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Znet Article Podur: The March on CNN

Znet Article, March, 09 2003 Justin Podur
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Jennifer Loewenstein recently wrote I've said it myself many times. I need a break from this awful business I can't watch any more news about Iraq or Palestine. I'm dreading this bloody war and want an escape. Spare me the euphemisms and lies, ...

Znet Article Chomsky: Action, not speculation

Znet Article, March, 09 2003 Noam Chomsky
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  1. Do you have any predictions about what we might expect in the coming weeks?    If anything's obvious from the history of warfare, it's that very little can be predicted.  But what's going to happen is not w...

Commentary Herman: Coalition Of Deception

Commentary, March, 08 2003 Edward Herman
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The media regularly speak of the "United States" or

Znet Article Rebick: International Women's Day

Znet Article, March, 08 2003 Judy Rebick
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The Lysistrata Project, one of the many anti-war actions sweeping the globe, reminds us that women's opposition to war goes back a long way in human history. While I am glad to see a revival of the ancient comedy of women refusing sex to men if th...

Znet Article Said: Who is in charge?

Znet Article, March, 08 2003 Edward Said
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The Bush administration's relentless unilateral march towards war is profoundly disturbing for many reasons, but so far as American citizens are concerned the whole grotesque show is a tremendous failure in democracy. An immensely wealthy and powe...

Znet Article Fisk: US war plans not helped by Blix

Znet Article, March, 08 2003 Robert Fisk
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Oh, for the ice-cold Swedish eye on the Middle East. Ah, for the freezing Scandinavian vision of truth. Hans Blix, everybody's headmaster, delivered his school report yesterday with enough fairness to outrage both pupil – Iraq – an...

Znet Article Street: Mirror Mirror

Znet Article, March, 08 2003 Paul Street
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"People Are Going To Die" So that's it then.  George W. Bush can put his hand on his Holy Bible and repeat as often as he likes that "war" is his "last option" in his obsession with "disarming Saddam." Truth is, the people who matter most in...

Commentary Wise: Fear, Loathing and Laura Bush:

Commentary, March, 07 2003 Tim Wise
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Fear, Loathing and Laura Bush:

Znet Article Solomon: American Media Dodging UN Surveillance Story

Znet Article, March, 07 2003 Norman Solomon
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Three days after a British newspaper revealed a memo about U.S. spying on U.N. Security Council delegations, I asked Daniel Ellsberg to assess the importance of the story. "This leak," he replied, "is more timely and potentially more important tha...

Znet Article Fisk: The West has been Liberating the Middle East for Centuries

Znet Article, March, 07 2003 Robert Fisk
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ON 8 MARCH 1917, Lieutenant- general Stanley Maude issued a "Proclamation to the People of the Wilayat of Baghdad". Maude's Anglo-Indian Army of the Tigres had just invaded and occupied Iraq - after storming up the country from Basra - to "free" i...

Znet Article Burrows: The Praise and the Pie

Znet Article, March, 07 2003 Paul Burrows
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Two things come to mind from my recent experience at the World Social Forum (WSF) in Porto Alegre, Brazil. On the one hand, we hear many activists singing the praises of the WSF, and pinning incredible hopes on the rise and example of both the Bra...

Commentary Russell: Bush Billions To Turkey: Screw The Govs, And The Poor Too.

Commentary, March, 06 2003 Marta Russell
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Governors, who've been told by President Bush to go home and stare at their own budget spreadsheets, ought to take a look at the president's spending plans and start screaming bloody murder! Because it seems that many states - foreign states - are...

Znet Article Bennis: Timeline/Talking Points

Znet Article, March, 06 2003 Phyllis Bennis
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Around the world Bush's war is as much the object of derision as it is the target of a newly empowered global opposition movement. Hundreds of thousands of anti-war protesters continue to fill the streets, particularly in the capitals whose suppor...

Commentary Bond: Commodification: Kyoto threatens, WSF inspires resistance

Commentary, March, 05 2003 Patrick Bond
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The surgical counter-attack from the international left which impressed me most at Porto Alegre, was bullshit detection in relation to two Kyoto deals: the 1997 Protocol of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change; and the upcoming World Wate...

Znet Article Brecher: What Can The World Do If The US Attacks Iraq?

Znet Article, March, 05 2003 Jeremy Brecher
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If the US attacks Iraq without support of the UN Security Council, will the world be powerless to stop it? ...

Znet Article Stokes: Worthy and Unworthy Victims in Colombia

Znet Article, March, 05 2003 Doug Stokes
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In the narratives of the worlds global media corporations familiar themes can be traced. One such theme that occurs time and again is the designation of worthy victims; poor unfortunates caught up in a spiral of violence. Invisible however are the...

Znet Article Mokhiber: The Unbalanced Hawks At The Washington Post

Znet Article, March, 04 2003 Russell Mokhiber
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What is going on at the Washington Post? We would say that the Post editorial pages have become an outpost of the Defense Department -- except that there is probably more dissent about the pending war in Iraq in the Pentagon than there is on the ...

Znet Article Street: Mass Incarceration and Racist State Priorities At Home and Abroad

Znet Article, March, 04 2003 Paul Street
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* A slightly abbreviated version of the following speech was delivered at The National Community Building Network's 2003 Policy Conference, Creating a Connected Community: Strategies for Overcoming Social and Economic Isolation, Seattle Washington...

Znet Article Engler: The March 5 Student Actions Against War

Znet Article, March, 04 2003 Yves Engler
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On February 20th in Montreal the Student Society of McGill University had its first-ever successful general assembly. What was it that brought hundreds of McGill students together? A desire to hold a campus-wide strike against the pending war in I...

Commentary Vera-zavala: Lula Hope

Commentary, March, 03 2003 America Vera-zavala
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I hear Lulas voice from the raspy speakers. I'm in a cab with friends all late to go and see the president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva speak at the amphitheatre. The whole city of Porto Alegre has been preparing for this during the whole day. It has...

Commentary Azulay: Revisiting Civil (Un)arrest and (Dis)obedience

Commentary, March, 03 2003 Jessica Azulay
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A final response to the series of commentaries discussing civil disobedience, non-violence, anIn his Feb. 6, Z Net Commentary entitled "True Resistance/What Nonviolence Is," Gordon Clark, Iraq Pledge of Resistance Coordinator, presents a definitio...

Znet Article Jensen: Bush's Contempt For Democracy

Znet Article, March, 03 2003 Robert Jensen
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Many around the world are skeptical when George Bush says he wants to use war to help create democracy in Iraq. As a step toward bolstering his credibility, Bush might start taking seriously democracy in the rest of the world, and at home. U.S. r...

Znet Article Street: Serving Power

Znet Article, March, 03 2003 Paul Street
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Downplaying Dissent USA TODAY calls itself "The National Newspaper." America does not in fact possess a single national paper, thankfully, but anyone who travels regularly in the United States can tell you that USA TODAY has certainly become the...

Znet Article Cook: No White Flags

Znet Article, March, 02 2003 Jonathan Cook
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The streets of Ramallah, unlike those of most other West Bank cities, are usually free of Israeli soldiers. Despite appearances, however, the army has stamped its control on the West Bank's capital as certainly as its tanks have left deep tread ma...

Znet Article Oliveri: Stop That Train!

Znet Article, March, 02 2003 Adele Oliveri
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Italy is already at war. Nobody would have noticed, had it not been for a handful of trains carrying US military equipment from the military base of Ederle (north-eastern Italy) to Camp Darby (Tuscany); and had it not been, of course, for the mobi...

Znet Article Podur: The other kind of violence

Znet Article, March, 02 2003 Justin Podur
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“Violence in Colombia” is such a popular topic of study that there are hundreds of articles, books, and essays with that title. Some, written by people who call themselves ‘violentologists’, are very good, and very ...

Commentary Russell: "The People" Speak Out

Commentary, March, 01 2003 Marta Russell
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I was home on January 18 watching the DC anti-war coverage on CSPAN. I was not home because I wanted to be.

Znet Article Fisk: America Uses Israel's Words To Justify Occupation

Znet Article, March, 01 2003 Robert Fisk
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Ah, to be a "viable" state! The word "viable" has now become the be-all and end-all of American policy towards Palestine. "For its part," George Bush told us, "the new government of Israel, as the terror threat is removed and security improves, wi...

Znet Article Edwards: Outrageous Omissions

Znet Article, March, 01 2003 David Edwards
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The Bush and Blair governments are dragging the public kicking and screaming into a war that threatens to plunge the world into chaos and which almost nobody wants. Like an occupying force, British politicians representing elite interests from bot...

Commentary Zinn: War

Commentary, February, 28 2003 Howard Zinn
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Forthcoming from The Progressive

Znet Article Klein: So, Bush Wants Civil Disobedience?

Znet Article, February, 28 2003 Naomi Klein
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The U.S. President is urging Iraqis to rise up against Saddam Hussein. It's time to turn the domestic tables and -- voilà! -- escalate the war against the war At the Pentagon, they call it the Voilà Moment. That's when Iraqi soldiers and civil...

Znet Article Pilger: Blair Hypocrisy

Znet Article, February, 28 2003 John Pilger
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Having failed to fabricate a link between Iraq and al-Qaeda, and prove that Iraq has a secret armoury of banned weapons, the warmongers have fallen back on the "moral case" for an unprovoked attack on a stricken country. Farce has arrived. We want...

Znet Article Rai: A Last Push For War

Znet Article, February, 27 2003 Milan Rai
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The US/UK Struggle For War Not Inspections ARROW Anti-War Briefing 33 (27 February 2003) WAR PLAN IRAQ Update Number 12 PEACE IS WAR 'The Prime Minister will launch a "last push for peace" alongside the tabling of a new UN Security Council resol...

Znet Article Zinn: War

Znet Article, February, 27 2003 Howard Zinn
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Forthcoming from The ProgressiveAs I write this,  it looks like war.  This, in spite of the obvious lack of enthusiasm in the country for war. The polls that register "approve" or "disapprove" can only count numbers, they cannot  te...

Commentary Gonsalves: The threat of civil rights?

Commentary, February, 26 2003 Sean Gonsalves
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When you hear the phrase "March on Washington," what's the first thing that comes to mind?

Znet Article Burchill: Governments versus Peoples

Znet Article, February, 26 2003 Scott Burchill
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Governments versus Peoples

Znet Article Edwards: Civil Disobedience

Znet Article, February, 26 2003 David Edwards
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"The killed will be covered with earth and lime, and once more all the crowd of deluded men will be led on and on till those who have devised the project weary of it, or till those who thought to find it profitable receive their spoil. And so once...

Commentary Landau: Terrorists Are On The Run Some Away From Bush, Othe Rs Toward His Nurturing Arms

Commentary, February, 25 2003 Saul Landau
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If you had taken up terrorism as your lifeÕs vocation, or even as a means to a political end, President BushÕs State of the Union words would have put you into a state of terrible gloom. ÒWe have the terrorists on the run,Ó he boasted, ÒweÕre keep...

Znet Article Rai: Lunatic Timetable

Znet Article, February, 25 2003 Milan Rai
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Lunatic Timetable

Znet Article Fisk: Censored

Znet Article, February, 25 2003 Robert Fisk
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Already, the American press is expressing its approval of the coverage of American forces which the US military intends to allow its reporters in the next Gulf war. The boys from CNN, CBS, ABC and The New York Times will be "embedded" among the US...

Znet Article Monbiot: Out Of The Wreckage

Znet Article, February, 25 2003 George Monbiot
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The men who run the world are democrats at home and dictators abroad. They came to power by means of national elections which possess, at least, the potential to represent the will of their people. Their citizens can dismiss them without bloodshed...

Commentary Weisbrot: Bush's New Tax Cut: Another Dividend for the Rich

Commentary, February, 24 2003 Mark Weisbrot
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Here we go again, as Ronald Reagan used to say. The Bush administration has already taken advantage of our most recent recession to pass a $1.35 trillion tax cut, of which 36 percent went to the richest one percent of taxpayers. These are people w...

Znet Article Rai: Uphill Struggle

Znet Article, February, 24 2003 Milan Rai
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THE SCALE OF THE TASK A second UN Resolution on Iraq is politically vital to British Prime Minister Tony Blair, and would be important in the post-conflict period when the US hopes to shift responsibilities to UN agencies. Opinion polls have clea...

Znet Article Sargent: Press the Press

Znet Article, February, 24 2003 Lydia Sargent
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The only surprising thing to me about the mainstream media coverage of the worldwide anti-war demonstrations on February 15 is that it was more positive than usual. A few news reports actually communicated some of the politics behind the protests ...

Znet Article Parrish: Shock And Yawn

Znet Article, February, 24 2003 Geov Parrish
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Shock And Yawn

Znet Article Pilger: A People Betrayed

Znet Article, February, 23 2003 John Pilger
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Dr  Al-Ali  is a cancer specialist at Basra's hospital and a member of Britain's  Royal  College of Physicians. He has a neat moustache and a kindly, furrowed face. His starched white coat, like the collar of his shirt, is fray...

Znet Article Bacon: Showdown Coming In Mexico Over Privatization

Znet Article, February, 23 2003 David Bacon
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In the 1930s and 40s, General Lazaro Cardenas made nationalization of economic resources and land reform symbols of Mexican national sovereignty. Nationalist economic development, however, was overthrown as the bedrock of the country's economic st...

Znet Article Wise: Whites Swim In Racial Preference

Znet Article, February, 23 2003 Tim Wise
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Ask a fish what water is and you'll get no answer. Even if fish were capable of speech, they would likely have no explanation for the element they swim in every minute of every day of their lives. Water simply is. Fish take it for granted. So to...

Znet Article Tomchick: What If Turkey Agrees?

Znet Article, February, 23 2003 Maria Tomchick
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So, what will happen if Turkey eventually strikes a deal with the United States to let it use Turkish bases? Once war starts, this deal could mean disaster for everyone involved. Turkish bases are key to U.S. war plans, which rely on a two-front ...

Commentary Sargent: Press The Press

Commentary, February, 22 2003 Lydia Sargent
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The only surprising thing to me about the mainstream media coverage of the worldwide anti-war demonstrations on February 15 is that it was more positive than usual. A few news reports actually communicated some of the politics behind the protests ...

Znet Article Shalom: Warmongers' Last Hope

Znet Article, February, 22 2003 Stephen1 Shalom
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The warmongers in Washington are not doing very well. France, China, and Russia - all veto-wielding members of the Security Council - along with Germany are opposed to war, their spines strengthened by the massive peace demonstrations of Feb. 15...

Commentary Choudry: The Paydirt of Paranoia

Commentary, February, 21 2003 Aziz Choudry
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It seems this commentary did not go out properly last night, so I am remailing it. Apologies to anyone who gets it twice!

Znet Article Bacon: Global Labor Rejects War

Znet Article, February, 21 2003 David Bacon
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SAN FRANCISCO, CA (2/19/03) -- After a weekend of demonstrations involving over 10 million people worldwide, protesting an impending US war on Iraq, opposition to the Bush plan in many countries is hardly a question. But US military action may hav...

Znet Article Azulay: Mobilize For The Next Phase

Znet Article, February, 21 2003 Jessica Azulay
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Unprecedented in size, breadth and diversity, the world-wide February 15 demonstrations proved invaluable to the campaign against renewed war on Iraq. The millions of us who rallied and marched for peace in well over 600 cities from New York to Ro...

Znet Article Podur: Another Modest Proposal

Znet Article, February, 21 2003 Justin Podur
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There are several proposals floating about how to deal with the “Iraq Problem”. One wrong-headed one was released in December 2002. It suggested that the US arm and support Iran to engage in regime change in Iraq. It argued that b...

Commentary Bagdikian: Peace Candles v. Kalashnikovs

Commentary, February, 20 2003 Ben Bagdikian
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We live in a time of clashing cultures and a major mischief in a world where almost every culture aggressively propels its "fundamentalism." Whatever serves the group's purpose, physically, legally, morally, or in romantic fantasy, is justified as...

Znet Article Street: Who is

Znet Article, February, 20 2003 Paul Street
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“We Saved Their Butts” It is difficult to imagine the bitter irony with which many French people must be receiving the American charge of “ingratitude.” For the last two weeks at least, leading United States Congre...

Znet Article Solomon: Globalization And It's Malcontents

Znet Article, February, 20 2003 Norman Solomon
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One of the big media buzzwords to emerge in recent years is "globalization." By now, we're likely to know what it means. That's unfortunate -- because at this point the word is so ambiguous that it doesn't really mean much of anything. News outle...

Znet Article Oliveri: This Is Only The Beginning

Znet Article, February, 20 2003 Adele Oliveri
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I am not into self-celebrations, but maybe this time I ought to make an exception. Those of us who took part to last weekend's massive anti-war demonstrations have got every reason to congratulate themselves. If anything, it looks like to have suc...

Znet Article Starhawk: What Happened in New York

Znet Article, February, 19 2003 Starhawk
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The weekend of February 15 and 16 marks an historic, global uprising for peace. The number of marches is uncounted: the number of marchers estimated in the range of ten million. There were marches and vigils and protests in national capitals and s...

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