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Street: Misunderstanding Power
Znet Article, June, 06 2002
Paul Street
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Thanks in part to recent disclosures that a minimally competent federal security establishment would have had reasons to know and act on intelligence predicting something like what occurred last September, conspiracy theorists are having a field d...
Solomon: Nuclear Weapons And Media Fog
Znet Article, June, 06 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 ...
Solomon: War On Terrorism: Winking At Nuclear Terror
Commentary, June, 05 2002
Norman Solomon
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Two countries -- each with dozens of atomic bombs -- are threatening to make war on each other. Large numbers of troops have mobilized. Deadly cross-border clashes are intense. And people in charge of both governments have become more bellicose by...
Rebick: Diary of a trip to Palestine and Israel
Znet Article, June, 05 2002
Judy Rebick
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Diary of a trip to Palestine and Israel
Brittain: The Horror Behind The Front Line
Znet Article, June, 05 2002
Victoria Brittain
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The Horror Behind The Front Line
Weisbrot: The Africa Tour: First, Do No Harm
Commentary, June, 04 2002
Mark Weisbrot
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Whoever dreamed up this tour had a sense of theater. Paul O'Neill, the straight-laced, tough-talking US Treasury Secretary, former corporate CEO, and foreign aid skeptic; with Bono, humanitarian, highly worshipped Irish rock star, in trademark wra...
Gonsalves: Who cares about Africa?
Commentary, June, 04 2002
Sean Gonsalves
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Who cares about Africa? Me for one. And the Bush administration apparently does, too. ThatÕs what BushÕs $10 billion aid proposal for Africa and the Bono and OÕNeill 10-day tour of sub-Sahara Africa was all about. WasnÕt it?
Raman (india): South Asia: Waiting For The Usa
Znet Article, June, 04 2002
J. sri Raman (india)
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The whole world outside the India-Pakistan subcontinent is watching the situation here with extreme anxiety. Never in the past two decades, it is generally agreed, has the humanity been closer to a nuclear holocaust. Conspicuous by its absence, ho...
Rosen: From Grief, Activism
Znet Article, June, 04 2002
Lisa Rosen
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It has been only two weeks since East Timor became the newest country on the planet, and already it has fallen out of the news. But the triumph of that day, achieved against such impossible odds, will be with me forever. The last time I had seen E...
Mokhiber: IMF and World Bank: Out of Control
Znet Article, June, 04 2002
Russell Mokhiber
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The International Monetary Fund and World Bank are institutions out of control. For evidence, consider the institutions' feeble and fatally flawed debt relief program. Under their Highly Indebted Poor Country (HIPC) initiative, the world's poorest...
Author: What they won't tell you about Colombia's Elections
Commentary, June, 02 2002
Guest Author
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In the midst of all the euphoria in ruling circles over the triumph of Alvaro Uribe Velez in the Colombian presidential elections, there are certain issues that are not being discussed, even though they have everything to do with the elections.
Suarez: Five Facts about April 11
Znet Article, June, 02 2002
Roldan tomasz Suarez
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I would like to point out a series of facts about the current situation in Venezuela that are just as valid for times to come. They are pillars on which we must base our political opinions and actions, as well as shields to protect ourselves from ...
Prashad: The Troika of Imperialism, Petro-Sheikhs and Dissident Jihadis: On Tariq Ali.
Commentary, June, 01 2002
Vijay Prashad
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Michael Berube, an English professor at Penn State University, has become quite a fixture in the Chronicle of Higher Education. In a recent article ("Ali vs. Hitchens: Battle on the Left," 3 May), Berube tells us that he studies conflicts within t...
Gordon: The Caterpillar Effect
Znet Article, June, 01 2002
Neve Gordon
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“This is the first time that bulldozers have determined the outcome of a war,†L., one of the Palestinian fighters from the Jenin refugee camp was recently quoted in the Israeli daily Yedioth Ahronot. The officer in charge of the m...
Healy: Angola The Crisis You Aren't Hearing About
Znet Article, June, 01 2002
Sean Healy
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Angola The Crisis You Aren't Hearing About
Herman: Media Protect Bush On 9/11 Security Failure
Commentary, May, 31 2002
Edward Herman
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The successful terrorist attack on September 11, 2001, represented a spectacular failure of the U.S. national security establishment. But from the very beginning there was very little media interest in examining that failure, although the attack i...
Kissenger: Alan Dershowitz And Torture
Znet Article, May, 31 2002
C. clark Kissenger
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In early November controversy irrupted on the internet over Harvard Law Professor Alan Dershowitz’s proposal to legalize torture in the United States to extract information from terrorism suspects. So when Dershowitz appeared on January 27...
Frank: Blowback and Fallout
Znet Article, May, 31 2002
Andre gunder Frank
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The present threat of nuclear war between Pakistan and India is the direct responsibility of irresponsible provocation by the Bush Administration. Whatever were the remote and immediate causes of previous Indo-Pakistani wars over Kashmir, the pres...
Giacaman: Shattered Lives
Znet Article, May, 31 2002
Rita Giacaman
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Following is a brief statistical report on the daily life, health and environmental conditions of families living under curfew and in fear and in danger, during the latest Israeli invasion of Ramallah and Al-Bireh, two towns with separat...
