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Edwards3: How To Legitimise War - Iraq And The British Media
Znet Article, September, 04 2002
Dvaid3 Edwards3
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In our society, choices decrease to the extent that they matter. When it comes to chocolate bars, the options are impressive - supermarket shelves are filled with them. When it comes to political parties, foreign policy and the media, choices merg...
Mcdougall: September 11th: One Year On
Znet Article, September, 04 2002
William Mcdougall
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‘The day that sent shockwaves around the world. The BBC marks the anniversary of September 11 with a series of special reports and commemorative broadcasts from across the globe.’ BBC Programme Information 7-13 September 2002 ...
Mcdougall: September 11th: One Year ON
Znet Article, September, 04 2002
William Mcdougall
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‘The day that sent shockwaves around the world. The BBC marks the anniversary of September 11 with a series of special reports and commemorative broadcasts from across the globe.’ BBC Programme Information 7-13 September 2002 As ...
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...
Smith-ferri: Dancing With The Devil
Znet Article, September, 04 2002
David Smith-ferri
Smith-ferri's ZSpace page
Some things you thought you could count on: the prevailing westerlies, temperatures according to the season…Forget it. Washington now controls the weather. That chill you’ve felt in your bones despite the calendar is a cold wind bl...
Shadid, md: On Improving Pro-Palestinian Activism
Znet Article, September, 04 2002
Tariq Shadid, md
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Most pro-Palestinian activists, whose articles are featured on the various Palestinian websites, and whose publications are slowly but surely breaking through the barriers of the editorial boards of the major news media of the west, deserve a huge...
Edwards: "Just One Of Those Things"
Znet Article, September, 04 2002
David Edwards
Edwards's ZSpace page
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
Bellinghausen's ZSpace page
[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...
