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Z: Fit To Print
Znet Article, March, 30 2003
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Media coverage of Operation Iraqi Freedom (sic) has been about as pathetic as expected. Distortion, spin, and outright lies rule the day. However, outside the reports being generated by journalists in bed, I mean, embedded with the military, the c...
Z: Daniel Patrick Murderer
Znet Article, March, 26 2003
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"We have lost a great American, an extraordinary senator, an intellectual and a man of passion and understanding for what really makes the country work." Hilary Clinton was speaking of the man she replaced in the Senate, Daniel Patrick Murderer, u...
Z: Good Wars, Cold Wars
Znet Article, March, 24 2003
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On Feb. 10, 2003, the headline of my hometown tabloid, the New York Post, was a single word: SACRIFICE. Below was a photo of the American Cemetery in Normandy, France. To the right (in more ways than one), columnist Steve Dunleavy began his discou...
Z: Patience
Znet Article, March, 12 2003
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"The cup of forbearance has been exhausted."--President James K. Polk, 1846 "This business about, you know, more time, how much time do we need to see clearly that he's not disarming? As I said, this looks like a rerun of a bad movie and I'm not ...
Z: On The Winning Side
Znet Article, March, 05 2003
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Last month, within the context of impending US/UK war crimes in Iraq, I wrote about the 58th anniversary of the Allied firebombing of Dresden (Feb. 13-14). This month marks another grim reminder of just how far the US is willing to go: 58 years si...
Z: Anti War Speech
Znet Article, February, 25 2003
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About a month ago, I was asked to speak at an anti-war event in the People's Republic of Brooklyn. I immediately put together some notes, but the event was subsequently re-scheduled and I was no longer able to attend. In the hope of provoking more...
Z: Missile Envy
Znet Article, February, 13 2003
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"Every government is run by liars and nothing they say should be believed." --I.F. Stone Two leads from February 12, 2003: "International missile experts found that an Iraqi missile exceeded the maximum 93-mile range allowed under U.N. resolutio...
Z: From Dresden To Baghdad
Znet Article, February, 08 2003
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"If war is forced upon us, we will fight in a just cause and by just means sparing, in every way we can, the innocent." --George W. Bush, in his State of the Union Address, January 28, 2003 ------------ The Pentagon recently revealed its plan fo...
Z: Taking Up Space
Znet Article, February, 04 2003
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Within 24 hours of the Columbia Space Shuttle accident, NASA made three announcements worth examining. On Sunday, February 2, as reported by AP writer, Pam Easton, "NASA warned members of the public Sunday against trying to sell purported Columbia...
Z: Bush, Brain Damage, And State Of The Union
Znet Article, January, 29 2003
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"One can lie with the mouth, but with the accompanying grimace, one nevertheless tells the truth." -Nietzsche President-Select George W. Bush delivered the yearly State of the Union address last night (January 28, 2003). While members of congress...
Z: IBM's Gambit Declined
Znet Article, January, 27 2003
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Just as we're submitted to television spectacles of sprinters racing giraffes, Dylan Loeb McClain of the New York Times informs us "Garry Kasparov, the world's top-ranked player and the former world champion, will play a $1 million, six-game match...
Z: They Paved Paradise
Znet Article, January, 22 2003
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Washington Post columnist, Howard Kurtz wrote about the latest controversy over SUVs...utilizing the corporate media's standard version of cute. The January 22, 2003 piece, entitled "The New Axle of Evil" (see what I mean?), Kurtz takes on the "De...
Z: Malpractice Makes Perfect
Znet Article, January, 17 2003
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"Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died." -Erma Bombeck Two articles in the January 17, 2003 New York Times offered a telling glimpse at what passes for health care in the home of the brave. First, in "White House Allows Limits on Em...
Z: Thoughts on the Death Penalty
Znet Article, January, 13 2003
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Nearly 3600 human beings languish on death row all across the land of the free. Some are guilty, some innocent, some mentally disabled; but all await a grisly, taxpayer-subsidized death. Why? The most common justification given for capital punis...
Z: The A Word
Znet Article, January, 10 2003
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There's a petition making the rounds on the Internet that reads: "We demand that the government of the United States cease and desist its failed policy of appeasement concerning Saddam Hussein and with all dispatch and all force necessary, rid us ...
Z: Without A Clousseau
Znet Article, January, 06 2003
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With a defense budget...wait, let's cut with the bullshit: With a war budget of over $350 billion dollars per year, even a Soldier of Fortune subscriber might be wondering if we taxpayers are getting our money's worth. Is all the legal tender bein...
Z: "We can use the fruits of it"
Znet Article, December, 30 2002
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"Nothing changes on New Year's Day..." (U2) In the corporate media equivalent of a scoop, Dana Priest and Barton Gellman of the Washington Post "broke" the story of US torture of Arab and Afghan "detainees." The December 26 article, perfectly tim...
Z: His Own People?
Znet Article, December, 20 2002
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It appears more inevitable than ever that the US and a few allies will broaden the assault on Iraq that began in 1990 and has continued unabated since then (as of Dec. 16, the US and Britain have bombed Iraq 61 times in 2002 alone). The ostensible...
Z: Today
Znet Article, December, 12 2002
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As we go on with our lives we tend to forget that the jails and the hospitals and the madhouses and the graveyards are packed. Today, I walk the stairs up to the elevated platform, ready to join 3.5 million of my closest friends on the subway. Ju...
Z: Giving Thanks In The Land Of Denial
Znet Article, November, 28 2002
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"Thanks for the wild turkey and the passengerpigeons, destined to be shit out through wholesomeAmerican guts."From "A Thanksgiving Prayer"William S. Burroughs, 1988 -----------When New York Times columnist William Safire informs us that Saddam H...
