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Bookman: Real Goal In Iraq
Znet Article, October, 01 2002
Jay Bookman
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The official story on Iraq has never made sense. The connection that the Bush administration has tried to draw between Iraq and al-Qaida has always seemed contrived and artificial. In fact, it was hard to believe that smart people in the Bush admi...
Pilger: To The Streets
Znet Article, September, 30 2002
John Pilger
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A GREAT many people believe that democracy has been lost in this country. Today, true democracy will demonstrate its resilience on the streets of London. In the week that Parliament was manipulated by the Government and denied a proper vote on wh...
Levy: A Suffocating Curfew
Znet Article, September, 30 2002
Gideon Levy
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Sayef Abu Kishaq did not sleep a wink all night on Friday. He is a 21-year-old volunteer in the International Solidarity Movement and a resident of the Iskar refugee camp on the outskirts of Nablus, in the West Bank. Slightly before midnight, the ...
Said: Low Point Of Powerlessness
Znet Article, September, 30 2002
Edward Said
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Sixty years ago, the Jews of Europe were at the lowest point of their collective existence. Herded like cattle into trains, they were transported from the rest of Europe by Nazi soldiers into death camps where they were systematically exterminated...
Kolhatkar: Outwardly Progressive, Internally Corporate: Pacifica's Next Challenge
Znet Article, September, 29 2002
Sonali Kolhatkar
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In an article on Pacifica titled "Gloves Off", Michael Albert wrote: "progressive organizations should employ partic...
Albert: Democracy Is Coming To Pacifica!
Znet Article, September, 29 2002
Michael Albert
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This essay was written in early January 2002, ten months ago, immediately after the turning over of Pacifica to new hands, resolving the years-long struggle with the old bosses. The only addition is the subtitle... Pacifica’s strug...
Ali: London Report
Znet Article, September, 29 2002
Tariq Ali
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London: Saturday 28th September. It was a beautiful clear blue sky. No mists but a great deal of mellow fruitfulness. The Stop the War Coalition--- a united front that includes socialists of most stripes, liberals and radicals, pacifists and the...
Roy: Print Excerpt / Lannan Speech
Znet Article, September, 29 2002
Arundhati Roy
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Recently, those who have criticised the actions of the US government (myself included) have been called "anti-American". Anti-Americanism is in the process of being consecrated into an ideology. The term is usually used by the American establishme...
Roy: Come September
Znet Article, September, 29 2002
Arundhati Roy
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Howard Zinn: Well, thank you. [Applause]. This is a very nice crowd. [Laughter] Thank you Patrick Lannan for that introduction. I almost recognized myself. [Laughter] I'm here to introduce Arundhati Roy. I say this in hushed tones. Really, I never...
Kagarlitsky: German Luck
Znet Article, September, 28 2002
Boris Kagarlitsky
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It looks as though everyone lost. Or almost everyone. The German elections have come and...
Street: Iraq War Debate
Znet Article, September, 28 2002
Paul Street
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Iraq War Debate
Anti-war activists on okinawa: GIs: This Means You!
Znet Article, September, 28 2002
Anti-war activists on okinawa Anti-war activists on okinawa
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In May, 2002, the following leaflet was circulated to G.I.s on Okinawa. The leaflet raises for U.S. servicemen, as well as for the highest U.S. leaders in Washington, the issue of responsibility for war crimes in light of international law.These a...
Barghouti: On Refugees, Creativity and Ethics
Znet Article, September, 28 2002
Omar Barghouti
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On the second anniversary of the second Palestinian intifada, I would like to focus not on the pain, the destruction and the calamitous loss of life that accompanied it, but on what I consider the most momentous of its achievements: its resurrecti...
Siegman: Sharon's Real Purpose Is To Create Foreigners
Znet Article, September, 28 2002
Henry Siegman
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Palestinian suicide bombings that target Israeli civilians are a moral obscenity. But the sensibility of those in Israel who seek to exploit this Palestinian obscenity to extend and deepen Israel's hold on the territories, a situation that in the ...
Mokhiber: 10 (More) Reasons to Protest the IMF and World Bank
Znet Article, September, 27 2002
Russell Mokhiber
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The International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank are again holding their annual meetings in Washington, D.C. With financial crises wracking Argentina and Brazil, and deepening poverty further engulfing most of Africa -- even as all these nati...
Administrator: Theme Song for 21st Century Famines: "We own the world, We ignore the children"
Znet Article, September, 27 2002
Site Administrator
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“The situation in Zimbabwe hit you guys hard, I suppose†said my neighbor to the young woman who had just sauntered out of the customs area at the airport. She was from Malawi, he was trying to make small talk about the famine rava...
Yamada: The Ongoing Assault
Znet Article, September, 27 2002
Seiji Yamada
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As the Bush administration gears up for an assault on Iraq, let us keep in mind that the people of Iraq have sustained a continuous assault on their existence by means of economic sanctions since 1990. Imposed by the United Nations on Iraq s...
Balkin: The Most Dangerous Person On Earth
Znet Article, September, 26 2002
Jack Balkin
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When George W. Bush was governor of Texas, his basic strategy was to stake out a position and refuse to budge, hoping to bully others into acquiescing. Only when met with strong opposition did he back down and compromise. We are seeing the same st...
Podur: South Asia, 'Stiffed'
Znet Article, September, 26 2002
Justin Podur
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With terror feeding terror all over the world, with the United States preparing to escalate a war against Iraq that has killed hundreds of thousands over the past ten years, to think of the kind of voice, the kind of force, India should have been ...
Deshpande: Terror Feeds Terror
Znet Article, September, 26 2002
Sudhanva Deshpande
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On the evening of Tuesday, 24 September 2002, thirteen days after 9/11, armed militants stormed into the Swaminarayan temple in Gandhinagar, the capital of the western Indian state of Gujarat, and opened fire on Hindu devotees gathered there for e...
