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Achcar: An Open Letter to Juan Cole
Znet Article, September, 23 2005
Gilbert Achcar
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An Open Letter to Juan Cole
Chavez: Chavez at the UN
Znet Article, September, 18 2005
Hugo Chavez
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Your Excellency and Friends The original intention of this meeting has been totally weakened. We have been prevailed upon, as center of our debate, to consider some badly named "reforms". These reforms relegate as unimportant all that the world'...
Fisk: Religious Terror
Znet Article, September, 18 2005
Robert Fisk
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In an age when Lord Blair of Kut al-Amara can identify "evil ideologies" and al-Qa’ida can call the suicide bombing of 156 Iraqi Shias "good news" for the "nation of Islam", thank heaven for our readers, in particular John Shepherd, princi...
Cagan: Interviewing Cagan
Znet Article, September, 17 2005
Leslie Cagan
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[Leslie Cagan is national coordinator of United for Peace and Justice, a coalition of more than 1,300 local and national groups that have "joined together to oppose our government's policy of permanent warfare and empire- building." (http://www....
Hass: Workers of Gaza unite!
Znet Article, September, 17 2005
Amira Hass
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Another demand was added last week to the list of demands of the Independent Workers Committees in Gaza, which they have been presenting in the past few months to institutions of the Palestinian Authority and its leadership. The new demand is the ...
Flaherty: Back Inside New Orleans
Znet Article, September, 14 2005
Jordan Flaherty
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What actually happened in New Orleans these past two weeks? We need to sort through the rumors and distortions. Perhaps we need our version of South Africa’s Truth And Reconciliation Commission. Some way to sort through the many narratives...
Dowd: The United States Becomes Its Own Worst Enemy
Znet Article, September, 14 2005
Douglas Dowd
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Introduction. Since the 1970s the United States has become increasingly captive to consumeristic frenzy and religious zeal at home and to an arrogant and bloody militarism abroad. As we do so, has not the following description come to fit us as ...
Mian: Feeding the Nuclear Fire
Znet Article, September, 09 2005
Zia Mian
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This article was first published in Economic and Political Weekly, August 27, 2005. The July 18 joint statement by US president George Bush and prime minister Manmohan Singh has attracted a great deal of comment. The focus has been the possible c...
Abed: Disengagement Invigorates Israeli Apartheid
Znet Article, September, 08 2005
Mohammad Abed
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The territory of historical Palestine is home to two ethnic groups, Israelis and Palestinians. Today, this entire territory is under the full political and military control of Israel, a state that defines itself as serving the interests of only on...
Dowd: The United States Becomes Its Own Worst Enemy
Znet Article, September, 08 2005
Douglas Dowd
Dowd's ZSpace page
Introduction. Since the 1970s the United States has become increasingly captive to consumeristic frenzy and religious zeal at home and to an arrogant and bloody militarism abroad. As we do so, has not the following description come to fit us a...
Solo: Katrina
Znet Article, September, 06 2005
Toni Solo
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Failure to prioritize anyone's needs but their own is to be expected of the mendacious, cunning Bush regime. But the wretchedness and misery endured by people in the southern US States abandoned to their fate after hurricane Katrina has broader as...
Nettnin: Who Supports Palestinians in the U.S.?
Znet Article, September, 05 2005
Sonia Nettnin
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While the Israeli-Palestinian conflict continues most people think the most ardent advocates of Palestinians’ right to self-determination are Arabs and Muslims worldwide. In the United States, the Arab-American and Muslim communities h...
Podur: Refugees and Citizens
Znet Article, September, 05 2005
Justin Podur
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Jesse Jackson and Bruce Gordon are just two of many high-profile Black leaders who have expressed indignation at the description of those displaced by Hurricane Katrina as ‘refugees’. ‘It is just wrong’, Jackson sai...
Swanson: Yuppies and the Peace Movement
Znet Article, September, 01 2005
David Swanson
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PART 1 The single biggest reason that the peace movement is not larger and more aggressive is that people with one foot in it are focused on trying to be respectable in the eyes of the corporate media, for their own sake and – in their mi...
Zunes: The U.S. and Iran: Democracy, Terrorism, and Nuclear Weapons
Znet Article, August, 31 2005
Stephen Zunes
Zunes's ZSpace page
The election of the hard-line Teheran mayor, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, over former President Ayatollah Hashemi Rafsanjani as the new head of Iran is undeniably a setback for those hoping to advance greater social and political freedom in that country. ...
Fisk: How Easily We Have Come To Take The Bombs And The Deaths In Iraq For Granted
Znet Article, August, 28 2005
Robert Fisk
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Taking things for granted. Or, as a very dear friend of mine used to say to me, "There you go." I am sitting in Baghdad airport, waiting for my little Flying Carpet Airlines 20-seater prop aircraft to take me home to Beirut but the local Iraqi sta...
Hass: The Settlers Are Gone, The Polluted Water Remains
Znet Article, August, 26 2005
Amira Hass
Hass's ZSpace page
On the eve of the evacuation of settlements from the Gaza Strip, two assumptions relating to water sources took wing among Palestinians. The first: behind Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's decision to leave the Strip lies the fact that the supply of p...
Elmer: Soldiers, Anguish Remain Around Evacuated West Bank Settlements
Znet Article, August, 26 2005
Jon Elmer
Elmer's ZSpace page
Jenin, West Bank, Aug 26 - Standing in her barnyard amid the chickens and cows, corn stalks and wheat, Sarah Hassan's optimism is guarded, her memories searing as she looks out at the Jewish settlement of Kadim. Her farm, in the village of Arab A...
Hass: The Remaining 99.5 Percent
Znet Article, August, 24 2005
Amira Hass
Hass's ZSpace page
"I want to ask you as a Jew to a Jewess," the young man said a few days ago. In these days, a beginning such as this invites a dialogue of the kind in which we have been drowning for several weeks now - a dialogue in which the definition "Jew" has...
Abu-manneh: A Colonial Disengagement
Znet Article, August, 23 2005
Bashir Abu-manneh
Abu-manneh's ZSpace page
Israel has created a media spectacle out of a tactical maneuver. This simple fact can be easily forgotten when one is daily bombarded by images of anguished and tearful settlers, their 'painful' evacuation, and their children's 'youthful' (and fan...
