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Commentary Brecher: The New Global Peace Movement vs. the Bush Juggernaut

Commentary, May, 28 2003 Jeremy Brecher
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[ "Terminating the Bush Juggernaut," a longer and more comprehensive discussion paper on this subject, is posted at http://www.zmag.org/brecherjug.htm.]

Znet Article Leopold: US Plans To Overthrow Iranian Regime

Znet Article, May, 28 2003 Jason Leopold
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Here we go again. While postwar Iraq continues to crumble, the Bush administration is now setting its sights on a new target—Iran—in its so-called effort to reshape most of the Middle East and bring democracy to countries ruled by ...

Znet Article Tisdall: Next Stop Tehran?

Znet Article, May, 26 2003 Simon Tisdall
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Imagine for a moment that you are a senior official in Iran's foreign ministry. It's hot outside on the dusty, congested streets of Tehran. But inside the ministry, despite the air-conditioning, it's getting stickier all the time. You have a big p...

Commentary Hartmann: End of History: The Sequel

Commentary, April, 21 2003 Betsy Hartmann
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In 1989 as the Cold War came to a close, Francis Fukuyama published his famous essay, later to become a well-known book, on ÒThe End of History.Ó Fukuyama, a former senior fellow at the State Department, argued that human history may be directiona...

Znet Article Edwards: Operation Iranian Freedom

Znet Article, April, 16 2003 David Edwards
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"This war is un-American", writes Jonathan Freedland of Operation Iraqi Freedom in the Guardian. America, after all, "still sees itself as the instinctive friend of all who struggle to kick out a foreign occupier - and the last nation on earth to ...

Commentary Monbiot: Chemical Hypocrites

Commentary, April, 10 2003 George Monbiot
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When Saddam Hussein so pig-headedly failed to shower US troops with chemical weapons as they entered Iraq, thus depriving them of a retrospective justification for this war, the American generals explained that he would do so as soon as they cross...

Commentary Lakey: Another Strategy Tool

Commentary, March, 23 2003 George Lakey
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How can we organize against the multiple wars of the U.S. and at the same time plant the seeds for the future mass radical movement that's required to end the war system itself? As Adele Oliveri points out in her Commentary written from Spain in F...

Commentary Weisbrot: Military Force Won't Restore Lost U.S. Power

Commentary, March, 23 2003 Mark Weisbrot
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Many people are discouraged to see that the efforts of millions throughout the world have failed to prevent a great crime. With the vast majority of humanity against it, and without even the cover of UN approval, the Bush administration has launch...

Commentary Landau: Terrorists Are On The Run Some Away From Bush, Othe Rs Toward His Nurturing Arms

Commentary, February, 25 2003 Saul Landau
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If you had taken up terrorism as your lifeÕs vocation, or even as a means to a political end, President BushÕs State of the Union words would have put you into a state of terrible gloom. ÒWe have the terrorists on the run,Ó he boasted, ÒweÕre keep...

Commentary Raptis: Hate: Religious and Secular

Commentary, February, 06 2003 Nikos Raptis
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Hate: Religious and Secular

Commentary Herman: The Manufactured And Real Iraq Crisis

Commentary, February, 04 2003 Edward Herman
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With enough power and chutzpah it is possible for an aggressive and over-armed state to manufacture a crisis and pretend that the crisis lies with the threatened victim rather than with the aggressor state. Today, the United States has not only ma...

Commentary Hoodbhoy: Is It A War On Islam?

Commentary, February, 03 2003 Pervez Hoodbhoy
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Street opinion in Pakistan, and probably most Muslim countries, holds that Islam is the sole target of America's new wars. Even moderate Muslims are

Commentary Prashad: The Road To Riyadh

Commentary, January, 29 2003 Vijay Prashad
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One of the claims made for the overthrow of Saddam Hussein (leadership change, if not regime change) is that a democratic Iraq beholden to the Bush administration will enable the champions of democracy to lean on the authoritarian Saudi regime in ...

Commentary Edwards: Professional Servility And How To Overcome It - 2

Commentary, January, 19 2003 David Edwards
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The great significance of what Schmidt has to say should be clear - professionals, including media professionals, are +not+ liars. They are people who have been selected and trained to subordinate their capacity for critical thought to a professio...

Commentary Schechter: The Power of 'Evil'

Commentary, January, 16 2003 Danny Schechter
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NEW YORK, Jan 09, 2003 -- First, there was Austin Powers.

Commentary Bagdikian: Beware the Geeks Bearing Lists

Commentary, December, 26 2002 Ben Bagdikian
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"I have here in my hand, a list ...." Senator Joseph McCarthy, Wheeling, West Virginia, February 9, 1946.

Commentary Weissman: Of Caviar and Capitalism

Commentary, December, 22 2002 Robert Weissman
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Are capitalism and caviar incompatible? Is the system that prides itself on the creation and veneration of wealth unable to to maintain a sustainable market for one of the great trappings of wealth?

Commentary Schechter: Crisis Capsule

Commentary, December, 15 2002 Danny Schechter
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NEW YORK, Dec 12, 2002 -- When the story broke, there was the gasp of "Gotcha!" in the world's news rooms. Finally, after all these weeks of those faceless inspectors racing around the boonies of Iraq to visit sites they've seen before, we have a ...

Commentary Herman: Answering the Cruise Miissile Left on Iraq

Commentary, December, 08 2002 Edward Herman
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It is pretty depressing to see how frequently liberals and some leftists have been unable to maintain a principled opposition to the U.S. policies toward Iraq, which, following more than a decade of "sanctions of mass destruction" are now rushing ...

Commentary Prashad: Accounts of the Fifth Afghan War

Commentary, November, 01 2002 Vijay Prashad
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On the 3rd of October, 2001, I wrote a ZNET commentary called "Forward into the Past: US War Aims." This was four days before the bombardment began. Already the war aims of the administration seemed to escalate as each day went by. First we heard ...

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