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Znet Article 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 ...

Znet Article 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, ...

Znet Article 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...

Znet Article 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...

Znet Article 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...

Znet Article 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 ...

Znet Article 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...

Znet Article 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...

Znet Article 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...

Znet Article 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...

Znet Article 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...

Znet Article 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...

Znet Article 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...

Znet Article 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 ...

Znet Article Edwards: A Superb Demolition Part 3

Znet Article, July, 01 2006 David Edwards
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A Superb Demolition Part 3

Znet Article 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...

Znet Article 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...

Znet Article 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...

Znet Article 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...

Znet Article 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€...

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