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Choudry: Canada’s Dirty War Over Words
Commentary, November, 21 2001
Aziz Choudry
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My October visit to Canada was overshadowed by the vicious demonisation and vilification of a friend. ZNet has already posted a copy of University of British Columbia academic and social justice activist Sunera Thobani’s speech and her pa...
Choudry: CanadaÕs Dirty War Over Words
Commentary, November, 21 2001
Aziz Choudry
Choudry's ZSpace page
My October visit to Canada was overshadowed by the vicious demonisation and vilification of a friend. ZNet has already posted a copy of University of British Columbia academic and social justice activist Sunera ThobaniÕs speech and her paper ÒWar...
Author: Forget The Cliches, There Is No Easy Way For The West To Sort This Out
Commentary, November, 21 2001
Guest Author
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Afghanistan - As the armies of the West are about to realise - is not a country. You can't "occupy" or even "control" Afghanistan because it is neither a state nor a nation.
Marable: The Failure of U.S. Foreign Policies
Commentary, November, 20 2001
Manning Marable
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The bombing campaign against the people of Afghanistan will be described in history as the "U.S. Against the Third World." The launching of military strikes against peasants does nothing to suppress terrorism, and only erodes American credibility ...
Mokhiber: Kill, Kill, Kill
Commentary, November, 19 2001
Russell Mokhiber
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In a recent interview with the Pakistani newspaper Dawn, Osama bin Laden justified the killing of innocent Americans this way :
Bond: Interpreting Thabo Mbeki's various African initiatives
Commentary, November, 18 2001
Patrick Bond
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Thabo Mbeki's speech last Saturday morning at the UN is the highest-profile opportunity yet for the South African leader to plead for a permanent Security Council seat for Africa. He's already been told that two seats--his first prize (presumably ...
Rebick: Qatar reveals impact of Sept 11 on trade battle
Commentary, November, 17 2001
Judy Rebick
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After years of battle, the pro-corporate globalization forces have won a victory in Qatar. Maude Barlow in an internet radio report from Qatar www.canadians.org says NGOs on the ground at the World Trade Organization (WTO) talks Òare devastated.Ó
Prashad: Afghan Aftermaths: the Feign of Inevitability
Commentary, November, 17 2001
Vijay Prashad
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Like ninepins the Afghan cities fell from a band of principled barbarians (the Taliban) to a band of unprincipled barbarians (the so-called Northern Alliance):
Monbiot: Blasting Our Way to Peace The West's "victory" is a defeat for civilisation
Commentary, November, 16 2001
George Monbiot
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The armchair warriors have proved no more merciful in victory than the Northern Alliance. Yesterday's Sun turned over two pages to an editorial titled "Shame of the traitors: wrong, wrong, wrong ... the fools who said Allies faced disaster".
Raptis: Nukes and Rationality
Commentary, November, 15 2001
Nikos Raptis
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Let us make the assumption that humans have the potential to think rationally. If the assumption is wrong, this text (or any other text for that matter) is irrelevant. So, if in the nature of man there is the potential for rationality, why is ther...
Author: Shootdown: Some Reflections
Commentary, November, 14 2001
Guest Author
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Nobody would dare fly from a foreign country into U.S. airspace to try to drop leaflets over Washington. NORAD (North American Aerospace Defense) would be ready for a shootdown.
Bronski: Gay Rights/ Human Rights: An Interview with Surina Khan
Commentary, November, 13 2001
Michael Bronski
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As a native of Pakistan working full-time in the field of human rights, Surina Khan, executive director of the San Francisco-based International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission (IGLHRC), has a lot to say about America's war on terrorism.
Monbiot: Trade Piracy Unmasked
Commentary, November, 12 2001
George Monbiot
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Just as woodworkers used to drink in the Carpenter's Arms, or farmhands in the Jolly Ploughman, the trade negotiators from the world's richest nations have found their way to their own hallowed ground.
Russell: Madmen?
Commentary, November, 11 2001
Marta Russell
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Since the destruction of the World Trade Center buildings on September 11, there have been numerous public outcries casting the terrorists and suspects as disabled.
Herman: Genocide As Collateral Damage, But With Sincere Regrets
Commentary, November, 10 2001
Edward Herman
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The Bush Afghan war calls up memories of the Vietnam war in both actions and rhetoric: the massive use of superior arms heavily impacting civilians, deliberate food deprivation, wholesale terror allegedly combatting "terrorism," but always "sincer...
Weisbrot: What Everyone Should Know About Nicaragua
Commentary, November, 09 2001
Mark Weisbrot
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The United States' first post-September 11 foray into Latin American politics -- in Nicaragua's election -- provides a glimpse of how Washington's new "counter-terrorism" policy may play out in this region.
Author: Hypocrisy, Hatred And The War On Terror
Commentary, November, 09 2001
Guest Author
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"Air campaign"? "Coalition forces"? "War on terror"? How much longer must we go on enduring these lies? There is no "campaign" Ð merely an air bombardment of the poorest and most broken country in the world by the world's richest and most sophisti...
Choudry: Advance Australia Fair?
Commentary, November, 08 2001
Aziz Choudry
Choudry's ZSpace page
In historyÕs page let every stage Advance Australia Fair
Healy: The Empire wants war, not justice
Commentary, November, 07 2001
Sean Healy
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Among all the words the Bush administration has used to describe the September 11 terrorist attacks -- "atrocity", "outrage", "act of evil" -- one phrase has been conspicuously missing: "crime against humanity".
Starhawk: Now Is the Time to Act
Commentary, November, 07 2001
Starhawk
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I'm sitting here scrolling through my backlog of email, and two themes predominate: the illegitimacy and horror of America's New War, and a multitude of voices from the movement I thought I was a part of telling us to pause, to keep quiet, that pr...


