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Znet Article 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...

Znet Article 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...

Znet Article 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 ...

Znet Article 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...

Znet Article 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...

Znet Article 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...

Znet Article 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...

Znet Article 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...

Znet Article 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...

Znet Article 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...

Znet Article 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 ...

Znet Article 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...

Znet Article Awwad: Ethnic Cleansing by Starvation

Znet Article, August, 29 2002 Rania Awwad
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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...

Znet Article 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...

Znet Article 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 ...

Znet Article 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 ...

Znet Article El-azar: One Into Four

Znet Article, August, 28 2002 Mohamed khaled El-azar
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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...

Znet Article Bishara: Unbuilding Babel

Znet Article, August, 28 2002 Marwan Bishara
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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 ...

Znet Article 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...

Znet Article 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...

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