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Flanders: Noam Chomsky, Model Terrorist?
Commentary, February, 10 2002
Laura Flanders
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A couple of weeks back, Human Rights Watch announced in their annual World Report that repressive governments around the world are exploiting the "war against terrorism" to clamp down on domestic dissidents.
Podur: What Are The Rules?
Commentary, January, 20 2002
Justin Podur
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Years ago I interviewed someone who had traveled all over Central and Eastern Europe and Central and South Asia studying states and civil wars and how and why states failed. 'People ask me what's worse, an authoritarian state or no state,' he said...
Prashad: The Age Of Scorpio (vrishchika): Star Wars And Star Signs
Commentary, December, 30 2001
Vijay Prashad
Prashad's ZSpace page
This is the dawning of the Age of Scorpio, or as our Sanskrit texts have it, the Age of Vrishchika.
Brecher: Open Letter from an American to the World: HELP!
Commentary, December, 28 2001
Jeremy Brecher
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The Bush Administration is blundering into a global conflagration. There is currently no force within the U.S. likely to stop it. It is up to the rest of the world, and especially AmericaÕs friends and allies Ð both governments and their citizen...
Herman: Coalitions Of The Willing, Coerced, And Bribed
Commentary, December, 24 2001
Edward Herman
Herman's ZSpace page
When the United States pummels tiny states like Grenada and Panama, the U.S. media and public have no apparent embarrassment at the imbalance of power and the bully-boy aspect of the incursions; in fact, there is pride at super-Goliath beating up ...
Jensen: Why I Write (for Newspapers)
Commentary, December, 20 2001
Robert Jensen
Jensen's ZSpace page
My clearest memory of the 1991 Persian Gulf War is a few moments on a bus when the world melted in front of me.
Wise: Playing the World War Two Card: Nostalgia in the Crusade Against Terrorism
Commentary, December, 16 2001
Tim Wise
Wise's ZSpace page
Traveling through airports, as I often do, can prove to be quite an educational experience. Therein, one can engage in people watching, examine the culinary habits of corporate types and tourists, and occasionally gain insight into the mindset of ...
Cromwell: Terror, Delusion And Obscenities
Commentary, December, 09 2001
David Cromwell
Cromwell's ZSpace page
A few weeks ago, while awaiting a flight from Heathrow to Glasgow, I encountered an alleged war criminal walking around freely. His name? Robin Cook. Yes, the former British foreign secretary, now leader of the House of Commons. Iraq, Serbia, East...
Marable: The Failure of U.S. Foreign Policies
Commentary, November, 20 2001
Manning Marable
Marable's ZSpace page
The bombing campaign against the people of Afghanistan will be described in history as the "U.S. Against the Third World." The launching of military strikes against peasants does nothing to suppress terrorism, and only erodes American credibility ...
Mokhiber: Kill, Kill, Kill
Commentary, November, 19 2001
Russell Mokhiber
Mokhiber's ZSpace page
In a recent interview with the Pakistani newspaper Dawn, Osama bin Laden justified the killing of innocent Americans this way :
Herman: Genocide As Collateral Damage, But With Sincere Regrets
Commentary, November, 10 2001
Edward Herman
Herman's ZSpace page
The Bush Afghan war calls up memories of the Vietnam war in both actions and rhetoric: the massive use of superior arms heavily impacting civilians, deliberate food deprivation, wholesale terror allegedly combatting "terrorism," but always "sincer...
Lindemyer: Iraqi Sanctions: Myth and Fact
Zmag Article, November, 01 2001
Jeff Lindemyer
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Iraqi Sanctions: Myth and Fact
Wise: Who’s Being Naïve? War-Time Realism Through the Looking Glass
Commentary, October, 28 2001
Tim Wise
Wise's ZSpace page
To hear those who support the current air assault on Afghanistan tell it, those of us who doubt the likely efficacy of such a campaign, and who question its fundamental morality are not only insufficiently patriotic but dangerously naïve.
Solomon: War Needs Good Public Relations
Commentary, October, 26 2001
Norman Solomon
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For some people, war is terror, disaster and death. For others, it's a PR problem.
Pilger: A war in the American tradition
Commentary, October, 16 2001
John Pilger
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The Anglo-American attack on Afghanistan crosses new boundaries. It means that America's economic wars are now backed by the perpetual threat of military attack on any country, without legal pretence.
Solomon: Media Spin Revolves Around The Word "terrorist"
Commentary, October, 06 2001
Norman Solomon
Solomon's ZSpace page
During the first two days of this month, CNN's website displayed an odd little announcement. "There have been false reports that CNN has not used the word 'terrorist' to refer to those who attacked the World Trade Center and Pentagon," the noti...
Prashad: Forward Into the Past: US War Aims
Commentary, October, 05 2001
Vijay Prashad
Prashad's ZSpace page
The US State Department-Pentagon has a bad record on war aims. During the lead-up to the Gulf War, the Bush administration, Part 1, argued that the US was needed to liberate Kuwait.
Herman: ANTITERRORISM AS A COVER FOR TERRORISM
Commentary, October, 05 2001
Edward Herman
Herman's ZSpace page
During the Cold War the United States supported a string of terror states, from the immediate post-World War backing given Thailand dictator Phibun Songkhram, "the first pro-Axis dictator to regain power after the war," to its support of Suharto, ...
Burchill: The US, Indonesia, and Terror
Commentary, October, 01 2001
Scott Burchill
Burchill's ZSpace page
In a bid to build its coalition for a war against terrorism, the United States has demonstrated that it is keen to have on side the world's biggest Islamic nation, Indonesia. Support from Indonesia, an ally of the United States from the late 1960s...
Albert: What's Going On?
Commentary, September, 28 2001
Michael Albert
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The U.S. response to September 11 seeks to benefit elites in the U.S., and, to a lesser degree, around the world. There are various goals.
