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Podur: What Are The Rules?
Commentary, January, 20 2002
Justin Podur
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Years ago I interviewed someone who had traveled all over Central and Eastern Europe and Central and South Asia studying states and civil wars and how and why states failed. 'People ask me what's worse, an authoritarian state or no state,' he said...
Solomon: DETERMINED STRUGGLE BRINGS A RADIO NETWORK BACK TO LIFE
Znet Article, January, 20 2002
Norman Solomon
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The art of the deal is a media dream: Savvy achievers get to the top. Guile and artifice -- even outright deception -- may well be part of the game, but there's nothing like success. One way or another, money and centralized power end up calling t...
Cibils: Argentina: The demise of neoliberal economics?
Znet Article, January, 20 2002
Alan Cibils
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The explosive events of mid December 2001 that toppled two presidents and left 30 dead in Argentina represent the culmination and logical outcome of almost 26 years of neoliberal economic policies. The common demand among the looters, the looted, ...
Author: Let the Debates Begin!
Commentary, January, 19 2002
Guest Author
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Two days after September 11 my grandaughter Crystal, a college student, found her teacher's jingoism too much to swallow. "These attacks are the chickens come home to roost!" she said to the class. "Now we get the chance to know what it's like for...
Soul_sacrifice69: To: Pacifica Campaign supporters
Znet Article, January, 19 2002
Juan Soul_sacrifice69
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Dear Friends: ...
Gabetta: Economic crisis ends an era
Znet Article, January, 19 2002
Carlos Gabetta
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Argentina finally exploded, a classic collapse. Observers had been surprised at the national inertia, since this is a highly politicised and unionised country with a long tradition of struggle. In the past, its people had been willing to turn it u...
Bishara: On Terrorism
Znet Article, January, 19 2002
Azmi Bishara
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In 1976, Jorge Videla assumed power in Argentina after overthrowing Isabel Perón, ushering in one of the bloodiest dictatorships that country had ever experienced. More than 15,000 leftists, human rights activists and other innocent civilians wer...
Solomon: In The Media Mix, What Happens To Music?
Commentary, January, 18 2002
Norman Solomon
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The last pages of a calendar remind us that life is fleeting. All we have at any moment is the present, filtered with memory.
Larrea: Congress to resubmit original Cocopa Proposal
Znet Article, January, 18 2002
Alejandro lelo de Larrea
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Mexico City 17:59 A group of 160 deputies from the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), the Democratic Revolutionary Party (PRD), the Labor Party (PT) the Mexican Greens (PVEM) and the Convergence Party have once again signed the statement of ...
Rosenberg: Blame the women
Graphic, January, 17 2002
Martha Rosenberg
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Enron, corporate corruption,
Bronski: Gays of Our Lives
Commentary, January, 17 2002
Michael Bronski
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There are so many things wrong with this story.
Ivins: In Total Disregard Toward The Poor
Znet Article, January, 17 2002
Molly Ivins
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AUSTIN, Texas -- There's something happening here What it is ain't exactly clear... ...
Lobe: Human Rights Watch Scores U.S. 'Hypocrisy' on 'War on Terrorism'
Znet Article, January, 17 2002
Jim Lobe
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The United States-led anti-terrorist campaign, which followed the devastating attacks on New York and Washington September 11, is threatening human rights in many countries, including the United States itself, according to a review of 2001 release...
Wise: Rationalizing Racism: Panic And Profiling After 9/11
Commentary, January, 16 2002
Tim Wise
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Random security checks. ThatÕs what theyÕre called anyway: those extra bag searches and body scans being done at airports across the U.S., presumably to deter a new round of terrorist attacks. On each flight, a handful of passengers are pulled asi...
Glick: Labor And Human Progress
Znet Article, January, 16 2002
Ted Glick
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The AFL-CIO's uncritical support of the government's war in Afghanistan and sham "war on terrorism" has disappointed, if not disillusioned, many activists, including progressive labor activists. For some radicals and progressives, the organized la...
Lakey: Let the Debates Begin!
Znet Article, January, 16 2002
George Lakey
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Two days after September 11 my grandaughter Crystal, a college student, found her teacher's jingoism too much to swallow. "These attacks are the chickens come home to roost!" she said to the class. "Now we get the chance to know what it's like for...
Dwyer: Suspects all
Graphic, January, 15 2002
Hank Dwyer
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national ID, police state, civil rights, privacy, totalarian,
Choudry: All This "civil Society" Talk Takes Us Nowhere
Commentary, January, 15 2002
Aziz Choudry
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If there's one phrase I could do with hearing less of during 2002, it's "civil society". I'm not alone. Many of my friends, community activists and organisers in a number of countries also cringe at the ritualized, ubiquitous usage of the phrase....
Said: Emerging Alternatives in Palestine
Znet Article, January, 15 2002
Edward Said
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Since it began 15 months ago the Palestinian Intifada has had little to show for itself politically, despite the remarkable fortitude of a militarily occupied, unarmed, poorly led, and still dispossessed people that has defied the pitiless ravages...
Krugman: Crony Capitalism, U.S.A.
Znet Article, January, 15 2002
Paul Krugman
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Four years ago, as Asia struggled with an economic crisis, many observers blamed "crony capitalism." Wealthy businessmen in Asia didn't bother to tell investors the truth about their assets, their liabilities or their profits; the aura of invincib...
