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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...

Znet Article (onic): Indigenous Resistance

Znet Article, March, 08 2002 National indigenous congress of colombia (onic)
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Translated by Justin Podur  Indigenous resistance suffers th...

Znet Article Hart: Greg Palast On Globalization

Znet Article, March, 08 2002 Lloyd Hart
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On one of the best trips I have ever taken to New York city in which I started the filming of a documentary on globalization, I had no idea what to expect from the protests that were about to take place over the arrival of the World Economic Forum...

Znet Article Henshaw-plath: The People's Assemblies in Argentina

Znet Article, March, 08 2002 Evan Henshaw-plath
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In December of 2001, Argentina's economy collapsed under the weight of debt, IMF advice, and a government that, unfortunately, followed that advice.  The collapse and the economic policies that led to it are well documented.  The respons...

Commentary Choudry: Still Under Wraps: Official Information Laws Keep Free Trade Details Away From Prying Public Eyes

Commentary, March, 07 2002 Aziz Choudry
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I don't know if he still uses it, but as a Member of Parliament in New Zealand, before being inflicted on the rest of the world through the WTO, one of Mike Moore's favourite expressions was "I could tell you, but then I'd have to kill you."

Znet Article Avnery: How To Torpedo The Saudis

Znet Article, March, 07 2002 Uri Avnery
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If, in May 1967, an Arab prince had proposed that the whole Arab world would recognize Israel and establish normal relations with it, in return for Israel's recognition of the Green Line border, we would have believed that the days of the Messiah ...

Znet Article Benvenisti: The checkpoints of arrogance

Znet Article, March, 07 2002 Meron Benvenisti
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The tragic failures exposed by the killing of Israel Defense Forces troops at checkpoints at the hands of Palestinian guerrillas released a flood of criticism that forced the military command to learn some lessons and initiate changes in the manag...

Znet Article Fisk: America's Morality Has Been Distorted By September 11th

Znet Article, March, 07 2002 Robert Fisk
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In Afghan fields, the poppies blow. Yes, even as the Americans are moving deeper into the Afghan trap, the warlords and gangsters running much of the western-supported Afghan government are ensuring a bumper new crop of heroin for the world's mark...

Commentary Mokhiber: Wired for Business or Democracy?

Commentary, March, 06 2002 Russell Mokhiber
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While Internet stocks may have crashed, Internet optimists still abound.

Znet Article Rai: No Justifications For War- No Link to September 11th

Znet Article, March, 06 2002 Milan Rai
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The United States is now set on war with Iraq. What justification is there for such a war? Occasionally it has been suggested that Iraq was somehow linked to the 11 September attacks. The strongest alleged link has been the supposed meeting of M...

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