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Reeves: Rebellion Grows Among Israeli Reserve Officers
Znet Article, February, 12 2002
Phil Reeves
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Israel's armed forces are struggling to contain the most serious internal challenge of the 16-month Palestinian intifada after more than 100 combat reservist soldiers signed a petition saying they would not serve in the occupied territories. At le...
Prashad: Camp X Ray And The Problem Of Torture
Znet Article, February, 12 2002
Vijay Prashad
Prashad's ZSpace page
On 4 February 2002, the New York Times ran an article on the humanity with which the "detainees" are being treated at Camp X-Ray at the US base at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. One detainee had a long-standing injury to his eyes from a cricket ball, and ...
Announcement: LOOSE ACCUSATIONS OF
Znet Article, February, 12 2002
Green party Announcement
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WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Members of the Green Party have joined other Americans protesting the manipulation of fears about terrorism in order to violate basic liberties and constitutional rights of due process and fair treatment under the law. "From th...
Pagnozzi: Israeli Reservists Show Uncommon Bravery
Znet Article, February, 12 2002
Amy Pagnozzi
Pagnozzi's ZSpace page
It's as if the first crocus of spring has somehow risen up in the hard, unyielding desert of the occupied territories - arid but for the spilt blood of generations of "enemies" and "martyrs." Hope for peace is renewed in Israel - all because of t...
Svirsky: Letter from Israel
Znet Article, February, 10 2002
Gila Svirsky
Svirsky's ZSpace page
We knew there would be a big turnout for the peace demonstration last night just from the deluge of pro-peace ads in Ha'aretz the day before - page after page of statements and petitions, all critical of the occupation. Some excerpts: "There is a...
Burbach: Another World Is Possible
Znet Article, February, 09 2002
Roger Burbach
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PARIS -- For a magic moment, the citizens' move...
Avnery: The Great Game
Znet Article, February, 09 2002
Uri Avnery
Avnery's ZSpace page
Some weeks ago, something curious happened: Israel discovered that Iran is the Great Satan. It happened quite suddenly. There was no prior sensational news, no new discovery. As if by the order of a drill-sergeant, the whole Israeli phalanx change...
Burbach: The World Social Forum In Porto Alegre:
Znet Article, February, 05 2002
Roger Burbach
Burbach's ZSpace page
The second World Social Forum in Porto Alegre, Brazil, marked a dramatic counterpoint for a world that has been caught in a world of war and death since September 11. For six days starting on January 31, more than 51,000 people from around the glo...
Grossman: New US Military Bases: Side Effects Or Causes Of War?
Znet Article, February, 05 2002
Zoltan Grossman
Grossman's ZSpace page
Since the end of the Cold War a decade ago, the U.S. has gone to war in Iraq, Somalia, Yugoslavia, and Afghanistan. The interventions have been promoted as "humanitarian" deployments to stop aggression, to topple dictatorsh...
Al-ahmed: The Smile Of Policeman Agadi
Znet Article, February, 05 2002
Abdel rahman Al-ahmed
Al-ahmed's ZSpace page
Finally, they let me go to the toilet. My body shook with cold. My hands were swollen and my body throbbed with pain. I fantasized about sleep, about free hands so I could scratch my nose, about looking for my mother. In the Shin Bet facility wher...
Beaumont: Hatred sown in a carer's heart
Znet Article, February, 03 2002
Peter Beaumont
Beaumont's ZSpace page
Hatred sown in a carer's heart
Herman: Body Counts In Imperial Service
Zmag Article, February, 01 2002
Edward Herman
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Body Counts In Imperial Service
Jabr: Alone in Their Cage
Zmag Article, February, 01 2002
Samah Jabr
Jabr's ZSpace page
Alone in Their Cage
Kimmerling: I ACCUSE
Znet Article, February, 01 2002
Baruch Kimmerling
Kimmerling's ZSpace page
I accuse Ariel Sharon of creating a process in which he will not only intensify the reciprocal bloodshed, but is liable to instigate a regional war and ...
Glass: I Know What Camp X-Ray Feels Like
Znet Article, January, 29 2002
Charles Glass
Glass's ZSpace page
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...
Shiva: Terrorism As Cannibalism
Commentary, January, 25 2002
Vandana2 Shiva
Shiva's ZSpace page
Year 2001 will be etched in our memory as a year in which the vicious cycle of violence was unleashed worldwide. Of the Taliban bombing the two thousand year old images of peace, the Buddhas of Bamiyan.
Levy: Tell the truth, Shimon
Znet Article, January, 25 2002
Gideon Levy
Levy's ZSpace page
In the 24 years of our acquaintance, four of which I spent working as your aide, this is the third time I have written you an open letter. In 1989, when you were finance minister in the Shamir government and the first intifada was raging, I used t...
Fisk: Turkey Targets Chomsky
Znet Article, January, 24 2002
Robert Fisk
Fisk's ZSpace page
Noam Chomsky, one of America's greatest philosophers and linguists, has become the target of Turkey's chief of "terrorism prosecution". Scarcely two months after the European Union praised Turkey for passing new laws protecting freedom of expres...
Fisk: Congratulations, America.
Znet Article, January, 22 2002
Robert Fisk
Fisk's ZSpace page
Taken to a remote corner of the world where they may be executed, where the laws of human rights are suspended. Sounds to me like the Middle East. Shackled, hooded, threatened with death by "courts" that would give no leeway to defence or innocenc...
Podur: What Are The Rules?
Commentary, January, 20 2002
Justin Podur
Podur's ZSpace page
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...
