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Schwartz: Forgotten Iraq
Znet Article, November, 04 2005
Michael Schwartz
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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...
Grosso: Charles Taylor Should Face Trial
Znet Article, October, 15 2005
Joseph Grosso
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The past few years has seen the American media periodically shift focus on a variety of “most wanted man†types. Starting with Osama bin Laden following the 9/11 attacks, then soon spreading to Mullah Omar, then to Saddam Hussein. ...
Emersberger: The Enemy of My Donor is My Enemy
Znet Article, October, 15 2005
Joe Emersberger
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[Note: This is a reply to Pierre Beaudet of the Canadian-government-funded NGO 'Alternatives', whose article was a reply to Nik Barry-Shaw, who argued that 'Alternatives' was a tool of C...
Ravishankar: Oh, the craving for filthy lucre
Znet Article, October, 14 2005
Ra Ravishankar
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"[I]n order to weed out the evil of Pakistan, it is inevitable that we erase the existence of Pakistan itself from the face of the earth. Pakistan was born in hatred and violence. How can such a seed of poison give rise to fruits of love and amity...
Ross: A Feminist Perspective on Katrina
Znet Article, October, 10 2005
Loretta Ross
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Since the tragedy of the Katrina hurricane that devastated the Gulf Coast and flooded New Orleans, SisterSong has contacted its two member agencies in Mississippi and Louisiana affected by the storm. We reached the...
Ahmad: Pakistan's Dispensability
Znet Article, October, 10 2005
Junaid Ahmad
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Pakistan has just suffered its most horrific earthquake in nearly a century. At the time of writing the estimated number of dead and injured is 20,000 & 42,000, respectively. There is a high likelihood that these numbers will increase as more and ...
Mate: Police-UN Killings in Haiti
Znet Article, October, 10 2005
Aaron Mate
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This is a partial list of recent National Police/United Nations killings in Haiti, reported pretty unambiguously by mainstream sources. It’s instructive to check how widely and prominently these accounts were published, if they were at all...
Ssoldz: The Left, the Enemy of My Enemy, and Liberation:
Znet Article, October, 08 2005
Stephen Ssoldz
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The Left, the Enemy of My Enemy, and Liberation:
Curtis: Murderous Policy
Znet Article, October, 06 2005
Mark Curtis
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As bloodshed mounts each day in Iraq, what prospect is there that British ministers will be held accountable for the illegal invasion and occupation that triggered this carnage? If past precedents are anything to go by, not much. But the likelihoo...
Gberie: Ivory Coast Crisis: Towards A Solution
Znet Article, September, 30 2005
Lansana Gberie
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In December 2002, shortly after a failed coup attempt and Ivory Coast's subsequent descent into full-scale civil war, I visited Abidjan, capital of the former French colony and once West Africa's sterling economy. Before I left Canada, an expatria...
Zawerucha: St Patrick's Four: A Victory for Nonviolence
Znet Article, September, 28 2005
Christina Zawerucha
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"Fear, threat, and intimidation are strong messages from our government that come out of jail time and these kinds of charges. I could respond out of fear, and stop protesting and committing acts of civil disobedience, but that would only obscure...
Zawerucha: SP4 Trials
Znet Article, September, 26 2005
Christina Zawerucha
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Federal Prosecutor Miroslav Lovric: “Did you or did you not damage federal property by pouring your blood on the American flag in the Lansing Recruitment Center?†Clare Grady: “The blood was already on the flag. I just ...
Schwartz: Why Immediate Withdrawal Makes Sense
Znet Article, September, 22 2005
Michael Schwartz
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That we are in a military quagmire in Iraq has become a fact of life among Americans of all political persuasions. Though Administration officials still sometimes speak of troop reductions in early 2006, and some top military men clearly no longer...
Leopold: Fiscal Responsibility?
Znet Article, September, 21 2005
Jason Leopold
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Fiscal Responsibility?
