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Znet Article 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...

Znet Article 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 ...

Znet Article 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 ...

Commentary 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

Commentary 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

Znet Article 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...

Znet Article 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...

Znet Article 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...

Znet Article 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...

Znet Article 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...

Commentary 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...

Znet Article 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...

Znet Article 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,...

Znet Article 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 ...

Znet Article 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...

Znet Article 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....

Znet Article 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...

Znet Article 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...

Commentary 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.

Commentary 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...

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