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Solomon: News Media and "the Madness of Militarism"
Znet Article, May, 16 2005
Norman Solomon
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Media activism has achieved a lot. But I don't believe there's anything to be satisfied with -- considering the present-day realities of corporate media and the warfare state. War has become a constant of U.S. foreign policy, and media flackery f...
Galati: Multi-Culturalism or Multi-Segregation?
Znet Article, May, 16 2005
Rocco Galati
Galati's ZSpace page
The word "multiculturalism" evokes, in Toronto, images of a sausage-fest on College Street's "Little Italy," or a Souvlaki-fest on the Danforth's "Greek Town," Kebob-fests on Gerrard Street's South Asian Quarter, or any of the other food-fests, da...
Moses: Neo-Con Logic at the Border
Znet Article, May, 12 2005
Greg Moses
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At first, I wasn’t sure whether Gov. Schwarzenegger was caught winging it when he praised border vigilantes as good citizens patching up bad government. But as he repeated the account in Sunday's interview with Chris Wallace, I began to su...
Whitney: A Tentative Strategy for ending the War
Znet Article, May, 11 2005
Mike Whitney
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The war will only end when support for the war ends at home. We have a new weapon in that struggle; the truth. Let’s use it. “…the intelligence and the facts were being fixed around the policy.†Richard Dearlove; f...
Utsumi: Japanese World War II POW Policy
Znet Article, May, 09 2005
Aiko Utsumi
Utsumi's ZSpace page
[Part I of a two part series on the treatment of prisoners of war examines Japan's World War II treatment of prisoners and the verdicts of the Tokyo War Crime...
Solomon: Nuclear Fundamentalism and the Iran Story
Znet Article, May, 05 2005
Norman Solomon
Solomon's ZSpace page
Years from now, when historians look back at agenda-building for a missile attack on Iran, they should closely examine a story that took up the USA's most coveted space for media spin -- the upper right corner of the New York Times front page -- o...
Engelhardt: Iraq 'Uptick,' Superpower Downtick?
Znet Article, April, 25 2005
Tom Engelhardt
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Iraq 'Uptick,' Superpower Downtick?
Bacevich: The Normalization of War
Znet Article, April, 21 2005
Andrew j. Bacevich
Bacevich's ZSpace page
The Normalization of War
Engelhardt: George's Amazing Alphabet Book
Znet Article, April, 13 2005
Tom Engelhardt
Engelhardt's ZSpace page
[Editor's note: It's unprecedented for any official -- high or low -- to leak information to Tomdispatch, but some weeks ago a Senior Official in one of our intelligence agencies -- and since we have so many, that's a little like saying none-of-yo...
Chavez: Capitalism Is Savagery.
Znet Article, April, 10 2005
Hugo Chavez
Chavez's ZSpace page
The following are excerpts from a speech given by Hugo Chávez at Gigantinho Stadium during the 2005 World Social Forum. A DVD containing the entire speech is available at the Z Store. To find out more, click here. Inspiration. Ignacio Ramonet...
Chmiel: Remembering Oscar Romero and Rachel Corrie
Znet Article, March, 24 2005
Mark Chmiel
Chmiel's ZSpace page
This week, March 24, marks the twenty-fifth anniversary of when El Salvadoran Archbishop Oscar Romero was assassinated while celebrating Mass. A month before, he had sent a letter to then-president Jimmy Carter, imploring him to cut off military a...
Curtis: Britain and Africa: The new propaganda
Znet Article, March, 21 2005
Mark Curtis
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A major feature of the invasion of Iraq was media commentators falling for obvious government propaganda. Without such complicity, the invasion would have been politically impossible. Yet this willful self-deception is now being repeated in anothe...
Bello: Iraq, the U.S., and the Challenges to the Global Peace Movement
Znet Article, March, 20 2005
Walden Bello
Bello's ZSpace page
Speech delivered in Vancouver, Canada, at an event sponsored by StopWar.ca, March 18, 2005, held on the occasion of the March 19-20 Global Protest against the War in Iraq. Over the next few days, millions of people throughout the world, from V...
Perez roque: Human Rights and Cuba
Znet Article, March, 19 2005
Felipe Perez roque
Perez roque's ZSpace page
Statement Delivered By H. E. Mr. Felipe Pérez Roque, Minister Of Foreign Affairs Of The Republic Of Cuba, At The High-level Segment Of The 61st Session Of The Commission On Human Rights Excellencies: The Commission on Hu...
Baroud: A Series of Unfortunate Events, The Iraq Edition
Znet Article, March, 19 2005
Ramzy Baroud
Baroud's ZSpace page
I visited Baghdad as a reporter a few years before the US invasion. There were posters and statues of the ousted President Saddam Hussein everywhere. But not one checkpoint. Those lucky enough, or maybe unfortunate enough to report from the occup...
Solomon: Why Iraq Withdrawal Makes Sense
Znet Article, March, 17 2005
Norman Solomon
Solomon's ZSpace page
President Bush just told reporters that he has no intention of setting any timetable for withdrawal. "Our troops will come home when Iraq is capable of defending herself," he said. Powerful pundits keep telling us that a swift pullout of U.S. troo...
Landau: Payout for Pinochet Victims Shines in Dark Times for Human Rights
Znet Article, March, 16 2005
Saul Landau
Landau's ZSpace page
On February 25, Riggs Bank agreed to pay $9 million into a fund for victims of Augusto Pinochet to settle a case over the bank's role in hiding the former dictator's ill-gotten gains. This latest development in the decades-long fight to hold Pinoc...
Bottoms: Justice Delayed is Justice Denied!
Znet Article, March, 16 2005
Geoff Bottoms
Bottoms's ZSpace page
In his cell at US Penitentiary Victorville, California Gerardo Hernández receives a mountain of mail each day from all over the world, yet still there is no word from Atlanta, Georgia on the results of his appeal hearing last March. Together with...
Milne: It Is Not Democracy That's On The March In The Middle East
Znet Article, March, 15 2005
Seumas Milne
Milne's ZSpace page
For weeks a western chorus has been celebrating a new dawn of Middle Eastern freedom, allegedly triggered by the Iraq war. Tony Blair hailed a "ripple of change", encouraged by the US and Britain, that was bringing democracy to benighted Muslim la...
Franklin: Who's Afraid Of Venezuela-Cuba Alliance?
Znet Article, March, 14 2005
Jane Franklin
Franklin's ZSpace page
For a long time there was only one country in Latin America offering free health care to all its citizens. Now there are two. The governments of both countries regard health care as a basic human right. So Cuba, rich in health care, and Venezuela,...
