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Nono: No Nukes on Okinawa!
Znet Article, March, 14 2003
Nono
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Letter to the United Nations Security Council: No Nuclear Weapons on Okinawa! Organizing Committee (NONO!) For six decades Okinawa has been a militarized island, first as Japan prepared to resist the U.S. in the final days of World War II, since ...
Mahajan: UN Resolution or not, this war is illegal
Znet Article, March, 14 2003
Rahul Mahajan
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The majority of the antiwar movement has made a mistake in emphasizing the unilateral nature of the war on Iraq and the need for United Nations approval, and we may well reap the consequences of that mistake. The argument has made major inroads wi...
Secours: Angry White Men and the Affirmative Action Debate
Commentary, March, 13 2003
Molly Secours
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If you listen very carefully--in between the deafening war drum beating at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue--you can almost make out the chant reverberating on capitol hill; "ding dong the witch is dead!" Yes, Trent Lott is gone and racism is dead!
Keaney: Doing the Numbers
Znet Article, March, 13 2003
Patrick Keaney
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There's a whole lot going on right now - too much to track, really. I'm going to try to give you the best overall look at what's happening, in a little different format than usual (with apologies to Harper's Index). Ready? Here goes... 18,000: Th...
Ufpj: Call to Action
Znet Article, March, 13 2003
United for peace & justice Ufpj
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Beginning Now: An Emergency Campaign of Lobbying and Nonviolent Direct Action to Stop the War and Fund Schools, Jobs, Health Care and Other Human Needs!
Solomon: The Conventional Media Wisdom Of Obedience
Znet Article, March, 13 2003
Norman Solomon
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As the possibility of a U.S. invasion turns into the reality of massive carnage, the war on Iraq cannot avoid confronting Americans with a tacit expectation that rarely gets media scrutiny. In a word: obedience. When a country -- particularly "a ...
Gunderson: The Education of Corporal Gunderson
Znet Article, March, 13 2003
Allen Gunderson
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I'm originally from Las Vegas. I now live in Long Beach. I was honorably discharged from the Marines as a corporal. I was deployed to the Persian Gulf out of Camp Pendleton the week after Thanksgiving in 1990. It took about 40 days to sail there. ...
Jones: Mr. Bush Goes For The Kill
Znet Article, March, 13 2003
Terry Jones
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Mr. Bush is right, Saddam Hussein is a nasty man and nobody I know has the least objection to Mr. Bush killing him. It's just the way he proposes doing it that worries me. Dropping 3000 bombs in 48 hours on Baghdad is going to kill a lot of other ...
Ratner: Against War with Iraq: An Anti-War Primer
Znet Article, March, 13 2003
Michael Ratner
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1) Can you tell ZNet, please, what your new book is about? What is it trying to communicate? This short, highly readable book summarizes in one place many of the arguments against the war with Iraq. It is trying to arm the reader with a basis for...
Hynes: War And Women
Znet Article, March, 13 2003
Patricia Hynes
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We are on the verge of a U.S.-led pre-emptive war against Iraq. With one exception, none of the U.S. administration protagonists has fought in a war. As one veteran recently wrote, “those who declare war should know [its price]...
Fisk: Liberate?
Znet Article, March, 13 2003
Robert Fisk
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On March 8, 1917, Lt. Gen. Stanley Maude issued a "Proclamation to the People of the Wilayat of Baghdad". Maude's Anglo-Indian Army of the Tigres had invaded and occupied Iraq - after storming up the country from Basra - to "free" its people from ...
Sustar: They're Out To Gut Medicare
Znet Article, March, 13 2003
Lee Sustar
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GEORGE W. Bush has an offer for the HMO bosses who ditched 2 million Medicare recipients in recent years. Come back--and we’ll guarantee your profits at the expense of seniors. The Bush administration announced its "revised" Medic...
Baker: High-Powered Diplomacy at the UN
Znet Article, March, 13 2003
Dean Baker
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High-Powered Diplomacy at the UN
Pilger: Disobey
Znet Article, March, 13 2003
John Pilger
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How have we got to this point, where two western governments take us into an illegal and immoral war against a stricken nation with whom we have no quarrel and who offer us no threat: an act of aggression opposed by almost everybody and whose char...
Jensen: Petróleo, petróleo, petróleo
Commentary, March, 12 2003
Robert Jensen
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Bush administration officials’ mantra these days is that a war on Iraq will have nothing to do with oil. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld has said such a suggestion is “nonsense.â€
Jensen: Petr—leo, petr—leo, petr—leo
Commentary, March, 12 2003
Robert Jensen
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Bush administration officialsÕ mantra these days is that a war on Iraq will have nothing to do with oil. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld has said such a suggestion is Ònonsense.Ó
Z: Patience
Znet Article, March, 12 2003
Mickey Z
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"The cup of forbearance has been exhausted."--President James K. Polk, 1846 "This business about, you know, more time, how much time do we need to see clearly that he's not disarming? As I said, this looks like a rerun of a bad movie and I'm not ...
Abunimah: Keeping Americans In The Dark
Znet Article, March, 12 2003
Ali Abunimah
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In his 6 March press conference, President George Bush once again issued a series of assertions that are unsupported and even contradicted by the available evidence. What is most disturbing is the abject failure of the US media to subject Bush's s...
Edwards: When Consumers Become Citizens
Znet Article, March, 12 2003
David Edwards
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The word that keeps tumbling out of the mouths of journalists - often, we suspect, to their horror - is the adjective 'unprecedented'. The 2 million strong peace march in London was 'unprecedented'. The round of applause at the UN Security Council...
Mondragon: The Bubble and the Fleet
Commentary, March, 11 2003
Hector Mondragon
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The economics team of Colombia's Uribe government proposed, and won, an increase of $16 billion USD in the state's external debt. That is an increase of 80% for the state, and an increase of 42% of the external debt of the country as a whole.
