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Znet Article Monbiot: The Rescue Parties

Znet Article, November, 12 2002 George Monbiot
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How many political parties can dance on the head of a pin? The answer, it seems, is one. In Britain and the United States, the opposition parties are beginning to discover that there simply isn't room for both them and their rivals on the narrow p...

Commentary Marable: In Defense of Black Reparations

Commentary, November, 11 2002 Manning Marable
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Throughout this year, the black reparations debate has become widely known, and it continued to attract increased national and international attention. In February 2002, CNN and USA Today commissioned the Gallup organization to conduct a national ...

Znet Article Edwards: Our Pravda, The BBC, Panorama and Iraq

Znet Article, November, 11 2002 David Edwards
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The truth is that you don't get very far in the mainstream media if you offend powerful interests. The BBC's John Simpson "was promoted with spectacular rapidity", Oliver Burkeman notes in the Guardian. The ascent came to a swift end when Simpson ...

Znet Article Podur: Resolution 1441

Znet Article, November, 11 2002 Justin Podur
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With the passage of UN Security Council Resolution 1441, the US has removed another obstacle in its path to an escalated war against Iraq. Those countries who had been holdouts in the Security Council claim that they went along because their fea...

Znet Article Galeano: Paradoxes

Znet Article, November, 10 2002 Eduardo Galeano
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Half of the population of Brazil lives in poverty or in extreme poverty, yet Lula's country is the world's second market for Montblanc fountain pens, and the ninth largest buyer of Ferraris. Armani shops in Sao Paulo sell more than in New York.

Znet Article Lilley: A New Age of Empire

Znet Article, November, 10 2002 Sasha Lilley
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British Member of Parliament George Galloway says that a plan for the division of the Middle East is circulating in the corridors of power on both sides of the Atlantic. In a recent interview, Galloway asserted that ministers and eminent figures i...

Commentary Bagdikian: Whence The National Epidemic Of Greed, Fraud, And Rush To War?

Commentary, November, 09 2002 Ben Bagdikian
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From Adam Smith to Milton Friedman and beyond, it has been capitalist theology that the driving force of healthy and fairly distributed creation of national wealth is greed. There are nicer words for it, but that's the real meaning of our euphe...

Znet Article Cook: Of Fences And Crossings

Znet Article, November, 09 2002 Jonathan Cook
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Small red ribbons fluttered in the early evening breeze among the olive groves of the West Bank village of Falamia, leading like a child's paper trail from the greenhouses and fields of vegetables up a gentle rocky slope towards the brow of a wide...

Znet Article Azulay: Heeding Our Own Warnings

Znet Article, November, 08 2002 Jessica Azulay
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Many astute social commentators have done a great job of pointing out that one of Bush’s purposes for planning to attack Iraq is to distract the public from other important domestic issues. While we on the radical left point out that the...

Znet Article Street: Empire Abroad, Repression At Home: Notes From Chicago

Znet Article, November, 08 2002 Paul Street
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Think back to a time when you were taken aback by the shameless hypocrisy of an authority figure in your community, school or workplace: the married minister who preached about family values on Sunday and hit on your sister in the privacy of his w...

Znet Article Parrish: With Friends Like These

Znet Article, November, 08 2002 Geov Parrish
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As you read this, Russian soldiers are once again rampaging through Chechnya, exacting what Russian leader (and former Communist Party and KGB boss) Vladimir Putin and his government specifically call revenge for the recent hostage crisis in a Mos...

Znet Article Fisk: The Malevolence Of History

Znet Article, November, 08 2002 Robert Fisk
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Robert Fisk, currently Middle East correspondent for the British daily the Independent, has covered wars the old-fashioned way for 30 years, from Northern Ireland to Afghanistan. He has lived in Beirut for 25 years, through the Lebanese civil war ...

Znet Article Reinhart: Interview With Tanya Reinhart

Znet Article, November, 08 2002 Tanya Reinhart
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Interview With Tanya Reinhart

Commentary Gonsalves: Looking For The Devil

Commentary, November, 07 2002 Sean Gonsalves
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ÒUnfettered accessÓ and Òmaterial breach.Ó On the surface, it all seems so

Znet Article Fisk: Bush Fights For Another Clean Shot In The War

Znet Article, November, 07 2002 Robert Fisk
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"A clean shot" was The Washington Post's revolting description of the murder of the al-Qa'ida leaders in Yemen by a US "Predator" unmanned aircraft. With grovelling approval, the US press used Israel's own mendacious description of such murders as...

Commentary Landau: A Baghdad Diary

Commentary, November, 06 2002 Saul Landau
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We share the one hour Gulf Falcon Air 747 flight from Damascus to Bagdad. With dozens of Iranian women pilgrims who used knife sharpened elbows to get first in line through Syrian immigration and then onto the plane. ÒSaddam Hussein would be bette...

Znet Article Burchill: Don't Pick Deadly Partners

Znet Article, November, 06 2002 Scott Burchill
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AN irrational and unsubstantiated fear of Indonesia's disintegration has long driven Australia's foreign policy planners to place a premium on stability in relations between the two nations.This obsession with preserving the status quo has been ba...

Znet Article Street: Playing Dumb? Dan Rather's Curiously Clueless Take on Why Americans Don't

Znet Article, November, 06 2002 Paul Street
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Let's start with two elementary precepts relating to the proper role of the media in a democratic society. First, key media personalities in such a society should never lie to the people, whose capacity for making intelligent and informed policy a...

Znet Article Russell: No Nursing Homes On Wheels

Znet Article, November, 05 2002 Marta Russell
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The subject of this panel is the 1999 Olmstead Supreme Court decision that declared  "unnecessary institutionalization is discrimination" under the Americans with Disabilities Act and  that directed states to provide services in the "lea...

Znet Article Monbiot: In The Crocodiles Mouth

Znet Article, November, 05 2002 George Monbiot
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Tony Blair's loyalty to George Bush looks like slow political suicide. His preparedness to follow him over every precipice jeopardises Britain's relationships with its allies, conjures up enemies all over the world and infuriates voters of all pol...

Znet Article Vltchek: Western Terror: From Potosi To Baghdad

Znet Article, November, 05 2002 Andre Vltchek
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The North American empire is admired by some, condemned by others, but feared by all. There are those, including the British Prime Minister, who see it as the mighty defender of the civilized world’s values. For many people, it is the worl...

Commentary Peters: G-Strings for Seven-Year-Olds! What's a Parent to Do?

Commentary, November, 04 2002 Cynthia Peters
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Two major media stories last summer offer small windows into how mainstream culture views children, particularly little girls. Alarming stories about sexy summer fashion choices and alarming stories about innocent girls being abducted by sadistic ...

Znet Article Pilger: The New Protest Movement

Znet Article, November, 04 2002 John Pilger
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 Graham Greene once described a "subterranean world, where the hopes and dreams of the mass of the people reside, unconnected with the rarefied world above, until those above take one step too far". There is a stirring in this people's world ...

Znet Article Mokhiber: A Day At The American Enterprise Institute

Znet Article, November, 04 2002 Russell Mokhiber
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Didn't have anything good to do earlier this week, so decided to spend the day at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI). AEI is the granddaddy of the big corporate front groups. Their job? Re-engineer the political economy to the liking of the...

Commentary Weisbrot: Election Year Politics And The Road To War

Commentary, November, 03 2002 Mark Weisbrot
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George W. Bush wants war. He makes

Commentary Kagarlitsky: An Attack Against The Society

Commentary, November, 02 2002 Boris Kagarlitsky
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After special forces commandos stormed the Theater Na Dubrovke early Saturday morning, the authorities proclaimed the operation a complete success. They first announced that the enemy had been destroyed with no losses among the hostages or special...

Znet Article Shiva: Deconstructing Market Access

Znet Article, November, 02 2002 Vandana2 Shiva
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Deconstructing Market Access

Znet Article Weisbrot: It's A New Day And Brazil Wants A New Deal

Znet Article, November, 02 2002 Mark Weisbrot
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Last Sunday's election in Brazil should send a message to Washington's economists and policymakers that their prescriptions for economic progress are no longer viable. But these people are slow learners. The conventional wisdom among economists ...

Commentary Prashad: Accounts of the Fifth Afghan War

Commentary, November, 01 2002 Vijay Prashad
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On the 3rd of October, 2001, I wrote a ZNET commentary called "Forward into the Past: US War Aims." This was four days before the bombardment began. Already the war aims of the administration seemed to escalate as each day went by. First we heard ...

Znet Article Edwards: Unique Threats Profitable Responses

Znet Article, November, 01 2002 David Edwards
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Unique Threat - No.1: In April 1950, the US National Security Council Directive 68 (NSC68) stated: "The Soviet Union, unlike previous aspirants to hegemony, is animated by a new fanatic faith, antithetical to our own, and seeks to impose absolut...

Znet Article Prashad: Scenarios For Iraq After Saddam

Znet Article, November, 01 2002 Vijay Prashad
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From the White House, reports leak out about plans for an Iraq after the Ba'th. Three of the main scenario do not allow for the development of democracy in Iraq. Each of them is built on a racist assumption: that the Iraqis either need a military ...

Commentary Vera-zavala: At a crossroad in Jenin

Commentary, October, 31 2002 America Vera-zavala
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I spent hours at a crossroad in Jenin standing either beside or in front of a group of stone throwing guys. A group of around 30 boys between 5 and 25 years old. Boys vibrating of restlessness, anger violence and adrenaline. Boys want to resist an...

Znet Article Cook: Olives And Lives

Znet Article, October, 31 2002 Jonathan Cook
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Olives And Lives

Commentary Flanders: Shipping Dispute

Commentary, October, 30 2002 Laura Flanders
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Is everybody in the White House there on family business? The President is -- he's itching to declare war on Saddam Hussein, the man who, as he put it recently, "tried to kill my daddy."

Commentary Russell: Bourne: Not in Our Name of a Different Sort

Commentary, October, 29 2002 Marta Russell
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At the turn of the last century, Randolph Bourne could have been writing for our times. Disabled people have claimed him as one of our own. Radicals can claim him as both an accurate historian and timeless prophet in that his writings consist of ...

Znet Article Kagarlitsky: An Attack Against Society

Znet Article, October, 29 2002 Boris Kagarlitsky
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After special forces commandos stormed the Theater Na Dubrovke early Saturday morning, the authorities proclaimed the operation a complete success. They first announced that the enemy had been destroyed with no losses among the ...

Znet Article Monbiot: Do As We Say, Not As We Do

Znet Article, October, 29 2002 George Monbiot
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Democracy in Brazil both won and lost on Sunday night. It won because, for the first time in its history, the nation chose a man of humble origins and radical views to be its president. It lost because that man is now forbidden to be radical. The ...

Znet Article Edwards: Iraq And Arms Inspectors: part two

Znet Article, October, 29 2002 David Edwards
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What A Difference 3 Years Makes: UK News Coverage of Why the Inspectors Left Iraq In 1998 and 1999 it was difficult for the media to avoid some of the more obvious facts about the withdrawal of arms inspectors from Iraq in December 1998. NBC Toda...

Znet Article Solomon: Branding New And Improved Wars

Znet Article, October, 29 2002 Norman Solomon
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Marketing a war is serious business. And no product requires better brand names than one that squanders vast quantities of resources while intentionally killing large numbers of people. The American trend of euphemistic fog for such enterprises b...

Commentary Monbiot: Unreality TV

Commentary, October, 28 2002 George Monbiot
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For the past nine months, priests and tribal leaders in West Papua, the easternmost province of Indonesia, have been trying to warn the world that an Islamic fundamentalist movement is using their land as a training ground. Laskar Jihad is command...

Znet Article Rebick: Hope Wins Over Fear In Brazil

Znet Article, October, 28 2002 Judy Rebick
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Lula said it best: "Hope won over fear." In a decisive victory with a record 83 million votes cast, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva of the Workers' Party (PT) - known everywhere as Lula - became the President-elect of Brazil last night with 61 per cent ...

Znet Article Edwards: Iraq And Arms Inspectors: The big Lie

Znet Article, October, 28 2002 David Edwards
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Introduction To read the 34 short pages (pp.20-54) at the heart of former chief UN arms inspector Scott Ritter's book, War On Iraq (Ritter and William Rivers Pitt, Profile Books, 2002), is to understand the utter fraudulence and staggering immora...

Znet Article Jensen: Bush's Lies And Simple Truths

Znet Article, October, 28 2002 Robert Jensen
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A few weeks ago Jim McDermott, a courageous congressman from Washington state, traveled to Baghdad in pursuit of peace and was sharply criticized, particularly for his comment that George Bush "might mislead" the American public to build support f...

Commentary Solomon: Media Sniping Frenzy Bumps Off Politics

Commentary, October, 27 2002 Norman Solomon
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You can't call it an October surprise. Late in the month, with Election Day not far off, the television news channels have been true to form.

Znet Article Parrish: The Enemy Within

Znet Article, October, 27 2002 Geov Parrish
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Let us assume -- as virtually all of the news coverage today is doing -- that John Allen Muhammad and his unfortunate stepson, arrested yesterday, are in fact the persons behind the sniping attacks that have terrorized the Washington, D.C. area fo...

Znet Article Hahnel: ZNet Interviews Robin Hahel

Znet Article, October, 27 2002 Robin Hahnel
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(1) Can you tell ZNet, please, what your new book, The ABCs of Political Economy, is about? What is it trying to communicate? The ABCs of Political Economy: A Modern Approach (Pluto Press, November 2002) is an introduction to modern, radical, po...

Znet Article Grubacic: Milosovec at the Hague

Znet Article, October, 27 2002 Andrej Grubacic
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In the latest instalment of the cycle of trials at the Hague, where Milosevic is charged with alleged war crimes in Croatia and Bosnia, the current president of Croatia Stjepan Mesic and Slobodan Milosevic had a much anticipated confrontation. Acc...

Znet Article Wilpert: Why Venezuela's Middle Class (for the most part) Opposes Chavez

Znet Article, October, 27 2002 Gregory Wilpert
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"Chavez' greatest error was to screw the middle class," says Carlos Escarrá, a prominent constitutional lawyer and former Venezuelan supreme court judge, who describes himself as being with the "proceso," but not a Chavista. The "proceso" is the ...

Znet Article Pilger: Bali and Imperialism

Znet Article, October, 25 2002 John Pilger
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What passing bells for these who die as cattle?" wrote the great First World War poet Wilfred Owen. His famous line might have been written for those who perish in today's secret wars and terrorist outrages....

Znet Article Cromwell: Moderate Extremism

Znet Article, October, 25 2002 David Cromwell
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Western state power prides itself on its 'moderation', along with its self-lauded commitments to freedom, tolerance, and "the inalienable rights of man", as U.S. defence secretary Donald Rumsfeld put it recently in a British newspaper ("We must ac...

Znet Article Bronski: Single Sex Schools

Znet Article, October, 25 2002 Michael Bronski
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  LOST LAST MONTH amid the debate about Iraq was the start of the school year. And a debate that we should be having about a domestic issue — single-sex education — isn’t happening. Last May, toward the end of the sch...

Commentary Ratner: War Crime Not Self-Defense: the Unlawful War Against Iraq

Commentary, October, 24 2002 Michael Ratner
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As I am writing this, I do not know what action the United Nations Security Council will take with regard to the U.S. push for authority to attack Iraq. It appears unlikely that the Council will give the unambiguous authority for military action ...

Znet Article Arnove: Fact and Myth

Znet Article, October, 24 2002 Anthony Arnove
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  MYTHSaddam Hussein is "gaining the power to threaten our cities with annihilation."--New York Times columnist William Safire FACTIn t...

Znet Article Albert: Ten Q&A On Antiwar Organizing

Znet Article, October, 24 2002 Michael Albert
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Ten Q&A On Antiwar Organizing

Znet Article Barsamian: Clamor Of The Chorus For War

Znet Article, October, 24 2002 David Barsamian
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  DAVID BARSAMIAN is the director of Alternative Radio, based in Boulder, Colo., and author of The Decline and Fall of Public Broadcasting. He talked to Socialist Worker about Washington’s propaganda campaign for a new war on Iraq--a...

Commentary Arnove: Iraq: Movement Pitfalls

Commentary, October, 23 2002 Anthony Arnove
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The movement to prevent the war on Iraq faces many pitfalls.

Znet Article Wilpert: Opposition and Government Supporters Rally Their Forces

Znet Article, October, 23 2002 Gregory Wilpert
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Evidence for the passions in and polarization of Venezuelan society was clearly on display on October 10, at the anti-government demonstration, and on October 13, at the pro-government demonstration. Both protests managed to draw crowds that proba...

Commentary Vltchek: New Violence In Gujarat – Don’t Blame It Just On Muslims

Commentary, October, 22 2002 Andre Vltchek
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The night was dark, but the enormous Akshardham Temple and the Cultural Complex in Gandhinagar, belonging to the powerful Swaminarayam sect of Hinduism, was brightly illuminated. Sounds of sporadic explosions and gunfire were coming from the direc...

Znet Article Fisk: How To Shut Up Your Critics With A Single Word

Znet Article, October, 22 2002 Robert Fisk
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Thank God, I often say, for the Israeli press. For where else will you find the sort of courageous condemnation of Israel's cruel and brutal treatment of the Palestinians? Where else can we read that Moshe Ya'alon, Ariel Sharon's new chief of staf...

Znet Article Brecher: The War That Can Be Stopped

Znet Article, October, 22 2002 Jeremy Brecher
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As I write, the US Congress has just passed by an overwhelming margin a resolution authorising President Bush to launch a unilateral pre-emptive attack on Iraq . The world needs to understand that there is no force in the US at present able to con...

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