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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 ...
Fisk: We Are Being Set Up For A War Against Iraq
Znet Article, December, 04 2002
Robert Fisk
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In North Carolina last month, a woman attending a lecture I was giving asked me when America would go to war in Iraq. I told her to watch the front page of The New York Times and The Washington Post for the first smear campaigns against the UN ins...
Hiltermann: Who Minded Iraqi Mustard Gas In 1983?
Znet Article, December, 03 2002
Joost Hiltermann
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Washington - In warning against a possible Iraqi chemical or biological strike against U.S. troops, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld remarked last week that "there's a danger that Saddam Hussein would do things he's done previously - he has in...
Bond: Southern Africa: support for ex-SLA fugitive and opposition to commodification
Commentary, December, 02 2002
Patrick Bond
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Johannesburg: Most ZNet readers will have heard of the November 8 arrest of former Symbionese Liberation Army fugitive, James Kilgore, known here as John Pape. Across this region, first reactions--an outpouring of support from comrades, friends an...
Said: Misinformation About Iraq
Znet Article, November, 30 2002
Edward Said
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The flurry of reports, leaks, and misinformation about the looming US war against Saddam Hussein's dictatorship in Iraq continues unabated. It is impossible to know, however, how much of this is a brilliantly managed campaign of psychological war ...
Edwards: Iraq: Panorama Editor And Guardian Editor Respond
Znet Article, November, 27 2002
David Edwards
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As the war clouds continue to gather over the Gulf, the latest opinion polls show that fully 40% of the British electorate are against war on Iraq. Anyone who has been monitoring the media with any consistency can only view these figures with horr...
Kelber: There's Still Time To Avert US War In Iraq
Znet Article, November, 26 2002
Harry Kelber
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While President Bush appears hell-bent on invading Iraq this winter, there is still time, and a few favorable circumstances, to prevent a costly and bloody war. We would be at war today if the 15 members of the U.N. Security Council had failed to...
Landau: The Iraq Ploy And Resemblances To The Start Of The Cold War
Znet Article, November, 26 2002
Saul Landau
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“If you’re going to go in and try to topple Saddam Hussein, you have to go to Baghdad...
Cromwell: Turning the World into Hell?
Commentary, November, 25 2002
David Cromwell
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Take a look at the media sections of the broadsheets, if you can handle the inane navel-gazing, insider gossip and trivia. A recurrent theme is whether television news is being 'dumbed-down' in order to hang on to fragmenting audiences. Corporate ...
Susskind: Talking With Friends And Family About Iraq
Znet Article, November, 25 2002
Yifat Susskind
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Like people everywhere, most people in the US think it’s wrong to kill civilians as a means of pressuring their government. But for many, the link between this conviction and opposition to the US plan to attack Iraq is severed by fear, mis...
Kagarlitsky: Autumn Reflections
Commentary, November, 23 2002
Boris Kagarlitsky
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First came the fear. For several months most of the Italian newspapers had been telling their readers about the terrible antiglobalists who were about to gather from all Europe to destroy Florence. The day before the European Social Forum opened, ...
Healy: Another Globalisation Is Possible
Commentary, November, 23 2002
Sean Healy
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FLORENCE -- It was always going to be a recipe for chaos. Take 40,000 European leftists, fractious at the best of times, shoe-horn them into a Renaissance era Italian city and tell them to discuss, across half a dozen languages, the state of the w...
Landau: In The United States The Source Of Terror
Commentary, November, 20 2002
Saul Landau
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ÒWherever the standard of freedom and independence has been or shall be unfurled, there will be AmericaÕs heart, her benedictions and her prayers. But she goes not abroad in search of monsters to destroyÉby once enlisting under other banners of fo...
Macdougall: HEROES AND VILLAINS: THE SUN, SADDAM AND THE BRITISH FIREFIGHTER STRIKE
Znet Article, November, 18 2002
William Macdougall
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Anyone labouring under the misconception that Britain’s striking firemen would receive a hearing in accordance with the high levels of public goodwill traditionally enjoyed by the fire service must surely have been brought back to earth wi...
Zinn: Veterans Day
Commentary, November, 15 2002
Howard Zinn
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Veterans Day used to be called Armistice Day, because it was November 11, 1918, at 11 AM - the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month, that the first World War came to an end. It would be good to remember a few things about tha...
Edwards: Iraq: BBC World Service Editor Responds
Znet Article, November, 15 2002
David Edwards
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In response to our recent Media Alert - Our Pravda: The BBC, Panorama and Iraq (November 8, 2002) - we received these emails from Bill Hayton of the BBC's World Service: Hi, Having read some of your material from time to time and agreed with part...
Mian: Pakistan and Iraq
Znet Article, November, 14 2002
Zia Mian
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[Talk given at American Friends Service Committee Conference, 'Paths to a Just and Secure Future: Resisting Washington's Endless War' October 12, 2002] It’s always really cheering to come and be with AFSC. You wake up in the morning and y...
Choudry: APEC 2002: Americans Plot To Expand Crusade
Commentary, November, 13 2002
Aziz Choudry
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Remember APEC (Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation)? Once described by former Australian foreign affairs minister Gareth Evans as Òfour adjectives in search of a nounÓ, it stumbled through the 1990s into the 21st century barely alive. Espousing Òo...
Dominick: Attack Of The Liberals
Commentary, November, 13 2002
Brian Dominick
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The four high-horsemen of the Liberal Left have mounted and are riding
Podur: Resolution 1441
Commentary, November, 12 2002
Justin Podur
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With the passage of UN Security Council Resolution 1441, the US has
