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Znet Article Cromwell: MEDIA ALERT: BBC DIRECTOR-GENERAL GIVEN AN EASY RIDE BY THE INDEPENDENT

Znet Article, February, 20 2002 Cromwell
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Regular readers of Media Lens Media Alerts will be aware of our recent criticism of the BBC and ITN for failing to highlight both Western war crimes and responsibility for the mass starvation of Afghan civilians. By now, an estimated 5,000 civilia...

Commentary Choudry: To Beard Or Not To Beard – That’s Not The Question

Commentary, February, 19 2002 Aziz Choudry
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Now that we’re all supposed to be Americans as the fight against “the evil ones” expands, a recent incident has reminded me that some of us, wherever we may live, are just, as George Bush said recently, “Pakisâ̈́...

Commentary Choudry: To Beard Or Not To Beard Ð ThatÕs Not The Question

Commentary, February, 19 2002 Aziz Choudry
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Now that weÕre all supposed to be Americans as the fight against Òthe evil onesÓ expands, a recent incident has reminded me that some of us, wherever we may live, are just, as George Bush said recently, ÒPakisÓ.

Znet Article Scheer: Making Money, the Bush Way

Znet Article, February, 19 2002 Robert Scheer
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You have to hand it to George Bush the senior for hustle. Back in 1998, he took at least $80,000 in stock from Global Crossing in return for speaking for the company in Tokyo. The payment was made as the company was about to go public and the stoc...

Znet Article Fair: Pentagon Propaganda Plan Is Undemocratic, Possibly Illegal

Znet Article, February, 19 2002 Fair
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The New York Times reported today that the Pentagon's Office of Strategic Influence is "developing plans to provide news items, possibly even false ones, to foreign media organizations" in an effort "to influence public sentiment and policy makers...

Znet Article Chomsky: Sustainer Forum Reply

Znet Article, February, 19 2002 Noam Chomsky
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On the Times article, I understood it differently. The tone was set in the first paragraph: a remote section of Afghanistan, where people could hear on the radio that in the rest of the country everyone was celebrating their liberation and the gif...

Znet Article Sutherland: No more Mr Scrupulous Guy

Znet Article, February, 19 2002 John Sutherland
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Last Wednesday something strange happened. The American population was instructed to panic. Place themselves, that is, on a state of highest vigilance. Some cataclysmic act of terrorism would happen - within hours. But nothing terrible happened. S...

Znet Article Irlandesa): Original Cocopa Law resubmitted to Congress

Znet Article, February, 19 2002 Ciro perez silva (translated by Irlandesa)
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Six years and two days after the San Andres Accords were signed, 168 deputies representing all the political parties, except for the PAN, once again presented the program known as the Cocopa Law on indigenous rights and culture in San Lazaro, in o...

Commentary Bond: Thabo Mbeki addresses his compatriots

Commentary, February, 18 2002 Patrick Bond
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South African president Thabo Mbeki's opening of parliament on February 8 was eagerly awaited, and began with a grand motif: "The global struggle to eradicate poverty and underdevelopment is fundamental to the well-being of human society."

Znet Article Healy: Argentina's market-enforced crisis

Znet Article, February, 18 2002 Sean Healy
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Argentina's tumultuous December - in which a general strike by unions against a brutal budget lead to days of demonstrations, the storming of the Presidential Palace, the desperate helicopter flight out by its then-resident and a succession of fiv...

Znet Article Bhushan: COURTS, CONTEMPT &

Znet Article, February, 18 2002 Prashant Bhushan
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In the Constitution of India the Supreme Court and the High Courts were seen as watchdog bodies, independent of the executive, and entrusted with the task of seeing that all institutions function in accordance with the Constitution, and the Rule o...

Znet Article Delorca: On the News of Pierre Bourdieu's Death

Znet Article, February, 18 2002 Frédéric Delorca
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The movements against neoliberal globalization and global militarism have had, so far, two extraordinary figures of contemporary thought - Pierre Bourdieu and Noam Chomsky; Bourdieu, the French sociologist and the heir to German philosophical trad...

Znet Article Hutchinson: Black History Is Not Just For Blacks

Znet Article, February, 18 2002 Earl ofari Hutchinson
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Black History Is Not Just For Blacks

Znet Article Bond: Thabo Mbeki addresses his compatriots

Znet Article, February, 18 2002 Patrick Bond
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South African president Thabo Mbeki's opening of parliament on February 8 was eagerly awaited, and began with a grand motif: "The global struggle to eradicate poverty and underdevelopment is fundamental to the well-being of human society."Mbeki's ...

Znet Article Chomsky: DRCNet Interview: Noam Chomsky

Znet Article, February, 18 2002 Noam Chomsky
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MIT professor Noam Chomsky has long been one of the nation's most implacable critics of US foreign policy and domestic inequity, as well as its highly-concentrated mass media. Lauded by the New York Review of Books as "America's leading radical i...

Znet Article Avnery: Something is Moving

Znet Article, February, 18 2002 Uri Avnery
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I once saw in a Western a Red Indian (or should I say a Native American?) putting his ear to the ground and hearing a train tens of miles away. In the course of the years I have tried to imitate that Indian. I try to hear changes in the public mo...

Commentary Prashad: The Parochial Coverage of Enron

Commentary, February, 17 2002 Vijay Prashad
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Again, the US media has shown that it is just not up to the task of stal king the corruption of the global economy. Enron collapses and now the media tells us that it is all about Raptors and the connivance of Arthur Andersen (or isn't it now A...

Commentary Glass: I know what Camp X-Ray feels like

Commentary, February, 17 2002 Charles Glass
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The first thing they do is cover your eyes. They make you strip to make sure you're not carrying anything. They replace your clothes with uniforms that are not clothes at all. They chain you by hand and foot. They drag you away and leave you on yo...

Znet Article Fisk: America 'chasing phantoms' in Iraq says arms expert

Znet Article, February, 17 2002 Robert Fisk
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Scott Ritter, America's former top arms inspector in Iraq, has a neat phrase for Saddam's regime. The "phantom threat", he calls it. And he backs up his argument with an impressive assault on the credentials of Ahmed Chalabi, the head of Iraq's op...

Znet Article Levy: Shooting and handing out candy

Znet Article, February, 17 2002 Gideon Levy
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It is only a very small minority of people who support the refusal to serve in the territories and also back up their beliefs with actions. A decisive majority of Israelis oppose non-compliance with draft orders; some are convinced ...

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