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Commentary Author: Let the Debates Begin!

Commentary, January, 19 2002 Guest Author
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Two days after September 11 my grandaughter Crystal, a college student, found her teacher's jingoism too much to swallow. "These attacks are the chickens come home to roost!" she said to the class. "Now we get the chance to know what it's like for...

Znet Article Soul_sacrifice69: To: Pacifica Campaign supporters

Znet Article, January, 19 2002 Juan Soul_sacrifice69
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Dear Friends: ...

Znet Article Gabetta: Economic crisis ends an era

Znet Article, January, 19 2002 Carlos Gabetta
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Argentina finally exploded, a classic collapse. Observers had been surprised at the national inertia, since this is a highly politicised and unionised country with a long tradition of struggle. In the past, its people had been willing to turn it u...

Znet Article Bishara: On Terrorism

Znet Article, January, 19 2002 Azmi Bishara
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In 1976, Jorge Videla assumed power in Argentina after overthrowing Isabel Perón, ushering in one of the bloodiest dictatorships that country had ever experienced. More than 15,000 leftists, human rights activists and other innocent civilians wer...

Commentary Solomon: In The Media Mix, What Happens To Music?

Commentary, January, 18 2002 Norman Solomon
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The last pages of a calendar remind us that life is fleeting. All we have at any moment is the present, filtered with memory.

Znet Article Larrea: Congress to resubmit original Cocopa Proposal

Znet Article, January, 18 2002 Alejandro lelo de Larrea
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Mexico City 17:59 A group of 160 deputies from the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), the Democratic Revolutionary Party (PRD), the Labor Party (PT) the Mexican Greens (PVEM) and the Convergence Party have once again signed the statement of ...

Commentary Bronski: Gays of Our Lives

Commentary, January, 17 2002 Michael Bronski
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There are so many things wrong with this story.

Znet Article Ivins: In Total Disregard Toward The Poor

Znet Article, January, 17 2002 Molly Ivins
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AUSTIN, Texas -- There's something happening here What it is ain't exactly clear... ...

Znet Article Lobe: Human Rights Watch Scores U.S. 'Hypocrisy' on 'War on Terrorism'

Znet Article, January, 17 2002 Jim Lobe
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The United States-led anti-terrorist campaign, which followed the devastating attacks on New York and Washington September 11, is threatening human rights in many countries, including the United States itself, according to a review of 2001 release...

Commentary Wise: Rationalizing Racism: Panic And Profiling After 9/11

Commentary, January, 16 2002 Tim Wise
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Random security checks. ThatÕs what theyÕre called anyway: those extra bag searches and body scans being done at airports across the U.S., presumably to deter a new round of terrorist attacks. On each flight, a handful of passengers are pulled asi...

Znet Article Glick: Labor And Human Progress

Znet Article, January, 16 2002 Ted Glick
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The AFL-CIO's uncritical support of the government's war in Afghanistan and sham "war on terrorism" has disappointed, if not disillusioned, many activists, including progressive labor activists. For some radicals and progressives, the organized la...

Znet Article Lakey: Let the Debates Begin!

Znet Article, January, 16 2002 George Lakey
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Two days after September 11 my grandaughter Crystal, a college student, found her teacher's jingoism too much to swallow. "These attacks are the chickens come home to roost!" she said to the class. "Now we get the chance to know what it's like for...

Commentary Choudry: All This "civil Society" Talk Takes Us Nowhere

Commentary, January, 15 2002 Aziz Choudry
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If there's one phrase I could do with hearing less of during 2002, it's "civil society". I'm not alone. Many of my friends, community activists and organisers in a number of countries also cringe at the ritualized, ubiquitous usage of the phrase....

Znet Article Said: Emerging Alternatives in Palestine

Znet Article, January, 15 2002 Edward Said
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Since it began 15 months ago the Palestinian Intifada has had little to show for itself politically, despite the remarkable fortitude of a militarily occupied, unarmed, poorly led, and still dispossessed people that has defied the pitiless ravages...

Znet Article Krugman: Crony Capitalism, U.S.A.

Znet Article, January, 15 2002 Paul Krugman
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Four years ago, as Asia struggled with an economic crisis, many observers blamed "crony capitalism." Wealthy businessmen in Asia didn't bother to tell investors the truth about their assets, their liabilities or their profits; the aura of invincib...

Znet Article Bronski: Gays of Our Lives

Znet Article, January, 15 2002 Michael Bronski
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There are so many things wrong with this story. On October 11th a photograph was transmitted by the Associated Press that featured a bomb on he deck on the USS Enterprise flight deck stationed in the Arabian Sea. An unidentified sailor had scrib...

Znet Article International: Criticism of POW Treatment

Znet Article, January, 15 2002 Amnesty International
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News Release Issued by the International Secretariat of Amnesty International Amnesty International urged the United States to ensure respect for the human rights of all people who have been or may be transferred from Afghanistan to a US military ...

Znet Article Monbiot: Greens Get Eaten

Znet Article, January, 15 2002 George Monbiot
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Environmentalism as an argument has been comprehensively won. As a practice it is all but extinct. Just as people in Britain have united around the demand for effective public transport, car sales have broken all records. Yesterday the superstore ...

Commentary Cromwell: The public threat to private power

Commentary, January, 14 2002 David Cromwell
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ÔThe single greatest threat to the multilateral trade system is the absence of public support.Õ Thus spoke Charlene Barshefsky, ClintonÕs U.S. trade representative, in the run-up to the 1999 WTO summit in Seattle.

Znet Article Parrish: White America Misuses MLK Day

Znet Article, January, 14 2002 Geov Parrish
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On Jan. 15, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. would be 72. If he had survived. And in every conceivable sense of the word, he has not. At least, not in White America. ...

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