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Administrator: Chávez's opinions on Gender: huge advances and challenges to come
Znet Article, March, 08 2009
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This piece examines an extended extract of an article released by the Venezuelan President, suggesting that though it typifies a rising gender discourse it also reveals its current contradictions.
Administrator: Bolivavarian Rebellion: against definition and a kingdom of ends
Znet Article, March, 08 2009
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This piece criticises the tendency of international leftist observers to categorise the Bolivarian process. It argues that the lack of definition should be seen as a strength, an indicator of continuing Venezuelan rebellion manifest in a participa...
Administrator: Discourse and Division: why Chávez and the opposition are calling for consensual politics
Znet Article, February, 26 2009
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This piece examines the recent avalanche of calls to a more consensual politics in Venezuela. It suggests that from both sides this rhetoric is insincere and examines their transition from a discourse of conflict to one of consensus
Administrator: Gender in Venezuela: between beauty, community action and domestic abuse
Znet Article, February, 26 2009
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This collection of two interviews conducted in a local institute for Women and the Family in Venezuela, first published in two parts on ZNET, examines concepts of beauty, the anatomy of domestic abuse in Venezuela, and the innovative strategies be...
Administrator: Gender in Venezuela: between beauty, community action and domestic abuse
Znet Article, February, 26 2009
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This collection of two interviews conducted in a local institute for Women and the Family in Venezuela, first published in two parts on ZNET, examines concepts of beauty, the anatomy of domestic abuse in Venezuela, and the innovative strategies be...
Administrator: Beyond Shopping
Znet Article, February, 19 2009
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In search of good work
Administrator: A Response to Cameron’s Coming to Terms with Chávez
Znet Article, February, 17 2009
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This piece comes in response to Maxwell Cameron's guardian piece "Coming to Terms with Chávez". In it I argue that contemporary analysis of Venezuelan democracy is riddled with historical mis-interpretation and the equivocation of democracy with ...
Administrator: Venezuelan term limits: personalismo and success for the "Yes"
Znet Article, February, 16 2009
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This piece examines accusations of personalismo in Venezuela following the wake of the Yes block´s victory, removing term limits and enabling President Chávez to seek re-election.
Administrator: Means and Mobilization: Venezuela's referendum on term limits
Znet Article, February, 14 2009
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This piece examines the use of state means by the "Yes" block in the campaign for the removal of term limits in Venezuela.
Administrator: Framing the Debate: Narrative, Violence and Democratic Competition
Znet Article, February, 02 2009
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This piece suggests the chief causes of the decentralised and sporadic violence that has so far marred the run up to the Venezuelan referendum on February 15th are the narrative frames within which it has been positioned. Both sides consider thems...
Administrator: On Hospitality
Znet Article, January, 26 2009
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Travelling has made me acutely aware of something we in the developed world have lost, and with that loss a swathe of obligations we forgot. Hospitality still resonates with us emotionally so why have we delegated it to an entity ill disposed to c...
Administrator: The Venezuelan Participatory State
Znet Article, December, 26 2008
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This piece examines current attitudes regarding the Venezuelan Community Councils and their relationship with government funding.
Administrator: President for Life?
Znet Article, December, 06 2008
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This article examines the claims the the proposed amendment to the Venezuelan Constitution, to allow indefinite re-election of the president, is neither illegal or authoritarian
Administrator: The mentality of resistance, understanding the emotional response of leftists to political violence in Venezuela
Znet Article, December, 04 2008
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This article explores the emotional response of Venezuelan leftists to the current wave of political violence being carried out against them. It suggests that in relation to political violence the ends of the victims, and their desire to stop the ...
Administrator: Venezuelan elections 2008 and their implications for the participatory project
Znet Article, November, 27 2008
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The 2008 Venezuelan elections and the country's ongoing participtory project...
Administrator: Never Having To Apologize: An Imperial Mentality
Znet Article, October, 20 2008
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A social/psych critique of the imperial mentality using Joe The Plumber comments.
Administrator: Georgia On My Mind
Znet Article, September, 17 2008
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An analysis of the Georgia/Ossetai crisis with empasis special the role of NATO in the historical context of US military hegemony and its contuing "first strike" nuclear posture.
Administrator: The Dolphin Manifesto
Znet Article, September, 15 2008
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An ecological and anti-war satire.
Administrator: GOAL OF THE GLOBALISTS AND OUR PLAN
Znet Article, September, 01 2008
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What we are struggling against is far better organized, financed, and disciplined than we are, and is well on its way toward the creation of a global power structure which is privately owned, but operates through governments, the military/police/p...
Administrator: GOAL OF THE GLOBALISTS AND OUR PLAN
Znet Article, September, 01 2008
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What we are struggling against is far better organized, financed, and disciplined than we are, and is well on its way toward the creation of a global power structure which is privately owned, but operates through governments, the military/police/p...
Administrator: America's Legitimacy Crisis
Znet Article, August, 28 2008
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America's legitimacy crisis and the quest for empire
Administrator: Hiroshima: Remembering The Bomb
Znet Article, August, 06 2008
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I was almost a year old when the US dropped the atom bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Since then I have read and watched numerous accounts of that historic event. It is difficult for me to explain my lingering concern about these events throughout...
Administrator: America In 2008: Unequal and Less Free
Znet Article, July, 30 2008
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An essay on growing inequality in the US.
Administrator: Human Rights as a Framework for Reflection in Service Learning: Para que Otro Mundo es possible’
Znet Article, July, 30 2008
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As a framework for reflection, a model of library service based on human rights provides the pathway to change the world by helping people develop their full capabilities. What could be a better guide for reflection than the Universal Declaration ...
Administrator: GW Bush Presidential Library Fund Gains from Donations in Exchange for Access
Znet Article, July, 15 2008
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GW Bush family, the Presidential Library, and Poets.
Administrator: OBAMA AMAZES - More Reflections on 2008 Elections
Znet Article, July, 13 2008
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John Kerry’s endorsement of Barack Obama for President must have shocked the Democratic Party establishment as much as it surprised me. Obama won in Iowa, and then came in a very close second, after pre-election polls had him running first. I list...
Administrator: A Plutonium Paradise? A Critique of Nuclear Power
Znet Article, July, 13 2008
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I just can’t believe the cheerful propaganda coming from the nuclear power industry and its boosters. They are telling us now that nuclear power is a “clean and safe solution” to the crisis of global warming. Nothing could be further from the trut...
Administrator: The 2008 Elections and The Peace Movement
Znet Article, July, 13 2008
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Recent surveys show that American voters have a critical view of how things are going in the country, and that they are confident that the next American President will have the power to change much of what is wrong. Voters begin this election year...
Administrator: Reflections on Super Tornado Tuesday
Znet Article, July, 13 2008
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McCain appears to have clinched the Republican nomination, although many argue that his support is “soft.” Yet, for the first time in years, it appears that the American conservative movement will not pick the Republican candidate. McCain is a mod...
Administrator: Obama and Clinton Go Down to The Wire
Znet Article, July, 13 2008
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Obama and Clinton are going down to the wire. Next Tuesday’s contests in Ohio and Texas could decide who is the Democratic nominee. If Clinton wins in Texas and Ohio, or even one of the two important states, it is likely she will stay in the race ...
