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Engler: Haiti and Media
Znet Article, June, 05 2005
Yves Engler
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Extra, extra, read all about it ... but only in ZNet. Here are just a few of the recent non- or under-reported stories involving Canada and Haiti. Did you read in your local paper that in mid-May, 250 people braved a rainy Sunday morning in downt...
Boxall: South Africa and Palestine
Znet Article, May, 30 2005
Lawrence Boxall
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Lawrence Boxall is an anti-war activist and socialist; a member of Jews for a Just Peace, Stopwar.ca and the International Socialists, as well as being a veteran of the anti-Apartheid struggle in South Africa. Before moving to Vancouver in time to...
Shalom: The Anti-War Movement and Iraq
Znet Article, May, 24 2005
Stephen1 Shalom
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Solomon: Nuclear Fundamentalism and the Iran Story
Znet Article, May, 05 2005
Norman Solomon
Solomon's ZSpace page
Years from now, when historians look back at agenda-building for a missile attack on Iran, they should closely examine a story that took up the USA's most coveted space for media spin -- the upper right corner of the New York Times front page -- o...
Chmiel: Remembering Oscar Romero and Rachel Corrie
Znet Article, March, 24 2005
Mark Chmiel
Chmiel's ZSpace page
This week, March 24, marks the twenty-fifth anniversary of when El Salvadoran Archbishop Oscar Romero was assassinated while celebrating Mass. A month before, he had sent a letter to then-president Jimmy Carter, imploring him to cut off military a...
Bello: Iraq, the U.S., and the Challenges to the Global Peace Movement
Znet Article, March, 20 2005
Walden Bello
Bello's ZSpace page
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
Milne's ZSpace page
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
Achcar's ZSpace page
WHITHER IRAQ?
Hallinan: Cornering The Dragon
Znet Article, February, 24 2005
Conn Hallinan
Hallinan's ZSpace page
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
Churchill's ZSpace page
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
Reinhart's ZSpace page
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
Moyers's ZSpace page
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...
