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Znet Article Shalom: Antiwar Questions and Answers

Znet Article, February, 12 2003 Stephen1 Shalom
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1. As anti-war sentiment grows and the anti-war movement gains momentum, what are the most important priorities for peace and justice organizations? To build a movement able to marshal sufficient numbers of sufficiently informed and committed peo...

Znet Article Edwards: Blair's Betrayal: Part 2

Znet Article, February, 11 2003 David Edwards
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In Part 1 we showed how Tony Blair profoundly misled the British public on the 'threat' posed by Iraq's alleged weapons of mass destruction (WMD) during a recent BBC2 Newsnight interview and debate. Blair claimed that Unscom inspectors (1991-98) ...

Znet Article Steel: We Shall Not Be Moved

Znet Article, February, 11 2003 Mark Steel
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Every veteran of protests and demonstrations agrees – nothing has ever been like this. The tradition is that you inform an average civilian that you're going on a march, and they look at you with a mixture of puzzlement and pity, as if you...

Znet Article Basu: Life And Death At The WTO

Znet Article, February, 11 2003 Sanjay Basu
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If you cross paths with Robert Zoellick's mother over the next few weeks, please remind her that applications to George Washington University's School of Public Health are due soon. Her son needs to hurry up and submit his paperwork. Mrs. Zoellick...

Znet Article Du boff: The Bush Budget: Deficits Aren't The Problem

Znet Article, February, 11 2003 Richard Du boff
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President Bush has sent to Congress his Budget for fiscal 2004 (starting in October), calling for $2.23 trillion in expenditures and a deficit of $304 billion, compared to $159 billion of red ink last year and a surplus of $127 billion in 2001. Fo...

Znet Article Weisbrot: War Games

Znet Article, February, 11 2003 Mark Weisbrot
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The ink was barely dry on the headline of USA Today -- "Bush: The Game Is Over" -- when the response came from French Prime Minister Jean- Pierre Raffarin: "It's not a game. It's not over." For the first time in decades, the "Old Europe" that Def...

Znet Article Kolhatkar: From Afghanistan To Iraq

Znet Article, February, 10 2003 Sonali Kolhatkar
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On August 29th 2002 in Little Rock, Arkansas, George W Bush said: "We liberated Afghanistan from the clutches of a barbaric regime... We're liberators, not conquerers here in America"(1). Addressing U.S. troops this January in Fort Hood, Texas, ...

Znet Article Edwards: Blair's Betrayal: Part 1

Znet Article, February, 10 2003 David Edwards
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The French and German governments have acted for sanity and hope by proposing a peace plan that involves the tripling of UN weapons inspectors in Iraq possibly backed up by thousands of UN troops. In a public debate, German foreign minister, Josch...

Znet Article Marcos: Mexico of Below

Znet Article, February, 10 2003 Subcomandante Marcos
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[translated by irlandesa] The gaze accompanies the hand as it leafs through the calendar and stops at the month of MAY.  And it is the May sun which illuminates one word:  HIDALGO. Hidalgo.  According to the INEGI, it had more than...

Znet Article Higginbottom: Wakeup Call

Znet Article, February, 10 2003 Andy Higginbottom
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Listeners to CARACOL radio station got a wake up call this morning. Carlos Castaño, the leader of the paramilitary Autodefensas Unidas de Colombia AUC, had a 47 minute interview on the main breakfast show. Castaño's main message is that oppositi...

Znet Article Ashraf: Notes from Bangladesh

Znet Article, February, 10 2003 Ibne Ashraf
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[translated from Bengali by Azfar Hussein] I am writing from a tiny yet huge country--Bangladesh. This is a country in which you continue to witness one of the most brutal spectacles of the twenty-first century: both dogs and children desperately...

Znet Article Clarke: From Protest to Resistance

Znet Article, February, 10 2003 John Clarke
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OCAP often argues that social movements need to move "from protest to resistance" if they wish to have a serious impact. What do you mean by that?     OCAP talks of going from “protest” to resistance and fightin...

Znet Article Petition: Conscientious Objectors Abused

Znet Article, February, 10 2003 Petition
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Dear friends and supporters of the conscientious objectors, The abuse of the conscientious objectors continues. The Israeli military is sentencing them to repetitive prison terms, with no end in sight. We must step up the campaign to release thes...

Znet Article Vera-zavala: An Extrordinary Coup At The WSF pt.1

Znet Article, February, 09 2003 America Vera-zavala
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When I listened to Lula speak at the World Social Forum I was moved and cried. I wish he had not come. For the first time since the Zapatista uprising, the MAI victory and Seattle the movement has taken a step back. The first steps have been tak...

Znet Article Levy: The Idf's 'permissiveness' In The Territories

Znet Article, February, 09 2003 Gideon Levy
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A war in Iraq will soon break out, and with it a great darkness will descend on events in the territories. As long as what goes on there doesn't affect the war's execution, no one in the world will take an interest, no one will so much as cast a g...

Znet Article Albert: Organize, Demonstrate!

Znet Article, February, 09 2003 Michael Albert
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I hate apocalyptic politics. I was radicalized by the civil rights movement and Vietnam. People shouted all kinds of furor about the environment imploding, about fascism rising, and about imminent Armageddon. The hollering had provocation. We ...

Znet Article Tomchick: Powell's Flimsy Evidence

Znet Article, February, 09 2003 Maria Tomchick
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Only two days after Colin Powell made his presentation to the U.N. Security Council, the evidence he provided is unraveling. Through interviews with experts, intelligence sources, and an examination of the physical evidence, reporters are piecing ...

Znet Article Grubacic: Life After Social Forums

Znet Article, February, 09 2003 Andrej Grubacic
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Usually, when talking about the forum history, historians talk about three important meanings of this word. According to the first meaning, the word "forum" refers to "agora", a place for meetings and discussion.. According to the second meaning, ...

Znet Article Lewis: Justice Dept. Drafts Sweeping Expansion of Anti-Terrorism Act

Znet Article, February, 08 2003 Charles Lewis
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(WASHINGTON, Feb. 7, 2003) -- The Bush Administration is preparing a bold, comprehensive sequel to the USA Patriot Act passed in the wake of September 11, 2001, which will give the government broad, sweeping new powers to increase domestic intelli...

Znet Article Marcos: Landscape of Resistance

Znet Article, February, 08 2003 Subcomandante Marcos
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[translated by irlandesa] Mexico, 2003. Another Calendar:  That of Resistance Place:  Mountains of the Mexican southeast.  Date:  January of 2003.  Hour:  Dawn.  Climate:  Cold, rainy, tense.  Altitude...

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