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- Friday, Feb 05, 2010
Video On January 12, Haiti was hit with an earthquake 7.0 on the Richter scale, leaving possibly 200,000 dead and 3 million affected. Much of Port-au-Prince, Haiti's capital, is now living in makeshift camps with their water, food, and health at risk. W... -
- Sunday, Jan 24, 2010
ZNet Article Everyone agrees that the Haiti earthquake is a serious situation. -
- Tuesday, Jan 19, 2010
Video Writer Justin Podur visited Haiti in 2005, studying the government after the coup that overthrew the elected government of Jean Bertrand Aristide in 2004. In this video recorded January 18, 2010, he discusses the Haiti earthquake and some of the p... -
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- Thursday, Sep 24, 2009
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- Wednesday, Jul 15, 2009
ZNet Article The present essay reviews in summary form the key ideas for "cultural liberation" and then discusses the consequences of these ideas for the concept of self-determination, specifically national self-determination, in our world and in a good society. -
- Monday, Jul 06, 2009
ZNet Article I returned from Bukavu yesterday. A sign of a country not having full sovereignty is the fact that you have to get there through another country. Those who have business in Rwanda can go through Rwanda, flying into Kigali and going overland into B... -
- Tuesday, Jun 30, 2009
ZNet Article Like everything else, reading material is scarce and expensive here. There isn't a daily newspaper in Bukavu, and after visiting several libraries and bookstores in different parts of the city, I didn't see one even from another region. -
- Monday, Jun 29, 2009
ZNet Article I'm in Bukavu, in South Kivu, in the Democratic Republic of Congo. It's a big city! About a million people, in the uplands, on the coast of a strange and geologically fascinating volcanic origin Lake Kivu. -
- Friday, Jun 12, 2009
ZNet Article So, Colombia's President Alvaro Uribe Velez came to Canada and spoke to Canadian politicians in order to try to resurrect the stalled CCFTA. -
- Wednesday, Jun 03, 2009
ZNet Article The following set of questions and answers are intended to help those in Canada trying to stop the CCFTA (or see to it that it stays down). -
- Saturday, May 16, 2009
ZNet Article The Sri Lankan military now (May 16/09) controls virtually all of the territory that was once controlled by the Tamil Tiger (Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, or LTTE) insurgents. -
- Saturday, Apr 04, 2009
ZNet Article Omar Barghouti is an activist and writer based in Palestine. He was one of the early advocates of a Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions strategy against Israel's occupation and apartheid policies. He was one of the headline speakers of Israeli Aparthei... -
- Monday, Mar 09, 2009
ZNet Article Below are my annotations (notes in bold) to a memo written by Canadian Liberal Party leader Michael Ignatieff. Ignatieff's memo denounced a campus lecture series, Israeli Apartheid Week. -
- Friday, Mar 06, 2009
ZNet Article One of Colombia's major magazines, Cambio, published a story quoting from the magic laptops that survived bombing in the Ecuadorian jungle and were retrieved after the Colombian government assassinated Raul Reyes just about a year ago (March 3/08)... -
- Saturday, Feb 28, 2009
ZNet Article On February 20, the Federal Court of Canada dropped most of the conditions it had placed on one of the prisoners of its “security certificate†regime, Adil Charkaoui. While much of his life is still lived in the rights-free zone widened under ... -
- Sunday, Jan 18, 2009
ZNet Article Israel used the word "disengagement" in 2005 to mean continued occupation, control of movement, periodic massacre, and blockade. Now Israel is using the word "ceasefire" to mean continued ground occupation and supervised societal collapse. The wor... -
- Thursday, Jan 08, 2009
ZNet Article If national media help make a nation, then we all need to stop reading and listening to conventional Canadian media if we want to make a decent Canada. -
- Monday, Jan 05, 2009
ZNet Article The current crisis in Gaza began with Israel's breaking the ceasefire with Hamas on November 4, 2008. The five-month ceasefire was unsustainable for two reasons. -
- Monday, Dec 29, 2008
ZNet Article In September 2001, a group of terrorists from al Qaeda killed several thousand Americans in New York. US friends and enemies alike condemned the attacks and the attackers. -
- Tuesday, Dec 02, 2008
ZNet Article In Canada, the Conservative minority government might just become the opposition in parliament this week, replaced by a Liberal-NDP coalition with support from the Bloc Quebecois from the outside. -
- Friday, Nov 07, 2008
ZNet Article I spent the week Oct 25-Nov 1 at the Toronto Palestine Film Festival (TPFF). Walk through my journey with me. -
- Tuesday, Oct 14, 2008
ZNet Article Writers on financial or economic matters rarely see the need to explain the basics of the field or justify them at the best of times, let alone in the middle of unfolding crises. What are these 'financial instruments' – futures, options, and swap... -
- Tuesday, Oct 07, 2008
ZNet Article The 2008 Canadian election has some of the features of the past few elections. The majority of the population faces the quandary of how to defeat a reactionary party that just might have the largest plurality of support. Will they get a majority o... -
- Monday, Sep 15, 2008
ZNet Article Bolivia's popular movements are attempting to use democracy and a legitimate government to advance an agenda of sovereignty, greater equality, and development. Their opponents, led by several governors of the wealthier provinces in a part of the c... - All Most Recent Content
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- Wednesday, Mar 03, 2010
ZMag Article The missing context behind the latest imperial machinations -
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- Tuesday, Feb 23, 2010
ZMag Article An outline of an alternative democratic political system ZMag Article A new book by Joseph B. Atkins on media and labor in the U.S. south ZMag Article Announcements of new events, campaigns, organizations, and media ZMag Article Friends and colleagues remember an activist-educator ZMag Article Apply to Z's summer school by March 5 ZMag Article Deal-making and public posturing for more nuke money ZMag Article A new study looks at Monsanto's flawed testing - All ZMag Content
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- Sunday, Jan 24, 2010
ZNet Article Everyone agrees that the Haiti earthquake is a serious situation. -
- Wednesday, Jul 15, 2009
ZNet Article The present essay reviews in summary form the key ideas for "cultural liberation" and then discusses the consequences of these ideas for the concept of self-determination, specifically national self-determination, in our world and in a good society. -
- Monday, Jul 06, 2009
ZNet Article I returned from Bukavu yesterday. A sign of a country not having full sovereignty is the fact that you have to get there through another country. Those who have business in Rwanda can go through Rwanda, flying into Kigali and going overland into B... -
- Monday, Jun 29, 2009
ZNet Article I'm in Bukavu, in South Kivu, in the Democratic Republic of Congo. It's a big city! About a million people, in the uplands, on the coast of a strange and geologically fascinating volcanic origin Lake Kivu. -
- Friday, Jun 12, 2009
ZNet Article So, Colombia's President Alvaro Uribe Velez came to Canada and spoke to Canadian politicians in order to try to resurrect the stalled CCFTA. -
- Wednesday, Jun 03, 2009
ZNet Article The following set of questions and answers are intended to help those in Canada trying to stop the CCFTA (or see to it that it stays down). -
- Saturday, May 16, 2009
ZNet Article The Sri Lankan military now (May 16/09) controls virtually all of the territory that was once controlled by the Tamil Tiger (Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, or LTTE) insurgents. -
- Saturday, Apr 04, 2009
ZNet Article Omar Barghouti is an activist and writer based in Palestine. He was one of the early advocates of a Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions strategy against Israel's occupation and apartheid policies. He was one of the headline speakers of Israeli Aparthei... -
- Monday, Mar 09, 2009
ZNet Article Below are my annotations (notes in bold) to a memo written by Canadian Liberal Party leader Michael Ignatieff. Ignatieff's memo denounced a campus lecture series, Israeli Apartheid Week. -
- Friday, Mar 06, 2009
ZNet Article One of Colombia's major magazines, Cambio, published a story quoting from the magic laptops that survived bombing in the Ecuadorian jungle and were retrieved after the Colombian government assassinated Raul Reyes just about a year ago (March 3/08)... -
- Saturday, Feb 28, 2009
ZNet Article On February 20, the Federal Court of Canada dropped most of the conditions it had placed on one of the prisoners of its “security certificate†regime, Adil Charkaoui. While much of his life is still lived in the rights-free zone widened under ... -
- Sunday, Jan 18, 2009
ZNet Article Israel used the word "disengagement" in 2005 to mean continued occupation, control of movement, periodic massacre, and blockade. Now Israel is using the word "ceasefire" to mean continued ground occupation and supervised societal collapse. The wor... -
- Thursday, Jan 08, 2009
ZNet Article If national media help make a nation, then we all need to stop reading and listening to conventional Canadian media if we want to make a decent Canada. -
- Monday, Jan 05, 2009
ZNet Article The current crisis in Gaza began with Israel's breaking the ceasefire with Hamas on November 4, 2008. The five-month ceasefire was unsustainable for two reasons. -
- Monday, Dec 29, 2008
ZNet Article In September 2001, a group of terrorists from al Qaeda killed several thousand Americans in New York. US friends and enemies alike condemned the attacks and the attackers. -
- Tuesday, Dec 02, 2008
ZNet Article In Canada, the Conservative minority government might just become the opposition in parliament this week, replaced by a Liberal-NDP coalition with support from the Bloc Quebecois from the outside. -
- Friday, Nov 07, 2008
ZNet Article I spent the week Oct 25-Nov 1 at the Toronto Palestine Film Festival (TPFF). Walk through my journey with me. -
- Tuesday, Oct 14, 2008
ZNet Article Writers on financial or economic matters rarely see the need to explain the basics of the field or justify them at the best of times, let alone in the middle of unfolding crises. What are these 'financial instruments' – futures, options, and swap... -
- Tuesday, Oct 07, 2008
ZNet Article The 2008 Canadian election has some of the features of the past few elections. The majority of the population faces the quandary of how to defeat a reactionary party that just might have the largest plurality of support. Will they get a majority o... -
- Monday, Sep 15, 2008
ZNet Article Bolivia's popular movements are attempting to use democracy and a legitimate government to advance an agenda of sovereignty, greater equality, and development. Their opponents, led by several governors of the wealthier provinces in a part of the c... - All Featured Podur's Articles
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- Friday, Feb 05, 2010
Video On January 12, Haiti was hit with an earthquake 7.0 on the Richter scale, leaving possibly 200,000 dead and 3 million affected. Much of Port-au-Prince, Haiti's capital, is now living in makeshift camps with their water, food, and health at risk. W... -
- Tuesday, Jan 19, 2010
Video Writer Justin Podur visited Haiti in 2005, studying the government after the coup that overthrew the elected government of Jean Bertrand Aristide in 2004. In this video recorded January 18, 2010, he discusses the Haiti earthquake and some of the p... - All Recent Video
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- Tuesday, Nov 03, 2009
Blog Post Justin Podur's Resoc Interview -
- Saturday, Jul 19, 2008
Blog Post On my way from Pakistan to Kerala, I stopped for a day in Delhi - I have a couple of hours left in this very interesting city. Thanks to friends I had an excellent 48 hours, though I could have stayed much longer and learned much more. -
- Monday, Jul 07, 2008
Blog Post Pakistan's editorial pages are full of opinion and analysis on how to deal with the insurgency. -
- Wednesday, Jul 02, 2008
Blog Post Pakistan's civilian government's economic policy is based on liberalization and privatization - perhaps not a good idea. Some commentary on the perils of privatization. -
- Tuesday, Jul 01, 2008
Blog Post Some thoughts on Pakistan's economy as a developing country trying to cope with rising global energy prices... -
- Sunday, Jun 29, 2008
Blog Post A first blog post from Islamabad, Pakistan. Based mostly on reading the english-language media, which I could have done from Canada, but still hopefully of interest... -
- Monday, Aug 06, 2007
Blog Post I figured I might as well take advantage of my psychology binge-reading to do some blogging, rather than keep all my thoughts to myself. The point for me isn't to look for a psychological cause behind every political phenomenon, but to pay attenti... -
- Wednesday, Aug 01, 2007
Blog Post Some thoughts on alternative education author Alfie Kohn today. I started with his book, "Punished by Rewards", which discusses why rewards (grades, gold stars, salary bonuses or any other kind of bribes) are not good things - not in workplaces, n... -
- Thursday, Jun 21, 2007
Blog Post Khaled Mishal of Hamas in the foreground, and a Nazi swastika in the background. Click on the story and you won't see anything Nazi. That's because there's nothing to do with the Nazis, other than the desire by the BBC and so many others to link t... -
- Thursday, May 10, 2007
Blog Post I just published this answer to Cockburn, Rancourt, and Noble on ZNet. I hope it helps some people think about these things and sift the useful contributions from these writers from the very poor things they are doing in their writing on climate. - All Z Blog Posts
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