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Ainger: Cancun
Znet Article, September, 12 2003
Katharine Ainger
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In 1970, a computer chose Cancun - then a quiet fishing village - as the site for casino, sun, sex and resort-style tourist development. Now it is the location of the World Trade Organisation's fifth ministerial meeting. The convention centre, blo...
Landau: Chile: The Other, Almost Forgotten 9/11
Znet Article, September, 11 2003
Saul Landau
Landau's ZSpace page
"The true American goes not abroad in search of monsters to destroyÅ " John Quincy Adams, July 4, 1821 "I am ready to resist by whatever means, even at the cost of my life, so that this may serve as a lesson to the ignominious history of those wh...
Milne: Why the US Fears Cuba
Znet Article, September, 08 2003
Seumas Milne
Milne's ZSpace page
Fifty years after Fidel Castro and his followers launched the Cuban revolution with an abortive attack on the dictator Batista's Moncada barracks, Cuba's critics are already writing its obituaries. Echoing President Bush's dismissal of Cuban-style...
Solo: Neo-Liberal Nicaragua is a Neo-Banana Republic
Zmag Article, September, 01 2003
Toni Solo
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W hen U.S.-backed candidate Violeta Chamorro won the most observed election ever in Nicaragua in 1990, she promised Nicaraguans that U.S. government aid would quickly put the country back on its fe...
Katz: AIDS in Africa
Zmag Article, September, 01 2003
Alison Katz
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T hirteen million AIDS deaths already in the worst affected countries. Without care and treatment, there will be 68 million more between now and 2020.” The global figures on AIDS are terrifyi...
Z: War Is A Racket
Znet Article, August, 26 2003
Mickey Z
Z's ZSpace page
"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...
Landau: Assessing The Cuban Revolution
Znet Article, August, 18 2003
Saul Landau
Landau's ZSpace page
"The Cuban Revolution has failed, Cuba is a basket case. Perpetual leader Fidel Castro is sick and suffers from a power co...
Du boff: Mirror Mirror On The Wall, Who's The Biggest Rogue Of All?
Znet Article, August, 07 2003
Richard Du boff
Du boff's ZSpace page
1. Comprehensive [Nuclear] Test Ban Treaty, 1996. Signed by 164 nations and ratified by 89 including France, Great Britain, and Russia; signed by President Clinton in 1996 but rejected by the Senate in 1999. The US is one of 13 nonratifiers amon...
Basu: Aids, Empire, And Public Health Behavioralism
Znet Article, August, 02 2003
Sanjay Basu
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In the wake of U.S. President George Bush’s trip to several African nations, and after his State of the Union speech declaring $15 billion of spending for global AIDS prevention and care, American newspapers have rallied in support of the ...
Basu: AIDS, Empire, and Public Health Behaviourism
Znet Article, August, 02 2003
Sanjay Basu
Basu's ZSpace page
In the wake of U.S. President George Bush's trip to several African nations, and after his State of the Union speech declaring $15 billion of spending for global AIDS prevention and care, American newspapers have rallied in support of the "compass...
Masri: Re-Constructing or De-Constructing Iraq?
Znet Article, July, 14 2003
Rania Masri
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WE ARE regularly told, by our corporate-I mean, our "free" press-and by our "president," elected by this "free" nation in our functioning "democracy," that the "war" against Iraq is over, "liberation" for the Iraqis has begun and we are now workin...
Susskind: Adjusting To Empire
Znet Article, July, 12 2003
Yifat Susskind
Susskind's ZSpace page
"America was targeted for attack because we're the brightest beacon of freedom and opportunity in the world." -George Bush, September 11, 2001 On September 11, 2001, George Bush supplied the first official answer to the new quintessential Ame...
And wade hudson: Eyewitness To War
Znet Article, May, 23 2003
Kathy kelly And wade hudson
And wade hudson's ZSpace page
Since September 2002, nonviolent activists have been on the ground in Iraq maintaining a constant presence to stand in solidarity with the Iraqi people. Initiated by Voices in the Wilderness, the Iraq Peace Team members have remained inside the co...
Z: Partisan Protests?
Znet Article, May, 06 2003
Mickey Z
Z's ZSpace page
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...
Albert: Why Iraq? An Interview with Rahul Mahajan
Zmag Article, May, 01 2003
Michael Albert
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R ahul Mahajan serves on the National Board of Peace Action and is a founding member of the Nowar Collective. He is the author of The New Crusade: America’s War on ...
Gordon: The Missing
Znet Article, May, 01 2003
Neve Gordon
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Magdalena Emperatriz was kidnapped on May 31, 1982 during a counter-insurgency campaign carried out by the Salvadoran army. She was 15 days old. The campaign resulted in the killing of hundreds of civilians and the destruction of dozens of towns a...
Smith: Under Uncle Sam's Thumb
Znet Article, April, 26 2003
Ashley Smith
Smith's ZSpace page
EARLY IN the 20th century, the U.S. socialist journalist John Reed explained the drive for plunder, profit and geopolitical domination that lay behind U.S. military interventions. "Uncle Sam never gives something for nothing," Reed said in a speec...
Goff: Wolves and Sheep (apologies to Canis Lupus)
Znet Article, April, 24 2003
Stan Goff
Goff's ZSpace page
Orwell & Capone The World Bank, under the direction of James Wolfensohn, is posing a problem for neocon Wolfowitz. The World Bank, though dominated by the US which has 16.2% of voting shares, has an institutional loyalty to multilateralism. ...
Engler: Selling Drugs
Zmag Article, April, 01 2003
Yves Engler
Engler's ZSpace page
I support regime change. I support it around the world, including in Iraq, where a dictator holds sway. The question, however, is whether we should support regime change by the United States military ...
