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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 ...

Znet Article Steele: 'I couldn't Believe I Was Doing This'

Znet Article, October, 27 2002 Jonathan Steele
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It was in Gaza that Major Rami Kaplan, a 29-year-old "veteran" of Israel's prestigious Armoured Corps, began to feel that he had had enough. He was increasingly uneasy about the orders he was given, and the next time he was called up for his annua...

Znet Article Z: Convincing The Skeptics

Znet Article, October, 26 2002 Mickey Z
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As I write this on a day of worldwide protest (October 26, 2002), the US government and the corporations that own it are poised for another exercise in international criminality. This time it's a major escalation of the ongoing assault on Iraq. Wi...

Znet Article Avnery: Naboth Had A Vineyard

Znet Article, October, 26 2002 Uri Avnery
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Had they been there last Saturday at sunset, most Israelis would not have believed their eyes.In the middle of Havarah, a small village south of Nablus, 63 Israelis, men and women, young and old, were standing together with dozens of Palestinian v...

Znet Article Mcchesney: Book Interview with ZNet

Znet Article, October, 25 2002 Robert w. Mcchesney
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(1) Can you tell ZNet, please, what your new book, Our Media Not Theirs? What is it trying to communicate?Our Media, Not Theirs: The Democratic Struggle Against Corporate Media is about the crisis of media in the United States and the growing move...

Znet Article Pilger: Bali and Imperialism

Znet Article, October, 25 2002 John Pilger
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What passing bells for these who die as cattle?" wrote the great First World War poet Wilfred Owen. His famous line might have been written for those who perish in today's secret wars and terrorist outrages....

Znet Article Nakhoul: Parents Of Dying Iraqi Children Vent Fury At Bush

Znet Article, October, 25 2002 Samia Nakhoul
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Baghdad - If President George W. Bush believes that ordinary Iraqis will welcome U.S. troops with open arms he may be in for a rude surprise. However much they fear to say what they think under the ruthless rule of President Saddam Hussein, thei...

Znet Article Hass: It's The Pits

Znet Article, October, 25 2002 Amira Hass
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Four frightened farmers emerged from the old Renault that screeched to a halt in the center of the path. "The settlers didn't let us get to our grove," they told their fellow villagers of Akrabeh, who were picking olives along the sides of the pat...

Znet Article Cromwell: Moderate Extremism

Znet Article, October, 25 2002 David Cromwell
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Western state power prides itself on its 'moderation', along with its self-lauded commitments to freedom, tolerance, and "the inalienable rights of man", as U.S. defence secretary Donald Rumsfeld put it recently in a British newspaper ("We must ac...

Znet Article Hallinan: Silence Is Betrayal

Znet Article, October, 25 2002 Conn Hallinan
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Silence Is Betrayal

Znet Article Mccullagh: Judge: Disabilities Act doesn't cover Web

Znet Article, October, 25 2002 Declan Mccullagh
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A federal judge ruled Friday that Southwest Airlines does not have to revamp its Web site to make it more accessible to the blind. In the first case of its kind, U.S. District Judge Patricia Seitz said the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) app...

Znet Article Sustar: Defending The ILWU

Znet Article, October, 25 2002 Lee Sustar
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  SAN FRANCISCO--Shipping bosses are preparing to use an 80-day federal court injunction to attack the West Coast dockworkers’ union. And the Bush administration is ready to help. As Socialist Worker went to press, the Pacific Marit...

Znet Article Bronski: Single Sex Schools

Znet Article, October, 25 2002 Michael Bronski
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  LOST LAST MONTH amid the debate about Iraq was the start of the school year. And a debate that we should be having about a domestic issue — single-sex education — isn’t happening. Last May, toward the end of the sch...

Znet Article Arnove: Fact and Myth

Znet Article, October, 24 2002 Anthony Arnove
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  MYTHSaddam Hussein is "gaining the power to threaten our cities with annihilation."--New York Times columnist William Safire FACTIn t...

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