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Wise: Rationalizing Racism: Panic And Profiling After 9/11
Commentary, January, 16 2002
Tim Wise
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Random security checks. ThatÕs what theyÕre called anyway: those extra bag searches and body scans being done at airports across the U.S., presumably to deter a new round of terrorist attacks. On each flight, a handful of passengers are pulled asi...
Glick: Labor And Human Progress
Znet Article, January, 16 2002
Ted Glick
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The AFL-CIO's uncritical support of the government's war in Afghanistan and sham "war on terrorism" has disappointed, if not disillusioned, many activists, including progressive labor activists. For some radicals and progressives, the organized la...
Lakey: Let the Debates Begin!
Znet Article, January, 16 2002
George Lakey
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Two days after September 11 my grandaughter Crystal, a college student, found her teacher's jingoism too much to swallow. "These attacks are the chickens come home to roost!" she said to the class. "Now we get the chance to know what it's like for...
Dwyer: Suspects all
Graphic, January, 15 2002
Hank Dwyer
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national ID, police state, civil rights, privacy, totalarian,
Choudry: All This "civil Society" Talk Takes Us Nowhere
Commentary, January, 15 2002
Aziz Choudry
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If there's one phrase I could do with hearing less of during 2002, it's "civil society". I'm not alone. Many of my friends, community activists and organisers in a number of countries also cringe at the ritualized, ubiquitous usage of the phrase....
Said: Emerging Alternatives in Palestine
Znet Article, January, 15 2002
Edward Said
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Since it began 15 months ago the Palestinian Intifada has had little to show for itself politically, despite the remarkable fortitude of a militarily occupied, unarmed, poorly led, and still dispossessed people that has defied the pitiless ravages...
Krugman: Crony Capitalism, U.S.A.
Znet Article, January, 15 2002
Paul Krugman
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Four years ago, as Asia struggled with an economic crisis, many observers blamed "crony capitalism." Wealthy businessmen in Asia didn't bother to tell investors the truth about their assets, their liabilities or their profits; the aura of invincib...
Bronski: Gays of Our Lives
Znet Article, January, 15 2002
Michael Bronski
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There are so many things wrong with this story. On October 11th a photograph was transmitted by the Associated Press that featured a bomb on he deck on the USS Enterprise flight deck stationed in the Arabian Sea. An unidentified sailor had scrib...
International: Criticism of POW Treatment
Znet Article, January, 15 2002
Amnesty International
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News Release Issued by the International Secretariat of Amnesty International Amnesty International urged the United States to ensure respect for the human rights of all people who have been or may be transferred from Afghanistan to a US military ...
Monbiot: Greens Get Eaten
Znet Article, January, 15 2002
George Monbiot
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Environmentalism as an argument has been comprehensively won. As a practice it is all but extinct. Just as people in Britain have united around the demand for effective public transport, car sales have broken all records. Yesterday the superstore ...
