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Cockburn: Iraq is Splitting
Znet Article, April, 02 2006
Patrick Cockburn
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LRB | Vol. 28 No. 7 dated April 6, 2006 | Patrick Cockburn Diary Iraq is splitting into three different parts. Everywhere there are fault lines opening up between Sunni, Shia and Kurd. In the days immediately following the attack on the Shia sh...
Engler: Debt Relief
Znet Article, April, 01 2006
Mark Engler
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Last July, debt relief was all the rage. Bono crooned at the Live 8 benefit concert in London--one of almost a dozen taking place worldwide--and the leaders of the G8 nations met in Scotland to negotiate a response to the issue. In the end, the el...
Solo: The Anti-Americans
Znet Article, March, 31 2006
Toni Solo
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Jean Kirkpatrick's recent intervention in Nicaragua's internal politics is a helpful reminder that US government foreign policy is marked not just by hypocrisy and sadism but also by delusional stupidity. Take this quote from an interview Kirkpatr...
Dearden: Saharan Fish and the EU
Znet Article, March, 28 2006
Nick Dearden
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A decades-old, impoverished refugee population, tens of thousands of settlers, a 1000-mile wall, a stalled peace process and now an intifada in an occupied territory. This is not a description of Palestine, but a territory known as Western Sahara,...
Avnery: A Disgusting Exercise
Znet Article, March, 23 2006
Uri Avnery
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THE CENTRAL theme of this article is disgust. Therefore I apologize in advance for the frequent use of this and similar words. In the thesaurus I find quite a number of synonyms: loathing, revulsion, dislike, nausea, distaste, aversion, antipathy...
Bain lindsay: Shell Shocked
Znet Article, March, 23 2006
Hillary Bain lindsay
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"Nothing has changed," says Patterson Ogon, founding director of the Ijaw Council for Human Rights in the Niger Delta. "Since 1995 when Ken Saro-Wiwa was hung, [Shell's] public relations and glossy reports seem to indicate that they're doing so mu...
Albert: Parecon and Journalism
Znet Article, March, 20 2006
Michael Albert
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The following is excerpted from the new book from Zed Press, Realizing Hope. See: http://www.zmag.org/realizinghope.html The idea of journalism is not overly complex. Societies involve huge ranges of activity and possibility. Each day events oc...
Cook: Britain's Duplicity and the Siege of Jericho Jail
Znet Article, March, 20 2006
Jonathan Cook
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In the looking-glass world of Middle East politics, it is easy to forget that Ahmad Saadat, the imprisoned Palestinian leader Israel summarily arrested in Jericho late on Tuesday, is wanted for masterminding the killing of the Jewish state's most ...
Herman: Uncle Chutzpah and His Willing Executioners on the Dire Iran Threat: With Twelve Principles of War Propaganda in Ongoing Service
Znet Article, March, 15 2006
Edward Herman
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Back at the time of a major Bush-1 "drug war" in 1989, Hodding Carter pointed out that with increasing attention to the newly declared "crisis" by the administration and media, the public's estimate of the importance of the drug problem rose spect...
Gberie: Sierra Leone
Znet Article, March, 10 2006
Lansana Gberie
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The UN-Sierra Leone Special Court began work nearly four years ago, and it has already spent more than $80 million dollars. This is mostly as salary for its mainly expatriate staff, amounting to $16 million a year – more than that for the ...
Jones: How Britain helped Israel make its A-bomb
Znet Article, March, 10 2006
Meirion Jones
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Mirage jets swoop from the sky to destroy the Egyptian air force before breakfast; tanks race across the desert to the Suez Canal; Moshe Dayan, the defence minister, poses with eyepatch after the Jerusalem brigade has fought its way into the Old C...
Chomsky: The Long View
Znet Article, March, 08 2006
Noam Chomsky
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Staunton: First of all, I wanted to clear something up. I understand that some remarks you made about Bertie Ahern and "shoe shining" may have been reported inaccurately.Chomsky: The Press Association story on December 26th said that on his way to...
Lindsay: Bordering On Apartheid
Znet Article, March, 08 2006
Hillary Lindsay
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Abdelkader Belaouni is telling me about his day. "Every day I wake at seven," he begins. "Ten after seven at the latest. I make my bed, listen to the news. Around seven twenty or seven thirty I head down to the kitchen." He methodically lists his...
Chomsky: Latin American Integration
Znet Article, March, 07 2006
Noam Chomsky
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Bernie Dwyer: I am reminded of a great Irish song called "The West's Awake" written by Thomas Davis in remembrance of the Fenian Uprising of 1798. It is about the west of Ireland asleep under British rule for hundreds of years and how it awoke fro...
Ziadah: Challenging the New Apartheid
Znet Article, March, 04 2006
Rafeef Ziadah
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The Palestinian solidarity movement has made significant gains since the onset of the Second Palestinian Intifada in September 2000. Over the last five years, a new generation of Palestinian solidarity activists has mobilized in the streets, ca...
Baroud: Middle East Democracy and the Hamas Factor
Znet Article, March, 04 2006
Ramzy Baroud
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There is a degree of surrealism in all of this. Hamas has presented its choice of Prime Minister to President Mahmoud Abbas, as the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine says it has agreed in principle to join a Hamas-led government. In t...
Snow: Behind the Numbers
Znet Article, March, 01 2006
Keith harmon Snow
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On to Part 2 See Photos Below The British medical journal Lancet recently took greater notice of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) than all western media outlets combined. A group of physicians reported that about 4 million people ha...
Snow: Behind the Numbers
Znet Article, March, 01 2006
Keith harmon Snow
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Back to Part 1 Some people have suggested the reason that there isn’t greater awareness and equitable intervention in the Congo is because “we simply don’t know what to do†to remedy the situation. However, it is ...
Engler: No Activism?
Znet Article, February, 27 2006
Yves Engler
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Sometimes, activism can seem like a lot of sound and fury signifying nothing. Every activist has heard people say: “Nothing ever changes. Things are the way they are and that’s how it is and always will be. All your complaining an...
Baroud: Cartoon Awakening
Znet Article, February, 22 2006
Ramzy Baroud
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Much has been said and done in response to the deliberately offensive anti-Muslim cartoons published late last year by a conservative Danish newspaper, and profusely printed in many Europeans and non-European media, including South Africa, Jordan ...
