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Smith-ferri: Dancing With The Devil
Znet Article, September, 04 2002
David Smith-ferri
Smith-ferri's ZSpace page
Some things you thought you could count on: the prevailing westerlies, temperatures according to the season…Forget it. Washington now controls the weather. That chill you’ve felt in your bones despite the calendar is a cold wind bl...
Shadid, md: On Improving Pro-Palestinian Activism
Znet Article, September, 04 2002
Tariq Shadid, md
Shadid, md's ZSpace page
Most pro-Palestinian activists, whose articles are featured on the various Palestinian websites, and whose publications are slowly but surely breaking through the barriers of the editorial boards of the major news media of the west, deserve a huge...
Edwards: "Just One Of Those Things"
Znet Article, September, 04 2002
David Edwards
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A rule of thumb for the mainstream media is that the reporting of ideas that are damaging to powerful interests will tend to begin and end at 'square one' - investigation and discussion rarely proceed beyond the superficial. The more influential t...
Hass: 30 of 49 Palestinians killed in August were civilians
Znet Article, September, 03 2002
Amira Hass
Hass's ZSpace page
Between August 1 and last night, 49 Palestinians were killed by Israel Defense Forces fire in the West Bank and Gaza Strip; around 180 were injured, with at least 65 of them sustaining wounds from live fire (including shrapnel from shells and miss...
Levy: Children Of War
Znet Article, September, 03 2002
Gideon Levy
Levy's ZSpace page
From this morning, thousands of policemen will guard Israel's children as they return to school after the summer vacation. For this reason, it is worth recalling that just an hour's drive away, yesterday also marked the end of the summer vacation ...
Adamovsky: Argentina's Social Movement Goes Global
Znet Article, September, 03 2002
Ezequiel Adamovsky
Adamovsky's ZSpace page
The first thematic meeting of the World Social Forum in Argentina was held from the 22nd to the 25th of August in Buenos Aires, to discuss the theme of “The Crisis of Neo-Liberalism in Argentina and the Challenges for the Global Move...
Winer: Business as usual for South African media
Znet Article, September, 03 2002
Stan Winer
Winer's ZSpace page
In the aftermath of a long and traumatic history, there is still censorship in South Africa. Not censorship by the state, but a rather more indirect, insidious and hence virulent form of censorship – self-censorship by the mainstream media...
Pilger: The Great Charade
Znet Article, September, 02 2002
John Pilger
Pilger's ZSpace page
It is 10 months since 11 September, and still the great charade plays on. Having appropriated our shocked response to that momentous day, the rulers of the world have since ground our language into a paean of cliches and lies about the 'war on ter...
Bond: Geopolitics of Jo'burg Protests
Znet Article, September, 02 2002
Patrick Bond
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For ninety years, we've waited to see the combined geographical and political implications of locating an urban bantustan in a small block of land in northeast Johannesburg called Alexandra Township. Today was breakout day, with South Africa's mos...
Tokar: Agribusiness, Biotechnology, and War
Zmag Article, September, 01 2002
Brian Tokar
Tokar's ZSpace page
Brian Tokar Virtually all of the new, technology-based industries of the past century have been products of wartime. World War I ushered in the widespread use of mechanization and the...
Street: Too Many Children Left Behind
Zmag Article, September, 01 2002
Paul Street
Street's ZSpace page
Paul Street & Dennis A. Kass In an ominous 5-4 decision handed down on June 27, 2002, the Supreme Court made “standard” claims of concern for poor inner-city childr...
Podur: What Happened in Jenin?
Zmag Article, September, 01 2002
Justin Podur
Podur's ZSpace page
What happened in Jenin? What is happening in Jenin? The second question is more important than the first, but the two are related. With the United Nations report on Jenin published and the Human Righ...
Solomon: Fending Off The Threat Of Peace
Zmag Article, September, 01 2002
Norman Solomon
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To fend off the threat of peace, determination is necessary. Elected officials and high-level appointees must work effectively with reporters and pundits. This is no time for the U.S. government to r...
Bronski: The Attack of the Wealthy Queers
Zmag Article, September, 01 2002
Michael Bronski
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The Attack of the Wealthy Queers
Herman: Tragic Errors in U.S. Military Policy
Zmag Article, September, 01 2002
Edward Herman
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Edward S. Herman U.S. military policy has long been based on strategies and tactics that involve a heavy civilian toll. This has followed from a combination of factors, whose pro...
Blum: Cuban Political Prisoners in the United States
Zmag Article, September, 01 2002
Bill Blum
Blum's ZSpace page
Bill Blum Defending pro-Castro Cubans in Miami, in a criminal case utterly suffused with political overtones, with the U.S. government wholly determined to nail a bunch of commie...
Ingalls: The United States and the Afghan Loya Jirga
Zmag Article, September, 01 2002
James Ingalls
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James Ingalls The June 2002 loya jirga, or grand council, is considered to be the start of a new era in Afghanistan, if only because the country is finally engaging in a politica...
Styles: Water Wars in Bolivia
Zmag Article, September, 01 2002
Sophie Styles
Styles's ZSpace page
Sophie Styles Marcela Olivera and Carmen Pereda both played a key role in the Water Wars, which ousted the U.S. transnational Bechtel from Cochabamba, Bolivia. Olivera helps to m...
Zebolsky: none
Zmag Article, September, 01 2002
Kirk Zebolsky
Zebolsky's ZSpace page
Benson Tong University of Oklahoma Press, 2000 Betraying the Omaha Nation, 1790-1916 By Judith A. Boughter Universi...
Petras: Crisis in the U.S.
Zmag Article, September, 01 2002
James Petras
Petras's ZSpace page
The U.S. political and economic systems are in serious crisis—a crisis affecting its biggest multinational corporations and therefore the economy, a political crisis affecting the state in its r...
