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Pritchard: The Fire Shower
Znet Article, January, 19 2005
Peter Pritchard
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It's a pleasant afternoon in Washington and the main street is being prepared for the President's motorcade. They've all been swept, the cameras and reporters are all in place, as are the barricades. All the protesters have been safely contained, ...
Gberie: West Africa: The Curse Of Borders
Znet Article, January, 19 2005
Lansana Gberie
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At the start of VS Naipaul’s acerbic novel A Bend in the River, set in a disrupted post-colonial Central African state, the narrator, an Indian trader on the move, comments waspishly about “all that business at the frontier posts, ...
Barghouti: Slave Sovereignty
Znet Article, January, 07 2005
Omar Barghouti
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Many Palestinians are boasting that they will soon enjoy, again, the most free and democratic elections in the entire Arab World. The only problem is that electing a Palestinian president while still under the boot ...
Collective: Recipes for Disaster: An Anarchist Cookbook
Book, January, 01 2005
Three years in the making, Recipes for Disaster is the long-awaited follow-up to the CrimethInc. collective’s notorious first book, Days of War, Nights of Love. This 624-page manual complements the romance and idealism of that earlier work with pr...
Johnson: Alan Keyes, the Republican Party, & the Abortion Debates
Zmag Article, January, 01 2005
William Johnson
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S hortly after entering the Illinois Senate race, Republican Keyes called Democratic Senatorial candidate Barack Obama’s pro-choice views on abortion “the slaveholder’s position,” asserting that...
Feakins: Christmas in Bethlehem
Znet Article, December, 23 2004
Thomas Feakins
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Returning from the “Holy Land†(Occupied Palestinian territories and Israel) during the Christmas season has been a strange and difficult experience. It is not that we are religious, but rather because the gulf between the reality ...
Barghouti: Why Boycott Israel
Znet Article, December, 20 2004
Omar Barghouti
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“Where is the world? Is it dead?†exclaimed the bereaved mother in Rafah on Al-Jazeera. Before her, lied the lifeless body of her little child. Faced with overwhelming Israeli oppression, Palestinians under occupation, in refugee ...
Tiwari: Real Men Pick on Pregnant Women
Znet Article, December, 19 2004
Pranjal Tiwari
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At a recent gathering of corporate and state managers in Thailand, Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra described George Bush as a "good friend and a Texan." "We're both Texas cowboys," Thaksin added. Though Thailand hasn't invaded and occupied a...
Schwartz: America's Sinister Plan for Falluja
Znet Article, December, 17 2004
Michael Schwartz
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The chilling reality of what Falluja has become is only now seeping out, as the American military continues to block almost all access to the city, whether to rep...
Patel: Democracy and its Simulacra
Znet Article, December, 17 2004
Raj Patel
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Democracy is powerful stuff. Its weapons - dissent, voice, inclusion, occupation - are what distinguish it from the feather dusters of 'participation' and 'dialogue'. At the World Forum on Agrarian Reform, rural-based social movements from around ...
Hussain: Canada Myths and Realities
Znet Article, December, 14 2004
Samir Hussain
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“The faceless beast has many faces. The most dangerous face is the one that comes with a smile.â€-James “OJ†Pitawanakwat [1] On November 30, 2004, there was a massive mobilisation to protest George W. Bush’...
Petrovato: Violence At "Security Gate" Number 25
Znet Article, December, 12 2004
John Petrovato
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Jayyous, Occupied West Bank On December 6, Palestinian farmers returning from their fields at 4:30 p.m. found no Israeli soldiers present at the “security gate†to allow them back to their homes. Because the so-called security wal...
Feakins: Bowling for Palestine
Znet Article, December, 10 2004
Thomas Feakins
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The following is a recent report from the West Bank. The Huwwara checkpoint is closed to Internationals. The entire Nablus region is completely off-limits. Our destination is the Balata refugee camp on the outskirts of the city, where Palestinian...
Petrovato: The Slow Creep of Israel's Annexation
Znet Article, December, 09 2004
John Petrovato
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The Slow Creep of Israel's Annexation
Friel: How the NYT Misreports
Znet Article, December, 03 2004
Howard Friel
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Howard Friel is the author of Dogs of War: The Wall Street Journal Editorial Page and the Right-Wing Campaign Against International Law, to be published in 2005. His most recent book is The Record of the Paper: How the New York Times Misreports US...
Loewenstein: How Australia reported Arafat's death and legacy
Znet Article, November, 29 2004
Antony Loewenstein
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Israel has a population of about five million Jews and nearly 1.3 million Arabs. There are around four million Palestinians registered as refugees by the United Nations. The death of Yasser Arafat will not, despite the rhetoric suggesting otherwis...
Doherty: Learning to Feel
Znet Article, November, 29 2004
Alex Doherty
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“The fascist madman cannot be made innocuous if he is sought, according to the prevailing political circumstances, only in the German or the Italian and not in the American and the Chinese man as well; if he is not tracked down in oneself;...
Petrovato: Israel's Home Destruction
Znet Article, November, 26 2004
John Petrovato
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Why does Israel have a policy of destroying Palestinian homes? How is this policy justified both on the international stage and domestically? How has the changing landscape affected Palestinian sense of homeland, attachment and/or loss? Yesterda...
Smith: Not the News
Znet Article, November, 18 2004
Stephen Smith
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A shot on the news showed guns firing in a salute for the opening of the 41st Australian Parliament. What you didn't see a few metres to one side were the hundreds of demonstrators who had gathered to support justice for refugees still held in Bax...
