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Lowenstein: Welcome To The Erez Crossing
Znet Article, July, 29 2002
Jennifer Lowenstein
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GAZA CITY: "Welcome to the Erez Crossing". The sign on the way out of Gaza really says this. Yes. Greetings. Welcome to a half a mile of concrete barriers and barbed wire. Welcome to electrical wires and fortified soldiers' bunkers. Take no ...
Plitnick: Anatomy Of An Atrocity
Znet Article, July, 28 2002
Mitchell Plitnick
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In the early morning hours, just after midnight on July 23, an American-made F-16 fighter jet, paid for with American tax dollars granted to Israel, launched a missile at a Gaza City apartment building, with the goal of killing Sheikh Salah Shehad...
Winer: Secrecy Case 'Settled'
Znet Article, July, 28 2002
Stan Winer
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The SA History Archive says it has reached an "out-of-court settlement" in a landmark constitutional case concerning access to apartheid-era military intelligence records in the custody of the SA National Defence Force (SANDF). Archive director ...
Hanieh: West Bank Curfews
Znet Article, July, 27 2002
Adam Hanieh
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The Israeli F-16 strike early on July 23 that killed Hamas leader Salah Shehada and 15 Palestinian civilians in the crowded Gaza neighborhood of al-Daraj put the roiling Israeli-Palestinian conflict suddenly back in the Western headlines. It is po...
Watkins: Greed Is Good
Znet Article, July, 27 2002
Kevin Watkins
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Remember the summer of 1992? The Conservatives had just been re-elected, George Bush senior was in the White House, Nelson Mandela was negotiating the end of apartheid - and sustainable development hit the headlines. Meeting at the Earth summit in...
Azulay: The Divided City
Znet Article, July, 26 2002
Jessica Azulay
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In Hebron, even one of the mosques is divided, one side for Jews and one side for Muslims. There are separate entrances for each and both are guarded by Israeli soldiers and framed by metal detectors. It has been that way since 1994, when a Jewish...
Hutchinson: Distorted Picture Of Black Progress
Znet Article, July, 26 2002
Earl ofari Hutchinson
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Once again the National Urban League has released its report on the state of Black America. Unlike in past years, the League says that blacks have much to cheer about. They are better educated, make more money, live in better neighborhoods, own mo...
Mokhiber: Push Back
Znet Article, July, 26 2002
Russell Mokhiber
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Let the corporate criminals take over Wall Street. And investors flee the market. Hello criminals. Goodbye market. Pollute nature. And nature confronts the polluters. Push the people to the edge of their misery, and the people push back. In...
Rebick: Ramallah Revelations
Znet Article, July, 26 2002
Judy Rebick
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"My favourite movie is Life is Beautiful," Refaat Sabbah tells me. "I love the way the hero protects his son from the experience of the concentration camp. I try to protect my children from the horrors around us too," he adds with a gentle smile. ...
Pilger: Our Writers Failure
Znet Article, July, 26 2002
John Pilger
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On 17 June, I wrote about Martin Amis's recent Guardian essay, "The voice of the lonely crowd", in which he described the response of acclaimed writers like himself to 11 September as a "pitiable babble". In fact, they were and remain most...
Villa: Mexico: The Conflict in San Salvador Atenco
Znet Article, July, 25 2002
Borja Villa
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Translated by Cole Miller The government of Mexican president Vicente Fox issued a presidential decree on October 2 of last year by virtue of which more than 5,000 hectares were expropriated in the municipalities of Texcoco and San Salvador Aten...
Solomon: Will This Be An "Official Scandal" Or Something More?
Znet Article, July, 25 2002
Norman Solomon
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With huge financial scandals causing turmoil in the United States, this year has seen some vigorous reporting about high-level misdeeds and corporate manipulation. But many news stories just take the lead from top officials. In the months ahead, w...
Bishara: Beyond Belief
Znet Article, July, 25 2002
Azmi Bishara
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The prevailing Palestinian political culture is in an unprecedented state of decay, the most significant manifestations of which are the absence of a national liberation movement, even in form, and the absence of a clear hierarchy and chain-of-com...
Loewenstein: Rising Up From the Dust: Report from Gaza City
Znet Article, July, 24 2002
Jennifer Loewenstein
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Gaza City, Occupied Palestine. Heaps of concrete, broken pillars with wire sticking out, people's shoes, clothes, bedding, strewn haphazardly among the rubble, dust everywhere, a hole in the landscape where a two-story apartment was just yesterday...
Weisbrot: The Post-Bubble Economy: A Better World
Znet Article, July, 24 2002
Mark Weisbrot
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Across the country, it is finally sinking in. There really was a bubble in the stock market, and it has now burst. This is not like Tiger Woods having a bad day at the British Open. He may rebound to his past glory, but the stock market will not.&...
Lewis: Contagion In Latin America
Znet Article, July, 24 2002
Tom Lewis
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Part of the decision by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the Bush administration to let Argentina go to the wall last autumn involved their calculation that an Argentine meltdown could safely be contained. They went so far as to inoculate...
Abunimah: The Politics Of Murder
Znet Article, July, 24 2002
Ali Abunimah
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The images of torn and shattered bodies, the piles of human remains of Israelis and Palestinians look exactly the same to the naked eye. The screams of the injured and the cries of the bereaved issue neither in Hebrew nor in Arabic, but in the uni...
Shlonsky: Zionist Ideology, the Non-Jews and the State of Israel
Znet Article, July, 24 2002
Ur Shlonsky
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Israel Shahak once remarked that for at least the last 200 years, Jews have demanded equal rights in every country in which they’ve lived – with the remarkable exception of Israel, the Jewish state.1 Israel has always founded its i...
Bagdikian: God Vs. The Big Name Droppers
Znet Article, July, 24 2002
Ben Bagdikian
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There is a famous Washington tableaux in the National Capitol. No, not George Washington crossing the Delaware. It is a repeated public ritual resulting in slight variations of the great classic of our time: seven corporate executives in 1994 stan...
Oviedo: Destabilizing the Country: The Same Old Lies
Znet Article, July, 24 2002
Susana Oviedo
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Essential but disposable material. That is what peasants and popular classes mean to politicians. ‘El Oviedismo’ (the political philosophy of ex-general Lino Oviedo and his followers) has proven once again that deception is one of ...
