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Podur: Wikileaks Cablegate
Commentary, December, 02 2010
Justin Podur
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The US Embassy cables put out by Wikileaks are not the truth... instead, they will show just what US officials have been up to, what they have been thinking, and what they have been reporting for years, most of which could be inferred by the effec...
Podur: Empires Don't Build Rivals
Commentary, August, 03 2008
Justin Podur
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In the background of the Indo-US nuclear deal now going into "overdrive", as well as the increasing economic co-operation and (most importantly) the joint military excercises and interoperability efforts and acquisitions made by India, there is a ...
Podur: So, what am I doing in Islamabad?
Commentary, July, 17 2008
Justin Podur
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I am currently sitting in my very reasonable apartment in the Iqbal International Institute for Research and Dialogue guest house, typing at a laptop that is sitting on a dresser and using a wireless connection set up for me by my host, Junaid Ahm...
Podur: Ingrid Betancourt Released
Commentary, July, 04 2008
Justin Podur
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Colombia's most high-profile hostage of the FARC guerrilla group, French-Colombian former Presidential candidate, Ingrid Betancourt was just freed (July 2/08) in a military operation by the Colombian armed forces.
Podur: Colombia Assassinates Raul Reyes of FARC
Commentary, March, 03 2008
Justin Podur
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Raul Reyes was assassinated on Ecuadorian territory...
Podur: Venezuela's Constitutional Reform Fails (For Now)
Commentary, December, 04 2007
Justin Podur
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Venezuela's Constitutional Reform Fails (For Now)
Podur: The Things We Do For Oil
Commentary, January, 08 2007
Justin Podur
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Review of Garry Leech, ÒCrude Interventions: The United States, Oil and the New World DisorderÓ, Zed Books 2006.
Podur: After Socialism?
Commentary, December, 18 2006
Justin Podur
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Review of Gabriel KolkoÕs ÒAfter Socialism: Reconstructing critical social thoughtÓ. Routledge, UK. 2006.
Podur: N. and the Memory Wall (On a day in the future)
Commentary, August, 12 2006
Justin Podur
Podur's ZSpace page
N., a young Palestinian/Israeli Jew, was late for her meeting with her friend H., the child of Palestinian Muslim refugees who had returned from Lebanon on a bus a few years before. N. was still preparing her gift for H., a hat to cover his premat...
Podur: Wrong Direction, Canada
Commentary, January, 24 2006
Justin Podur
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On January 23, 2006, CanadaÕs Conservative Party won national power. 2006 is an important year for elections in the Americas. Two have already occurred. In Bolivia, Evo Morales became the first indigenous President in a country that is majority in...
Podur: People of Color Talk is Cheap
Commentary, July, 05 2005
Justin Podur
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Any category or concept is going to leave important things out. ItÕs the nature of abstraction. Using the term ÔBlackÕ to describe a group of people can obscure more than it reveals. As a biological category it is meaningless, as is the concept of...
Podur: Unnecessary Concessions
Commentary, November, 18 2004
Justin Podur
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Is there something wrong with using a bomb to destroy a building that might have civilians in it just because there might be an `insurgent' hiding there?
Podur: National Sovereignty
Commentary, September, 09 2004
Justin Podur
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Years ago, I wrote an essay arguing against nation-states as a form of organization (1). Admittedly not the most immediately practical program or campaign, it was an attempt to grapple with the various problems that nationalism and states based o...
Podur: On the Anniversary of Rachel Corrie's Murder
Commentary, March, 15 2004
Justin Podur
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On March 16, 2004, people will hold vigils and ralles in different parts of the world to remember Rachel Corrie, a young American woman, part of the International Solidarity Movement (ISM), who was murdered in the Gaza Strip by a bulldozer on the ...
Podur: Third World Models for the Bush Regime (satire)
Commentary, January, 24 2004
Justin Podur
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People argue that the first world imposes its models on the third world. But sometimes the influence runs in the other direction...
Podur: Ten Years On In Chiapas
Commentary, January, 02 2004
Justin Podur
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January 1, 2004 will be the 10th anniversary of the Zapatista uprising in Chiapas, Mexico. In 2004, it will be 20 years since the founding of the Zapatista Army of National Liberation, or EZLN (1).
Podur: After the Common Sense Revolution
Commentary, October, 16 2003
Justin Podur
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After 8 years in office, the Ontario Tories were finally thrown out on October 2, 2003. They were replaced by a Liberal majority government that won 72 seats to the Tories's 24. The social democratic NDP, after a strong campaign, won 7 seats. As i...
Podur: From Aguascalientes to Caracoles
Commentary, September, 13 2003
Justin Podur
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For some 10 years, the Zapatistas have inspired people all over the world. The Zapatistas' 'Autonomous Municipalities', in particular, have been models of community organization and democratic self-governance. These municipalities managed to provi...
Podur: Road Map Theatrics
Commentary, August, 12 2003
Justin Podur
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On August 3, 2003, the Associated Press reported on the progress of the road map. Some of the 'wanted men' of Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades were to be packed off to Jericho from Arafat's compound in Ramallah. It is not always clear what a Palestinian ...
Podur: Direct Action Casework And Healthcare: A Canadian Export To The Us?
Commentary, June, 03 2003
Justin Podur
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After the conquest of Iraq, George Bush held a press conference where he
Podur: Canadian Premiers are Revolting!
Commentary, March, 31 2003
Justin Podur
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It's backlash week in Canadian politics. Ralph Klein, Alberta's neoliberal premier and the closest thing Canada has to George W Bush (Klein would take that as a compliment) sent a letter to the US ambassador to Canada, repudiating the Prime Minist...
Podur: Palestine Ironies
Commentary, January, 24 2003
Justin Podur
Podur's ZSpace page
A common belief propounded by opponents of Palestinian rights is that Arabs want to 'drive Israel into the sea'. In 1992, Israel's Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin said: "I wish Gaza would sink into the sea."
Podur: Anti-Semitism And Anti-Colonialism
Commentary, January, 05 2003
Justin Podur
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A response to Judy Rebick's ZNet Commentary of December 2002 on Anti-Semitism and the Left, this article discusses the relationship between racism, anti-semitism, and colonialism.
Podur: Yes, Americans can understand suicide bombers
Commentary, December, 13 2002
Justin Podur
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It might be hard to believe, but Americans have within themselves all of the emotional equipment needed to understand suicide bombers. What is required is shock, rage, and an irrational desire for revenge that goes so deep that it ceases to be pic...
Podur: Resolution 1441
Commentary, November, 12 2002
Justin Podur
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With the passage of UN Security Council Resolution 1441, the US has
Podur: The Government's Mask Comes Off In Chiapas
Commentary, September, 06 2002
Justin Podur
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Two years ago, just after Vicente Fox's election ended the PRI's 71-year long dictatorship over Mexico and just before Pablo Salazar's election as governor of Chiapas raised such high hopes of change, there was a literacy class in the Tzotzil, Abe...
Podur: Welcome to the Nightmare
Commentary, August, 14 2002
Justin Podur
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Alvaro Uribe Velez was being sworn in as Colombia's president on August 7 while mortar shells were hitting the presidential palace. He was swearing that his war plan, that includes the creation of a 'civilian intelligence network' of spies who are...
Podur: The Pope Squat
Commentary, August, 07 2002
Justin Podur
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The pope has left the city, and the Ontario Coalition Against Poverty still has the building.
Podur: The Pope Squat
Commentary, August, 03 2002
Justin Podur
Podur's ZSpace page
The pope has left the city, and the Ontario Coalition Against Poverty still has the building.
