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Znet Article Mackinnon: Warlords imperil Afghan peace

Znet Article, January, 22 2002 Mark Mackinnon
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Kandahar, Afghanistan -- The fragile peace in Afghanistan was in jeopardy last night, as warlords in the south and west of the country massed troops for battle and the threat of inter-ethnic violence loomed large. ...

Znet Article Publisher*: CONSPIRACY AND CRISIS

Znet Article, January, 22 2002 Aram Publisher*
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At the dawn of the year 2002, there are many indications to the effect that the Kurdish question is once again about to become a prominent issue in international mediatic discourse. Talk of an imminent US attack on Iraq has now made the Kurdish fa...

Znet Article Fisk: Congratulations, America.

Znet Article, January, 22 2002 Robert Fisk
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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...

Commentary 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...

Commentary Bronski: Gays of Our Lives

Commentary, January, 17 2002 Michael Bronski
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There are so many things wrong with this story.

Znet Article Lobe: Human Rights Watch Scores U.S. 'Hypocrisy' on 'War on Terrorism'

Znet Article, January, 17 2002 Jim Lobe
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The United States-led anti-terrorist campaign, which followed the devastating attacks on New York and Washington September 11, is threatening human rights in many countries, including the United States itself, according to a review of 2001 release...

Znet Article Glick: Labor And Human Progress

Znet Article, January, 16 2002 Ted Glick
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The AFL-CIO's uncritical support of the government's war in Afghanistan and sham "war on terrorism" has disappointed, if not disillusioned, many activists, including progressive labor activists. For some radicals and progressives, the organized la...

Znet Article Said: Emerging Alternatives in Palestine

Znet Article, January, 15 2002 Edward Said
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Since it began 15 months ago the Palestinian Intifada has had little to show for itself politically, despite the remarkable fortitude of a militarily occupied, unarmed, poorly led, and still dispossessed people that has defied the pitiless ravages...

Znet Article Bronski: Gays of Our Lives

Znet Article, January, 15 2002 Michael Bronski
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There are so many things wrong with this story. On October 11th a photograph was transmitted by the Associated Press that featured a bomb on he deck on the USS Enterprise flight deck stationed in the Arabian Sea. An unidentified sailor had scrib...

Znet Article International: Criticism of POW Treatment

Znet Article, January, 15 2002 Amnesty International
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News Release Issued by the International Secretariat of Amnesty International Amnesty International urged the United States to ensure respect for the human rights of all people who have been or may be transferred from Afghanistan to a US military ...

Znet Article Wise: Rationalizing Racism

Znet Article, January, 14 2002 Tim Wise
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Random security checks. That’s what they’re called anyway: those extra bag searches and body scans being done at airports across the U.S., presumably to deter a new round of terrorist attacks. On each flight, a handful of passenger...

Znet Article Levy: A crime against the innocent

Znet Article, January, 14 2002 Gideon Levy
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The punitive action executed by Israel at the weekend in the Gaza Strip, and in particular the mass demolition of homes in Rafah on Thursday morning, constitute a war crime. There is no other way to describe and define the collective punishment of...

Znet Article Levy: Crime Against the Innocent

Znet Article, January, 14 2002 Gideon Levy
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 Monday, January 14, 2002   The punitive action executed by Israel at the weekend in the Gaza Strip, and in particular the mass demolition of homes in Rafah on Thursday morning, constitute a war crime. There is no other way to describe a...

Znet Article Pilger: Blair's meeting with Arafat

Znet Article, January, 14 2002 John Pilger
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Tony Blair's heroic peacemaking is not as it seems. Take the Middle East. When Blair welcomed Yasser Arafat to Downing Street following 11 September, it was widely reported that Britain was backing justice for the Palestinians. Editorialists drew ...

Znet Article Pilger: Blair's Disguised Support for Sharon and the Zionist Project

Znet Article, January, 14 2002 John Pilger
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Tony Blair's heroic peacemaking is not as it seems. Take the Middle East. When Blair welcomed Yasser Arafat to Downing Street following 11 September, it was widely reported that Britain was backing justice for the Palestinians. Editorialists drew ...

Znet Article Ashrawi: A Question of Conscience

Znet Article, January, 14 2002 Dr. hanan Ashrawi
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Jerusalem - Although the oft lamented, near demise of the peace camp in Israel has become the subject of current debate-whether in disappointment, anger or in horror, some heroic stories still persist in defying the prevailing "wisdom." The ilks o...

Znet Article Guma: Enron, We Hardly Knew Ye

Znet Article, January, 13 2002 Greg Guma
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Until it imploded last October, Enron -- long known as End-Run by its critics -- was often described as just another aggressive corporation eager to expand its portfolio and open routes into new markets, albeit sometimes with "strong arm" tactics....

Znet Article Beaumont: American Cant

Znet Article, January, 13 2002 Peter Beaumont
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Imagine the scene. A group of alleged Irish terrorists is seized and handed over to the British Government by a third country. They are held without access to any lawyers. Some are threatened by interrogating intelligence officers. They are told t...

Commentary Dowd: From the Unthinkable to the Probable in Israel/Palestine

Commentary, January, 12 2002 Douglas Dowd
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From the Unthinkable to the Probable in Israel/Palestine

Znet Article Avnery: The Ships on the Way

Znet Article, January, 12 2002 Uri Avnery
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The chiefs of the three big parties in Israel - the Likud, the Labor Party and the army - were sitting on the stage. They were frustrated. They knew already that they had not succeeded in selling the great show that they had prepared with so much ...

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