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Commentary 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...

Znet Article Reinhart: Jenin- The Propaganda War

Znet Article, April, 21 2002 Tanya Reinhart
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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 ...

Znet Article Bustani: Peacemaker's reply

Znet Article, April, 21 2002 Jose Bustani
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[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 ...

Commentary 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, ...

Znet Article 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...

Znet Article Hass: What Kind of War is This?

Znet Article, April, 20 2002 Amira Hass
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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...

Commentary Raptis: Thomas Friedman's Brave

Commentary, April, 19 2002 Nikos Raptis
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"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...

Commentary 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...

Znet Article Novelli: Impunity and Immunity in Colombia

Znet Article, April, 19 2002 Mario Novelli
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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.&...

Znet Article Palast: Here's what we read this week:

Znet Article, April, 19 2002 Greg Palast
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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...

Znet Article Solomon: Npr And The Fallow Triumph Of Public Radio

Znet Article, April, 19 2002 Norman Solomon
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A triumphant story about National Public Radio appeared in late March on the front page of Current, the main newspaper of the public-broadcasting industry. "NPR Lands Most Listeners Ever," the headline announced, over a summary of the latest Arbit...

Commentary Solomon: American Journalism: A Class Act

Commentary, April, 18 2002 Norman Solomon
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Like most people, American journalists are apt to look at the very rich with awe. Names like Bill Gates, George Soros and Warren Buffett have the ring of modern-day royalty -- high above the rest of us, and maybe even vaguely immortal.

Znet Article Fair: U.S. Papers Hail Venezuelan Coup as Pro-Democracy Move

Znet Article, April, 18 2002 Fair
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When elements of the Venezuelan military forced president Hugo Chavez from office last week, the editorial boards of several major U.S. newspapers followed the U.S. government's lead and greeted the news with enthusiasm. In an April 13 editorial, ...

Znet Article Said: What Israel Has Done

Znet Article, April, 18 2002 Edward Said
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Despite Israel's effort to restrict coverage of its extraordinarily destructive invasion of the West Bank's Palestinian towns and refugee camps, information and images have nevertheless seeped through. The Internet has provided hundreds of verbal ...

Znet Article Steel: Take me to the Promised Land (the long way)

Znet Article, April, 18 2002 Mark Steel
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At a time when many people complain that politicians are obsessed with spin, it's so refreshing to hear Israeli spokesmen, who refuse to make the slightest concession to PR whatsoever. Asked for their attitude towards the shooting of a baby by an ...

Znet Article Marcus: A Holiday Of Highs And Lows

Znet Article, April, 18 2002 Yoel Marcus
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Israel's 54th Independence Day has caught us with our national mood at rock bottom. The Promised Land has become the Land of the Security Check - a land in which citizens are afraid to walk the streets. For the first time in many years, the shadow...

Znet Article Turnipseed: Latin America's Dilemma: Otto Reich's Propaganda is Reminiscent of the Third Reich

Znet Article, April, 18 2002 Tom Turnipseed
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The Bush administration is engaging in damage control for their questionable involvement in the failed 2 day coup against the democratically elected government of President Hugo Chavez of Venezuela. Alarmingly, the ominous Otto Reich is emerging a...

Znet Article Edwards: Ignorance Is Strength

Znet Article, April, 18 2002 David Edwards
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In his book, The More You Watch, The Less You Know, Mediachannel's Danny Schechter reports a study by the University of Massachusetts, which found that people who relied most on television news coverage knew least about the Gulf War and its origin...

Graphic Drda: This Month's Moral Dilemma

Graphic, April, 17 2002 Darrin Drda
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income tax, taxes, war, SOA

Commentary Schechter: What's A Journalist To Do When The Political Gets Personal?

Commentary, April, 17 2002 Danny Schechter
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When you write about the world, or report on what's happening "over there," the issues can seem far away enough to permit disengagement. The distance encourages detachment and objectification.

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