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Author: Creating Pretexts: The Post-9/11 Campaign Against Iraq
Commentary, December, 03 2001
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In the aftermath of September 11, powerful forces within the U.S. establishment have been engaged in a campaign of lies, disinformation, and speculation to pin blame for the World Trade Center attacks and the anthrax mailings on Iraq and Saddam Hu...
Rebick: It Really Is About New Politics
Commentary, December, 02 2001
Judy Rebick
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The New Politics Initiative (www.newpolitics.ca), which made its debut at the convention of the New Democratic Party (CanadaÕs social democratic party) in Winnipeg last weekend, could be one of the most innovative and significant developments on t...
Healy: Aids Fight Boosted By Big Pharma's Defeat
Commentary, December, 01 2001
Sean Healy
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There's not often something to celebrate on World AIDS Day, December 1, but there might be this year: a small, much fought-over clause in a World Trade Organisation declaration may signify a turning of the tide, at least insofar as poor peoples' a...
Ali: No Room At The Inn For Mr Biswas
Commentary, November, 29 2001
Tariq Ali
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This is the story of why V.S. NaipaulÕs comic masterpiece, A House for Mr Biswas, which won him the Nobel Prize for Literature a few weeks ago, was turned down in 1998 by an over-hyped inert mediocrity named Michael Jackson who had just usurped th...
Brecher: End of the Global Gilded Age
Commentary, November, 28 2001
Jeremy Brecher
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While AmericaÕs politicians and media focus on terrorism and counter-terrorism, the global gilded age is coming to an end. While advocates of globalization gloat that September 11 has silenced the critics of globalization, the emerging global rec...
Lusane: The World is Hungry
Commentary, November, 27 2001
Clarence Lusane
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What do the people who are starving in the world outside of Afghanistan have to do to get food?
Klein: It's not enough to bring Soweto to Rosedale
Commentary, November, 26 2001
Naomi Klein
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On Saturday night, I found myself at a party honouring Nelson Mandela and raising money for his children's fund. It was a lovely affair and only a very rude person would have pointed out that the party was packed with many of the banking and minin...
Flanders: Let's Not Reinvent The Peace-making Wheel
Commentary, November, 25 2001
Laura Flanders
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If we are looking for signs that the sordid mess in Afghanistan is not hopeless, we should consider the surprising recent experience of Somalia.
Davis: Legal Tide Has Turned Against Disabled
Znet Article, November, 25 2001
Lennard j. Davis
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Most Americans react to the idea of disability with good wishes and a silent prayer to the effect that "there but for the grace of God go I." With this level of detachment, few may have noticed a disturbing and seemingly ineluctable trend in whi...
Schechter: After The Media Recount: Who Will Apologize To The People?
Commentary, November, 24 2001
Danny Schechter
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The long-awaited recount of the results of the 2000 presidential election, begun with so much hope and investigative enterprise by a consortium of leading U.S. media organizations, came and went with a whimper not a bang. Released on Sunday, Novem...
Monbiot: Making Generosity Redundant
Commentary, November, 23 2001
George Monbiot
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They thought it was all over. After civilisation's victory in Afghanistan, where the lion now lies down with the lamb, there was, almost all the newspapers agreed, nothing left to discuss. All that needed to be done was to remind those who had que...
Author: Unleashing the CIA?
Commentary, November, 22 2001
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The old joke goes that in the waning days of the Second World War, when Hitler was told of yet another defeat on the battlefield, he slammed his fist into his desk and declared: "That does it! No more Mr. Nice Guy!"
Burchill: The End of Cosmopolitanism?
Commentary, November, 22 2001
Scott Burchill
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If it didn't have such disastrous consequences for some of the world's most desperate people, it would be amusing to watch the advocates of economic globalisation suddenly start championing border protection.
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
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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 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
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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
