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Znet Article Fisk: Anti-Colonial War

Znet Article, April, 17 2003 Robert Fisk
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It's going wrong, faster than anyone could have imagined. The army of "liberation" has already turned into the army of occupation. The Shias are threatening to fight the Americans, to create their own war of "liberation". At night on every one of...

Znet Article Landau: Shop, Go To Church, Support Bush's War And Wait For Armageddon

Znet Article, April, 17 2003 Saul Landau
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In my neighborhood of trimmed lawns and two or more c...

Znet Article Steel: Iraqis only count if they're dancing in the street

Znet Article, April, 17 2003 Mark Steel
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Maybe the reason some Iraqis were dancing after the fall of Saddam is the Americans got their translation wrong. When they made their announcements in Arabic, they thought they were saying "Good news, from now on you're all free." But they were ac...

Znet Article Johnson: Korea, South and North, at Risk

Znet Article, April, 17 2003 Chalmers Johnson
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Next Wednesday, April 23, North Korea, the U.S., and China will meet in Beijing to discuss a possible resolution of a crisis caused by North Korea's determination to defend itself with nuclear weapons against threats of aggression from the Bush ad...

Commentary Prashad: After The Ba'ath

Commentary, April, 16 2003 Vijay Prashad
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The Afghanistan stage of the war on Iraq seems to be over. We are now in the Jenin stage. The demos last weekend quite rightly moved the demand from no-war to no occupation. Perhaps it is important to say more than No Occupation, perhaps we need t...

Znet Article Fisk: Untouchable Ministries

Znet Article, April, 16 2003 Robert Fisk
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Baghdad. Iraq's scavengers have thieved and destroyed what they have been allowed to loot and burn by the Americans and a two-hour drive around Baghdad shows clearly what the US intends to protect. After days of arson and pillage, here's a short b...

Znet Article Edwards: Operation Iranian Freedom

Znet Article, April, 16 2003 David Edwards
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"This war is un-American", writes Jonathan Freedland of Operation Iraqi Freedom in the Guardian. America, after all, "still sees itself as the instinctive friend of all who struggle to kick out a foreign occupier - and the last nation on earth to ...

Znet Article Wise: Parable of the Bad Samaritan

Znet Article, April, 16 2003 Tim Wise
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It appears as though contributions are pouring in from around the world--especially the U.S. and Great Britain--to help pay for the many surgeries needed by the Iraqi boy being called (in the Western media at least), "little Ali." Putting aside th...

Znet Article Healy: All the way with FTA?

Znet Article, April, 15 2003 Sean Healy
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  In the very week that the United States’ bombers, cruise missiles and marines started pulverising Iraq, a crack squad of US trade negotiators arrived in Canberra to begin talks on the long-awaited US-Australia Free Trade Agreement....

Znet Article Zunes: Talking Points Regarding Syria

Znet Article, April, 15 2003 Stephen Zunes
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Recent statements by top Bush administration officials have accused the Syrian government of aiding senior Iraqi officials to escape, possessing chemical weapons, and committing "hostile acts" against the U.S. by allegedly supplying military equip...

Znet Article Fisk: Would President Assad Invite A Cruise Missile Into His Palace?

Znet Article, April, 15 2003 Robert Fisk
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So now Syria is in America's gunsights. First it's Iraq, Israel's most powerful enemy, possessor of weapons of mass destruction – none of which has been found. Now it's Syria, Israel's second most powerful enemy, possessor of weapons of ma...

Znet Article Rai: This War Is Not Over

Znet Article, April, 15 2003 Milan Rai
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The war continues to pose a threat to the lives of ordinary people in Iraq. Before the war started, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs estimated "In the event of a crisis, 30 percent of children under 5 would be at risk of ...

Znet Article Fisk: A Civilisation Torn To Pieces

Znet Article, April, 14 2003 Robert Fisk
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They lie across the floor in tens of thousands of pieces, the priceless antiquities of Iraq's history.The looters had gone from shelf to shelf, systematically pulling down the statues and pots and amphorae of the Assyrians and the Babylonians, t...

Znet Article Street: The Rape of Mesopotamia

Znet Article, April, 14 2003 Paul Street
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"A country's identity, its value and civilization resides in its history," says Raid Abdul Ridhar Muhammed, an Iraqi archaeologist. "If a country's civilization is looted, as ours has been here, its history ends. Please tell this to President...

Znet Article Jensen: For Self-determination In Iraq, The U.s. Must Leave

Znet Article, April, 14 2003 Robert Jensen
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The U.S. attack on Iraqi has brought the collapse of Saddam Hussein's brutal regime, which is cause for celebration. For the first time in at least 35 years, the conditions could exist for Iraqis to chart their own destiny. Now the United States ...

Znet Article Podur: Is the Canadian Media Fueling Conflict?

Znet Article, April, 14 2003 Justin Podur
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Canadians are not being served as well as they should be, even by their own public media. We have spent the past two weeks monitoring CBC's coverage of the US-UK war on Iraq. We have found that, while the CBC does better than the UK's BBC, US netw...

Commentary Peters: Parenting During War-Time

Commentary, April, 13 2003 Cynthia Peters
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"You're right to be concerned" about having your 9-month old in the room with you when you watch the news, reports Barbara Meltz in a Boston Globe "Child Caring" column. "If watching the news makes you tense and anxious, your baby will pick up on ...

Znet Article Chomsky: Noam Chomsky Interviewed

Znet Article, April, 13 2003 Noam Chomsky
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(1) Why did the U.S. invade Iraq, in your view? These are naturally speculations, and policy makers may have varying motives. But we can have a high degree of confidence about the answers given by Bush-Powell and the rest; these cannot possibly ...

Znet Article Klein: Rebuilding Iraq?

Znet Article, April, 13 2003 Naomi Klein
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On April 6, Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz spelled it out: There will be no role for the United Nations in setting up an interim government in Iraq. The US-run regime will last at least six months, "probably...longer than that."And by the...

Znet Article Edwards: Falling Into Execute Mode

Znet Article, April, 12 2003 David Edwards
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Man Plus It's Cartoon Time on ITN's Evening News. From a computer-generated street in Baghdad, a radiating signal from US 'special forces' attracts a cartoon Rockwell B-1B 'Lancer' bomber circling "on-call", like a doctor, overhead. Viewers could...

Znet Article Fisk: Pillage

Znet Article, April, 12 2003 Robert Fisk
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Let's talk war crimes. Yes, I know about the war crimes of Saddam. He slaughtered the innocent, gassed the Kurds, tortured his people and – though it is true we remained good friends with this butcher for more than half of his horrible car...

Commentary Landau: The Bible-touting Chicken Hawk Orders Soldiers to War

Commentary, April, 11 2003 Saul Landau
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Earlier this year, before he ordered a massacre of Iraqis, President George W. Bush claimed that on his vacation last summer he had read, wellÉ maybe he didn't finish it, Eliot A. Cohen's The Supreme Command: Soldiers, Statesmen and Leadership in ...

Znet Article Cook: Common Images Of Brutality

Znet Article, April, 11 2003 Jonathan Cook
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Al-Jazeera was showing Iraqi prisoners, their heads covered with hoods and their hands tied tightly with white plastic cuffs, on the television behind Sultan and Shareef Haroun. But the two brothers, sitting in their home again after three days ex...

Znet Article Edwards: Vindication - A Statue Falls

Znet Article, April, 11 2003 David Edwards
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On April 9, a US tank recovery vehicle tightened a metal rope and a statue of Saddam Hussein came crashing down in central Baghdad. The event was celebrated by "dozens" of Iraqi people at the scene, according to BBC online, but by hundreds of main...

Znet Article Bennis: The Day After the Statues Fall

Znet Article, April, 11 2003 Phyllis Bennis
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It is not surprising, and like everyone else we anticipated that some Iraqis would welcome U....

Znet Article Albert: Whose Standards?

Znet Article, April, 11 2003 Michael Albert
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When a New York Times correspondent indicated on its front page of February 16th 2003, that there were now only two super powers in the world -- the U.S. and public opinion - dissidents everywhere trumpeted the article as recognizing activism's st...

Znet Article Shalom: The Battle of Baghdad

Znet Article, April, 11 2003 Stephen1 Shalom
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The fall of Baghdad has been proclaimed, though there is still fighting in various parts of the city. At this point, one can't tell how long resistance will continue. Historically there have often been cases of foreign occupiers defeating large sc...

Znet Article Jensen: The Unseen War

Znet Article, April, 11 2003 Robert Jensen
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It was the picture of the day -- the toppling of a Saddam Hussein statue in Baghdad -- and may end up being the picture of the war, the single image that comes to define the conflict. The message will be clear: The U.S. liberated the Iraqi people;...

Znet Article Fisk: Final Proof That War Is About The Failure Of The Human Spirit

Znet Article, April, 11 2003 Robert Fisk
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Final Proof That War Is About The Failure Of The Human Spirit

Commentary Monbiot: Chemical Hypocrites

Commentary, April, 10 2003 George Monbiot
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When Saddam Hussein so pig-headedly failed to shower US troops with chemical weapons as they entered Iraq, thus depriving them of a retrospective justification for this war, the American generals explained that he would do so as soon as they cross...

Znet Article Pilger: Crime Against Humanity

Znet Article, April, 10 2003 John Pilger
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A BBC television producer, moments before he was wounded by an American fighter aircraft that killed 18 people with "friendly fire", spoke to his mother on a satellite phone. Holding the phone over his head so that she could hear the sound of the ...

Znet Article Reinhart: Sophisticated Transfer

Znet Article, April, 10 2003 Tanya Reinhart
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On the eve of the Iraq war, fears were expressed in different circles that under the cover of war, Israel may attempt a transfer of Palestinians in the "seam line" area of the northern West Bank (Kalkilya, Tulkarem). Last week, the army produced a...

Znet Article Masri: Fog of War

Znet Article, April, 10 2003 Rania Masri
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In the fog of war, we are being told that this invasion against Iraq, this premeditated act of aggression, is actually a liberation.  We are told that our soldiers, our troops, are the good men and good women, doing good things, as they drop ...

Znet Article Trigona: Continuing Police Repression in Argentina

Znet Article, April, 10 2003 Marie Trigona
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Buenos Aires, Argentina At 9 months since police killed two young piquetero activists, DarÃ

Znet Article Solomon: A Lethal Way To Dispatch News

Znet Article, April, 10 2003 Norman Solomon
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In times of war, journalists can serve as vital witnesses for the people of the world. So it's especially sinister when governments take aim at reporters and photographers. A few weeks ago, when I was talking with a CNN cameraman, he recalled an ...

Znet Article Fisk: Does The US Military Want To Kill Journalists

Znet Article, April, 09 2003 Robert Fisk
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First the Americans killed the correspondent of al-Jazeera yesterday and wounded his cameraman. Then, within four hours, they attacked the Reuters television bureau in Baghdad, killing one of its cameramen and a cameraman for Spain's Tele 5 channe...

Znet Article Spannos: Parecon Review

Znet Article, April, 09 2003 Chris Spannos
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If not capitalism, what then? asks journalist and activist Albert as he proffers this dogged, humanist alternative to private enterprise. Let's admit, suggests Albert (a founder of Z Magazine and South End Press), that capitalism has its downsid...

Znet Article Street: Who Hates America?

Znet Article, April, 09 2003 Paul Street
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A Terrorist Recruiting BonanzaAs American armed forces tighten the freshly minted War Criminal George W. Bush’s bloody grip on Baghdad, some interesting answers emerge to the question of who really “hates America.” &nb...

Znet Article Cromwell: Horror, Cruelty And Misery - The Real Meaning Of

Znet Article, April, 09 2003 David Cromwell
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The priorities are clear, the perspective of power unthinkingly adopted. And so mainstream news headlines declaim that "coalition forces have penetrated deep into the centre of the Iraqi capital". Troops "storm central Baghdad". Pentagon briefings...

Commentary Secours: Easy To Kill Those Who are "Not One of Us"

Commentary, April, 08 2003 Molly Secours
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While walking the halls in juvenile prison each week, there is an eery sensation of bearing witness to childhoods sent up in flames. Peering deeply into the ashen masks worn by these young offenders, I look for vital signs indicating it isn't too ...

Znet Article Palast: The Best Democracy Money Can Buy

Znet Article, April, 08 2003 Greg Palast
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1) Can you tell ZNet, please, what your new book, The Best Democracy Money Can Buy, is about? What is it trying to communicate? It's about the Bushes and the billionaires that love them. It's about a War Hero President who got the 'top gun' job i...

Znet Article Bond: Zimbabwe's Plunge

Znet Article, April, 08 2003 Patrick Bond
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ZNet commentator Patrick Bond and his colleague Simba Manyanya -- a Zimbabwean currently employed in Johannesburg by a UN agency -- provide information about the new, second edition of *Zimbabwe's Plunge: Exhausted Nationalism, Neoliberalism and t...

Znet Article Zunes: Tinderbox: U.S. Middle East Policy

Znet Article, April, 08 2003 Stephen Zunes
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Tinderbox: U.S. Middle East Policy

Znet Article Fisk: Amid Jubilation A Child Lies In Agony

Znet Article, April, 08 2003 Robert Fisk
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They lay in lines, the car salesman who'd just lost his eye but whose feet were still dribbling blood, the motorcyclist who was shot by American troops near the Rashid Hotel, the 50-year-old female civil servant, her long dark hair spread over the...

Znet Article Hartmann: Moving The Peace Movement Forward

Znet Article, April, 08 2003 Betsy Hartmann
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As the U.S. army occupies Baghdad, the peace movement is faced with a series of strategic challenges, challenges we must face openly, and challenges for which there are no easy answers. We must develop political strategies that draw on solidarity ...

Znet Article Roy: The Outline Of the Beast

Znet Article, April, 08 2003 Arundhati Roy
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Arnove: The Corporate media ask the question over and over again: What can be done about Saddam Hussein? What’s your response? The question is disingenuous. Let’s turn it around and ask instead: What do we do with George...

Commentary Starhawk: A Bone From Rafah

Commentary, April, 07 2003 Starhawk
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While bombs are falling on Baghdad, killing uncounted numbers, and my friends around the world are marching, blockading, shutting down corporations and roadways and cities in protest, I find myself in Rafah, at the southern border of the Gaza stri...

Znet Article Pilger: The War For Truth

Znet Article, April, 07 2003 John Pilger
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The War For Truth

Znet Article Fisk: The Twisted Language Of War That Is Used To Justify The Unjustifiable

Znet Article, April, 07 2003 Robert Fisk
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Why do we aid and abet the lies and propaganda of this filthy war? How come, for example, it's now BBC "style" to describe the Anglo-American invaders as the "coalition". This is a lie. The "coalition" that we're obviously supposed to remember is ...

Znet Article Edwards: Why Even Talk About It? Part II

Znet Article, April, 07 2003 David Edwards
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In researching our latest New Statesman article (April 7, 2003), David Edwards interviewed George Entwistle (March 31, 2003), editor of the BBC's flagship current affairs programme, Newsnight. Part of the interview involved asking Entwistle if for...

Znet Article Fisk: It Seemed As If Baghdad Would Fall Within Hours

Znet Article, April, 07 2003 Robert Fisk
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It started with a series of massive vibrations, a great "stomping" sound that shook my room. "Stomp, stomp, stomp," it went. I lay in bed trying to fathom the cause. It was like the moment in Jurassic Park when the tourists first hear footfalls of...

Commentary Shiva: Globalisation And Its Fall Out

Commentary, April, 06 2003 Vandana2 Shiva
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Neither Prosperity nor Peace

Znet Article Herman: A

Znet Article, April, 05 2003 Edward Herman
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David Ross: In The Real Terror Network (1982), you documented how the U.S. government did not support democracy around the world as we've all been taught, but instead, supported totalitarian states that would insure a good climate for investment.....

Znet Article Pilger: We See Too Much, We Know Too Much. That's Our Best Defense

Znet Article, April, 05 2003 John Pilger
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We now glimpse the forbidden truths of the invasion of Iraq. A man cuddles the body of his in-fant daughter; her blood drenches them. A woman in black pursues a tank, her arms outstretched; all seven in her family are dead. An American Marine murd...

Commentary Grubacic: Between Old Yugoslavia and New Europe

Commentary, April, 04 2003 Andrej Grubacic
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In the month prior to the most recent events to rock Serbia, the question posed to me most frequently concerned the February 15th antiwar demonstrations and why such a small number of people in Yugoslavia had protested against the planned bombing ...

Znet Article Wise: Liberation or Libation?

Znet Article, April, 04 2003 Tim Wise
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I figured it would happen sooner or later. Having written several columns questioning the notion that the current war in Iraq is about "liberation" of that nation's people, it was only a matter of time before I received an email like the one this...

Znet Article Edwards: Why Even Talk About It?

Znet Article, April, 04 2003 David Edwards
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"Isn't it in fact true that America, by dint of the very accuracy of the weapons we've seen, is the only potential world policeman?" (Quoted, John Pilger, Hidden Agendas, Vintage, 1998, p.45) Thus, the BBC's David Dimbleby, interviewing a guest,...

Znet Article Engelhardt: Embeds in Washington

Znet Article, April, 04 2003 Tom Engelhardt
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Years ago, New Yorker writer Janet Malcolm produced a book, The Journalist and the Murderer, in which she claimed that the essence of journalism was betrayal. Actually, she took an extreme example of journalism -- a reporter who entered into a con...

Commentary Wise: So This Is What War Looks Like?

Commentary, April, 03 2003 Tim Wise
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Well, now we know.

Znet Article Chomsky: Turkey and The US War On Iraq

Znet Article, April, 03 2003 Noam Chomsky
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1.Turkey is being bitterly criticized in the US for failing to allow us combat troops to use Turkey as a launching pad to open a second front in northern Iraq. There are indeed some who say US and British soldiers are dying in higher numbers becau...

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