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Solomon et al: Media lapdogs
Znet Article, February, 21 2002
Solomon et al
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"CIRCUS DOGS jump when the trainer cracks the whip," wrote British author George Orwell, "but the really well-trained dog is the one that turns somersaults when there is no whip." And to think that Orwell wrote that without ever having seen "NBC N...
Burchill: Australia and Indonesia Reach an Understanding
Commentary, February, 20 2002
Scott Burchill
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The surprise decision by the Indonesian Government to propose a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Australia for combating international terrorism, is one of the cleverest diplomatic initiatives ever made in South East Asia.
Burbach: The Argentine Rebellion
Znet Article, February, 20 2002
Roger Burbach
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By Argentina is erupting in an unprecedented social upheaval that could pose a new threat to the international financial system and transform the country's politics. With an international debt of $140 billion Argentina is the first country in yea...
Chin: Enron: Ultimate agent of the American empire
Znet Article, February, 20 2002
Larry Chin
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February 1, 2002 In portraying Enron as a "scandal," and as an isolated case of overheated capitalism and "unusual political influence," the American corporate media and congressional investigators are studiously avoiding the truth: Enron, ...
Fisk: Europe Must Stop Parroting The US Script In The Middle East
Znet Article, February, 20 2002
Robert Fisk
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While President George Bush rabbits on about the "axis of evil" and his "crusade" against "terror", a real tragedy is about to interfere with his mythic struggle against America's enemies. It's about a place called Palestine. And a place called Is...
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...
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...
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.
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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."
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...


