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Cockburn: From Triumph Has Sprung Murderous Fiasco
Znet Article, October, 10 2003
Patrick Cockburn
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Baghdad. Six months after US tanks roared triumphantly into the centre of Baghdad and the statue of Saddam Hussein was famously toppled, the US has turned military victory into political defeat in Iraq. The US might have expected yesterday to be ...
Chomsky: Dominance and its Dilemmas*
Znet Article, October, 10 2003
Noam Chomsky
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By The past year has been a momentous one in world affairs. In the normal rhythm, the pattern was set in September, a month marked by several important and closely related events. The most powerful state in history announced a new National Securit...
Siergey: More Dreams of a Rarebit Fiend
Graphic, October, 09 2003
Jim Siergey
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micro chips, data base, privacy, big government, dreams
Monbiot: The Enemies of Science
Commentary, October, 09 2003
George Monbiot
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It is curious that this government, which goes to such lengths to show that it responds to market forces, appears to believe, when it comes to genetic modification, that the customer is always wrong. Tony Blair might have spent six years rolling b...
Albert: Elena Molinari Interviews Michael Albert
Znet Article, October, 09 2003
Michael Albert
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(1) Many mainstream economists and historians claim that there is only one economic system viable in the world in the XXI century, and that is capitalism. Is the system of Participatory economy alternative to both capitalism and socialism? How and...
Hass: Explaining The Occupation To The Occupier
Znet Article, October, 09 2003
Amira Hass
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By How can a tiny Palestinian organization like Islamic Jihad produce so many walking bombs, suicide bombers who choose babies in strollers and their grandparents as targets? And how does an organization that once declared it would only target sol...
Moore: Face It, You'll Never Be Rich
Znet Article, October, 09 2003
Michael Moore
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Perhaps the biggest success in the war on terror has been its ability to distract the nation from the corporate war on us. In the two years since the attacks of 9/11, American businesses have been on a punch-drunk rampage that has left millions of...
Davidson: Virtual Democracies
Znet Article, October, 09 2003
Kenneth Davidson
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Modern democracies have been around for long enough for neoliberal capitalists to learn how to subvert them. They have mastered the technique of infiltrating the instruments of democracy - the 'independent', judiciary the 'free press', the parliam...
Neumann: One State or Two?
Znet Article, October, 09 2003
Michael Neumann
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Do you favor a one-state solution or a two-state solution to the Israel/Palestine conflict? Personally, I favor both. The one-state solution calls for a single state made up of Israel plus the occupied territories. Since the state is conceiv...
Steele: West Still Failing To Protect Afghan Women
Znet Article, October, 09 2003
Jonathan Steele
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Afghan women still face shocking patterns of rape, domestic violence, forced marriage and the routine denial of justice, with the international community failing to protect them in the two years since the Taliban regime ended, according to Amnesty...
Starhawk: From Cancun to the Miami
Znet Article, October, 09 2003
Starhawk
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Those of us who went to Cancun to protest the World Trade Organization¹s ministerial came back with pinkeye, exhaustion, deep coughs, and heat rashes, but the rosy flush of victory made all the rest worthwhile. Sweet victory is rare in progr...
Noll: German Machismo
Znet Article, October, 09 2003
Andrea Noll
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They say, there's an invisible glass ceiling, against which women bump when trying to climb to the top. If that was true, we would expect to see masses of women walking the streets of Germany with bandaged heads. According to a OECD study on educ...
Z: Not All Italians Love Columbus
Znet Article, October, 09 2003
Mickey Z
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America is a nation built upon myth (starting with its "discovery") but the greatest myth of all is that the land of the free is gonna last forever. But, alas, my History Channel-watching brethren, all genocidal empires must fall. Just ask Italy. ...
Masri: End Both Occupations
Znet Article, October, 09 2003
Rania Masri
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Soldiers ripping walls apart with bullets, destroying buildings, killing families – all as they search for ‘terrorists.’ Men and boys picked up by soldiers, thrown into make-shift prison facilities for weeks, months, withou...
Herrera: The Effects of the US Embargo Against Cuba
Znet Article, October, 09 2003
Rémy Herrera
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The U.S. embargo against Cuba is condemned by an ever larger and by now overwhelming majority of states members of the United Nations General Assembly. However, it continues to be imposed by the U.S. government’s isolated but stubborn will...
Davis: The Day of the Locust
Znet Article, October, 09 2003
Mike Davis
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The mobs howled again in California, rattling windows on the Potomac. Are the barbarians marching eastward, as they did after the famous tax revolt of the late 1970s, or is this just another West Coast full-moon episode with little national cons...
Gonsalves: Bombarded with advertisements
Commentary, October, 08 2003
Sean Gonsalves
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Earlier this summer I was in Stanwood, Washington hanging out with a loosely affiliated group called the "Positive Futures Network."
Engelhardt: The Wilson Affair
Znet Article, October, 08 2003
Tom Engelhardt
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In the context of the collapse of every explanation for the war in Iraq (other than the obvious strategic ones which were never expressed by the administration or discussed in the media), the looting of Iraq, the looting of this country, and the...
Ash: When at a loss, escalate
Znet Article, October, 08 2003
Gabriel Ash
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When at a loss, escalate
