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Justin Podur was born in Toronto in 1977. He was first published on ZNet around 1999, where he became a volunteer translator and editor - and continues to volunteer. Inspired by the community at ZNet, including Noam Chomsky, Michael Albert, Cynthia Peters, and Stephen Shalom, his writing is about international politics with an activist point of view. He has reported from Chiapas, Colombia, Israel/Palestine, Haiti, Pakistan, India, the Democratic Republic of Congo, and Afghanistan.

He has also worked as a scientist, publishing work on forest fires in journals like the International Journal of Wildland Fire, Ecological Applications, and Ecological Modeling. He teaches at the Faculty of Environmental Studies at York University, where he is an ...more

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	Haiti's New Dictatorship: The Coup, the Earthquake and the UN Occupation 4.06 avg rating — 32 ratings — published 2012 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Siegebreakers 4.57 avg rating — 28 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Extraordinary Threat: The U.S. Empire, the Media, and Twenty Years of Coup Attempts in Venezuela by Justin Podur (Goodreads Author), Joe Emersberger 4.68 avg rating — 19 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Perspectives on a Global Green New Deal by Sunil Acharya, Donatella Alessandrini, Teresa Anderson 4.25 avg rating — 20 ratings — published 2021	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Demands of the Dead 3.93 avg rating — 14 ratings — published 2014 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	America's Wars on Democracy in Rwanda and the DR Congo 4.60 avg rating — 10 ratings — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	La nouvelle dictature d'Haïti : Coup d'État, séisme et occupation onusienne by Justin Podur (Goodreads Author), Genevieve Boulanger (Translator) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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“Hypocrisy is our friend. Power structures have to pretend to hold values in order to win the loyalty of at least some of society. We can use the gap between those professed values and reality to move people to try to change the reality towards the values.”
― Justin Podur

tags: politics, writing-advice

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“Try to look at causes and solve problems. Do not concentrate on military solutions. Do not seek military solutions. Terrorism is a political problem. Seek political solutions. Diplomacy works.”
― Eqbal Ahmed

tags: politics, politics-of-the-united-states

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tags: politics, writing-advice

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