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Ireland: KIDNAPPED: ANOTHER GAY IRANIAN TORTURE VICTIM SPEAKS
Znet Article, January, 15 2006
Doug Ireland
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As the Islamic Republic of Iran's lethal anti-gay pogrom -- the government's intense persecution of its own citizens for homosexuality, including the execution of at least a dozen young gay men -- proceeds at a terrifying pace, the victims of thi...
Bidwai: Nuclear Clouds Gather Over the Asia Pacific
Znet Article, January, 10 2006
Praful Bidwai
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The Asia-Pacific region has not only emerged as one of the main engine...
Solomon: Axis of Fanatics -- Netanyahu and Ahmadinejad
Znet Article, January, 07 2006
Norman Solomon
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With Ariel Sharon out of the picture, Benjamin Netanyahu has a better chance to become prime minister of Israel. He’s media savvy. He knows how to spin on American television. And he’s very dangerous. Netanyahu spent a ...
Pilger: The Quiet Death Of Freedom
Commentary, January, 06 2006
John Pilger
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On Christmas Eve, I dropped in on Brian Haw, whose hunched, pacing figure was just visible through the freezing fog. For four and a half years, Brian has camped in Parliament Square with a graphic display of photographs that show the terror and su...
Grossman: The U.S., Iran, & Khuzestan
Zmag Article, January, 01 2006
Zoltan Grossman
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A s their forces are bogged down in Iraq, George W. Bush and Tony Blair continue to lay the groundwork for their next military expansion—in Syria or Iran. A confrontation with Iran, in partic...
Rogers: The United States, nuclear weapons, and Iran
Znet Article, January, 01 2006
Paul Rogers
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The United States, nuclear weapons, and Iran
Cockburn: Iraq's Election Result: A Divided Nation
Znet Article, December, 23 2005
Patrick Cockburn
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Iraq is disintegrating. The first results from the parliamentary election last week show the country is dividing between Shia, Sunni and Kurdish regions. Religious fundamentalists now have the upper hand. The secular and nationalist candidate bac...
Franklin: How The New York Times Discovered All Those Wmds In Iraq And Cuba
Commentary, November, 26 2005
Jane Franklin
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"U.S. Says Hussein Intensifies Quest for A-Bomb Parts" blared the lead article of the New York Times on Sunday, September 8, 2002. That fateful article is now a notorious example of the disastrous symbiosis between the White House and corporate me...
Klare: Wag the Dog
Znet Article, November, 16 2005
Michael t. Klare
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In the 1998 movie Wag the Dog, White House spinmeister Conrad Brean seeks to deflect public attention from a brewing scandal over an alleged sexual encounter in the White House between the president and an all-too-young Girl Scout-type by concocti...
Pilger: The Rise Of America's New Enemy
Commentary, November, 11 2005
John Pilger
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I was dropped at Paradiso, the last middle-class area before barrio La Vega, which spills into a ravine as if by the force of gravity. Storms were forecast, and people were anxious, remembering the mudslides that took 20,000 lives. "Why are you he...
Grossman: KHUZESTAN: THE FIRST FRONT IN THE WAR ON IRAN?
Znet Article, November, 07 2005
Zoltan Grossman
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COLOR MAP of Iran's ethnic groups and oil fields:http://academic.evergr...
Solomon: Axis of Hardliners, From Tehran to Washington
Znet Article, November, 06 2005
Norman Solomon
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The huge gap between Tehran and Washington has widened in recent months. Top officials of Iran and the United States are not even within shouting distance. The styles of rhetoric differ, but the messages in both directions are filled with hostilit...
Edwards: Real Men Go To Tehran
Commentary, October, 31 2005
David Edwards
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The Roman historian Tacitus observed: "Crime once exposed has no refuge but in audacity."
Fisk: All over the globe, our leaders seem to be suffering from a severe bout of infantilism
Znet Article, October, 30 2005
Robert Fisk
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I wonder sometimes if we have not entered a new age of what the French call infantilisme. I admit I am writing these words on the lecture circuit in Paris where pretty much every political statement -- including those of Messrs Chirac, Sarkozy, de...
Abedin: How Britain Botched the Iran Standoff
Znet Article, October, 24 2005
Mahan Abedin
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As anticipated, the British government officially accused Iran of complicity in the targeting and killing of its troops in southern Iraq. However, the accusations are weak and clumsily constructed, to the point of being silly. The bomb technology ...
Brecher: Attack Syria? Invade Iran? By what Constitution?
Znet Article, October, 20 2005
Jeremy Brecher
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Testifying before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on October 19, Condoleezza Rice was asked whether the Bush administration was planning military action against Syria. She answered, “I don’t think the President ever takes an...
Birch: Iran
Znet Article, October, 10 2005
Nicholas Birch
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IRAN has played its diplomatic hand deftly. On the eve of the meeting of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in Vienna on September 24, Iran's highest authorities let it be known that in case countries which get their oil and gas from I...
Anderson: The Quiet Americans
Znet Article, October, 07 2005
Rob Anderson
Anderson's ZSpace page
In late July, news surfaced that Iran had executed two gay teenagers--ostensibly for sexual assault, but most likely for the crime of being gay. As pictures of their executions spread around the Internet, American gay and lesbian activists respond...
Ireland: 'next Time, They'll Kill Me' -- A Gay Iranian Torture Victim Speaks
Znet Article, September, 21 2005
Doug Ireland
Ireland's ZSpace page
Amir is a 22-year-old gay Iranian who was arrested by Iran’s morality police as part of a massive Internet entrapment campaign targeting gays. He was beaten and tortured while in custody, threatened with death, and lashed 100 times. He esc...
Pilger: News From Behind The Facade
Commentary, September, 20 2005
John Pilger
Pilger's ZSpace page
When I lived in the United States in the late 1960s, my home was often New Orleans, in a friend's rambling grey clapboard house that stood in a section of the city where civil rights campaigners had taken refuge from the violence of the Deep South...
