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Znet Article Administrator: Building an Antiwar Movement in Canada

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The Canadian Peace Alliance recently held its 20th anniversary conference in Ottawa, November 11-13, gathering close to 200 anti-war activists from across the country. Convened under the slogan of ‘Challenging Canada’s Role in Empi...

Znet Article Administrator: Eyes on US Troops in Paraguay as Bolivian Election Nears

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The recent shift to the left among Latin American governments has been a cause for concern in the Bush administration. The White House has tried in vain to put this shift in check. Presidential elections in Bolivia on December 18th are likely to f...

Znet Article Administrator: The Guardian and Noam Chomsky

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The readers' editor has considered a number of complaints from Noam Chomsky concerning an interview with him by Emma Brockes published in G2, the second section of the Guardian, on October 31. He has found in favour of Professor Chomsky on three s...

Znet Article Administrator: Johnstone Reply

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I have belatedly learned of the October 31 interview with Noam Chomsky by Emma Brockes, in which my name appeared (misspelled) three times. I would like to correct that minor mistake as well as a few more significant ones. The most basic underlyi...

Znet Article Administrator: Nonviolent Resistance in Palestine

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The fact that thousands of Palestinians and hundreds of Israelis are together employing nonviolent tactics similar to those of the US civil rights movement and the South African anti-Apartheid movement would come as surprising and welcome news to ...

Znet Article Administrator: Test

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Znet Article Administrator: The Constant Gardener and Corporate Anger

Znet Article, September, 09 2005 Site Administrator
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The dean of spy novelists, John Le Carré, has, with his last two efforts, blistered his pages with anger at corporate power and the stuffed, imperial arrogance of the United States and Great Britain. In his most recent work, Absolute Friends, for...

Znet Article Administrator: The Right's AI

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Upon opening up the September issue of Harper’s, I came across a full-page ad for AI – Amnesty International, I assumed. Like Lewis H. Lapham’s stalwart left-liberal magazine, the human rights group had in recent months ram...

Znet Article Administrator: Killing the peace-keeping myth

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August 9 marked the 60th anniversary of the U.S. bombing of Nagasaki, a massive terrorist act that killed 70 000 people instantly, and which previewed the ruthlessness of the United States' post-World War II dominance. Curiously, August 9 is also...

Znet Article Administrator: Working-Class Power

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Good morning. President Hargrove, leaders, and members of the Canadian Auto Workers, I wish to thank you very much for inviting me to speak with you today. This is a great honor and I have been looking forward to this opportunity. If all goes acc...

Znet Article Administrator: Argentina: Hope in Hard Times

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Imagine you lost your job and the government closed down the banks, so you couldn't get out your savings. What would you do?" asks the narrator of the new film, Argentina: Hope in Hard Times. In the case of Argentina's economic crisis in 2002, the...

Znet Article Administrator: Iraqi trade unionists tour U.S.

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SEATTLE, WASHINGTON - Two leaders of the General Union of Oil Employees (GUOE) in southern Iraq spoke here on June 23 at a public meeting, as part of a cross-country tour organized by U.S. Labor Against the War (USLAW). Speaking at the Labor Tem...

Znet Article Administrator: The G8

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This July will see Britain host the annual G8 summit at Gleneagles in Scotland. Last time Britain hosted the G8 in 1998, tens of thousands of people converged on the conference centre in Birmingham to tell the world's most powerful people that the...

Znet Article Administrator: The 'Commission for Detainees' Accuses the Multinational Force of Stalling the Release of Prisoners of Opinion

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The 'Commission for Detainees' Accuses the Multinational Force of Stalling the Release of Prisoners of Opinion

Znet Article Administrator: Sir No Sir

Znet Article, June, 19 2005 Site Administrator
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Donald Duncan is a familiar kind of man, his face lined and weathered, his husky voice flavored by a regional American accent. His eyes are thoughtful as he tells a familiar American story, of how he dreamed of being a war hero, until the brutalit...

Znet Article Administrator: Against neo-liberalism and Empire

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Bill Fletcher Jr., President of TransAfrica Forum, delivered the keynote speech at the opening of this past weekend's Thinking Through Action conference at Simon Fraser University. A prominent voice on the American Left, Fletcher was interviewed b...

Znet Article Administrator: Harbouring A Terrorist:

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President Bush addressed delegates to the Organization of American States (OAS) gathering in Fort Lauderdale this past Monday, June 6. Speaking to representatives from the nations of a seething, rebellious continent in the United States’ b...

Znet Article Administrator: Bolivia on a Tightrope

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 On June 6th 2005, after months of steady road blockades and protests demanding the nationalization of the country’s natural gas reserves, President Carlos Mesa offered his resignation to congress, explaining he was incapable of presiding ...

Znet Article Administrator: Debate Over the Future of the AFL-CIO

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A debate over the future of the AFL-CIO, the federation of most unions in the USA, has been underway for some months and, for the life of me, while the debate becomes more intense, the differences seem to blur. Yet, the feeling that one gets is th...

Znet Article Administrator: Appreciating Steve Nash, basketball's anti-war MVP

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Despite the fact that his Phoenix Suns – who are trailing the experienced San Antonio Spurs 3 games to 1 in the Western Conference finals -- appear destined to be eliminated from the NBA Playoffs this week, Steve Nash has nevertheless put ...

Znet Article Administrator: French Say "Non"

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Paris. The French went ahead and did it. Despite being lectured by government and party leaders, media pundits and foreign leaders flown in from neighboring countries, all telling them that they must vote "yes" to the Treaty establishing a Constit...

Znet Article Administrator: Plan Colombia Collapse?

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Washington's "war on drugs" in Colombia is collapsing in chaos and corruption, and the drug producers are winning. The so-called Plan Colombia, which has cost the US more than $3bn (£1.6bn) in the past five years, is being abandoned, Secretary of ...

Znet Article Administrator: Radio Rebelde in Venezuela

Znet Article, May, 02 2005 Site Administrator
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The sounds of car horns, salsa music, children in playgrounds, barking dogs and occasional gun shots rise out of Catia, one of the largest slums in Latin America. Catia is a sea of multilevel, tin-roof shacks that cling to the mountains around Car...

Znet Article Administrator: Who Pays for Life With Dignity?

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The only dignified voice to appear in the midst of the outrageous media circus which has been created around the slow death of Theresa Marie Schindler Sciavo has been that of the disabled community. Ms. Schindler Sciavo is familiarly called in the...

Znet Article Administrator: COINTELPRO's long shadow

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In February, British Columbia Supreme Court Justice Bennett decided in favour of the United States government’s extradition request against John Graham. Far from accepting the dictates of the American government, Graham’s Defense C...

Znet Article Administrator: Adapting to Global Warming: The Carbon Lobby's Modest Proposal

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The carbon lobby (mainly the coal and oil companies) when they don't  deny that human cause global warming exists, suggest that it would be less expensive and more  humane to do nothing about it. "Burn all the fossil fuels you want, and adapt to t...

Znet Article Administrator: Bono stage right

Znet Article, March, 23 2005 Site Administrator
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Like so many, I’ve by now become used to my childhood heroes letting me down. I long ago accepted that hockey legend Wayne Gretzky, to whom I dedicated many an early adolescent hour of memorizing statistics – just ask me how many a...

Znet Article Administrator: Feet to the Flames:

Znet Article, March, 19 2005 Site Administrator
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On 1 March 2005, the night Tabare Vazquez was inaugurated as President of Uruguay, a sea of people, flags and drum brigades pressed through the streets of the capital, Montevideo. Fireworks pounded the air and car horns shrieked. The city bubbled ...

Znet Article Administrator: Member of Worker-Run Factory in Argentina Was Kidnapped, Tortured

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Zanon ceramics factory, one of the most prominent of the recuperated, worker-run factories in Argentina, was taken over by workers in 2001 and since then has been economically successful as a cooperative. However, as a major symbol of Argentinaâ&#...

Znet Article Administrator: Building a democratic, humanist socialism

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We have to invent the new socialism for the 21st century. Capitalism is not a sustainable model of development. Hugo Chavez, March 4, 2005 In recent months, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has begun to explicitly advocate for socialism, markin...

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