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Campbell: Us Sends Suspects To Face Torture
Znet Article, March, 12 2002
Duncan Campbell
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The US has been secretly sending prisoners suspected of al-Qaida connections to countries where torture during interrogation is legal, according to US diplomatic and intelligence sources. Prisoners moved to such countries as Egypt and Jordan can b...
Cockburn: The Nightmare in Israel
Znet Article, March, 12 2002
Alexander Cockburn
Cockburn's ZSpace page
By Let's start with Baruch Kimmering, a sociologist at Hebrew University. Here's what he sent to the Jerusalem Weekly Kol Ha'Ir last month, which duly published it: "I accuse Ariel Sharon of creating a process in which he will not only intensify t...
Feijoo: Latin American Report on the World Social Forum (II):
Znet Article, March, 12 2002
Cristina Feijoo
Feijoo's ZSpace page
The World Social Forum is taking place in Porto Alegre, capital of the State of Rio Grande do Sul (Brazil). The political process that made this encounter possible was the following: the Worker's Party (PT, Partido de los Trabajadores) won the ele...
Simeon: Threads of Conscience
Znet Article, March, 11 2002
Dilip Simeon
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Noam Chomsky - Rogue States - th...
Landau: I Don't Got To Show You No Stinkin Reasons
Znet Article, March, 11 2002
Saul Landau
Landau's ZSpace page
Gore Vidal, the great novelist and political critic, asked me how I liked living under the dictatorship. I laughed, but I felt a chill. We've now experienced six months of life under unusual circumstances and it's time that citizens did some serio...
Pilger: Venezuela: The Next Chile?
Znet Article, March, 11 2002
John Pilger
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Venezuela: The Next Chile?
Solomon: New Media Heights For A Remarkable Pundit
Znet Article, March, 11 2002
Norman Solomon
Solomon's ZSpace page
Thomas Friedman has achieved another media triumph with the debut of "Tom's Journal" on the "NewsHour with Jim Lehrer." The feature will be a "one-on-one debriefing of Friedman by Lehrer or one of the program's senior correspondents," says a news ...
Benn: Speech by Tony Benn
Znet Article, March, 10 2002
Tony Benn
Benn's ZSpace page
Comrades! Comrades our slogan today is “not in our name†but unfortunately, it is in our name. The bombs that are dropped on Iraqi will be British bombs funded by British taxpayers like ourselves. The depleted Uranium that was use...
Hass: Fear and loathing in Balata
Znet Article, March, 09 2002
Amira Hass
Hass's ZSpace page
Palestinian women reacting to explosions in Balata last Friday. "Why is the IDF allowed to harm Palestinian civilians and we aren't allowed to harm Israeli civilians?" they asked in the refugee camp. (Photo: AP) In Ha_aretz, the Israeli Newspaper...
Hutchinson: NAACP's Confederate Flag Obsession
Znet Article, March, 09 2002
Earl ofari Hutchinson
Hutchinson's ZSpace page
Two years ago, the NAACP galvanized a horde of politicians, college and professional athletes, black frats and sororities, hip-hop, rock and movie stars to march, rally and boycott South Carolina for flying the Confederate flag over the state capi...
Saramago: FROM JUSTICE TO DEMOCRACY BY WAY OF THE BELLS
Znet Article, March, 09 2002
Jose Saramago
Saramago's ZSpace page
[The following was read in the closing ceremony of the World Social Forum. It was written by José Saramago of Portugal, winner of a Nobel Prize for Literature.] I will begin by telling you very briefly about a notable episode in peasant life t...
Macaskill: From The Suez To The Pacific
Znet Article, March, 09 2002
Ewen Macaskill
Macaskill's ZSpace page
Today, almost six months after the attacks on New York and Washington, the US is putting in place a network of forward bases stretching from the Middle East across the entire length of Asia, from the Red Sea to the Pacific. US forces are active i...
Roy: Arundhati Roy's Statement
Znet Article, March, 08 2002
Arundhati Roy
Roy's ZSpace page
I stand by what I have said in my Affidavit and I have served the sentence which the Supreme Court imposed on me. Anybody who thinks that the punishment for my supposed Å'crime¹ was a symbolic one day in prison and a fine of two thousand rupees, i...
Kurhan: Turkey After Chomsky's Visit
Znet Article, March, 08 2002
Omar Kurhan
Kurhan's ZSpace page
On 2 November 2001, a lawsuit was brought against the book titled “American Interventionism†which is a compilation of various articles of Prof. Noam Chomsky, with accusations of “propaganda against the indivisible unity of...
Cockburn: The Nightmare In Israel
Znet Article, March, 08 2002
Alexander Cockburn
Cockburn's ZSpace page
Let's start with Baruch Kimmering, a sociologist at Hebrew University. Here's what he sent to the Jerusalem Weekly Kol Ha'Ir last month, which duly published it: "I accuse Ariel Sharon of creating a process in which he will not only intensify the ...
Admin: The Chorus of the Lambs
Znet Article, March, 08 2002
Zim Admin
Admin's ZSpace page
"We were sitting our exams when we heard the singing. We heard them coming down the road towards the school, and we started to shake. Some of us began to cry. We wanted to leave the school, but the teacher told us to stay, and that everything woul...
Threadcraft: Maroon Societies in the US?
Znet Article, March, 08 2002
Sa Threadcraft
Threadcraft's ZSpace page
I was reading this article by Michael E. Ross in which Ishmael Reed was quoted as saying that Black Americans live in a banana republic inside the United States; and I was barely paying attention in my classes at LSE to some theory my profes...
(onic): Indigenous Resistance
Znet Article, March, 08 2002
National indigenous congress of colombia (onic)
(onic)'s ZSpace page
Translated by Justin Podur Indigenous resistance suffers th...
Hart: Greg Palast On Globalization
Znet Article, March, 08 2002
Lloyd Hart
Hart's ZSpace page
On one of the best trips I have ever taken to New York city in which I started the filming of a documentary on globalization, I had no idea what to expect from the protests that were about to take place over the arrival of the World Economic Forum...
Henshaw-plath: The People's Assemblies in Argentina
Znet Article, March, 08 2002
Evan Henshaw-plath
Henshaw-plath's ZSpace page
In December of 2001, Argentina's economy collapsed under the weight of debt, IMF advice, and a government that, unfortunately, followed that advice. The collapse and the economic policies that led to it are well documented. The respons...
