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Znet Article Eidelson: Inspired by Freedom Riders, Workers Plan Caravans to Walmart Convention

Znet Article, May, 07 2013 Josh Eidelson
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Members of the labor group OUR Walmart will send civil rights movement–style caravans of workers from around the country

Znet Article Schechter: Israel Bombs Syria Becomes Israel Is Only Defending Itself

Znet Article, May, 06 2013 Danny Schechter
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An Israeli plane bombs a target in Syria and the story is reframed with Israel as the defender, not the aggressor

Znet Article Fisk: The Truth Is That After Israel’s Air Strikes, We Are Involved

Znet Article, May, 06 2013 Robert Fisk
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If the EU and US say nothing about these attacks, approval is granted

Znet Article Segal: Back To The Fragments

Znet Article, May, 06 2013 Lynne Segal
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One of the authors of the seminal 1979 socialist-feminist text Beyond the Fragments, reflects on its lessons for today

Video Davis: Angela Davis and Assata Shakur’s Lawyer Denounce FBI’s Adding of Exiled Activist to Terrorists List

Video, May, 06 2013 Angela Davis
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Exiled former Black Panther Assata Shakur became the first woman named to the FBI’s Most Wanted Terrorists list

Znet Article Fletcher: Obama’s Hostility Towards Venezuela

Znet Article, May, 05 2013 Bill Fletcher
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The Obama administration has continued the tried and true path of most US administrations in treating Latin America as if it is the backyard of the United States

Video Chomsky: Noam Chomsky: US, A Top Terrorist State

Video, May, 05 2013 Noam Chomsky
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The United States would be recognized as a leading terrorist state if international law is applied

Znet Article Jensen: Ready for Rationing? Why We Should Put the Brakes on Consumption If We Want to Survive

Znet Article, May, 05 2013 Robert Jensen
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Stan Cox talks about his new book "Any Way You Slice It: The Past, Present, and Future of Rationing."

Znet Article Weisbrot: U.S. Seeks to Get Rid of Left Governments in Latin America

Znet Article, May, 05 2013 Mark Weisbrot
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Recent events indicate that the Obama administration has stepped up its strategy of “regime change” against the left-of-center governments in Latin America

Znet Article Cooke: The Onion Website Joins the U.S. Anti-Syria Club

Znet Article, May, 05 2013 Shamus Cooke
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. Suddenly The Onion's objectivity and satire was reduced to regurgitating the war mongering that the website had previously mocked

Znet Article Fisk: War Reporting - A Veteran’s Guide: Shot At, Seized By A Murderous Mob And Chased By Kidnappers...

Znet Article, May, 05 2013 Robert Fisk
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Robert Fisk reveals how he lived to tell the tale – and why the world is becoming a more dangerous place

Znet Article Parenti: With Friends Like These: On Pakistan

Znet Article, May, 04 2013 Christian Parenti
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As tensions build on the ground, the US military and CIA have taken their war into Pakistan, driven by the legalistic logic of the Obama counterterrorism doctrine

Znet Article Hayden: Commemorating the American War in Vietnam

Znet Article, May, 04 2013 Tom Hayden
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Most peace advocates are unaware that our government has commenced a 13-year program of commemorating the Vietnam War at a cost of $65 million

Znet Article Chomsky: Boston and Beyond

Znet Article, May, 03 2013 Noam Chomsky
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Rack up another triumph for President Obama's global assassination program, which creates hatred of the United States and threats to its citizens

Znet Article Street: Anti-Plutocracy is as American as Apple Pie: A Short of History of American Populist Anger

Znet Article, May, 03 2013 Paul Street
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Populist anti-plutocracy and suspicion of concentrated capitalist wealth and power is “as American as Apple Pie”

Commentary Baroud: Boston, Brazil and Islam: Irrational Rhetoric, Illegal Wars

Commentary, May, 03 2013 Ramzy Baroud
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Rights are infringed at will whenever it suits US foreign policy makers and their intellectual peddlers

Znet Article Zirin: Jason Collins: The Substance of Change

Znet Article, May, 03 2013 Dave Zirin
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"I was certain that my world would fall apart if anyone knew. And yet when I acknowledged my sexuality I felt whole for the first time”

Znet Article Monbiot: Stewards Of The Natural World Do Not Understand The Precautionary Principle

Znet Article, May, 03 2013 George Monbiot
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The UK government does not possess a definition of the principle at the heart of environmental protection and law

Znet Article Pearson: Large May Day Marches in Venezuela as Workers’ Law Comes into Effect

Znet Article, May, 02 2013 Tamara Pearson
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Today both pro-government and opposition supporters held large marches in Caracas, as well as smaller ones around the country, to mark International Workers Day

Znet Article Ali: "India Should be Close to China, Not the US"

Znet Article, May, 02 2013 Tariq Ali
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I am, in general, favourable to activism and social movements and hostile to graft and corruption. But leaping from this to an anti-politics political party is usually little more than a thunderbolt from a blue sky

Znet Article Zirin: A Fighter by His Trade: Tamerlan Tsarnaev, Sports and the American Dream

Znet Article, May, 02 2013 Dave Zirin
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Alienation, poverty and despair drive people—overwhelmingly young men—to awful acts of violence

Znet Article Graeber: The Failure of Gun Legislation in the Senate Tells us we Need to fight for our Democracy

Znet Article, May, 02 2013 David Graeber
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There is an increasing disparity between what the American public says it wants, and what the political class feel they should even have to talk about

Znet Article Solomon: Don’t Vent, Organize -- And “Primary” a Democrat Near You

Znet Article, May, 02 2013 Norman Solomon
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Any incumbent Democrat who is not serving progressive interests should be weighed as a possible primary target

Znet Article Hoodbhoy: On Elections, Extremism, and Science

Znet Article, May, 01 2013 Pervez Hoodbhoy
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Interview on the upcoming general elections in Pakistan, the performance of the previous government, minority and sectarian issues, and secularism

Znet Article Galeano: The Life and Death of Words, People, and Even Nature

Znet Article, May, 01 2013 Eduardo Galeano
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From Walking Libraries and a God Named “Word” to What Sherlock Holmes Never Said

Znet Article Fisk: Syria: Assad Sends His Feared Ghost Soldier Militia Squads To The Battlefront

Znet Article, May, 01 2013 Robert Fisk
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The new “army” will have one clear advantage for the regime; as well as putting thousands of new men under arms, it provides an alternative to the system of conscription

Commentary Engler: Killing Communities

Commentary, May, 01 2013 Yves Engler
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Cars kill — millions of humans and animals around the world every year — but do they also destroy our sense of community and solidarity

Znet Article Mestrum: The World Social Forum And Its Governance: A Multi-Headed Monster

Znet Article, May, 01 2013 Francine Mestrum
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Twelve years after Porto Alegre, the relevance of the initiative of the first WSF organizers is fully confirmed

Znet Article Monbiot: Beware The Rise Of The Government Scientists Turned Lobbyists

Znet Article, May, 01 2013 George Monbiot
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From badgers to bees, government science advisers are routinely misleading us to support the politicians' agendas

Znet Article Cooke: Obama and U.S. Military Divided Over Syria

Znet Article, May, 01 2013 Shamus Cooke
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The U.S. public has learned the lessons of Iraq's WMD's, and that lesson is not lost on U.S. soldiers

Znet Article La Botz: Mexican Teachers Rebel Against Government's Educational Reform

Znet Article, May, 01 2013 Dan La Botz
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Mexican teachers, particularly in the south of the country, have joined a regional rebellion of rank-and-file teachers

Znet Article Brecher: Five Ways to Bridge the Jobs vs. Environment Gap

Znet Article, April, 30 2013 Jeremy Brecher
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Challenging the jobs vs. the environment conflict at five different levels

Znet Article Bloice: Education Yes, but Young Workers Need Jobs Now

Znet Article, April, 30 2013 Carl Bloice
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Nobody in a position to do so is proposing spending money on an apprenticeship program that would engage jobless youth in Cleveland, Detroit or Los Angeles

Znet Article Hayden: Guantanamo’s Death Row

Znet Article, April, 30 2013 Tom Hayden
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Releasing some Guantanamo detainees will save lives, will be a gesture toward peace and will salvage some global respect for our country

Znet Article Fisk: Syria And Sarin Gas: US Claims Have A Very Familiar Ring

Znet Article, April, 29 2013 Robert Fisk
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Reports of the Assad regime's use of chemical weapons are part of a retold drama riddled with plot-holes

Znet Article Albert: New Challenges For Organizing

Znet Article, April, 29 2013 Michael Albert
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The failing was not in the WSF per se, but in the lack of surrounding organizational basis for expanding most effectively on the WSF promise

Znet Article Schechter: Debating The Global Media—In Kazakhstan

Znet Article, April, 29 2013 Danny Schechter
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Media influences all of our lives. We all need to take more time to understand how it works and how we can try to transform it

Commentary Pilger: Inside the 'State of Imprisonment' – Australia

Commentary, April, 29 2013 John Pilger
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Today, the despair is so profound that the second cause of Aboriginal death is suicide. It is booming

Znet Article Glick: Hunger Strike on 27th Day

Znet Article, April, 29 2013 Ted Glick
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Brian Eister is on the 27th day of a water-only climate hunger strike outside the American Petroleum Institute in Washington, D.C.

Znet Article Swanson: Libyan Door to Syrian Door to Iran

Znet Article, April, 28 2013 David Swanson
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In Syria, the United States has worked against peace and for violence

Znet Article Bloch: Wooden Legs, Paper Clips And Ice Fronts — Resistance To The Third Reich

Znet Article, April, 28 2013 Nadine Bloch
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History makes clear that the German army was well prepared to meet armed resistance but less able to cope with strikes, civil disobedience, boycotts and other nonviolent action

Znet Article Hayden: U.S. Policies Allow Sweatshop Fires

Znet Article, April, 28 2013 Tom Hayden
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The latest sweatshop disaster in Bangladesh, which claimed the lives of over 200 young women, calls into question the foundations of US globalization policies

Znet Article Monbiot: Where Hope Flows

Znet Article, April, 28 2013 George Monbiot
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The Wandle is one of several recovering London rivers being restocked with fish and other wildlife

Znet Article Bennis: Challenging Einstein: Kerry's 'New' Diplomacy In The Middle East

Znet Article, April, 27 2013 Phyllis Bennis
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John Kerry is shuttling between Jerusalem and Ramallah. Hopes are supposed to be rising again

Znet Article Achcar: Syria's Bloody Civil War: An Interview With Gilbert Achcar

Znet Article, April, 27 2013 Gilbert Achcar
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The main accomplishment is that the popular movement is boiling everywhere. This is something completely new in the region

Znet Article Krugman: The 1 Percent’s Solution

Znet Article, April, 27 2013 Paul Krugman
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What the top 1 percent wants becomes what economic science says we must do

Znet Article Hayden: Boston Bombings Boost Terror Paradigm

Znet Article, April, 27 2013 Tom Hayden
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The bombings have increased national support for the Global War on Terror

Znet Article Savio: The Free Market Fundamentalists Are Now in Europe

Znet Article, April, 27 2013 Roberto Savio
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How many crises do we have to bear before regulations eliminate risks from the banks and they are confined to the world of speculation?

Commentary Shiva: We Don’t Need Genetically Engineered Bananas For Iron Deficiency

Commentary, April, 27 2013 Vandana Shiva
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The latest insanity from the genetic engineers is to push GMO bananas on India for reducing iron deficiency in Indian women

Znet Article Benjamin: Julian Assange on George Bush’s Library and Bradley Manning’s Trial

Znet Article, April, 26 2013 Medea Benjamin
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If Manning is charged with espionage, this criminalizes national security reporting

Znet Article Pearson: Venezuela’s Maduro Announces “New Cycle of the Revolution”

Znet Article, April, 26 2013 Tamara Pearson
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Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro argued that the “new cycle of the revolution” should be focused on “building peace, security, and coexistence”

Znet Article Shalom: Human Rights and the POSCO Struggle

Znet Article, April, 26 2013 Stephen R. Shalom
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One of the most inspiring examples of people fighting back against international capital is taking place in the Jagatsinghpur district of the Indian state of Orissa

Znet Article Albert: Chapter 5 of Occupy Vision: InterCommunalism

Znet Article, April, 26 2013 Michael Albert
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This is the chapter five of Occupy Vision, which is the second volume of the three volume set titled Fanfare for the Future

Blog Post Bohmer: Thomas Herndon's Dismantling of Study Justifying Austerity

Blog Post, April, 25 2013 Peter Bohmer
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Two very prominent Harvard economists, and formerly leading economists for the International Monetary Fund, Carmen Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff, concluded, based on their “objective” statistical analysis, that once government debt reached 90% of GD...

Znet Article Pilger: Dance On Thatcher's Grave, But Remember There Has Been A Coup In Britain

Znet Article, April, 25 2013 John Pilger
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In the wake of Thatcher's departure, I remember her victims

Znet Article Swanson: Can a Drone Murder?

Znet Article, April, 25 2013 David Swanson
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Murder is not made into something else by declaring it to be part of a war

Znet Article Solomon: Time to Renounce the “War on Terror”

Znet Article, April, 25 2013 Norman Solomon
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The “war on terror” continues to normalize itself as a thoroughly American way of life and death

Commentary Kagarlitsky: The Ponomaryov Principle

Commentary, April, 25 2013 Boris Kagarlitsky
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The current corruption scandals clearly demonstrate that Skolkovo has already failed as a scientific and technological project

Znet Article Chomsky: Noam Chomsky: Smoke and Mirrors, or Civil Liberties Under President Obama

Znet Article, April, 25 2013 Noam Chomsky
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It's interesting to see the way in which due process is being reinterpreted by Obama's Justice Department

Znet Article Engelhardt: Filling the Empty Battlefield

Znet Article, April, 24 2013 Tom Engelhardt
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In a new book, Jeremy Scahill dramatically retraces the bureaucratic intel wars in Washington as the Pentagon, the CIA, and the rest of the U.S. Intelligence Community muscled up

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