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Sustar: Katrina Exposes Racism
Znet Article, August, 31 2005
Lee Sustar
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DECADES OF OFFICIAL neglect, racism and the impact of global warming magnified the destructive impact of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans and other parts of the South. The mainstream media focused most on the big-money property losses--for exampl...
Zunes: The U.S. and Iran: Democracy, Terrorism, and Nuclear Weapons
Znet Article, August, 31 2005
Stephen Zunes
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The election of the hard-line Teheran mayor, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, over former President Ayatollah Hashemi Rafsanjani as the new head of Iran is undeniably a setback for those hoping to advance greater social and political freedom in that country. ...
Monbiot: How to Stop Civil War
Znet Article, August, 30 2005
George Monbiot
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Between the idea and the reality falls the shadow of occupation. Whatever the parliamentarians in Iraq do to try to prevent total meltdown, their efforts are compromised by the fact that their power grows from the barrel of someone else's gun. Whe...
Fisk: How Easily We Have Come To Take The Bombs And The Deaths In Iraq For Granted
Znet Article, August, 28 2005
Robert Fisk
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Taking things for granted. Or, as a very dear friend of mine used to say to me, "There you go." I am sitting in Baghdad airport, waiting for my little Flying Carpet Airlines 20-seater prop aircraft to take me home to Beirut but the local Iraqi sta...
Hass: The Settlers Are Gone, The Polluted Water Remains
Znet Article, August, 26 2005
Amira Hass
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On the eve of the evacuation of settlements from the Gaza Strip, two assumptions relating to water sources took wing among Palestinians. The first: behind Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's decision to leave the Strip lies the fact that the supply of p...
Elmer: Soldiers, Anguish Remain Around Evacuated West Bank Settlements
Znet Article, August, 26 2005
Jon Elmer
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Jenin, West Bank, Aug 26 - Standing in her barnyard amid the chickens and cows, corn stalks and wheat, Sarah Hassan's optimism is guarded, her memories searing as she looks out at the Jewish settlement of Kadim. Her farm, in the village of Arab A...
Aljawhary: Worker Unions in Iraq
Znet Article, August, 26 2005
Amjad Aljawhary
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Amjad Aljawhary is the North American Representative of The Federation of Worker Councils and Unions in Iraq. In this interview he discusses his union’s main objective...
Smith-ferri: The Law of the Land
Znet Article, August, 25 2005
David Smith-ferri
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In a thinly disguised effort to minimize political damage from growing disillusion with the vortiginous war in Iraq, the Bush administration has begun to "scale back" its predictions of what is actually achievable under the U.S. occupation. Put on...
Hass: The Remaining 99.5 Percent
Znet Article, August, 24 2005
Amira Hass
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"I want to ask you as a Jew to a Jewess," the young man said a few days ago. In these days, a beginning such as this invites a dialogue of the kind in which we have been drowning for several weeks now - a dialogue in which the definition "Jew" has...
Solo: Turning The Hour-Glass - The Empire Against The Clock
Znet Article, August, 24 2005
Toni Solo
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The objectives of empire change very little from one century to another. Control of and access to energy and mining resources are only one strong motive driving imperial policy in Latin America. Control over food and water security is also a vital...
Abu-manneh: A Colonial Disengagement
Znet Article, August, 23 2005
Bashir Abu-manneh
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Israel has created a media spectacle out of a tactical maneuver. This simple fact can be easily forgotten when one is daily bombarded by images of anguished and tearful settlers, their 'painful' evacuation, and their children's 'youthful' (and fan...
Reinhart: How we left Gaza
Znet Article, August, 19 2005
Tanya Reinhart
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We will never know with certainty what took place in the mind of Ariel Sharon in February 2004, when he first declared, without consulting anyone, that he is ready to evacuate the Jewish settlements in Gaza. But if we try to put together the piece...
Pilger: The Rise Of The Democratic Police State
Znet Article, August, 18 2005
John Pilger
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Thomas Friedman is a famous columnist on the New York Times. He has been described as "a guard dog of US foreign policy". Whatever America's warlords have in mind for the rest of humanity, Friedman will bark it. He boasts that "the hidden hand of ...
Davis: The Coming Avian Flu Pandemic
Znet Article, August, 17 2005
Mike Davis
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The Coming Avian Flu Pandemic
Plitnick: Gaza Withdrawal Backgrounder
Znet Article, August, 17 2005
Mitchell Plitnick
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The Gaza withdrawal, while a positive step forward in some ways, signifies the perpetuation of Israeli control over Palestinians albeit in a different form. The US must maintain pressure on Israel to continue to vacate settlements and outposts in ...
Abed: Disengagement and the Politics of Post-National Realism
Znet Article, August, 17 2005
Mohammad Abed
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I The Meaning of Disengagement Maintaining or intensifying oppressive policies requires the manufacture of a diversion, a 'smokescreen' that buys time and accumulates political capital. One reliable way of accumulating political capital is to ...
Holloway: Can We Change The World Without Taking Power?
Znet Article, August, 16 2005
John Holloway
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John Holloway: I don’t know the answer. Perhaps we can change the world without taking power. Perhaps we cannot. The starting point—for all of us, I think—is uncertainty, not knowing, a common search for a way forward. Bec...
Fisk: A Constitution That Means Nothing To Ordinary Iraqis
Znet Article, August, 15 2005
Robert Fisk
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Behind ramparts of concrete and barbed wire, the framers of Iraq’s new constitution wrestled yesterday to prevent - or bring about - the federalisation of Iraq while their compatriots in the hot and fetid streets outside showed no interest...
Avnery: A Miracle of Rare Device
Znet Article, August, 15 2005
Uri Avnery
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A picture engraved in memory: Ariel Sharon in the Knesset. Around him the storm is raging. The Members rush about, shouts ring out from all sides. The Member on the podium waves his arms, denounces and curses him. Sharon sitting at the government ...
Morris-suzuki: Free Speech -- Silenced Voices:
Znet Article, August, 15 2005
Tessa Morris-suzuki
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At the start of each week, the commuter trains and subways of Japan are adorned with a mass of multi-colored advertisements, enticing the passengers to buy the latest of issue of the country's many weekly magazines. The advertisements are an art f...
