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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...

Turnipseed: Latin America's Dilemma: Otto Reich's Propaganda is Reminiscent of the Third Reich

Znet Article, April, 18 2002 Tom Turnipseed
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The Bush administration is engaging in damage control for their questionable involvement in the failed 2 day coup against the democratically elected government of President Hugo Chavez of Venezuela. Alarmingly, the ominous Otto Reich is emerging a...

Edwards: Ignorance Is Strength

Znet Article, April, 18 2002 David Edwards
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In his book, The More You Watch, The Less You Know, Mediachannel's Danny Schechter reports a study by the University of Massachusetts, which found that people who relied most on television news coverage knew least about the Gulf War and its origin...

Drda: This Month's Moral Dilemma

Graphic, April, 17 2002 Darrin Drda
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income tax, taxes, war, SOA

Schechter: What's A Journalist To Do When The Political Gets Personal?

Commentary, April, 17 2002 Danny Schechter
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When you write about the world, or report on what's happening "over there," the issues can seem far away enough to permit disengagement. The distance encourages detachment and objectification.

Schurr: Israel Detains And Beats Civillians And International Observers

Znet Article, April, 17 2002 Kristin Schurr
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I've been sitting with a 15 year old girl, a volunteer for the Union of Palestinian Medical Relief Committees, under a grapefruit tree here in Nablus. Earlier today about 25 internationals and 6 Palestinian UPMRC workers, including 3 medics, a doc...

Leibowitz: Some Israelis Refuse to Serve as the Only Honorable Option

Znet Article, April, 17 2002 Shamai Leibowitz
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Israel's rule over 3 million Palestinian Arabs in the territories has forced it into a position of committing a number of moral outrages. To maintain our rule, we have in the past months committed war crimes, killing and maiming thousands of civil...

Ess: Report from Gaza

Znet Article, April, 17 2002 Kristen Ess
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The Israelis have a political term that isn't applied as much as it should be to the current conflict. 'Tahalikh Medini," means "settling state affairs." Wipe away all of the humanitarian masking on this topic and you are left with Israeli pragmat...

Flanders: Progressives Of The World Unite!

Znet Article, April, 17 2002 Laura Flanders
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As Red Crescent medics began retrieving dead bodies from the devastated Palestinian refugee camp of Jenin, as many as 100,000 pro-Israel demonstrators massed at the Capitol in D.C. The demonstration brought together conservative Jews and radical r...

Giacaman: A Population At Risk

Znet Article, April, 17 2002 Rita Giacaman
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April 16, 2002 Following is a quick review of the consequences of the continuing Israeli onslaught on the state of health of Palestinians. This onslaught began on the evening of March 29th, 2002, and continues until today, with serious ramificati...