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Podur: Kofi Annan's Haiti
Znet Article, February, 10 2006
Justin Podur
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In the vast corrugated-iron shanty town of Cité Soleil, home to quarter of a million people, all the schools are shut down and the one hospital closed. White armoured UN personnel carriers patrol the perimeter, half a dozen blue-helmeted heads po...
Podur: Aristide the Film
Znet Article, December, 13 2005
Justin Podur
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Review: Aristide and the Endless Revolution. 2005. Baraka Productions. 83 min. Movie site: www.aristidethefilm.com Available from www.firstrunfeatures.com Each fact is disputed. Haiti’s President, Jean Bertrand Aristide, was overthrown ...
Podur: Detestable Murderers and Scumbags
Znet Article, December, 05 2005
Justin Podur
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ON JULY 11, 2005, WITH great nuance and tact, Canada’s Chief of Defence Staff General Hillier described the forces arrayed against the NATO mission in Afghanistan: “These are detestable murderers and scumbags, I’ll tell...
Podur: Two Faced in Haiti
Znet Article, October, 01 2005
Justin Podur
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Last week we talked to Desmond Molloy, an old soldier who heads the 'DDR' program for MINUSTAH, the UN Stabilization Mission in Haiti. 'DDR' stands for Disarmament, Demobilization, and Reintegration. Molloy's previous experience, among other confl...
Podur: The Elections Game is On
Znet Article, September, 26 2005
Justin Podur
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The Elections Game is On
Podur: The Polls of Bel Air
Znet Article, September, 23 2005
Justin Podur
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The post-coup Haitian presidential election, currently planned for November 20, has a list of 54 candidates. The Canadian Prime Minister's 'special advisor on Haiti', Denis Coderre, suggested yesterday that this sprawling list of candidates was a ...
Podur: From the Embassy to the Prison
Znet Article, September, 21 2005
Justin Podur
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From the Embassy to the Prison
Podur: Refugees and Citizens
Znet Article, September, 05 2005
Justin Podur
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Jesse Jackson and Bruce Gordon are just two of many high-profile Black leaders who have expressed indignation at the description of those displaced by Hurricane Katrina as ‘refugees’. ‘It is just wrong’, Jackson sai...
Podur: Removing the Accidental Protection
Znet Article, August, 01 2005
Justin Podur
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What is behind the Gaza ‘disengagement plan’? It has been spelled out clearly enough by Ariel Sharon’s own advisor, Dov Weisglass, in an often-quoted Ha’aretz interview about ‘freezing’ the pea...
Podur: Colombian Government's Counteroffensive
Znet Article, May, 20 2005
Justin Podur
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Vicente Otero was once the elected mayor of the small Colombian town of Caldono in the department of Cauca. He was instrumental in the Nasa indigenous movement’s recent referendum against the Free Trade Agreement, in which record numbers p...
Podur: Will people power have a chance in Colombia?
Znet Article, April, 23 2005
Justin Podur
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Yesterday (April 22), as the attacks on their communities continue to intensify, the indigenous communities of Northern Cauca, specifically Toribio and now Jambalo, convoked an assembly in the main city of the region, Santander de Quilichao. Suppo...
Podur: War Profiteering and us
Znet Article, January, 23 2005
Justin Podur
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[A talk given in Ottawa on January 21 to an anti-imperialist group at the beginning of a national campaign against SNC-Lavalin, a Canadian engineering firm with a huge number of contracts including a large bullet contract with the US Military]. F...
Podur: Colombia in 2004
Znet Article, January, 01 2005
Justin Podur
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Part 1 / Part 2 Uribe returned to Europe - to Spain - at the end of May. As every tin-pot repressive politician in the world had tried to exploit 9/11 to crack down on political activity, so Uribe was hoping...
Podur: Colombia in 2004
Znet Article, January, 01 2005
Justin Podur
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Part 1 / Part 3 Mass arrests by the army, paramilitary massacres and assassinations were among the ongoing effects of Uribe's 'democratic security' policy. Even as the sham 'negotiations' for the 'demobiliza...
Podur: Colombia in 2004
Znet Article, January, 01 2005
Justin Podur
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Part 2 / Part 3 “President Alvaro Uribe badly wanted to show Colombians his only recent success: Bush’s re-election. But the US President had only three hours to visit the only supporter of his strat...
Podur: Bush in Canada
Znet Article, November, 18 2004
Justin Podur
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There used to be two mainstream politicians with a spine in Canada. Svend Robinson from British Columbia was a member of the social democrat New Democratic Party (NDP). He visited the Occupied Palestinian Territories and was virtually alone in c...
Podur: The Atrocity Experiment
Znet Article, November, 08 2004
Justin Podur
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In the Spring of 2002, after the US had taken Afghanistan from the Taliban and handed it to the warlords, Israel launched its "Operation Defensive Shield" re-invasion of the West Bank. During the Jenin invasion, whole city blocks of densely popula...
Podur: Crossing the Lines
Znet Article, October, 23 2004
Justin Podur
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Reviewing: Crossing the Lines: Kashmir, Pakistan, India A story of people at war over borders and boundariesA documentary film by Pervez Hoodbhoy and Zia MianEqbal Ahmad Foundation, 2004, 45 minutes and Between Past and Future - Selected Essays...
Podur: Getting Beyond Hypocrisy on Humanitarian Intervention
Znet Article, September, 29 2004
Justin Podur
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Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin gave a moving speech at the United Nations on September 22, 2004. "Tens of thousands have been murdered, raped and assaulted,†he said. “War crimes and crimes against humanity have been committe...
Podur: The Disappeared Mayor
Znet Article, August, 29 2004
Justin Podur
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On August 22, 2004, a commission of leaders left the indigenous community of Toribio, part of the municipality of Toribio in the Department of Cauca, Colombia, to go to a community called Alta Mira in the municipality of San Vicente del Caguan, in...
Podur: The Venezuelan Referendum Ends
Znet Article, August, 16 2004
Justin Podur
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At the tim...
Podur: The Calm Before the?
Znet Article, August, 15 2004
Justin Podur
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Today is the day before the referendum. Not only is campaigning formally closed, but there is also a law in effect, quite common in Latin America, that no alcohol is to be sold or consumed until well after the referendum. And...
Podur: Venezuela:Florentino The Devil And The Opposition
Znet Article, August, 14 2004
Justin Podur
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Last night was the closing of the referendum campaign. It closed with huge marches of the opposition and the chavistas. They say the opposition march was the biggest ever—one estimate I heard, from a journalist who was at the Madrid demo...
Podur: In Caracas
Znet Article, August, 13 2004
Justin Podur
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It has been an interesting night and day. I have spent a substantial portion of the past 24 hours listening to Chavez speak. The man speaks a lot. But let me explain. Fear... My interest in Venezuela started with my interest ...
Podur: Colombia and Venezuela
Znet Article, August, 04 2004
Justin Podur
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Carlos Andres Perez, a former President of Venezuela and leader of the Venezuelan 'opposition' against Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, said in a recent interview that "Violence will allow us to remove [Chavez]. That's the only way we have," and ...
Podur: Canada for anti-imperialists, Part II
Znet Article, July, 03 2004
Justin Podur
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Back to Part I From local 'threats' to global 'threats' Desmond Morton, another completely mainstream and conventional historian, nevertheless makes a good point about the implications of Canada's military relationship with the US. The onl...
Podur: Canada for anti-imperialists
Znet Article, July, 03 2004
Justin Podur
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Based on a talk given to the 'Nageh' community group on June 11, 2004, in Toronto. Part 1 of 2. Go to part 2 The United States is engaging in a bloody occupation in Iraq; it overthrew the democratically-elected regime in Haiti and pos...
Podur: Stateless and Deported
Znet Article, June, 24 2004
Justin Podur
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For over a year, the Coalition Against the Deportation of Palestinian Refugees has been working in Montreal to stop deportations against these members of an already stateless and oppressed community. The coalition's political campaign and ca...
Podur: The Final Answer Will Be Given by the Tanks
Znet Article, June, 19 2004
Justin Podur
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A few months ago, the commander of the Venezuelan Army, Raul Baduel, described something that worried him (1). Colombia had just purchased 46 AMX-30 battle tanks from Spain. The media claimed the tanks were to fight drug trafficking, b...
Podur: Kanehsatake
Znet Article, May, 19 2004
Justin Podur
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On May 20, 2004, people from all over the Ontario and Quebec will go to the Mohawk community of Kanehsatake to show their support for a peaceful resolution to a confrontation between heavily armed agents of the state and a community that rejects t...
