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Znet Article Harris: Truth and Reconciliation

Znet Article, November, 03 2002 Verne Harris
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On a visit to South Africa in 1998 Jacques Derrida, arguably the world’s most eminent living philosopher, offended many South Africans by suggesting that the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) needed to be understood as an exercise ...

Znet Article Winer: South Africa is Losing its Memory

Znet Article, November, 03 2002 Stan Winer
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At the foot of Ngquza mountain in the rural Pondoland region of South Africa stands a monument to the "Forgotten Heroes" -- so named in honor of the Pondo warriors who were slaughtered in 1960 when they challenged the military might of the aparthe...

Znet Article Plitnick: A Tale of Two Governments

Znet Article, November, 03 2002 Mitchell Plitnick
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In the space of a single day this week, some significant events transpired in both the Israeli government and the Palestinian Authority. On the Israeli side, the unity government did not survive to its second birthday, as Labor, led by now-forme...

Znet Article Shiva: Deconstructing Market Access

Znet Article, November, 02 2002 Vandana2 Shiva
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Deconstructing Market Access

Znet Article Ruben: Protets In Quito

Znet Article, November, 02 2002 Justin Ruben
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Friends and Colleagues Please accept this [unedited] bulletin from the edge of consciousness. I don't know whether I feel like crying because I am so moved by what I saw today, because my mucous membranes are all shot to hell from too much tear g...

Znet Article Weisbrot: It's A New Day And Brazil Wants A New Deal

Znet Article, November, 02 2002 Mark Weisbrot
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Last Sunday's election in Brazil should send a message to Washington's economists and policymakers that their prescriptions for economic progress are no longer viable. But these people are slow learners. The conventional wisdom among economists ...

Znet Article Vulliamy: US In Denial As Poverty Rises

Znet Article, November, 02 2002 Ed Vulliamy
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The north wind cuts cold and sudden across the historic green of New Haven. It blows through the 'tent city' where the homeless huddle. And it blows round the spires and quadrangles of Yale University, one of America's richest Ivy League colleges....

Znet Article Edwards: Unique Threats Profitable Responses

Znet Article, November, 01 2002 David Edwards
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Unique Threat - No.1: In April 1950, the US National Security Council Directive 68 (NSC68) stated: "The Soviet Union, unlike previous aspirants to hegemony, is animated by a new fanatic faith, antithetical to our own, and seeks to impose absolut...

Znet Article Prashad: Scenarios For Iraq After Saddam

Znet Article, November, 01 2002 Vijay Prashad
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From the White House, reports leak out about plans for an Iraq after the Ba'th. Three of the main scenario do not allow for the development of democracy in Iraq. Each of them is built on a racist assumption: that the Iraqis either need a military ...

Znet Article Marcos: A Letter and a Poem

Znet Article, October, 31 2002 Subcomandante Marcos
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July of 2002. To: Fernando Yañez Muñoz, Architect. From: Subcomandante Insurgente Marcos. Don Fernando: Greetings from all the zapatista compañeros and compañeras and from the indigenous communities in resistance. We hope that you, and a...

Znet Article White: Why I oppose the US War On Terror: An Ex Marine Speaks out

Znet Article, October, 31 2002 Chris White
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The more I juxtapose logical world opinion with the Bush administration’s actions in the war on terror, I realize one overwhelming theme: hypocrisy. No one in any of the branches of government runs a physical risk to themselves by entering...

Znet Article Sustar: This is Union Busting!

Znet Article, October, 31 2002 Lee Sustar
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  AN UNPRECEDENTED alliance of transnational corporations and politicians of both parties is behind the U.S. government’s attempt to break the West Coast dockworkers’ union. George W. Bush’s intervention under the an...

Znet Article Cook: Olives And Lives

Znet Article, October, 31 2002 Jonathan Cook
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Olives And Lives

Znet Article Kerr: A New Type Of Chemical Warfare

Znet Article, October, 30 2002 Stephen Kerr
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Russian authorities only wanted to put them to sleep. And the 700 odd hostages did go to sleep, as did their captors. But 116 never woke up.    Most of the survivors are still in the hospital, held hostage to a state military secret th...

Znet Article Morris: Jakarta is open for business

Znet Article, October, 30 2002 Craig Morris
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“New York City is open for business”, declared the city’s then-mayor Rudy Giuliani at the end of September 2001, only a few weeks after the attacks planned by terrorists operating internationally, but also from within the U...

Znet Article Borger: US Weapons Secrets Exposed

Znet Article, October, 30 2002 Julian Borger
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Respected scientists on both sides of the Atlantic warned yesterday that the US is developing a new generation of weapons that undermine and possibly violate international treaties on biological and chemical warfare. The scientists, specialists i...

Znet Article Ingalls: Afghanistan: The First Puppet Regime in the Post Sept 11 World

Znet Article, October, 30 2002 James Ingalls
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As the United States government and the United Nations Security Council debate the invasion, occupation, and "regime change" of Iraq, it makes sense to assess the first US exercise of power after Sept 11, namely the invasion and occupation of Afgh...

Znet Article Kagarlitsky: An Attack Against Society

Znet Article, October, 29 2002 Boris Kagarlitsky
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After special forces commandos stormed the Theater Na Dubrovke early Saturday morning, the authorities proclaimed the operation a complete success. They first announced that the enemy had been destroyed with no losses among the ...

Znet Article Monbiot: Do As We Say, Not As We Do

Znet Article, October, 29 2002 George Monbiot
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Democracy in Brazil both won and lost on Sunday night. It won because, for the first time in its history, the nation chose a man of humble origins and radical views to be its president. It lost because that man is now forbidden to be radical. The ...

Znet Article Edwards: Iraq And Arms Inspectors: part two

Znet Article, October, 29 2002 David Edwards
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What A Difference 3 Years Makes: UK News Coverage of Why the Inspectors Left Iraq In 1998 and 1999 it was difficult for the media to avoid some of the more obvious facts about the withdrawal of arms inspectors from Iraq in December 1998. NBC Toda...

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