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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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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
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...
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...
Pilger: Palestine is still the Issue
Znet Article, September, 16 2002
John Pilger
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Palestine is still the Issue
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?
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...
Zarate-laun: The Forgotten War
Znet Article, September, 16 2002
Cecilia Zarate-laun
Zarate-laun's ZSpace page
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...
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 ...
