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Znet Article Mondragon: Colombia: The Struggle Against Uribe Begins

Znet Article, September, 22 2002 Hector Mondragon
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[translated by Justin Podur] The new Colombian government's program includes: -A labor reform that reduces overnight and overtime wages-A pension reform that increases the retirement age by 1/3 -The reduction of public sector salaries by 30%, ov...

Znet Article Baskin: "Force The Palestinians To Surrender"

Znet Article, September, 22 2002 Gershon Baskin
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"Force the Palestinians to Surrender and End the War" - the streets of Israel have been placarded with this slogan that correctly paraphrases the sentiments of the average Israeli. The Israeli public has been blinded or chooses not to see the true...

Znet Article Herman: Christopher Hitchens And The Uses Of Demagoguery

Znet Article, September, 22 2002 Edward Herman
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In his latest phase as flack for the war party, Christopher Hitchens has taken on some of the qualities of his leader George W. Bush. A notable similarity is in his demagogic statement of the issues "we" face since 9/11--in W's words, an "evil" en...

Znet Article Parrish: A Moment Of Deep Hope

Znet Article, September, 21 2002 Geov Parrish
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Recently I had the tremendous honor, and pleasure, of sitting down for a conversation with one of the true heroes of global efforts to create a more equitable and sustainable world. Indian physicist Vandana Shiva is one of the most renowned and re...

Znet Article Mokhiber: The Bush Victory In Iraq

Znet Article, September, 21 2002 Russell Mokhiber
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George Bush has already won a victory in Iraq, and we're not talking about weapons inspectors' access inside the country. The administration's beating of the war drums has drowned out the dominant stories of two months ago -- the corporate scand...

Znet Article Arquimedes vitonás: Direct Democracy In Colombia

Znet Article, September, 20 2002 Alirio arroyave Arquimedes vitonás
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Colombian community leaders Alirio Arroyave and Arquimedes Vitonás were in Toronto last month to give talks, part of the Canada-Colombia Solidarity Campaign. rabble interviewer Justin Podur caught up with both men during their stay and spoke with...

Znet Article Brown: Killings Of Dozens Once Again Called Period Of Calm By US Media

Znet Article, September, 20 2002 Michael Brown
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Many US media reports were quick to declare that two suicide bombings in Israel on September 18 and 19, in which eight Israelis were killed, had brought an end to a period of "calm" simply because there had been no similar attacks for six weeks an...

Znet Article Sustar: Employers Attack: Unions Blink

Znet Article, September, 20 2002 Lee Sustar
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WITH THE Bush administration firmly behind them, employers are aggressively moving to break the strength of some of the historically most powerful unions in the U.S.--on the West Coast docks, in the airlines, and beyond. Yet rather than prepare u...

Znet Article Pilger: Diplomacy?

Znet Article, September, 19 2002 John Pilger
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The making of a United Nations fig leaf, designed to cover an Anglo-American attack on Iraq, has a revealing past. In 1990, a vers...

Znet Article Edwards: Power, Fear, And Silence

Znet Article, September, 19 2002 David Edwards
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It is ironic that when politicians hail the urgent need to defend ourdemocratic traditions, their words are generally communicated by giantmedia corporations, which are essentially totalitarian structures ofpower. There is not even a pretence of d...

Znet Article Cromwell: Mass Media Stoke The Fires Of War

Znet Article, September, 18 2002 David Cromwell
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News broadcasts and column inches are rapidly saturating with the rhetoric of war. The fate of the Iraqi people hangs in the balance. Iraq has now backed down in the face of overwhelming US/UK threats to launch a massive attack on that devastated ...

Znet Article King-irani: Massacres Don't Just Happen

Znet Article, September, 18 2002 Lauri King-irani
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Twenty years ago today, on a hot and muggy Saturday morning, a shocking reality came to light in Lebanon. Some people approaching the contiguous refugee camps of Sabra and Shatila in the outskirts of Beirut had their suspicions that dark deeds had...

Znet Article Ritter: A Semantic Game

Znet Article, September, 18 2002 Scott Ritter
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-> Your 1999 book on Iraq was entitled Endgame: Solving the Iraq Problem Once and For All. What about the game now, has it come to an end? Personally I never played any game. Endgame is a term used by political scientists when they speak of ...

Znet Article Appleby: "They Never Did Anything with the Land"

Znet Article, September, 18 2002 Robert Appleby
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In May of this year I was in Jerusalem to make a TV documentary about the South Hebron cavedwellers’ case in the Israeli Supreme Court. We were interviewing lawyers and human rights activists in Jerusalem and shooting in the villages, so w...

Znet Article Alsop: Colombian Government Attacks National Mobilizations

Znet Article, September, 18 2002 Nathalie Alsop
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On September 16th, only one month after Uribe Velez took office, over 800,000 people protested the Uribe government’s policies of war and repression throughout Colombia. When the national mobilization was mentioned publicly, the minister o...

Znet Article Hristov: Direct Democracy march in Bulgaria

Znet Article, September, 18 2002 Ivan Hristov
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On Sept. 12th 2002 in Sofia, Bulgaria a march for direct democracy rights passed through the centre of the city starting from the National Assembly and visiting the two public media – BNRadio and BNTelevision. A real responsibility for bad...

Znet Article 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...

Znet Article Fisk: Bush Wants War Not Justice

Znet Article, September, 18 2002 Robert Fisk
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You've got to hand it to Saddam. In one brisk, neat letter to Kofi Annan, he pulled the rug from right under George Bush's feet. There was the American president last week, playing the role of multilateralist, warning the world that Iraq had one l...

Znet Article Albertini: Small is Beautiful

Znet Article, September, 17 2002 Claudio Albertini
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[translated by Melippa and revised by Sheri Parpia, originally published August 31, 2002] Mexico, as we all know, is a land of contradictions and paradoxes. The historian John Womack opens his famous book on Emiliano Zapata saying theirs is "a hi...

Znet Article Galeano: SOS

Znet Article, September, 17 2002 Eduardo Galeano
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[translated by Francisco Gonzalez] Who gets the water? The monkey with the stick does. The unarmed monkey dies of thirst. This prehistory lesson opens the film "2001: A Space Odyssey". Now, for the 2003 odyssey, President Bush announces a militar...

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