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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...
Ravishankar: Et Tu George?
Znet Article, March, 28 2005
Ra Ravishankar
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Background Information: Narendra Modi, the Chief Minister of the western Indian state of Gujarat, has been widely implicated in the anti-Muslim pogrom of March 2002 that left more than 2,000 Muslims dead and 100,000 homeless. He was to tour the US...
Curtis: Britain and Africa: The new propaganda
Znet Article, March, 21 2005
Mark Curtis
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A major feature of the invasion of Iraq was media commentators falling for obvious government propaganda. Without such complicity, the invasion would have been politically impossible. Yet this willful self-deception is now being repeated in anothe...
Curtis: Rogue State Britain
Znet Article, March, 21 2005
Mark Curtis
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The Blair government’s foreign policy since the invasion of Iraq has been disastrous for human rights. Outside of media and parliamentary scrutiny, decision-makers have been implementing some remarkable steps: Britain is deepening its supp...
Loewenstein: God Under Howard
Znet Article, March, 20 2005
Antony Loewenstein
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Many voters had never heard of the Family First party before the 2004 election. When candidate Steven Fielding won a Victorian Senate seat (due to an ALP preference deal gone wrong), many Australians thought that a far-right, Christian-based moral...
Loewenstein: In Praise Of Soeharto The Despot
Znet Article, March, 19 2005
Antony Loewenstein
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In a speech to the Australian Parliament on November 23, 1999, Prime Minister John Howard articulated his reasons for the country leading a peacekeeping force to East Timor, the former Portuguese colony invaded by Indonesia in 1975 with Australian...
Engler: Hockey Book Interview
Znet Article, March, 10 2005
Gary Engler
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What is The Meaning of Hockey and why was the title changed from Noam Chomsky on Hockey? Can a sports novel also be political? Will a novel about a former star hockey player going through male menopause be of interest to feminists? Is political-sp...
Berndt: Rachel, Full of Life
Znet Article, March, 09 2005
Brooks Berndt
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At the age of 23, Rachel Corrie was full of life. At the age of 23, she was a senior in college ignited by a passion for justice. At the age of 23, she traveled to the Gaza strip as an activist for peace. And, it was at the age of 23 that Rachel C...
Mate: In the shadow of Aristide
Znet Article, March, 09 2005
Aaron Mate
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The one-year anniversary of the overthrow of Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide was marked by events all too familiar to the poorest nation in the hemisphere, events that should give Canadians pause to reflect on our role in its ongoing trag...
Barghouti: Between South Africa and Israel
Znet Article, March, 07 2005
Omar Barghouti
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Palestinians can no longer understand or accept the fact that some United Nations organizations have started dealing with Israel as if it were just another liberal democracy, not the world’s last surviving colonial bastion. We are particul...
Schwartz: 'Going to War with the Army You Have'
Znet Article, March, 06 2005
Michael Schwartz
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'Going to War with the Army You Have'
Feakins: Chasing Tanks
Znet Article, March, 06 2005
Thomas Feakins
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Structural Adjustment…Free Trade…Collateral Damage…Enemies of Freedom… Axis of Evil...These are only a few of the many words and phrases that have become a part of our North American lexicon. Another equally Orwel...
Gberie: Sorious Samura: Commitment And Voyeurism
Znet Article, March, 05 2005
Lansana Gberie
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On a trip to war-wracked Vietnam in the 1950s---the country was then enmeshed in a bloody anti-colonial war pitting patriotic Vietnamese against the French---the English writer Graham Greene had one of his mordantly conflicted moments. Boarding a ...
Johnson: Afscme Local Leaders Under Attack For Opposing Concessions And The War
Znet Article, February, 28 2005
William Johnson
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Three leaders of AFSCME District Council 1707 in New York City have been forced out of their union offices in what one of the leaders, DC 1707 President Brenda Stokely, has called “an attempt to silence rank-and-file voices in the union.â&...
Doherty: Propaganda And The BBC
Znet Article, February, 07 2005
Alex Doherty
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In a speech given at the Enviromedia conference in Johannesburg in October of last year George Monbiot, one of Britain's best journalists offered an explanation for the general subservience of mainstream reporting in the UK. During his speech he r...
Sommers: Dimensions of Democracy: the US and Iraq
Znet Article, February, 06 2005
Jeff Sommers
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Far too early to tell what the Iraqi elections mean and what the outcome will be - hopefully good. To be sure, the US has developed to a hi...
Fernandes: Australia Redux
Znet Article, February, 04 2005
Clinton Fernandes
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Over the course of a long political career, newly re-appointed federal Labor leader Kim Christian Beazley has demonstrated an impressive consistency in his views on strategic policy. In 1974, he submitted his masters’ thesis to the Univers...
Schwartz: The Poll Watcher's Guide to the Iraqi Election
Znet Article, January, 28 2005
Michael Schwartz
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The Poll Watcher's Guide to the Iraqi Election
Brodhead: Reframing the Iraq Election
Znet Article, January, 21 2005
Frank Brodhead
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Reframing the Iraq Election
