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Palast: The Best Democracy Money Can Buy
Znet Article, April, 08 2003
Greg Palast
Palast's ZSpace page
1) Can you tell ZNet, please, what your new book, The Best Democracy Money Can Buy, is about? What is it trying to communicate? It's about the Bushes and the billionaires that love them. It's about a War Hero President who got the 'top gun' job i...
Bond: Zimbabwe's Plunge
Znet Article, April, 08 2003
Patrick Bond
Bond's ZSpace page
ZNet commentator Patrick Bond and his colleague Simba Manyanya -- a Zimbabwean currently employed in Johannesburg by a UN agency -- provide information about the new, second edition of *Zimbabwe's Plunge: Exhausted Nationalism, Neoliberalism and t...
Zunes: Tinderbox: U.S. Middle East Policy
Znet Article, April, 08 2003
Stephen Zunes
Zunes's ZSpace page
Tinderbox: U.S. Middle East Policy
Ewins: Grozny And Baghdad: Disturbing Parallels
Znet Article, April, 08 2003
Tristan Ewins
Ewins's ZSpace page
Today in Chechnya, the city of Grozny – formerly the home of almost half a million people - lies in ruins: utterly devastated. The fate of Grozny thus stands as a testament to the brutal and terrible cost of modern urban warfare. In the wa...
Fisk: Amid Jubilation A Child Lies In Agony
Znet Article, April, 08 2003
Robert Fisk
Fisk's ZSpace page
They lay in lines, the car salesman who'd just lost his eye but whose feet were still dribbling blood, the motorcyclist who was shot by American troops near the Rashid Hotel, the 50-year-old female civil servant, her long dark hair spread over the...
Hartmann: Moving The Peace Movement Forward
Znet Article, April, 08 2003
Betsy Hartmann
Hartmann's ZSpace page
As the U.S. army occupies Baghdad, the peace movement is faced with a series of strategic challenges, challenges we must face openly, and challenges for which there are no easy answers. We must develop political strategies that draw on solidarity ...
Roy: The Outline Of the Beast
Znet Article, April, 08 2003
Arundhati Roy
Roy's ZSpace page
Arnove: The Corporate media ask the question over and over again: What can be done about Saddam Hussein? What’s your response? The question is disingenuous. Let’s turn it around and ask instead: What do we do with George...
Chretien: Oakland Cops' Brutal Attack
Znet Article, April, 08 2003
Todd Chretien
Chretien's ZSpace page
POLICE IN Oakland, Calif. shot wooden bullets and tossed concussion grenades at peaceful antiwar protesters and union dockworkers, injuring several people, in an April 7 confrontation. Some 500 activists had set up a picket on Oakland docks--at t...
Halliday: Iraqi People Facing Humanitarian Crisis
Znet Article, April, 07 2003
Dennis Halliday
Halliday's ZSpace page
As U.S. and British soldiers fight for control of southern Iraq on their way toward a crucial battle in Baghdad, civilians in large cities like Basra and smaller towns are confronting severe shortages of water, food and medicine. But with the Amer...
Pilger: The War For Truth
Znet Article, April, 07 2003
John Pilger
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The War For Truth
Grass: Core Values?!
Znet Article, April, 07 2003
Gunter Grass
Grass's ZSpace page
BEHLENDORF, Germany. A war long sought and planned for is now underway. All deliberations and warnings of the United Nations notwithstanding, an overpowering military apparatus has attacked preemptively in violation of international law. No o...
Cashdan: Greece Rebels!
Znet Article, April, 07 2003
Ben Cashdan
Cashdan's ZSpace page
The air outside the US embassy is acr...
Fisk: The Twisted Language Of War That Is Used To Justify The Unjustifiable
Znet Article, April, 07 2003
Robert Fisk
Fisk's ZSpace page
Why do we aid and abet the lies and propaganda of this filthy war? How come, for example, it's now BBC "style" to describe the Anglo-American invaders as the "coalition". This is a lie. The "coalition" that we're obviously supposed to remember is ...
Tutu: Anti-War Thinking:
Znet Article, April, 07 2003
Desmond Tutu
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It is difficult not to feel despair and powerlessness at this awful juncture. Millions in the world fought with all their hearts and minds to avoid violence in Iraq. Inevitably, when bombs fall, there is a deep and emotional void that is opened. ...
Edwards: Why Even Talk About It? Part II
Znet Article, April, 07 2003
David Edwards
Edwards's ZSpace page
In researching our latest New Statesman article (April 7, 2003), David Edwards interviewed George Entwistle (March 31, 2003), editor of the BBC's flagship current affairs programme, Newsnight. Part of the interview involved asking Entwistle if for...
Iqtidar: Reconstruction Of Iraq
Znet Article, April, 07 2003
Humeira Iqtidar
Iqtidar's ZSpace page
One day after the war officially started, Tony Blair met with the European Union leaders to discuss the “re-construction of post war Iraqâ€. Re-construction, after wilful destruction of Iraqi public and private property through US a...
Fisk: It Seemed As If Baghdad Would Fall Within Hours
Znet Article, April, 07 2003
Robert Fisk
Fisk's ZSpace page
It started with a series of massive vibrations, a great "stomping" sound that shook my room. "Stomp, stomp, stomp," it went. I lay in bed trying to fathom the cause. It was like the moment in Jurassic Park when the tourists first hear footfalls of...
Helweg-larsen: Irregular Weapons Used Against Iraq
Znet Article, April, 07 2003
Simon Helweg-larsen
Helweg-larsen's ZSpace page
This document presents collected information on irregular weapons used by the United States and the United Kingdom since the official beginning of their war against Iraq. Regular air and ground weapons such as missiles, light bombs and bullets of...
Fair: Official Story Vs. Eyewitness Account
Znet Article, April, 06 2003
Fair
Fair's ZSpace page
A recent Washington Post article describing the killing of civilians by U.S. soldiers at a checkpoint outside the Iraqi town of Najaf proved that "embedded" journalists do have the ability to report on war in all its horror. But the rejection by s...
Antonowicz: The Saddest Thing Of All
Znet Article, April, 06 2003
Anton Antonowicz
Antonowicz's ZSpace page
(photos by Mike Moore) AN old man cries over the coffin of his daughter. His wife and younger daughter sit in the dirt outside the mortuary in shock and abject sadness. It is only an hour and 20 minutes since Nadia Khalaf died...


