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The strategy employed by Cindy Sheehan to hold President Bush accountable needs to be examined for its effectiveness. By Jerry Fresia

In only a few weeks it would have been 40 years ago when I first met Pierre Broué.

The act of four alleged suicide bombers, three British born and one Jamaican born, who supposedly detonated themselves on July 7 to kill civilians on London public transport dramatized the globalization of resistance. By Saul Landau

The decision to incinerate Hiroshima and Nagasaki was not taken in anger. White men in grey business suits and military uniforms, after much deliberation, decided the US "could not give the Japanese any warning; that we could not concentrate on a civilian area. By Pervez Hoodbhoy

How did the thinking of most Chinese workers, even the most impoverished and politically active ones, become subject to the hegemony of the market and the state? By Marc Blecher

President Bush sure cared about Niger in 2003 when he said, "The British government has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa." By Derrick Z. Jackson

The process of disinvestment means selling off partially or wholly the assets of state owned undertakings to private sector. Obviously, private sector comes to influence or fully control the management and production decisions of the firms concerned. By Girish Mishra

Israel has a unilateral obligation to withdraw its troops and settlers and end its occupation of Gaza as well as of the West Bank and East Jerusalem. But the Gaza "disengagement" is not designed to, and will not result in an end to occupation. By Phyllis Bennis

In The Service Of A Machine. By Dave Edwards

From Bangalore in the south to Vadodara in the west, India's cities are experiencing an industrial boom, leaving the middle and upper classes awash with money. By Chhandasi Pandya

Soviet food was lousy. I'm not talking Russian cooking, which has always had its tasty dishes. I'm also not talking about the meals that people would serve you at home in the Soviet Union, prepared from ingredients that they managed to pull from who knew where. By John Feffer

We feel that it is urgent and necessary to raise the alarm regarding what may come during and after evacuation of Jewish settlers from the Gaza Strip occupied by Israel in 1967, in the event that the evacuation is implemented. By Uri Davis and Ilan Pappe and Tamar Yaron

I first saw the deserts of the Argentine west while crammed in the backseat of a pickup with three other people. Two of those people were friends from the United States. We had come to San Juan province for an activist's holiday. By Renate Lunn

Many people hoped that Mr. Bush would appoint a moderate Republican in the mold of Justice O'Connor. Unfortunately, Judge Roberts is a solid conservative.

Karl Rove could be in a lot of trouble if what journalist Murray Waas has written is true. By Joshua Frank

Over the last 20 years, neoliberal administrations have slowly been dismantling policies that provided a degree of democratic control over economic policy, creating legal mechanisms that entrench corporate rights to profit in their place. By Susan Spronk

"Srebrenica" has become the symbol of evil, and specifically Serb evil. It is commonly described as "a horror without parallel in the history of Europe since the Second World War" in which there was a cold-blooded execution "of at least 8,000 Muslim men and boys." By Edward S. Herman

President Bush's explanation Tuesday night for staying the course in Iraq evoked in me a sense of familiarity, but not nostalgia. By Daniel Ellsberg

For a sun-soaked Friday in late May, there was an unusual air of panic at the British Trade Union Congress (TUC) for the monthly members' assembly of Make Poverty History (MPH). By Stuart Hodkinson; Red Pepper

Arms Dealers to the World. By James O'Nions

What's on offer for Africa from the trendy but top-down initiatives called Make Poverty History and Live 8, and even the Johannesburg-based Global Call to Action Against Poverty? By Patrick Bond, Dennis Brutus and Virginia Setshedi

Bolivia's New President And The Response Of The Social Movements. By Jean Friedsky

The project of corporate Globalisation is a project for polarising and dividing people - along axis of class and economic inequality, axis of religion and culture, axis of gender, axis of geographies and regions. By Vandana Shiva

The draft re-asserts the earlier G-4 position, calling for the inclusion of six permanent members and four non-permanent members to the UNSC's existing strength of five permanent members, with the added provision that veto powers will not be exercised for 15 years. By Siddharth Srivastava

Mass protests force president to resign. By Tom Lewis

In 2005, the United States has become Communist Vietnam's single-largest trading partner. Vietnam's products permeate U.S. stores. But the "Vietnam War trauma" remains central to U.S. politics. By Saul Landau

Richard Nixon was impeached for a cover-up of a two-bit break-in. William Cohen, a young Maine Republican, played an important role for the prosecution in those proceedings. Bill Clinton was impeached for lying about sex with an intern. Now we have the irrefutable evidence that George W.

Extra, extra, read all about it ... but only in ZNet. Here are just a few of the recent non- or under-reported stories involving Canada and Haiti. By Yves Engler

On May 26, the Association of University Teachers (AUT) in Britain reversed its previous decision -- taken on April 22 -- to boycott Israeli universities.

After it was established that the Bush administration's stated reasons for invading Iraq were false -- Iraq's alleged nuclear program, weapons of mass destruction, links to Al-Qaeda -- many journalists, editors, and producers felt that the U.S. media had not done its job during the march to war.