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Znet Article 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...

Znet Article 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...

Znet Article 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...

Znet Article Aronowitz: On the AFL-CIO Split

Znet Article, August, 19 2005 Stanley Aronowitz
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In some respects it was fitting that four important affiliates declared their withdrawal from the AFL-CIO in the days running up to the 50th anniversary convention in July 2005. A merger which was conceived in a unity that signified complacency wa...

Znet Article 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 ...

Znet Article 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...

Znet Article Fisk: US Win?

Znet Article, August, 14 2005 Robert Fisk
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There’s the wreckage of a car bomb that killed seven Americans on the corner of a neighbouring street. Close by stands the shuttered shop of a phone supplier who put pictures of Saddam on a donkey on his mobiles. He was shot three days ago...

Znet Article Engelhardt: Cindy, Don, and George

Znet Article, August, 14 2005 Tom Engelhardt
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Cindy, Don, and George

Znet Article Bacon: Unions At War

Znet Article, August, 11 2005 David Bacon
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SAN FRANCISCO, CA - In Chicago's cavernous Navy Yard convention center, delegates were lined up at the four microphones scattered across the floor. San Francisco's Nancy Wohlforth stood at mic number 2. She'd been waiting for this moment for two y...

Znet Article Hoodbhoy: Bin Laden And Hiroshima

Znet Article, August, 06 2005 Pervez Hoodbhoy
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The decision to incinerate Hiroshima and Nagasaki was not taken in anger. Whit...

Znet Article Chomsky: Resort To Fear

Znet Article, July, 21 2005 Noam Chomsky
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The resort to fear by systems of power to discipline the domestic population has left a long and terrible trail of bloodshed and suffering which we ignore at our peril. Recent history provides many shocking illustrations. The mid-twentieth centur...

Znet Article Zirin: Edge of Sports

Znet Article, July, 17 2005 Dave Zirin
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In High School, I was a 5' 10" inch center for the fearsome Friends Seminary Quakers in New York City. It wasn't pretty, but I lived for it and didn't care if the opposing center could spit on my head. I just loved sports. My walls were shrines to...

Znet Article Scipes: An Unholy Alliance

Znet Article, July, 10 2005 Kim Scipes
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The AFL-CIO's "Solidarity Center" (formally known as the American Center for International Labor Solidarity or ACILS) was actively involved in bringing together the leadership of the right-wing Confederation of Venezuelan Workers (CTV) and that of...

Znet Article Bacon: Stories from the Borderlands

Znet Article, July, 08 2005 David Bacon
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The world of the border turns labor law on its head-old, established legal rights are just so much ink on paper, and even the decision of federal judges to enforce the law are simply ignored. NAFTA's labor and environmental "side- agreements" have...

Znet Article Pilger: From Iraq To The G8

Znet Article, July, 07 2005 John Pilger
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Over the past two weeks, the contrast between two related "global" events has been salutary. The first was the World Tribunal on Iraq held in Istanbul; the second the G8 meeting in Scotland and the Make Poverty History campaign. Reading the papers...

Znet Article Herman: The Politics of the Srebrenica Massacre*

Znet Article, July, 07 2005 Edward Herman
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"Srebrenica" has become the symbol of evil, and specifically Serb evil. It is commonly described as "a horror without parallel in the history of Europe since the Second World War" in which there was a cold-blooded execution "of at least 8,000 Musl...

Znet Article Solomon: Withdrawal Would Cripple U.S. Credibility

Znet Article, July, 04 2005 Norman Solomon
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Obsession with seeming unequivocal and immovable has been frequent in the Oval Office. During the Vietnam War, such fixations were indifferent to the fact that the war was losing the U.S. government moral credibility around the world. But from the...

Znet Article Bix: Emperor, Shinto, Democracy:

Znet Article, June, 14 2005 Herbert Bix
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Japanese archaeologists and historians have long rejected the government's claim that Japan has had 124 emperors from the mythical Jimmu, descendant of the Sun Goddess, to the controversial Showa Emperor Hirohito, whose pre-World War II reign brou...

Znet Article Gindin: Latin America and Venezuela Promote Holistic Vision Despite US

Znet Article, June, 09 2005 Jonah Gindin
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Ft. Lauderdale, FL.—The 35th Organization of American States General Assembly (OASGA) closed this evening, after approving a joint declaration aimed at “Delivering the Benefits of Democracy.” The “Declaration of Flo...

Znet Article Klein: Torture's Part of the Territory

Znet Article, June, 08 2005 Naomi Klein
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Brace yourself for a flood of gruesome new torture snapshots. Last week, a federal judge ordered the Defense Department to release dozens of additional photographs and videotapes depicting prisoner abuse at Abu Ghraib. The photographs will elicit...

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