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Abunimah: Unhappy Anniversary
Znet Article, June, 13 2002
Ali Abunimah
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(Amman, Jordan, June 5) Today is the 35th anniversary of the Israeli occupation of East Jerusalem, the West Bank, Gaza Strip and the Golan Heights. This occupation is and has been utter hell for the Palestinians who were made refuge...
Mukherji: Gujrat and the world order
Znet Article, June, 12 2002
Nirmalangshu Mukherji
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The events of 9/11 took place in New York and Washington, but their direct effect was felt in Asia in the form of a massive increase in US aggression in parts of the region. What does the military presence of the US mean for the future of democrac...
Roy: Ahimsa
Znet Article, June, 12 2002
Arundhati Roy
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While the rest of us are mesmerised by talk of war and terrorism and wars against terror, (can you go to war against a feeling?) in Madhya Pradesh a little life-raft has set sail into the wind. On a pavement in Bhopal, in an area called 'Tin Shed'...
Bishara: Tales Of Apartheid
Znet Article, June, 12 2002
Azmi Bishara
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The UN Security Council resolution of April 2002, calling on Israel to withdraw from Palestinian towns, was redundant. Israel never intended to stay in Palestinian towns and run their daily Palestinian affairs. It has said so on more than one occa...
Goff: Diary of A Counter Insurgent
Znet Article, June, 12 2002
Stan Goff
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Editor's Note: Stan Goff served in the U.S. military for two decades, much of the time with Special Forces training Third World armies. His first-person account of these counterinsurgency projects comes as policy makers in Washington press for maj...
Monbiot: Dirty Bombs Waiting for a Detonator
Znet Article, June, 11 2002
George Monbiot
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The world now faces two imminent nuclear threats. The first is the standoff between India and Pakistan, two nuclear powers vacillating on the brink of war. The second arises from a commercial deal between the United Kingdom and Japan. At the end ...
Fisk: Gangsters, Murderers And Stooges Used To Endorse Bush's Vision Of 'Democracy'
Znet Article, June, 11 2002
Robert Fisk
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By Washington wants the loya jirga to succeed. True, far too many of its pliant warlords - the Pashtun and Tajik gangsters whom the Americans paid in thousands of dollars for their sometimes loyal alliance against Osama bin Laden - have been tryin...
Grubacic: Should Milosovec Be Tried at the Hague?
Znet Article, June, 10 2002
Andrej Grubacic
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Using as pretext the recent arrest of Yugoslavia's ex-president Slobodan Milosevic, the author of the following article proposes to offer a brief analysis of the current Yugoslav intellectual climate. It is most expedient, for our purposes, to beg...
Hoodbhoy: What, Us Worry?
Znet Article, June, 10 2002
Pervez Hoodbhoy
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ISLAMABAD-World leaders worked overtime last week to prevent tensions between Pakistan and India from exploding into war. But in India and Pakistan, where a million troops from the two countries glowered at each other across the border, sabres con...
Mcmurtry: "What Did Bush Know?"
Znet Article, June, 08 2002
John Mcmurtry
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Michael Albert joins the corporate media, the Republican Party and most of the Washington establishment in his blanket abuse of forensic questions on 9-11. The argument that relevant decision setters in the Bush Jr. executive covertly allowed the ...
Lappe: A Better Way to Feed the Hungry
Znet Article, June, 07 2002
Frances moore Lappe
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Bill Gates thinks he's got a brilliant idea: fighting malnutrition abroad by fortifying food. The scheme, backed with $50 million from the Gates Foundation, in part encourages Proctor & Gamble, Philip Morris' Kraft, and other companies to deve...
Stokes: Perception Management and the US Terror War in Colombia
Znet Article, June, 07 2002
Doug Stokes
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During the 1980s, US counter-insurgency took on a new form, and became what is today known as Low Intensity Conflict. With the Vietnam experience behind them, US military planners recognised two crucial lessons that led to this change. First, the ...
Monbiot: Choose Life
Znet Article, June, 07 2002
George Monbiot
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Every week, sometimes every day, someone writes to me asking for advice about the career they should take. I can't, unfortunately, respond to them all, so I thought I should try to formulate some general guidelines, which I hope people will be abl...
Cox: The Dark Side of Flowers
Znet Article, June, 07 2002
Sarah Cox
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A traveller flying into the Colombian city of Bogotá from the southwest sees lush green fields give way to white patches the size of city blocks. It takes a few moments to realize that the incongruous scene below is not snow-dusted farmland but r...
Rosset: Hungry for answers
Znet Article, June, 07 2002
Peter Rosset
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Why do more than 800 million people still go hungry in a world marked by incredible affluence? A total of 180 nations are to gather in Rome from Monday to Wednesday next week to address just that question at a meeting called the World Food Summit:...
Street: Misunderstanding Power
Znet Article, June, 06 2002
Paul Street
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Thanks in part to recent disclosures that a minimally competent federal security establishment would have had reasons to know and act on intelligence predicting something like what occurred last September, conspiracy theorists are having a field d...
Solomon: Nuclear Weapons And Media Fog
Znet Article, June, 06 2002
Norman Solomon
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American media outlets roused themselves from outright denial in early June, spurred by belated warnings from top U.S. officials that a nuclear war between India and Pakistan would kill millions of people. The tone of news coverage shifted toward ...
Rebick: Diary of a trip to Palestine and Israel
Znet Article, June, 05 2002
Judy Rebick
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Diary of a trip to Palestine and Israel
Brittain: The Horror Behind The Front Line
Znet Article, June, 05 2002
Victoria Brittain
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The Horror Behind The Front Line
