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Hass: It's The Pits
Znet Article, October, 25 2002
Amira Hass
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Four frightened farmers emerged from the old Renault that screeched to a halt in the center of the path. "The settlers didn't let us get to our grove," they told their fellow villagers of Akrabeh, who were picking olives along the sides of the pat...
Cromwell: Moderate Extremism
Znet Article, October, 25 2002
David Cromwell
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Western state power prides itself on its 'moderation', along with its self-lauded commitments to freedom, tolerance, and "the inalienable rights of man", as U.S. defence secretary Donald Rumsfeld put it recently in a British newspaper ("We must ac...
Hallinan: Silence Is Betrayal
Znet Article, October, 25 2002
Conn Hallinan
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Silence Is Betrayal
Mccullagh: Judge: Disabilities Act doesn't cover Web
Znet Article, October, 25 2002
Declan Mccullagh
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A federal judge ruled Friday that Southwest Airlines does not have to revamp its Web site to make it more accessible to the blind. In the first case of its kind, U.S. District Judge Patricia Seitz said the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) app...
Sustar: Defending The ILWU
Znet Article, October, 25 2002
Lee Sustar
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SAN FRANCISCO--Shipping bosses are preparing to use an 80-day federal court injunction to attack the West Coast dockworkers’ union. And the Bush administration is ready to help. As Socialist Worker went to press, the Pacific Marit...
Bronski: Single Sex Schools
Znet Article, October, 25 2002
Michael Bronski
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LOST LAST MONTH amid the debate about Iraq was the start of the school year. And a debate that we should be having about a domestic issue — single-sex education — isn’t happening. Last May, toward the end of the sch...
Ratner: War Crime Not Self-Defense: the Unlawful War Against Iraq
Commentary, October, 24 2002
Michael Ratner
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As I am writing this, I do not know what action the United Nations Security Council will take with regard to the U.S. push for authority to attack Iraq. It appears unlikely that the Council will give the unambiguous authority for military action ...
Arnove: Fact and Myth
Znet Article, October, 24 2002
Anthony Arnove
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MYTHSaddam Hussein is "gaining the power to threaten our cities with annihilation."--New York Times columnist William Safire FACTIn t...
Albert: Ten Q&A On Antiwar Organizing
Znet Article, October, 24 2002
Michael Albert
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Ten Q&A On Antiwar Organizing
Barsamian: Clamor Of The Chorus For War
Znet Article, October, 24 2002
David Barsamian
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DAVID BARSAMIAN is the director of Alternative Radio, based in Boulder, Colo., and author of The Decline and Fall of Public Broadcasting. He talked to Socialist Worker about Washington’s propaganda campaign for a new war on Iraq--a...
Arnove: Iraq: Movement Pitfalls
Commentary, October, 23 2002
Anthony Arnove
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The movement to prevent the war on Iraq faces many pitfalls.
Wilpert: Opposition and Government Supporters Rally Their Forces
Znet Article, October, 23 2002
Gregory Wilpert
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Evidence for the passions in and polarization of Venezuelan society was clearly on display on October 10, at the anti-government demonstration, and on October 13, at the pro-government demonstration. Both protests managed to draw crowds that proba...
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...
Goff: US Labor And The War On Iraq
Znet Article, October, 22 2002
Gary Goff
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At the "Paths to a Just and Secure Future: Resisting Washington's Endless War" Conference organized by the American Friends Service Committee (Simmons College, Boston, Oct. 11-12, 2002) I was one of four respondents to the Mary Lord's plenary talk...
Mauger: Iraq Journal
Znet Article, October, 22 2002
Nathan Mauger
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Sunday, Sept. 22; Jordan-Iraq border There are lines and lines of oil tankers. They sit motionless in the heat, idling. Their drivers cannot be seen; the windows of the cabs act as mirrors and reflect the sun and the desert. I'm sitting in...
Fisk: How To Shut Up Your Critics With A Single Word
Znet Article, October, 22 2002
Robert Fisk
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Thank God, I often say, for the Israeli press. For where else will you find the sort of courageous condemnation of Israel's cruel and brutal treatment of the Palestinians? Where else can we read that Moshe Ya'alon, Ariel Sharon's new chief of staf...
Brecher: The War That Can Be Stopped
Znet Article, October, 22 2002
Jeremy Brecher
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As I write, the US Congress has just passed by an overwhelming margin a resolution authorising President Bush to launch a unilateral pre-emptive attack on Iraq . The world needs to understand that there is no force in the US at present able to con...
Kagarlitsky: Russia - the View from the West
Commentary, October, 21 2002
Boris Kagarlitsky
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There are times when the image of Russia in the Western press calls to mind the consciousness of a schizophrenic. On the one hand, we are told that everything is fine; on the other, that everything is catastrophic. Periods of euphoria alternate wi...
Hass: It Only Leads To Disaster
Znet Article, October, 21 2002
Amira Hass
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"This is my daughter," B. pointed proudly at the girl walking beside him in the Tul Karm neighborhood. "She is 10," he said in Arabic and Hebrew, adding, "but she is not a local product." B. spent 15 years in an Israeli prison for Fatah activities...
Wetzel: Talk At Anarchist Conference
Znet Article, October, 21 2002
Tom Wetzel
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I'm going to talk a bit about the theoretical presuppositions of anarchosyndicalism, and I'm going to make some comparisons with Marxism since both political perspectives claim to base themselves on the class struggle. Actually they aren't exact...
