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Znet Article Street: "No Justice No Peace": A Police Killing and a Riot in Benton Harbor

Znet Article, June, 30 2003 Paul Street
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Bush: Extend Hope to “Every Corner of America” Like many politicians and policymakers past and present, George W. Bush likes to make big claims, promises, and commitments. “Since I was [last] here,” George W. Bush...

Commentary Choudry: WTO Charm Offensive

Commentary, June, 30 2003 Aziz Choudry
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The "Fix It or Nix It", and "Shrink or Sink" sign-on statements about the World Trade Organisation (WTO) have been circulating around the world for over three years now. In that time, there have been no signs that the WTO is going to "shrink" or c...

Znet Article Z: GM Food For Thought

Znet Article, June, 30 2003 Mickey Z
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Unless you've gone exclusively organic, the odds are you've eaten potatoes that are registered pesticides. Monsanto's New Leaf Superior potato is engineered to produce the insecticide Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt). Bt kills the Colorado potato beetl...

Znet Article Solomon: Visual Images and How We See the World

Znet Article, June, 30 2003 Norman Solomon
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Media critics often say that visual images trump words. The claim makes some sense: Pictures have major impacts on how we see the world. And we're apt to pay less attention to photo captions or the voice-overs that accompany news footage on TV scr...

Znet Article Tomchick: This Is What A Guerilla War Looks Like

Znet Article, June, 30 2003 Maria Tomchick
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While it's now apparent that The Pentagon made no substantial plans for how to run post-war Iraq, somebody else in Iraq has certainly made plans for how to sabotage U.S. rule. Before the war began, military strategists insisted that they had a pl...

Znet Article Podur: Uribe's Onslaught

Znet Article, June, 30 2003 Justin Podur
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At the end of May, the 'Rio Group' of Latin American countries discussed how to handle Colombia's civil war.  Colombia's president, Alvaro Uribe Velez, was seeking a declaration from the group that asked Kofi Annan to give the FARC-- the main...

Commentary Monbiot: I Was Wrong About Trade

Commentary, June, 29 2003 George Monbiot
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A few years ago I would have raised at least two cheers. The US government, to judge by the aggressive noises now being made by its trade negotiators, seems determined to wreck one of the most intrusive and destructive of the instruments of global...

Znet Article Monbiot: I Was Wrong About Trade

Znet Article, June, 29 2003 George Monbiot
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A few years ago I would have raised at least two cheers. The US government, to judge by the aggressive noises now being made by its trade negotiators, seems determined to wreck one of the most intrusive and destructive of the instruments of global...

Commentary Glick: The Power of Culture

Commentary, June, 28 2003 Ted Glick
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ÒNo revolutionary movement is complete without its poetical expression. If such a movement has caught hold of the imagination of the masses, they will seek a vent in song for the aspirations, the fears and hopes, the loves and hatreds engendered b...

Znet Article Kucinich: Kucinich on NPR's 'Morning Edition'

Znet Article, June, 28 2003 Dennis Kucinich
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BOB EDWARDS, host: Why are you running for president? Rep. KUCINICH: I'm running for president to bring a new day to America, an administration which will focus on the social, the economic, the human needs of the people and use the resources of ...

Znet Article Abunimah: Israel

Znet Article, June, 28 2003 Ali Abunimah
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A law forbidding Israeli citizenship for Palestinians from the Occupied Territories who marry Israelis passed its first reading in the Knesset on June 18. This is another milestone on Israel's road to open, institutionalized apartheid. According...

Znet Article Ramadani: Iraqi Resistance to Occupation

Znet Article, June, 28 2003 Sami Ramadani
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The long-awaited uprising in Iraq has begun - not to welcome the invaders as some imagined, but to demand their withdrawal. The spread of resistance to the south and the killing of British soldiers around Amara on Tuesday might have come as a surp...

Commentary Herman: Uncle Chutzpah, On A Rampage, Has

Commentary, June, 27 2003 Edward Herman
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After Munich and the German takeover of Czechoslovakia in 1938 and 1939, Hitler seemed a prospective winner, and this helped him make political gains at the expense of frightened neighboring countries whose leaders didn't want to offend him. He ha...

Znet Article Fisk: How The British Troops Became A Soft Target

Znet Article, June, 27 2003 Robert Fisk
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IT COULD not have been more predictable or better planned. The British were the soft underbelly of the American occupation, the nice guys who didn't wear helmets and patrolled on PC Plod bicycles through the souks of Basra. No one would hurt the...

Znet Article Richie: Re-redistricting Is An Ugly Power Grab

Znet Article, June, 27 2003 Rob Richie
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Re-redistricting Is An Ugly Power Grab

Commentary Cromwell: Unravelling Britain's Web Of Deceit

Commentary, June, 26 2003 David Cromwell
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The title of activist-historian Mark Curtis's recent book tells it all: "Web of Deceit. Britain's Real Role in the World". It is worth quoting immediately from the foreword by journalist John Pilger: "Mark Curtis's

Znet Article Said: The Meaning of Rachel Corrie

Znet Article, June, 26 2003 Edward Said
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In early May, I was in Seattle lecturing for a few days. While there, I had dinner one night with Rachel Corrie's parents and sis...

Znet Article Berndt: Notebook of a Prison Abolitionist

Znet Article, June, 26 2003 Brooks Berndt
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In his autobiography, Frederick Douglass recalls how as a slave he would occasionally hear of the "abolitionists." He did not know the full meaning of the word at first, but he heard it used in ways that he found appealing. He heard about it when ...

Znet Article Aglionby: British Tanks in use in Aceh

Znet Article, June, 26 2003 John Aglionby
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The government yesterday faced severe embarrassment over arms dealing as Indonesia broke repeated assurances and deployed 36 British-made Scorpion light tanks as part of its intensifying campaign to crush separatists in the Aceh province. The move...

Znet Article Safi: The Empire's Witch Hunt

Znet Article, June, 26 2003 Baheer Safi
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Sitting cross-legged in a modestly furnished guest-room adorned by brilliant Afghan colours in the Eastern city of Jalalabad, Afghanistan, the empire is busy planning its witch hunt. The host is a former resistance commander, locally known as â...

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