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Rebick: We Need An Anti-War Movement
Znet Article, March, 15 2002
Judy Rebick
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The shockwaves of Sept. 11 have made life more difficult for the left in Canada. Canada's increased militarization and the repression of civil rights have been disorienting. But our strategic problems remain the same. They're simply more intense. ...
Bond: Zimbabwe's Ripoff Poll
Znet Article, March, 15 2002
Patrick Bond
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By a vote of 1.69 million for Robert Mugabe to 1.28 million for Morgan Tsvangirai, the people of Zimbabwe re-elected the Zimbabwe African National Union (Zanu) president last weekend. The Movement for Democratic Change (MDC), founded in September ...
Edwards: THE OBSERVER'S NICK COHEN RESPONDS ON IRAQ
Znet Article, March, 15 2002
David Edwards
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Following our Media Alert, 'Nick Cohen of the Observer on Iraq, Chomsky and Pilger' (March 13, 2002), Media Lens received this reply from Nick Cohen on March 13, 2002: "The problem with the sanctions cause starvation theory is that: 1. It was neve...
Rebick: Anti-Globalization | Anti-Fundamentalism
Commentary, March, 14 2002
Judy Rebick
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Last month, a caller to a Winnipeg CBC radio phone-in show where I was a guest berated me for not supporting United States President George Bush's attack on Afghanistan. "As a feminist," he said, "you must admit that, without the bombing, women wo...
Miller: 10 Reasons Why Indonesian Courts Will Not Bring Justice To East Timor
Znet Article, March, 14 2002
John Miller
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In January 2000, the United Nations International Commission of Inquiry on East Timor and the Indonesian government's own human rights commission both found the Indonesian military responsible for crimes against humanity committed in East Timor in...
Fisk: If Bush is having 'visions', America must need Arab support for another war
Znet Article, March, 14 2002
Robert Fisk
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It is the "vision" thing again. When President George Bush wanted Arab support for the US bombing of Afghanistan in September, he suddenly announced he had a "vision" of a Palestinian state. Then it disappeared off his radar screen. Yet now it's b...
Steel: Don't Ask For Evidence, Just Nuke Baghdad
Znet Article, March, 14 2002
Mark Steel
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The American military has become like one of these couples that always goes on holiday to the same resort. They're sat in the Pentagon muttering: "We always bomb the same place, every year. This year we looked through the brochures and thought of ...
Galeano: Black Humor
Znet Article, March, 14 2002
Eduardo Galeano
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Joke # 1 Adding lead to gasoline was a little trick invented in the U.S. Back in the nineteen twenties, leaded gasoline became the norm in America and in the rest of the world. By the time the United States government banned it in 1986, it was kil...
Mokhiber: Business Men Make Boo Boo's
Znet Article, March, 14 2002
Russell Mokhiber
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Let us now take a walking tour of Washington, D.C., to see whether the Enron scandal has loosened corporate America's grip on our nation's capital. (Okay, the answer is no.) At the White House yesterday, President Bush announced a 10-point plan th...
Ali: America's Next War May Be Deadlier
Znet Article, March, 14 2002
Mahir Ali
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Six months from now, by the time the first anniversary of the demise of the World Trade Centre towers rolls around, the United States is likely to be embroiled in another war. That war will have nothing whatsoever to do with the outrage perpetrate...
