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Znet Article Plitnick: What does Mitzna Promise?

Znet Article, December, 21 2002 Mitchell Plitnick
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Since the beginning of the second Intifada, it has often been said that both the Israelis and Palestinians are afflicted with leadership that is not capable of making peace. Many people, across the political spectrums of both peoples have posited ...

Znet Article Boudreau: Oxymorons

Znet Article, December, 21 2002 Ned Boudreau
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Who else thinks the term "Washington Consensus" is oxymoronic? Who else thinks the corporate globalists are, themselves, not merely morons, but oxymorons guilty of duplicity and hypocrisy? Cheerleaders for globalization insist that so-called "fre...

Znet Article Bhatia: Lighting the Fuse of Hatred

Znet Article, December, 21 2002 Sidharth Bhatia
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Provincial elections in India rarely have an impact outside their borders, fought as they are on mainly local issues. But last week's elections in the western state of Gujarat were seen as being of national importance. Gujarat, the land where Mah...

Znet Article Walter: How We Forget About The Women Of Afghanistan

Znet Article, December, 20 2002 Natasha Walter
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When I was in Afghanistan six months ago, I met some women from Herat, in the west of the country, who had come to Kabul for the great political assembly, the loya jirga. We met in a stifling tent in the courtyard of the loya jirga offices. I will...

Znet Article Lal: Election Nightmare In Gujarat

Znet Article, December, 20 2002 Ganesh Lal
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Earlier this year, Aijaz Ahmad sounded a note of alarm in the pages of Frontline magazine: “Today India faces the classic situation of a pre-fascist upheaval.” An anti-Muslim pogrom had left nearly a thousand Muslims dead in the we...

Znet Article Pilger: The Secret War

Znet Article, December, 20 2002 John Pilger
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THE American and British attack on Iraq has already begun. While the Blair government continues to claim in Parliament that "no final decision has been taken", Royal Air Force and US fighter bombers have secretly changed tactics and escalated thei...

Znet Article Z: His Own People?

Znet Article, December, 20 2002 Mickey Z
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It appears more inevitable than ever that the US and a few allies will broaden the assault on Iraq that began in 1990 and has continued unabated since then (as of Dec. 16, the US and Britain have bombed Iraq 61 times in 2002 alone). The ostensible...

Znet Article Feder: AP's One Sided Venezuela Coverage

Znet Article, December, 20 2002 Dan Feder
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The statement seemed clear enough. After a total of 25 hours of negotiations that framed this past weekend, the Organization of American States - representing 34 governments - released a much-awaited declaration on the crisis in Venezuela. The OAS...

Znet Article Contributors: U.S. Corps In Iraq

Znet Article, December, 19 2002 Various Contributors
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First, when the massive pile of documents from Iraq appeared, in photos, in the paper, and the U.S. immediately pulled out all stops to get first access, to shut down wide dissemination, etc. -- the smart money said that buried in the morass there...

Znet Article Singh: Slow Ethnic Cleansing

Znet Article, December, 19 2002 Jaggi Singh
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JERUSALEM, December 19, 2002 -- Today, in Tel Aviv District Court, a Palestinian worker, Jihad Abu Id, will be demanding his release from an Israeli prison. Abu Id has been detained for the last six months, ever since he was arrested for working i...

Znet Article Ess: Report From Gaza

Znet Article, December, 19 2002 Kristen Ess
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Block O is almost empty now. Most of the people have gone. The sewage flood is knee deep in places. One old man is walking around the muddy edges. His house is flooded. The 8 meter high, 10 meter deep prison wall the Israeli military government is...

Znet Article Gumbel: California Orders Mass Arrest Of Muslim Foreigners

Znet Article, December, 19 2002 Andrew Gumbel
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Hundreds of Middle Eastern and North African men, some just 16, have been hauled into custody across southern California in the past few days, enraging civil liberties groups and drawing comparisons with the internment of tens of thousands of Japa...

Znet Article King-irani: Fundamentalisms, media, and the new McCarthyism

Znet Article, December, 19 2002 Laurie King-irani
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(A presentation delivered at the seventh annual "Common Terms: The Dialogue of Civilizations" conference sponsored by the Imam Musa Sadr Foundation, 13 December 2002, in Beirut, Lebanon.) "Faiths strive for one objective: War against the self-app...

Znet Article Chomsky: On The Verge Of War

Znet Article, December, 19 2002 Noam Chomsky
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Isin ELICIN: I would like to begin with a current issue topic for Turkey. EU rebuffed US's pressure for early entry talks for Turkey. Starting from this example, can you elaborate on the rift or maybe rather the rivalry between the EU and the US? ...

Znet Article Bacon: Immigrants In The Crosshairs

Znet Article, December, 18 2002 David Bacon
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SAN FRANCISCO, CA (12/15/02) -- Erlinda Valencia came from the Philippines almost two decades ago. Like many Filipina immigrants living in the San Francisco Bay area, she found a job at the airport, screening passengers' baggage. For 14 years she...

Znet Article Weisbrot: US is still intervening in Venezuela

Znet Article, December, 18 2002 Mark Weisbrot
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CARACAS (Dec. 18) "Where are they getting their money?" asks historian Samuel Moncada, as the television displays one opposition commercial after another. Moncada is chair of the history department at Central University of Venezuela in Caracas. We...

Znet Article Rai: War Plan Iraq

Znet Article, December, 18 2002 Milan Rai
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1) Can you tell ZNet, please, what your new book is about? What is it trying to communicate? War Plan Iraq tries to explain and document how the US has been hostile to both UN weapons inspectors and to real regime change in Iraq. It also sets out...

Znet Article Nineham: The European Social Forum In Florence

Znet Article, December, 17 2002 Chris Nineham
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No one really knew what to expect. For the Italians particularly there was the stress created by the scare campaign co-ordinated between the state and the media. Everyone else was probably uneasy about how Berlusconi would respond and worried that...

Znet Article Fisk: Why Blair's Magic Fix Is Destined To End In Failure

Znet Article, December, 17 2002 Robert Fisk
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First, it was Secretary of State Colin Powell who announced a Middle East peace conference. That was back in the spring – nothing happened. There was no peace conference. Now it's Tony Blair announcing a conference, along with that famili...

Znet Article Wilpert: Coup D'Petrol In Venezuela

Znet Article, December, 17 2002 Gregory Wilpert
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Exactly one year after the opposition’s first “general strike,” on December 10, 2001, which launched the campaign to oust the democratically elected president of Venezuela, Hugo Chavez, the opposition is engaged in its four...

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