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Znet Article Healy: Argentina's market-enforced crisis

Znet Article, February, 18 2002 Sean Healy
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Argentina's tumultuous December - in which a general strike by unions against a brutal budget lead to days of demonstrations, the storming of the Presidential Palace, the desperate helicopter flight out by its then-resident and a succession of fiv...

Znet Article Bhushan: COURTS, CONTEMPT &

Znet Article, February, 18 2002 Prashant Bhushan
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In the Constitution of India the Supreme Court and the High Courts were seen as watchdog bodies, independent of the executive, and entrusted with the task of seeing that all institutions function in accordance with the Constitution, and the Rule o...

Znet Article Delorca: On the News of Pierre Bourdieu's Death

Znet Article, February, 18 2002 Frédéric Delorca
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The movements against neoliberal globalization and global militarism have had, so far, two extraordinary figures of contemporary thought - Pierre Bourdieu and Noam Chomsky; Bourdieu, the French sociologist and the heir to German philosophical trad...

Znet Article Hutchinson: Black History Is Not Just For Blacks

Znet Article, February, 18 2002 Earl ofari Hutchinson
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Black History Is Not Just For Blacks

Znet Article Bond: Thabo Mbeki addresses his compatriots

Znet Article, February, 18 2002 Patrick Bond
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South African president Thabo Mbeki's opening of parliament on February 8 was eagerly awaited, and began with a grand motif: "The global struggle to eradicate poverty and underdevelopment is fundamental to the well-being of human society."Mbeki's ...

Znet Article Chomsky: DRCNet Interview: Noam Chomsky

Znet Article, February, 18 2002 Noam Chomsky
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MIT professor Noam Chomsky has long been one of the nation's most implacable critics of US foreign policy and domestic inequity, as well as its highly-concentrated mass media. Lauded by the New York Review of Books as "America's leading radical i...

Znet Article Avnery: Something is Moving

Znet Article, February, 18 2002 Uri Avnery
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I once saw in a Western a Red Indian (or should I say a Native American?) putting his ear to the ground and hearing a train tens of miles away. In the course of the years I have tried to imitate that Indian. I try to hear changes in the public mo...

Znet Article Fisk: America 'chasing phantoms' in Iraq says arms expert

Znet Article, February, 17 2002 Robert Fisk
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Scott Ritter, America's former top arms inspector in Iraq, has a neat phrase for Saddam's regime. The "phantom threat", he calls it. And he backs up his argument with an impressive assault on the credentials of Ahmed Chalabi, the head of Iraq's op...

Znet Article Levy: Shooting and handing out candy

Znet Article, February, 17 2002 Gideon Levy
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It is only a very small minority of people who support the refusal to serve in the territories and also back up their beliefs with actions. A decisive majority of Israelis oppose non-compliance with draft orders; some are convinced ...

Znet Article Girdner: Chomsky on Trial in Turkey

Znet Article, February, 17 2002 Eddie j. Girdner
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From February 12 to 15 Noam Chomsky visited Turkey. Chomsky came to Turk...

Znet Article Beaumont: Are we anti-Semitic?

Znet Article, February, 17 2002 Peter Beaumont
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On 5 December last year the Chief Rabbi of Brussels, Albert Gigi, was walking through Anderlecht when he was assaulted by a group of Arab-speaking youths. He was chased into a nearby metro station and he and his companion were abused as 'dirty Jew...

Znet Article Jones: OK, George, make with the friendly bombs

Znet Article, February, 17 2002 Terry Jones
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To prevent terrorism by dropping bombs on Iraq is such an obvious idea that I can't think why no one has thought of it before. It's so simple. If only the UK had done something similar in Northern Ireland, we wouldn't be in the mess we are in toda...

Znet Article Cockburn: Running From Reebok's Hypocrisy

Znet Article, February, 16 2002 Alexander Cockburn
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Right till the end of January, Dita Sari was preparing to fly from her home near Jakarta to Salt Lake City to bask today in the admiration of assorted do-gooders and celebrities mustered by Reebok. The occasion is the 13th annual Human Rights Awar...

Znet Article Fisk: The Arab nations are lost in a pit of desperation

Znet Article, February, 16 2002 Robert Fisk
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A few days ago, Crown Prince Abdullah of Saudi Arabia called upon the "conscience" of the American people to help the Palestinians. The Emir of Qatar went one step further in self-abasement. The Arabs, he said - and he apologised for using the wor...

Znet Article Nichols: Enron? Nader Is Glad You Asked

Znet Article, February, 16 2002 John Nichols
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Why, yes, Ralph Nader would be delighted to discuss the Enron scandal. But don't expect the once and possibly future presidential candidate to do so with a straight face. "I hate to say 'I told you so,'" he begins, barely cloaking his glee over wh...

Znet Article Kak: Arundhati Roy & Criminal Contempt of the Supreme Court

Znet Article, February, 15 2002 Singh, thakkar, jhaveri, bhushan, Kak
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On 15th January 2002, Justice G.B. Pattanaik and Justice R.P. Sethi of the Supreme Court of India heard arguments in the contempt case against writer Arundhati Roy. As on every previous occasion when this particular case has come up for hearing, n...

Znet Article Wise: For Black History Month, Remember The True MLK

Znet Article, February, 15 2002 Tim Wise
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As we find ourselves in the midst of Black History Month -- a brief respite from the much whiter version of history we learn and celebrate the rest of the year -- and having recently commemorated another Martin Luther King Jr. holiday, perhaps it ...

Znet Article Parpart: Japan the Asian Argentina?

Znet Article, February, 15 2002 Uwe Parpart
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By Looking at his country, Goldman Sachs Japan chief economist Tetsufumi Yamakawa can offer little more than recounting a cynical joke that's been making the rounds for some time in financial circles: "What's the difference between Japan and Argen...

Znet Article Correggia: AFGHANISTAN: AN EPICENTRE OF SOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL TRAGEDIES, A COUNTRY OF BRAVE PEOPLE

Znet Article, February, 15 2002 Marinella Correggia
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Italy: Months ago, Said Karim, a supervisor of demining activities in the Western Afghan region of Herat, wanted to show to a foreign visitor something nice from his beloved country; something different than landmines and Uxo (bad Ufo, in a sense:...

Znet Article Milne: Can the US be defeated?

Znet Article, February, 15 2002 Seumas Milne
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Those who have argued that America's war on terror would fail to defeat terrorism have, it turns out, been barking up the wrong tree. Ever since President Bush announced his $45bn increase in military spending and gave notice to Iraq, Iran and Nor...

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