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Jerusalem: Israel accused over Jenin assault
Znet Article, April, 23 2002
Chris mcgreal in Jerusalem
Jerusalem's ZSpace page
The International Committee of the Red Cross yesterday accused Israel of breaching the Geneva conventions by recklessly endangering civilian lives and property during its assault on the Jenin refugee camp, and by refusing the injured access to med...
Siu hin: What's Oil Got to Do With It
Znet Article, April, 23 2002
Lee Siu hin
Siu hin's ZSpace page
Since April of this year, after U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell failed to make progress in his mission to Israel and Palestine, international oil prices have reached $25 per barrel -- 25% higher then the same period last year. And on April 8t...
Libre: Estacion Libre Report
Znet Article, April, 22 2002
Estacion Libre
Libre's ZSpace page
Estación Libre and Project 169 denounce the recent rise in violence in the state of Chiapas. This latest situation does not amount to a series of simple coincidences but rather a concerted and systematic effort by Mexico's state and federal gover...
Levy: Building the Terror Infrastructure
Znet Article, April, 22 2002
Gideon Levy
Levy's ZSpace page
1. Fares Smaha bought a new pair of shoes for the holiday last year. At the time, he was a fatherless 14-year-old boy. His older brother Ahmed was serving time in jail in Israel for theft; his sister had been sold into marriage to an old Bedouin i...
Clark: The Brilliant Offer Israel Never Made
Znet Article, April, 22 2002
David Clark
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Yesterday's carnage in the West Bank provided a bloody illustration of the limits of Ariel Sharon's military strategy. Armed force cannot provide his people with the security they crave because the terrorist infrastructure he has set out to destro...
Avnery: Something Stinks
Znet Article, April, 22 2002
Uri Avnery
Avnery's ZSpace page
There is full agreement between all those who were in the Jenin refugee camp on only one thing. A week after the end of the fighting, foreign journalists and IDF soldiers, UN representatives and hired hacks in the Israeli media, members of the wel...
Rees: Squeezing the Poor
Znet Article, April, 22 2002
William j. Rees
Rees's ZSpace page
On April 12, the Council of Canadians released a leaked copy of the G8 environment ministers' proposed final statement on the World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD) to be held in Johannesburg in August. Not surprisingly, the environment mi...
Vulliamy: Venezuela Coup Linked to Bush Team
Znet Article, April, 22 2002
Ed Vulliamy
Vulliamy's ZSpace page
The failed coup in Venezuela was closely tied to senior officials in the US government, The Observer has established. They have long histories in the 'dirty wars' of the 1980s, and links to death squads working in Central America at that time. Wa...
Reinhart: Jenin- The Propaganda War
Znet Article, April, 21 2002
Tanya Reinhart
Reinhart's ZSpace page
In Israel, Jenin is perceived mainly as a public relations problem (called in Hebrew 'hasbara' -explaining). It appears even that the army and the government believe that Israel is winning the propaganda battle. After all, all relevant principles ...
Bustani: Peacemaker's reply
Znet Article, April, 21 2002
Jose Bustani
Bustani's ZSpace page
[Note: ZNet Commentator George Monbiot wrote a summary of this disgraceful situation. Please see that article for background... below is a speech given by Bustani on the situation] Statement by the Director-General at the Special Session of ...
Wallerstein: Iraq War: The Coming Disaster
Znet Article, April, 20 2002
Immanuel Wallerstein
Wallerstein's ZSpace page
New Haven -- George W. Bush is a geopolitical incompetent. He has allowed a clique of hawks to induce him to take a position on invading Iraq from which he cannot extract himself, one which will have nothing but negative consequences for the Unite...
Hass: What Kind of War is This?
Znet Article, April, 20 2002
Amira Hass
Hass's ZSpace page
Leaning on a cane, the man stood on a huge pile of ruins: a jumble of crushed concrete, twisted iron rods, shreds of mattresses, electric cables, fragments of ceramic tiles, bits of water pipes and an orphaned light switch. "This is my home," he s...
Novelli: Impunity and Immunity in Colombia
Znet Article, April, 19 2002
Mario Novelli
Novelli's ZSpace page
At 4.30 p.m. on the 14th of April, 2002, Tito Libio Hernandez was standing at the main entrance of the University of Nariño where he had worked for the last 28 years.&...
Palast: Here's what we read this week:
Znet Article, April, 19 2002
Greg Palast
Palast's ZSpace page
On Friday, Hugo Chavez, the unpopular, dictatorial potentate of Venezuela, resigned. When confronted over his ordering the shooting of antigovernment protestors, he turned over the presidency to progressive, democratic forces, namely, the military...
Solomon: Npr And The Fallow Triumph Of Public Radio
Znet Article, April, 19 2002
Norman Solomon
Solomon's ZSpace page
A triumphant story about National Public Radio appeared in late March on the front page of Current, the main newspaper of the public-broadcasting industry. "NPR Lands Most Listeners Ever," the headline announced, over a summary of the latest Arbit...
Fair: U.S. Papers Hail Venezuelan Coup as Pro-Democracy Move
Znet Article, April, 18 2002
Fair
Fair's ZSpace page
When elements of the Venezuelan military forced president Hugo Chavez from office last week, the editorial boards of several major U.S. newspapers followed the U.S. government's lead and greeted the news with enthusiasm. In an April 13 editorial, ...
Said: What Israel Has Done
Znet Article, April, 18 2002
Edward Said
Said's ZSpace page
Despite Israel's effort to restrict coverage of its extraordinarily destructive invasion of the West Bank's Palestinian towns and refugee camps, information and images have nevertheless seeped through. The Internet has provided hundreds of verbal ...
Steel: Take me to the Promised Land (the long way)
Znet Article, April, 18 2002
Mark Steel
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At a time when many people complain that politicians are obsessed with spin, it's so refreshing to hear Israeli spokesmen, who refuse to make the slightest concession to PR whatsoever. Asked for their attitude towards the shooting of a baby by an ...
Marcus: A Holiday Of Highs And Lows
Znet Article, April, 18 2002
Yoel Marcus
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Israel's 54th Independence Day has caught us with our national mood at rock bottom. The Promised Land has become the Land of the Security Check - a land in which citizens are afraid to walk the streets. For the first time in many years, the shadow...
