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Znet Article Pappe: Demons of The Nakbah

Znet Article, May, 17 2002 Ilan Pappe
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As a Jewish child, born in Haifa in the early 1950s, I did not encounter the term Nakbah (catastrophe), nor was I aware of its significance. Only in my high- school days did the term make its first appearance. There were three Israeli Palestinian ...

Znet Article Sanders (i-vt): Congress Must Address Corporate Control Of The Media

Znet Article, May, 17 2002 Rep. bernie Sanders (i-vt)
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One of the best-kept secrets in this country is the degree to which a handful of huge corporations own and control the flow of information in the United States. Whether it is television, radio, newspapers, magazines, books or the internet, fewer a...

Znet Article Solomon: The Case Of The 9-11 Photo

Znet Article, May, 17 2002 Norman Solomon
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Politicians are often eager to outdo their foes with media images of greater patriotism or piety. But in mid-May 2002, Republican and Democratic leaders also vied to appear more offended than their opponents. The catalyst was a GOP effort to boost...

Znet Article Macdougall: Strike One! Blair Takes A Baseball Bat To The Poor

Znet Article, May, 16 2002 William Macdougall
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 The queue starts early on Monday mornings, winding and snaking its way from the barred heavy wooden doors, down past the municipal cleansing department depot and right again as it borders the local park, before almost turning back on itself ...

Znet Article Solomon: No Media Interest In A Basic Matter Of Democracy

Znet Article, May, 16 2002 Norman Solomon
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A basic principle of democracy is that every person's vote should have equal weight. So we might expect some public discourse about the fact that the U.S. Senate is fundamentally undemocratic. But it's a complete non-issue among politicians and jo...

Znet Article Glass: Palestine's Petain?

Znet Article, May, 15 2002 Charles Glass
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The old fox escaped the hencoop again. For almost two weeks, Yasser Arafat has paraded through the ravaged streets of the West Bank as if he had won Palestine's war of independence. It was like old times, with Sharon squeezing him, then letting hi...

Znet Article Barghouti: On Dance, Identity and War

Znet Article, May, 15 2002 Omar Barghouti
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In the middle of our regular dance rehearsal, our second after the end of the latest Israeli assault, a group of Belgian artists quietly sauntered into our well-lit, yet cozy, studio in Ramallah, some for the first time. Unmistakably surprised by ...

Znet Article Fisk: Why Does John Malkovich Want To Kill Me?

Znet Article, May, 15 2002 Robert Fisk
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It used to be just a trickle, a steady drip-drip of hate mail which arrived once a week, castigating me for reporting on the killing of innocent Lebanese under Israeli air raids or for suggesting that Arabs - as well as Israelis - wanted peace in ...

Znet Article Bellinghausen: Autonomous Municipality Demands Removal of Military Checkpoints

Znet Article, May, 14 2002 Hermann Bellinghausen
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Roberto Flores Magón Autonomous Municipality, Chiapas.May 12.The Autonomous Municipal Council today demanded the withdrawal of military control and search checkpoints and the suspension of army movements in their communities.  "It's assumed ...

Znet Article Pappe: Contents Bearing On The Case Of Ilan Pappe

Znet Article, May, 14 2002 Ilan Pappe
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Dear Friends, I have received today an invitation to stand for a trial in my university, the university of Haifa. The prosecution, represented by Haifa Dean's of humanities demands my expulsion from the university due to the positions I have tak...

Znet Article Mokhiber: World Bank/imf Out Of Control

Znet Article, May, 14 2002 Russel Mokhiber
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The International Monetary Fund and World Bank are institutions out of control. For evidence, consider the institutions' feeble and fatally flawed debt relief program. Under their Highly Indebted Poor Country (HIPC) initiative, the world's poorest...

Znet Article Shiva: Export at Any Cost

Znet Article, May, 14 2002 Vandana2 Shiva
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Oxfam International's report "Rigged Rules and Double Standards" on Trade, globalisation and the fight against poverty is a brave attempt at combining two paradigms. However, when two paradigms are incommensurate, putting them together only create...

Znet Article Bellinghausen: 'Foreigners are pressuring us to expel you'

Znet Article, May, 13 2002 Hermann Bellinghausen
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[translated by irlandesa] It is, beyond all doubt, a gem of nature, a jewel box of marvels.  The deep "reserve" of the Selva Lacandona is at the end of the most extraordinary process of colonization and social organization of the twentieth Me...

Znet Article Ali: Letter to a Young Muslim

Znet Article, May, 13 2002 Tariq Ali
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  Remember when you approached me after the big antiwar meeting in November 2001 (I think it was Glasgow) and asked whether I was a believer? I have not forgotten the shock you registered when I replied "no", or the comment of your friend ("o...

Znet Article Mahajan: US Mideast Power Plays

Znet Article, May, 13 2002 Raul Mahajan
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US Mideast Power Plays

Znet Article Barghouti: Israel's Best Interest

Znet Article, May, 13 2002 Omar Barghouti
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There is something peculiar about how the world, the UN included, has been dealing lately with Israel’s uncontested repression of human rights and violations of international law. The most common concern raised in this respect is “...

Znet Article Bricmont: Why We Still Need To Be Anti-Imperialists

Znet Article, May, 13 2002 Jean Bricmont
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It seems evident, from the attitude of the capitalist world to Soviet Russia, of the Entente to the Central Empires, and of England to Ireland and India, that there is no depth of cruelty, perfidy or brutality from which the present holders of pow...

Znet Article Lazala: Turbulent Colombian Panorama

Znet Article, May, 13 2002 Mauricio Lazala
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Colombia has entered into an all-out war during the year in which Colombians will elect a new President and Congress. The current war is not necessarily the worst problem that confronts the country. The forerunner in the race for President of the ...

Znet Article Palast: Opec Chief Warned Chavez About Coup

Znet Article, May, 13 2002 Greg Palast
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The Venezuelan president, Hugo Chavez, had advance warning of last month's coup attempt against him from the secretary general of Opec, Ali Rodriguez, allowing him to prepare an extraordinary plan which saved both his government and his life, an i...

Znet Article Dias: Words From Cerro Hueco

Znet Article, May, 12 2002 Alejandro Dias
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Cerezo No. 1, Cerro Hueco.Tuxtla Gutiérrez, Chiapas.May 10, 2002.To the Local, National and International Media.To the Peoples of the World.We, the political prisoners, zapatista support bases in the Voice of Cerro Hueco, are still engaged in the...

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