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Znet Article Z: Stepping on a Flea

Znet Article, November, 05 2003 Mickey Z
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October 25, the twentieth anniversary of a momentous American victory, came and went without a surprising lack of fanfare. I'm talking, of course, about a military operation that warmed Ronald Reagan's cold, cold heartÅ and was deemed film-worthy ...

Znet Article Z: War of the Words

Znet Article, October, 25 2003 Mickey Z
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"In a Knight Ridder poll, 44 percent of Americans reported that either 'most' or 'some' of the Sept. 11 hijackers were Iraqi citizens. The answer is zero." (Christian Science Monitor, March 13, 2003) October 30 marks 65 years since a 23-year-old ...

Znet Article Z: Not All Italians Love Columbus

Znet Article, October, 09 2003 Mickey Z
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America is a nation built upon myth (starting with its "discovery") but the greatest myth of all is that the land of the free is gonna last forever. But, alas, my History Channel-watching brethren, all genocidal empires must fall. Just ask Italy. ...

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 Z: Parable for Cancun

Znet Article, September, 10 2003 Mickey Z
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In the most remote regions of Brazil, slave labor is employed to cut down grand swaths of the precious rain forest to make room to grow eucalyptus which is then burned by male slaves (who exploit the body, mind, and spirit of female slaves forced ...

Znet Article Z: War Is A Racket

Znet Article, August, 26 2003 Mickey Z
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"Why don't these damned oil companies fly their own flags on their personal property-maybe a flag with a gas pump on it." - Brigadier General Smedley D. Butler (1937)On August 26, 2003, CBS.com wrote of a "grim milestone" being reached in post-war...

Znet Article Z: A Ceremonial Journey: Bush's Progress

Znet Article, August, 10 2003 Mickey Z
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Washington Post Staff Writer Mike Allen penned a piece called "Bush Cites 'Progress' Being Made in Iraq" (August 9, 2003) in which Allen claimed President (sic) Bush had begun "building a broad, new case that progress is being made in postwar Iraq...

Znet Article Z: History Forgave Churchill Why Not Blair And Bush?

Znet Article, July, 19 2003 Mickey Z
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On July 17, 2003, U.K. Prime Minister Tony Blair addressed a joint meeting of the U.S. House and Senate. The subject of WMD, of course, was on the front burner."If we are wrong, then we will have destroyed a threat that was at its least responsibl...

Znet Article Z: GM Food For Thought

Znet Article, June, 30 2003 Mickey Z
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Unless you've gone exclusively organic, the odds are you've eaten potatoes that are registered pesticides. Monsanto's New Leaf Superior potato is engineered to produce the insecticide Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt). Bt kills the Colorado potato beetl...

Znet Article Z: WMD And The Sleeping Giant

Znet Article, June, 16 2003 Mickey Z
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"It is not true that life is one damn thing after another - it's one damn thing over and over." -Edna St. Vincent Millay So, there may not be WMD after all...why is anyone surprised? Whenever the U.S. has needed a pretext for military interventio...

Znet Article Z: Top Gun Dubya Goes To Auschwitz

Znet Article, June, 01 2003 Mickey Z
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Top Gun Dubya is at it again. In a visit to Poland, President (sic) Bush compared the Nazi invasion of Poland and the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor to 9/11...and managed to use these examples to bolster his case for "pre-emptive strikes." He sai...

Znet Article Z: Tough On the Spine

Znet Article, May, 20 2003 Mickey Z
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"Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future." -Niels Bohr The newly democratic Iraq has descended into chaos and feminist Afghanistan must be in pretty sorry shape if the media never crows about it. There's a suicide bombing every ...

Znet Article Z: Instant Understanding

Znet Article, May, 17 2003 Mickey Z
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I've said it before but it bears repeating: The era of classified documents and backroom scheming has gone the way of the elected president. U.S. leaders:Republican, Democrat, or corporate (pardon the redundancy)feel little need to conceal their c...

Znet Article Z: Partisan Protests?

Znet Article, May, 06 2003 Mickey Z
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Why did Operation Iraqi Freedom (sic) provoke such a massive anti-war outcry? Hold on, that's not the question I'd really like to ask. Let me rephrase: Why did Operation Iraqi Freedom (sic) provoke so much more protest than 78 days of U.S./NATO bo...

Znet Article Z: 100 Years Of Terror

Znet Article, May, 03 2003 Mickey Z
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While our unelected president indulges his Tom Cruise fixation on the deck of an aircraft carrier, life goes on right here in "our backyard." Cuba yet again made the annual U.S. list of terrorist-sponsoring nations while the U.S. Navy pulled out o...

Znet Article Z: Pow's Then And Now

Znet Article, April, 27 2003 Mickey Z
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On Jan. 17, 1991, Navy Capt. Michael Scott Speicher, 32, was piloting a F/A-18 fighter jet at the start of the first Gulf War. Hit by an air-to-air missile fired by an Iraqi warplane, Speicher, known as a "top gun among fliers," was later given up...

Znet Article Z: "no One Is Totally Clean"

Znet Article, April, 25 2003 Mickey Z
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"When the Second World Warcame to an endWe forgave the GermansAnd we were friendsThough they murdered six millionIn the ovens they friedThe Germans now tooHave God on their side." --Bob Dylan In his inexhaustible quest to turn Operation Iraqi Fre...

Znet Article Z: Animals: The Other Collateral Damage

Znet Article, April, 20 2003 Mickey Z
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According to the Bahrain Gulf Daily News (April 18, 2003) looters have emptied Baghdad zoo of its animals  "Monkeys, bears, horses, birds and camels have disappeared, carted off by thieves or simply left to roam the streets after their cages ...

Znet Article Z: The Unindicted

Znet Article, April, 16 2003 Mickey Z
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Three days before Operation Iraqi Freedom (sic) was launched, the New York Times reported that the Bush administration had "identified nine senior Iraqi officials, including Saddam Hussein and his two sons, who would be tried for war crimes or cri...

Znet Article Z: Surgical Strikes

Znet Article, April, 10 2003 Mickey Z
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"Early in life I had noticed that no event is ever correctly reported in a newspaper." George Orwell As fate would have it, on the day I began writing an article about bombs being called "smart," "precision," and "laser guided," the top story was...

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