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Vltchek: Western Terror: From Potosi To Baghdad
Znet Article, November, 05 2002
Andre Vltchek
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The North American empire is admired by some, condemned by others, but feared by all. There are those, including the British Prime Minister, who see it as the mighty defender of the civilized world’s values. For many people, it is the worl...
Avnery: One Small Olive
Znet Article, November, 05 2002
Uri Avnery
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Why has the Sharon-Ben-Eliezer-Peres government collapsed? Because of a small olive. It started like a children's tale: Once upon a time there was a small olive in a Palestinian village. It grew and ripened on a branch of an old tree in a grove o...
Avnery: One Small Olive
Znet Article, November, 05 2002
Uri Avnery
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Why has the Sharon-Ben-Eliezer-Peres government collapsed? Because of a small olive. It started like a children's tale: Once upon a time there was a small olive in a Palestinian village. It grew and ripened on a branch of an old tree in a grove o...
Pilger: The New Protest Movement
Znet Article, November, 04 2002
John Pilger
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Graham Greene once described a "subterranean world, where the hopes and dreams of the mass of the people reside, unconnected with the rarefied world above, until those above take one step too far". There is a stirring in this people's world ...
Mokhiber: A Day At The American Enterprise Institute
Znet Article, November, 04 2002
Russell Mokhiber
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Didn't have anything good to do earlier this week, so decided to spend the day at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI). AEI is the granddaddy of the big corporate front groups. Their job? Re-engineer the political economy to the liking of the...
Becker: Another America Is Possible
Znet Article, November, 04 2002
Mark Becker
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Under the heavy guard of 5,451 police officials, foreign ministers from 34 countries in the Americas gathered in the South American capital city of Quito, Ecuador in October for the Seventh Ministerial Summit of the Free Trade Area of the Americas...
Harris: Truth and Reconciliation
Znet Article, November, 03 2002
Verne Harris
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On a visit to South Africa in 1998 Jacques Derrida, arguably the world’s most eminent living philosopher, offended many South Africans by suggesting that the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) needed to be understood as an exercise ...
Winer: South Africa is Losing its Memory
Znet Article, November, 03 2002
Stan Winer
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At the foot of Ngquza mountain in the rural Pondoland region of South Africa stands a monument to the "Forgotten Heroes" -- so named in honor of the Pondo warriors who were slaughtered in 1960 when they challenged the military might of the aparthe...
Plitnick: A Tale of Two Governments
Znet Article, November, 03 2002
Mitchell Plitnick
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In the space of a single day this week, some significant events transpired in both the Israeli government and the Palestinian Authority. On the Israeli side, the unity government did not survive to its second birthday, as Labor, led by now-forme...
Shiva: Deconstructing Market Access
Znet Article, November, 02 2002
Vandana2 Shiva
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Deconstructing Market Access
Ruben: Protets In Quito
Znet Article, November, 02 2002
Justin Ruben
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Friends and Colleagues Please accept this [unedited] bulletin from the edge of consciousness. I don't know whether I feel like crying because I am so moved by what I saw today, because my mucous membranes are all shot to hell from too much tear g...
Weisbrot: It's A New Day And Brazil Wants A New Deal
Znet Article, November, 02 2002
Mark Weisbrot
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Last Sunday's election in Brazil should send a message to Washington's economists and policymakers that their prescriptions for economic progress are no longer viable. But these people are slow learners. The conventional wisdom among economists ...
Vulliamy: US In Denial As Poverty Rises
Znet Article, November, 02 2002
Ed Vulliamy
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The north wind cuts cold and sudden across the historic green of New Haven. It blows through the 'tent city' where the homeless huddle. And it blows round the spires and quadrangles of Yale University, one of America's richest Ivy League colleges....
Edwards: Unique Threats Profitable Responses
Znet Article, November, 01 2002
David Edwards
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Unique Threat - No.1: In April 1950, the US National Security Council Directive 68 (NSC68) stated: "The Soviet Union, unlike previous aspirants to hegemony, is animated by a new fanatic faith, antithetical to our own, and seeks to impose absolut...
Prashad: Scenarios For Iraq After Saddam
Znet Article, November, 01 2002
Vijay Prashad
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From the White House, reports leak out about plans for an Iraq after the Ba'th. Three of the main scenario do not allow for the development of democracy in Iraq. Each of them is built on a racist assumption: that the Iraqis either need a military ...
Marcos: A Letter and a Poem
Znet Article, October, 31 2002
Subcomandante Marcos
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July of 2002. To: Fernando Yañez Muñoz, Architect. From: Subcomandante Insurgente Marcos. Don Fernando: Greetings from all the zapatista compañeros and compañeras and from the indigenous communities in resistance. We hope that you, and a...
White: Why I oppose the US War On Terror: An Ex Marine Speaks out
Znet Article, October, 31 2002
Chris White
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The more I juxtapose logical world opinion with the Bush administration’s actions in the war on terror, I realize one overwhelming theme: hypocrisy. No one in any of the branches of government runs a physical risk to themselves by entering...
Sustar: This is Union Busting!
Znet Article, October, 31 2002
Lee Sustar
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AN UNPRECEDENTED alliance of transnational corporations and politicians of both parties is behind the U.S. government’s attempt to break the West Coast dockworkers’ union. George W. Bush’s intervention under the an...
Cook: Olives And Lives
Znet Article, October, 31 2002
Jonathan Cook
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Olives And Lives
Kerr: A New Type Of Chemical Warfare
Znet Article, October, 30 2002
Stephen Kerr
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Russian authorities only wanted to put them to sleep. And the 700 odd hostages did go to sleep, as did their captors. But 116 never woke up. Most of the survivors are still in the hospital, held hostage to a state military secret th...
