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Podur: Nation States?
Commentary, April, 07 2002
Justin Podur
Podur's ZSpace page
A state can be defined as a 'coercion-wielding organization that exercises priority over all other organizations in a definite territory', after Charles Tilly. Tilly says that the logic of states is to try to expand their power territorially by ma...
Hutchinson: Breaking the Silence on Black Suicides
Znet Article, April, 07 2002
Earl ofari Hutchinson
Hutchinson's ZSpace page
In his stage days, comedian turned political activist Dick Gregory liked to crack that whites kill themselves by leaping from a tall building, and blacks kill themselves by jumping from a basement. This bit of gallows humor always got an uproariou...
Said: Thinking ahead: After survival, what happens?
Znet Article, April, 07 2002
Edward Said
Said's ZSpace page
Anyone with any connection at all to Palestine is today in a state of stunned outrage and shock. While almost a repeat of what happened in 1982, Israel's current all-out colonial assault on the Palestinian people (with George Bush's astoundingly i...
Amundson: Physician Assisted Suicide
Znet Article, April, 07 2002
Ron Amundson
Amundson's ZSpace page
Supporters of the assisted suicide bill blame its opposition on the religious right. This distorts the facts. Assisted suicide is opposed on secular, civil rights grounds by at least eleven national disability organizations. The reasons fit perfec...
Edwards: Arms, Climate Change, And The Grand Media Deception
Commentary, April, 06 2002
David Edwards
Edwards's ZSpace page
In a recent Guardian article, Julian Borger reports a massive 11% increase in U.S. defence spending. It is estimated that by 2007 defence spending will be 20% higher than average cold war levels. While September 11 is cited as justification, the i...
Shalom: Exile for the Enemy of Peace?
Commentary, April, 06 2002
Stephen1 Shalom
Shalom's ZSpace page
As fighting between Israelis and Palestinians reaches horrible new heights, many are asking whether the time has not finally come to stop tolerating an intransigent leader who refuses to put an end to the violence. Not that he should be killed, or...
Municipality: Paramilitary attacks in Primero de Enero
Znet Article, April, 06 2002
Primero de enero autonomous Municipality
Municipality's ZSpace page
To the National and International Press.To Public Opinion.Brothers and Sisters:From the seat of our Primero de Enero Autonomous Municipality, we are denouncing the following:As we already denounced on April 4, we now would like to inform you as to...
Municipality: 1o de enero vs. ORCAO and the government
Znet Article, April, 06 2002
1o de enero autonomous Municipality
Municipality's ZSpace page
[translated by irlandesa] To the National and International PressTo Public OpinionBrothers and Sisters:From the seat of our Primero de Enero Autonomous Municipality we are denouncing the incidents which took place today, April 6, 2002.Today, at 12...
Solomon: Palestinians Are Blurry In The Editorial Frame
Znet Article, April, 06 2002
Norman Solomon
Solomon's ZSpace page
In times of crisis, many policymakers and journalists pay special attention to the editorializing from America's most influential papers. The spin of news coverage and the mix of individual opinion pieces usually indicate the outlooks of the media...
Pilger: Hollywood Hurrah
Znet Article, April, 06 2002
John Pilger
Pilger's ZSpace page
I sat down the other night to watch Mai Masri's film Frontiers of Dreams and Fears. It was on videotape; like most of her remarkable work about the Palestinians, ten films in all, it has not been shown in the cinema or on television in this countr...
Monbiot: America's Bioterror
Znet Article, April, 06 2002
George Monbiot
Monbiot's ZSpace page
America's Bioterror
Al-jazeera: Mofaz to Destroy Palestinian Refugee Camp
Znet Article, April, 06 2002
Al-jazeera
Al-jazeera's ZSpace page
Al-Jazeera TV website. Saturday, 6 April 2002, 10:30 G.M.T. [translated by Eric Mueller] An al-Jazeera correspondent in Palestine has reported that the Israeli Chief of Staff, General Shaul Mofaz, is personally leading the operation to destr...
Shalom: The Crisis in Palestine
Commentary, April, 05 2002
Stephen1 Shalom
Shalom's ZSpace page
The basic problem in the Israel-Palestine conflict today remains what it's been for decades: the denial of self-determination to the Palestinian people. Palestinians have been living under a brutal and humiliating occupation since 1967 and no solu...
Pilger: Not in our name
Znet Article, April, 05 2002
John Pilger
Pilger's ZSpace page
President George W Bush yesterday called on Israel to withdraw from the Palestinian cities occupied by its forces during the last week. He excused Israel's violence, but lectured the Palestinians and the rest of the Middle East on the need for re...
Golan: The World Just Watches
Znet Article, April, 05 2002
Neta Golan
Golan's ZSpace page
For the international peace observers currently holed up within Yasser Arafat's presidential compound - myself among them - it is not Israeli actions but the inaction of the international community that has most shocked us. Inside the pock-marked ...
Dominick: Barking Up the Wrong Olive Branch
Znet Article, April, 05 2002
Brian Dominick
Dominick's ZSpace page
All posturing aside, and despite numerous mixed messages, the US and perhaps even Israeli governments are beginning to admit in murmur what has been a starkly obvious reality for some time now: Whether they like it or not, it is improbable that th...
Fisk: A Speech Laced With Obsessions And Little Else
Znet Article, April, 05 2002
Robert Fisk
Fisk's ZSpace page
Ariel Sharon could not have done better. The heaping of blame upon an occupied people, the obsessive use of the word terror - by my rough count there were 50 references in just 10 minutes - and the brief, frightened remarks about "occupation" and ...
Podur: The War Foretold
Znet Article, April, 05 2002
Justin Podur
Podur's ZSpace page
Most of the victims of the perpetual war in Colombia are unarmed poor civilians. For every military casualty there are six civilian deaths. In the words of one peasant leader, the Colombian war 'is not a civil war. It's a war aga...
Al-jazeera: Al-Jazeera News April 5, 2002
Znet Article, April, 05 2002
Al-jazeera
Al-jazeera's ZSpace page
Al-Jazeera TV Website. 5 April 2002. 13:16 G.M.T. American emissary, Anthony Zinni, has concluded his discussions with Palestinian President Yasir Arafat in his besieged headquarters in Ramallah, the first such meeting between Arafat and a foreign...
Al-jazeera: Demonstrations in Saudi Arabia
Znet Article, April, 05 2002
Al-jazeera
Al-jazeera's ZSpace page
Al-Jazeera TV Website. Friday, 5 April 2002, 12:11 G.M.T. Saudi Authorities block pro-Palestinian demonstration in Eastern part of the Country Saudi Authorities have prevented thousands of demonstrators from reaching the American consulate in th...
