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Burchill: Public Amnesia And Hypocrisy Needed To Justify War On Iraq
Commentary, October, 12 2002
Scott Burchill
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Trying to convince a sceptical population why Australia could soon be at war with Iraq is proving a major test of opinion management for the Howard Government.
Cummings: Iran, Iraq, Whatever...
Znet Article, October, 11 2002
Richard Cummings
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One day, quite a few years ago, I was having lunch with my Iranian friend, Rudy Alam, who was attending the University of Pennsylvania, and who was the daughter of the then Prime Minster of Iran. It was a student hangout, and a waitress recognized...
Burchill: If Weapons Were Found
Commentary, September, 15 2002
Scott Burchill
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The English historian A.J.P. Taylor once argued that the principal difference between the methodologies of the lawyer and the historian was that "the lawyer aims to make a case; the historian wishes to understand a situation." According to Taylor,...
Choudry: Counting For Nothing: Reflections On The First Anniversary Of 9/11
Commentary, September, 13 2002
Aziz Choudry
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"The media seems to be implying as if this was the first ever macabre happening in this world and no other atrocity has been seen before. From the projection of pain and grief by media one can assume that intensity of feeling pain is measured on o...
Chomsky: Albert Interviews Chomsky on Iraq
Commentary, September, 07 2002
Noam Chomsky
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Various questions are circulating among people worried about war. On Sept 1, 2002, Michael Albert put a dozen of these to Noam Chomsky, via email. Here are the first three questions and his responses...the whole interview will appear in the Octobe...
Everest: Fueling the Iran-Iraq Slaughter
Znet Article, September, 05 2002
Larry Everest
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If you think you've heard it all in terms of U.S. imperialist hypocrisy, lies, manipulation, and mass slaughter-wait. There's more. Today the U.S. government is beating the drums for a preemptive war on Iraq. President Bush casually-dressed on hi...
Scahill: The Saddam In Rumsfeld’s Closet
Commentary, August, 06 2002
Jeremy Scahill
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“Man and the turtle are very much alike. Neither makes any progress without sticking his neck out.†—Donald Rumsfeld
Bagdikian: God vs. The Big Name Droppers, Inc.
Commentary, July, 26 2002
Ben Bagdikian
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There is a famous Washington tableaux in the National Capitol. No, not George Washington crossing the Delaware. It is a repeated public ritual resulting in slight variations of the great classic of our time: seven corporate executives in 1994 stan...
Reinhart: Separation
Commentary, July, 03 2002
Tanya Reinhart
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The Gaza strip is a perfect realization of the Israeli vision of "separation". Surrounded with electric fences and army posts, completely sealed off the outside world, Gaza has become a huge prison. About one third of its land was confiscated for ...
Edwards: The Unspoken Rule Of Media Reporting: Guatemala, Bbc, And Propaganda
Commentary, June, 17 2002
David Edwards
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Focusing heavily on the machinations of public relations guru Edward
Prashad: The Troika of Imperialism, Petro-Sheikhs and Dissident Jihadis: On Tariq Ali.
Commentary, June, 01 2002
Vijay Prashad
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Michael Berube, an English professor at Penn State University, has become quite a fixture in the Chronicle of Higher Education. In a recent article ("Ali vs. Hitchens: Battle on the Left," 3 May), Berube tells us that he studies conflicts within t...
Du boff: Stopping Terrorism Vs. Promoting The Right
Commentary, April, 11 2002
Richard Du boff
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By high noon September 11, 2001 it should have been obvious what this generation of Republicans--and more than a few Democrats--would do with the attacks on New York and Washington: seize upon them as manna from heaven to promote a hard right-wing...
Herman: Mad Dogs, Scared Rabbits--laughing While Resisting
Commentary, April, 01 2002
Edward Herman
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For good reason it is hard for many people to see anything amusing at the current political scene, with a "war on terrorism" already devastating one small country, first class war criminal Ariel Sharon unleashed to assault another civilian populat...
Marjaee: The Axis of Evil cabal and the case of Iran
Zmag Article, March, 01 2002
Fareed Marjaee
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The Axis of Evil cabal and the case of Iran
Landau: Otto Reich’s Appointment
Commentary, February, 23 2002
Saul Landau
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George W. Bush has appointed 56 year old Otto Reich, a Cuban born right-wing Republican, to direct Inter American affairs at the State Department. For Washington insiders this illustrates two axioms of current political behavior.
Prashad: The Parochial Coverage of Enron
Commentary, February, 17 2002
Vijay Prashad
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Again, the US media has shown that it is just not up to the task of stal king the corruption of the global economy. Enron collapses and now the media tells us that it is all about Raptors and the connivance of Arthur Andersen (or isn't it now A...
Glass: I know what Camp X-Ray feels like
Commentary, February, 17 2002
Charles Glass
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The first thing they do is cover your eyes. They make you strip to make sure you're not carrying anything. They replace your clothes with uniforms that are not clothes at all. They chain you by hand and foot. They drag you away and leave you on yo...
Raptis: Do the (Ordinary) Americans Know?
Commentary, December, 13 2001
Nikos Raptis
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Does the ordinary American know what the American Government has been doing to the other peoples of the world?
Prashad: Afghan Aftermaths: the Feign of Inevitability
Commentary, November, 17 2001
Vijay Prashad
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Like ninepins the Afghan cities fell from a band of principled barbarians (the Taliban) to a band of unprincipled barbarians (the so-called Northern Alliance):
Weisbrot: What Everyone Should Know About Nicaragua
Commentary, November, 09 2001
Mark Weisbrot
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The United States' first post-September 11 foray into Latin American politics -- in Nicaragua's election -- provides a glimpse of how Washington's new "counter-terrorism" policy may play out in this region.


