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Znet Article Reinhart: A Vote For Mitzna Is A Vote For Sharon

Znet Article, December, 23 2002 Tanya Reinhart
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Just over a month ago, Mitzna appeared to offer a new hope to Israeli politics. He was even perceived by some as the potential Israeli de Gaulle. Throughout the years of the Israeli occupation of the Palestinian territories, the Israeli political ...

Znet Article Rai: Iraq's Weapons Declaration

Znet Article, December, 23 2002 Milan Rai
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Iraq's Weapons Declaration

Znet Article Said: Immediate Imperatives

Znet Article, December, 23 2002 Edward Said
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The daily hemorrhage of Palestinian lives and property accelerates without respite. Both the Arab and Western media report horrifically sensational suicide bombings, complete with pictures and names of the victims as well as gut-wrenching details....

Commentary Prashad: The Tragic Enigma: Racism in Contemporary America

Commentary, December, 22 2002 Vijay Prashad
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Call it a tragic enigma. In the Tunisian scholar Albert Memmi's words, "No one, or almost no one, wishes to see themselves as racist; still, racism persists, real and tenacious."

Commentary Wise: White Supremacy Discussion

Commentary, December, 22 2002 Tim Wise
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Recently Tim Wise wrote an articl called soft pedalling White Supremacy. In it, he attacked David Horowitz for promoting Nazi Sympathizers and racists. One of the people mentioned in his article, Jared Taylor, wrote ZNet a response. We thought the...

Commentary Weissman: Of Caviar and Capitalism

Commentary, December, 22 2002 Robert Weissman
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Are capitalism and caviar incompatible? Is the system that prides itself on the creation and veneration of wealth unable to to maintain a sustainable market for one of the great trappings of wealth?

Znet Article Street: A Whole Lott Missing

Znet Article, December, 22 2002 Paul Street
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The most disturbing aspect of the recent national melodrama over Senate Majority Leaders Trent Lott’s offensive declaration of retrospective support for the race-segregationist 1948 Presidential campaign of Strom Thurmond is not the conten...

Commentary Glick: Remembering Phil Berrigan

Commentary, December, 21 2002 Ted Glick
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I first met the late Phil Berrigan in January of 1970 at the age of 20. I had joined the Catholic Left a month before and was actively involved in preparations for an early February, non-violent raid on three draft board offices in Philadelphia, f...

Znet Article Edwards: ITN Declares War On Iraq

Znet Article, December, 21 2002 David Edwards
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Any lingering notions that we have an independent and free media system must surely be evaporating under the vast weight of evidence emerging as the US and Britain manipulate and deceive their way to a war for control of Iraq's oil. Consider tonig...

Znet Article Said: Immediate Imperatives

Znet Article, December, 21 2002 Edward Said
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The daily hemorrhage of Palestinian lives and property accelerates without respite. Both the Arab and Western media report horrifically sensational suicide bombings, complete with pictures and names of the victims as well as gut-wrenching details....

Znet Article Boudreau: Oxymorons

Znet Article, December, 21 2002 Ned Boudreau
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Who else thinks the term "Washington Consensus" is oxymoronic? Who else thinks the corporate globalists are, themselves, not merely morons, but oxymorons guilty of duplicity and hypocrisy? Cheerleaders for globalization insist that so-called "fre...

Commentary Choudry: Finding Voice: Telling Our Own Stories

Commentary, December, 20 2002 Aziz Choudry
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I seem to have been spending quite a bit of time lately urging other activist friends to write more. Many already are. And I regularly ask myself why I write.

Znet Article Pilger: The Secret War

Znet Article, December, 20 2002 John Pilger
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THE American and British attack on Iraq has already begun. While the Blair government continues to claim in Parliament that "no final decision has been taken", Royal Air Force and US fighter bombers have secretly changed tactics and escalated thei...

Znet Article Chomsky: On The Verge Of War

Znet Article, December, 19 2002 Noam Chomsky
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Isin ELICIN: I would like to begin with a current issue topic for Turkey. EU rebuffed US's pressure for early entry talks for Turkey. Starting from this example, can you elaborate on the rift or maybe rather the rivalry between the EU and the US? ...

Commentary Wise: Making Nice With Racists: David Horowitz and The Soft Pedaling Of White Supremacy

Commentary, December, 18 2002 Tim Wise
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IÕm not sure who said it first, but whatever the case, it bears repeating: there are plenty of assholes on both the right and left of the political spectrum, and David Horowitz has the distinction of having been both in the course of one lifetime....

Znet Article Bacon: Immigrants In The Crosshairs

Znet Article, December, 18 2002 David Bacon
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SAN FRANCISCO, CA (12/15/02) -- Erlinda Valencia came from the Philippines almost two decades ago. Like many Filipina immigrants living in the San Francisco Bay area, she found a job at the airport, screening passengers' baggage. For 14 years she...

Znet Article Weisbrot: US is still intervening in Venezuela

Znet Article, December, 18 2002 Mark Weisbrot
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CARACAS (Dec. 18) "Where are they getting their money?" asks historian Samuel Moncada, as the television displays one opposition commercial after another. Moncada is chair of the history department at Central University of Venezuela in Caracas. We...

Znet Article Rai: War Plan Iraq

Znet Article, December, 18 2002 Milan Rai
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1) Can you tell ZNet, please, what your new book is about? What is it trying to communicate? War Plan Iraq tries to explain and document how the US has been hostile to both UN weapons inspectors and to real regime change in Iraq. It also sets out...

Znet Article Fisk: Why Blair's Magic Fix Is Destined To End In Failure

Znet Article, December, 17 2002 Robert Fisk
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First, it was Secretary of State Colin Powell who announced a Middle East peace conference. That was back in the spring – nothing happened. There was no peace conference. Now it's Tony Blair announcing a conference, along with that famili...

Znet Article Wilpert: Coup D'Petrol In Venezuela

Znet Article, December, 17 2002 Gregory Wilpert
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Exactly one year after the opposition’s first “general strike,” on December 10, 2001, which launched the campaign to oust the democratically elected president of Venezuela, Hugo Chavez, the opposition is engaged in its four...

Commentary Schechter: Crisis Capsule

Commentary, December, 15 2002 Danny Schechter
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NEW YORK, Dec 12, 2002 -- When the story broke, there was the gasp of "Gotcha!" in the world's news rooms. Finally, after all these weeks of those faceless inspectors racing around the boonies of Iraq to visit sites they've seen before, we have a ...

Znet Article Arnove: A Decade Of US War On Iraq

Znet Article, December, 15 2002 Anthony Arnove
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"IT IS not a war they are starting, it’s a slaughter. It will be a catastrophe." That’s how Vincent Hubin, director of Premiere Urgence, the largest foreign aid agency operating in Iraq, described the Bush gang’s drive for ...

Znet Article Finkelstein: Whither The Peace Process?

Znet Article, December, 14 2002 Norman Finkelstein
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Q. Professor Finkelstein, on Friday [Nov. 15] a senior Israeli military official declared that the army's recent siege of Hebron had "succeeded to clean these streets of terrorists" - only hours later Islamic Jihad attacked settlers and soldiers i...

Commentary Podur: Yes, Americans can understand suicide bombers

Commentary, December, 13 2002 Justin Podur
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It might be hard to believe, but Americans have within themselves all of the emotional equipment needed to understand suicide bombers. What is required is shock, rage, and an irrational desire for revenge that goes so deep that it ceases to be pic...

Znet Article Solomon: Decoding Some Top Buzzwords

Znet Article, December, 13 2002 Norman Solomon
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How words are used can be crucial to understanding and misunderstanding the world around us. The media lexicon is saturated with certain buzz phrases. They're popular -- but what do they mean? "The use of words is to express ideas," James Madiso...

Commentary Prashad: On the Tenth Anniversary of Ayodhya: at least one small victory.

Commentary, December, 12 2002 Vijay Prashad
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Ten years ago, on 6 December 1992, a fascist spectacle enveloped northern India and the Indian Diaspora. In the small town of Ayodhya, a well-organized band of Hindutva activists demolished the 16th Century mosque erected by Mir Baqi. News came so...

Znet Article Landau: The Bush Vision And The Culture Of Power

Znet Article, December, 12 2002 Saul Landau
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"Why do they hate us?" George W. Bush asked. I waited for his answer as did millions of others after the 9/11 events. We had lost our collective virginity when we had to acknowledge that some serious characters did not have our best interests at h...

Znet Article Herman: Further Reply To Michael Berube

Znet Article, December, 12 2002 Edward Herman
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I owe an apology to Michael Berube on the point of the title to his article in the Chronicle, although I do believe the title does convey a true picture of its tone and message. He is lecturing to the antiwar movement, and he does call for its gre...

Znet Article Pilger: America's Bid For Global Dominance

Znet Article, December, 12 2002 John Pilger
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  The threat posed by US terrorism to the security of nations and individuals was outlined in prophetic detail in a document written more than two years ago and disclosed only recently. What was needed for America to dominate much of humani...

Znet Article Steel: Watch Out For Scuds On The London Underground

Znet Article, December, 12 2002 Mark Steel
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Could anyone have a more useless job than those weapons inspectors in Iraq? Does anyone honestly believe there is any vague chance that George Bush might say "Well, fair enough, we couldn't find anything so it's nice to know that he's mended his w...

Commentary Brecher: A Nightmare to Love

Commentary, December, 11 2002 Jeremy Brecher
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A nightmare scenario is facing the Bush Administration.

Znet Article Edwards: Final Exchange With George Monbiot On The Guardian And The Propaganda Model

Znet Article, December, 11 2002 David Edwards
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In response to our recent Media Alert Update, "George Monbiot Responds Again on Iraq and 'Just War'" (December 7, 2002), Monbiot has sent the following response. He has also published a Guardian article ('Who guards the guards', December 10, 2002)...

Commentary Choudry: Trials and Tribulations: Supporting Our Comrades

Commentary, December, 10 2002 Aziz Choudry
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Last month, in the Opera House in the small Vermont town of Plainfield, I attended a fundraising evening of drama and music for the legal costs of Institute For Social Ecology alumnus Camilo Viveiros. It was one of a number of fundraisers held to ...

Znet Article Monbiot: Who Guards the Guards?

Znet Article, December, 10 2002 George Monbiot
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If there is a characteristic which unites all human societies, past or present, it is surely an inordinate fondness for violence. Those who can force others to submit to their demands will do so until they meet a greater force. We tend, in the s...

Znet Article Podur: Venezuela's 'National Strike'

Znet Article, December, 10 2002 Justin Podur
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The 'general strike' called by the opposition in Venezuela is now on its eighth day.  The strike is the fourth called by the opposition over the past year, including the failed coup attempt in April.  The economy is suffering.  Ther...

Commentary Wise: Selling Sloppy Statistics

Commentary, December, 09 2002 Tim Wise
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So the Supreme Court has announced it will hear the long-simmering affirmative action case from the University of Michigan law school, in which white plaintiffs sued, claiming to have been denied admission even though they had grades and test scor...

Commentary Gonsalves: Kissinger?

Commentary, December, 09 2002 Sean Gonsalves
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YouÕve got to be kidding?

Znet Article Herman: Answering The Cruise MIssile Left On Iraq

Znet Article, December, 09 2002 Edward Herman
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It is pretty depressing to see how frequently liberals and some leftists have been unable to maintain a principled opposition to the U.S. policies toward Iraq, which, following more than a decade of "sanctions of mass destruction" are now rushing ...

Znet Article Wilpert: Chavez Hangs On

Znet Article, December, 09 2002 Gregory Wilpert
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The OAS-Mediated Negotiations, the Strike, and other recent events César Gaviria, the General Secretary of the OAS, has the unenviable job of mediating negotiations between Venezuela's government and its opposition, while the political situation...

Znet Article Herman: Much More Severe Problems On The Cruise Missile Left

Znet Article, December, 09 2002 Edward Herman
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I am happy to have this opportunity to reply to Michael Berube, partly because it will allow me to introduce Z Net readers to his article "Toward an Ideal Antiwar Movement: Mature, Legitimate, and Popular," in The Chronicle of Higher Education of ...

Znet Article Parrish: A List

Znet Article, December, 09 2002 Geov Parrish
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I want a full accounting of every weapon in the country. Not Iraq; I could give a fig about Iraq. It's halfway around the world, it has no means of threatening the United States from its territory, its economy is decimated, it has been disarmed mo...

Commentary Herman: Answering the Cruise Miissile Left on Iraq

Commentary, December, 08 2002 Edward Herman
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It is pretty depressing to see how frequently liberals and some leftists have been unable to maintain a principled opposition to the U.S. policies toward Iraq, which, following more than a decade of "sanctions of mass destruction" are now rushing ...

Znet Article Jensen: Bob Woodward And The Bush At War Hagiography

Znet Article, December, 08 2002 Robert Jensen
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Bob Woodward's latest travelogue through the minds of the powerful, "Bush at War," has been widely praised as a compelling account of the Bush administration post-9/11. The book is, in one sense, quite an accomplishment: Woodward manages to make ...

Znet Article Edwards: Just War and A Dissident's Role

Znet Article, December, 07 2002 David Edwards
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In response to our recent Media Alert Update, "George Monbiot Responds on Iraq and 'Just War'" (December 2, 2002), Monbiot has sent the following response: Dear MediaLens, Two issues appear to divide us, one philosophical, one practical. The ph...

Znet Article Ali: The Ignoble Nobel

Znet Article, December, 07 2002 Tariq Ali
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On Tuesday, former US president Jimmy Carter will fly to Oslo and receive the Nobel Peace Prize from the unassuming bicycling monarch of Norway. Why him? Why now? And what is the real aim of the peace prize? When it was first established in 1900...

Znet Article Fisk: With Runners And Whispers, Al-Qai'da Outfoxes US Forces

Znet Article, December, 06 2002 Robert Fisk
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The Americans take them shackled and hooded on to transport aircraft to Kandahar. They live in pens of eight or 10 men. They are given cots with blankets but no privacy. They are forced to urinate and defecate publicly because the Americans want t...

Znet Article Azulay: West Virginia, National Sacrifice Area

Znet Article, December, 06 2002 Jessica Azulay
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At whatever the cost to poor people, endangered cultures, and the environment, this country’s energy industry and government are determined to get cheap fuel. While Arabs in Iraq give their blood for the potential profits of the U.S. oil i...

Znet Article Solomon: Media Spin Can Seperate War From Death

Znet Article, December, 05 2002 Norman Solomon
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A dozen years after the Gulf War, public perceptions of it are now very helpful to the White House. That's part of a timeworn pattern. Illusions about previous wars make the next one seem acceptable. As George Orwell observed: "Who controls the pa...

Znet Article Pilger: Lies, Damned Lies, And Terror Warnings

Znet Article, December, 05 2002 John Pilger
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ON November 7, the day before the United Nations Security Council voted on a resolution that made an American and British attack on Iraq more than likely, Downing Street began issuing warnings of imminent terrorist threats against the United Ki...

Commentary Reinhart: The Israeli Elections

Commentary, December, 04 2002 Tanya Reinhart
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This is an expanded version of a column in the Israeli daily Yediot Aharonot, November 26, 2002. The Hebrew column is attached.

Znet Article Fisk: We Are Being Set Up For A War Against Iraq

Znet Article, December, 04 2002 Robert Fisk
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In North Carolina last month, a woman attending a lecture I was giving asked me when America would go to war in Iraq. I told her to watch the front page of The New York Times and The Washington Post for the first smear campaigns against the UN ins...

Commentary Shiva: On Pests, Weeds And Terrorists: Weaving Harmony Through Diversity

Commentary, December, 03 2002 Vandana2 Shiva
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Lack of harmony characterizes our times -- There is disharmony between humans and nature, between religions, between cultures, between genders. Non-sustainability, injustice, war are different expressions of disharmony which has its roots in a wo...

Znet Article Chomsky: A Modest Proposal

Znet Article, December, 03 2002 Noam Chomsky
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The dedicated efforts of the Bush administration to take control of Iraq -- by war, military coup or some other means -- have elicited various analyses of the guiding motives. Offering one interpretation, Anatol Lieven, senior associate of the Ca...

Znet Article Chomsky: A Modest Proposal

Znet Article, December, 03 2002 Noam Chomsky
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A Modest Proposal

Znet Article Weisbrot: Bush Administration Pushes

Znet Article, December, 03 2002 Mark Weisbrot
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It's 10 p.m. -- do...

Znet Article Zinn: Support ETAN

Znet Article, December, 03 2002 Howard Zinn
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Support ETAN

Commentary Bond: Southern Africa: support for ex-SLA fugitive and opposition to commodification

Commentary, December, 02 2002 Patrick Bond
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Johannesburg: Most ZNet readers will have heard of the November 8 arrest of former Symbionese Liberation Army fugitive, James Kilgore, known here as John Pape. Across this region, first reactions--an outpouring of support from comrades, friends an...

Znet Article Edwards: Monbiot Responds To Media Lens

Znet Article, December, 02 2002 David Edwards
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In our recent Media Alert, 'Panorama and Guardian Editors Respond,' (November 27, 2002), we mentioned a recent article by George Monbiot, titled, 'See you in court, Tony,' (The Guardian, November 26, 2002) Monbiot has since responded (see below)....

Commentary Vera-zavala: Disobbedienti

Commentary, December, 01 2002 America Vera-zavala
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Early in the morning a sharp signal resound in Marghera to call the workers to the factories. When it sounds we are also on our way to "our factory", Rivolta, where the last preparations are going to be made and departure for the border is to take...

Znet Article Fisk: Ariel Sharon Has Walked Into A Trap. And We Are About To Follow Him

Znet Article, December, 01 2002 Robert Fisk
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Time was when Bali would have been the story of the year, the most violent act in 12 months, to be recalled with horror in December as the most terrible of crimes. But Bali was just the story of the month. And soon, perhaps, the Karachi bombings a...

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