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Peters: A Post-Mortem on the Peace Movement?
Commentary, December, 26 2001
Cynthia Peters
Peters's ZSpace page
Today a Village Voice reporter called to interview me for a story he is writing. His assignment? To do a post-mortem on the peace movement.
Solomon: Bloomberg's Victory And The Triumph Of Business News
Commentary, December, 25 2001
Norman Solomon
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After billionaire Michael Bloomberg won the race to become New York's next mayor, the French news agency AFP noted that he "was among the first to see how the information age could serve investors in unprecedented -- and lucrative -- ways." Bloomb...
Herman: Coalitions Of The Willing, Coerced, And Bribed
Commentary, December, 24 2001
Edward Herman
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When the United States pummels tiny states like Grenada and Panama, the U.S. media and public have no apparent embarrassment at the imbalance of power and the bully-boy aspect of the incursions; in fact, there is pride at super-Goliath beating up ...
Kagarlitsky: The Riddle Of Putin
Commentary, December, 23 2001
Boris Kagarlitsky
Kagarlitsky's ZSpace page
MOSCOW - There is evidently some kind of natural law at work: if the business press and the leaders of the financial world name some country or other as a success story, then this is precisely the country where you can expect things to go badly wr...
Starhawk: Passcode Redwood: Keeping Repression In Perspective
Commentary, December, 22 2001
Starhawk
Starhawk's ZSpace page
Every day when I check my email or look through the alternative newspapers or turn on the radio, I hear something that arouses my fear. A new bill threatening our civil liberties has been passed, or is being passed, here or abroad.
Cypel: An Unconditional Withdrawal from the Territories is Urgently Needed
Znet Article, December, 22 2001
Alain Cypel
Cypel's ZSpace page
[Ami Ayalon, 55, headed Israeli interior security, Shin Beth, from February 1996 until May 2000. Small, lean, dressed in jeans and an open shirt, he speaks calmly, but forcefully.] Alain Cypel (Le Monde): How do you see the state of political deba...
Monbiot: The End of the Enlightenment
Commentary, December, 21 2001
George Monbiot
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The pre-Enlightenment has just been beaten by the post-Enlightenment. As the last fundamentalist fighters are hunted through the mountains of eastern Afghanistan, the world's most comprehensive attempt to defy modernity has been atomised. But this...
Author: Rogue Nation
Commentary, December, 21 2001
Guest Author
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1. In December 2001, the United States officially withdrew from the 1972 Antiballistic Missile Treaty, gutting the landmark agreement-the first time in the nuclear era that the US renounced a major arms control accord.
Jensen: Why I Write (for Newspapers)
Commentary, December, 20 2001
Robert Jensen
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My clearest memory of the 1991 Persian Gulf War is a few moments on a bus when the world melted in front of me.
Author: Rush to Judgement
Commentary, December, 19 2001
Guest Author
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Just a few weeks ago, in Massachusetts, acting Governor Jane Swift approved a bill that exonerates the accused witches hung in 1692 and 1693 during the Salem Witch Trials. The women were the last of the 20 victims to be cleared by the legislature ...
Author: Private Power
Commentary, December, 18 2001
Guest Author
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In Papua New Guinea a quiet revolution has just taken place, demonstrating the power of major translational companies, and writing into law what has long been the defacto, and until now not publicly acknowledged, relationship between this countryÕ...
Bond: Momentum Returns to the Movements against Corporate Globalisation
Commentary, December, 17 2001
Patrick Bond
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I was glad to see Mokhiber/Weissman writing for ZNet last week on the durability of the anti-neoliberal movement. Here in Johannesburg, September 11 came and went, with linkages made between the Left peace movement's urgent agenda--anti-war demons...
Wise: Playing the World War Two Card: Nostalgia in the Crusade Against Terrorism
Commentary, December, 16 2001
Tim Wise
Wise's ZSpace page
Traveling through airports, as I often do, can prove to be quite an educational experience. Therein, one can engage in people watching, examine the culinary habits of corporate types and tourists, and occasionally gain insight into the mindset of ...
Glass: The Scene Is Set For Another Lebanon
Commentary, December, 16 2001
Charles Glass
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Another Palestinian has killed himself in Jerusalem. He was walking towards the David Citadel Hotel in King David Street, where two Israeli ministers were staying. The minister of public security, Uzi Landau, and the religious affairs minister, As...
Healy: Mai Rises From The Dead
Commentary, December, 15 2001
Sean Healy
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In B-grade splatter films, even after the evil villain has been sliced, diced and dunked in lava, you just know he'll be back for the sequel. Apparently it's the same with corporate plots to take over the world -- because the Multilateral Agreemen...
Flanders: Beyond The Burqa
Commentary, December, 14 2001
Laura Flanders
Flanders's ZSpace page
There was a moment in this war when the Bush administration appeared to care about nothing so much as women's liberation.
Raptis: Do the (Ordinary) Americans Know?
Commentary, December, 13 2001
Nikos Raptis
Raptis's ZSpace page
Does the ordinary American know what the American Government has been doing to the other peoples of the world?
Russell: Damn Lies
Commentary, December, 12 2001
Marta Russell
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Economist/pundits, distanced from the harsh realities of the now official recession, talk of the rising numbers of unemployed as if there is no human cost to the "natural" business cycle. Worse, they act as public relations agents for capitalism; ...
Russell: Damn Lies
Znet Article, December, 12 2001
Marta Russell
Russell's ZSpace page
Economist/pundits, distanced from the harsh realities of the now official recession, talk of the rising numbers of unemployed as if there is no human cost to the "natural" business cycle. Worse, they act as public relations agents for capitalism; ...
Choudry: Mekim Na Savvy: Bougainville - Small Nation, Big Message
Commentary, December, 11 2001
Aziz Choudry
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These days we are swamped by information about the impact of corporate capitalism, structural adjustment, and the power and influence of transnational corporations. We are bludgeoned with propaganda about the inevitability of globalisation, of the...
