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Macmichael: In Growing Numbers, Public Opposes Iraq War, While Most Congressional Democrats Play It 'Safe'
Znet Article, December, 09 2005
David Macmichael
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U.S. Rep. John Murtha, a conservative Democrat from Pennsylvania, shook up the status quo on Capitol Hill when he recently called for the speedy withdrawal of American forces from Iraq. Murtha, a decorated Vietnam War veteran and an ally of the Pe...
Gberie: A Dirty War in West Africa
Znet Article, December, 07 2005
Lansana Gberie
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Can you tell ZNet, please, what your new book, “A Dirty War in West Africa†is about? What is it trying to communicate? Gberie: The book is about the very brutal, nihilistic conflict that ravaged the small West African state of Si...
Hirsch: Federal Court Allows Employers to Muck Up Organizing Drives
Znet Article, December, 06 2005
Michael Hirsch
Hirsch's ZSpace page
It's a sorry way to kick-off a week's worth of labor activities leading up to International Human Rights Day, but then who said it had to be a walk in the park. Yesterday, a three-judge federal appeals panel in Chicago overturned a Milwaukee Count...
Leopold: Rediscovered testimony given by CIA director in 2001 suggests manipulation of pre-war intelligence
Znet Article, December, 05 2005
Jason Leopold
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President George W. Bush's attempt Friday to silence critics who say his administration manipulated prewar intelligence on Iraq is undercut by congressional testimony given in February 2001 by former CIA Director George Tenet, who said that Iraq p...
Gberie: Liberia's Elections
Znet Article, December, 05 2005
Lansana Gberie
Gberie's ZSpace page
In the end, bizarrely, they made it all look like an anticlimax. Liberia’s recent elections, the milestone of the country’s difficult transition from brutal low-intensity warfare to peace, had been choreographed in advance to fit a...
Schwartz: Arguing about the War
Znet Article, December, 04 2005
Michael Schwartz
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I often receive emails -- pro and con -- about my postings on the war in Iraq, and I try to respond to any substantive questions or critiques offered. But when I received an email recently entitled "10 Questions" in response to a ...
Skerrett: Haiti is 'fixed'
Znet Article, December, 01 2005
Kevin Skerrett
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Recent Canadian policy in Haiti has been remarkably successful, having achieved most of its objectives. This is the case in much the same way that US policies in places such as El Salvador and Nicaragua in the 1980s were smashing successes â...
Ssoldz: To heal or to patch?
Znet Article, November, 29 2005
Stephen Ssoldz
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To heal or to patch?
Shiva: Earth Democracy: Justice, Sustainability and Peace
Book, November, 26 2005
With 'Earth Democracy', Shiva uncovers their link to the rising tide of fundamentalisms, violence against women, and planetary death.
Ssoldz: Press Freedom or Freedom to Bomb the Press?
Znet Article, November, 22 2005
Stephen Ssoldz
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Press Freedom or Freedom to Bomb the Press?
Sommers: The Uses of France's Riots
Znet Article, November, 20 2005
Jeff Sommers
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The French riots of late October and November were immediately pressed into service for ideological heavy lifting to serve several causes. First, the "Clash of Civilizations" crowd immediately wished to place the riots in the context of a neocons...
Curtis: Their Right To Return
Znet Article, November, 09 2005
Mark Curtis
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Today, a British-engineered occupation enters its fifth decade. There will be no commemoration, despite the human toll and murkiness surrounding what is going on there. Yet an entire population, exiled from their homeland and betrayed by the Briti...
Leopold: Vice President Lied As White House Sought To Defuse Leak Inquiry
Znet Article, November, 07 2005
Jason Leopold
Leopold's ZSpace page
Did Vice President Dick Cheney help cover-up the outing of covert CIA operative Valerie Plame Wilson in the months after conservative columnist Robert Novak first disclosed her identity? That’s one of the questions Special Prosecutor Pat...
Schwartz: Forgotten Iraq
Znet Article, November, 04 2005
Michael Schwartz
Schwartz's ZSpace page
So much of the Iraq war operates below the radar screen of the mainstream media that we rarely glimpse what is really going on -- either in the daily lives of Iraqis or in the daily life of the war itself. The news we do get is generally filled wi...
Joshi: Water, Water Everywhere
Znet Article, November, 04 2005
Sushma Joshi
Joshi's ZSpace page
As a child growing up in Kathmandu, I became familiar with the splutter of a pipe trying to pull water and coming up with empty air. Kathmandu is a paradox - it is a Valley surrounded by the Himalayas, the mountain range which fulfills the water n...
Zupp: War Made Easy: An interview with Norman Solomon
Zmag Article, November, 01 2005
Adrian Zupp
Zupp's ZSpace page
Norman Solomon is a syndicated columnist on media and politics, as well as founder and executive director of the Institute for Public Accuracy, a national consortium of policy researcher...
Hirsch: Delphi Goes Bankrupt: Guess who gets Squeezed?
Znet Article, October, 22 2005
Michael Hirsch
Hirsch's ZSpace page
It's Monday, Oct. 17, the day new regulations in the federal bankruptcy code make it tougher to file Chapter 11 protection from meeting creditor obligations. In corporate parlance, "creditors" include union workers' contracts and pension-fund obli...
Loewenstein: Stop the press!
Znet Article, October, 19 2005
Antony Loewenstein
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“Melbourne University Publishing should drop this whole disgusting project. If they proceed, I urge the Australian Jewish community, and particularly The Australian Jewish News, to treat it with dignified silence. That is our best response...
Ssoldz: Avian flu excuses begin
Znet Article, October, 19 2005
Stephen Ssoldz
Ssoldz's ZSpace page
No one knows if or when an avian flu pandemic will hit the world. But we do know that this is a serious possibility, and that the consequences could be catastrophic: tens to hundreds of millions dead worldwide; millions dead in the US; economic da...
Fernandes: Indonesia 1965
Znet Article, October, 16 2005
Clinton Fernandes
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On September 1, 1965, the US State Department prepared a Special National Intelligence Estimate for Indonesia. Written by the Central Intelligence Agency and the intelligence organisations of the Departments of State and Defence and the National S...
