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Moore: L.A. Inconsequential
Graphic, April, 22 2002
Kevin Moore
Moore's ZSpace page
mass media, LAPD, Rampart scandal, Robert Blake, news priorities
Rogness: you call this progress?
Graphic, April, 22 2002
Jared Rogness
Rogness's ZSpace page
priorities
Libre: Estacion Libre Report
Znet Article, April, 22 2002
Estacion Libre
Libre's ZSpace page
Estación Libre and Project 169 denounce the recent rise in violence in the state of Chiapas. This latest situation does not amount to a series of simple coincidences but rather a concerted and systematic effort by Mexico's state and federal gover...
Levy: Building the Terror Infrastructure
Znet Article, April, 22 2002
Gideon Levy
Levy's ZSpace page
1. Fares Smaha bought a new pair of shoes for the holiday last year. At the time, he was a fatherless 14-year-old boy. His older brother Ahmed was serving time in jail in Israel for theft; his sister had been sold into marriage to an old Bedouin i...
Clark: The Brilliant Offer Israel Never Made
Znet Article, April, 22 2002
David Clark
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Yesterday's carnage in the West Bank provided a bloody illustration of the limits of Ariel Sharon's military strategy. Armed force cannot provide his people with the security they crave because the terrorist infrastructure he has set out to destro...
Avnery: Something Stinks
Znet Article, April, 22 2002
Uri Avnery
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There is full agreement between all those who were in the Jenin refugee camp on only one thing. A week after the end of the fighting, foreign journalists and IDF soldiers, UN representatives and hired hacks in the Israeli media, members of the wel...
Rees: Squeezing the Poor
Znet Article, April, 22 2002
William j. Rees
Rees's ZSpace page
On April 12, the Council of Canadians released a leaked copy of the G8 environment ministers' proposed final statement on the World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD) to be held in Johannesburg in August. Not surprisingly, the environment mi...
Vulliamy: Venezuela Coup Linked to Bush Team
Znet Article, April, 22 2002
Ed Vulliamy
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The failed coup in Venezuela was closely tied to senior officials in the US government, The Observer has established. They have long histories in the 'dirty wars' of the 1980s, and links to death squads working in Central America at that time. Wa...
Dwyer: Sharon's Earthday
Graphic, April, 21 2002
Hank Dwyer
Dwyer's ZSpace page
Israel, Palestine, Sharon, Arafat, bulldozers, war crimes, civilian casualties, collateral damage
Lusane: Who Judges The Judges?
Commentary, April, 21 2002
Clarence Lusane
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Was it normal Supreme Court idiosyncrasies or post-September 11th racial blowback? A recent incident at the U.S. Supreme Court, where Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist ordered a young Indian woman to remove a scarf on her head because it apparen...
Reinhart: Jenin- The Propaganda War
Znet Article, April, 21 2002
Tanya Reinhart
Reinhart's ZSpace page
In Israel, Jenin is perceived mainly as a public relations problem (called in Hebrew 'hasbara' -explaining). It appears even that the army and the government believe that Israel is winning the propaganda battle. After all, all relevant principles ...
Bustani: Peacemaker's reply
Znet Article, April, 21 2002
Jose Bustani
Bustani's ZSpace page
[Note: ZNet Commentator George Monbiot wrote a summary of this disgraceful situation. Please see that article for background... below is a speech given by Bustani on the situation] Statement by the Director-General at the Special Session of ...
Monbiot: A War Against the Peacemaker
Commentary, April, 20 2002
George Monbiot
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On Sunday, the US government will launch an international coup. It has been planned for a month. It will be executed quietly, and most of us won't know what is happening until it's too late. It is seeking to overthrow 60 years of multilateralism, ...
Wallerstein: Iraq War: The Coming Disaster
Znet Article, April, 20 2002
Immanuel Wallerstein
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New Haven -- George W. Bush is a geopolitical incompetent. He has allowed a clique of hawks to induce him to take a position on invading Iraq from which he cannot extract himself, one which will have nothing but negative consequences for the Unite...
Hass: What Kind of War is This?
Znet Article, April, 20 2002
Amira Hass
Hass's ZSpace page
Leaning on a cane, the man stood on a huge pile of ruins: a jumble of crushed concrete, twisted iron rods, shreds of mattresses, electric cables, fragments of ceramic tiles, bits of water pipes and an orphaned light switch. "This is my home," he s...
Raptis: Thomas Friedman's Brave
Commentary, April, 19 2002
Nikos Raptis
Raptis's ZSpace page
"THOMAS FRIEDMAN is one of America's leading interpreters of world affairs... Mr. Friedman has also won two Pulitzer Prizes for his reporting for The New York Times..." (Biographical note under Friedman's name on page iii of his book "The Lexus an...
Bond: Moderates Wilt But Radical South Africans Struggle On
Commentary, April, 19 2002
Patrick Bond
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"Breaking with some of its anti-globalization allies, the aid agency Oxfam International issued a report yesterday that praised international trade as a potentially enormous boon to the world's poor... `The extreme element of the anti-globalizatio...
Novelli: Impunity and Immunity in Colombia
Znet Article, April, 19 2002
Mario Novelli
Novelli's ZSpace page
At 4.30 p.m. on the 14th of April, 2002, Tito Libio Hernandez was standing at the main entrance of the University of Nariño where he had worked for the last 28 years.&...
Palast: Here's what we read this week:
Znet Article, April, 19 2002
Greg Palast
Palast's ZSpace page
On Friday, Hugo Chavez, the unpopular, dictatorial potentate of Venezuela, resigned. When confronted over his ordering the shooting of antigovernment protestors, he turned over the presidency to progressive, democratic forces, namely, the military...
