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Russell: Bush Billions To Turkey: Screw The Govs, And The Poor Too.
Commentary, March, 06 2003
Marta Russell
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Governors, who've been told by President Bush to go home and stare at their own budget spreadsheets, ought to take a look at the president's spending plans and start screaming bloody murder! Because it seems that many states - foreign states - are...
Iqtidar: Health Care Privatization In Pakistan
Znet Article, February, 07 2003
Humeira Iqtidar
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Gen. Musharraf’s regime virtually became an ordinance passing factory last year, trying to force through as many laws as possible before the current period of quasi-democracy started in October 2002. Pressure by the International Financial...
Raptis: Hate: Religious and Secular
Commentary, February, 06 2003
Nikos Raptis
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Hate: Religious and Secular
Hoodbhoy: Is It A War On Islam?
Commentary, February, 03 2003
Pervez Hoodbhoy
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Street opinion in Pakistan, and probably most Muslim countries, holds that Islam is the sole target of America's new wars. Even moderate Muslims are
Podur: Elections in Pakistan
Zmag Article, February, 01 2003
Justin Podur
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Z ia Mian is a scholar and activist on South Asian and disarmament issues at the Center for Science and Global Security at Princeton University in New Jersey and teaches there in the Woodrow Wilson...
Viquar: Paying The Price Of Co-operation
Commentary, January, 20 2003
Sarwat Viquar
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The alliance of military and corporate interests is no secret in Pakistan. State power has always worked in tandem with corporate power. PakistanÕs failed attempt at gaining a trade foothold in Central Asia through its policy of Ôstrategic depthÕ ...
Viquar: Our Home on Native Land
Commentary, December, 17 2002
Sarwat Viquar
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Canada is a country which prides itself on its efforts in Ôpeace-buildingÕ, always taking care to distinguish its Ôpeace-buildingÕ efforts from similar efforts as claimed by its southern neighbour. Abroad, this peace-building translates into Ôsupp...
Mian: October Elections in Pakistan
Znet Article, December, 17 2002
Zia Mian
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In October 2002, Pakistan had its first national and provincial elections under the military order established by General Pervez Musharraf after his October 1999 coup. With sweeping changes to the constitution, new election laws, and after de...
Iqtidar: Anti-Globalization Protests In Pakistan
Znet Article, December, 15 2002
Humeira Iqtidar
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Echoes of the world wide discontent with globalization are currently being heard in Pakistan. A widespread movement, sparked by the so-called reforms that the government of Pakistan has introduced in the health and education sectors ostensibly to ...
Hoodbhoy: The India Pakistan Conflict
Znet Article, November, 24 2002
Pervez Hoodbhoy
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These are dismal times for peace. Since the tests of May 1998 and their overt nuclearization, Pakistan-India relations have visibly deteriorated. Crisis has followed crisis and nuclear weapons have played an inc...
Mian: Pakistan and Iraq
Znet Article, November, 14 2002
Zia Mian
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[Talk given at American Friends Service Committee Conference, 'Paths to a Just and Secure Future: Resisting Washington's Endless War' October 12, 2002] It’s always really cheering to come and be with AFSC. You wake up in the morning and y...
Bagdikian: Whence The National Epidemic Of Greed, Fraud, And Rush To War?
Commentary, November, 09 2002
Ben Bagdikian
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From Adam Smith to Milton Friedman and beyond, it has been capitalist theology that the driving force of healthy and fairly distributed creation of national wealth is greed. There are nicer words for it, but that's the real meaning of our euphe...
Prashad: Accounts of the Fifth Afghan War
Commentary, November, 01 2002
Vijay Prashad
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On the 3rd of October, 2001, I wrote a ZNET commentary called "Forward into the Past: US War Aims." This was four days before the bombardment began. Already the war aims of the administration seemed to escalate as each day went by. First we heard ...
Monbiot: Unreality TV
Commentary, October, 28 2002
George Monbiot
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For the past nine months, priests and tribal leaders in West Papua, the easternmost province of Indonesia, have been trying to warn the world that an Islamic fundamentalist movement is using their land as a training ground. Laskar Jihad is command...
Vltchek: New Violence In Gujarat – Don’t Blame It Just On Muslims
Commentary, October, 22 2002
Andre Vltchek
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The night was dark, but the enormous Akshardham Temple and the Cultural Complex in Gandhinagar, belonging to the powerful Swaminarayam sect of Hinduism, was brightly illuminated. Sounds of sporadic explosions and gunfire were coming from the direc...
Ahmad: Gathering storm in Pakistan
Znet Article, October, 17 2002
Zulfiqar Ahmad
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After three years of military rule, Pakistani voters have spoken. The message from the Oct. 10 elections is ominous, with immediate implications for U.S. policymakers: For the first time in Pakistan's history, religious parties have won significan...
Brecher: Collective Security Is Working
Commentary, October, 01 2002
Jeremy Brecher
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As an American, I would like to thank all those people and countries around the world who are helping to pull my country back from the brink of war. And I want to assure you that your efforts are having a big impact in the United States.
Choudry: Counting For Nothing: Reflections On The First Anniversary Of 9/11
Commentary, September, 13 2002
Aziz Choudry
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"The media seems to be implying as if this was the first ever macabre happening in this world and no other atrocity has been seen before. From the projection of pain and grief by media one can assume that intensity of feeling pain is measured on o...
Kagarlitsky: The Great Friendship
Commentary, August, 27 2002
Boris Kagarlitsky
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After a period of cooling in their relations, Russia and the US are experiencing an acute bout of mutual sympathy. This seems a little strange against the background of the nationalist declarations uttered by President Putin during the first month...
Prashad: The Foresight of NPR
Commentary, August, 16 2002
Vijay Prashad
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Reading is back, even as Oprah cancels her book club. The main networks now offer their own book clubs as part of their morning shows.
