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Podur: The Para-Uribe Regime, the Extraditions, and Justice in Colombia
Znet Article, August, 21 2008
Justin Podur
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Colombia's current President Alvaro Uribe Velez’ political history is intimately tied with paramilitarism. He was mayor of the then drug-trafficker controlled Medellin in 1982, and when he became governor of Antioquia in 1995-1997, he supported th...
Podur: The Para-Uribe Regime, the Extraditions, and Justice in Colombia
Znet Article, August, 21 2008
Justin Podur
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Colombia's current President Alvaro Uribe Velez’ political history is intimately tied with paramilitarism. He was mayor of the then drug-trafficker controlled Medellin in 1982, and when he became governor of Antioquia in 1995-1997, he supported th...
Podur: The NATO Occupation and Fundamentalism
Znet Article, August, 13 2008
Justin Podur
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The Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan (RAWA) is a women's organization that runs underground schools and other projects, educates Afghan girls, runs a periodic journal, and agitates politically for women's rights, human rights,...
Podur: The Continuing Relevance of the Left in India
Znet Article, August, 06 2008
Justin Podur
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First of all, thank you for allowing me to be a part of the honouring of TK Ramachandran. I did not know him, but I have done a little bit of research now, enough to know that he was not someone who shrunk from a debate or a discussion. I hope we ...
Podur: On drug wars and opium fueled insurgencies
Znet Article, July, 13 2008
Justin Podur
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Over the past few days the Americans have hit the Pakistanis at the border and are increasing threats of hot pursuit. Some of the peace deals between frontier forces and militant groups are holding. In other areas, the Taliban have besieged Pakist...
Podur: The writ of the state
Znet Article, July, 08 2008
Justin Podur
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Another couple of days of bombings in Pakistan and Afghanistan, each with its own message and each by a different group. A couple of days ago the Americans hit a wedding party and killed over 20 people in Afghanistan. In Kabul yesterday the Indian...
Podur: Ingrid Betancourt Released
Znet Article, July, 02 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 in a military operation by the Colombian armed forces. This is a major event in Colombian politics a...
Podur: On a quest for secular piety
Znet Article, June, 21 2008
Justin Podur
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Tarek personally asked me to review his book, Chasing a Mirage: the tragic illusion of an Islamic State (CM). With a book being favorably reviewed in the Canadian (and US and UK) media, including the Globe and Mail, the Toronto Star, the Huffing...
Podur: Bursting the Dam of Containment
Znet Article, June, 13 2008
Justin Podur
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At its core, Peter Hallward's remarkable book, “Damming the Flood: Haiti, Aristide, and the Politics of Containment”, is the detailed story of the struggle between the Lavalas movement and the forces arrayed against Haitian sovereignty and democra...
Podur: The Academic Boycott Debate
Znet Article, April, 24 2008
Justin Podur
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On Wednesday November 28, 2007 I was in the audience for a debate on the question of whether Israel should be subjected to an academic boycott. In the midst of the farce of the Annapolis talks, it was refreshing that the terms of debate at least s...
Podur: Canada's newest political prisoners
Znet Article, March, 30 2008
Justin Podur
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The jailing of these leaders offers a window into a whole host of Canada’s irrationalities and cruelties – the callous dispossession of the indigenous, the search for quick profits to be torn out of the ground and turned into money whatever the co...
Rozental: Bolivia on the Brink
Znet Article, March, 05 2008
Manuel Rozental
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Bolivia is on the brink of civil war. With a popular government attempting to put forward a new constitution and an elite intent on blocking change, or failing that separating the resource-rich part of the country from the rest, events are moving ...
Podur: Life After Racism?
Znet Article, February, 25 2008
Justin Podur
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Talk prepared for Life After Capitalism Conference at World Social Forum, Porto Alegre, January 2003.
Podur: Colombia's war and Venezuela's foreign policy
Znet Article, January, 23 2008
Justin Podur
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This article will explain the Colombian context and what Chavez was, and is, probably trying to achieve with the humanitarian accord. The release of the hostages was a very positive development, for reasons that will be discussed below.
Podur: Defend the Border
Znet Article, January, 06 2008
Justin Podur
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The phrase “defend the border” wasn’t always a metaphor. And it isn’t just a metaphor in many parts of the world, even today: some states do have to worry about overland military invasions.
Podur: Exchange on the Academic Boycott
Znet Article, December, 11 2007
Justin Podur
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On November 28, 2007, Ryerson University in Toronto held a debate on “Academic Boycott and Academic Freedom†in the context of Israel/Palestine. Justin Podur wrote an article on the debate (http://www.zmag.org/znet/viewArticle/17261) and one o...
Podur: Exchange on the Academic Boycott
Znet Article, December, 11 2007
Justin Podur
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On November 28, 2007, Ryerson University in Toronto held a debate on “Academic Boycott and Academic Freedom†in the context of Israel/Palestine. Justin Podur wrote an article on the debate (http://www.zmag.org/znet/viewArticle/17261) and one o...
Podur: Through the lens of the shock doctrine
Znet Article, October, 21 2007
Justin Podur
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Naomi Klein
Podur: Shawn Brant
Znet Article, September, 19 2007
Justin Podur
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On August 30, about two weeks before Canada became one of only four countries to vote against a UN declaration on indigenous rights, Tyendinaga Mohawk father and activist, Shawn Brant was released from Quinte Detention Centre on bail. Bail had bee...
Podur: Global Warming Suspicions and Confusions
Znet Article, May, 11 2007
Justin Podur
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In recent years, a number of important contributions have influenced the growing debate on global warming. Paul Baer and Tom Athanasiou's book, Dead Heat, from a few years ago, was excellent. Noam Chomsky's latest book, Failed States, mentions glo...
Podur: An Open Letter to Mitch Potter, on Truly Disgusting Racism
Znet Article, February, 13 2007
Justin Podur
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Dear Mitch Potter, It has been some time since you wrote me on September 10, 2006, in response to my blog post at killingtrain.com of July 28, 2006. You wrote me with serious concerns that I had maligned your reputation – attaching, in y...
Podur: Abandoning Hypocrisy
Znet Article, September, 26 2006
Justin Podur
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[Talk given at the Canadian launch of Bleeding Afghanistan September 21, 2006] Just over five years ago I visited Colombia for the first time. I walked through some farmers’ fields that had been fumigated as part of the ‘war on dr...
Podur: In whose interests are the "residents" rallies in Caledonia?
Znet Article, May, 23 2006
Justin Podur
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On May 22, 2006 - after holding a blockade of the Highway 6 at Caldeonia, Ontario (Canada) since February - the indigenous of Six Nations unblocked the highway. The dismantling of the blockade - initially erected by the indigenous to enforce their...
Podur: Race, Culture, and Leftists
Znet Article, May, 21 2006
Justin Podur
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My presentation is motivated by what I believe is a weakness across the political spectrum: handling the interaction of different cultures and identities in accordance with principles of equality, solidarity, and liberty. My optimistic belief is t...
Podur: The May 15 Mobilizations in Colombia
Znet Article, May, 17 2006
Justin Podur
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Colombia's peasant, indigenous, and union organizations called for a major mobilization on May 15, 2006. With elections on May 28, 2006, the organizations sought to demonstrate their opposition to the Colombian regime's Free Trade Agreement with t...
Podur: Free Software and ZNet
Znet Article, May, 01 2006
Justin Podur
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For several months ZNet, an activist website, has been exploring the possibility of converting to free software and so joining the 'free software movement', a movement that advocates for certain fundamental freedoms for computer users. Both ZNet a...
Podur: Six Nations Does Not Stand Alone
Znet Article, April, 24 2006
Justin Podur
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On Thursday April 20, Hazel Hill, one of the Six Nations Kanienkehaka (Mohawk) leaders on the blockade at the Douglas Creek Estates near Caledonia, told me about her beating at the hands of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) hours before. Early t...
Podur: Stop the Deadly Rumours
Znet Article, February, 21 2006
Justin Podur
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In the 1960s and 1970s, the US political police, mainly in the form of the FBI, infiltrated, spied upon, and violently attacked various social movement organizations. This effort, documented in Ward Churchill and Jim Vander Wall’s book, â&...
Podur: A Dishonest Case for a Coup
Znet Article, February, 16 2006
Justin Podur
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I was convinced, reluctantly, into replying to Deibert.
