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First reported 11 hours ago - Updated 4 hours ago - 1 reports

Tariq Ali: Targeting Iran

The rise of sectarian violence and recent Israeli bombing indicate that the true aim of the Syrian civil war is to weaken Iran’s position in the region, Middle East expert Tariq Ali said in an interview with RT.Hezbollah militants are fighting beside ... [Published ZNet - 11 hours ago]

Entities: Tariq Ali, Iran, Government of Syria, Syria, Hizballah

First reported 11 hours ago - Updated 7 hours ago - 1 reports

Mike Hall: Bangladesh Worker Safety

A coalition of faith organizations, investors and labor groups—including the AFL-CIO—is urging major U.S. retailers, including Walmart, Gap, Sears and others, to sign on to a binding workplace and fire safety plan to prevent tragedies such as the recent ... [Published ZNet - 11 hours ago]

Entities: Bangladesh, Mike Hall, Workers

First reported May 23 2013 - Updated 9 hours ago - 1 reports

Janson: Guatemala's Ríos Montt Genocide Conviction Omen for US Presidents and Their Hired Assassins

José Efraín Ríos Montt began the his political and military career as a young officer taking part in the bloody successful CIA-organized coup against the first democratically elected president in Guatemalan history that was ordered by President Dwight ... [Published ZNet - May 23 2013]

Entities: Guatemala, Mexico, Haiti, Conviction, Crimes Against Humanity

First reported 11 hours ago - Updated 11 hours ago - 1 reports

Tom Hayden: The Silence of the Drones

Without mentioning the widespread protests against US drone warfare, the mainstream media reports a sharp decline in drone attacks recently. Noted several weeks ago by the Peace and Justice Resource Center, the sudden silence of the drones once again ... [Published ZNet - 11 hours ago]

Entities: Tom Hayden, Scott Shane, Drone

First reported 11 hours ago - Updated 11 hours ago - 1 reports

International Monetary Fund

Michael Albert/Mark Evans: Chapter Seven: Participatory World

Section One: InternationalismParsoc and the World"War does not determine who is right, only who is left."- Bertrand RussellCurrent international market trading overwhelmingly benefits those who enter today’s exchanges already possessing the most assets. ... [Published ZNet - 11 hours ago]

Entities: Globalization, Anti-globalization, International Monetary Fund, Michael Albert, World Bank Group

First reported 11 hours ago - Updated 11 hours ago - 1 reports

Jeremy Brecher/Joe Uehlein: 400 PPM & U.S. Labor

In 1940, as Nazi armies marched across Europe, United Automobile Workers Union (UAW) president Walter Reuther made a stunning proposal: Retool the Depression-ravaged auto industry to build 500 planes a year for national defense. Many scoffed. But a huge ... [Published ZNet - 11 hours ago]

Entities: Global Warming/Climate Change, Labor, Drought, Fossil Fuel

First reported May 23 2013 - Updated May 23 2013 - 1 reports

Vladimir Putin

Cole: Revenge of the Bear: Russia Strikes Back in Syria

President Vladimir Putin of the Russian Federation has drawn a line in the sand over Syria, the government of which he is determined to protect from overthrow. Not since the end of the Cold War in 1991 has the Russian Bear asserted itself so forcefully ... [Published ZNet - May 23 2013]

Entities: Syria, Russia, Vladimir Putin, Damascus

First reported May 23 2013 - Updated May 23 2013 - 1 reports

Fisk: Interview with Robert Fisk on the War in Syria

President Bashar al-Assad's troops in Syria are gaining ground. British Middle East reporter Robert Fisk met some of them when he visited the front lines earlier this month. Interview by Michael HartlepMr. Fisk, you've just returned from Syria. What were ... [Published ZNet - May 23 2013]

Entities: Robert Fisk, Syria, Government of Syria, Damascus

First reported May 22 2013 - Updated May 22 2013 - 1 reports

Cockburn: “Beyond The Fragments”: I’m A Socialist Feminist. Can I Be A Radical Feminist Too?

Beyond the Fragments, first published in 1979, was an iconic book that took a feminist approach to the problem of how to resolve the tensions fracturing the left, and prod its diverse parties, tendencies, groups and non-joiners towards productive dialogue ... [Published ZNet - May 22 2013]

Entities: Feminism, Anti-Capitalism, Organism, Sheila Rowbotham

First reported May 21 2013 - Updated May 21 2013 - 1 reports

Glenn Greenwald: Permanent 'War On Terror'

Last October, senior Obama officials anonymously unveiled to the Washington Post their newly minted "disposition matrix", a complex computer system that will be used to determine how a terrorist suspect will be "disposed of": indefinite detention, prosecution ... [Published ZNet - May 21 2013]

Entities: War On Terror, Glenn Greenwald, Threat, Jack Goldsmith, Obama Administration

First reported May 21 2013 - Updated May 21 2013 - 1 reports

Jon Queally: Disaster Capitalism Strikes

In Detroit, a once bustling city at the center of the US economy, the hedge fund vultures are circling.But first, a moment of background, employing Naomi Klein's contemporary classic The Shock Doctrine, which tells the story of how purveyors of aggressive ... [Published ZNet - May 21 2013]

Entities: Hedge Fund, Bankruptcy, Disaster

First reported May 21 2013 - Updated May 21 2013 - 1 reports

Zachary Bell: The Cooper Union Occupation

Since last Wednesday, students at Cooper Union, a private free university in New York City, have staged an occupation of the president’s office in protest of the announcement that the school will begin charging tuition. As the occupation now goes into ... [Published ZNet - May 21 2013]

Entities: Jamshed Bharucha, Cooper Union, Zachary Bell, Sam Messer

Quotes

"You may encounter many defeats, ?but you must not be defeated."

Michael Albert/Mark Evans: Chapter Seven: Participatory World [Published ZNet - 11 hours ago]

...But they also don't want a very large rebel faction, the IslamistIslamist Nusra group, to be involved either, so already we're saying, "Let's have a big conference, but here are the people who cannot attend." I think the war is not over; I think it could go on for another two or three years

Fisk: Interview with Robert Fisk on the War in Syria [Published ZNet - May 23 2013]

"For some time now the social fabric and soul of Mexico has been torn away. One third of Mexicans are actually living outside of the country –one of the greatest migrations in history. Since the signing of the NAFTA agreement, 20 million Mexican citizens have emigrated, the majority of them, to the United States and Canada, but some to countries as distant as Japan. Most of them are trying to escape from unbearable conditions in their place of origin or to support their families and communities from abroad. (The amount of remittances to Mexico, 22 billion dollars per year, is the second most important source of foreign income for Mexico, after oil)."

Janson: Guatemala's Ríos Montt Genocide Conviction Omen for US Presidents and Their Hired Assassins [Published ZNet - May 23 2013]

"Everyone points to the politics but it's even more fundamental than that. If you live in the north you have to take care of the snow and you have to have a police department and a fire department. You can't liquidate a city."

Jon Queally: Disaster Capitalism Strikes [Published ZNet - May 21 2013]

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