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Cuevas: How Barcelona Defeated Violence
Znet Article, March, 25 2002
Jesús ramírez Cuevas
Cuevas's ZSpace page
[translated by irlandesa] Today Barcelona is the new reference point for the global movement. Following the mobilization of more than 500,000 persons, it will be difficult to discredit protests against economic policies in the world as something w...
Solomon: Six Months Later, The Basic Tool Is Language
Commentary, March, 24 2002
Norman Solomon
Solomon's ZSpace page
Cameras have recorded countless defining moments. And many months after Sept. 11, some nightmarish televised glimpses of that day's horrors still resonate deeply. Visual images are powerful. Yet there's no substitute for words that sum up what mig...
Ahmad: Putting Kashmir on the Agenda
Znet Article, March, 24 2002
Junaid Ahmad
Ahmad's ZSpace page
On February 11th, the BBC reported that an Indian soldier opened fire in the Poonch district of Indian-Administered Kashmir, killing three of his own colleagues. Such incidents have not been uncommon in Kashmir, where the daily mental stress...
Pilger: Should We Go To War Against These Children?
Znet Article, March, 23 2002
John Pilger
Pilger's ZSpace page
A compliant press is preparing the ground for an all-out attack on Iraq. It never mentions the victims: the young, the old and the vulnerable : John Pilger : New Statesman, 21 Mar 2002 The promised attack on Iraq will test free journalism ...
Bishara: Talking To Tanks
Znet Article, March, 22 2002
Azmi Bishara
Bishara's ZSpace page
The Israeli army continues to pursue the objectives delineated by the Israeli prime minister and his chief-of- staff. These include not only the restoration of Sharon's damaged prestige but also breaking the back of the nationalist movement embodi...
Bellinghausen: First Stage of Expulsions will begin in Eight Communities
Znet Article, March, 20 2002
Hermann Bellinghausen
Bellinghausen's ZSpace page
[translated by irlandesa] San Cristóbal de Las Casas, Chiapas. March 17. The expulsion of communities that are located in the vicinity of Montes Azules, in what is called the protected part of the SelvaLacandona, could be beginning quite soon. Th...
Jensen: Seeking Pain And Reducing Pleasure
Znet Article, March, 20 2002
Robert Jensen
Jensen's ZSpace page
In most situations, people tend to seek pleasure and avoid pain, which generally makes sense. I want to suggest that at this moment in history, U.S. citizens need to invert that. If we want to become human beings in the fullest sense of the term, ...
Fisk: Arab states united in rejecting attack on Saddam
Znet Article, March, 19 2002
Robert Fisk
Fisk's ZSpace page
Rarely can an American vice-president have met such a rebuff from America's Arab allies. Not a single Arab king, prince or president has been prepared to endorse a US attack on Iraq. Even in Kuwait – where Dick Cheney arrives today before ...
Gerson: Bush's War: Where is it going & What Should We Do About It?
Znet Article, March, 18 2002
Joseph Gerson
Gerson's ZSpace page
I want to thank the conference's organizers for all that you have done and all of you who will be working hard throughout the day and in the coming weeks and months. You could not be doing more important work than thinking about and charting the b...
Averny: Apology and Debate
Znet Article, March, 18 2002
Uri Averny
Averny's ZSpace page
URI AVNERY: An Apology Sorry to say, I have to apologize. And to myself, of all people. This is how it was. A short time after the destruction of the Twin Towers, on September 11, 2001, I wrote: A basic change in the American attitude towards the ...
Munson: Killing For The Flag
Znet Article, March, 17 2002
Tom wheeler, jason mcquinn, chuck Munson
Munson's ZSpace page
The U.S. is the only nation-state to have been condemned by the World Court for international terrorism. The U.S. vetoed a UN Security Council resolution calling on governments to observe international law. After deliberately targeting the civilia...
Fisk: Arab States United In Rejecting Attack On Iraq
Znet Article, March, 17 2002
Robert Fisk
Fisk's ZSpace page
Rarely can an American vice-president have met such a rebuff from America's Arab allies. Not a single Arab king, prince or president has been prepared to endorse a US attack on Iraq. Even in Kuwait – where Dick Cheney arrives today before ...
Bellinghausen: Imminent Expulsion of Autonomous Communities
Znet Article, March, 16 2002
Hermann Bellinghausen
Bellinghausen's ZSpace page
translated by irlandesa The expulsion-relocation operation of communities located in the coveted extremes of the Montes Azules Biosphere reserve is almost underway. Taking advantage of the dry period, federal public forces, and even the Army, coul...
Said: What Price Oslo?
Znet Article, March, 16 2002
Edward Said
Said's ZSpace page
The television images on Al-Jazeera have been burningly clear. There is a kind of Palestinian heroism in evidence there that makes this the story of our time. An entire army, navy, and air force supplied munificently and unconditionally by the Uni...
Herman: Axis Of Evil-- In Washington D.C.
Znet Article, March, 16 2002
Edward Herman
Herman's ZSpace page
Coup d'etat president George W. Bush has designated three poor and unconnected states as an "axis of evil," reflecting this great moralist's sensitivity to good and evil. He has been subjected to a certain amount of criticism for this strong langu...
Hass: The Occupied Is Protecting The Occupier
Znet Article, March, 15 2002
Amira Hass
Hass's ZSpace page
In recent days, the IDF and armed groups of Palestinians have displayed a common interest in presenting a distorted picture of reality. Both sides are greatly exaggerating when they talk about "Palestinian military resistance" to the IDF incursion...
Fisk: If Bush is having 'visions', America must need Arab support for another war
Znet Article, March, 14 2002
Robert Fisk
Fisk's ZSpace page
It is the "vision" thing again. When President George Bush wanted Arab support for the US bombing of Afghanistan in September, he suddenly announced he had a "vision" of a Palestinian state. Then it disappeared off his radar screen. Yet now it's b...
Ali: America's Next War May Be Deadlier
Znet Article, March, 14 2002
Mahir Ali
Ali's ZSpace page
Six months from now, by the time the first anniversary of the demise of the World Trade Centre towers rolls around, the United States is likely to be embroiled in another war. That war will have nothing whatsoever to do with the outrage perpetrate...
Coughlin: Statement On Pacifica
Znet Article, March, 13 2002
Dan Coughlin
Coughlin's ZSpace page
The priorities of the Pacifica national office - in addition to the day-to-day management of network operations -- have been to: 1) Get a clear handle on the network's financial situation and to stabilize economically. 2) Begin the healing and re...
Scheer: THE FALLOUT OF DESPERATION
Znet Article, March, 13 2002
Robert Scheer
Scheer's ZSpace page
The news that the Pentagon had secret contingency plans to fight terrorism with nuclear weapons has the marks not of considered military doctrine but rather of an infantile tantrum born of the Bush administraton's frustration in making good on its...


