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Palast: The Best Democracy Money Can Buy
Znet Article, April, 08 2003
Greg Palast
Palast's ZSpace page
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...
Bond: Zimbabwe's Plunge
Znet Article, April, 08 2003
Patrick Bond
Bond's ZSpace page
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...
Zunes: Tinderbox: U.S. Middle East Policy
Znet Article, April, 08 2003
Stephen Zunes
Zunes's ZSpace page
Tinderbox: U.S. Middle East Policy
Fisk: Amid Jubilation A Child Lies In Agony
Znet Article, April, 08 2003
Robert Fisk
Fisk's ZSpace page
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...
Hartmann: Moving The Peace Movement Forward
Znet Article, April, 08 2003
Betsy Hartmann
Hartmann's ZSpace page
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 ...
Roy: The Outline Of the Beast
Znet Article, April, 08 2003
Arundhati Roy
Roy's ZSpace page
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...
Starhawk: A Bone From Rafah
Commentary, April, 07 2003
Starhawk
Starhawk's ZSpace page
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...
Pilger: The War For Truth
Znet Article, April, 07 2003
John Pilger
Pilger's ZSpace page
The War For Truth
Fisk: The Twisted Language Of War That Is Used To Justify The Unjustifiable
Znet Article, April, 07 2003
Robert Fisk
Fisk's ZSpace page
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 ...
Edwards: Why Even Talk About It? Part II
Znet Article, April, 07 2003
David Edwards
Edwards's ZSpace page
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...
Fisk: It Seemed As If Baghdad Would Fall Within Hours
Znet Article, April, 07 2003
Robert Fisk
Fisk's ZSpace page
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...
Shiva: Globalisation And Its Fall Out
Commentary, April, 06 2003
Vandana2 Shiva
Shiva's ZSpace page
Neither Prosperity nor Peace
Herman: A
Znet Article, April, 05 2003
Edward Herman
Herman's ZSpace page
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.....
Pilger: We See Too Much, We Know Too Much. That's Our Best Defense
Znet Article, April, 05 2003
John Pilger
Pilger's ZSpace page
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...
Grubacic: Between Old Yugoslavia and New Europe
Commentary, April, 04 2003
Andrej Grubacic
Grubacic's ZSpace page
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 ...
Wise: Liberation or Libation?
Znet Article, April, 04 2003
Tim Wise
Wise's ZSpace page
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...
Edwards: Why Even Talk About It?
Znet Article, April, 04 2003
David Edwards
Edwards's ZSpace page
"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,...
Engelhardt: Embeds in Washington
Znet Article, April, 04 2003
Tom Engelhardt
Engelhardt's ZSpace page
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...
Wise: So This Is What War Looks Like?
Commentary, April, 03 2003
Tim Wise
Wise's ZSpace page
Well, now we know.
Chomsky: Turkey and The US War On Iraq
Znet Article, April, 03 2003
Noam Chomsky
Chomsky's ZSpace page
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...
Fisk: Wailing Children, The Wounded The Dead;
Znet Article, April, 03 2003
Robert Fisk
Fisk's ZSpace page
Wailing Children, The Wounded The Dead;
Bennis: Who Rules The Peace
Znet Article, April, 03 2003
Phyllis Bennis
Bennis's ZSpace page
The U.S. war is being waged without United Nations authority, and in violation of the UN Charter. It is a war of aggression. According to the Geneva Convention, as the occupying power the U.S. and UK are obligated to provide for the humanitarian n...
Solomon: The Thick Fog Of War On American Tv
Znet Article, April, 03 2003
Norman Solomon
Solomon's ZSpace page
Minutes after the dawn spread daylight across the Iraqi desert, "embedded" CNN correspondent Walter Rodgers was on the air with a live report. Another employee at the network, former U.S. Gen. Wesley Clark -- on the job in a TV studio back home --...
Steel: The Minute It's Made Up You'll Hear About It.
Znet Article, April, 03 2003
Mark Steel
Steel's ZSpace page
You expect lies, but usually they're found out once a war is over. But in this war the lying is so inept that it gets rumbled the next day. So the news starts "Oh, apparently that uprising we yelled about all through yesterday didn't happen" or "A...
Podur: What is the Colombian Army doing Attacking Venezuela?
Znet Article, April, 03 2003
Justin Podur
Podur's ZSpace page
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez announced on Venezuelan radio on March 31 that: "A short while ago, I ordered an air force operation and we bombed an area where we detected the presence of a group" of Colombian irregular forces along the border.&...
Jensen: Arnett Paid A Price For Being Truly Neutral
Znet Article, April, 02 2003
Robert Jensen
Jensen's ZSpace page
Arnett Paid A Price For Being Truly Neutral
Roy: Mesopotamia. Babylon. The Tigris and Euphrates
Znet Article, April, 02 2003
Arundhati Roy
Roy's ZSpace page
On the steel torsos of their missiles, adolescent American soldiers scrawl colourful messages in childish handwriting: For Saddam, from the Fat Boy Posse. A building goes down. A marketplace. A home. A girl who loves a boy. A child who onl...
Chomsky: Iraq is a trial run
Znet Article, April, 02 2003
Noam Chomsky
Chomsky's ZSpace page
Noam Chomsky , University Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, founder of the modern science of linguistics and political activist, is a powerhouse of anti-imperialist activism in the United States today. On March 21, a crowded ...
Wise: So This Is What War Looks Like?
Znet Article, April, 02 2003
Tim Wise
Wise's ZSpace page
So This Is What War Looks Like?
Abu-jamal: The War for Empire
Znet Article, April, 02 2003
Mumia Abu-jamal
Abu-jamal's ZSpace page
THE BATTLE FOR EMPIRE ===================== [Col. Writ. 3/25/03] Copyright 2003 Mumia Abu-Jamal I believe that War is Murder. I believe that armies and navies are at bottom the tinsel and braggadocio of oppression and wrong, and I believe that th...
Fisk: Al-Nomani
Znet Article, April, 02 2003
Robert Fisk
Fisk's ZSpace page
Sergeant Ali Jaffar Moussa Hamadi al-Nomani was the first Iraqi combatant known to stage a suicide attack. Not even during the uprising against British rule did an Iraqi kill himself to destroy his enemies. Nomani was also a Shia Muslim –...
Stokes: Counterinsurgency, coups, and coercion: History and the US Empire in Latin America
Znet Article, April, 02 2003
Doug Stokes
Stokes's ZSpace page
The conventional understanding of US Cold War policy in Latin America portrays a defensive and reactive posture on the part of the US. The 'containment doctrine' is popularly understood to have been the US's core Cold War Grand Strategy and allege...
Brecher: Uniting for Peace
Znet Article, April, 02 2003
Jeremy Brecher
Brecher's ZSpace page
By The United Nations General Assembly is hovering on the edge of calling an emergency session to challenge the US attack on Iraq. But US opposition has been fierce. The world's "other superpower" -- global public opinion as expressed in the globa...
Monbiot: No Way Out
Znet Article, April, 01 2003
George Monbiot
Monbiot's ZSpace page
Every likely outcome of this war is a disaster So far, the liberators have succeeded only in freeing the souls of the Iraqis from their bodies. Saddam Hussein's troops have proved less inclined to surrender than they had anticipated, and the civi...
Fisk: Graves
Znet Article, April, 01 2003
Robert Fisk
Fisk's ZSpace page
At dusk yesterday the ground around the Baghdad North Gate War Cemetery shook with the vibration of the bombs. The oil-grey sky was peppered with anti-aircraft fire. And below the clouds of smoke and the tiny star-like explosion of the shells, Se...
Podur: Canadian Premiers are Revolting!
Commentary, March, 31 2003
Justin Podur
Podur's ZSpace page
It's backlash week in Canadian politics. Ralph Klein, Alberta's neoliberal premier and the closest thing Canada has to George W Bush (Klein would take that as a compliment) sent a letter to the US ambassador to Canada, repudiating the Prime Minist...
Peters: Five Guidelines for Our Organizing
Znet Article, March, 31 2003
Cynthia Peters
Peters's ZSpace page
Five Guidelines for Our Organizing There is a very positive development happening in the anti-war movement. That is, people are actively trying to connect the war abroad with the struggles for power, resources, and freedom right here in our own n...
Chomsky: Chomsky on War
Znet Article, March, 31 2003
Noam Chomsky
Chomsky's ZSpace page
Below are some questions and answers from the ZNet forum system, the ZNet forums are a benefit offered to ZNet sustainers.Though the questions have been edited for space, we have tried to retain the original intent of the questions. Z -----------...
Wetzel: Participatory Economics and the Self-emancipation of the Working Class
Znet Article, March, 31 2003
Tom Wetzel
Wetzel's ZSpace page
A slogan that has been popular among quite a few syndicalists, anarchists, and Marxists was Flora Tristan's saying from 1843:
Wetzel: Participatory Economics and the Self-emancipation of the Working Class
Znet Article, March, 31 2003
Tom Wetzel
Wetzel's ZSpace page
A slogan that has been popular among quite a few syndicalists, anarchists, and Marxists was Flora Tristan's saying from 1843: The emancipation of the working class must be the work of the workers themselves. This slogan assumes that it i...
Street: Bad War
Znet Article, March, 31 2003
Paul Street
Street's ZSpace page
More than some left commentators may like to acknowledge, the claims of the Bush War Party and its warmongering friends at the Fox News Network regarding “Operation Iraqi Freedom†are significantly contradicted by findings and comm...
Choudry: "Groping For The Exact Term"
Commentary, March, 30 2003
Aziz Choudry
Choudry's ZSpace page
Semantics, US Soldiers and The Philippines
Hayden: He's William Kristol, Not Billy Crystal, and His War's Not Fun Anymore
Znet Article, March, 30 2003
Tom Hayden
Hayden's ZSpace page
As a snobbish Harvard conservative in 1972, young William Kristol praised Richard Nixon's Christmas B-52 bombing raids over Hanoi as "one of the great moments in American history". He never had second thoughts, and today is regarded as the foremos...
Fisk: Baghdad, blood and bandages
Znet Article, March, 30 2003
Robert Fisk
Fisk's ZSpace page
Im the Baghdad suburb of Shu'ale: The piece of metal is only a foot high, but the numbers on it hold the clue to the latest atrocity in Baghdad. At least 62 civilians had died by yesterday afternoon, and the coding on that hunk of metal contains ...
Gordon: Come To Dinner When The War Ends
Znet Article, March, 30 2003
Neve Gordon
Gordon's ZSpace page
“Come to dinner when the war against Iraq ends,†Jamil said, as I opened the car door. He had just parked the sedan, a short distance from the Bethlehem military checkpoint, the one closest to Jerusalem.“Is that what you ca...
Engelhardt: Good morrrrrning, Iraq....
Znet Article, March, 29 2003
Tom Engelhardt
Engelhardt's ZSpace page
Let's start with a touch of irony. For thirty years, the men (and lone woman) now running our country have also been running away from Vietnam. In this war, it only took six days for Vietnam to catch up to them. Last night, for instance, here's wh...
Choudry: "Groping For The Exact Term": Semantics, US Soldiers and The Philippines
Commentary, March, 28 2003
Aziz Choudry
Choudry's ZSpace page
As we mobilize against the murderous onslaught on Iraq we cannot afford to ignore US military operations in other parts of the world.
Bennis: Aid Conundrum
Znet Article, March, 28 2003
Phyllis Bennis
Bennis's ZSpace page
The UN Security Council is likely to vote tomorrow (28 March) on a resolution outlining how emergency humanitarian aid will be provided to Iraqis. The U.S.-UK are pushing for a new Security Council resolution that would (1) identify the U.S. a...
Cook: Thwarting The State
Znet Article, March, 28 2003
Jonathan Cook
Cook's ZSpace page
Less than a fortnight ago Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon took his cabinet ministers on a well- publicised tour of the northern sections of the 360km separation fence, ostensibly being built around the West Bank to protect Israelis from Palest...
Edwards: Inferno
Znet Article, March, 28 2003
David Edwards
Edwards's ZSpace page
Niche Killing It's hard to believe that a little more than one week ago, the Iraqi regime, facing imminent attack, was meekly dismantling its al-Samoud missiles, presenting scientists for interview, and allowing hundreds of air strikes to deplete...
Mahajan: The New Humanitarianism
Znet Article, March, 28 2003
Rahul Mahajan
Mahajan's ZSpace page
Iraq's desperate humanitarian situation has suddenly become a retroactive justification for the war, even for the attacking of civilian targets. The need to get aid into Basra has apparently prompted a British military spokesperson to designate it...
Kagarlitsky: Strategic Control over a Bog
Commentary, March, 27 2003
Boris Kagarlitsky
Kagarlitsky's ZSpace page
The fight for strategic control over the Communist Party of the Russian Federation (KPRF) has entered a new phase. This is not a traditional struggle between groups within the party, but a clash of external forces which are trying to seize control...
Wise: Of Lies, Liberation and American Self-Delusion
Znet Article, March, 27 2003
Tim Wise
Wise's ZSpace page
Iraqis must think the American definition of liberation a strange one. First, we destroy all of the key government buildings that we can find in a search for Saddam Hussein. Then we relentlessly attack the Iraqi military, which of course count...
Solomon: Media War: Obsessed With Tactics And Technology
Znet Article, March, 27 2003
Norman Solomon
Solomon's ZSpace page
Two months ago, when I wandered through a...
Klein: Evicting Indymedia Argentina?
Znet Article, March, 27 2003
Naomi Klein
Klein's ZSpace page
When Argentina exploded in a popular uprising on December 19 and 20th 2001, overthrowing four presidents in two weeks, the mainstream international press reported on the news as the 'collapse' of a country. Frustrated, I went to Indymedia Argentin...
Fisk: Raw, Devastating Realities That Expose The Truth About Basra
Znet Article, March, 27 2003
Robert Fisk
Fisk's ZSpace page
Two British soldiers lie dead on a Basra roadway, a small Iraqi girl – victim of an Anglo American air strike – is brought to hospital with her intestines spilling out of her stomach, a terribly wounded woman screams in agony as do...
Shalom: Iraq War Quiz
Znet Article, March, 26 2003
Stephen1 Shalom
Shalom's ZSpace page
1. The anti-war movement supports our troops by urging that they be brought home immediately so they neither kill nor get killed in a unjust war. How has the Bush administration shown its support for our troops? a. The Republican-controlled Hou...
Pilger: Six Days Of Shame
Znet Article, March, 26 2003
John Pilger
Pilger's ZSpace page
TODAY is a day of shame for the British military as it declares the Iraqi city of Basra, with a stricken population of 600,000, a "military target". You will not read or hear those words in the establishment media that claims to speak for Britain...
Fisk: 'It Was An Outrage An Obscenity'
Znet Article, March, 26 2003
Robert Fisk
Fisk's ZSpace page
It was an outrage, an obscenity. The severed hand on the metal door, the swamp of blood and mud across the road, the human brains inside a garage, the incinerated, skeletal remains of an Iraqi mother and her three small children in their still-smo...
Monbiot: One Rule For Them...
Znet Article, March, 25 2003
George Monbiot
Monbiot's ZSpace page
Suddenly, the government of the United States has discovered the virtues of international law. It may be waging an illegal war against a sovereign state; it may be seeking to destroy every treaty which impedes its attempts to run the world, but wh...


