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Znet Article Cockburn: The Nightmare in Israel

Znet Article, March, 12 2002 Alexander Cockburn
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By Let's start with Baruch Kimmering, a sociologist at Hebrew University. Here's what he sent to the Jerusalem Weekly Kol Ha'Ir last month, which duly published it: "I accuse Ariel Sharon of creating a process in which he will not only intensify t...

Znet Article Feijoo: Latin American Report on the World Social Forum (II):

Znet Article, March, 12 2002 Cristina Feijoo
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The World Social Forum is taking place in Porto Alegre, capital of the State of Rio Grande do Sul (Brazil). The political process that made this encounter possible was the following: the Worker's Party (PT, Partido de los Trabajadores) won the ele...

Commentary Podur: Shalom Interviews Podur / Colombia

Commentary, March, 11 2002 Justin Podur
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Steve Shalom. The New York Times ran a story on February 25 by Juan Forero titled "Colombian Rebels Sabotage Peace Hopes." Perhaps you can address some of the questions raised by the article.

Znet Article Simeon: Threads of Conscience

Znet Article, March, 11 2002 Dilip Simeon
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Noam Chomsky - Rogue States - th...

Znet Article Landau: I Don't Got To Show You No Stinkin Reasons

Znet Article, March, 11 2002 Saul Landau
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Gore Vidal, the great novelist and political critic, asked me how I liked living under the dictatorship. I laughed, but I felt a chill. We've now experienced six months of life under unusual circumstances and it's time that citizens did some serio...

Znet Article Pilger: Venezuela: The Next Chile?

Znet Article, March, 11 2002 John Pilger
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Venezuela: The Next Chile?

Znet Article Solomon: New Media Heights For A Remarkable Pundit

Znet Article, March, 11 2002 Norman Solomon
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Thomas Friedman has achieved another media triumph with the debut of "Tom's Journal" on the "NewsHour with Jim Lehrer." The feature will be a "one-on-one debriefing of Friedman by Lehrer or one of the program's senior correspondents," says a news ...

Commentary Author: Lips sewn shut - An Australian secret

Commentary, March, 10 2002 Guest Author
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Ahmed (not his real name) shows me some photos taken of him reciting his poems at a convention a few years ago. He is quietly spoken, mild-mannered and very intelligent. Since then he has lost a lot of weight and his face has become gaunt and bese...

Znet Article Benn: Speech by Tony Benn

Znet Article, March, 10 2002 Tony Benn
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Comrades! Comrades our slogan today is “not in our name” but unfortunately, it is in our name. The bombs that are dropped on Iraqi will be British bombs funded by British taxpayers like ourselves. The depleted Uranium that was use...

Commentary Schechter: The FCC And "We": A Media Sermon From Mount Dissector

Commentary, March, 09 2002 Danny Schechter
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And then unto China came POTUS (President of the United States, in the lingo of the Secret Service), a messenger from the Republic of Enron, to preach the gospel about the path to true freedom. Go ye, he urged, beyond Maoism. Beyond Marxism. And y...

Znet Article Hass: Fear and loathing in Balata

Znet Article, March, 09 2002 Amira Hass
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Palestinian women reacting to explosions in Balata last Friday. "Why is the IDF allowed to harm Palestinian civilians and we aren't allowed to harm Israeli civilians?" they asked in the refugee camp. (Photo: AP) In Ha_aretz, the Israeli Newspaper...

Znet Article Hutchinson: NAACP's Confederate Flag Obsession

Znet Article, March, 09 2002 Earl ofari Hutchinson
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Two years ago, the NAACP galvanized a horde of politicians, college and professional athletes, black frats and sororities, hip-hop, rock and movie stars to march, rally and boycott South Carolina for flying the Confederate flag over the state capi...

Znet Article Saramago: FROM JUSTICE TO DEMOCRACY BY WAY OF THE BELLS

Znet Article, March, 09 2002 Jose Saramago
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[The following was read in the closing ceremony of the World Social Forum. It was written by José Saramago of Portugal, winner of a Nobel Prize for Literature.] I will begin by telling you very briefly about a notable episode in peasant life t...

Znet Article Macaskill: From The Suez To The Pacific

Znet Article, March, 09 2002 Ewen Macaskill
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Today, almost six months after the attacks on New York and Washington, the US is putting in place a network of forward bases stretching from the Middle East across the entire length of Asia, from the Red Sea to the Pacific. US forces are active i...

Commentary Monbiot: Race War

Commentary, March, 08 2002 George Monbiot
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Those of us who opposed the bombing of Afghanistan warned that the war between nations would not stop there. Now, as Tony Blair prepares the British people for an attack on Iraq, the conflict seems to be proliferating faster than most of us predic...

Znet Article Roy: Arundhati Roy's Statement

Znet Article, March, 08 2002 Arundhati Roy
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I stand by what I have said in my Affidavit and I have served the sentence which the Supreme Court imposed on me. Anybody who thinks that the punishment for my supposed Å'crime¹ was a symbolic one day in prison and a fine of two thousand rupees, i...

Znet Article Kurhan: Turkey After Chomsky's Visit

Znet Article, March, 08 2002 Omar Kurhan
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On 2 November 2001, a lawsuit was brought against the book titled “American Interventionism” which is a compilation of various articles of Prof. Noam Chomsky, with accusations of “propaganda against the indivisible unity of...

Znet Article Cockburn: The Nightmare In Israel

Znet Article, March, 08 2002 Alexander Cockburn
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Let's start with Baruch Kimmering, a sociologist at Hebrew University. Here's what he sent to the Jerusalem Weekly Kol Ha'Ir last month, which duly published it: "I accuse Ariel Sharon of creating a process in which he will not only intensify the ...

Znet Article Admin: The Chorus of the Lambs

Znet Article, March, 08 2002 Zim Admin
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"We were sitting our exams when we heard the singing. We heard them coming down the road towards the school, and we started to shake. Some of us began to cry. We wanted to leave the school, but the teacher told us to stay, and that everything woul...

Znet Article Threadcraft: Maroon Societies in the US?

Znet Article, March, 08 2002 Sa Threadcraft
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 I was reading this article by Michael E. Ross in which Ishmael Reed was quoted as saying that Black Americans live in a banana republic inside the United States; and I was barely paying attention in my classes at LSE to some theory my profes...

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