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Klein: Old Hates Fueled By Fear
Znet Article, April, 24 2002
Naomi Klein
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I knew from e-mail reports that something new was going on in Washington last weekend. A demonstration against the World Bank and International Monetary Fund was joined by an antiwar march, as well as a demonstration against the Israeli occupation...
Kagarlitsky: A Different World, But Which One?
Commentary, April, 23 2002
Boris Kagarlitsky
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The World Social Forum in Porto Alegre arose as an alternative to the World Economic Forum in Davos. If Davos had become a symbol of the free market and of corporate globalisation, Porto Alegre was designed to become both a show of resistance to D...
Monbiot: Diplomacy US-Style
Znet Article, April, 23 2002
George Monbiot
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Tony Blair might believe he belongs to an international coalition, but George Bush has other ideas. Bush's international war against terrorism has not stopped him from waging a parallel war against cooperation. Two weeks ago, the US ambassador to...
Jerusalem: Israel accused over Jenin assault
Znet Article, April, 23 2002
Chris mcgreal in Jerusalem
Jerusalem's ZSpace page
The International Committee of the Red Cross yesterday accused Israel of breaching the Geneva conventions by recklessly endangering civilian lives and property during its assault on the Jenin refugee camp, and by refusing the injured access to med...
Siu hin: What's Oil Got to Do With It
Znet Article, April, 23 2002
Lee Siu hin
Siu hin's ZSpace page
Since April of this year, after U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell failed to make progress in his mission to Israel and Palestine, international oil prices have reached $25 per barrel -- 25% higher then the same period last year. And on April 8t...
Libre: Estacion Libre Report
Znet Article, April, 22 2002
Estacion Libre
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Estación Libre and Project 169 denounce the recent rise in violence in the state of Chiapas. This latest situation does not amount to a series of simple coincidences but rather a concerted and systematic effort by Mexico's state and federal gover...
Levy: Building the Terror Infrastructure
Znet Article, April, 22 2002
Gideon Levy
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1. Fares Smaha bought a new pair of shoes for the holiday last year. At the time, he was a fatherless 14-year-old boy. His older brother Ahmed was serving time in jail in Israel for theft; his sister had been sold into marriage to an old Bedouin i...
Clark: The Brilliant Offer Israel Never Made
Znet Article, April, 22 2002
David Clark
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Yesterday's carnage in the West Bank provided a bloody illustration of the limits of Ariel Sharon's military strategy. Armed force cannot provide his people with the security they crave because the terrorist infrastructure he has set out to destro...
Avnery: Something Stinks
Znet Article, April, 22 2002
Uri Avnery
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There is full agreement between all those who were in the Jenin refugee camp on only one thing. A week after the end of the fighting, foreign journalists and IDF soldiers, UN representatives and hired hacks in the Israeli media, members of the wel...
Rees: Squeezing the Poor
Znet Article, April, 22 2002
William j. Rees
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On April 12, the Council of Canadians released a leaked copy of the G8 environment ministers' proposed final statement on the World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD) to be held in Johannesburg in August. Not surprisingly, the environment mi...
Vulliamy: Venezuela Coup Linked to Bush Team
Znet Article, April, 22 2002
Ed Vulliamy
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The failed coup in Venezuela was closely tied to senior officials in the US government, The Observer has established. They have long histories in the 'dirty wars' of the 1980s, and links to death squads working in Central America at that time. Wa...
Lusane: Who Judges The Judges?
Commentary, April, 21 2002
Clarence Lusane
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Was it normal Supreme Court idiosyncrasies or post-September 11th racial blowback? A recent incident at the U.S. Supreme Court, where Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist ordered a young Indian woman to remove a scarf on her head because it apparen...
Reinhart: Jenin- The Propaganda War
Znet Article, April, 21 2002
Tanya Reinhart
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In Israel, Jenin is perceived mainly as a public relations problem (called in Hebrew 'hasbara' -explaining). It appears even that the army and the government believe that Israel is winning the propaganda battle. After all, all relevant principles ...
Bustani: Peacemaker's reply
Znet Article, April, 21 2002
Jose Bustani
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[Note: ZNet Commentator George Monbiot wrote a summary of this disgraceful situation. Please see that article for background... below is a speech given by Bustani on the situation] Statement by the Director-General at the Special Session of ...
Monbiot: A War Against the Peacemaker
Commentary, April, 20 2002
George Monbiot
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On Sunday, the US government will launch an international coup. It has been planned for a month. It will be executed quietly, and most of us won't know what is happening until it's too late. It is seeking to overthrow 60 years of multilateralism, ...
Wallerstein: Iraq War: The Coming Disaster
Znet Article, April, 20 2002
Immanuel Wallerstein
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New Haven -- George W. Bush is a geopolitical incompetent. He has allowed a clique of hawks to induce him to take a position on invading Iraq from which he cannot extract himself, one which will have nothing but negative consequences for the Unite...
Hass: What Kind of War is This?
Znet Article, April, 20 2002
Amira Hass
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Leaning on a cane, the man stood on a huge pile of ruins: a jumble of crushed concrete, twisted iron rods, shreds of mattresses, electric cables, fragments of ceramic tiles, bits of water pipes and an orphaned light switch. "This is my home," he s...
Raptis: Thomas Friedman's Brave
Commentary, April, 19 2002
Nikos Raptis
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"THOMAS FRIEDMAN is one of America's leading interpreters of world affairs... Mr. Friedman has also won two Pulitzer Prizes for his reporting for The New York Times..." (Biographical note under Friedman's name on page iii of his book "The Lexus an...
Bond: Moderates Wilt But Radical South Africans Struggle On
Commentary, April, 19 2002
Patrick Bond
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"Breaking with some of its anti-globalization allies, the aid agency Oxfam International issued a report yesterday that praised international trade as a potentially enormous boon to the world's poor... `The extreme element of the anti-globalizatio...
