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Correll: JOHN Q. -
Znet Article, February, 27 2002
Thelma Correll
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The critics and the news media panned it. Variety went so far as to say, "A rare case of blatant political propaganda in a major Hollywood picture, John Q. is a shamelessly manipulative commercial on behalf of national health insurance." True, the...
Nichols: Only One Source for News Hurts All
Znet Article, February, 27 2002
John Nichols
Nichols's ZSpace page
Though they already dominate every medium that provides information and entertainment to the American people, the nation's largest media corporations now are poised to gain dramatically greater control over broadcast, cable and print communication...
Cusac: Ill Treatment On Our Shores
Znet Article, February, 26 2002
Anne marie- Cusac
Cusac's ZSpace page
On October 24, Muhammed Butt died of a heart attack at the Hudson County Correctional Center in Kearny, New Jersey. Butt, a Pakistani national, was detained on September 19 by the FBI as a suspect connected with the September 11 attacks. He was th...
Bhushan: COURTS, CONTEMPT & A CLIMATE THAT DEMANDS ACCOUNTABILITY
Znet Article, February, 26 2002
Prashant Bhushan
Bhushan's ZSpace page
In the Constitution of India the Supreme Court and the High Courts were seen as watchdog bodies, independent of the executive, and entrusted with the task of seeing that all institutions function in accordance with the Constitution, and the Rule o...
Gumbel: The Disappeared
Znet Article, February, 26 2002
Andrew Gumbel
Gumbel's ZSpace page
They came for Rabih Haddad in the afternoon, as his family was getting ready to celebrate the end of Ramadan. Three men from the Immigration and Naturalization Service took him away from the apartment in Ann Arbor, Michigan, that he shared w...
Monbiot: They're All Dammed
Znet Article, February, 26 2002
George Monbiot
Monbiot's ZSpace page
Events in isolation do not establish that a government is corrupt. Tony Blair's support for Lakshmi Mittal, the Labour donor hoping to buy Romania's steel industry, looks suspicious, but could, perhaps, be the result of a misjudgement. To suggest ...
Beatty: Rallies across B.C. attack government
Znet Article, February, 26 2002
Jim Beatty
Beatty's ZSpace page
By Victoria -- Fourteen anti-government rallies, the largest attended by 20,000 people in Victoria, were held across B.C. on the weekend in what labour leaders consider the start of a sustained battle against the provincial government. Everything ...
Madre: MADRE Statement on Negotiations
Znet Article, February, 26 2002
Madre
Madre's ZSpace page
New York, February 25, 2002- On February 21, 2002, Colombia's 38-year conflict exploded into full-fledged war when President Pastrana unilaterally broke off peace talks with the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC). MADRE, an internationa...
Glick: On the Upswing Again
Znet Article, February, 25 2002
Ted Glick
Glick's ZSpace page
About two months from now tens of thousands of people will be converging on Washington, D.C. over the weekend of April 19-22. Three national coalition efforts, the Colombia Mobilization, the April 20th Mobilization Committee and the Mobilization...
Sprintzen: The Bush II Era: Year 1
Znet Article, February, 24 2002
David a. Sprintzen
Sprintzen's ZSpace page
{Note from ZNet: Of course Bush II is mostly known, reviled, and/or revered for reinvigorating the War on Terrorism themes that his father and Ronald Reagan sought to make central to U.S. foreign policy two decades ago, and of course for bombing ...
Oron: Personal Testimony of an Israeli Refusenik
Znet Article, February, 24 2002
Asaf Oron
Oron's ZSpace page
[Asaf Oron, a Sergeant Major in the Giv'ati Brigade, is one of the original 53 Israeli soldiers who signed the "Fighters' Letter" declaring that from now on they will refuse to serve in the Occupied territories. He is signer #8 and one of the firs...
Councils: Threatened Communities Speak
Znet Article, February, 23 2002
Autonomous Councils
Councils's ZSpace page
[translated by irlandesa] To the International Civil Commission for Human Rights Observation. To the People of Mexico. To the Peoples of the World. To the National and International Press. To National and International Civil Society. To the f...
Martin: The real threat unmasked
Znet Article, February, 23 2002
Lawrence Martin
Martin's ZSpace page
Prime Minister Jean Chrétien has responded to George W. Bush's virulent nationalism and sabre rattling toward Iraq quite appropriately, saying no thanks, there is no link between Iraq and the terrorism strike and, until there is proof, we don't w...
Fisk: Journalists are now targets - but who is to blame for this?
Znet Article, February, 23 2002
Robert Fisk
Fisk's ZSpace page
The murder of Daniel Pearl of The Wall Street Journals was as revolting as it was outrageous. But why was he killed? Because he was a Westerner, a "Kaffir"? Because he was an American? Or because he was a journalist? And if he was killed because h...
Shiva: THE LIVING DEMOCRACY MOVEMENT
Znet Article, February, 23 2002
Vandana2 Shiva
Shiva's ZSpace page
The Bankruptcy of Globalisation Globalisation was projected as the next great leap of human evolution in a linear forward march from tribes to nations to global markets. Our i...
Turnipseed: Bush Mimics Reagan and the Corporate Stranglehold on U.S. Media Tightens
Znet Article, February, 23 2002
Tom Turnipseed
Turnipseed's ZSpace page
Bush rallies America in a perpetual war against "evil ones" and the "axis of evil." Ronald Reagan used the cold war to lambast the "evil empire" of the Soviet Union. Their administrations are strikingly similar not only in their use of adjectives,...
Campaign: Stop the Bombing of the Demilitarized Zone
Znet Article, February, 22 2002
Uk-colombia solidarity Campaign
Campaign's ZSpace page
The Colombia Solidarity Campaign condemns the Pastrana government for its unilateral decision to break negotiations with the FARC and its bombing of the zone for dialogue. We call for mobilisations to protest against this dangerous escalation of t...
Colombia: Witness for Peace Letter on Peace Process
Znet Article, February, 22 2002
Wfp team in Colombia
Colombia's ZSpace page
Dear Friends, Greetings from Colombia. We hope that you are doing well. We write to you today with heavy hearts. As you probably know by now, President Pastrana announced at 10pm on February 20th that the peace process had ended and that the Colo...
Feijoo: A Latin American Report on the WSF (I)
Znet Article, February, 22 2002
Cristina Feijoo
Feijoo's ZSpace page
Brazil: the world’s most inequitable country It needn't be said that Brazil is a wonderful country, with its 4,000 kilometers of beaches, its tropical forests--the Amazonian region being the largest biological reserve in the world--and a g...
Association: The Preprogrammed War Has Started
Znet Article, February, 22 2002
Liz atherton, colombia peace Association
Association's ZSpace page
On the night of Wednesday 20 February 2002, President Andres Pastrana announced for the second time in less than two months the end of the peace process with the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (Farc). However, his latest declaration to the...
