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Bagdikian: God Vs. The Big Name Droppers
Znet Article, July, 24 2002
Ben Bagdikian
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There is a famous Washington tableaux in the National Capitol. No, not George Washington crossing the Delaware. It is a repeated public ritual resulting in slight variations of the great classic of our time: seven corporate executives in 1994 stan...
Oviedo: Destabilizing the Country: The Same Old Lies
Znet Article, July, 24 2002
Susana Oviedo
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Essential but disposable material. That is what peasants and popular classes mean to politicians. ‘El Oviedismo’ (the political philosophy of ex-general Lino Oviedo and his followers) has proven once again that deception is one of ...
Solomon: Nuclear Weapons And Media Fog
Znet Article, July, 24 2002
Norman Solomon
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American media outlets roused themselves from outright denial in early June, spurred by belated warnings from top U.S. officials that a nuclear war between India and Pakistan would kill millions of people. The tone of news coverage shifted toward ...
Choudry: Imprisoned by “Democracy�
Commentary, July, 23 2002
Aziz Choudry
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We could just start over but it's oh so hard to do
Choudry: Imprisoned by ÒDemocracyÓ?
Commentary, July, 23 2002
Aziz Choudry
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We could just start over but it's oh so hard to do
Street: The Biggest Scandal of Corporate America: What Happens on Its Best Behavior
Znet Article, July, 23 2002
Paul Street
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A recent column by popular Chicago business writer David Greising speaks volumes about the limits of recent "mainstream," well, corporate media commentary on the sins of corporate America. In an amusing July 12th piece in the Chicago Tribune, Grei...
Orenstein: US May Support a Terrorist-Connected Military in Name of War on Terror
Znet Article, July, 23 2002
Karen Orenstein
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The Bush Administration has asked Congress to lift restrictions on military financing and training for the Indonesian military. Far from building security, the move to strengthen Indonesia's military notorious for its human rights abuses - will on...
Bennis: Bush Mispronounces Middle East Peace
Znet Article, July, 23 2002
Phyllis Bennis
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President Bush's much-awaited Middle East policy pronouncement was very much a post-September 11 speech. It was shaped by the unbridled power of an unchallenged global sovereign, unconcerned with the differing opinions or legitim...
Avnery: The Army has a State
Znet Article, July, 23 2002
Uri Avnery
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One of the rich men in the Jewish shtetl died. Jewish tradition demanded that somebody eulogize the deceased, dwelling only on his virtues. But nobody in town was ready to say a good word about this hated person. At last a merciful Jew volunteered...
Bellinghausen: The Price of Resistance
Znet Article, July, 23 2002
Hermann Bellinghausen
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[translated by irlandesa] Africa, Chiapas. July 22. Through one of those happenstances of bureaucratic evolution, Africa appears on the good commercial state maps, but not Asia, the neighboring ranch, even though it has five or six times more r...
Weisbrot: Brazil's Challenge
Commentary, July, 22 2002
Mark Weisbrot
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Having won the World Cup Soccer Championship before a captivated audience of 1.5 billion people -- nearly a quarter of the world's population -- Brazilians now face an even tougher competition. In this contest, one team defends a goal that is only...
Lewis: Contagion in Latin America
Znet Article, July, 22 2002
Tom Lewis
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Part of the decision by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the Bush administration to let Argentina go to the wall last autumn involved their calculation that an Argentine meltdown could safely be contained. They went so far as to inoculate...
Patel: Faulty Shades Of Green
Znet Article, July, 22 2002
Raj Patel
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I - An Environmental Looking Glass The world's environmentalists are bracing themselves for the upcoming World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg later this year. Among the tree-huggers, guerrilla gardeners, and jaded policy wonks,...
Weisbrot: An Economist's View of the Stock Market
Znet Article, July, 22 2002
Mark Weisbrot
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Back in March 2000, when the stock market bubble was beginning to deflate, I talked to journalists from the nation's major newspapers about what it meant. Almost all of them held the view that there was nothing definitive that could be said about ...
Monbiot: The Fake Persuaders
Znet Article, July, 22 2002
George Monbiot
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Persuasion works best when it's invisible. The most effective marketing worms its way into...
Levy: Fahdi's Summer Camp
Znet Article, July, 22 2002
Gideon Levy
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What to do with the kids during summer vacation? Some Palestinians don't have that problem. They send the kids to infiltrate into Israel and risk themselves day in and day out trying to make a few shekels by peddling wares or begging for handouts....
Bello: Revolution and Counterrevolution in Venezuela
Znet Article, July, 22 2002
Walden Bello
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The political reality of Venezuela hits me as soon as I arrive, like a blast of Caribbean air at midday. A friendly question triggers a torrent of anti-Chavez denunciations from the young professional serving as my driver from the airport that onl...
Sponneck: Call Bush's Bluff
Znet Article, July, 22 2002
Hans von Sponneck
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During the 17 months of the Bush administration just about everything has gone wrong for the US government in preparing the public for military strikes against Iraq. Convincing friendly governments and allies has not fared much better. Acts of ter...
Glick: Democrats for IRV?
Commentary, July, 21 2002
Ted Glick
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One and a half years after the five not-so-Supremes selected George Jr. to be President, there are still echoes of the bitterness expressed by some Democrats over Ralph NaderÕs Green Party Presidential campaign.
Prashad: Suburban Whites and Pogroms in India
Commentary, July, 20 2002
Vijay Prashad
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Every few years I teach a class called "Hippies." The main theme of the course is to follow the white, suburban middle-class in its homage to Asia - from the 1967 Summer of Love debut of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi and his Transcendental Mediation to th...
