony Blai...
Barghouti: Academic Boycott and the Israeli Left
Znet Article, April, 14 2005
Omar Barghouti
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Some of the most committed Israeli opponents of their state's illegal military occupation of the Palestinian territories have recently expressed serious reservations about, if not strident opposition to, the Palestinian call for boycott** of Israe...
Loewenstein: Australian Media
Znet Article, April, 12 2005
Antony Loewenstein
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During last year's Federal Election campaign, I ran the Counterspin blog (http://www.smh.com.au/blogs/counterspin.html ) on the Sydney Morning Herald (SMH) and Melbourne Age websites. It was an instructive experience. The ABC was the only other ma...
Petrovato: Fragile Peace
Znet Article, April, 11 2005
John Petrovato
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Newspapers and television news programs throughout the world yesterday reported a strikingly similar story about how the “fragile peace†that Israelis and Palestinians were said to enjoy in recent months has been threatened. It ha...
Ingalls: Not About Oil
Znet Article, April, 10 2005
James Ingalls
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Not About Oil
Ssoldz: The Psychodynamics of Occupation and the Abuse at Abu Ghraib:
Znet Article, April, 05 2005
Stephen Ssoldz
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There are various explanations for what went on at Abu Ghraib. The official US position is that a "few bad apples" among the reservist military police (MPs) there went out of control, violating orders to treat the prisoners humanely -- "Animal H...
Petrovato: Israeli Attacks
Znet Article, April, 03 2005
John Petrovato
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Over the past week American viewers have consumed endless images of Terry Schiavo as she lay on her bed in a vegetative state. Scenes of protests outside the hospital and multitudes of political pundits on news programs waded in to give analysis a...
Johnson: AFL-CIO Leaders Move Forward
Zmag Article, April, 01 2005
William Johnson
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A re you worried about the future of the labor movement? Are you working longer hours for less money than workers like you have for decades? Have you noticed the rapid decline of union power in your workplace and our s...
