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Pelaez: Uruguay: A Wrecked Country
Znet Article, July, 31 2002
Carlos Pelaez
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[translated by Alfred Sola] The banks Banco Montevideo, Caja Obrera, Comercial and next the Banco Hipotecario del Uruguay are going bankrupt, plus there are five other affected institutions The banking holidays imposed yesterday by treasury aut...
Frankenthal: The Ethics Of Revenge--by a father who lost his son to terror
Znet Article, July, 31 2002
Yitzhak Frankenthal
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My beloved son Arik, my own flesh and blood, was murdered by Palestinians. My tall blue-eyed golden-haired son who was always smiling with the innocence of a child and the understanding of an adult. My son. If to hit his killers, innocent Palest...
Estrecho: The Main Dish
Znet Article, July, 31 2002
Marejada-en-el Estrecho
Estrecho's ZSpace page
[from a local Algeciras Fanzine, translated by Robert Ross] Last Tuesday there was a celebration dinner held in the hotel Reina Cristina, Algeciras (Spain), to commemorate the third year of the current king of Morocco’s Mohamed the Sixthâ...
Burbach: Another World is Possible
Znet Article, July, 30 2002
Roger Burbach
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Rio de Janeiro -- Luis Inacio da Silva, the left-leaning candidate of the Workers Party, has taken a commanding lead in the upcoming October presidential elections. A victory by da Silva, commonly known as "Lula", would have political repercussion...
Silverstein: No War for Oil!
Znet Article, July, 30 2002
Ken Silverstein
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The war in Afghanistan is a sham. The Bush administration had advance knowledge of the September 11 attack...
Peters: Anniversary 9/11
Znet Article, July, 29 2002
Cynthia Peters
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For almost a year now, many of us have been organizing against the "war on terrorism." We see it as nothing of the kind. Rather, the real problem of terrorism is being used by Bush to assert unilateral U.S. power in the world, display military m...
Lowenstein: Welcome To The Erez Crossing
Znet Article, July, 29 2002
Jennifer Lowenstein
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GAZA CITY: "Welcome to the Erez Crossing". The sign on the way out of Gaza really says this. Yes. Greetings. Welcome to a half a mile of concrete barriers and barbed wire. Welcome to electrical wires and fortified soldiers' bunkers. Take no ...
Plitnick: Anatomy Of An Atrocity
Znet Article, July, 28 2002
Mitchell Plitnick
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In the early morning hours, just after midnight on July 23, an American-made F-16 fighter jet, paid for with American tax dollars granted to Israel, launched a missile at a Gaza City apartment building, with the goal of killing Sheikh Salah Shehad...
Winer: Secrecy Case 'Settled'
Znet Article, July, 28 2002
Stan Winer
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The SA History Archive says it has reached an "out-of-court settlement" in a landmark constitutional case concerning access to apartheid-era military intelligence records in the custody of the SA National Defence Force (SANDF). Archive director ...
Hanieh: West Bank Curfews
Znet Article, July, 27 2002
Adam Hanieh
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The Israeli F-16 strike early on July 23 that killed Hamas leader Salah Shehada and 15 Palestinian civilians in the crowded Gaza neighborhood of al-Daraj put the roiling Israeli-Palestinian conflict suddenly back in the Western headlines. It is po...
Watkins: Greed Is Good
Znet Article, July, 27 2002
Kevin Watkins
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Remember the summer of 1992? The Conservatives had just been re-elected, George Bush senior was in the White House, Nelson Mandela was negotiating the end of apartheid - and sustainable development hit the headlines. Meeting at the Earth summit in...
Azulay: The Divided City
Znet Article, July, 26 2002
Jessica Azulay
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In Hebron, even one of the mosques is divided, one side for Jews and one side for Muslims. There are separate entrances for each and both are guarded by Israeli soldiers and framed by metal detectors. It has been that way since 1994, when a Jewish...
Hutchinson: Distorted Picture Of Black Progress
Znet Article, July, 26 2002
Earl ofari Hutchinson
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Once again the National Urban League has released its report on the state of Black America. Unlike in past years, the League says that blacks have much to cheer about. They are better educated, make more money, live in better neighborhoods, own mo...
Mokhiber: Push Back
Znet Article, July, 26 2002
Russell Mokhiber
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Let the corporate criminals take over Wall Street. And investors flee the market. Hello criminals. Goodbye market. Pollute nature. And nature confronts the polluters. Push the people to the edge of their misery, and the people push back. In...
Rebick: Ramallah Revelations
Znet Article, July, 26 2002
Judy Rebick
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"My favourite movie is Life is Beautiful," Refaat Sabbah tells me. "I love the way the hero protects his son from the experience of the concentration camp. I try to protect my children from the horrors around us too," he adds with a gentle smile. ...
Pilger: Our Writers Failure
Znet Article, July, 26 2002
John Pilger
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On 17 June, I wrote about Martin Amis's recent Guardian essay, "The voice of the lonely crowd", in which he described the response of acclaimed writers like himself to 11 September as a "pitiable babble". In fact, they were and remain most...
Villa: Mexico: The Conflict in San Salvador Atenco
Znet Article, July, 25 2002
Borja Villa
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Translated by Cole Miller The government of Mexican president Vicente Fox issued a presidential decree on October 2 of last year by virtue of which more than 5,000 hectares were expropriated in the municipalities of Texcoco and San Salvador Aten...
Solomon: Will This Be An "Official Scandal" Or Something More?
Znet Article, July, 25 2002
Norman Solomon
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With huge financial scandals causing turmoil in the United States, this year has seen some vigorous reporting about high-level misdeeds and corporate manipulation. But many news stories just take the lead from top officials. In the months ahead, w...
Bishara: Beyond Belief
Znet Article, July, 25 2002
Azmi Bishara
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The prevailing Palestinian political culture is in an unprecedented state of decay, the most significant manifestations of which are the absence of a national liberation movement, even in form, and the absence of a clear hierarchy and chain-of-com...
Loewenstein: Rising Up From the Dust: Report from Gaza City
Znet Article, July, 24 2002
Jennifer Loewenstein
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Gaza City, Occupied Palestine. Heaps of concrete, broken pillars with wire sticking out, people's shoes, clothes, bedding, strewn haphazardly among the rubble, dust everywhere, a hole in the landscape where a two-story apartment was just yesterday...
