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Znet Article Z: Giving Thanks In The Land Of Denial

Znet Article, November, 28 2002 Mickey Z
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"Thanks for the wild turkey and the passengerpigeons, destined to be shit out through wholesomeAmerican guts."From "A Thanksgiving Prayer"William S. Burroughs, 1988 -----------When New York Times columnist William Safire informs us that Saddam H...

Znet Article Kerr: Open Letter To Bill Graham

Znet Article, November, 28 2002 Stephen Kerr
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To: The Honourable Bill Graham, P.C., M.P. Minister of Foreign Affairs Lester B Pearson Building A-10 125 Sussex Drive Ottawa, ON K1A 0G2 Dear Mr. Graham, Let me say right off the top how much I respect your foreign intelligence. You’ve...

Znet Article Podur: The Uribe administration's negotiation with itself

Znet Article, November, 27 2002 Justin Podur
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The Colombian government is in negotiations with the paramilitaries, facilitated by the Catholic Church.  The precondition for negotiations was put by President Alvaro Uribe Velez: "there must be a promise that not a single Colombian more wil...

Znet Article Pinter: The War Against Reason

Znet Article, November, 27 2002 Harold Pinter
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There's an old story about Oliver Cromwell. After he had taken the Irish town of Drogheda the citizens were brought to the main square. Cromwell announced to his lieutenants: "Right! Kill all the women and rape all the men." One of his aides said:...

Znet Article Ess: This Morning In Aida Refugee Camp

Znet Article, November, 27 2002 Kristen Ess
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The Israeli military still holds Bethlehem under curfew. Soldiers went round to houses inside Aida Camp demanding names of all children in the families to add to their lists. Here in the camp all children are suspected of the crime of throwing sto...

Znet Article Mahajan: Malign money and misguided multiculturalism

Znet Article, November, 27 2002 Romi Mahajan
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When its either tolerance or simply charity instead of justice that guides political formation, hate can be buoyed. The recent revelations about the US-based non-profit India Development and Relief Fund (IDRF)'s connection to right wing Hindu grou...

Znet Article Edwards: Iraq: Panorama Editor And Guardian Editor Respond

Znet Article, November, 27 2002 David Edwards
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As the war clouds continue to gather over the Gulf, the latest opinion polls show that fully 40% of the British electorate are against war on Iraq. Anyone who has been monitoring the media with any consistency can only view these figures with horr...

Znet Article Oliveri: We Are All Subversives

Znet Article, November, 26 2002 Adele Oliveri
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It was just too good to be true. The European Social Forum in Florence had come and gone without any of the violence and disruptions many mainstream media were telling the public to fear. It had been a perhaps chaotic, yet unmistakably positive mo...

Znet Article Kelber: There's Still Time To Avert US War In Iraq

Znet Article, November, 26 2002 Harry Kelber
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While President Bush appears hell-bent on invading Iraq this winter, there is still time, and a few favorable circumstances, to prevent a costly and bloody war. We would be at war today if the 15 members of the U.N. Security Council had failed to...

Znet Article Ess: Reinvaded Bethlehem

Znet Article, November, 26 2002 Kristen Ess
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The occupying Israeli army forces Palestinians to sit in their homes, trapped for days on end. Here in Bethelehem it has only been five days. In Nablus it has been months. Schools, shops, everything, is closed. A woman went to Ramallah for school ...

Znet Article Loewenstein: Jenin, Lebanon, and the only democracy in the Middle East

Znet Article, November, 26 2002 Jennifer Loewenstein
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Jennifer Loewenstein has spent parts of the past three years (2000-2002) working as a journalist and with human rights organizations in Lebanon and the Occupied Territories. She was in Jenin, Ramallah, and East Jerusalem when ‘Operation De...

Znet Article Landau: The Iraq Ploy And Resemblances To The Start Of The Cold War

Znet Article, November, 26 2002 Saul Landau
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“If you’re going to go in and try to topple Saddam Hussein, you have to go to Baghdad...

Znet Article Susskind: Talking With Friends And Family About Iraq

Znet Article, November, 25 2002 Yifat Susskind
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Like people everywhere, most people in the US think it’s wrong to kill civilians as a means of pressuring their government. But for many, the link between this conviction and opposition to the US plan to attack Iraq is severed by fear, mis...

Znet Article Herman: Anti-Semitism

Znet Article, November, 25 2002 Edward Herman
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Palestinians are "Semites," but the word antisemitism is never applied to prejudice against them, only to Jews. The restriction on the application to Jews, and failure to use it in reference to Palestinians, continues in the face of the fact that ...

Znet Article Reed: Weapons Of Mass Instruction

Znet Article, November, 25 2002 Ron Reed
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These days it's hard to find an article or discussion of Iraq, whether from a pro- or anti-invasion viewpoint, that doesn't mention so-called "weapons of mass destruction," or "WMDs." From the nuke-Baghdad crowd we might call Christian Jihad, invi...

Znet Article Ortellado: Brazil: Between Hope and Fear

Znet Article, November, 25 2002 Pablo Ortellado
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The Brazilian presidential election campaign was marked by the antagonism of center right Social Democrat José Serra's constant red baiting on the one hand and, on the other hand, the PT, the Worker's Party, promoting hope for real change. But sh...

Znet Article Monbiot: See You In Court

Znet Article, November, 25 2002 George Monbiot
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Parliament might have been denied its debate and the Cabinet might have been silenced, but there are other means of holding the government to account. If, by 4pm today, his lawyers have failed to agree that he will not attack Iraq without a new UN...

Znet Article Gordon: Israel's Choice

Znet Article, November, 24 2002 Neve Gordon
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Jerusalem: Returning to Israel after an extended absence can be a disturbing experience. On the way back from the airport to my Jerusalem apartment, I noticed new posters tacked onto utility poles and bridges along the highway. They read: Transfer...

Znet Article Butterfly: UN Worker Killed in Palestine

Znet Article, November, 24 2002 Caoimhe Butterfly
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In today's reinvasion of Jenin Refugee Camp, the Israeli Occupation Forces made the bottom section of the camp into a closed military zone in the morning, using about twelve tanks, ten jeeps, and at least two Apache helicopter gunships. I had been...

Znet Article Jensen: President Bush plans an unprecedented shift of almost half of government

Znet Article, November, 24 2002 Robert Jensen
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President Bush's announcement last week of his intention to privatize up to half the federal workforce came with the usual confident talk about reducing government costs and improving services.Market ideologues may believe that, but there is no re...

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