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Znet Article Parrish: A List

Znet Article, December, 09 2002 Geov Parrish
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I want a full accounting of every weapon in the country. Not Iraq; I could give a fig about Iraq. It's halfway around the world, it has no means of threatening the United States from its territory, its economy is decimated, it has been disarmed mo...

Znet Article Dieterich: Why are the coup plotters so impatient?

Znet Article, December, 09 2002 Hans Dieterich
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[translated by narconews.com] The constitutional government of Hugo Chávez faces its fourth assault in eight months. The April 11th coup d’etat launched a chain of mob acts that were repeated under the banner of “civic” o...

Znet Article Shepphard: Is Anarchism Suitable For Complex Societies

Znet Article, December, 08 2002 Brian Oliver Shepphard
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The charge has often been made that the anarchist economic model is ill suited for complex societies. The multi-faceted nature of advanced industrial economies; their scope of operation and breadth of distribution; the extensive refinement in thei...

Znet Article Jensen: Bob Woodward And The Bush At War Hagiography

Znet Article, December, 08 2002 Robert Jensen
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Bob Woodward's latest travelogue through the minds of the powerful, "Bush at War," has been widely praised as a compelling account of the Bush administration post-9/11. The book is, in one sense, quite an accomplishment: Woodward manages to make ...

Znet Article Edwards: Just War and A Dissident's Role

Znet Article, December, 07 2002 David Edwards
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In response to our recent Media Alert Update, "George Monbiot Responds on Iraq and 'Just War'" (December 2, 2002), Monbiot has sent the following response: Dear MediaLens, Two issues appear to divide us, one philosophical, one practical. The ph...

Znet Article Giacaman: Schooling At Gunpoint

Znet Article, December, 07 2002 Rita Giacaman
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Rita Giacaman, Anita Abdullah, Rula Abu Safieh and Luna ShamiehInstitute of Community and Public Health, Birzeit University Introduction/background The new school year was scheduled to begin on August 31st 2002 for over one million Palestinian c...

Znet Article Ali: The Ignoble Nobel

Znet Article, December, 07 2002 Tariq Ali
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On Tuesday, former US president Jimmy Carter will fly to Oslo and receive the Nobel Peace Prize from the unassuming bicycling monarch of Norway. Why him? Why now? And what is the real aim of the peace prize? When it was first established in 1900...

Znet Article Bond: Relic Of Past Overstayed His Welcome

Znet Article, December, 06 2002 Julian Bond
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What would you say about a man who once ran for president on a platform promising to end "social intermingling of the races"?   Or who wrote a manifesto decl...

Znet Article Fisk: With Runners And Whispers, Al-Qai'da Outfoxes US Forces

Znet Article, December, 06 2002 Robert Fisk
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The Americans take them shackled and hooded on to transport aircraft to Kandahar. They live in pens of eight or 10 men. They are given cots with blankets but no privacy. They are forced to urinate and defecate publicly because the Americans want t...

Znet Article Azulay: West Virginia, National Sacrifice Area

Znet Article, December, 06 2002 Jessica Azulay
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At whatever the cost to poor people, endangered cultures, and the environment, this country’s energy industry and government are determined to get cheap fuel. While Arabs in Iraq give their blood for the potential profits of the U.S. oil i...

Znet Article Kelly: People Have Endured A Nightmare

Znet Article, December, 05 2002 Kathy Kelly
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  THE CORPORATE media have spent hours of airtime furiously speculating about every last detail of the looming U.S. assault on Iraq. Every detail but one--the terrible human toll of this latest stage in Washington’s war on the Iraqi ...

Znet Article Solomon: Media Spin Can Seperate War From Death

Znet Article, December, 05 2002 Norman Solomon
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A dozen years after the Gulf War, public perceptions of it are now very helpful to the White House. That's part of a timeworn pattern. Illusions about previous wars make the next one seem acceptable. As George Orwell observed: "Who controls the pa...

Znet Article Sustar: What's In The Dockworkers Deal?

Znet Article, December, 05 2002 Lee Sustar
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WHEN UNION leaders and the Wall Street Journal both hail a labor agreement, rank-and-file workers have to ask: Can this deal really be good for us? That question will dominate the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) Coast Caucus mee...

Znet Article Pilger: Lies, Damned Lies, And Terror Warnings

Znet Article, December, 05 2002 John Pilger
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ON November 7, the day before the United Nations Security Council voted on a resolution that made an American and British attack on Iraq more than likely, Downing Street began issuing warnings of imminent terrorist threats against the United Ki...

Znet Article Hass: Fundamentalist Logic

Znet Article, December, 04 2002 Amira Hass
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Kiryat Arba's settlers, with active assistance from the Civil Administration and the IDF, are keeping their promise to create "territorial contiguity between Kiryat Arba and the Tomb of the Patriarchs." Less than three weeks after the lethal Islam...

Znet Article Scahill: No Fly Zones

Znet Article, December, 04 2002 Jeremy Scahill
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BAGHDAD—The scene would be familiar to any American frequent flyer. The hum of the aircraft could be the morning Delta shuttle from Reagan National to JFK; the smell of mediocre snacks, housed in compact metal containers, fills the cabin; ...

Znet Article Awad: A Thanksgiving Message From Palestine

Znet Article, December, 04 2002 Sami Awad
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This week, millions of Americans will celebrate Thanksgiving. This will be an occasion for families to get together and enjoy each other’s company and love. This will be a time where many will give thanks for good things in their lives suc...

Znet Article King-irani: Salvaging The Wreckage

Znet Article, December, 04 2002 Laurie King-irani
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The Likud election results. Attacks on Israelis in Kenya. More Palestinians dead in Gaza. President Bush saber rattling about Iraq. Our unquenchable thirst for oil poisoning Spain's beaches and sea birds. Israeli soldiers killing UN officials and ...

Znet Article Ess: The End Of Ramadan

Znet Article, December, 04 2002 Kristen Ess
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On this, the final day of Ramadan 2002, Israel continues its decades old illegal occupation of the West Bank and Gaza. Israeli soldiers killed two Palestinians in the West Bank city of Khalil (Hebron), under effective curfew for years. Apache miss...

Znet Article Fisk: We Are Being Set Up For A War Against Iraq

Znet Article, December, 04 2002 Robert Fisk
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In North Carolina last month, a woman attending a lecture I was giving asked me when America would go to war in Iraq. I told her to watch the front page of The New York Times and The Washington Post for the first smear campaigns against the UN ins...

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