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Znet Article Penha: The Trap of the Participatory Budget

Znet Article, February, 06 2003 Joao Penha
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SAO PAULO, Oct. 29 -- Immediately after the Oct. 27 landslide election of Workers Party (PT) presidential candidate Luis Inacio (Lula) da Silva, editorials in the world major financial daily newspapers began telling Lula, as he is known widely in ...

Znet Article Urashima: Okinawa Base Dooms Dugong

Znet Article, February, 06 2003 Etsuko Urashima
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Plans to transfer a U.S. military airfield to Henoko in northern Okinawa have been fiercely, but in the end abortively, contested by Okinawan citizens. Construction of the airfield is now imminent in the coral sea off Henoko, the home of the dugon...

Znet Article Tanaka: Yasakuni Shrine, Japanese Nationalism, and the Constitution

Znet Article, February, 06 2003 Nobumasa Tanaka
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The Yasukuni shrine to Japan's war dead, more specifically to those who gave their lives for the Japanese emperor, has long been a center of controversy in postwar Japan. Now it becomes the focus of a series of judicial challenges to its constitut...

Znet Article Agarwal: The Narmada Valley

Znet Article, February, 06 2003 Alok Agarwal
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The Narmada Bachao Andolan (NBA) has been fighting against the development of big dams in India’s Narmada river valley. Big dams have displaced tens of millions of people already and disrupted much of rural India, without solving any of th...

Znet Article Fisk: Don't Mention The War In Afghanistan

Znet Article, February, 05 2003 Robert Fisk
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There's one sure bet about the statement to be made to the UN Security Council today by the US Secretary of State, Colin Powell – or by General Colin Powell as he has now been mysteriously reassigned by the American press: he won't be talk...

Znet Article Waterman: Reflections on The 3rd World Social Forum

Znet Article, February, 05 2003 Peter Waterman

'If we agree that the most important characteristic of the Forum is the 'open space' it offers for free exchange, then especially at the present juncture in history, the World Social Forum needs to make it its task to promote the idea of open spac...

Znet Article Schechter: The "gunfight" At The Un Corral:

Znet Article, February, 05 2003 Danny Schechter
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The media will outnumber the diplomats at the UN today as the curtain rise on what may be the end game of the pre-war phase of the Iraq crisis. Colin Powell had been rehearsing all weekend as his aides and an army of speechwriters stitched togethe...

Znet Article Schechter: The "gunfight" At The Un Corral:

Znet Article, February, 05 2003 Danny Schechter
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By The media will outnumber the diplomats at the UN today as the curtain rise on what may be the end game of the pre-war phase of the Iraq crisis. Colin Powell had been rehearsing all weekend as his aides and an army of speechwriters stitched toge...

Znet Article Talbot: War For World Dominance

Znet Article, February, 05 2003 Karen Talbot
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George Bush's recent State of the Union speech should alarm the people of our country and the entire planet about the perils facing us all-and they are not the ones he spoke of with arrogance, lies, and threats. The true significance of his words ...

Znet Article Jensen: Smoking Guns And Big Guns: The Us Drive To War

Znet Article, February, 05 2003 Robert Jensen
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The world's attention Wednesday was trained on what Secretary of State Colin Powell said at the United Nations, but far more crucial was what he didn't say. Most important was the one word at the core of plans for war but which never crossed Powe...

Znet Article Hacher: Bolivia: Eradicate Coca-Cola

Znet Article, February, 05 2003 Sebastian Hacher
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Carrying with him only a bag of coca to ¨pijcear¨(chew) for energy during his way, and a sling with which to defend himself, Javier, a 50 year old campesino (peasant) from "The Chapare" a rural region in Bolivia, left his home in the early morning...

Znet Article Savio: Smaller Is Better

Znet Article, February, 05 2003 Roberto Savio
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Smaller Is Better

Znet Article Street: Citizens Or Spectators

Znet Article, February, 05 2003 Paul Street
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The White Man’s Burden: "To Shock and Awe" We are drifting quickly downstream towards a terrible historical waterfall. In "a matter of weeks, not months," America is reported likely to unleash world’s history most lethal milita...

Znet Article Bennis: Powell's Dubious Case

Znet Article, February, 05 2003 Phyllis Bennis
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U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell's presentation to the UN Security Council on February 5 wasn't likely to win over anyone not already on his side. He ignored the crucial fact that in the past several days (in Sunday's New York Times and ...

Znet Article Longmore: Telling It Like It Is

Znet Article, February, 04 2003 Paul Longmore
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We are here today because our civil rights are under attack. We are here because some of the top leaders of the Democratic Party in California have betrayed their promise to defend those rights. We are here to demand that they honor their pledge. ...

Znet Article Monbiot: A War of Terror

Znet Article, February, 04 2003 George Monbiot
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Last week, on the day George Bush delivered his State of the Union address, the Pentagon received a visitor. A few hours before the president told the American people that "we will not permit the triumph of violence in the affairs of men", General...

Znet Article Galeano: Priceless Values

Znet Article, February, 04 2003 Eduardo Galeano
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Translated by Simon Helweg-Larsen Recently, in many countries at once, numerous popular demonstrations have been staged against the warring vocation of the Masters of the Planet. In the streets of many cities, these demonstrations give testimon...

Znet Article Z: Taking Up Space

Znet Article, February, 04 2003 Mickey Z
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Within 24 hours of the Columbia Space Shuttle accident, NASA made three announcements worth examining. On Sunday, February 2, as reported by AP writer, Pam Easton, "NASA warned members of the public Sunday against trying to sell purported Columbia...

Znet Article Reinhart: Academic Boycott: In Support Of Paris VI

Znet Article, February, 04 2003 Tanya Reinhart
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In April 2002, following Israel's "operation" in Jenin, first calls for institutional academic boycott of Israeli universities appeared in England and in France.  The British petition called to freeze European Union contracts with Israeli u...

Znet Article Chomsky: Chomsky On The Anti War Movement

Znet Article, February, 04 2003 Noam Chomsky
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Matthew TempestTuesday February 4, 2003 Noam Chomsky: The [peace] demonstrations were another indication of a quite remarkable phenomenon. There is around the world and in the United States opposition to the coming war that is at a level that is c...

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