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Grubacic: Should Milosovec Be Tried at the Hague?
Znet Article, June, 10 2002
Andrej Grubacic
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Using as pretext the recent arrest of Yugoslavia's ex-president Slobodan Milosevic, the author of the following article proposes to offer a brief analysis of the current Yugoslav intellectual climate. It is most expedient, for our purposes, to beg...
Hoodbhoy: What, Us Worry?
Znet Article, June, 10 2002
Pervez Hoodbhoy
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ISLAMABAD-World leaders worked overtime last week to prevent tensions between Pakistan and India from exploding into war. But in India and Pakistan, where a million troops from the two countries glowered at each other across the border, sabres con...
Mcmurtry: "What Did Bush Know?"
Znet Article, June, 08 2002
John Mcmurtry
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Michael Albert joins the corporate media, the Republican Party and most of the Washington establishment in his blanket abuse of forensic questions on 9-11. The argument that relevant decision setters in the Bush Jr. executive covertly allowed the ...
Lappe: A Better Way to Feed the Hungry
Znet Article, June, 07 2002
Frances moore Lappe
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Bill Gates thinks he's got a brilliant idea: fighting malnutrition abroad by fortifying food. The scheme, backed with $50 million from the Gates Foundation, in part encourages Proctor & Gamble, Philip Morris' Kraft, and other companies to deve...
Stokes: Perception Management and the US Terror War in Colombia
Znet Article, June, 07 2002
Doug Stokes
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During the 1980s, US counter-insurgency took on a new form, and became what is today known as Low Intensity Conflict. With the Vietnam experience behind them, US military planners recognised two crucial lessons that led to this change. First, the ...
Monbiot: Choose Life
Znet Article, June, 07 2002
George Monbiot
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Every week, sometimes every day, someone writes to me asking for advice about the career they should take. I can't, unfortunately, respond to them all, so I thought I should try to formulate some general guidelines, which I hope people will be abl...
Cox: The Dark Side of Flowers
Znet Article, June, 07 2002
Sarah Cox
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A traveller flying into the Colombian city of Bogotá from the southwest sees lush green fields give way to white patches the size of city blocks. It takes a few moments to realize that the incongruous scene below is not snow-dusted farmland but r...
Rosset: Hungry for answers
Znet Article, June, 07 2002
Peter Rosset
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Why do more than 800 million people still go hungry in a world marked by incredible affluence? A total of 180 nations are to gather in Rome from Monday to Wednesday next week to address just that question at a meeting called the World Food Summit:...
Street: Misunderstanding Power
Znet Article, June, 06 2002
Paul Street
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Thanks in part to recent disclosures that a minimally competent federal security establishment would have had reasons to know and act on intelligence predicting something like what occurred last September, conspiracy theorists are having a field d...
Solomon: Nuclear Weapons And Media Fog
Znet Article, June, 06 2002
Norman Solomon
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American media outlets roused themselves from outright denial in early June, spurred by belated warnings from top U.S. officials that a nuclear war between India and Pakistan would kill millions of people. The tone of news coverage shifted toward ...
Rebick: Diary of a trip to Palestine and Israel
Znet Article, June, 05 2002
Judy Rebick
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Diary of a trip to Palestine and Israel
Brittain: The Horror Behind The Front Line
Znet Article, June, 05 2002
Victoria Brittain
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The Horror Behind The Front Line
Raman (india): South Asia: Waiting For The Usa
Znet Article, June, 04 2002
J. sri Raman (india)
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The whole world outside the India-Pakistan subcontinent is watching the situation here with extreme anxiety. Never in the past two decades, it is generally agreed, has the humanity been closer to a nuclear holocaust. Conspicuous by its absence, ho...
Rosen: From Grief, Activism
Znet Article, June, 04 2002
Lisa Rosen
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It has been only two weeks since East Timor became the newest country on the planet, and already it has fallen out of the news. But the triumph of that day, achieved against such impossible odds, will be with me forever. The last time I had seen E...
Mokhiber: IMF and World Bank: Out of Control
Znet Article, June, 04 2002
Russell Mokhiber
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The International Monetary Fund and World Bank are institutions out of control. For evidence, consider the institutions' feeble and fatally flawed debt relief program. Under their Highly Indebted Poor Country (HIPC) initiative, the world's poorest...
Suarez: Five Facts about April 11
Znet Article, June, 02 2002
Roldan tomasz Suarez
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I would like to point out a series of facts about the current situation in Venezuela that are just as valid for times to come. They are pillars on which we must base our political opinions and actions, as well as shields to protect ourselves from ...
Gordon: The Caterpillar Effect
Znet Article, June, 01 2002
Neve Gordon
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“This is the first time that bulldozers have determined the outcome of a war,†L., one of the Palestinian fighters from the Jenin refugee camp was recently quoted in the Israeli daily Yedioth Ahronot. The officer in charge of the m...
Healy: Angola The Crisis You Aren't Hearing About
Znet Article, June, 01 2002
Sean Healy
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Angola The Crisis You Aren't Hearing About
Kissenger: Alan Dershowitz And Torture
Znet Article, May, 31 2002
C. clark Kissenger
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In early November controversy irrupted on the internet over Harvard Law Professor Alan Dershowitz’s proposal to legalize torture in the United States to extract information from terrorism suspects. So when Dershowitz appeared on January 27...
