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Znet Article Goodman: Former U.S. Interrogator: Torture Policy Has Led to More Deaths than 9/11 Attacks

Znet Article, December, 15 2008 Amy Goodman
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Writing under the pseudonym Matthew Alexander, a former special intelligence operations officer, who led an interrogations team in Iraq two years ago, has written a stunning op-ed in the Washington Post called "I'm Still Tortured by What I Saw in ...

Znet Article Ratner: Obama Should Prosecute Bush Officials Who Designed Torture Policy

Znet Article, December, 06 2008 Michael Ratner
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One of Barack Obama's first acts as president should be to instruct his attorney general to appoint an independent prosecutor to initiate a criminal investigation of former Bush Administration officials who gave the green light to torture.

Znet Article Cook: The real goal of Israel’s blockade

Znet Article, November, 17 2008 Jonathan Cook
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The latest tightening of Israel’s chokehold on Gaza – ending all supplies into the Strip for more than a week – has produced immediate and shocking consequences for Gaza’s 1.5 million inhabitants.

Znet Article Raina: Hindu Terrorism

Znet Article, November, 16 2008 Badri Raina
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So, now, India is home to �Hindu� terrorism...

Znet Article Wilpert: Smoke and Mirrors: An Analysis of Human Rights Watch’s Report on Venezuela

Znet Article, October, 18 2008 Gregory Wilpert
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President Chavez managed to hand Human Rights Watch a major public relations victory with his recent expulsion of its America’s Director José Miguel Vivanco and its Deputy Director Daniel Wilkinson...

Znet Article Cook: Israel’s ‘city of coexistence’ shows its true colors

Znet Article, October, 17 2008 Jonathan Cook
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Israel has been suffering its worst bout of inter-communal violence since the start of the second intifada, with a week of what has been widely presented as “rioting” by Jewish and Arab residents of the northern port city of Acre.

Znet Article Gordon: Israel’s Occupation, A New Book By Neve Gordon

Znet Article, October, 06 2008 Neve Gordon
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A New Book Interview...

Znet Article Jensen: Free speech not safe from attack by Canadian media corporation

Znet Article, September, 22 2008 Robert Jensen
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When the bottom line is threatened, corporations typically show little concern for holding the line on political principles such as freedom of expression. In capitalism, freedom is too often just another word for maximizing profits.

Znet Article Spannos: Iraqi Refugees & U.S. Responsibility

Znet Article, September, 18 2008 Chris Spannos
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One week ago today U.S. State Department officials announced successful achievement of their goal to admit 12,000 Iraqi refugees into the U.S. before the fiscal year end on September 30th...

Znet Article Mondragon: On my choice of civil resistance

Znet Article, September, 10 2008 Hector Mondragon
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[Translator's introduction: this statement is a response to an August 29/08 article in El Tiempo, Colombia's national newspaper, which claims that an email to Hector Mondragon was found on the laptop of FARC guerrilla leader Raul Reyes, who was as...

Znet Article Halper: The Palestinians: Warehousing a "surplus people"

Znet Article, September, 07 2008 Jeff Halper
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So rapid is the pace of systemic change in that indivisible entity known as Palestine/Israel that it almost defies our ability to keep up with it. The deliberate and systematic campaign of driving Palestinians out of the country in 1948 was quickl...

Znet Article Cook: Palestinian village faces army reign of terror

Znet Article, September, 02 2008 Jonathan Cook
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The window through which Salam Amira, 16, filmed the moment when an Israeli soldier shot from close range a handcuffed and blindfolded Palestinian detainee has a large hole at its centre with cracks running in every direction.

Znet Article Podur: The desperate lies of a criminal regime

Znet Article, August, 30 2008 Justin Podur
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So now the computer of an assassinated guerrilla leader, a computer that survived a missile attack and 48 hours of tampering by Colombian authorities according to INTERPOL, yields email evidence "linking" the decimated guerrillas to a peace activi...

Znet Article Zirin: The 2008 Olympics: Subterranean Rot

Znet Article, August, 25 2008 Dave Zirin
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Not since Marco Polo has anyone traveled so far up China's Silk Road with such amoral élan. But there was Jacques Rogge, president of the IOC, knight of the court of King Leopold's Belgium, three-time Olympian in the grand sport of yachting - stan...

Znet Article Klein: The Olympics: Unveiling Police State 2.0

Znet Article, August, 08 2008 Naomi Klein
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So far, the Olympics have been an open invitation to China-bash, a bottomless excuse for Western journalists to go after the Commies on everything from internet censorship to Darfur. Through all the nasty news stories, however, the Chinese governm...

Znet Article Zirin: China’s Olympic Trials

Znet Article, August, 04 2008 Dave Zirin
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"Go Red for China!" was the slogan unveiled on the Chinese mainland by Pepsi-Cola, whose ubiquitous blue can will, "for a limited time," be red. Pepsi is just one of many companies advertising at the Olympics, at a cost of up to $6 billion, in an ...

Znet Article Jamail: The Tale Of A Palestinian Journalist

Znet Article, July, 08 2008 Dahr Jamail
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Muhammad Omer and I jointly received the Martha Gellhorn Prize for Journalism in London on 16 June (1). Omer is a 24-year-old Palestinian with whom I feel honoured to have shared this award, as I told the audience at the prize-giving ceremony. His...

Znet Article Podur: Ingrid Betancourt Released

Znet Article, July, 02 2008 Justin Podur
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Colombia's most high-profile hostage of the FARC guerrilla group, French-Colombian former Presidential candidate, Ingrid Betancourt was just freed in a military operation by the Colombian armed forces. This is a major event in Colombian politics a...

Znet Article Podur: On a quest for secular piety

Znet Article, June, 21 2008 Justin Podur
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Tarek personally asked me to review his book, Chasing a Mirage: the tragic illusion of an Islamic State (CM). With a book being favorably reviewed in the Canadian (and US and UK) media, including the Globe and Mail, the Toronto Star, the Huffing...

Znet Article Cohn: Supreme Court Checks and Balances in Boumediene

Znet Article, June, 20 2008 Marjorie Cohn
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After the Supreme Court handed down its long-awaited opinion upholding habeas corpus rights for the Guantanamo detainees, I was invited to appear on "The O'Reilly Factor" with guest host Laura Ingraham. Although she is a lawyer and former law cler...

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