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Campbell: Friends Of Terrorism
Znet Article, February, 08 2002
Duncan Campbell
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His name may sound like that of a character from a Mel Brooks musical but Otto Reich is real enough. He has just been appointed by President Bush as assistant secretary of state for western hemisphere affairs - and both the manner of his appointme...
Gool: "MBEKI IN MUGABE'S FOOTSTEPS!"
Znet Article, February, 08 2002
Dr selim yusuf Gool
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South African President Thabo Mbeki's recent attacks on press freedom and the labelling of Alliance partner, the 2.5 million strong trade union federation the Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU), as being "part of an international terr...
Ainger: Spin on this!
Commentary, February, 07 2002
Katharine Ainger
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Spin on this!
Palast: Eyes-only memos show who done it
Znet Article, February, 07 2002
Greg Palast
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In Buenos Aires, the Paris of Latin America, police gunned down two dozen Argentines in December after they chose to face bullets rather than starvation. The nation's currency had crumbled and unemployment had shot up from a grim 16 percent t...
Pollack: Enrons Operations In Argentina
Znet Article, February, 07 2002
Andy Pollack
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Do a quick search of the Web on the terms Enron and Argentina and you mostly get either references comparing the two, or a recent satire in which Kenneth Lay claims immunity by claiming Enron IS Argentina. You might even stumble on the Mothe...
Correggia: AFGHANISTAN: AN EPICENTRE OF SOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL TRAGEDIES, A COUNTRY OF BRAVE PEOPLE
Znet Article, February, 07 2002
Marinella Correggia
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Months ago, Said Karim, a supervisor of demining activities in the Western Afghan region of Herat, wanted to show to a foreign visitor something nice from his beloved country; something different than landmines and Uxo (bad Ufo, in a sense: unexpl...
Cockburn: Running From Reebok's Hypocrisy
Znet Article, February, 07 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...
Wise: Selling the Police: Reflections on Heroism and Hype in America
Commentary, February, 06 2002
Tim Wise
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An e-mail arrives in my inbox, recommending a website that seeks to explain--one might say rationalize--the mutiple killings of black men by Cincinnati police over the past few years. Its sender, who feels I should "get my facts straight," takes i...
Hutchinson: Blacks Still Losing Race To Corporate Top
Znet Article, February, 06 2002
Earl ofari Hutchinson
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In a January feature story on big shot corporate black executives, Newsweek strongly hints that more blacks than ever have cracked the corporate glass ceiling. It trumpets the ascension of Kenneth I. Chenault, E. Stanley O’Neal, and Richar...
Turnipseed: Sheriff Bush Wages War Against Evil To Cover Corporate Corruption Of Government
Znet Article, February, 06 2002
Tom Turnipseed
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In his State of the Union address, George W. Bush played sheriff to a world bedeviled by evil-doers and outlaw nations. It was a cunning cover for the unfolding saga of consummate corporate corruption of American politics, exemplified by Enron's e...
Monbiot: The Business Of Power
Znet Article, February, 06 2002
George Monbiot
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Just as the government struggles to shake off one scandal, it is entangling itself in several more. Almost every day for the past fortnight Labour has been embarrassed by new revelations about the favours it has exchanged with the disgraced compan...
Monbiot: Airstrip One
Commentary, February, 05 2002
George Monbiot
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There could scarcely be an odder time to announce a massive airport development. Even before the crash in New York eleven days ago, the world's airline companies were expecting to lose 15% of their trade and some $7bn. In the past fortnight two ma...
Hightower: Enron Shorts
Znet Article, February, 05 2002
Jim Hightower
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THE SOB STORY OF KEN AND LINDA LAY 2/11/02 I don't know whether to laugh, cry, or throw up.The televised tear-jerker entitled "Ken Lay, What A Guy!" starred Linda Lay, the wife of Enron CEO Ken, in an Emmy Award-winning performance. Like the wives...
Burbach: The World Social Forum In Porto Alegre:
Znet Article, February, 05 2002
Roger Burbach
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The second World Social Forum in Porto Alegre, Brazil, marked a dramatic counterpoint for a world that has been caught in a world of war and death since September 11. For six days starting on January 31, more than 51,000 people from around the glo...
Grossman: New US Military Bases: Side Effects Or Causes Of War?
Znet Article, February, 05 2002
Zoltan Grossman
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Since the end of the Cold War a decade ago, the U.S. has gone to war in Iraq, Somalia, Yugoslavia, and Afghanistan. The interventions have been promoted as "humanitarian" deployments to stop aggression, to topple dictatorsh...
Al-ahmed: The Smile Of Policeman Agadi
Znet Article, February, 05 2002
Abdel rahman Al-ahmed
Al-ahmed's ZSpace page
Finally, they let me go to the toilet. My body shook with cold. My hands were swollen and my body throbbed with pain. I fantasized about sleep, about free hands so I could scratch my nose, about looking for my mother. In the Shin Bet facility wher...
Author: Unequal Sacrifice: Bush's Hidden Vulnerability in A Time of Crisis
Commentary, February, 04 2002
Guest Author
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Its amazing how quickly an American President insensitive to the needs of ordinary Americans and the principle of fairness can lose the massive outward popular support that flows to the White House in times of war.
Greider: Crime in the Suites
Znet Article, February, 04 2002
William Greider
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The collapse of Enron has swiftly morphed into a go-to-jail financial scandal, laden with the heavy breathing of political fixers, but Enron makes visible a more profound scandal--the failure of market orthodoxy itself. Enron, accompanied by a sup...
Goldenberg: Aid packages ignore starving Afghans
Znet Article, February, 04 2002
Suzanne Goldenberg
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Rahim Dad had eight mouths to feed and the drought had stolen his crops, his oxen and his goats. So he sold the most valuable asset he had left: his 12-year-old daughter. "I sold my daughter for money because of the hunger," he says, shivering wi...
Author: Whispering Black (or Little White Lies)
Commentary, February, 03 2002
Guest Author
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This past weekend I attended the "State of the Black World Conference" in Atlanta Georgia. Among those present were black activists, politicians, scholars and clergy from around the globe. Even celebrities such as Tavis Smiley, Danny Glover and Ch...
