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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...
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...
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...
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
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
Girdner: Chomsky on Trial in Turkey
Znet Article, February, 17 2002
Eddie j. Girdner
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From February 12 to 15 Noam Chomsky visited Turkey. Chomsky came to Turk...
Beaumont: Are we anti-Semitic?
Znet Article, February, 17 2002
Peter Beaumont
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On 5 December last year the Chief Rabbi of Brussels, Albert Gigi, was walking through Anderlecht when he was assaulted by a group of Arab-speaking youths. He was chased into a nearby metro station and he and his companion were abused as 'dirty Jew...
Jones: OK, George, make with the friendly bombs
Znet Article, February, 17 2002
Terry Jones
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To prevent terrorism by dropping bombs on Iraq is such an obvious idea that I can't think why no one has thought of it before. It's so simple. If only the UK had done something similar in Northern Ireland, we wouldn't be in the mess we are in toda...
Healy: Argentina's market-enforced crisis
Commentary, February, 16 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...
Cockburn: Running From Reebok's Hypocrisy
Znet Article, February, 16 2002
Alexander Cockburn
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Right till the end of January, Dita Sari was preparing to fly from her home near Jakarta to Salt Lake City to bask today in the admiration of assorted do-gooders and celebrities mustered by Reebok. The occasion is the 13th annual Human Rights Awar...
Fisk: The Arab nations are lost in a pit of desperation
Znet Article, February, 16 2002
Robert Fisk
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A few days ago, Crown Prince Abdullah of Saudi Arabia called upon the "conscience" of the American people to help the Palestinians. The Emir of Qatar went one step further in self-abasement. The Arabs, he said - and he apologised for using the wor...
Nichols: Enron? Nader Is Glad You Asked
Znet Article, February, 16 2002
John Nichols
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Why, yes, Ralph Nader would be delighted to discuss the Enron scandal. But don't expect the once and possibly future presidential candidate to do so with a straight face. "I hate to say 'I told you so,'" he begins, barely cloaking his glee over wh...
Schechter: Where Is AIDS Among The A-List Topics?
Commentary, February, 15 2002
Danny Schechter
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Think about what happened the other day. Enron hearings opened to an Standing Room Only crowd on Capitol Hill. The sleaze was about to start gushing out and then, the TV picture shrinks and another story interrupts. Breaking News displaces Breakin...
Kak: Arundhati Roy & Criminal Contempt of the Supreme Court
Znet Article, February, 15 2002
Singh, thakkar, jhaveri, bhushan, Kak
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On 15th January 2002, Justice G.B. Pattanaik and Justice R.P. Sethi of the Supreme Court of India heard arguments in the contempt case against writer Arundhati Roy. As on every previous occasion when this particular case has come up for hearing, n...
