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Znet Article Barghouti: Edward Said: A Corporeal Dream not yet Realized

Znet Article, September, 26 2003 Omar Barghouti
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To me, and to many around the world, I suppose, Edward Said’s name will always be associated --above all other things -- with beyond-ness … . He is (past tense can only be used with those of much humbler legacies) beyond death, as ...

Znet Article Loewenstein: Groveling to Power

Znet Article, September, 23 2003 Antony Loewenstein
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Since being in Washington on September 11, 2001, Prime Minister John Howard has inextricably tied much of Australia's foreign policy to George W. Bush's America. Commentators have spent millions of column inches explaining the reasons behind Howar...

Znet Article Loewenstein: Australia's National Broadcaster

Znet Article, September, 11 2003 Antony Loewenstein
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Who will save Australia's national broadcaster? It's a question many are dying to know. The ABC is the Australian equivalent of the BBC and the last months has seen furious debate across wide sections of the community, as well as a government seem...

Znet Article Loewenstein: Weapons of Mass Deception

Znet Article, September, 08 2003 Antony Loewenstein
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What a difference a few months can make. It was not so long ago that the leaders of America, Britain and Australia were continually talking up the threat posed by Saddam Hussein and his weapons of mass destruction. We were informed, through the ...

Znet Article Hussain: Stigmatizing Dissent

Znet Article, August, 09 2003 Samir Hussain
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The city of Montreal served as host to the informal meeting of about 25 trade ministers from the World Trade Organisation last week. While international trade minister Pierre Pettigrew was given immense media coverage to proselytise about the virt...

Znet Article Du boff: Mirror Mirror On The Wall, Who's The Biggest Rogue Of All?

Znet Article, August, 07 2003 Richard Du boff
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1. Comprehensive [Nuclear] Test Ban Treaty, 1996. Signed by 164 nations and ratified by 89 including France, Great Britain, and Russia; signed by President Clinton in 1996 but rejected by the Senate in 1999. The US is one of 13 nonratifiers amon...

Zmag Article Reynolds: Report from BioDevastation 7

Zmag Article, August, 01 2003 Jesse Reynolds
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S everal hundred activists from around the world gathered in mid-May in St. Louis to strategize and exchange reports of the global opposition to genetically modified (GM) organisms. BioDevastation ...

Zmag Article Dunne: Guinness Is Not Irish

Zmag Article, August, 01 2003 Sean Dunne
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O n March 17, 1737, Boston became the first city in the world to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day. Since that first celebration, the holiday has grown in popularity throughout the world. Many peop...

Zmag Article Doherty: Roadmap To Nowhere

Zmag Article, August, 01 2003 Alex Doherty
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I t has long been understood that one of the major effects of propaganda is to divest political terms of their substantive meaning. One of the best examples of this effect is the benign-sounding ph...

Znet Article Leopold: Mini-War Against Iraq Prior to 9-11 May Explain Why U.S. Targeted The Country

Znet Article, July, 11 2003 Jason Leopold
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While the Bush administration is beset by questions about the accuracy of intelligence information the President cited in building a case for war against Iraq, the White House hawks have still not fully explained how Iraq became a target of the ad...

Znet Article Gberie: Liberia

Znet Article, July, 09 2003 Lansana Gberie
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In 1821 a group of freed American slaves retraced the steps of their forebears to West Africa to start a new country. At first the Africans didn't want to turn over a huge hunk of land to the American blacks, but when a U.S. naval officer accompan...

Znet Article Leavitt: Globalization in our local economy

Znet Article, July, 08 2003 Jonathan Leavitt
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Introduction to the issue Twenty years from now, there will be a war somewhere in this world that is propelled forward by our countries economic interests. Call it a hunch. As a result of this war, many of us who have somehow remained out of jai...

Znet Article Moodliar: A Call For A Left Realpolitik In 2004

Znet Article, July, 01 2003 Suren Moodliar
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Can we have our cake and eat it too? Can the left go into 2004 with anything more than a shotgun marriage with the party of Clinton? This proposal suggests that they can. Dump Bush at all costs? Defeating George Bush as an objective for the le...

Znet Article Berndt: Notebook of a Prison Abolitionist

Znet Article, June, 26 2003 Brooks Berndt
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In his autobiography, Frederick Douglass recalls how as a slave he would occasionally hear of the "abolitionists." He did not know the full meaning of the word at first, but he heard it used in ways that he found appealing. He heard about it when ...

Book Kat: Off the Map

Book, June, 17 2003

By Kika Kat and Hibickina Chickena


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Off The Map is a travelogue written by Hibikina Chickena and Kika Kat. It was originally a self-published zine and was later published and sold in both zine and book form by the CrimethInc. Ex-Workers Collective.

Znet Article Mahajan: Entering The Land Of The Free

Znet Article, June, 10 2003 Sanjoy Mahajan
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Since the United States began bombing Iraq, I have worn a sign wherever I go (cycling or walking around town, teaching, shopping, going on the subway, etc.). It is about 8.5"x11". One side says `Oiligarchy' in large red letters; the other has a 2"...

Znet Article Leopold: Powell Denies Intelligence Failure

Znet Article, June, 09 2003 Jason Leopold
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The evidence, or lack thereof, speaks for itself. In the months leading up to the war in Iraq, the Bush administration produced hundreds of pages of intelligence for members of Congress and for the United Nations that showed how Iraq’s Pre...

Znet Article Leopold: The Iraq War Was Always Based On Lies

Znet Article, June, 04 2003 Jason Leopold
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Here’s what we know so far about Iraq’s alleged weapons of mass destruction: of the 600 or so sites identified by United States intelligence and Iraqi officials as places where the country biological weapons may be hidden, about 10...

Znet Article Leopold: Wolfowitz Admits Iraq War Was Planned Two Days After 9/11

Znet Article, June, 02 2003 Jason Leopold
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While the hawks in the Bush administration attempt to justify the logic behind a preemptive strike against Iraq now that its become clear the country’s alleged weapons of mass destruction are nowhere to be found, the true reasons for going...

Znet Article Miller: Unspinning The Globe

Znet Article, May, 31 2003 David Miller
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What does Public Relations mean to you? Sharp suits and beguiling smiles? Off the record hints and misinformation? Public Relations has a bad image. The dismissive phrase 'it's just PR' encapsulates a lot of what people everywhere feel about PR. I...

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