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Edwards: "Just One Of Those Things"
Znet Article, September, 04 2002
David Edwards
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A rule of thumb for the mainstream media is that the reporting of ideas that are damaging to powerful interests will tend to begin and end at 'square one' - investigation and discussion rarely proceed beyond the superficial. The more influential t...
Hass: 30 of 49 Palestinians killed in August were civilians
Znet Article, September, 03 2002
Amira Hass
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Between August 1 and last night, 49 Palestinians were killed by Israel Defense Forces fire in the West Bank and Gaza Strip; around 180 were injured, with at least 65 of them sustaining wounds from live fire (including shrapnel from shells and miss...
Levy: Children Of War
Znet Article, September, 03 2002
Gideon Levy
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From this morning, thousands of policemen will guard Israel's children as they return to school after the summer vacation. For this reason, it is worth recalling that just an hour's drive away, yesterday also marked the end of the summer vacation ...
Adamovsky: Argentina's Social Movement Goes Global
Znet Article, September, 03 2002
Ezequiel Adamovsky
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The first thematic meeting of the World Social Forum in Argentina was held from the 22nd to the 25th of August in Buenos Aires, to discuss the theme of “The Crisis of Neo-Liberalism in Argentina and the Challenges for the Global Move...
Winer: Business as usual for South African media
Znet Article, September, 03 2002
Stan Winer
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In the aftermath of a long and traumatic history, there is still censorship in South Africa. Not censorship by the state, but a rather more indirect, insidious and hence virulent form of censorship – self-censorship by the mainstream media...
Pilger: The Great Charade
Znet Article, September, 02 2002
John Pilger
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It is 10 months since 11 September, and still the great charade plays on. Having appropriated our shocked response to that momentous day, the rulers of the world have since ground our language into a paean of cliches and lies about the 'war on ter...
Bond: Geopolitics of Jo'burg Protests
Znet Article, September, 02 2002
Patrick Bond
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For ninety years, we've waited to see the combined geographical and political implications of locating an urban bantustan in a small block of land in northeast Johannesburg called Alexandra Township. Today was breakout day, with South Africa's mos...
Gordon: Ariel Sharon's Subjugation Strategy
Znet Article, September, 01 2002
Neve Gordon
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JERUSALEM -- Israel recently agreed to withdraw its forces from Bethlehem and populated Palestinian areas in the Gaza Strip while the Palestinian Authority takes on the responsibility of policing residents there. Israeli soldiers and tanks moved t...
Bellinghausen: The World Responds to Chiapas Situation
Znet Article, September, 01 2002
Hermann Bellinghausen
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[translated by irlandesa] As a result of the recent attacks against the Autonomous Municipalities in Chiapas (which have left four dead, more than 20 wounded, families displaced and great tension in the indigenous communities), environmental as w...
Nakamura: Words On The Occasion Of Receiving the Okinawa Peace Prize
Znet Article, August, 30 2002
Tetsu Nakamura
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It all began on July 18th, 2001, when I made a visit to reconstruct the clinic in Darya-ye Nur. It was the first time for me to enter Afghanistan since the Taliban had come into power. It had been a while since I last crossed the Khyber Pass. I we...
Popham: Bhopal Still Waits for Justice
Znet Article, August, 29 2002
Peter Popham
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After 18 years, Bhopal still waits for justice Blighted city continues to pay the price for industrial tragedy, while fight goes on to bring chief executive to trial Peter Popham The land on which the factory stood is still fiercely toxic, the ...
Devraj: India's Green Movements Under Attack
Znet Article, August, 29 2002
Ranjit Devraj
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As the World Summit on Social Development (WSSD) gets underway in South Africa, India, a country of over a billion people, can report little but the gross failure of its best-known environment movements. These range from the movements campaigning...
Awwad: Ethnic Cleansing by Starvation
Znet Article, August, 29 2002
Rania Awwad
Awwad's ZSpace page
A US-financed assessment of the overall malnutrition level among Palestinian children, released this month by the US Agency for International Development (USAID), found that one in five Palestinian children under the age of five now suffers from c...
Blackwell: Micropolitics and the Cooking-Pot Revolution in Argentina
Znet Article, August, 29 2002
Benjamin Blackwell
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On New Year’s Eve of 2001, the US Secretary of State, General Colin Powell, rang the Casa Rosada, Argentina’s Presidential Palace in the centre of Buenos Aires and asked to be put through to the President. After being cut off sever...
Theret: Days Under Fire
Znet Article, August, 29 2002
Claire Theret
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This document consists of diary entries from two British solidarity activists who worked with the International Solidarity Movement in Occupied Palestine. The entries are long, but both highly analytical and vividly descriptive. Claire's journal ...
Chomsky: Interview With Noam Chomsky about US Warplans
Znet Article, August, 29 2002
Noam Chomsky
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Various questions are circulating among people worried about war. On August 29, 2002, Michael Albert put some of these to Noam Chomsky, via email. Here are the questions and his responses... 1. Has Saddam Hussein been as evil as mainstream media ...
El-azar: One Into Four
Znet Article, August, 28 2002
Mohamed khaled El-azar
El-azar's ZSpace page
In laying the foundations for the 1991 peace conference in Madrid US Secretary of State James Baker was anxious to secure Washington's role as primary sponsor of the Arab- Israeli peace process. He supervised all the arrangement for the conference...
Bishara: Unbuilding Babel
Znet Article, August, 28 2002
Marwan Bishara
Bishara's ZSpace page
It is evident from recent statements coming out of Washington that Palestinians, Israelis and the international community speak three different languages. As a people under occupation, the Palestinians want a future free of Israeli domination. As ...
Hass: Deterrents That Haven't Deterred
Znet Article, August, 28 2002
Amira Hass
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The IDF and Shin Bet claim that demolishing the homes of terror suspects and expelling their families to Gaza is a deterrence that has already yielded results. Such an opinion relies on the ignorance or willful amnesia of the Israeli public. Senio...
Abunimah: The Growing Clamor for Ethnic Cleansing
Znet Article, August, 28 2002
Ali Abunimah
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(AMMAN -- August 27, 2002) -- An Israeli organization has published detailed plans for the "complete elimination of the Arab demographic threat to Israel" by forcibly expelling all Palestinians, including Palestinians in the occupied territories a...
