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Susskind: After Six Years, Some US troops Will Leave Iraq. But Where Are We Leaving Iraqi Women?
Znet Article, March, 17 2009
Yifat Susskind
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If you haven't thought about the Iraq War as a story of US allies systematically torturing and executing women, you're not alone. Likewise, if you were under the impression that Iraqi women were somehow better off under their new, US-sponsored gov...
Susskind: From Mumbai to Washington: Now is the Time to Renounce the War on Terror
Znet Article, December, 02 2008
Yifat Susskind
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Right now, while the horror of the attacks in Mumbai is reverberating around the world and tensions between India and Pakistan are mounting, there is a crucial move that President-elect Obama could make to chart a positive course forward. Obama sh...
Susskind: Iraqi Women Say No to US Occupation, No to Islamist Violence.
Znet Article, March, 18 2008
Yifat Susskind
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In Iraq, women know that despite all of Bush's talk of women's rights and democracy, the US does not want genuine democracy in Iraq...
Susskind: Bush’s Legacy VS. African Women’s Lives
Znet Article, February, 22 2008
Yifat Susskind
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President Bush headed home on Thursday from his five-day, five-country tour of Africa. Not since Thanksgiving 2003, when he showed up at the Baghdad Airport with a fake turkey for US troops have we seen such saccharine Presidential photo ops. And ...
Susskind: Inequality, Not Identity, Fuels Violence in Kenya
Znet Article, February, 06 2008
Yifat Susskind
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We live in a time when the notion of a “clash of civilizations” passes for political science and an us-versus-them mentality (“you’re either with us or with the terrorists”) is the basis of super-power foreign policy. The crudeness of those ideas ...
Susskind: Who is Killing the Women of Basra?
Znet Article, January, 09 2008
Yifat Susskind
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In Basra, Iraq's second largest city, 2008 was ushered in with an announcement of the 2007 death toll of women targeted by Islamist militias. City officials reported on December 31 that 133 women were killed and mutilated last year, their bodies d...
Susskind: New Year, No Resolutions on Climate Change
Znet Article, December, 20 2007
Yifat Susskind
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With the dramatic wrap-up of the UN climate change conference in Bali, 2007 is drawing to a close. Now we have seven short years—until 2015—to reverse the rise of greenhouse gas emissions and avoid a global temperature increase of two degrees Cels...
Susskind: Hurricane Felix's First Responders
Znet Article, September, 06 2007
Yifat Susskind
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A 50-year-old Miskito ...
Susskind: It's Not Just an Abortion Ban: The Christian Right's Global Agenda
Znet Article, May, 03 2007
Yifat Susskind
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After the initial shoc...
Susskind: Iraq's Other War: Violence against Women Under US Occupation
Znet Article, March, 08 2007
Yifat Susskind
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Last week, Houzan Mahmoud* opened her e-mail and found a message from Ansar al-Islam, a notoriously brutal Sunni jihadist group. The message read simply, "we will kill you by the middle of March." Houzan is an outspoken Iraqi feminis...
Susskind: Beyond the Surge: Demanding an End to Bush's War
Znet Article, January, 14 2007
Yifat Susskind
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Beyond the Surge: Demanding an End to Bush's War
Susskind: Abstaining from Greed and Dogma: The AIDS Policy We Should Call for in 2007
Znet Article, December, 02 2006
Yifat Susskind
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A whole generation into the AIDS pandemic, we now have significant (though still insufficient) knowledge of how to combat the disease. But while the world's collective understanding is gradually advancing, US AIDS policy remains mired in a right...
Susskind: Misery in the Name of Democracy
Znet Article, December, 16 2005
Yifat Susskind
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The Bush Administration is touting Iraq's December 15 election as a giant leap forward for freedom guaranteed to ignite fervor for democracy across the entire Middle East. But closer to home, the Administration has discovered that democracy has cr...
Susskind: The Reconfigured Occupation
Znet Article, August, 06 2005
Yifat Susskind
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In mid-August, Israel is scheduled to begin its "disengagement" from the Gaza Strip, which it has occupied for 38 years. Under the plan, Israeli settlers and soldiers will be removed from Gaza and from four isolated West Bank settlements. Diseng...
Susskind: Haiti - Insurrection in the Making
Znet Article, February, 25 2004
Yifat Susskind
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Haiti - Insurrection in the Making
Susskind: Adjusting To Empire
Znet Article, July, 12 2003
Yifat Susskind
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"America was targeted for attack because we're the brightest beacon of freedom and opportunity in the world." -George Bush, September 11, 2001 On September 11, 2001, George Bush supplied the first official answer to the new quintessential Ame...
Susskind: 10 Reasons To Oppose Us Militarization Of Aid And Reconstruction In Iraq
Znet Article, May, 02 2003
Yifat Susskind
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"We will deliver the food and medicine you need. We will tear down the apparatus of terror and we will help you to build a new Iraq that is prosperous and free." George Bush, televised address, 3/17/03. Now that Bush's illegal invasion has given...
Susskind: Talking With Friends And Family About Iraq
Znet Article, November, 25 2002
Yifat Susskind
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Like people everywhere, most people in the US think it’s wrong to kill civilians as a means of pressuring their government. But for many, the link between this conviction and opposition to the US plan to attack Iraq is severed by fear, mis...
Susskind: MADRE Factsheet
Znet Article, September, 18 2002
Yifat Susskind
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“Our principles and our security are challenged today by outlaw groups and regimes that accept no law of morality and have no limit to their violent ambitions.†Conservative commentator Samuel Huntington has pointed out th...
