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Commentary 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."

Znet Article 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 ...

Znet Article 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...

Znet Article 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...

Commentary 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.

Znet Article 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...

Znet Article 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 ...

Znet Article 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...

Znet Article 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...

Znet Article 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, ...

Znet Article 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...

Znet Article 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...

Commentary 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 ...

Znet Article 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, ...

Znet Article 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, ...

Znet Article 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 ...

Znet Article 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...

Commentary 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

Znet Article 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...

Commentary 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...

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