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Commentary Monbiot: Patent Nonsense

Commentary, March, 21 2002 George Monbiot
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The most surprising aspect of the steel war launched by the United States last week is that anyone is surprised. For all the talk of increasing freedom, the only certain and consistent trend in global trade rules over the past ten years has been t...

Znet Article Bhattacharjee: Putting Community Back in the Domestic Violence Movement

Znet Article, March, 21 2002 Anannya Bhattacharjee
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The violence unleashed on September 11 has radically altered the political stage by raising questions about the relevance of routine political work in the U.S. Compared to the enormous tragedy of September 11, this year’s Domestic Violence...

Znet Article Flanders: A Chip Off The Old Brock

Znet Article, March, 21 2002 Laura Flanders
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A new David Brock is rising. Among the neo-conservative movement's most outspoken voices when he worked for the American Spectator and the Washington Times, Brock shot to stardom with his hatchet job, "The Real Anita Hill," and cemented it with hi...

Commentary Gluckman: The Scapegoating of America’s Youth: Past and Present (Mis)Conceptions

Commentary, March, 20 2002 Ryn Gluckman
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In December 1995 John DiIulio, former head of Bush’s Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives, published a series of apocalyptic reports predicting a new breed of violent juvenile delinquents, the “teenage superpredators.â&#...

Commentary Author: The Scapegoating of AmericaÕs Youth: Past and Present (Mis)Conceptions

Commentary, March, 20 2002 Guest Author
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In December 1995 John DiIulio, former head of BushÕs Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives, published a series of apocalyptic reports predicting a new breed of violent juvenile delinquents, the Òteenage superpredators.Ó Most famous among...

Znet Article Bellinghausen: First Stage of Expulsions will begin in Eight Communities

Znet Article, March, 20 2002 Hermann Bellinghausen
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[translated by irlandesa] San Cristóbal de Las Casas, Chiapas. March 17. The expulsion of communities that are located in the vicinity of Montes Azules, in what is called the protected part of the SelvaLacandona, could be beginning quite soon. Th...

Znet Article Jensen: Seeking Pain And Reducing Pleasure

Znet Article, March, 20 2002 Robert Jensen
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In most situations, people tend to seek pleasure and avoid pain, which generally makes sense. I want to suggest that at this moment in history, U.S. citizens need to invert that. If we want to become human beings in the fullest sense of the term, ...

Znet Article Md: The Institute of Medicine Weighs in on Anthrax Vaccine-- DOD Scores a Knockout

Znet Article, March, 20 2002 Meryl nass, Md
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Nearly two years ago, Congress asked the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) to review the existing data on safety and efficacy of the anthrax vaccine (AVA). A committee was created by the NAS Institute of Medicine (IOM) to do this, and the group m...

Znet Article Moyo: Zimbabwe's Elections Not Free Or Fair

Znet Article, March, 20 2002 E. lovemore Moyo
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One way to judge the fairness of Zimbabwe’s elections is by the criteria set out by SADC, which Zimbabwe is a signatory to. The SADC Parliamentary Forum’s Norms and Standards for Election in the SADC Region (adopted March 2001 in W...

Znet Article Giordano: Narco-Candidate in Colombia

Znet Article, March, 20 2002 Al Giordano
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A Narco News Investigative Report In 1997 and 1998, alert U.S. Customs agents in California seized three suspicious Colombia-bound ships that, the agents discovered, were laden with 50,000 kilos of potassium permanganate, a key "precursor chemical...

Znet Article Edwards: All The Bloody Children

Znet Article, March, 20 2002 David Edwards
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Following our Media Alert Update, 'The Observer's Nick Cohen Responds On Iraq' (March 15, 2002), Media Lens received this reply from Nick Cohen on March 15, 2002: "Dear Serviles I would have more respect for you if you showed the smallest awarenes...

Commentary Author: Remembering St. Patrick's Battalion on March 17

Commentary, March, 19 2002 Guest Author
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My mother's side of the family is Irish and, a million years ago, I attended St. Patrick's grammar school here in New York City. So, for me, St. Patrick's Day usually involved a corned beef and cabbage meal and a day off from school. (Today, I'm a...

Commentary Author: Remembering St. Patrick's Battalion on March 17

Commentary, March, 19 2002 Guest Author
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My mother's side of the family is Irish and, a million years ago, I attended St. Patrick's grammar school here in New York City. So, for me, St. Patrick's Day usually involved a corned beef and cabbage meal and a day off from school. (Today, I'm a...

Znet Article Klein: IMF Go To Hell

Znet Article, March, 19 2002 Naomi Klein
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On Tuesday in Buenos Aires, only a few blocks from where Argentine President Eduardo Duhalde was negotiating with the International Monetary Fund, a group of residents were going through a negotiation of a different kind. They were trying to save ...

Znet Article Monbiot: America's Bioterror

Znet Article, March, 19 2002 George Monbiot
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Dear President Bush, In commemorating the victims of the attacks on New York and Washington last week, you called for disputes to be "settled within the bounds of reason." You insisted that "every nation in our coalition must take seriously the g...

Znet Article Fisk: Arab states united in rejecting attack on Saddam

Znet Article, March, 19 2002 Robert Fisk
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Rarely can an American vice-president have met such a rebuff from America's Arab allies. Not a single Arab king, prince or president has been prepared to endorse a US attack on Iraq. Even in Kuwait – where Dick Cheney arrives today before ...

Znet Article Gluckman: The Scapegoating Of America's Youth

Znet Article, March, 19 2002 Ryn Gluckman
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In December 1995 John DiIulio, former head of Bush’s Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives, published a series of apocalyptic reports predicting a new breed of violent juvenile delinquents, the “teenage superpredators.â&#...

Znet Article Weisbrot: World Bank Opposes Changing Loans to Grants for Poor Countries

Znet Article, March, 19 2002 Mark Weisbrot
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J.R.R. Tolkien's "Lord of the Rings" has captivated millions on the big screen because it is an archetypal tale of power and human nature. The corrupting influence of power, its overwhelming temptation even to those whose intentions are good, the ...

Commentary Mondragon: The Colombian Elections: Some old, some new, and some uncertainties

Commentary, March, 18 2002 Hector Mondragon
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The abstention of more than half the citizenry; the vote for traditional parties of the extreme right; the continuing proportion in the legislature of 70% traditional bipartisan electoral barons, and the surprising growth of an alternative vote fo...

Commentary Herman: Axis Of Evil--in Washington, D.c.

Commentary, March, 18 2002 Edward Herman
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Coup d'etat president George W. Bush has designated three poor and unconnected states as an "axis of evil," reflecting this great moralist's sensitivity to good and evil. He has been subjected to a certain amount of criticism for this strong langu...

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