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Znet Article Hass: The IDF Shuts Away The Sea At Rafah

Znet Article, July, 14 2002 Amira Hass
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Israel Defense Forces posts and vehicles block the entry of Palestinians along the Gaza coast, from Rafah to Dir al-Balah. Those who have special permission occasionally travel to their relatives in Gaza City, and swim in the sea. But with unemplo...

Commentary Edwards: The Mad Mullahs Of The Mainstream Media

Commentary, July, 13 2002 David Edwards
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Prologue - When Lies Are Killing People, Liars Must Be Exposed

Znet Article Fisk: A Strange Kind Of Freedom

Znet Article, July, 13 2002 Robert Fisk
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Inside the First Congregational Church of Berkeley, the Californian audience had been struck silent. Dennis Bernstein, the Jewish host of KPFA Radio's Flashpoint current affairs programme, was reading some recent e-mails that he had received from ...

Znet Article Mann: What Are We Going to Do About the United States?

Znet Article, July, 13 2002 Eric Mann
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This year, in late August 2002, the United Nations will hold the World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD), an international conference in Johannesburg, South Africa, ostensibly to create a new model of sustainable development that integrates...

Znet Article Rai: Torpedoing the Inspectors

Znet Article, July, 13 2002 Milan Rai
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Torpedoing the Inspectors

Commentary Solomon: Three Decades Later, Watergate Is A Cautionary Tale

Commentary, July, 12 2002 Norman Solomon
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Thirty years have passed since Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein began to cover the Watergate story. The investigative journalism that they did back then still stands out as exceptional. Unfortunately.

Znet Article Pilger: Wasted Freedom

Znet Article, July, 12 2002 John Pilger
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"Freedom of the press" is a phrase that sounds well. But in the world of George W Bush and Enron, freedom is not meant to be that free. On 4 July, the front page of the Daily Mirror was as powerful as any I have known, a tabloid at its best. Geor...

Znet Article Chomsky: Cauca: Their Fate Lies in Our Hands

Znet Article, July, 12 2002 Noam Chomsky
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At the time of this writing, the municipalities of Toribio and Jambalo in Northern Cauca are being bombarded by both FARC and the Colombian government.  Northern Cauca is home to one of the most remarkable experiments in resistance to neolibe...

Znet Article Said: One Way Street

Znet Article, July, 12 2002 Edward Said
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Even by the terribly low standards of his other speeches, George W Bush's 24 June speech to the world about the Middle East was a startling example of how an execrable combination of muddled thought, words with no actual meaning in the real world ...

Commentary Sommers: Neoliberalism and the "Axis of Evil"

Commentary, July, 11 2002 Jeffrey Sommers
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President George Bush's first State of the Union Address listed Iran, Iraq, and North Korea as an "axis of evil." No doubt many states commit evil by employing violence to achieve their ends. Yet, while the above-mentioned three have particularly ...

Znet Article Mcdougall: Starbucks: The Cup That Cheers

Znet Article, July, 11 2002 William Mcdougall
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Berlin. Weltstadt and home to some of the world’s most famous cultural and historical landmarks. Add to that list Starbucks, who have recently opened two flagship stores; one in the historically Jewish Hackesche Markt quarter, and anothe...

Commentary Author: Argentina in Danger of a New Repressive Wave

Commentary, July, 10 2002 Guest Author
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Buenos Aires. Two young demonstrators died the 27th of June in a blockade of a bridge in the south of Buenos Aires. They belonged to the Coordinadora Anibal Ver—n (CAV), one of the organizations of Piqueteros, Argentina's vast movement of unemploy...

Znet Article Sinha: Bhopal Hunger Strike

Znet Article, July, 10 2002 Indra Sinha
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I am writing this because the life of a very precious friend is in danger. Together with two companions he is staging a satyagraha in the form of an indefinite fast outside the Indian parliament in New Delhi. The three have been without food since...

Znet Article Hass: No Materials To Build In Gaza

Znet Article, July, 10 2002 Amira Hass
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The dentist called to say he was sorry but the appointment would have to be put off indefinitely. For some time now, none of the substances necessary for dental care have arrived in Gaza. The patient, Ali Abu Shahale, who owns a large engineer...

Znet Article Golan: The Example of the Crazies

Znet Article, July, 10 2002 Neta Golan
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Neta Golan has been described as "a legendary figure" and is one of very few Israelis who has been arrested, beaten, and harassed repeatedly for working against the Israeli occupation of Palestine. She lives in the West Bank where she works with ...

Commentary Kagarlitsky: Russia in Search of an Opposition: the Dilemma of Zyuganov

Commentary, July, 09 2002 Boris Kagarlitsky
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Marching through the streets and squares of Russia in ritual May Day demonstrations, the Communist Party of the Russian Federation (KPRF) is again becoming part of everyday life. Losing its hold over the committees in the State Duma, the party was...

Znet Article Winer: Grim Reaper Stalks South African Farms

Znet Article, July, 09 2002 Stan Winer
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A deadly but apparently unnoticed phenomenon is threatening to engulf rural South Africa, where more than 1 000 white commercial farmers have been murdered in the past four years. In short, South African farmers are dying today at a greater rate t...

Commentary Mokhiber: Stripping Away Big Pharma's Figleaf

Commentary, July, 08 2002 Russell Mokhiber
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Drug prices in the United States are out of control, and rising.

Znet Article Russell: Jury Duty

Znet Article, July, 08 2002 Marta Russell
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No one really wanted to do jury duty except me. Per my summons I reported at 8 am to the jury administration room of the Los Angeles County Superior Court. Only I was almost late because of an access problem. The parking attendants had directe...

Znet Article Postel: The Awful Truth: Lynching In America

Znet Article, July, 08 2002 Danny Postel
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On a warm June day here at the Martin Luther King Jr. National Historic Site,currently home to a much-discussed exhibit on the history of lynching in America, an elderly man began crying, buried his face in his hands, and then rushed out. ...

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