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Bello: Iraq, the U.S., and the Challenges to the Global Peace Movement
Znet Article, March, 20 2005
Walden Bello
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Speech delivered in Vancouver, Canada, at an event sponsored by StopWar.ca, March 18, 2005, held on the occasion of the March 19-20 Global Protest against the War in Iraq. Over the next few days, millions of people throughout the world, from V...
Baroud: A Series of Unfortunate Events, The Iraq Edition
Znet Article, March, 19 2005
Ramzy Baroud
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I visited Baghdad as a reporter a few years before the US invasion. There were posters and statues of the ousted President Saddam Hussein everywhere. But not one checkpoint. Those lucky enough, or maybe unfortunate enough to report from the occup...
Milne: It Is Not Democracy That's On The March In The Middle East
Znet Article, March, 15 2005
Seumas Milne
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For weeks a western chorus has been celebrating a new dawn of Middle Eastern freedom, allegedly triggered by the Iraq war. Tony Blair hailed a "ripple of change", encouraged by the US and Britain, that was bringing democracy to benighted Muslim la...
Machover: A FAQ: What do you think about suicide bombers?
Znet Article, March, 11 2005
Moshe Machover
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The common motivation behind this frequently asked question is by no means an innocent one. In fact, the question itself is quit...
Ali: Ripples in the Middle East?
Znet Article, March, 07 2005
Mahir Ali
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IT IS not hard to discern the equivalent of a spring in the step in the recent output of the commentators and analysts who either supported the American aggression against Iraq, or criticized it desultorily only after they saw it developing into a...
Achcar: WHITHER IRAQ?
Znet Article, February, 25 2005
Gilbert Achcar
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WHITHER IRAQ?
Hallinan: Cornering The Dragon
Znet Article, February, 24 2005
Conn Hallinan
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When newly appointed CIA Director Porter Goss recently warned that China's modernization of its military posed a direct threat to the U.S., was it standard budget time scare tactics? Or did it signal the growing influence of hard-liners in the B...
Churchill: What Did I Really Say? And Why Did I Say It?
Znet Article, February, 22 2005
Ward Churchill
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Thanks to Clarke Iakovakis for the transcription. Emma Perez: I'm Emma Perez; I'm the new chair of the Department of Ethnic Studies [applause]. I'm very proud to be the chair of the Department of Ethnic Studies; I'm very proud of my colleagues; I...
Tanter: Japanese Militarization and the Bush Doctrine
Znet Article, February, 13 2005
Richard Tanter
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Japanese Militarization and the Bush Doctrine
Reinhart: From Aqaba To Sharm - Fake Peace Festivals.
Znet Article, February, 13 2005
Tanya Reinhart
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The Sharm-el - Sheikh summit of Sharon and Abbas is hailed in the Western media as the opening of a new era. This is the climax of a wave of optimism that has been generated since the death of Arafat. In the last four years, the Israeli leadership...
Fisk: Peace Without Justice
Znet Article, February, 11 2005
Robert Fisk
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So, the Palestinians will end their occupation of Israel. No more will Palestinian tanks smash their way into Haifa and Tel Aviv. No more will Palestinian F-18s bomb Israeli population centres. No more will Palestinian Apache helicopters carry out...
Cockburn: The Right has a License to Write Anything
Znet Article, February, 07 2005
Alexander Cockburn
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When it comes to left and right, meaning the respective voices of sanity and dementia, we're meant to keep two sets of books. Start with sanity, in the form of Ward Churchill, a tenured prof at the University of Colorado. Churchill is known natio...
Moyers: No Tomorrow
Znet Article, February, 02 2005
Bill Moyers
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One of the biggest changes in politics in my lifetime is that the delusional is no longer marginal. It has come in from the fringe, to sit in the seat of power in the Oval Office and in Congress. For the first time in our history, ideology and the...
Achcar: Reply to Alex Callinicos
Znet Article, January, 19 2005
Gilbert Achcar
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Reply to Alex Callinicos
Hersh: The Coming Wars
Znet Article, January, 19 2005
Seymour m. Hersh
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George W. Bush's reelection was not his only victory last fall. The President and his national-security advisers have consolidated control over the military and intelligence communities' strategic analyses and covert operations to a degree unmatch...
Chomsky: Imperial Presidency
Znet Article, December, 17 2004
Noam Chomsky
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It goes without saying that what happens in the US has an enormous impact on the rest of the world – and conversely: what happens in the rest of the...
Snitz: We are all Ahmed Awwad
Znet Article, December, 15 2004
Kobi Snitz
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In his book "stupid white men" Michael Moore, includes an open letter to Arafat, instructing him in the principles of non violence. Moore assures Arafat that when such an approach can not fail and, when taken, it will have a million potential Isra...
Turse: Giving the Gift of War
Znet Article, December, 12 2004
Nick Turse
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Giving the Gift of War
Petrovato: Violence At "Security Gate" Number 25
Znet Article, December, 12 2004
John Petrovato
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Jayyous, Occupied West Bank On December 6, Palestinian farmers returning from their fields at 4:30 p.m. found no Israeli soldiers present at the “security gate†to allow them back to their homes. Because the so-called security wal...
Warschawski: Israeli Democracy
Znet Article, December, 12 2004
Michel Warschawski
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This essay has been adapted from chapter 8 of Michel Warschawski’s Toward an Open Tomb: The Crisis of Israeli Society (Monthly Review Press, 2004), which presents an important dissident Israeli perspective that is rarely given a hearing in...
