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Barker: Conform or Reform?
Znet Article, February, 07 2007
Michael Barker
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Abstract: The mass media is an important outlet for social movements, where the quality and nature of media coverage strongly influences how they are perceived in the public eye. This paper examines the complex interface existing between the mass ...
Leopold: Army Targets Truthout for Subpoenas in Watada Case
Znet Article, December, 18 2006
Jason Leopold
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In a case that cuts right to the heart of the First Amendment, a US Army prosecutor has indicated he intends to subpoena Truthout Executive Director Marc Ash, a Truthout reporter, and two of the nonprofit news organization's regular contributors, ...
Winter: Canada's Media Wannabe Americans
Znet Article, December, 08 2006
James Winter
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We Canadians like to think of ourselves as more than friendly neighbours, as global citizens with a penchant for peacekeeping. Since former prime minister Lester Pearson won a Nobel Peace prize in 1957, we have opposed U.S. international aggressio...
Fisk: Journalists' Coverage of Middle East Shallow and Distorted
Znet Article, November, 15 2006
Robert Fisk
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DEARBORN, MI – Journalists in the "West" should feel a burden of guilt for much that has happened in the Middle East because they have, with their gullibility, sold a fictitious version of events. Their constant references to a "fence" in...
Loewenstein: My Israel Question
Znet Article, September, 11 2006
Antony Loewenstein
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Jamie Glassman is a British Jewish writer on The Ali G show, a comedy program known for intentionally offending deserving establishment figures. Glassman recently attended the Edinburgh Arts Festival and was disturbed. He wrote in the London Times...
Chomsky: Comments on Dershowitz
Znet Article, September, 06 2006
Noam Chomsky
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Alan Dershowitz’s regular little performances are eminently ignorable, including the one reproduced below. But since I’ve been asked several times for comments on this one, a few follow. Dershowitz’s opens by writing that ...
Lendman: CNN's Vice President of Racism and Associates
Znet Article, September, 03 2006
Stephen Lendman
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Move over Bill, Chris, Michelle, Rush, Sean, & Company. Make way for a worthy challenger to the title of leader of the racist rant pack holding court weekday evenings on his hourly show on CNN. Who would have thought back in the days when this w...
Cook: Lebanese deaths, and Israeli war crimes, kept off the balance sheet
Znet Article, August, 16 2006
Jonathan Cook
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During Israel’s war against the people of Lebanon, our media, politicians and diplomats have colluded with the aggressors by distracting us with irrelevancies, by concocting controversies, and by framing the language of diplomacy. In the f...
Edwards: Demolishing Lebanon
Znet Article, July, 30 2006
David Edwards
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Part One In launching an emergency appeal for aid on July 24, the United Nations estimated that the lives of 800,000 Lebanese civilians have been disrupted by Israeli bombing. Hundreds of bridges and virtually all road networks have been systemat...
Cook: Five myths that help Israel's war crimes
Znet Article, July, 25 2006
Jonathan Cook
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This week I had the pleasure to appear on American radio, on the Laura Ingraham show, pitted against David Horowitz, a "Semite supremacist" who most recently made his name under the banner of Campus Watch, leading McCarthyite witch-hunts against A...
Cook: Notes from northern Israel
Znet Article, July, 19 2006
Jonathan Cook
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Nazareth hit the international headlines for the first time in this vicious war being waged by Israel mostly on Lebanese civilians. Reporter Matthew Price, corsetted in a blue flak jacket in Haifa, told BBC viewers that for the first time Hizbulla...
Zirin: Why Today I Wear My Zidane Jersey
Znet Article, July, 11 2006
Dave Zirin
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Imagine Michael Jordan in his last game, with the score tied in overtime, knocking out his defender with a punch to the throat. Imagine Derek Jeter in game seven of the World Series, at bat with the bases loaded, thrashing the opposing team's c...
Cook: Kidnapped By Israel
Znet Article, July, 07 2006
Jonathan Cook
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Few readers of a British newspaper would have noticed the story. In the Observer of 25 June, it merited a mere paragraph hidden in the "World in brief" section, revealing that the previous day a team of Israeli commandos had entered the Gaza Strip...
Lendman: It's Time to End the "Last Taboo" and Hold Israel Accountable for its Actions
Znet Article, July, 05 2006
Stephen Lendman
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The "Last Taboo" was the title of eminent Palestinian-born writer, scholar and activist Edward Said's essay written shortly before his death in September, 2003. It was also the title of distinguished author and documentary filmmaker John Pilger's ...
Edwards: A Superb Demolition Part 3
Znet Article, July, 01 2006
David Edwards
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A Superb Demolition Part 3
Lendman: The Wall Street Journal's Chavez Commentary
Znet Article, June, 24 2006
Stephen Lendman
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You won't find commentary and language any more hostile to Hugo Chavez than on the editorial page of the Wall Street Journal. Their June 23 piece by Mary Anastasia O'Grady in the Americas column is a clear, jaw-dropping example. It's practically b...
Edwards: A Superb Demolition?
Znet Article, June, 23 2006
David Edwards
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PART 1: A Gauntlet Is Thrown On June 16, the Observer's editor Roger Alton made a bold announcement on his newspaper's website: "And to all my many enemies on the Left, and in various organisations like the pernicious MediaLens, I commend a sple...
Chomsky: Subordinate and Non-Subordinate States
Znet Article, May, 08 2006
Noam Chomsky
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Noam Chomsky, whom the New York Times has called “arguably the most important intellectual alive,†was voted the leading living public intellectual in The 2005 Global Intellectuals Poll conducted by the British magazine P...
Edwards: Iraq Body Count
Znet Article, April, 10 2006
David Edwards
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Noam Chomsky once observed: "If you are not offending people who ought to be offended, you're doing something wrong."(http://www.journalism.sfsu.edu/www/pubs/gater/spring95/apr27/chom.htm) One indication that the Iraq Body Count (IBC) project is...
Barghouti: When is Killing Arab Civilians Considered a Massacre?
Znet Article, April, 10 2006
Omar Barghouti
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Recent reports from Iraq indicate beyond doubt that the U.S. occupation army has embarked on a new “tactic†from its menu of atrocities, in an attempt to counter the burgeoning Iraqi resistance attacks against its soldiers. â€...


