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Z: On The Winning Side
Znet Article, March, 05 2003
Mickey Z
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Last month, within the context of impending US/UK war crimes in Iraq, I wrote about the 58th anniversary of the Allied firebombing of Dresden (Feb. 13-14). This month marks another grim reminder of just how far the US is willing to go: 58 years si...
Brecher: What Can The World Do If The US Attacks Iraq?
Znet Article, March, 05 2003
Jeremy Brecher
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If the US attacks Iraq without support of the UN Security Council, will the world be powerless to stop it? ...
Stokes: Worthy and Unworthy Victims in Colombia
Znet Article, March, 05 2003
Doug Stokes
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In the narratives of the worlds global media corporations familiar themes can be traced. One such theme that occurs time and again is the designation of worthy victims; poor unfortunates caught up in a spiral of violence. Invisible however are the...
Alba: Five Thousand and Twelve Reasons for War
Znet Article, March, 05 2003
Santiago Alba
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[Translated by Francisco González] There are at least 12 reasons to support a war against Iraq: 1) Saddam Hussein is wicked; 2) he won't be able to put up much resistance; 3) we need a cheap supply of good oil; 4) the economy is stuck; 5) our mi...
Blum: The Empire Does What It Wants
Znet Article, March, 04 2003
William Blum
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CBS has reported that barely five hours after the attacks on Washington and New York, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld is quoted shorthand by aides saying, in reference to Saddam Hussein, “Judge whether good enough to hit S.H. at same tim...
Mokhiber: The Unbalanced Hawks At The Washington Post
Znet Article, March, 04 2003
Russell Mokhiber
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What is going on at the Washington Post? We would say that the Post editorial pages have become an outpost of the Defense Department -- except that there is probably more dissent about the pending war in Iraq in the Pentagon than there is on the ...
Hutchinson: Making Sense Of Clarence Thomas
Znet Article, March, 04 2003
Earl ofari Hutchinson
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When Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas cast the lone vote against the Supreme Court’s ruling that Dallas prosecutors systematically excluded black jurors in the trial of Texas death row inmate Thomas Miller-El, the legion of Thomas foe...
Mazir: Killing And Disappearing In Camera
Znet Article, March, 04 2003
Daniel Mazir
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For the second time in more than a decade which left as many as 200,000 people dead, 100,000 injured, 20,000 disappeared, 500,000 children orphaned and traumatized and 10,000 women raped, in a dirty war between a military junta and a myriad of rel...
Street: Mass Incarceration and Racist State Priorities At Home and Abroad
Znet Article, March, 04 2003
Paul Street
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* A slightly abbreviated version of the following speech was delivered at The National Community Building Network's 2003 Policy Conference, Creating a Connected Community: Strategies for Overcoming Social and Economic Isolation, Seattle Washington...
Engler: The March 5 Student Actions Against War
Znet Article, March, 04 2003
Yves Engler
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On February 20th in Montreal the Student Society of McGill University had its first-ever successful general assembly. What was it that brought hundreds of McGill students together? A desire to hold a campus-wide strike against the pending war in I...
Watt: Undeclared War Enters New Phase
Znet Article, March, 04 2003
Nicholas Watt
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[by Nicholas Watt, Richard Norton-Taylor, and Suzanne Goldenberg in Baghdad] Britain and the United States have all but fired the first shots of the second Gulf war by dramatically extending the range of targets in the "no-fly zones" over Iraq to...
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...
Levy: Twilight Zone/ In The Line Of Duty
Znet Article, March, 03 2003
Gideon Levy
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Whenever they hear the sound of the IDF's war machine approaching, the medical teams in Gaza get into their ambulances and head out into the field. On the night shift of the Palestinian police clinic in the northern Gaza Strip, a team made up of t...
Jensen: Bush's Contempt For Democracy
Znet Article, March, 03 2003
Robert Jensen
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Many around the world are skeptical when George Bush says he wants to use war to help create democracy in Iraq. As a step toward bolstering his credibility, Bush might start taking seriously democracy in the rest of the world, and at home. U.S. r...
Street: Serving Power
Znet Article, March, 03 2003
Paul Street
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Downplaying Dissent USA TODAY calls itself "The National Newspaper." America does not in fact possess a single national paper, thankfully, but anyone who travels regularly in the United States can tell you that USA TODAY has certainly become the...
Naijaman: The Future of Nigeria
Znet Article, March, 03 2003
Ike Naijaman
Naijaman's ZSpace page
The defining geographical feature of Nigeria is the confluence of the Niger and Benue rivers. It is the first thing that grabs your eye when you look at any map of the country. Two of the biggest and most important rivers in Africa, linking togeth...
Mcbryde johnson: Unspeakable Conversations
Znet Article, March, 02 2003
Harriet Mcbryde johnson
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He insists he doesn't want to kill me. He simply thinks it would have been better, all things considered, to have given my parents the option of killing the baby I once was, and to let other parents kill similar babies as they come along and there...
Cook: No White Flags
Znet Article, March, 02 2003
Jonathan Cook
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The streets of Ramallah, unlike those of most other West Bank cities, are usually free of Israeli soldiers. Despite appearances, however, the army has stamped its control on the West Bank's capital as certainly as its tanks have left deep tread ma...
Oliveri: Stop That Train!
Znet Article, March, 02 2003
Adele Oliveri
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Italy is already at war. Nobody would have noticed, had it not been for a handful of trains carrying US military equipment from the military base of Ederle (north-eastern Italy) to Camp Darby (Tuscany); and had it not been, of course, for the mobi...
Podur: The other kind of violence
Znet Article, March, 02 2003
Justin Podur
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“Violence in Colombia†is such a popular topic of study that there are hundreds of articles, books, and essays with that title. Some, written by people who call themselves ‘violentologists’, are very good, and very ...
