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Reynolds: Human Biotechnology
Zmag Article, April, 01 2003
Jesse Reynolds
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A s 2003 began, the mainstream press was grappling with a cloning hoax. This January, it launched extended coverage of the 50th anniversary of the identification of DNA’s structure. Both even...
Barghouti: The Other Media War
Znet Article, March, 30 2003
Omar Barghouti
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While many media analysts are painstakingly discussing the PR war between Washington and Baghdad, few have absorbed the watershed that al-Jazeera has brought to the picture. If Arabs are explicitly considered the main target group for each side's ...
Miller: Eliminating Truth
Znet Article, March, 28 2003
David Miller
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The attack on Iraq looks set to be the most censored conflict of modern times. Media coverage in mainstream media will be controlled as never before. The US is determined to eliminate independent reporting of and from Iraq and it will ...
Hussain: Why Are We calling this a
Znet Article, March, 25 2003
Samir Hussain
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Time has shown us that the words we use heavily influence our perception of reality. Catch phrases - "war on terror", "liberating the people of Iraq", "regime change", "spreading democracy" - continue to be unabashedly promulgated by the s...
Donegan: His Economic Plan: Start From Scratch
Znet Article, March, 17 2003
Kevin Donegan
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You've heard the stats being thrown around. The top 1% of Americans has greater personal net worth than the bottom 95% combined, says NYU economist Edward Wolff in a 1999 report. One out of three non-elderly Americans doesn't have health insurance...
Keaney: Doing the Numbers
Znet Article, March, 13 2003
Patrick Keaney
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There's a whole lot going on right now - too much to track, really. I'm going to try to give you the best overall look at what's happening, in a little different format than usual (with apologies to Harper's Index). Ready? Here goes... 18,000: Th...
Jones: Mr. Bush Goes For The Kill
Znet Article, March, 13 2003
Terry Jones
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Mr. Bush is right, Saddam Hussein is a nasty man and nobody I know has the least objection to Mr. Bush killing him. It's just the way he proposes doing it that worries me. Dropping 3000 bombs in 48 hours on Baghdad is going to kill a lot of other ...
Jones: I'm going to blow up my street
Znet Article, March, 04 2003
Terry Jones
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[This article originally appeared in the London Observer, January 26, 2003] I'm really excited by George Bush's latest reason for bombing Iraq: he's running out of patience. And so am I! For some time now I've been really pissed off with Mr Joh...
Ross: School Segregation Redux
Zmag Article, March, 01 2003
E. Wayne Ross
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W hile public schools were continuously desegregated from the 1950s to the 1980s, the past 12 years has seen a rapid retreat from these efforts as federal courts terminated major and successfu...
Docena: The Pretext Crumbles
Znet Article, February, 26 2003
Herbert Docena
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WASHINGTON FINALLY admitted last week that a new batch of US soldiers will be going to the Philippines not to play war games but to fight a real war. After the September 11 attacks, hundreds of US soldiers have been coming and going to what the in...
Du boff: The Bush Budget: Deficits Aren't The Problem
Znet Article, February, 11 2003
Richard Du boff
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President Bush has sent to Congress his Budget for fiscal 2004 (starting in October), calling for $2.23 trillion in expenditures and a deficit of $304 billion, compared to $159 billion of red ink last year and a surplus of $127 billion in 2001. Fo...
Eisenscher: Organized Labor Forms Anti War Coalition
Znet Article, January, 15 2003
Michael Eisenscher
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Sisters & Brothers: On Saturday, January 11 in Chicago history was made. More than one hundred trade union leaders gathered there to found US Labor Against the War (USLAW). These union officers, officials and activists came from organizations rep...
Hussain: Smallpox: Weapons Of Genocide to instrument of Manufacturing Consent
Znet Article, January, 13 2003
Samir Hussain
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Smallpox: Weapons Of Genocide to instrument of Manufacturing Consent
Tiwari: Free the Liaoyang Four
Znet Article, January, 13 2003
Pranjal Tiwari
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An important court case for working people everywhere is about to be heard in China. Two days from now, organisers involved with massive labour-based protests in the country’s northeast last spring will go on trial, appearing on charges ...
Berndt: History Behind Bars
Znet Article, January, 06 2003
Brooks Berndt
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Some movies you can’t find at Blockbuster. One of my favorites is a documentary called “Three Thousand Years and Life.†The film’s title refers to the accumulated sentences of prisoners at Walpole Prison in 1973. Lo...
Donohoe: Factory Farms as Primary Polluter
Zmag Article, January, 01 2003
Martin Donohoe
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O ver the past 15 years, factory farms have replaced small family farms as the primary producers of livestock for human consumption in the U.S. These farms generate 1.4 billion tons of animal waste...
Tiwari: Demonstrations in Hong Kong
Znet Article, December, 17 2002
Pranjal Tiwari
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On a day of protest in Hong Kong, more than 63,000 people took to the streets in two demonstrations targetting two particularly odious government proposals. By far the larger march was the one later in the day, a 60,000-strong demonstration agai...
Freeman: Human Rights: An Interdisciplinary Approach
Book, December, 03 2002
The book will appeal to students in the social sciences, as well as students of human rights law who want an introduction to the non-legal aspects of their subject. It will also be read by scholars interested in ethics and the social sciences, as ...
Abuhamdeh: 5 reasons to stop US military aid to Israel
Znet Article, November, 30 2002
Sami Abuhamdeh
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1. Israel Is Illegally Occupying Palestine Under UN Resolution 242, Israel is required by international law to withdraw from all the territories occupied in 1967, including East Jerusalem. The United Nation's General Assembly has repeatedly cond...
Tiwari: Worse than Commodities
Znet Article, November, 19 2002
Pranjal Tiwari
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I recently had the pleasure of talking with Aurelio “Gi†Estrada, Education and Research Program head of the Hong Kong-based Asia Pacific Mission for Migrants. Among other topics, we discussed some of the history of migrant workers...
