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Znet Article Ingalls: Afghanistan: The First Puppet Regime in the Post Sept 11 World

Znet Article, October, 30 2002 James Ingalls
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As the United States government and the United Nations Security Council debate the invasion, occupation, and "regime change" of Iraq, it makes sense to assess the first US exercise of power after Sept 11, namely the invasion and occupation of Afgh...

Znet Article Kagarlitsky: An Attack Against Society

Znet Article, October, 29 2002 Boris Kagarlitsky
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After special forces commandos stormed the Theater Na Dubrovke early Saturday morning, the authorities proclaimed the operation a complete success. They first announced that the enemy had been destroyed with no losses among the ...

Znet Article Monbiot: Do As We Say, Not As We Do

Znet Article, October, 29 2002 George Monbiot
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Democracy in Brazil both won and lost on Sunday night. It won because, for the first time in its history, the nation chose a man of humble origins and radical views to be its president. It lost because that man is now forbidden to be radical. The ...

Znet Article Edwards: Iraq And Arms Inspectors: part two

Znet Article, October, 29 2002 David Edwards
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What A Difference 3 Years Makes: UK News Coverage of Why the Inspectors Left Iraq In 1998 and 1999 it was difficult for the media to avoid some of the more obvious facts about the withdrawal of arms inspectors from Iraq in December 1998. NBC Toda...

Znet Article Solomon: Branding New And Improved Wars

Znet Article, October, 29 2002 Norman Solomon
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Marketing a war is serious business. And no product requires better brand names than one that squanders vast quantities of resources while intentionally killing large numbers of people. The American trend of euphemistic fog for such enterprises b...

Znet Article Ess: Israel's Daily Destruction of Gaza

Znet Article, October, 29 2002 Kristen Ess
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In this prison it matters less every day whether or not Israel drops another bomb on Rafah or Khan Younis. Israel has military control of 42% of the Gaza Strip in order to "protect" its 6,000 illegal Israeli settlers. Many of the settlers are arme...

Znet Article Hamad: Free Speech And Intimidation On Campus

Znet Article, October, 29 2002 Rita Hamad
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As the debate over Israel-Palestine has heated up recently on campuses, questions concerning the right to free speech have taken center stage. For students of Middle Eastern descent, ourselves included, the constitution’s first amendment m...

Znet Article Hamad: Free Speech And Intimidation On Campus

Znet Article, October, 29 2002 Rita Hamad
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As the debate over Israel-Palestine has heated up recently on campuses, questions concerning the right to free speech have taken center stage. For students of Middle Eastern descent, ourselves included, the constitution’s first amendment m...

Znet Article Rebick: Hope Wins Over Fear In Brazil

Znet Article, October, 28 2002 Judy Rebick
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Lula said it best: "Hope won over fear." In a decisive victory with a record 83 million votes cast, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva of the Workers' Party (PT) - known everywhere as Lula - became the President-elect of Brazil last night with 61 per cent ...

Znet Article Edwards: Iraq And Arms Inspectors: The big Lie

Znet Article, October, 28 2002 David Edwards
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Introduction To read the 34 short pages (pp.20-54) at the heart of former chief UN arms inspector Scott Ritter's book, War On Iraq (Ritter and William Rivers Pitt, Profile Books, 2002), is to understand the utter fraudulence and staggering immora...

Znet Article Bahour: Another Road Map To Nowhere

Znet Article, October, 28 2002 Sam Bahour
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The new US "road map" to peace in the Middle East presented by US Assistant Secretary of State William J. Burns is nothing but a placebo for the Palestinians and the world community amidst war talk and sabre-rattling in Washington, DC. The new pla...

Znet Article Mccallin: Israel bans new West Bank wells

Znet Article, October, 28 2002 Jessica Mccallin
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Israeli infrastructure minister Effi Eitam last week banned Palestinians from drilling for water in the West Bank and put a freeze on the issue of permits for future drillings. The decision will have a severe effect on Palestinian agriculture, w...

Znet Article Valentine: Solidarity with Palestinians

Znet Article, October, 28 2002 Diana Valentine
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In October of 2002 the International Solidarity Movement (ISM) held a campaign to bring international activists to the occupied territories to accompany the Palestinian olive harvest.  Over the course of the campaign, international and Israel...

Znet Article Jensen: Bush's Lies And Simple Truths

Znet Article, October, 28 2002 Robert Jensen
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A few weeks ago Jim McDermott, a courageous congressman from Washington state, traveled to Baghdad in pursuit of peace and was sharply criticized, particularly for his comment that George Bush "might mislead" the American public to build support f...

Znet Article Bronner: An Open Letter To The General

Znet Article, October, 28 2002 Yigal Bronner
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GENERAL, YOUR TANK IS A POWERFUL VEHICLEIt smashes down forests and crushes a hundred men.But it has one defect:It needs a driver.(Bertolt Brecht)Dear General,In your letter to me, you wrote that "given the ongoing war in Judea, Samaria and the Ga...

Znet Article Wolff: A Place Of Tears

Znet Article, October, 27 2002 Michael Wolff
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On the first morning of the Iraq Sanctions Challenge, after our meeting with Dr. Hashimi, our delegation met in front of the Al-Rasheed hotel in downtown Baghdad. We gathered our gear together and prepared to go to the place that for many, includi...

Znet Article Parrish: The Enemy Within

Znet Article, October, 27 2002 Geov Parrish
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Let us assume -- as virtually all of the news coverage today is doing -- that John Allen Muhammad and his unfortunate stepson, arrested yesterday, are in fact the persons behind the sniping attacks that have terrorized the Washington, D.C. area fo...

Znet Article Hahnel: ZNet Interviews Robin Hahel

Znet Article, October, 27 2002 Robin Hahnel
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(1) Can you tell ZNet, please, what your new book, The ABCs of Political Economy, is about? What is it trying to communicate? The ABCs of Political Economy: A Modern Approach (Pluto Press, November 2002) is an introduction to modern, radical, po...

Znet Article Grubacic: Milosovec at the Hague

Znet Article, October, 27 2002 Andrej Grubacic
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In the latest instalment of the cycle of trials at the Hague, where Milosevic is charged with alleged war crimes in Croatia and Bosnia, the current president of Croatia Stjepan Mesic and Slobodan Milosevic had a much anticipated confrontation. Acc...

Znet Article Wilpert: Why Venezuela's Middle Class (for the most part) Opposes Chavez

Znet Article, October, 27 2002 Gregory Wilpert
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"Chavez' greatest error was to screw the middle class," says Carlos Escarrá, a prominent constitutional lawyer and former Venezuelan supreme court judge, who describes himself as being with the "proceso," but not a Chavista. The "proceso" is the ...

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