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Choudry: Still Under Wraps: Official Information Laws Keep Free Trade Details Away From Prying Public Eyes
Commentary, March, 07 2002
Aziz Choudry
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I don't know if he still uses it, but as a Member of Parliament in New Zealand, before being inflicted on the rest of the world through the WTO, one of Mike Moore's favourite expressions was "I could tell you, but then I'd have to kill you."
Avnery: How To Torpedo The Saudis
Znet Article, March, 07 2002
Uri Avnery
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If, in May 1967, an Arab prince had proposed that the whole Arab world would recognize Israel and establish normal relations with it, in return for Israel's recognition of the Green Line border, we would have believed that the days of the Messiah ...
Benvenisti: The checkpoints of arrogance
Znet Article, March, 07 2002
Meron Benvenisti
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The tragic failures exposed by the killing of Israel Defense Forces troops at checkpoints at the hands of Palestinian guerrillas released a flood of criticism that forced the military command to learn some lessons and initiate changes in the manag...
Fisk: America's Morality Has Been Distorted By September 11th
Znet Article, March, 07 2002
Robert Fisk
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In Afghan fields, the poppies blow. Yes, even as the Americans are moving deeper into the Afghan trap, the warlords and gangsters running much of the western-supported Afghan government are ensuring a bumper new crop of heroin for the world's mark...
Mokhiber: Wired for Business or Democracy?
Commentary, March, 06 2002
Russell Mokhiber
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While Internet stocks may have crashed, Internet optimists still abound.
Rai: No Justifications For War- No Link to September 11th
Znet Article, March, 06 2002
Milan Rai
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The United States is now set on war with Iraq. What justification is there for such a war? Occasionally it has been suggested that Iraq was somehow linked to the 11 September attacks. The strongest alleged link has been the supposed meeting of M...
Bai: The War At Home
Znet Article, March, 06 2002
Jane Bai
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Within hours of the collapse of the World Trade Center, President Bush appeared on national television to offer his first promise to the American public: "We will smoke these barbarians out of their caves." A cleansing was in order. The world was ...
Freedland: Israel's Army of Peace
Znet Article, March, 06 2002
Jonathan Freedland
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By Even the most stoic of Israelis are beginning to feel scared. The sight of a single family - father, mother and two daughters, one aged seven, the other a toddler - wiped out on a busy Jerusalem street has shocked those who thought they could b...
Foot: In Defense Of Opression
Znet Article, March, 06 2002
Paul Foot
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The cycle of death goes on and on. Nearly 50 Palestinians dead in the Israeli army attacks on refugee camps over the past couple of days; 10 Israeli soldiers dead at an army checkpoint near Ramallah. In the west there is a universal shaking of sop...
Schlobohm: Getting Serious About An Anti FTAA Strategy
Znet Article, March, 06 2002
Matthew Schlobohm
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This piece is intended to spark discussion and planning to develop a more serious, multi-year strategy to defeat the FTAA. Since the Quebec City mobilizations, in April 2001, as a movement, we’ve done very little to develop an integrated, ...
Turnipseed: War Is Wrong
Znet Article, March, 06 2002
Tom Turnipseed
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I knew war was terribly wrong when I saw pictures of children like myself desperately attempting to flee the flames of bombed German cities in newspapers and on the newsreels during World War II. As an eight year old, I identified with the childre...
Philips: Israeli Army Faces Defeat
Znet Article, March, 06 2002
Alan Philips
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Israel's leading military historian has a bleak message for the country's generals: the army is winning the battle against Palestinian armed groups, but the final result can only be defeat - and perhaps civil war at home. Martin van Creveld, profe...
Pilger: The Camp X-ray Concentration Camp
Commentary, March, 05 2002
John Pilger
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THE conditions in which prisoners are being held brutally and illegally in an American concentration camp on Cuba go to the heart of the "war on terrorism", and mark the Blair government for its betrayal of the basic rights of British citizens to ...
Sustar: The War At Accuride
Znet Article, March, 05 2002
Lee Sustar
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WHEN UAW President Stephen Yokich was asked recently about the UAW’s failure to organize European and Japanese-owned auto assembly operations, he had a ready answer. "The places they’ve built their plants are nonunion areas, ...
Various: Stories of Humanity in the riots
Znet Article, March, 05 2002
Various
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[Note to readers: It was suggested on the Forum of Indian Leftists listserv that stories of the small resistances and affirmations of dignity and humanity amid the murderous riots in Gujarat be collected. Several members of that forum, ...
Conniff: Interview With Richard Grossman
Znet Article, March, 05 2002
Ruth Conniff
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I first met Richard Grossman when I was following Ralph Nader on the campaign trail through New England. Grossman lives in New Hampshire, and Nader brought him along on a visit to the state capitol, introducing him to lawmakers as "the preeminent ...
Parrish: Consider Yourself Influenced
Znet Article, March, 05 2002
Geov Parrish
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It was tempting, while Donald Rumsfeld burst a few blood vessels last week railing against those who questioned the Pentagon's "Office of Strategic Influence," to agree with Rumsfeld that such criticism was indeed unfair -- the Pentagon has been e...
Solomon: Pentagon's Silver Lining May Be Bigger Than Cloud
Commentary, March, 04 2002
Norman Solomon
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Pentagon's Silver Lining May Be Bigger Than Cloud
Levy: The view from Beit El
Znet Article, March, 04 2002
Gideon Levy
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Most Israelis, it is safe to assume, have never and probably will never visit the settlement of Beit El. They therefore have no idea what an inhabitant of that large settlement sees when he opens his window. To the east, the settler sees nothing b...
Correll: JOHN Q. -
Commentary, March, 03 2002
Thelma Correll
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The critics and the news media panned it. Variety went so far as to say, "A rare case of blatant political propaganda in a major Hollywood picture, John Q. is a shamelessly manipulative commercial on behalf of national health insurance." True, the...


