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Beal: More than AIPAC Defeated Black Politico in Alabama
Commentary, August, 13 2002
Frances m. Beal
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The Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) and the African American community are still reeling from the defeat of Earl Hilliard in Alabama's 7th congressional district. The five-term incumbent went down in flames at the hands of another Black candidat...
Said: Punishment By Detail
Znet Article, August, 13 2002
Edward Said
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Terrorism, and its obsessive pursuit, have become an entirely circular, self-fulfilling murder and slow death of enemies who have no choice or say in the matter. Aside from the obvious physical discomforts, being ill for a long period of time fi...
Loewenstein: Blood for Blood
Znet Article, August, 13 2002
Jennifer Loewenstein
Loewenstein's ZSpace page
There is a bouquet of plastic purple flowers in the center of a cheap wooden table. It's easier to stare at it than into the faces of either of the men speaking. The air is suffocatingly hot -- no breeze passes through the half-open window. I'm th...
Fernandez: The Crisis in Uruguay
Znet Article, August, 13 2002
Agustin Fernandez
Fernandez's ZSpace page
[NOTE: Agustin Fernandez is a translator for ZNet, from Uruguay. He was asked to provide some insight into the financial collapse there. This is the note he sent to the group of ZNet translators-- which was in turn translated into Engl...
Monbiot: Our Racist Demonology
Znet Article, August, 13 2002
George Monbiot
Monbiot's ZSpace page
The most evil man on earth, besides Saddam Hussein and Osama Bin Laden, is Robert Mugabe, the president of Zimbabwe. That, at least, is the view of most of the western world's press. Yesterday Mugabe insisted that 2,900 white farmers will have t...
Rostron: The Business Of Apartheid
Znet Article, August, 12 2002
Bryan Rostron
Rostron's ZSpace page
Cape Town. ''Some call me the devil," says Ed Fagan, delightedly. We are in a smart Cape Town waterfront hotel and Fagan, a consummate showman, is thoroughly enjoying himself as he details the multibillion-dollar class-action lawsuit he has launch...
Starhawk: Targeting the Innocent
Znet Article, August, 11 2002
Starhawk
Starhawk's ZSpace page
Lisa and I are walking in the Zone of Total Destruction in Jenin...
Niazi: Democracy and the Press
Znet Article, August, 11 2002
Anjum Niazi
Niazi's ZSpace page
The Press in Pakistan has its moments of glory when suddenly it becomes the darling of the person dismissing an elected government. His advisors go into overdrive to cull together any bit of damning evidence they can lift from newspapers and magaz...
Niaz: FBI and INS play catch up
Znet Article, August, 11 2002
Anjum Niaz
Niaz's ZSpace page
Caramel colored clouds that hang atop Brooklyn Prison and Detention Center lend a sober sight to a treeless, flowerless and a friendless neighborhood. Dog dirt strewn across the pavement emits a fowl smell while the desolate structures all around ...
Niaz: A Cry for Help
Znet Article, August, 11 2002
Anjum Niaz
Niaz's ZSpace page
With several hundred more Pakistanis waiting to be deported by the United States on visa violations, many human rights organizations and volunteers here are actively involved in providing legal, moral and financial support to the victims and their...
Niaz: Phantoms of Liberty and its Victims
Znet Article, August, 11 2002
Anjum Niaz
Niaz's ZSpace page
"To those who pit Americans against immigrants and citizens against noncitizens, to those who scare peace-loving people with phantoms of lost liberty, my message is this: Your tactics only aid terrorists, for they erode our national unity and dimi...
Plitnick: Whose Goals does Violence Serve?
Znet Article, August, 11 2002
Mitchell Plitnick
Plitnick's ZSpace page
Just today, I received the following message from Gila Svirsky, the long-time peace activist of the Coalition of Women for Peace and Women in Black in Israel: “Dafna Sphruch z"l died today of her injuries from the pigua [terrorist attack â...
Street: Still Separate and Unequal
Commentary, August, 10 2002
Paul Street
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The Dream Gone Mainstream
Bacon: Bush Threatens Dockers' Right To Strike
Znet Article, August, 10 2002
David Bacon
Bacon's ZSpace page
SAN FRANCISCO, CA (8/7/02) -- A labor war is looming on the west coast docks, which could become the defining union conflict of the Bush administration. But the traditional issues of union bargaining -- wages, benefits and working conditions -- ha...
Fisk: Return to Afghanistan
Znet Article, August, 10 2002
Robert Fisk
Fisk's ZSpace page
Gul Afgha knows how to handle the United Nations. He smiles, he praises, he loves the UN, and he is immensely grateful for the advice of Under Secretary General and Special Representative of the Secretary General for Children and Armed Conflict, t...
Balboa: Twinning of Cities in Chiapas and Catalonia
Znet Article, August, 10 2002
Juan Balboa
Balboa's ZSpace page
[translated by irlandesa] Roberto Barrios, Chiapas From the Barcelona Mediterranean to the Lacandona Selva, zapatistas and Catalans formalized, in this Aguascalientes, the twinning of the two municipalities El Trabajo and La Garriga, in a fiesta...
Bellinghausen: Zapatista Assassinated
Znet Article, August, 10 2002
Hermann Bellinghausen
Bellinghausen's ZSpace page
[translated by irlandesa] The Network of Community Human Rights Defenders confirmed today that on the night of the 7th José López Santiz, a zapatista support base from the community of 6 de Agosto, "was assassinated by eight gunshots" in front ...
Landau: Report On The Juarez Maquilas: The Environment
Commentary, August, 09 2002
Saul Landau
Landau's ZSpace page
After spending a period of weeks investigating labor and environmental conditions on the US-Mexico border, I have concluded that the production system used to inundate us with commodities Ð ÒglobalizationÓ Ð lacks a human brain, but has an excelle...
Steele: For Hire: The Boy Human Shields In Gaza's Most Desperate Town
Znet Article, August, 09 2002
Jonathan Steele
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For Hire: The Boy Human Shields In Gaza's Most Desperate Town
Hutchinson: Why Black Murder Rates Remain So High
Znet Article, August, 09 2002
Earl ofari Hutchinson
Hutchinson's ZSpace page
The same week that public and media attention was riveted on the shocking murder-abduction of Samantha Runnion, the mother of seven-year old Jaunnicia Milton was gunned down in Oakland. Her shooting was only the latest in a string of murders in th...
