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Znet Article Edwards: Hide The Looking Glass

Znet Article, September, 26 2002 David Edwards
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When order and symmetry manifest in the natural world in the absence of conscious design, we feel a sense of wonder - the structural perfection of a snowflake, for example, is remarkable precisely because it is unplanned. Similarly, media reportin...

Znet Article Mayor of nagasaki: Hiroshima And Nagasaki Declarations

Znet Article, September, 25 2002 Mayor of nagasaki
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For more than half a century, the Mayors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki have issued peace declarations in the name of the victims of the atomic bomb. Reflecting the spirit of Hiroshima/Nagasaki, which transcends international enmity among nations in th...

Znet Article Ali: War and Rumours of War

Znet Article, September, 25 2002 Tariq Ali
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[A major rally was organised by the South Asian Alliance in Birmingham on Sunday 15th September 2002.The aim of the rally was to look at the world one year on from September the 11th.The speakers at the rally were Tariq Ali, Shaukat Butt, Asma Jha...

Znet Article Stokes: US Military Doctrine and Colombia's War of Terror

Znet Article, September, 25 2002 Doug Stokes
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Under the new presidency of Colombia's Alvaro Uribe Velez paramilitarism is once again legal. His new network of a million paid informants essentially makes overt what has long been a joint covert US-Colombian strategy of brutal counter-insurgent ...

Znet Article Hass: Everyday Occurences

Znet Article, September, 25 2002 Amira Hass
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Last Thursday morning, two huge bulldozers dug into the earth energetically, as they have been doing in recent months, in a wadi north of Ramallah. Over the past two years, with the gradual closure to Palestinian traffic of all the roads in the We...

Znet Article Fisk: The Dishonesty Of This So-called Dossier

Znet Article, September, 25 2002 Robert Fisk
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Tony Blair's "dossier" on Iraq is a shocking document. Reading it can only fill a decent human being with shame and outrage. Its pages are final proof – if the contents are true – that a massive crime against humanity has been comm...

Znet Article Nakamura: Words on Receiving The Okinawa Peace Prize

Znet Article, September, 24 2002 Tetsu Nakamura
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NAKAMURA Tetsu, a Japanese physician, has worked in Afghanistan and Pakistan for nineteen years as head of the Peshawar Medical Association, an NGO that he founded and heads. PMA initially provided medical care. Activities center on the main hospi...

Znet Article Abunimah: Artificial Crisis, Artificial Response

Znet Article, September, 24 2002 Ali Abunimah
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If it were to be judged only by its text, Palestinians should be largely satisfied with UN Resolution 1435 passed early on September 24 by 14 votes to 0 with the US abstaining. The resolution demanded that "Israel immediately cease measures in and...

Znet Article Fisk: Prosecute Sharon For War Crimes, Israeli Women Say

Znet Article, September, 24 2002 Robert Fisk
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    In an astonishing letter to the Palestinian survivors of the 1982 Sabra and Shatila camps massacres, nine Israeli women's peace groups have told Palestinians in Beirut that they support their efforts to indict the Israeli Prime Min...

Znet Article Hass: Ramallah Diary

Znet Article, September, 23 2002 Amira Hass
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Suddenly, at about 11 P.M. on Saturday night, people started calling one another to ask with disbelief if it was true there was demonstrating in the streets. "Is it true what Al Jazeera is reporting - that dozens of young people are demonstrating ...

Znet Article Rights bulletin: Emergency Continues To Grip Aceh

Znet Article, September, 23 2002 Human Rights bulletin
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Since July a political issue constantly on the front pages in Jakarta has been the likelihood that a civil or military emergency/martial law will be declared in Aceh. The idea was first floated by retired Lt. General Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, the ...

Znet Article Nakamura: An Omen

Znet Article, September, 23 2002 Tetsu Nakamura
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It all began on July 18th, 2001, when I made a visit to reconstruct the clinic in Darya-ye Nur. It was the first time for me to enter Afghanistan since the Taliban had come into power. It had been a while since I last crossed the Khyber Pass. I we...

Znet Article Arnove: The Case Against Bush's War

Znet Article, September, 23 2002 Anthony Arnove
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Once again, the U.S. government is gunning for Iraq. After twelve years of imposing the most comprehensive and deadly sanctions in history, after destroying much of the country and killing tens of thousands of civilians in the 1991 Gulf War, and a...

Znet Article Mondragon: Colombia: The Struggle Against Uribe Begins

Znet Article, September, 22 2002 Hector Mondragon
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[translated by Justin Podur] The new Colombian government's program includes: -A labor reform that reduces overnight and overtime wages-A pension reform that increases the retirement age by 1/3 -The reduction of public sector salaries by 30%, ov...

Znet Article Baskin: "Force The Palestinians To Surrender"

Znet Article, September, 22 2002 Gershon Baskin
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"Force the Palestinians to Surrender and End the War" - the streets of Israel have been placarded with this slogan that correctly paraphrases the sentiments of the average Israeli. The Israeli public has been blinded or chooses not to see the true...

Znet Article Herman: Christopher Hitchens And The Uses Of Demagoguery

Znet Article, September, 22 2002 Edward Herman
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In his latest phase as flack for the war party, Christopher Hitchens has taken on some of the qualities of his leader George W. Bush. A notable similarity is in his demagogic statement of the issues "we" face since 9/11--in W's words, an "evil" en...

Znet Article Parrish: A Moment Of Deep Hope

Znet Article, September, 21 2002 Geov Parrish
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Recently I had the tremendous honor, and pleasure, of sitting down for a conversation with one of the true heroes of global efforts to create a more equitable and sustainable world. Indian physicist Vandana Shiva is one of the most renowned and re...

Znet Article Mokhiber: The Bush Victory In Iraq

Znet Article, September, 21 2002 Russell Mokhiber
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George Bush has already won a victory in Iraq, and we're not talking about weapons inspectors' access inside the country. The administration's beating of the war drums has drowned out the dominant stories of two months ago -- the corporate scand...

Znet Article Arquimedes vitonás: Direct Democracy In Colombia

Znet Article, September, 20 2002 Alirio arroyave Arquimedes vitonás
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Colombian community leaders Alirio Arroyave and Arquimedes Vitonás were in Toronto last month to give talks, part of the Canada-Colombia Solidarity Campaign. rabble interviewer Justin Podur caught up with both men during their stay and spoke with...

Znet Article Brown: Killings Of Dozens Once Again Called Period Of Calm By US Media

Znet Article, September, 20 2002 Michael Brown
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Many US media reports were quick to declare that two suicide bombings in Israel on September 18 and 19, in which eight Israelis were killed, had brought an end to a period of "calm" simply because there had been no similar attacks for six weeks an...

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