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Hoodbhoy: Lighting the Nuclear Fire
Znet Article, May, 27 2002
Pervez Hoodbhoy
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A nuclear war is said to have no winners, but Indian Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee seems to think otherwise. His exhortations to Indian troops in Kashmir to prepare for sacrifices and "decisive victory" have set off widespread alarm. It seem...
Chomsky: Chomsky Talk
Znet Article, May, 27 2002
Noam Chomsky
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NOAM CHOMSKYBERKELEY, MECA, 3.21.02 NOAM CHOMSKY: Unfortunately, I can't see anybody out there but I assume there are people there. I'm going to be talking--I'll be talking primarily about West Asia, which overlaps pretty closely with ...
Administrator: Judi Bari and the FBI
Znet Article, May, 27 2002
Site Administrator
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Judi loved to howl, so we howled for her, we howled for fun, and we howled for justice. 24 May 2002 marked exactly twelve years since a bomb ripped through Judi Bari and the car that she and Darryl Cherney were in. The motion-activated pipe bomb w...
Starhawk: The G8 June Meeting In Kananaskis: A Strategic Moment
Znet Article, May, 27 2002
Starhawk
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The G8, the heads of the eight most industrialized countries in the world, are preparing to meet in late June in the isolated wilderness area of Kananaskis, near Calgary, in Alberta, one of the most prosperous and conservative provinces of Canada....
Arnove: Iraq: Smart Sanctions And The Us War
Znet Article, May, 26 2002
Anthony Arnove
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The Bush administration is declaring another victory in its "propaganda war" with Iraq, following the unanimous vote of the United Nations Security Council to endorse its plan to impose "smart sanctions" on Iraq. On May 14, the Security Council a...
Siverstein: Anarchism And Youth Liberation
Znet Article, May, 26 2002
Marc Siverstein
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Children in today’s society are uniquely oppressed, but for the most part their oppression goes un-noticed even by people who consider themselves progressives or radicals. The fact that the relations between children and adults are based o...
Fisk: A Firestorm Is Coming
Znet Article, May, 25 2002
Robert Fisk
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So now Osama bin Laden is Hitler. And Saddam Hussein is Hitler. And George Bush is fighting the Nazis. Not since Menachem Begin fantasised to President Reagan that he felt he was attacking Hitler in Berlin – his Israeli army was actually b...
Fassed: Torture Distorts Hope For Palestinians
Znet Article, May, 25 2002
Arjan el Fassed
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Torture Distorts Hope For Palestinians
Hutchinson: Who's Jerking Who Off On Terror Alerts?
Znet Article, May, 24 2002
Earl ofari Hutchinson
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Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld bluntly told a Senate Appropriations subcommittee hearing on the Pentagon budget that the terrorists are "jerking us" around with their terror threats. Rumsfeld then upped the terror ante by gravely warning that ...
Steele: East Timor Is Independent
Znet Article, May, 24 2002
Jonathan Steele
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It's a hard world to be born into, even for nation-states. This week East Timor, half of a small island a few hundred miles north of Australia, became the youngest member of the so-called international community. Out went a temporary UN administra...
Steele: East Timor Is Independent
Znet Article, May, 24 2002
Jonathan Steele
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It's a hard world to be born into, even for nation-states. This week East Timor, half of a small island a few hundred miles north of Australia, became the youngest member of the so-called international community. Out went a temporary UN administ...
Evans: Deconstructing The War On Terror: Race, Gender And History
Znet Article, May, 24 2002
Benjamin Evans
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Since September 11th, 2001 many North Americans are convinced of the necessity of war. They see themselves as victims, or potentials victims, of terrorism. They feel that the bush regime's bombing of Afghanistan, and Israel's attacks on the Palest...
Street: Liar Liar
Znet Article, May, 24 2002
Paul Street
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It's been quite an interesting experience hearing United States Vice President Dick Cheney and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld tell us that more Americans are probably going to perish in future terror attacks. It's "inevitable," they say, and th...
Edwards: Burying Big Business
Znet Article, May, 24 2002
David Edwards
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One of the secrets of media manipulation is to report the horror and strife of the world as though Western power, interests and machinations did not exist. Vast poverty, injustice and chaos in the Third World are depicted as unconnected to the coo...
Abuhalwa: Apartheid's Accidental Prophecy
Znet Article, May, 24 2002
Susan j. Abuhalwa
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The apartheid government of South Africa came to power in 1948, the same year that the State of Israel was created in Palestine. Having lived and witnessed the legacy of Zionism, I wonder sometimes if this shared birth year was not an accidental p...
Spannos: Challenges and Opportunities for Progressive Movements Post-911
Znet Article, May, 24 2002
Chris Spannos
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Through the framework of cause and effect, you can see the obstacles posed by the War on Terrorism. Militarization, globalization, and racism have accelerated; their intersections compounded. Chris Spannos discussed these intersections and prospec...
Saba: Fifteen Theses on the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
Znet Article, May, 23 2002
Paul Saba
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Introduction All too frequently the mainstream media in the United States treats the Israeli-Palestinian conflict as a timeless confrontation between eternal enemies - Arabs and Jews. But the crisis in Israel/Palestine is not an ahistorical one. I...
Schneider: International Solidarity After Independence
Znet Article, May, 23 2002
Charlie Schneider
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On May 22, 2002, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation of the government of East Timor hosted a half-day seminar and reception with about 100 international solidarity activists from around the world entitled "The Role of International So...
Poverty: Two Victories
Znet Article, May, 23 2002
Ontario coalition against Poverty
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A couple of weeks ago, OCAP was approached by a man called Bryian with a dreadful and urgent situation. He is fighting throat cancer and the radiation treatment he has received has sped up the decay of his teeth. Three of them had to be removed bu...
Solomon: Counteracting the Media Evildoers
Znet Article, May, 23 2002
Norman Solomon
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To: George, Dick and John Re: Counteracting the Media Evildoers Damage control efforts are on track after those rough days in mid-May. First, let's note a silver lining. John's move to prosecute Arthur Andersen pushed Enron off a lot of front p...
