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Znet Article Glick: The Fierce Urgency of Now

Znet Article, December, 15 2012 Ted Glick
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The first public action of any kind, on any issue, after the November 6 election was on the issue of the climate; specifically, the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline

Znet Article Goodman: The Trials of Bradley Manning

Znet Article, December, 15 2012 Amy Goodman
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“Brad’s treatment at Quantico will forever be etched, I believe, in our nation’s history, as a disgraceful moment in time"

Znet Article Albert: Considering Peercommony

Znet Article, December, 15 2012 Michael Albert
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This is part two of an exploration/debate regarding parecon and peercommony

Znet Article Siefkes: My Doubts About Parecon

Znet Article, December, 15 2012 Christian Siefkes
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This is part two of an exploration/debate regarding parecon and peercommony

Commentary Sharma: What Happens When Heads Of State Also Start Lobbying?

Commentary, December, 14 2012 Devinder Sharma
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The demand is for legalising lobbying, following the pattern in the US, and thereby bringing in some regulations to make it more transparent

Znet Article Swanson: The Original Abolitionists

Znet Article, December, 14 2012 David Swanson
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The abolition movement had stamina. Looking back, its gains appear stunningly swift

Znet Article Pearson: Venezuela’s State Elections: When Winning Comes before Revolution

Znet Article, December, 14 2012 Tamara Pearson
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The levels of general political interest and understanding are increasing, and the courage, the fight the grassroots has, its resolve, is inspiring

Znet Article Chomsky: An Interview With Noam Chomsky on Obama’s Human Rights Record

Znet Article, December, 13 2012 Noam Chomsky
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Interview on human rights under the administration of President Obama and the increase of military intervention policies

Znet Article Wainwright: Transformative Power: Political Organisation In Transition

Znet Article, December, 13 2012 Hilary Wainwright
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Organizational forms are needed for the purpose of making present in the political system struggles in society

Commentary Street: The Vile Maxim, the Deficit Fetish, and the Unelected Dictatorship

Commentary, December, 13 2012 Paul Street
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It’s useful to step back from the dominant terms in political play to examine what’s really going on behind misleading language

Znet Article Cooke: Navigating Egypt's Revolutionary Crisis

Znet Article, December, 12 2012 Shamus Cooke
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As chaos again envelopes Egypt, the revolution is evolving in new directions, along contradictory and confusing channels

Znet Article Krugman: Robots and Robber Barons

Znet Article, December, 12 2012 Paul Krugman
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Capital is doing fine by grabbing an ever-larger slice, at labor's expense

Znet Article Naiman: Could Oliver Stone's Exposé of American Empire Help Press the UN to End Haiti Cholera?

Znet Article, December, 12 2012 Robert Naiman
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The general rule has been that the more a country has been able defend itself against the U.S., the more the U.S. has left that country alone

Znet Article Monbiot: On The 12th Day Of Christmas ... Your Gift Will Just Be Junk

Znet Article, December, 12 2012 George Monbiot
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We are screwing the planet to make solar-powered bath thermometers and desktop crazy golfers

Znet Article Engler: Canada as Global Bully: The Congo Example

Znet Article, December, 11 2012 Yves Engler
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It’s certainly not the first time Canada has worked against the Congo’s population, which remains impoverished despite almost a century and a half of foreigners “developing” the country’s resources

Znet Article Daniels: The Re-Election of Barack Obama: This Time "Access" Will Not Be Enough

Znet Article, December, 11 2012 Ron Daniels
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Now that Blacks have decisively delivered for Obama and the Democrats, the question is will the President and the Democrats deliver for Black people?

Znet Article Boyle: The Condition of Human Rights at the International Setting

Znet Article, December, 11 2012 Francis Boyle
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Historically this latest eruption of American militarism at the start of the 21st Century is akin to that of America opening the 20th Century

Znet Article Street: American Justice: Marijuana Convicts Scarred While BP Execs Untouched

Znet Article, December, 10 2012 Paul Street
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The number of black Americans currently under criminal supervision in the United States is greater than the total number of slaves in the country on the eve of the Civil War

Znet Article Foster: The Planetary Emergency

Znet Article, December, 10 2012 John Bellamy Foster
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All that can be said with certainty is that the sooner the world supersedes capitalism the greater the chance for survival

Znet Article Schechter: Economic Crisis Fuels Military Intervention as The Chemical Weapons “Threat” Becomes The New Pretext

Znet Article, December, 10 2012 Danny Schechter
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While weapons flow outwards, urgently needed money flows in to the U.S., to keep the weapons factories humming and the military industrial complex in command

Commentary Rogers: Blaming the Workers Until the Bitter End

Commentary, December, 10 2012 Jamala Rogers
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Black drivers' routes included small black convenience stores while the white drivers got the big grocery chain stores

Znet Article Pearson: Venezuela’s Chavez’s Cancer Returns, Leaves Vice-President in Charge

Znet Article, December, 10 2012 Tamara Pearson
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President Hugo Chavez announced on public television that he will return to Cuba to receive surgery for new malignant cells

Znet Article Monbiot: Biodiversity Offsets Threaten Both The Survival And The Meaning Of Nature

Znet Article, December, 10 2012 George Monbiot
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Biodiversity offsetting allows people to destroy wildlife and habitats if, in return, they pay someone to create new habitats elsewhere

Znet Article Wainwright: Something Rotten In The ANC State

Znet Article, December, 09 2012 Hilary Wainwright
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After the Marikana massacre, ANC activists are turning against their government

Znet Article Benjamin: Israel’s Lesson to Palestinians: Build More Rockets?

Znet Article, December, 09 2012 Medea Benjamin
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If the Israeli government was trying to teach the Palestinians a lesson with this latest pummeling, the unfortunate lesson many learned was that the only way to deal with Israel is through firepower

Znet Article Fisk: Bashar Al-Assad, Syria, And The Truth About Chemical Weapons

Znet Article, December, 09 2012 Robert Fisk
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Bashar’s father Hafez al-Assad was brutal but never used chemical arms. And do you know which was the first army to use gas in the Middle East?

Commentary Fitz: Why Is Cuba's Health Care System the Best Model for Poor Countries?

Commentary, December, 09 2012 Don Fitz
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10 generalizations from Cuba's extensive experience in developing medical science and sharing its approach with poor countries throughout the world

Znet Article Coleman: Beacons Of Freedom: The Changing Face Of Anonymous

Znet Article, December, 09 2012 Gabriella Coleman
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What is a little less clear is what will eventually become of freedom of expression online, given the increasing capabilities for surveillance

Znet Article Zirin: "I Am Not Backtracking At All": Bob Costas In His Own Words

Znet Article, December, 09 2012 Dave Zirin
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. I’m mystified by those who say that pointing out that the easy access to handguns and the existence of a gun culture makes tragedies like this more likely

Znet Article Has: Polish NGO Safeguards Palestinian Water Rights

Znet Article, December, 08 2012 Amira Has
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The harsh actions of the Civil Administration in the West Bank have made waves in places as far afield as Poland

Znet Article Giroux: Losing Time or Doing Time: Drowning Public Education in the Wake of Hurricane Sandy

Znet Article, December, 08 2012 Henry A. Giroux
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It's time education is taken up seriously as an intellectual, ethical and social good

Znet Article Baroud: Palestine’s New Status

Znet Article, December, 08 2012 Ramzy Baroud
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Palestine has become a “non-member state” at the United Nations as of Thursday November 29, 2012

Znet Article Street: Rising Above With Disdain: Class Entitlement and “The Fiscal Cliff”

Znet Article, December, 08 2012 Paul Street
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A far better project would be a democratic leveling-out of the American economy

Znet Article Fisk: Syria's Elite Used To Believe The Bureaucracy Would Continue Even After The Fall Of Bashar Al-Assad. After Makdissi’s Defection, That Has Changed

Znet Article, December, 08 2012 Robert Fisk
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The real reasons for the "dismissal" of a Syrian spokesman

Znet Article Swanson: Pearl Harbor Day Is a Day to Cherish the $1.3 Trillion We Blow on War Preparation Every Year

Znet Article, December, 07 2012 David Swanson
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Nazi Germany, we actually tend to overlook sometimes, could not have existed or waged war without the support for decades past and ongoing through the war of U.S. corporations like GM, Ford, IBM, and ITT

Znet Article Baroud: A Different War in Gaza, and the War Ahead

Znet Article, December, 07 2012 Ramzy Baroud
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How did Gaza manage to fight back with such ferocity and undying vigor in quelling the latest Israeli war despite years of a bloody siege and one-sided war in 2008-9?

Znet Article Arnove: Palestine and the Intifada

Znet Article, December, 07 2012 Anthony Arnove
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The story of the Palestinian uprising that shook Middle East politics starting 25 years ago this month

Znet Article Baker: Wall Street Manipulates Deficit Angst With Fiscal Cliff Fear

Znet Article, December, 07 2012 Dean Baker
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Deficit hawks rely on media allies to report budget doom to advance their agenda of cutting Medicare and social security

Znet Article Chomsky: On Media, Healthcare, Economics, Jobs, Dangers of Human Intelligence, Part I

Znet Article, December, 07 2012 Noam Chomsky
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The US healthcare system is an international scandal. It's about twice the per capita cost of comparable countries

Znet Article Glass: Aleppo: How Syria Is Being Destroyed

Znet Article, December, 07 2012 Charles Glass
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An estimated 40,000 Syrians have paid with their lives, and another two million are displaced, of whom 400,000 have fled over the borders to wait out the war as refugees

Commentary Kagarlitsky: One Year of Protest Turbulence

Commentary, December, 06 2012 Boris Kagarlitsky
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we can speak of an end to turbulence only in the sense that we have passed through a particular phase of the crisis, one that will inevitably be followed by another

Znet Article Bricmont: Why Humanitarian Interventionism is a Dead End

Znet Article, December, 06 2012 Jean Bricmont
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Instead of calling for more and more interventions, we should demand of our governments the strict respect for international law, non-interference in the internal affairs of other States and cooperation instead of confrontation

Znet Article Pilger: Leveson’s Punch And Judy Show Masks Hacking On A Scale You Can Barely Imagine

Znet Article, December, 05 2012 John Pilger
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To the “national security state”, of which the US is the pioneer and model, “perpetual war” is a given; and the public are the enemy -- not terrorists

Commentary Bond: South Africa’s Sanitation Cesspools

Commentary, December, 05 2012 Patrick Bond
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What the dog’s-breakfast Durban Platform confirms, then, was global-elite back-slapping generosity to each other, simultaneous with rank incompetence and utter disregard for the poor and environment

Znet Article Engelhardt: The Barack Obama Story (Updated)

Znet Article, December, 05 2012 Tom Engelhardt
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How a community organizer and constitutional law professor became a robot president

Znet Article Sinclair: Obama’s insanity on climate change

Znet Article, December, 05 2012 Ian Sinclair
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Obama’s insanity on climate change

Znet Article Kelly: Truth and Trauma in Gaza

Znet Article, December, 04 2012 Kathy Kelly
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Due to simple racism and a jingoistic eagerness to get in line with U.S. military policy, Western commentators ignore the bombardment of Gazan neighborhoods

Znet Article Hass: PA Farmers Hung Out To Dry While Israelis Flourish In Jordan Valley

Znet Article, December, 03 2012 Amira Hass
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Kibbutz Ginosar's bananas alone receive the equivalent of 25 to 40 percent of the water that Israel allocates to the village of Ein al Beida

Znet Article Chomsky: Palestine 2012 – Gaza and the UN Resolution

Znet Article, December, 03 2012 Noam Chomsky
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The crimes trace back to 1948, when hundreds of thousands of Palestinians fled in terror or were expelled to Gaza by conquering Israeli forces

Commentary Cooke: Why UN Climate Agreements Fail

Commentary, December, 03 2012 Shamus Cooke
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Ultimately, climate activists must come face to face with political and corporate power

Znet Article Bloice: World Climate Change Gathering Awaits Obama Response

Znet Article, December, 03 2012 Carl Bloice
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Whether the threat of climate change even exists remains a subject of debate here in the U.S

Znet Article Chomsky: Struggles of the Past

Znet Article, December, 02 2012 Noam Chomsky
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Thanks to the struggles in the past, there is a tremendous amount of freedom

Znet Article Kelly: We Want It to Stop

Znet Article, December, 02 2012 Kathy Kelly
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“I will remember what happened to my brother and my house and that will affect my choices in the future.”

Znet Article Bacon: Who's Responsible for the Fire that Killed 112 Garment Workers?

Znet Article, December, 02 2012 David Bacon
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The day after Black Friday demonstrations, a fire killed 112 workers making clothes for Walmart at the Tazreen Fashions factory in Bangladesh

Znet Article Swanson: We Used to Make the Rich Poorer and the Poor Richer

Znet Article, December, 01 2012 David Swanson
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There is much we can learn from the history of how the rich have sometimes lost

Znet Article Halimi: Back to Gaza Again

Znet Article, December, 01 2012 Serge Halimi
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Has the Arab Spring made so little difference in the Middle East that the same scenario can be repeated in Gaza four years after Operation Cast Lead

Znet Article Meister: A Free Choice For U.S. Workers

Znet Article, December, 01 2012 Dick Meister
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EFCA would give U.S. workers the unfettered right to unionization

Znet Article Albert: Summarizing Participatory Economics

Znet Article, December, 01 2012 Michael Albert
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Participatory economics, or parecon, describes core institutions for an economy to generate solidarity, equity, self management, and an ecologically sound and classless economy

Znet Article Siefkes: Peercommony: A World Free of Money and Coercion

Znet Article, December, 01 2012 Christian Siefkes
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Let’s imagine a world where production is organized by people who cooperate voluntarily and on an equal footing for the benefit of all

Blog Post McGehee: Thoughts on US's objection to Palestine observer status

Blog Post, November, 30 2012 Michael McGehee
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Thoughts on US's objection to Palestine observer status

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