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Znet Article Pilger: Diplomacy?

Znet Article, September, 19 2002 John Pilger
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The making of a United Nations fig leaf, designed to cover an Anglo-American attack on Iraq, has a revealing past. In 1990, a vers...

Znet Article Edwards: Power, Fear, And Silence

Znet Article, September, 19 2002 David Edwards
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It is ironic that when politicians hail the urgent need to defend ourdemocratic traditions, their words are generally communicated by giantmedia corporations, which are essentially totalitarian structures ofpower. There is not even a pretence of d...

Znet Article Cromwell: Mass Media Stoke The Fires Of War

Znet Article, September, 18 2002 David Cromwell
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News broadcasts and column inches are rapidly saturating with the rhetoric of war. The fate of the Iraqi people hangs in the balance. Iraq has now backed down in the face of overwhelming US/UK threats to launch a massive attack on that devastated ...

Znet Article King-irani: Massacres Don't Just Happen

Znet Article, September, 18 2002 Lauri King-irani
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Twenty years ago today, on a hot and muggy Saturday morning, a shocking reality came to light in Lebanon. Some people approaching the contiguous refugee camps of Sabra and Shatila in the outskirts of Beirut had their suspicions that dark deeds had...

Znet Article Ritter: A Semantic Game

Znet Article, September, 18 2002 Scott Ritter
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-> Your 1999 book on Iraq was entitled Endgame: Solving the Iraq Problem Once and For All. What about the game now, has it come to an end? Personally I never played any game. Endgame is a term used by political scientists when they speak of ...

Znet Article Appleby: "They Never Did Anything with the Land"

Znet Article, September, 18 2002 Robert Appleby
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In May of this year I was in Jerusalem to make a TV documentary about the South Hebron cavedwellers’ case in the Israeli Supreme Court. We were interviewing lawyers and human rights activists in Jerusalem and shooting in the villages, so w...

Znet Article Alsop: Colombian Government Attacks National Mobilizations

Znet Article, September, 18 2002 Nathalie Alsop
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On September 16th, only one month after Uribe Velez took office, over 800,000 people protested the Uribe government’s policies of war and repression throughout Colombia. When the national mobilization was mentioned publicly, the minister o...

Znet Article Hristov: Direct Democracy march in Bulgaria

Znet Article, September, 18 2002 Ivan Hristov
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On Sept. 12th 2002 in Sofia, Bulgaria a march for direct democracy rights passed through the centre of the city starting from the National Assembly and visiting the two public media – BNRadio and BNTelevision. A real responsibility for bad...

Znet Article Susskind: MADRE Factsheet

Znet Article, September, 18 2002 Yifat Susskind
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“Our principles and our security are challenged today by outlaw groups and regimes that accept no law of morality and have no limit to their violent ambitions.”   Conservative commentator Samuel Huntington has pointed out th...

Znet Article Fisk: Bush Wants War Not Justice

Znet Article, September, 18 2002 Robert Fisk
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You've got to hand it to Saddam. In one brisk, neat letter to Kofi Annan, he pulled the rug from right under George Bush's feet. There was the American president last week, playing the role of multilateralist, warning the world that Iraq had one l...

Znet Article Albertini: Small is Beautiful

Znet Article, September, 17 2002 Claudio Albertini
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[translated by Melippa and revised by Sheri Parpia, originally published August 31, 2002] Mexico, as we all know, is a land of contradictions and paradoxes. The historian John Womack opens his famous book on Emiliano Zapata saying theirs is "a hi...

Znet Article Galeano: SOS

Znet Article, September, 17 2002 Eduardo Galeano
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[translated by Francisco Gonzalez] Who gets the water? The monkey with the stick does. The unarmed monkey dies of thirst. This prehistory lesson opens the film "2001: A Space Odyssey". Now, for the 2003 odyssey, President Bush announces a militar...

Znet Article Mackay: Bush planned Iraq 'regime change' before becoming President

Znet Article, September, 17 2002 Neil Mackay
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Bush planned Iraq 'regime change' before becoming President

Znet Article Turnipseed: International Criminals

Znet Article, September, 17 2002 Tom Turnipseed
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Saddam Hussein called the hand of George W. Bush and put a stumbling block in front of U.S. war plans by informing U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan that he would allow U.N. weapons inspectors to immediately return to Iraq without condition. The W...

Znet Article Albert: Marxism Debate

Znet Article, September, 16 2002 Michael Albert
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Our topic in this debate (see the whole exchange at http://www.zmag.org/debateiso.htm) has been the relevance of Marxism for seeking social change today. My view has been that while Marxism of course contains many powerful and important insights...

Znet Article Pilger: Palestine is still the Issue

Znet Article, September, 16 2002 John Pilger
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Palestine is still the Issue

Znet Article Albert: What Do We Want? How Do We Get It?

Znet Article, September, 16 2002 Michael Albert
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What Do We Want? How Do We Get It?

Znet Article Zarate-laun: The Forgotten War

Znet Article, September, 16 2002 Cecilia Zarate-laun
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Every day 20 persons are killed in Colombia and 1,000 are displaced. Here and there, I will use some examples.On January 19, 2002 more than 200 paramilitares entered the towns of Florida, Miranda and Corinto; they massacred 15 people, several disa...

Znet Article Zarate-laun: The Forgotten War

Znet Article, September, 16 2002 Cecilia Zarate-laun
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Every day 20 persons are killed in Colombia and 1,000 are displaced. Here and there, I will use some examples.On January 19, 2002 more than 200 paramilitares entered the towns of Florida, Miranda and Corinto; they massacred 15 people, several disa...

Znet Article Loewenstein: Yom Kippur in Palestine

Znet Article, September, 16 2002 Jennifer Loewenstein
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Yom Kippur in Palestine and the Palestinian people are atoning for Israel’s sin of occupation. The lockdown in Gaza and the West Bank is complete: for three days no Palestinian will travel past a checkpoint; no swimmers will be allowed on ...

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