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Flanders: Let's Not Reinvent The Peace-making Wheel
Commentary, November, 25 2001
Laura Flanders
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If we are looking for signs that the sordid mess in Afghanistan is not hopeless, we should consider the surprising recent experience of Somalia.
Davis: Legal Tide Has Turned Against Disabled
Znet Article, November, 25 2001
Lennard j. Davis
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Most Americans react to the idea of disability with good wishes and a silent prayer to the effect that "there but for the grace of God go I." With this level of detachment, few may have noticed a disturbing and seemingly ineluctable trend in whi...
Schechter: After The Media Recount: Who Will Apologize To The People?
Commentary, November, 24 2001
Danny Schechter
Schechter's ZSpace page
The long-awaited recount of the results of the 2000 presidential election, begun with so much hope and investigative enterprise by a consortium of leading U.S. media organizations, came and went with a whimper not a bang. Released on Sunday, Novem...
Monbiot: Making Generosity Redundant
Commentary, November, 23 2001
George Monbiot
Monbiot's ZSpace page
They thought it was all over. After civilisation's victory in Afghanistan, where the lion now lies down with the lamb, there was, almost all the newspapers agreed, nothing left to discuss. All that needed to be done was to remind those who had que...
Author: Unleashing the CIA?
Commentary, November, 22 2001
Guest Author
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The old joke goes that in the waning days of the Second World War, when Hitler was told of yet another defeat on the battlefield, he slammed his fist into his desk and declared: "That does it! No more Mr. Nice Guy!"
Burchill: The End of Cosmopolitanism?
Commentary, November, 22 2001
Scott Burchill
Burchill's ZSpace page
If it didn't have such disastrous consequences for some of the world's most desperate people, it would be amusing to watch the advocates of economic globalisation suddenly start championing border protection.
Choudry: Canada’s Dirty War Over Words
Commentary, November, 21 2001
Aziz Choudry
Choudry's ZSpace page
My October visit to Canada was overshadowed by the vicious demonisation and vilification of a friend. ZNet has already posted a copy of University of British Columbia academic and social justice activist Sunera Thobani’s speech and her pa...
Choudry: CanadaÕs Dirty War Over Words
Commentary, November, 21 2001
Aziz Choudry
Choudry's ZSpace page
My October visit to Canada was overshadowed by the vicious demonisation and vilification of a friend. ZNet has already posted a copy of University of British Columbia academic and social justice activist Sunera ThobaniÕs speech and her paper ÒWar...
Author: Forget The Cliches, There Is No Easy Way For The West To Sort This Out
Commentary, November, 21 2001
Guest Author
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Afghanistan - As the armies of the West are about to realise - is not a country. You can't "occupy" or even "control" Afghanistan because it is neither a state nor a nation.
Marable: The Failure of U.S. Foreign Policies
Commentary, November, 20 2001
Manning Marable
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The bombing campaign against the people of Afghanistan will be described in history as the "U.S. Against the Third World." The launching of military strikes against peasants does nothing to suppress terrorism, and only erodes American credibility ...
