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Znet Article Edwards: Iraq: BBC World Service Editor Responds

Znet Article, November, 15 2002 David Edwards
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In response to our recent Media Alert - Our Pravda: The BBC, Panorama and Iraq (November 8, 2002) - we received these emails from Bill Hayton of the BBC's World Service: Hi, Having read some of your material from time to time and agreed with part...

Znet Article Mian: Pakistan and Iraq

Znet Article, November, 14 2002 Zia Mian
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[Talk given at American Friends Service Committee Conference, 'Paths to a Just and Secure Future: Resisting Washington's Endless War' October 12, 2002] It’s always really cheering to come and be with AFSC. You wake up in the morning and y...

Znet Article Cook: Finishing The Job

Znet Article, November, 14 2002 Jonathan Cook
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What caused Benny Morris's recent conversion to the racist ideology of transfer? The "new historian" who began unravelling Israel's narrative of the war of 1948 -- that the Palestinians fled rather than that most were expelled or terrorised from...

Znet Article Healy: Another Globalization Is Possible

Znet Article, November, 14 2002 Sean Healy
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FLORENCE -- It was always going to be a recipe for chaos. Take 40,000 European leftists, fractious at the best of times, shoe-horn them into a Renaissance era Italian city and tell them to discuss, across half a dozen languages, the state of the w...

Znet Article Romero: Co-opt, Penalize, Cut

Znet Article, November, 14 2002 Marco Romero
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[translated by Anne M. Boylon, Colombia Support Network]   The first Senate and House committees have just ...

Znet Article Podur: Discussion of UN 1441 continued

Znet Article, November, 14 2002 Justin Podur
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Dear Znet and Zmag folks, I am writing in regards to Justin Podur?s commentary on UN SC Resolution 1441 re Iraq. I am a UN Representative for several NGOs and have been following the Security Council deliberations. I would ask you to forward my c...

Znet Article Fisk: Bin Laden Is Alive

Znet Article, November, 14 2002 Robert Fisk
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It is him. The man on the tape is Bin Laden. He is alive. It took only a brief flurry of phone calls to the Middle East and south-west Asia for the most impeccable sources to confirm that Osama bin Laden is alive and that it was his gravelly voice...

Znet Article Rhoads: Innocent until proven Arab

Znet Article, November, 14 2002 Anai Rhoads
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Since 911, the US has quickly revamped policies relating to security. When the idea of Muslim profiling was raised, it caused a significant stir around the world. Profiling In the past, Law enforcement, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI),...

Znet Article Kerr: Policing The Pax Americana

Znet Article, November, 14 2002 Stephen Kerr
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by Stephen James Kerr George W. Bush’s government is very interested in stopping the proliferation of chemical and other types of weapons. The President is quick to mention Iraq’s chemical and biological agents. And yet the emer...

Znet Article Roy: Living With The Holocaust

Znet Article, November, 14 2002 Sara Roy
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Some months ago I was invited to reflect on my journey as a child of Holocaust survivors. This journey continues and shall continue until the day I die. Though I cannot possibly say everything, it seems especially poignant that I should be address...

Znet Article Zinn: Veterans Day

Znet Article, November, 13 2002 Howard Zinn
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Veterans Day used to be called Armistice Day, because it was November 11, 1918, at 11 AM - the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month, that the first World War came to an end. It would be good to remember a few things about that...

Znet Article Mokhiber: Why Newsweek Is Bad For Kids

Znet Article, November, 13 2002 Russell Mokhiber
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Did you see the cover story of Newsweek magazine last week? The cover story is titled, "Why TV is Good for Kids." What are we to expect from Newsweek next week? Why Soda Pop is Good for Kids. Why Sedentary Living is Good for Kids. Why Obesity...

Znet Article Tiwari: 'Tell the truth or you will be killed'

Znet Article, November, 13 2002 Pranjal Tiwari
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 An old, despairing joke has made the rounds over the years in many parts of South Asia. It relates the story of a businessman whose wallet has disappeared. He reports the incident to his local police station, then goes home to lament his los...

Znet Article Edwards: Iraq And Arms Inspectors

Znet Article, November, 12 2002 David Edwards
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Media Lens has recently published several Media Alerts focusing on US/UK media coverage of Iraq, arms inspectors and the looming war (see Media Alerts Archive: www.medialens.org). A front-page article in yesterday's Guardian reported: "The Britis...

Znet Article Monbiot: The Rescue Parties

Znet Article, November, 12 2002 George Monbiot
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How many political parties can dance on the head of a pin? The answer, it seems, is one. In Britain and the United States, the opposition parties are beginning to discover that there simply isn't room for both them and their rivals on the narrow p...

Znet Article Edwards: Our Pravda, The BBC, Panorama and Iraq

Znet Article, November, 11 2002 David Edwards
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The truth is that you don't get very far in the mainstream media if you offend powerful interests. The BBC's John Simpson "was promoted with spectacular rapidity", Oliver Burkeman notes in the Guardian. The ascent came to a swift end when Simpson ...

Znet Article Podur: Resolution 1441

Znet Article, November, 11 2002 Justin Podur
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With the passage of UN Security Council Resolution 1441, the US has removed another obstacle in its path to an escalated war against Iraq. Those countries who had been holdouts in the Security Council claim that they went along because their fea...

Znet Article Morales: From Coca To Congress

Znet Article, November, 11 2002 Evo Morales
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Being the centre of attention does not come easy for Evo Morales. The day before our Buenos Aires interview he had smiled awkwardly as hundreds of poor Bolivian immigrants crowded around him for autographs. On the morning of our meeting he had bee...

Znet Article Galeano: Paradoxes

Znet Article, November, 10 2002 Eduardo Galeano
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Half of the population of Brazil lives in poverty or in extreme poverty, yet Lula's country is the world's second market for Montblanc fountain pens, and the ninth largest buyer of Ferraris. Armani shops in Sao Paulo sell more than in New York.

Znet Article Kang: The first agonizing step towards stabilizing Northeast Asia

Znet Article, November, 10 2002 Sang jung Kang
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History moved forward, but the movement was accompanied by painful sacrifice. Prime Minister Koizumi's visit to North Korea was intended to carve out a new page in the history of Japan and North Korea, countries whose relations have been suspended...

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