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Znet Article Podur: Terrorist Plot Foiled!

Znet Article, May, 10 2004 Justin Podur
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A beleaguered democracy beset by continual terrorist attacks by ruthless, depraved, and highly imaginative terrorists managed to foil a terrorist plot yesterday.  By taking swift, decisive police action, a terrorist training camp full of fore...

Znet Article Podur: The Forgotten Conflicts in Sudan

Znet Article, March, 14 2004 Justin Podur
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Review of: Douglas H. Johnson, The Root Causes of Sudan's Civil Wars.  James Currey, Oxford, 2003.  234 pages. Sudan is, like the rest of Africa, neglected in the mainstream media except for the occasional use of it as a rhetorical de...

Znet Article Podur: The Congo Conflict

Znet Article, March, 05 2004 Justin Podur
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Reviewing Georges Nzongola-Ntalaja.  The Congo From Leopold to Kabila: A People's History. Zed Books, London, 2002.  Nzongola-Ntalaja was interviewed in preparation for the review on Jan 29, 2004. John F. Clark.  The African Stake...

Znet Article Podur: Palestinian Child Prisoners

Znet Article, February, 11 2004 Justin Podur
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Review of: Stolen Youth: The Politics of Israel's Detention of Palestinian Children.  Catherine Cook, Adam Hanieh, and Adah Kay.  Pluto Press, London, 2004.  197 pages. Three more people in masks came into the room.  They bli...

Znet Article Podur: Another Turn of the Spiral

Znet Article, January, 15 2004 Justin Podur
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Tom Hurndall died on January 13, 2004 at 7:45pm, in a hospital in his country, the UK, after spending over 8 months in a coma.  He was shot in the head in April 2003, in Rafah, the Gaza Strip, Occupied Palestine, while accompanying a group of...

Znet Article Podur: Pardoning the Paramilitaries in Colombia

Znet Article, December, 23 2003 Justin Podur
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Colombia's paramilitary killers were dramatically 'pardoned' on national television in late November, and are now in 'negotiations' with the government to 'demobilize'.  The Colombian army, meanwhile, no longer having to worry about the param...

Znet Article Podur: A Multifaceted Fraud, Part 2

Znet Article, December, 05 2003 Justin Podur
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Back to Part I Manji the searching moral critic Manji says she wants to revive the idea of 'ijtihad', of self-criticism and reformation, from the Islamic tradition.  She probably got the idea from Ziauddin Sard...

Znet Article Podur: A Multifaceted Fraud

Znet Article, December, 05 2003 Justin Podur
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Irshad Manji, according to the jacket of her book, is "a broadcaster, author, public speaker, and media enterpreneur, born in East Africa and raised on the west coast of Canada."  She was the producer and host of QueerTelevision and calls her...

Znet Article Podur: Letter to a Zionist

Znet Article, November, 20 2003 Justin Podur
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It's been almost a year. Do you remember it? It was a speaking event like any other but it sticks out in my mind even now. A friend from the International Solidarity Movement had come back from the Occupied Territories and was giving his report. O...

Znet Article Podur: Colombia's Referendum

Znet Article, October, 27 2003 Justin Podur
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On October 25, 2003 Colombian President Alvaro Uribe Velez placed before the people of Colombia a referendum of questions that he hoped would endorse his leadership and increase his power. Presented as an ‘anti-corruption’ initiati...

Znet Article Podur: Q & A on Bolivia

Znet Article, October, 17 2003 Justin Podur
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What is happening in Bolivia? A massive popular mobilization is demanding the resignation of the President, Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada, and several ministers, including the Minister of Defense.  On October 16 hundreds of thousands of demonstr...

Znet Article Podur: When Terrorists Talk of Human Rights

Znet Article, September, 18 2003 Justin Podur
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On September 8, Colombian President Alvaro Uribe Velez said "when terrorists start feeling weak, they immediately send their spokesmen to talk about human rights."  He said while some human rights groups were "respectable", others were "polit...

Znet Article Podur: When Terrorists Talk of Human Rights

Znet Article, September, 18 2003 Justin Podur
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On September 8, Colombian President Alvaro Uribe Velez said "when terrorists start feeling weak, they immediately send their spokesmen to talk about human rights."  He said while some human rights groups were "respectable", others were "polit...

Znet Article Podur: To a (Social Democratic) Youth

Znet Article, August, 18 2003 Justin Podur
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It is a pleasure to have the chance to speak to you.  I suspect that there is a lot that we share.  As the young activists of the NDP, you are a part of this party because you have some progressive ideals.  If you just wanted a tast...

Znet Article Podur: Two Venezuelan Mayors

Znet Article, August, 03 2003 Justin Podur
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A recent Human Rights Watch report, which was harshly criticized by supporters of Venezuela's 'Bolivarian Revolution', said that "there are few obvious limits on free expression in Venezuela. The country's print and audiovisual media operate witho...

Znet Article Podur: Revolutionizing Culture Part One

Znet Article, July, 15 2003 Justin Podur
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Revolutionizing Culture Part One

Znet Article Podur: Uribe's Onslaught

Znet Article, June, 30 2003 Justin Podur
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At the end of May, the 'Rio Group' of Latin American countries discussed how to handle Colombia's civil war.  Colombia's president, Alvaro Uribe Velez, was seeking a declaration from the group that asked Kofi Annan to give the FARC-- the main...

Znet Article Podur: Murdering Solidarity

Znet Article, May, 10 2003 Justin Podur
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Picture this: 20 military vehicles, including an armoured personnel carrier, surround an office in broad daylight.  Dozens of soldiers and police proceed to raid and loot the office, breaking equipment, stealing computers, and kidnapping the ...

Znet Article Podur: Is the Canadian Media Fueling Conflict?

Znet Article, April, 14 2003 Justin Podur
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Canadians are not being served as well as they should be, even by their own public media. We have spent the past two weeks monitoring CBC's coverage of the US-UK war on Iraq. We have found that, while the CBC does better than the UK's BBC, US netw...

Znet Article Podur: What is the Colombian Army doing Attacking Venezuela?

Znet Article, April, 03 2003 Justin Podur
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Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez announced on Venezuelan radio on March 31 that: "A short while ago, I ordered an air force operation and we bombed an area where we detected the presence of a group" of Colombian irregular forces along the border.&...

Znet Article Podur: Palestine and Globalization

Znet Article, March, 23 2003 Justin Podur
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Review of: "Epidemic of Globalization: Ventures in World Order, Arab Nationlism and Zionism." Dr.Adel Samara198 pp. Order from publisher: Palestine Research and Publishing Foundation,PO Box 5025, Glendale, California 91221, U.S.A. @ $13.00 In F...

Znet Article Podur: The Empire is not Invincible

Znet Article, March, 18 2003 Justin Podur
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The Empire is not Invincible

Znet Article Podur: The March on CNN

Znet Article, March, 09 2003 Justin Podur
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Jennifer Loewenstein recently wrote I've said it myself many times. I need a break from this awful business I can't watch any more news about Iraq or Palestine. I'm dreading this bloody war and want an escape. Spare me the euphemisms and lies, ...

Znet Article Podur: The other kind of violence

Znet Article, March, 02 2003 Justin Podur
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“Violence in Colombia” is such a popular topic of study that there are hundreds of articles, books, and essays with that title. Some, written by people who call themselves ‘violentologists’, are very good, and very ...

Znet Article Podur: Another Modest Proposal

Znet Article, February, 21 2003 Justin Podur
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There are several proposals floating about how to deal with the “Iraq Problem”. One wrong-headed one was released in December 2002. It suggested that the US arm and support Iran to engage in regime change in Iraq. It argued that b...

Znet Article Podur: Instead of War

Znet Article, February, 16 2003 Justin Podur
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Inspections, not war? The world is saying no to war. But demanding inspections as an alternative might not be enough to derail the war. This must be the most unpopular war in history. Anti-war marches on February 15 brought out a million each in...

Znet Article Podur: Venezuela's 'National Strike'

Znet Article, December, 10 2002 Justin Podur
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The 'general strike' called by the opposition in Venezuela is now on its eighth day.  The strike is the fourth called by the opposition over the past year, including the failed coup attempt in April.  The economy is suffering.  Ther...

Znet Article Podur: The Uribe administration's negotiation with itself

Znet Article, November, 27 2002 Justin Podur
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The Colombian government is in negotiations with the paramilitaries, facilitated by the Catholic Church.  The precondition for negotiations was put by President Alvaro Uribe Velez: "there must be a promise that not a single Colombian more wil...

Znet Article Podur: Discussion of UN 1441 continued

Znet Article, November, 14 2002 Justin Podur
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Dear Znet and Zmag folks, I am writing in regards to Justin Podur?s commentary on UN SC Resolution 1441 re Iraq. I am a UN Representative for several NGOs and have been following the Security Council deliberations. I would ask you to forward my c...

Znet Article Podur: Resolution 1441

Znet Article, November, 11 2002 Justin Podur
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With the passage of UN Security Council Resolution 1441, the US has removed another obstacle in its path to an escalated war against Iraq. Those countries who had been holdouts in the Security Council claim that they went along because their fea...

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