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Bellinghausen: The Price of Resistance
Znet Article, July, 23 2002
Hermann Bellinghausen
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[translated by irlandesa] Africa, Chiapas. July 22. Through one of those happenstances of bureaucratic evolution, Africa appears on the good commercial state maps, but not Asia, the neighboring ranch, even though it has five or six times more r...
Lewis: Contagion in Latin America
Znet Article, July, 22 2002
Tom Lewis
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Part of the decision by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the Bush administration to let Argentina go to the wall last autumn involved their calculation that an Argentine meltdown could safely be contained. They went so far as to inoculate...
Patel: Faulty Shades Of Green
Znet Article, July, 22 2002
Raj Patel
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I - An Environmental Looking Glass The world's environmentalists are bracing themselves for the upcoming World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg later this year. Among the tree-huggers, guerrilla gardeners, and jaded policy wonks,...
Weisbrot: An Economist's View of the Stock Market
Znet Article, July, 22 2002
Mark Weisbrot
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Back in March 2000, when the stock market bubble was beginning to deflate, I talked to journalists from the nation's major newspapers about what it meant. Almost all of them held the view that there was nothing definitive that could be said about ...
Monbiot: The Fake Persuaders
Znet Article, July, 22 2002
George Monbiot
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Persuasion works best when it's invisible. The most effective marketing worms its way into...
Levy: Fahdi's Summer Camp
Znet Article, July, 22 2002
Gideon Levy
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What to do with the kids during summer vacation? Some Palestinians don't have that problem. They send the kids to infiltrate into Israel and risk themselves day in and day out trying to make a few shekels by peddling wares or begging for handouts....
Bello: Revolution and Counterrevolution in Venezuela
Znet Article, July, 22 2002
Walden Bello
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The political reality of Venezuela hits me as soon as I arrive, like a blast of Caribbean air at midday. A friendly question triggers a torrent of anti-Chavez denunciations from the young professional serving as my driver from the airport that onl...
Sponneck: Call Bush's Bluff
Znet Article, July, 22 2002
Hans von Sponneck
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During the 17 months of the Bush administration just about everything has gone wrong for the US government in preparing the public for military strikes against Iraq. Convincing friendly governments and allies has not fared much better. Acts of ter...
Parenti: Exposing The Terrorism Trap
Znet Article, July, 20 2002
Michael Parenti
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Michael Parenti received a PhD in Political Science at Yale University. He is one of the nation's leading progressive thinkers, an uncompromising advocate for political and social justice. He has written sixteen books, including Democracy for the ...
Bellinghausen: Boxes of Flies being Dropped on Communities
Znet Article, July, 20 2002
Hermann Bellinghausen
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Ocosingo, Chiapas July 19. The "low intensity war" is heating up again against the Autonomous Municipalities in the area surrounding the cities of Ocosingo and Altamirano. This is primarily being expressed through paramilitarization, instigated ...
Kerr: Not Another World Con
Znet Article, July, 18 2002
Raymond Kerr
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The past tumultuous week has witnessed the sensational spectacle of the implosion of WorldCom, which is by far the largest accounting fraud in history and appears destined to be the biggest ever corporate bankruptcy. It has also exposed the invasi...
Lefko: What About Children in Iraq: A report from the UN Special Session on Children, May 8-10, 2002
Znet Article, July, 18 2002
Claudia Lefko
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The Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) is the most widely endorsed human rights document in history, yet most people in the United States have never even heard of it. Adopted by the UN at the 1990 World Summit for Children, &nb...
Pilger: A Not -So- Free Press
Znet Article, July, 17 2002
John Pilger
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On 4 July, the front page of the Daily Mirror was as powerful as any I have known, a tabloid at its best. George W Bush was flanked by a row of Stars and Stripes, chin up, eyes misted. "Mourn on the Fourth of July," said the banner headline. Above...
Bellinghausen: Paramilitary Fiefdoms
Znet Article, July, 17 2002
Hermann Bellinghausen
Bellinghausen's ZSpace page
[translated by irlandesa] Sitalá, Chiapas. July 16. Things are in such a state for the displaced of San Pedro Buena Vista that, when Sebastián Hernández Sánchez went to the judge in Yajalón to demand justice, they almost put him in jail, a...
Administrator: Testimony of Stephen R. Shalom
Znet Article, July, 16 2002
Site Administrator
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My name is Stephen Rosskamm Shalom and I am a professor of Political Science at William Paterson University in Wayne, New Jersey. I have been writing and teaching about United States policy in the Middle East for more than two decades. I thank the...
Everest: Target Iraq: U.S. Plans for Major War
Znet Article, July, 16 2002
Larry Everest
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Target Iraq: U.S. Plans for Major War
Russell: Disablement, Prison, and Historical Segregation
Znet Article, July, 15 2002
Marta Russell
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The story of disablement and the prison industrial complex must begin with a trail of telling numbers: a disproportionate number of persons incarcerated in U.S. prisons and jails are disabled. Though Census Bureau data suggest that disabled person...
Bensah: Pandora Revisited
Znet Article, July, 15 2002
E.k. Bensah
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Sins of the FatherIt is not implausible to think that Africans are probably being punished for some evil deed one of their own committed several centuries ago. Considering the sobering statistics that are often associated with the continent, no on...
Van tosh: The Politics of Bush's New Freedom Commission on Mental Health & The
Znet Article, July, 15 2002
Laura Van tosh
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Politics surrounds just about everything, and the President's New Freedom Commission on Mental Health is no exception. We in the disability rights community need to be alert to the political opportunities it offers. The following ideas about the ...
Street: Defending Civilization And The Myth Of Radical Academia
Znet Article, July, 15 2002
Paul Street
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I know it is no laughing matter when America's thought police control go on patrol. Still, even if it is just as a defense mechanism, I couldn't help but laugh when I finally read the by-now notorious report on alleged academic anti-Americanism pu...
