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Devraj: India's Green Movements Under Attack
Znet Article, August, 29 2002
Ranjit Devraj
Devraj's ZSpace page
As the World Summit on Social Development (WSSD) gets underway in South Africa, India, a country of over a billion people, can report little but the gross failure of its best-known environment movements. These range from the movements campaigning...
Awwad: Ethnic Cleansing by Starvation
Znet Article, August, 29 2002
Rania Awwad
Awwad's ZSpace page
A US-financed assessment of the overall malnutrition level among Palestinian children, released this month by the US Agency for International Development (USAID), found that one in five Palestinian children under the age of five now suffers from c...
Blackwell: Micropolitics and the Cooking-Pot Revolution in Argentina
Znet Article, August, 29 2002
Benjamin Blackwell
Blackwell's ZSpace page
On New Year’s Eve of 2001, the US Secretary of State, General Colin Powell, rang the Casa Rosada, Argentina’s Presidential Palace in the centre of Buenos Aires and asked to be put through to the President. After being cut off sever...
Theret: Days Under Fire
Znet Article, August, 29 2002
Claire Theret
Theret's ZSpace page
This document consists of diary entries from two British solidarity activists who worked with the International Solidarity Movement in Occupied Palestine. The entries are long, but both highly analytical and vividly descriptive. Claire's journal ...
Chomsky: Interview With Noam Chomsky about US Warplans
Znet Article, August, 29 2002
Noam Chomsky
Chomsky's ZSpace page
Various questions are circulating among people worried about war. On August 29, 2002, Michael Albert put some of these to Noam Chomsky, via email. Here are the questions and his responses... 1. Has Saddam Hussein been as evil as mainstream media ...
El-azar: One Into Four
Znet Article, August, 28 2002
Mohamed khaled El-azar
El-azar's ZSpace page
In laying the foundations for the 1991 peace conference in Madrid US Secretary of State James Baker was anxious to secure Washington's role as primary sponsor of the Arab- Israeli peace process. He supervised all the arrangement for the conference...
Bishara: Unbuilding Babel
Znet Article, August, 28 2002
Marwan Bishara
Bishara's ZSpace page
It is evident from recent statements coming out of Washington that Palestinians, Israelis and the international community speak three different languages. As a people under occupation, the Palestinians want a future free of Israeli domination. As ...
Hass: Deterrents That Haven't Deterred
Znet Article, August, 28 2002
Amira Hass
Hass's ZSpace page
The IDF and Shin Bet claim that demolishing the homes of terror suspects and expelling their families to Gaza is a deterrence that has already yielded results. Such an opinion relies on the ignorance or willful amnesia of the Israeli public. Senio...
Abunimah: The Growing Clamor for Ethnic Cleansing
Znet Article, August, 28 2002
Ali Abunimah
Abunimah's ZSpace page
(AMMAN -- August 27, 2002) -- An Israeli organization has published detailed plans for the "complete elimination of the Arab demographic threat to Israel" by forcibly expelling all Palestinians, including Palestinians in the occupied territories a...
Margolis: The War only the Whitehouse Wants
Znet Article, August, 28 2002
Eric Margolis
Margolis's ZSpace page
NEW YORK -- U.S. forces are rapidly massing in the Arabian Gulf to invade Iraq. Four heavy brigades have been positioned near Iraq, a huge new air complex is now operational in Qatar and American special forces are active in Iraqi Kurdistan. The...
Bellinghausen: Paramilitary Offensive Continues
Znet Article, August, 28 2002
Hermann Bellinghausen
Bellinghausen's ZSpace page
[translated by irlandesa: 3 articles 1) update: another murder of a Zapatista in Olga Isabel Autonomous Municipality by paramilitaries and 2 & 3) Articles by La Jornada's Hermann Bellinghausen on the paramilitary offensive] Brothers and ...
Bahour: The Violence of Curfew
Znet Article, August, 28 2002
Sam Bahour
Bahour's ZSpace page
“Oh God, please tell Sharon to end the curfew by this Saturday so I can go to school.†This is how my secular, eight year old daughter, Areen, has put herself to sleep for the last two weeks. Areen, like so many others here, have t...
Kagarlitsky: The Great Friendship
Commentary, August, 27 2002
Boris Kagarlitsky
Kagarlitsky's ZSpace page
After a period of cooling in their relations, Russia and the US are experiencing an acute bout of mutual sympathy. This seems a little strange against the background of the nationalist declarations uttered by President Putin during the first month...
Municipalities: 2 Zapatistas Murdered
Znet Article, August, 27 2002
Autonomous Municipalities
Municipalities's ZSpace page
[translated by irlandesa] San Manuel Autonomous Municipality By means of this denuncia, we would like to make public the following incidents: 1. - On August 22, several persons from the OPDIC organization met in Ach'lum Mo...
Fazio: The Southeast
Znet Article, August, 27 2002
Carlos Fazio
Fazio's ZSpace page
[translated by irlandesa] There is renewed interest at some official diplomatic missions in Mexico in knowing what the EZLN is going to do in response to a foreseeable adverse ruling by the Supreme Court of Justice on the legality of the constitu...
Andes: The Political Economy of a Narco-Terror State
Znet Article, August, 27 2002
Ecosolidaridad Andes
Andes's ZSpace page
Introduction Social and political upheavals - unlike any before - grip many nations in Latin America. The failure of neoliberalism to deliver prosperity is turning against many of the political parties there. The entire concept of liberal democr...
Al-dabeik building: Interfere and Put an End to Our Human Suffering
Znet Article, August, 27 2002
Residents of Al-dabeik building
Al-dabeik building's ZSpace page
Urgent appeal Since the beginning of the last invasion of Nablus the city has been subjected to different kinds of collective punishment by the I...
Burrows: The Saddest Thing About Netanyahu's Visit To Canada Is That Someone Actually Wants To Bring Him
Znet Article, August, 26 2002
Paul Burrows
Burrows's ZSpace page
Binyamin Netanyahu is coming to Winnipeg on September 9th, and the local Canada-Palestine Support Network (CanPalNet-Winnipeg) is helping to organize a peaceful information picket and protest. He is also making an appearance the next day in Toron...
Cromwell: Honest And Compassionate: The Reporting Of John Pilger
Commentary, August, 26 2002
David Cromwell
Cromwell's ZSpace page
One of the guiding principles of the western liberal democracies is that the crimes of our 'enemies' must be scrupulously held up for account and condemnation, while our own crimes are ignored, minimised or cast as examples of 'humanitarian interv...
Aceh: Aceh Backgrounder
Znet Article, August, 26 2002
Kontras Aceh
Aceh's ZSpace page
The Indonesian province of Aceh, with a population of around 5 million, is located on the northern-most part of the island of Sumatra, about 1,000 miles from the Indonesian capital Jakarta. Located strategically on the sea lanes between south and ...
