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Herman: "The Price Is Worth It"
Commentary, September, 25 2001
Edward Herman
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Try to imagine how the mainstream U.S. media and intellectuals would respond to the disclosure that at an early planning meeting of the terrorists responsible for the attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon, the question had come up about w...
Fisk: How can the US bomb
Commentary, September, 23 2001
Robert Fisk
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We are witnessing this weekend one of the most epic events since the Second World War, certainly since Vietnam. I am not talking about the ruins of the World Trade Centre in New York and the grotesque physical scenes which we watched on 11 Septemb...
Albert: Peace Movement Prospects
Commentary, September, 21 2001
Michael Albert
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September 11 went well beyond tragic. Worse is possible. Much better is also possible. And to achieve better is why activists need to not only mourn, but also to educate and organize. But many people I encounter doubt peace movement prospects. I f...
Hoodbhoy: BLACK TUESDAY: THE VIEW FROM ISLAMABAD
Commentary, September, 17 2001
Pervez Hoodbhoy
Hoodbhoy's ZSpace page
Samuel Huntington's evil desire for a clash between civilizations may well come true after Tuesday's terror attacks. The crack that divided Muslims everywhere from the rest of the world is no longer a crack. It is a gulf, that if not bridged, will...
Weissman: Respond to Violence: Teach Peace, Not War
Commentary, September, 15 2001
Robert Weissman
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Open the Washington Post to it's editorial pages, and war talk dominates.
Pilger: Inevitable ring to the unimaginable
Commentary, September, 14 2001
John Pilger
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If the attacks on America have their source in the Islamic world, who can really be surprised?
Pilger: Liberal elites have always disguised their innate conservatism
Commentary, September, 04 2001
John Pilger
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At the Hay-on-Wye literary festival in May, leading members of the media and cultural elite assembled in the fine gardens of a Regency house to await the arrival of the great man. They included broadsheet editors, deputy editors, literary editors,...
Pilger: Liberal elites have always disguised their innate conservatism
Commentary, August, 13 2001
John Pilger
Pilger's ZSpace page
At the Hay-on-Wye literary festival in May, leading members of the media and cultural elite assembled in the fine gardens of a Regency house to await the arrival of the great man. They included broadsheet editors, deputy editors, literary editors,...
Edwards: ALL YOU NEED IS LOVE...
Commentary, August, 10 2001
David Edwards
Edwards's ZSpace page
"All of existence", an ancient sage once wrote, "depends on the tip of a wish." By which he meant that the state of the world is determined by what ultimately motivates us: if enough people basically crave personal wealth and power, then the world...
Cromwell: DEMOLISHING GLOBAL MYTHS
Commentary, July, 06 2001
David Cromwell
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David Cromwell talks to John Pilger about his forthcoming television documentary, The New Rulers of the World, which examines the real meaning of the 'global economy', including the virtually unknown and bloody history of how globalisation took ro...
Herman: GODFATHERLY GLOBAL JUSTICE: MILOSEVIC, SHARON AND SUHARTO
Commentary, July, 05 2001
Edward Herman
Herman's ZSpace page
The politicization of the system of global justice has reached new heights over the past decade, with the U.S. Godfather asserting his firmer hegemonic position with an arrogance that is a throwback to Secretary of State Richard Olney's statement ...
Gonsalves: Dumb and Dumber?
Commentary, June, 30 2001
Sean Gonsalves
Gonsalves's ZSpace page
IÕve been duped! But thanks to New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman, thereÕs hope for me yet. ÒAmerica has lost the propaganda war with Saddam. Period,Ó he wrote back in February.
Edwards: THE MEDIA ELECTION 2001: LOW FARCE
Commentary, June, 18 2001
David Edwards
Edwards's ZSpace page
Traditionally, general elections in Britain are a time for much quasi-religious talk of the blessed gift of democracy - so recently won at such high cost, we are told - and the importance of paying due homage to that great principle at the busines...
Prashad: Shooting Stars
Commentary, June, 15 2001
Vijay Prashad
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On 21 April 1988, Mikhail Gorbachev turned to Colin Powell, then an aide of the US National Security Advisor, and said "What are you going to do now that you've lost your best enemy?" Gorbachev's unilateral disarmament of Soviet nuclear forces in ...
Pilger: Tweedledum and Tweedledee seek your votes
Commentary, June, 05 2001
John Pilger
Pilger's ZSpace page
The singular achievement of Tony Blair and his new right movement is the convergence of British parliamentary politics into two almost identical factions. While journalists try to offer the pretence of choice, the public is more aware than ever of...
Pilger: The big threat in the Middle East is Israel, not Iraq
Commentary, May, 27 2001
John Pilger
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As George Bush escalates the new cold war begun by his father, the attention of his planners is moving to the Middle East. Stories about the threat of Iraq's "weapons of mass destruction" are again appearing in the American press, this time concen...
Edwards: HOW TO KILL THE TRUTH - Part 2
Commentary, May, 24 2001
David Edwards
Edwards's ZSpace page
On December 22, 2000, I asked Alan Rusbridger, editor of the 'liberal' flagship newspaper, the Guardian, if he thought wealthy owners, parent companies, advertisers, flak machines, and allied political pressures compromised press reporting:
Thrupkaew: A Letter from Cuba
Commentary, May, 22 2001
Noy Thrupkaew
Thrupkaew's ZSpace page
I recently traveled to Cuba as part of a U.S. women's delegation, sponsored by the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, Sojourner, and Hermanas, an organization dedicated to building solidarity between U.S. and Caribbean women. Away...
Solomon: MEDIA AND VIETNAM: APPARITIONS OF INNOCENCE
Commentary, May, 08 2001
Norman Solomon
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Media commentators are split about Bob Kerrey and what happened 32 years ago in the Vietnamese village of Thanh Phong. Some journalists seem eager to exonerate the former senator. Others appear inclined to turn him into a lightning rod for nationa...
Pilger: Academia is silent on imperialism, as German universities were during the rise of the Nazis
Commentary, April, 29 2001
John Pilger
Pilger's ZSpace page
The other day, I attended a conference at the University of Sussex on the "new imperialism". What was extraordinary was that it took place at all. Julian Saurin, who teaches in the school of African and Asian studies at Sussex, said that, in ten y...


