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Chaleshtoori: The Regressive Politics of the Iranian-Canadian Khavari Petition
Znet Article, November, 15 2011
Shadi Chaleshtoori
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The same system whose integrity is affirmed by the petition, offers a brick wall to countless Iranian dissidents to whom entrance into Canada will be denied
Podur: I am not a gadget
Znet Article, January, 09 2011
Justin Podur
Podur's ZSpace page
Because he is so well informed and such an authority on the topics, I was inclined to just read the book and agree with everything. Which I did, until I couldn't any more.
Podur: The First Battle of Fallujah 2004 in the Iraq War Diary
Znet Article, November, 17 2010
Justin Podur
Podur's ZSpace page
Below I look at incidents in April 2004, during “The First Battle of Fallujah”. In some ways the account of the battle in the war logs confirms what was reported, but some of the details (such as when ceasefires were announced) are different. The ...
Podur: Azkintuwe and the Mapuche Struggle
Znet Article, October, 21 2010
Justin Podur
Podur's ZSpace page
From July until October, 38 Mapuche activists were on hunger strike in Chilean prisons demanding to be tried under civilian rather than military authority, to face civil legislation rather than Pinochet-era “anti-terrorist” legislation. The hunger...
Podur: Azkintuwe and the Mapuche Struggle
Znet Article, October, 21 2010
Justin Podur
Podur's ZSpace page
From July until October, 38 Mapuche activists were on hunger strike in Chilean prisons demanding to be tried under civilian rather than military authority, to face civil legislation rather than Pinochet-era “anti-terrorist” legislation. The hunger...
Podur: The Rwandan Election
Znet Article, August, 11 2010
Justin Podur
Podur's ZSpace page
Paul Kagame is headed for a landslide victory at the Rwandan polls. Exit polls indicate 93% of the electorate voted for him. If some Western media commentators could vote in Rwandan elections, the number would likely be even higher.
Podur: Visualizing the Afghan War Diary Data
Znet Article, August, 08 2010
Justin Podur
Podur's ZSpace page
The first impression is one of an extremely lopsided war, like all wars of occupation, where occupied casualties are vastly higher than those by the occupier.
Podur: The G20 Debacle
Znet Article, July, 01 2010
Justin Podur
Podur's ZSpace page
Hosting the G20 in Toronto was the first of a series of political gambles by the Conservative Canadian government led by Prime Minister Stephen Harper.
Podur: Contested Spaces Worth Defending
Znet Article, April, 06 2010
Justin Podur
Podur's ZSpace page
Here's a premise: it's actually worse than we think.
Podur: Limited Compassion for Haiti
Znet Article, January, 24 2010
Justin Podur
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Everyone agrees that the Haiti earthquake is a serious situation.
Podur: Polyculturalism and Self-determination
Znet Article, July, 15 2009
Justin Podur
Podur's ZSpace page
The present essay reviews in summary form the key ideas for "cultural liberation" and then discusses the consequences of these ideas for the concept of self-determination, specifically national self-determination, in our world and in a good society.
Podur: The wealth of Kigali's boom
Znet Article, July, 06 2009
Justin Podur
Podur's ZSpace page
I returned from Bukavu yesterday. A sign of a country not having full sovereignty is the fact that you have to get there through another country. Those who have business in Rwanda can go through Rwanda, flying into Kigali and going overland into B...
Podur: Scarcities and plunders: some economic thoughts from Bukavu
Znet Article, June, 30 2009
Justin Podur
Podur's ZSpace page
Like everything else, reading material is scarce and expensive here. There isn't a daily newspaper in Bukavu, and after visiting several libraries and bookstores in different parts of the city, I didn't see one even from another region.
Podur: Between the hills and the lake: hello from Bukavu
Znet Article, June, 29 2009
Justin Podur
Podur's ZSpace page
I'm in Bukavu, in South Kivu, in the Democratic Republic of Congo. It's a big city! About a million people, in the uplands, on the coast of a strange and geologically fascinating volcanic origin Lake Kivu.
Podur: Uribe in Ottawa
Znet Article, June, 12 2009
Justin Podur
Podur's ZSpace page
So, Colombia's President Alvaro Uribe Velez came to Canada and spoke to Canadian politicians in order to try to resurrect the stalled CCFTA.
Podur: Canada Colombia Free Trade Agreement
Znet Article, June, 03 2009
Justin Podur
Podur's ZSpace page
The following set of questions and answers are intended to help those in Canada trying to stop the CCFTA (or see to it that it stays down).
Podur: Eelam War IV
Znet Article, May, 16 2009
Justin Podur
Podur's ZSpace page
The Sri Lankan military now (May 16/09) controls virtually all of the territory that was once controlled by the Tamil Tiger (Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, or LTTE) insurgents.
Podur: Two Leaps, Two Ironies, and a Joke
Znet Article, March, 09 2009
Justin Podur
Podur's ZSpace page
Below are my annotations (notes in bold) to a memo written by Canadian Liberal Party leader Michael Ignatieff. Ignatieff's memo denounced a campus lecture series, Israeli Apartheid Week.
Podur: The gift that keeps on giving
Znet Article, March, 06 2009
Justin Podur
Podur's ZSpace page
One of Colombia's major magazines, Cambio, published a story quoting from the magic laptops that survived bombing in the Ecuadorian jungle and were retrieved after the Colombian government assassinated Raul Reyes just about a year ago (March 3/08)...
Podur: Canada's War on Terror Hangover
Znet Article, February, 28 2009
Justin Podur
Podur's ZSpace page
On February 20, the Federal Court of Canada dropped most of the conditions it had placed on one of the prisoners of its “security certificate†regime, Adil Charkaoui. While much of his life is still lived in the rights-free zone widened under ...
Podur: Not a ceasefire
Znet Article, January, 18 2009
Justin Podur
Podur's ZSpace page
Israel used the word "disengagement" in 2005 to mean continued occupation, control of movement, periodic massacre, and blockade. Now Israel is using the word "ceasefire" to mean continued ground occupation and supervised societal collapse. The wor...
Podur: Turn off the Canadian Media, Please
Znet Article, January, 08 2009
Justin Podur
Podur's ZSpace page
If national media help make a nation, then we all need to stop reading and listening to conventional Canadian media if we want to make a decent Canada.
Podur: This kind of "war"
Znet Article, January, 05 2009
Justin Podur
Podur's ZSpace page
The current crisis in Gaza began with Israel's breaking the ceasefire with Hamas on November 4, 2008. The five-month ceasefire was unsustainable for two reasons.
Podur: Palestine doesn't get to have a 9/11
Znet Article, December, 29 2008
Justin Podur
Podur's ZSpace page
In September 2001, a group of terrorists from al Qaeda killed several thousand Americans in New York. US friends and enemies alike condemned the attacks and the attackers.
Podur: A break in the Liberal-Conservative coalition
Znet Article, December, 02 2008
Justin Podur
Podur's ZSpace page
In Canada, the Conservative minority government might just become the opposition in parliament this week, replaced by a Liberal-NDP coalition with support from the Bloc Quebecois from the outside.
Podur: The Toronto Palestine Film Festival
Znet Article, November, 07 2008
Justin Podur
Podur's ZSpace page
I spent the week Oct 25-Nov 1 at the Toronto Palestine Film Festival (TPFF). Walk through my journey with me.
Podur: The financial economy and the real economy
Znet Article, October, 14 2008
Justin Podur
Podur's ZSpace page
Writers on financial or economic matters rarely see the need to explain the basics of the field or justify them at the best of times, let alone in the middle of unfolding crises. What are these 'financial instruments' – futures, options, and swap...
Podur: Canadian election taboos - and possibilities
Znet Article, October, 07 2008
Justin Podur
Podur's ZSpace page
The 2008 Canadian election has some of the features of the past few elections. The majority of the population faces the quandary of how to defeat a reactionary party that just might have the largest plurality of support. Will they get a majority o...
Podur: Bolivia’s elites seek a media coup
Znet Article, September, 15 2008
Justin Podur
Podur's ZSpace page
Bolivia's popular movements are attempting to use democracy and a legitimate government to advance an agenda of sovereignty, greater equality, and development. Their opponents, led by several governors of the wealthier provinces in a part of the c...
Podur: The desperate lies of a criminal regime
Znet Article, August, 30 2008
Justin Podur
Podur's ZSpace page
So now the computer of an assassinated guerrilla leader, a computer that survived a missile attack and 48 hours of tampering by Colombian authorities according to INTERPOL, yields email evidence "linking" the decimated guerrillas to a peace activi...
