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Znet Article Reinhart: Interview With Tanya Reinhart

Znet Article, November, 08 2002 Tanya Reinhart
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Interview With Tanya Reinhart

Znet Article Fisk: Bush Fights For Another Clean Shot In The War

Znet Article, November, 07 2002 Robert Fisk
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"A clean shot" was The Washington Post's revolting description of the murder of the al-Qa'ida leaders in Yemen by a US "Predator" unmanned aircraft. With grovelling approval, the US press used Israel's own mendacious description of such murders as...

Znet Article Hass: Will You Just Stand On The Sidelines?

Znet Article, November, 06 2002 Amira Hass
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After the elections the preachers of the "transfer solution" will be strengthened, the surveys say. It doesn't matter right now exactly how much stronger they'll become. The important thing is that every day that goes by, the preachers of transfer...

Znet Article Burchill: Don't Pick Deadly Partners

Znet Article, November, 06 2002 Scott Burchill
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AN irrational and unsubstantiated fear of Indonesia's disintegration has long driven Australia's foreign policy planners to place a premium on stability in relations between the two nations.This obsession with preserving the status quo has been ba...

Znet Article Street: Playing Dumb? Dan Rather's Curiously Clueless Take on Why Americans Don't

Znet Article, November, 06 2002 Paul Street
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Let's start with two elementary precepts relating to the proper role of the media in a democratic society. First, key media personalities in such a society should never lie to the people, whose capacity for making intelligent and informed policy a...

Znet Article Siegfried: Questions Of War

Znet Article, November, 06 2002 Matt Siegfried
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All across the United States, particularly since the US Congress voted overwhelmingly to back the Bush Administration's drive to war with Iraq, coalitions have formed, teach-ins conducted and the pavement pounded in opposition to the latest Americ...

Znet Article Tevarthen: Sharon's Strategy: Decapitate Palestinian Society

Znet Article, November, 06 2002 Simon Tevarthen
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Amidst the wreckage of homes, schools, buildings and lives it is sometimes difficult to discern any method to Israel's assaults upon Palestinians. Coded talk of "security", "retaliation", "incursions" only seem to camouflage still further Sharon's...

Znet Article Russell: No Nursing Homes On Wheels

Znet Article, November, 05 2002 Marta Russell
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The subject of this panel is the 1999 Olmstead Supreme Court decision that declared  "unnecessary institutionalization is discrimination" under the Americans with Disabilities Act and  that directed states to provide services in the "lea...

Znet Article Monbiot: In The Crocodiles Mouth

Znet Article, November, 05 2002 George Monbiot
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Tony Blair's loyalty to George Bush looks like slow political suicide. His preparedness to follow him over every precipice jeopardises Britain's relationships with its allies, conjures up enemies all over the world and infuriates voters of all pol...

Znet Article Vltchek: Western Terror: From Potosi To Baghdad

Znet Article, November, 05 2002 Andre Vltchek
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The North American empire is admired by some, condemned by others, but feared by all. There are those, including the British Prime Minister, who see it as the mighty defender of the civilized world’s values. For many people, it is the worl...

Znet Article Avnery: One Small Olive

Znet Article, November, 05 2002 Uri Avnery
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Why has the Sharon-Ben-Eliezer-Peres government collapsed? Because of a small olive. It started like a children's tale: Once upon a time there was a small olive in a Palestinian village. It grew and ripened on a branch of an old tree in a grove o...

Znet Article Avnery: One Small Olive

Znet Article, November, 05 2002 Uri Avnery
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Why has the Sharon-Ben-Eliezer-Peres government collapsed? Because of a small olive. It started like a children's tale: Once upon a time there was a small olive in a Palestinian village. It grew and ripened on a branch of an old tree in a grove o...

Znet Article Pilger: The New Protest Movement

Znet Article, November, 04 2002 John Pilger
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 Graham Greene once described a "subterranean world, where the hopes and dreams of the mass of the people reside, unconnected with the rarefied world above, until those above take one step too far". There is a stirring in this people's world ...

Znet Article Mokhiber: A Day At The American Enterprise Institute

Znet Article, November, 04 2002 Russell Mokhiber
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Didn't have anything good to do earlier this week, so decided to spend the day at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI). AEI is the granddaddy of the big corporate front groups. Their job? Re-engineer the political economy to the liking of the...

Znet Article Becker: Another America Is Possible

Znet Article, November, 04 2002 Mark Becker
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Under the heavy guard of 5,451 police officials, foreign ministers from 34 countries in the Americas gathered in the South American capital city of Quito, Ecuador in October for the Seventh Ministerial Summit of the Free Trade Area of the Americas...

Znet Article Harris: Truth and Reconciliation

Znet Article, November, 03 2002 Verne Harris
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On a visit to South Africa in 1998 Jacques Derrida, arguably the world’s most eminent living philosopher, offended many South Africans by suggesting that the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) needed to be understood as an exercise ...

Znet Article Winer: South Africa is Losing its Memory

Znet Article, November, 03 2002 Stan Winer
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At the foot of Ngquza mountain in the rural Pondoland region of South Africa stands a monument to the "Forgotten Heroes" -- so named in honor of the Pondo warriors who were slaughtered in 1960 when they challenged the military might of the aparthe...

Znet Article Plitnick: A Tale of Two Governments

Znet Article, November, 03 2002 Mitchell Plitnick
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In the space of a single day this week, some significant events transpired in both the Israeli government and the Palestinian Authority. On the Israeli side, the unity government did not survive to its second birthday, as Labor, led by now-forme...

Znet Article Shiva: Deconstructing Market Access

Znet Article, November, 02 2002 Vandana2 Shiva
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Deconstructing Market Access

Znet Article Ruben: Protets In Quito

Znet Article, November, 02 2002 Justin Ruben
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Friends and Colleagues Please accept this [unedited] bulletin from the edge of consciousness. I don't know whether I feel like crying because I am so moved by what I saw today, because my mucous membranes are all shot to hell from too much tear g...

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