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Znet Article Monbiot: Greens Get Eaten

Znet Article, January, 15 2002 George Monbiot
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Environmentalism as an argument has been comprehensively won. As a practice it is all but extinct. Just as people in Britain have united around the demand for effective public transport, car sales have broken all records. Yesterday the superstore ...

Commentary Cromwell: The public threat to private power

Commentary, January, 14 2002 David Cromwell
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ÔThe single greatest threat to the multilateral trade system is the absence of public support.Õ Thus spoke Charlene Barshefsky, ClintonÕs U.S. trade representative, in the run-up to the 1999 WTO summit in Seattle.

Znet Article Parrish: White America Misuses MLK Day

Znet Article, January, 14 2002 Geov Parrish
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On Jan. 15, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. would be 72. If he had survived. And in every conceivable sense of the word, he has not. At least, not in White America. ...

Znet Article Wise: Rationalizing Racism

Znet Article, January, 14 2002 Tim Wise
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Random security checks. That’s what they’re called anyway: those extra bag searches and body scans being done at airports across the U.S., presumably to deter a new round of terrorist attacks. On each flight, a handful of passenger...

Znet Article Levy: A crime against the innocent

Znet Article, January, 14 2002 Gideon Levy
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The punitive action executed by Israel at the weekend in the Gaza Strip, and in particular the mass demolition of homes in Rafah on Thursday morning, constitute a war crime. There is no other way to describe and define the collective punishment of...

Znet Article Levy: Crime Against the Innocent

Znet Article, January, 14 2002 Gideon Levy
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 Monday, January 14, 2002   The punitive action executed by Israel at the weekend in the Gaza Strip, and in particular the mass demolition of homes in Rafah on Thursday morning, constitute a war crime. There is no other way to describe a...

Znet Article Pilger: Blair's meeting with Arafat

Znet Article, January, 14 2002 John Pilger
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Tony Blair's heroic peacemaking is not as it seems. Take the Middle East. When Blair welcomed Yasser Arafat to Downing Street following 11 September, it was widely reported that Britain was backing justice for the Palestinians. Editorialists drew ...

Znet Article Pilger: Blair's Disguised Support for Sharon and the Zionist Project

Znet Article, January, 14 2002 John Pilger
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Tony Blair's heroic peacemaking is not as it seems. Take the Middle East. When Blair welcomed Yasser Arafat to Downing Street following 11 September, it was widely reported that Britain was backing justice for the Palestinians. Editorialists drew ...

Znet Article Ashrawi: A Question of Conscience

Znet Article, January, 14 2002 Dr. hanan Ashrawi
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Jerusalem - Although the oft lamented, near demise of the peace camp in Israel has become the subject of current debate-whether in disappointment, anger or in horror, some heroic stories still persist in defying the prevailing "wisdom." The ilks o...

Commentary Albert: Democracy Is Coming To Pacifica

Commentary, January, 13 2002 Michael Albert
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PacificaÕs struggle is in a new phase, about to take a big leap forward. Countless activists have pursued diverse strategies and have resisted recriminations and have now finally overcome reactionary obstacles. A majority progressive interim board...

Znet Article Podur: Differing Agendas in South Asia

Znet Article, January, 13 2002 Justin Podur
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A Difficulty Criticizing Third World States For a leftist from the third world, living in the first world, there is a certain difficulty in criticizing the administration of a third world country, like India or Pakistan.  First, such...

Znet Article Dominick: Towards An Anti-Capitlaist Globe

Znet Article, January, 13 2002 Brian Dominick
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"EVERYTHING HAS CHANGED. NOTHING HAS CHANGED." I cannot say how many times I've heard that sentiment expressed by leftists since September 11. We all know it. The elites' aspirations are exactly the same as before. They have found a way to use Sep...

Znet Article Guma: Enron, We Hardly Knew Ye

Znet Article, January, 13 2002 Greg Guma
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Until it imploded last October, Enron -- long known as End-Run by its critics -- was often described as just another aggressive corporation eager to expand its portfolio and open routes into new markets, albeit sometimes with "strong arm" tactics....

Znet Article Hutton: Greed is the creed

Znet Article, January, 13 2002 Will Hutton
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American democracy is increasingly a fraud. Money buys votes, influence and office. Contemporary Washington makes Caligula's Rome look like a vicar's tea party. American politicians' need for business donations on a gigantic scale to win their ele...

Znet Article Beaumont: American Cant

Znet Article, January, 13 2002 Peter Beaumont
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Imagine the scene. A group of alleged Irish terrorists is seized and handed over to the British Government by a third country. They are held without access to any lawyers. Some are threatened by interrogating intelligence officers. They are told t...

Commentary Dowd: From the Unthinkable to the Probable in Israel/Palestine

Commentary, January, 12 2002 Douglas Dowd
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From the Unthinkable to the Probable in Israel/Palestine

Znet Article Avnery: The Ships on the Way

Znet Article, January, 12 2002 Uri Avnery
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The chiefs of the three big parties in Israel - the Likud, the Labor Party and the army - were sitting on the stage. They were frustrated. They knew already that they had not succeeded in selling the great show that they had prepared with so much ...

Znet Article Bolonik: Marian And Me

Znet Article, January, 12 2002 Kera Bolonik
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Jan. 7, 2002 | It was the kind of battle that provocateur journalistMichael Moore would ordinarily consider red meat: a major media corporationthreatening a writer's freedom of speech. Moore's new book, "Stupid WhiteMen and Other Excuses for the S...

Commentary Author: Bioterrorism: We May Not Be So Lucky Next Time

Commentary, January, 11 2002 Guest Author
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It may be due to dumb luck Ð not public health preparedness Ð that only four people died from anthrax bioterrorism to date according to some experts. They warn that other organisms, such as smallpox, which are highly contagious, could cause hundre...

Znet Article Albert: Democracy Is Coming To Pacifica

Znet Article, January, 11 2002 Michael Albert
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Pacifica’s struggle is in a new phase, about to take a big leap forward. Countless activists have pursued diverse strategies and have resisted recriminations and have now finally overcome reactionary obstacles. A majority progressive inter...

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