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Monbiot: The Business Of Power

Znet Article, February, 06 2002 George Monbiot
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Just as the government struggles to shake off one scandal, it is entangling itself in several more. Almost every day for the past fortnight Labour has been embarrassed by new revelations about the favours it has exchanged with the disgraced compan...

Hightower: Enron Shorts

Znet Article, February, 05 2002 Jim Hightower
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THE SOB STORY OF KEN AND LINDA LAY 2/11/02 I don't know whether to laugh, cry, or throw up.The televised tear-jerker entitled "Ken Lay, What A Guy!" starred Linda Lay, the wife of Enron CEO Ken, in an Emmy Award-winning performance. Like the wives...

Burbach: The World Social Forum In Porto Alegre:

Znet Article, February, 05 2002 Roger Burbach
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The second World Social Forum in Porto Alegre, Brazil, marked a dramatic counterpoint for a world that has been caught in a world of war and death since September 11. For six days starting on January 31, more than 51,000 people from around the glo...

Grossman: New US Military Bases: Side Effects Or Causes Of War?

Znet Article, February, 05 2002 Zoltan Grossman
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Since the end of the Cold War a decade ago, the U.S. has gone to war in Iraq, Somalia, Yugoslavia, and Afghanistan. The interventions have been promoted as "humanitarian" deployments to stop aggression, to topple dictatorsh...

Al-ahmed: The Smile Of Policeman Agadi

Znet Article, February, 05 2002 Abdel rahman Al-ahmed
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Finally, they let me go to the toilet. My body shook with cold. My hands were swollen and my body throbbed with pain. I fantasized about sleep, about free hands so I could scratch my nose, about looking for my mother. In the Shin Bet facility wher...

Greider: Crime in the Suites

Znet Article, February, 04 2002 William Greider
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The collapse of Enron has swiftly morphed into a go-to-jail financial scandal, laden with the heavy breathing of political fixers, but Enron makes visible a more profound scandal--the failure of market orthodoxy itself. Enron, accompanied by a sup...

Goldenberg: Aid packages ignore starving Afghans

Znet Article, February, 04 2002 Suzanne Goldenberg
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Rahim Dad had eight mouths to feed and the drought had stolen his crops, his oxen and his goats. So he sold the most valuable asset he had left: his 12-year-old daughter. "I sold my daughter for money because of the hunger," he says, shivering wi...