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Bond: NEPAD
Znet Article, June, 20 2002
Patrick Bond
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South African president Thabo Mbeki made the cover page of the international edition of Time magazine in early June, with the misleading heading: `He has finally faced up to the AIDS crisis and is now leading the charge for a new African developme...
Ewins: Binationalism an option in search of peace in the Middle East
Znet Article, June, 19 2002
Tristan Ewins
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Never since the signing of the Oslo Accords in 1993 has the cause of peace in the Middle East seemed more hopeless than is the case today. With the total collapse of the much vaunted ‘peace process’ in 2000 after the rejection of f...
Azulay: An Old Man And No Sea
Znet Article, June, 18 2002
Jessica Azulay
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On May 26, I was brought to the shore of the Meditarranean sea to meet two fishermen, residents of the Nuseirat Refugee Camp in the Gaza Strip. They spread blankets out on the sandy floor of their small shack for us to sit on and served tea with m...
Fisk: Starbucks the target of Arab boycott for its growing links to Israel
Znet Article, June, 15 2002
Robert Fisk
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Beirut. Across five Arab states a new and closely co-ordinated campaign to boycott American goods is being launched, with Starbucks coffee shops their primary target, but with Nestlé, Coca-Cola, Johnson & Johnson and Burger King outlets also ...
Sammonds: The Ending Of History
Znet Article, June, 14 2002
Neil Sammonds
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In 1989 Francis Fukuyama argued in ‘The End of History’ that ‘communism’ was defeated and liberal capitalist democracies were the natural end-point of political evolution. In Palestine/Israel Fukuyama’s over...
Fisk: Bush's Titanic War On Terror
Znet Article, June, 13 2002
Robert Fisk
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First it was to be a crusade. Then it became the "War for Civilization". Then the "War without End". Then the "War against Terror". And now--believe it or not--President Bush is promising us a "Titanic War on Terror". This gets weirder and weirder...
Mukherji: Gujrat and the world order
Znet Article, June, 12 2002
Nirmalangshu Mukherji
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The events of 9/11 took place in New York and Washington, but their direct effect was felt in Asia in the form of a massive increase in US aggression in parts of the region. What does the military presence of the US mean for the future of democrac...
Mcmurtry: "What Did Bush Know?"
Znet Article, June, 08 2002
John Mcmurtry
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Michael Albert joins the corporate media, the Republican Party and most of the Washington establishment in his blanket abuse of forensic questions on 9-11. The argument that relevant decision setters in the Bush Jr. executive covertly allowed the ...
Kissenger: Alan Dershowitz And Torture
Znet Article, May, 31 2002
C. clark Kissenger
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In early November controversy irrupted on the internet over Harvard Law Professor Alan Dershowitz’s proposal to legalize torture in the United States to extract information from terrorism suspects. So when Dershowitz appeared on January 27...
Frank: Blowback and Fallout
Znet Article, May, 31 2002
Andre gunder Frank
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The present threat of nuclear war between Pakistan and India is the direct responsibility of irresponsible provocation by the Bush Administration. Whatever were the remote and immediate causes of previous Indo-Pakistani wars over Kashmir, the pres...
Chomsky: A World Without War
Znet Article, May, 29 2002
Noam Chomsky
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I hope you won't mind if I set the stage with a few truisms. It is hardly exciting news that we live in a world of conflict and confrontation. There are lots of dimensions and complexities, but in recent years, lines have been drawn fairly sharpl...
Chomsky: Chomsky Talk
Znet Article, May, 27 2002
Noam Chomsky
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NOAM CHOMSKYBERKELEY, MECA, 3.21.02 NOAM CHOMSKY: Unfortunately, I can't see anybody out there but I assume there are people there. I'm going to be talking--I'll be talking primarily about West Asia, which overlaps pretty closely with ...
Fisk: A Firestorm Is Coming
Znet Article, May, 25 2002
Robert Fisk
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So now Osama bin Laden is Hitler. And Saddam Hussein is Hitler. And George Bush is fighting the Nazis. Not since Menachem Begin fantasised to President Reagan that he felt he was attacking Hitler in Berlin – his Israeli army was actually b...
Hutchinson: Who's Jerking Who Off On Terror Alerts?
Znet Article, May, 24 2002
Earl ofari Hutchinson
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Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld bluntly told a Senate Appropriations subcommittee hearing on the Pentagon budget that the terrorists are "jerking us" around with their terror threats. Rumsfeld then upped the terror ante by gravely warning that ...
Evans: Deconstructing The War On Terror: Race, Gender And History
Znet Article, May, 24 2002
Benjamin Evans
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Since September 11th, 2001 many North Americans are convinced of the necessity of war. They see themselves as victims, or potentials victims, of terrorism. They feel that the bush regime's bombing of Afghanistan, and Israel's attacks on the Palest...
Saba: Fifteen Theses on the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
Znet Article, May, 23 2002
Paul Saba
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Introduction All too frequently the mainstream media in the United States treats the Israeli-Palestinian conflict as a timeless confrontation between eternal enemies - Arabs and Jews. But the crisis in Israel/Palestine is not an ahistorical one. I...
Avnery: Sharon's war plans: The Great Reformer?
Znet Article, May, 23 2002
Uri Avnery
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When the inhabitants of Bethlehem came out of their homes, after the long weeks during which Israeli soldiers shot at everything in town that moved, they discovered that the landscape had changed. While they were imprisoned in their homes, the arm...
Hass: The Real Disaster is the checkpoints
Znet Article, May, 21 2002
Amira Hass
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Qalandiyah checkpoint. Nigel Roberts, the World Bank representative in Israel/Palestine, is convinced Western societies would break down if confronted with an "economic disaster of such proportions."When the director general of the Palestinian Fin...
Mccallin: Making the blooms desert
Znet Article, May, 21 2002
Jessica Mccallin
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Many people wonder why Israel won't give back the occupied territories in return for peace. One reason is that more than half of Israel's water supplies now come from the Mountain Aquifer and Jordan river basin, which are situated deep within them...
Graham-brown: Sanctions Renewed On Iraq
Znet Article, May, 20 2002
Sarah Graham-brown
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Concluding almost a year of diplomatic wrangling, the UN Security Council has agreed to revise UN sanctions on Iraq when the eleventh phase of the oil for food program ends on May 29. Under the oil for food program, Iraq is allowed to sell its oil...
