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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, ...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
Skerrett: Faking Genocide in Haiti
Znet Article, June, 23 2005
Kevin Skerrett
Skerrett's ZSpace page
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...
Skerrett: Faking Genocide in Haiti
Znet Article, June, 23 2005
Kevin Skerrett
Skerrett's ZSpace page
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...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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...
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...
Schwartz: The Car Bombings in Iraq
Znet Article, May, 31 2005
Michael Schwartz
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The Car Bombings in Iraq
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
