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Znet Article Fair: Euphemisms for Israeli Settlements Confuse Coverage

Znet Article, July, 07 2002 Fair
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The Israeli newspaper Ha'aretz reported last month (5/31/02) that at the behest of a Likud party minister, the Israel Broadcasting Authority has banned its editorial departments from using the terms "settlers" or "settlements" on radio and TV. Acc...

Commentary Jensen: What are we celebrating on the Fourth of July?

Commentary, July, 06 2002 Robert Jensen
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In 1776 American colonists fought for freedom against a mighty empire, an act of self-determination we still celebrate on the Fourth of July. But we also use the Fourth to maintain a mythology about our role in the world that, while mostly true in...

Znet Article Steel: When Bart Simpson Goes To War, Take Cover

Znet Article, July, 06 2002 Mark Steel
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The American military must take tips from Bart Simpson. As survivors gaze in bewilderment at the four bombarded Afghan villages and 40 people at a wedding killed by American missiles fired from American planes, the Pentagon thinks for a moment and...

Znet Article Levy: Buried With Chocolate In His Hand

Znet Article, July, 06 2002 Gideon Levy
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The video shows it all: Here are the three kids on their bikes, three black dots on the slope of the road, two on the right, close together, the third on the left, and a white car passes between them. A woman calls out something unclear, maybe a w...

Znet Article Avnery: A Maddened Cow

Znet Article, July, 06 2002 Uri Avnery
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Israel is the only state in the world that has a population of 200%. And that's a fact. Public opinion polls show that it has two simultaneous majorities. One is peace- loving, the other supports extreme nationalism. At the present time, it looks...

Znet Article Segall: Why I Won't Serve Sharon

Znet Article, July, 05 2002 Shlomi Segall
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It is remarkable how easily one learns to live with occupation. When I was born, the Israeli occupation of the Palestinian territories was already three years old. When I became 18 the occupation was still in full force, only by then the Palestini...

Znet Article Ahmad: Cry, the Beloved Country

Znet Article, July, 05 2002 Aijaz Ahmad
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Today India faces the classic situation of a pre-fascist upheaval. What used to be the political centre has collapsed, with the Congress reduced to a parliamentary minority and all the rest so splintered as to be assimilated as small ineffectual g...

Znet Article Cromwell: Climate Of Silence

Znet Article, July, 05 2002 David Cromwell
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On May 13, 2002, Media Lens issued a media alert titled 'The Media's Stranglehold on the "Climate" Debate': We suggested that Media Lens readers contact Michael McCarthy and John Vidal - the environment editors of The Independent and The Guard...

Znet Article Amirali: Rebellion In Pakistan

Znet Article, July, 05 2002 Asha Amirali
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July 3, 2002Dear Sup,Greetings. And much love.We write to inform you of the plight of landless tenants in nine districts in this state of Punjab, Pakistan.A war rages here. On one side, thousands of police, rangers, and the military; on the othe...

Znet Article Azulay: Breeding Points Of Terror

Znet Article, July, 05 2002 Jessica Azulay
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Everywhere you go in Ramallah people talk about checkpoints. Then they talk about living in a prison. But they are not talking about prison as we know it. They are talking about the ongoing strangulation of their city by frustrating checkpoints, s...

Commentary Pilger: Central Truths

Commentary, July, 04 2002 John Pilger
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If you got your news only from the television, you would have no idea of the roots of the Middle East conflict, or that the Palestinians are victims of an illegal military occupation.

Znet Article Mahajan: Why I Will Not Celebrate The 4th Of July

Znet Article, July, 04 2002 Rahul Mahajan
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I am an American. Let me be clear about that.It feels strange saying that because I have so often been made to feel a foreigner in my own country -- first because of my Indian ethnicity, and then more recently because of my outspoken criticism o...

Znet Article Bishara: Quest For The Unholy Grail

Znet Article, July, 04 2002 Azmi Bishara
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Imagine a story from folklore in which a young man wants to marry a king's daughter, and the king sets certain conditions before he will agree. The young man must sail through uncharted seas, explore unknown lands and then return having won a magi...

Commentary Reinhart: Separation

Commentary, July, 03 2002 Tanya Reinhart
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The Gaza strip is a perfect realization of the Israeli vision of "separation". Surrounded with electric fences and army posts, completely sealed off the outside world, Gaza has become a huge prison. About one third of its land was confiscated for ...

Znet Article Jensen: Talk Of

Znet Article, July, 03 2002 Robert Jensen
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I was wearing a pro-Palestinian t-shirt; he was wearing a yarmulke. As we sat at the airport waiting for the same flight, he glanced at my shirt and asked me to turn so he could read the message: "Palestine -- 50 years of dispossession, 1948-19...

Znet Article Jensen: Lynne Cheney's Primer

Znet Article, July, 03 2002 Robert Jensen
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This Fourth of July, many American parents will no doubt be reading Lynne Cheney's alphabet book, America: A Patriotic Primer, to their children.If kids pay close attention they will learn a lot, but unfortunately it will be a lesson in obfuscat...

Znet Article Burbach: Blood In The Streets Of Buenos Aires

Znet Article, July, 03 2002 Roger Burbach
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While George W. Bush and the other G-8 leaders were meeting at their isolated retreat in Canada, two demonstrators were murdered in cold blood by policemen in the streets of Buenos Aires. The murdered youths belonged to the "piqueteros," or picket...

Znet Article Chomsky: Chomsky Interview

Znet Article, July, 03 2002 Noam Chomsky
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1. How far do you belive will the US sacrifice its basic civil liberties for a greater sense of security? It is doubtful that the current attack on civil liberties has much to do with security. In general, one can expect the state to use any p...

Znet Article Hass: The Civil Administration Was Never Disbanded

Znet Article, July, 03 2002 Amira Hass
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Commentary Herman: The Corporate Abuse-reform Cycle

Commentary, July, 02 2002 Edward Herman
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We are at the peak of the latest corporate abuse-reform cycle in which business abuses have been so severe, and their effects so conspicuous, that their low-key treatment and normalization by the mainstream media has been unsustainable.

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