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Znet Article Arnove: Iraq Under U.S. Occupation: "It Was Never As Bad As This"

Znet Article, November, 16 2005 Anthony Arnove
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WHEN U.S. and coalition troops invaded Iraq in March 2003, many Iraqis hoped that at least their conditions of life would improve--after a decade and a half of living under the strictest system of economic sanctions ever known. Now, they know diff...

Znet Article Pilger: The Rise Of America's New Enemy

Znet Article, November, 10 2005 John Pilger
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I was dropped at Paradiso, the last middle-class area before barrio La Vega, which spills into a ravine as if by the force of gravity. Storms were forecast, and people were anxious, remembering the mudslides that took 20,000 lives. "Why are you he...

Znet Article Zunes: Bush Again Resorts to Fear-Mongering to Justify Iraq Policy

Znet Article, November, 04 2005 Stephen Zunes
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President George W. Bush's October 6 address at the National Endowment for Democracy illustrated his administration's increasingly desperate effort to justify the increasingly unpopular U.S. war in Iraq. The speech focused upon the Bush administra...

Znet Article Brecher: Attack Syria? Invade Iran? By what Constitution?

Znet Article, October, 20 2005 Jeremy Brecher
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Testifying before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on October 19, Condoleezza Rice was asked whether the Bush administration was planning military action against Syria. She answered, “I don’t think the President ever takes an...

Znet Article Lendman: The Sorrows of Haiti

Znet Article, October, 20 2005 Stephen Lendman
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On February 28, 2004, in the middle of the night, the U.S. again invaded Haiti. It abducted and forcibly removed democratically elected President Jean-Bertrand Aristide by its staged coup d'etat and flew him against his will to the Central African...

Znet Article Pilger: The Silence of Writers

Znet Article, October, 16 2005 John Pilger
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In 1988, the English literary critic and novelist, D.J. Taylor wrote a seminal piece entitled 'When the Pen Sleeps'. He expanded this into a book 'A Vain Conceit', in which he wondered why the English novel so often denigrated into 'drawing room t...

Znet Article Pilger: Suharto to Iraq

Znet Article, October, 15 2005 John Pilger
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"The propagandist’s purpose,” wrote Aldous Huxley, “is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.” The British, who invented modern war propaganda and inspired Joseph Goebbels, wer...

Znet Article Monbiot: Protesters as Criminals

Znet Article, October, 04 2005 George Monbiot
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"We are trying to fight 21st-century crime - antisocial behaviour, drug-dealing, binge drinking, organised crime - with 19th-century methods as if we still lived in the time of Dickens". Tony Blair, 27th September 2005.(1) "Down poured the wine l...

Znet Article Fisk: How The World Was Duped:

Znet Article, October, 04 2005 Robert Fisk
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The 5th of February 2003 was a snow-blasted day in New York, the steam whirling out of the road covers, the US secret servicemen - helpfully wearing jackets with "Secret Service" printed on them - hugging themselves outside the fustian, asbestos-p...

Znet Article Podur: Two Faced in Haiti

Znet Article, October, 01 2005 Justin Podur
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Last week we talked to Desmond Molloy, an old soldier who heads the 'DDR' program for MINUSTAH, the UN Stabilization Mission in Haiti. 'DDR' stands for Disarmament, Demobilization, and Reintegration. Molloy's previous experience, among other confl...

Znet Article Podur: The Polls of Bel Air

Znet Article, September, 23 2005 Justin Podur
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The post-coup Haitian presidential election, currently planned for November 20, has a list of 54 candidates. The Canadian Prime Minister's 'special advisor on Haiti', Denis Coderre, suggested yesterday that this sprawling list of candidates was a ...

Znet Article Achcar: An Open Letter to Juan Cole

Znet Article, September, 23 2005 Gilbert Achcar
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An Open Letter to Juan Cole

Znet Article Podur: From the Embassy to the Prison

Znet Article, September, 21 2005 Justin Podur
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From the Embassy to the Prison

Znet Article Chavez: Chavez at the UN

Znet Article, September, 18 2005 Hugo Chavez
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Your Excellency and Friends The original intention of this meeting has been totally weakened. We have been prevailed upon, as center of our debate, to consider some badly named "reforms". These reforms relegate as unimportant all that the world'...

Znet Article Jamail: Warring on Voters

Znet Article, September, 17 2005 Dahr Jamail
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For the last several days at least 6,000 US soldiers along with approximately 4,000 Iraqi soldiers (Read-members of the Kurdish Peshmerga and Shia Badr Army) were laying siege to the city of Tal-Afar, near Mosul in northern Iraq. It is estimated t...

Znet Article Franklin: Miami Vice

Znet Article, September, 06 2005 Jane Franklin
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The Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals has now provided legal recognition of the fact that the city of Miami is so inflamed with passion against Cuba that it is unfit as a site for the trial of any case involving Cuba where the defendant is not in ...

Znet Article Wise: A God With Whom I am Not Familiar

Znet Article, September, 06 2005 Tim Wise
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This is an open letter to the man sitting behind me at La Paz today, in Nashville, at lunchtime, with the Brooks Brothers shirt: You don't know me. But I know you. I watched you as you held hands with your tablemates at the restaurant where we b...

Znet Article Chomsky: The Afghanistan Food Crisis

Znet Article, September, 04 2005 Noam Chomsky
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The following was a ZNet Sustaiiner Forum Post replying to a question about the aftermath of bombing Afghanistan. It also appeared in the ZNet Blog, where a subset of Chomsky's forum posts are placed. For all the forum posts, become...

Znet Article Dominick: The Wholesale Looting of the Gulf Coast

Znet Article, September, 02 2005 Brian Dominick
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If you are more interested in and disgusted by rumors of civilian "troublemakers" on the streets of New Orleans and other Gulf Coastal communities than in the massive failings of the United States government before, during and since this tragedy b...

Znet Article 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. ...

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