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Znet Article Hochschild: Let Them East War

Znet Article, October, 02 2003 Arlie Hochschild
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George W. Bush is sinking in the polls, but a few beats on the war drum could reverse that trend and re-elect him in 2004. Ironically, the sector of American society now poised to keep him in the White House is the one which stands to lose the mos...

Znet Article Z: In Our Own Image

Znet Article, October, 02 2003 Mickey Z
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According to a United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and World Food Program (WFP) report issued September 23, nearly half of the 26.3 million Iraqis are living in extreme poverty, unable to afford adequate nutrition. With unemplo...

Znet Article Burchill: What the West wants from Indonesia

Znet Article, October, 01 2003 Scott Burchill
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What the West wants from Indonesia

Znet Article Solomon: Unmasking the Ugly

Znet Article, October, 01 2003 Norman Solomon
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Strong critics of U.S. foreign policy often encounter charges of "anti-Americanism." Even though vast numbers of people in the United States disagree with Washington’s assumptions and military actions, some pundits can’t resist gra...

Znet Article Mcneill: Back to Vietnam

Znet Article, September, 30 2003 David Mcneill
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"The bombs fell constantly," says Le Hoang Khanh, a lean, leathery man of 62 who once fought Americans a few miles from his family home. "Day and night became the same. Everybody left or went underground." It's a suffocating August afternoon out...

Znet Article Monbiot: The Patient is Dying

Znet Article, September, 30 2003 George Monbiot
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Tomorrow, still basking in afterglow of Tony Blair's thunderous platitudes, most of the delegates to the Labour Party conference will snore through the complexities of a policy which spells the end of everything their party once stood for. The mot...

Znet Article Street: Honest Mistakes?

Znet Article, September, 30 2003 Paul Street
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We should be pleased, I suppose, that American "mainstream" (corporate-state) media has seen fit to recognize the incorrectness of the Bush administration's leading case for invading and occupying Iraq.  As that media now generally acknowledg...

Znet Article King-irani: A Lesson That Will Not Die, A Vision That Cannot Fail

Znet Article, September, 30 2003 Laurie King-irani
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Humanity. Genius. Passion. Curiosity. Eloquence. Talent.All of these words, and so many more, aptly described Dr. Edward W. Said, the brilliant scholar and tireless advocate for justice who left us a week ago today. The special quality and unique ...

Znet Article Radachowsky: A View On "The People's War" In Nepal

Znet Article, September, 30 2003 Sage Radachowsky
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Fog slowly rolls down the hill through the pine trees. I can see eight waterfalls from where I sit, and the quiet immense majesty of Dhaulagiri, one of the highest mountains in the world. I sit in front of the house drinking tea. But the quiet...

Znet Article Weisbrot: Bush Growing More Vulnerable on Credibility, War, and the Economy

Znet Article, September, 30 2003 Mark Weisbrot
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"Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them," the title of Al Franken's book on the American right, is starting to look less like a cartoon and more like a description that could filter into the mainstream. Last week Senator Edward M. Kennedy surprise...

Znet Article Administrator: Speech at Labor Notes Conference - September 2003

Znet Article, September, 30 2003 Site Administrator
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Speech at Labor Notes Conference - September 2003

Znet Article Fletcher jr.: Lessons from the Twenties

Znet Article, September, 30 2003 Bill Fletcher jr.
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Good evening. Let me begin by thanking Labor Notes, and Jane Slaughter in particular, for extending an invitation to me to speak with you. I would also like to thank Peter Rachleff from Macalaster College and Jim Green from UMASS-Boston for the ex...

Znet Article Bouzid: Sharon Flattens Another Bump in the Road

Znet Article, September, 30 2003 Ahmad Bouzid
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THE RESIGNATION of the first Palestinian prime minister, Mahmoud Abbas, and the up-to-now unthinkable attack on the founder and spiritual leader of Hamas, Sheikh Yassin, are clear signals that we are entering a new phase, long planned by the Sharo...

Znet Article Burbach: Ideology Trumps Oil in Iraq

Znet Article, September, 30 2003 Roger Burbach
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The mounting criticism of Bush's Iraqi policies now extends to key business allies of the administration. "The big oil companies were not enthusiastic about the Iraqi war," says Fareed Mohamedi of PFC Energy, a consultancy firm based in Washington...

Znet Article Sharma: Biotechnology will bypass the poor

Znet Article, September, 29 2003 Devinder Sharma
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India's former Prime Minister, the late Mr Morarji Desai, strictly followed an unwritten principle. He would not inaugurate any conference, whether national or international, which did not focus on rural development. It so happened that it was dur...

Znet Article Fisk: Western 'Intelligence' Services

Znet Article, September, 29 2003 Robert Fisk
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They were at it again last week, the liars of our Western "intelligence" community. John Bolton, the US under-secretary of state for arms control and one of Donald Rumsfeld's cabal of pro- Israeli neo-conservatives, was giving testimony before the...

Znet Article Pilger: Lies and More Lies

Znet Article, September, 29 2003 John Pilger
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EXACTLY one year ago, Tony Blair told Parliament: "Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction programme is active, detailed and growing. "The policy of containment is not working. The weapons of mass destruction programme is not shut down. It i...

Znet Article Aronowitz: Remembering Arthur Kinoy

Znet Article, September, 29 2003 Stanley Aronowitz
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Arthur Kinoy, best known as a leading civil rights attorney during the zenith of the protest phase of the movement during 1960s, and as a law professor who taught for some 20 years at Rutgers University, died in September 2003. He was 82 years old...

Znet Article Stiglitz: The Global Benefits Of Equality

Znet Article, September, 28 2003 Joseph Stiglitz
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The world should have a vested interest in resolving inequality, not just protecting its own, says Joseph Stiglitz Picture yourself as a poor African farmer, scraping a living on a hectare or two. While you may not have heard of globalisation, yo...

Znet Article Fujiwara: Prioritizing Japan-U.S. Relations or a Multilateral Diplomacy?

Znet Article, September, 28 2003 Kiichi Fujiwara
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The rebuilding of both a nuclear nonproliferation system and a framework for multilateral consultations in Asia toes the line of postwar Japanese foreign policy. There is no denying that Japanese diplomacy is being tested by the threat of North K...

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