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Edwards: Just War and A Dissident's Role
Znet Article, December, 07 2002
David Edwards
Edwards's ZSpace page
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...
Ali: The Ignoble Nobel
Znet Article, December, 07 2002
Tariq Ali
Ali's ZSpace page
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...
Fisk: With Runners And Whispers, Al-Qai'da Outfoxes US Forces
Znet Article, December, 06 2002
Robert Fisk
Fisk's ZSpace page
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...
Azulay: West Virginia, National Sacrifice Area
Znet Article, December, 06 2002
Jessica Azulay
Azulay's ZSpace page
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...
Solomon: Media Spin Can Seperate War From Death
Znet Article, December, 05 2002
Norman Solomon
Solomon's ZSpace page
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...
Pilger: Lies, Damned Lies, And Terror Warnings
Znet Article, December, 05 2002
John Pilger
Pilger's ZSpace page
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...
Reinhart: The Israeli Elections
Commentary, December, 04 2002
Tanya Reinhart
Reinhart's ZSpace page
This is an expanded version of a column in the Israeli daily Yediot Aharonot, November 26, 2002. The Hebrew column is attached.
Fisk: We Are Being Set Up For A War Against Iraq
Znet Article, December, 04 2002
Robert Fisk
Fisk's ZSpace page
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...
Shiva: On Pests, Weeds And Terrorists: Weaving Harmony Through Diversity
Commentary, December, 03 2002
Vandana2 Shiva
Shiva's ZSpace page
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...
Chomsky: A Modest Proposal
Znet Article, December, 03 2002
Noam Chomsky
Chomsky's ZSpace page
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...
Chomsky: A Modest Proposal
Znet Article, December, 03 2002
Noam Chomsky
Chomsky's ZSpace page
A Modest Proposal
Weisbrot: Bush Administration Pushes
Znet Article, December, 03 2002
Mark Weisbrot
Weisbrot's ZSpace page
It's 10 p.m. -- do...
Bond: Southern Africa: support for ex-SLA fugitive and opposition to commodification
Commentary, December, 02 2002
Patrick Bond
Bond's ZSpace page
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...
Edwards: Monbiot Responds To Media Lens
Znet Article, December, 02 2002
David Edwards
Edwards's ZSpace page
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)....
Vera-zavala: Disobbedienti
Commentary, December, 01 2002
America Vera-zavala
Vera-zavala's ZSpace page
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...
Fisk: Ariel Sharon Has Walked Into A Trap. And We Are About To Follow Him
Znet Article, December, 01 2002
Robert Fisk
Fisk's ZSpace page
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...
Solomon: Media Time Capsule: Looking Backward At 2002
Commentary, November, 30 2002
Norman Solomon
Solomon's ZSpace page
Imagine that you're at the ceremonial opening of a time capsule, half a century after some forward-looking Americans sealed it during a multimedia festival just before Thanksgiving 2002.
Said: Misinformation About Iraq
Znet Article, November, 30 2002
Edward Said
Said's ZSpace page
The flurry of reports, leaks, and misinformation about the looming US war against Saddam Hussein's dictatorship in Iraq continues unabated. It is impossible to know, however, how much of this is a brilliantly managed campaign of psychological war ...
Choudry: Sweet and Dangerous Music: Soundtrack For A Secret Country
Commentary, November, 29 2002
Aziz Choudry
Choudry's ZSpace page
Music has moved many of us to act, and inspires us in our work for justice and liberation. Close friends and comrades tell of how music has helped form, frame and inflame their political consciousness and hunger for justice. While much of the wor...
Wise: Not-So-Little White Lies: Education and the Myth of Black Anti-Intellectualism
Commentary, November, 28 2002
Tim Wise
Wise's ZSpace page
Cherished myths die hard, especially when those myths serve the interests of the more powerful members of a society at the expense of the less powerful. For generations, slaveowners ignored their chattelsÕ humanity, to say nothing of their desire ...
Pilger: Impartiality Of British Journalism
Znet Article, November, 28 2002
John Pilger
Pilger's ZSpace page
During a debate on the coverage of the miners' strike at the Edinburgh Television Festival, the BBC's industrial editor at the time, Martin Adeney, described trucks bringing coal to a steelworks as having made a "successful run". As Ken Loach poin...
Podur: The Uribe administration's negotiation with itself
Znet Article, November, 27 2002
Justin Podur
Podur's ZSpace page
The Colombian government is in negotiations with the paramilitaries, facilitated by the Catholic Church. The precondition for negotiations was put by President Alvaro Uribe Velez: "there must be a promise that not a single Colombian more wil...
Edwards: Iraq: Panorama Editor And Guardian Editor Respond
Znet Article, November, 27 2002
David Edwards
Edwards's ZSpace page
As the war clouds continue to gather over the Gulf, the latest opinion polls show that fully 40% of the British electorate are against war on Iraq. Anyone who has been monitoring the media with any consistency can only view these figures with horr...
Oliveri: We Are All Subversives
Znet Article, November, 26 2002
Adele Oliveri
Oliveri's ZSpace page
It was just too good to be true. The European Social Forum in Florence had come and gone without any of the violence and disruptions many mainstream media were telling the public to fear. It had been a perhaps chaotic, yet unmistakably positive mo...
Landau: The Iraq Ploy And Resemblances To The Start Of The Cold War
Znet Article, November, 26 2002
Saul Landau
Landau's ZSpace page
“If you’re going to go in and try to topple Saddam Hussein, you have to go to Baghdad...
Cromwell: Turning the World into Hell?
Commentary, November, 25 2002
David Cromwell
Cromwell's ZSpace page
Take a look at the media sections of the broadsheets, if you can handle the inane navel-gazing, insider gossip and trivia. A recurrent theme is whether television news is being 'dumbed-down' in order to hang on to fragmenting audiences. Corporate ...
Herman: Anti-Semitism
Znet Article, November, 25 2002
Edward Herman
Herman's ZSpace page
Palestinians are "Semites," but the word antisemitism is never applied to prejudice against them, only to Jews. The restriction on the application to Jews, and failure to use it in reference to Palestinians, continues in the face of the fact that ...
Ortellado: Brazil: Between Hope and Fear
Znet Article, November, 25 2002
Pablo Ortellado
Ortellado's ZSpace page
The Brazilian presidential election campaign was marked by the antagonism of center right Social Democrat José Serra's constant red baiting on the one hand and, on the other hand, the PT, the Worker's Party, promoting hope for real change. But sh...
Monbiot: See You In Court
Znet Article, November, 25 2002
George Monbiot
Monbiot's ZSpace page
Parliament might have been denied its debate and the Cabinet might have been silenced, but there are other means of holding the government to account. If, by 4pm today, his lawyers have failed to agree that he will not attack Iraq without a new UN...
Monbiot: The Covert Biotech War
Commentary, November, 24 2002
George Monbiot
Monbiot's ZSpace page
The president of Zambia is wrong. Genetically modified food is not, as far as we know, "poison". While adequate safety tests have still to be conducted, there is, as yet, no compelling evidence that it is any worse for human health than convention...
Gordon: Israel's Choice
Znet Article, November, 24 2002
Neve Gordon
Gordon's ZSpace page
Jerusalem: Returning to Israel after an extended absence can be a disturbing experience. On the way back from the airport to my Jerusalem apartment, I noticed new posters tacked onto utility poles and bridges along the highway. They read: Transfer...
Jensen: President Bush plans an unprecedented shift of almost half of government
Znet Article, November, 24 2002
Robert Jensen
Jensen's ZSpace page
President Bush's announcement last week of his intention to privatize up to half the federal workforce came with the usual confident talk about reducing government costs and improving services.Market ideologues may believe that, but there is no re...
Hoodbhoy: The India Pakistan Conflict
Znet Article, November, 24 2002
Pervez Hoodbhoy
Hoodbhoy's ZSpace page
These are dismal times for peace. Since the tests of May 1998 and their overt nuclearization, Pakistan-India relations have visibly deteriorated. Crisis has followed crisis and nuclear weapons have played an inc...
Said: Waiting on a Countervailing Force
Znet Article, November, 24 2002
Edward Said
Said's ZSpace page
Although I have visited England dozens of times, I have never ...
Kagarlitsky: Autumn Reflections
Commentary, November, 23 2002
Boris Kagarlitsky
Kagarlitsky's ZSpace page
First came the fear. For several months most of the Italian newspapers had been telling their readers about the terrible antiglobalists who were about to gather from all Europe to destroy Florence. The day before the European Social Forum opened, ...
Healy: Another Globalisation Is Possible
Commentary, November, 23 2002
Sean Healy
Healy's ZSpace page
FLORENCE -- It was always going to be a recipe for chaos. Take 40,000 European leftists, fractious at the best of times, shoe-horn them into a Renaissance era Italian city and tell them to discuss, across half a dozen languages, the state of the w...
Dominick: Ambushing The Occupation
Znet Article, November, 22 2002
Brian Dominick
Dominick's ZSpace page
It looks like Palestinian militants have finally found Israel’s Achilles heel. It isn’t civilian carnage, but rather armed combat between Israel’s foot soldiers and Palestinian militias. Insist as they might that the killin...
Brecher: Let's Join, Not Fight The Global Coalition Against War
Znet Article, November, 21 2002
Jeremy Brecher
Brecher's ZSpace page
Americans owe a debt of gratitude to the coalition of people and countries around the world that is trying to save us from a catastrophic war in Iraq. In the recent UN Security Council debate on Iraq, 60 nations spoke against U.S. policy, and no...
Solomon: Unilateral Power: By Any Other Name
Znet Article, November, 21 2002
Norman Solomon
Solomon's ZSpace page
Ever since the U.N. Security Council adopted its resolution about Iraq on Nov. 8, American politicians and journalists have been hailing the unanimous vote as a huge victory for international cooperation instead of unilateral action. New York Ti...
Weisbrot: Getting The Most Out Of Homeland Security
Znet Article, November, 21 2002
Mark Weisbrot
Weisbrot's ZSpace page
In a final burst of shameless opportunism for the legislative year 2002, the President and his party pushed their "homeland security" bill through Congress. The bill was laden with pork and gifts to special interests. Among the most ostentatious w...
Weisbrot: Getting The Most Out Of Homeland Security
Znet Article, November, 21 2002
Mark Weisbrot
Weisbrot's ZSpace page
In a final burst of shameless opportunism for the legislative year 2002, the President and his party pushed their "homeland security" bill through Congress. The bill was laden with pork and gifts to special interests. Among the most ostentatious w...
Cook: Alone With The Settlers
Znet Article, November, 21 2002
Jonathan Cook
Cook's ZSpace page
Alone With The Settlers
Landau: In The United States The Source Of Terror
Commentary, November, 20 2002
Saul Landau
Landau's ZSpace page
ÒWherever the standard of freedom and independence has been or shall be unfurled, there will be AmericaÕs heart, her benedictions and her prayers. But she goes not abroad in search of monsters to destroyÉby once enlisting under other banners of fo...
Shiva: In Praise Of Cowdung
Znet Article, November, 20 2002
Vandana2 Shiva
Shiva's ZSpace page
In India we worship cow dung as Lakshmi, the goddess of wealth. Gobur-dhan puja is literally the worship of gobur (cowdung) dhan (wealth). Cow dung is worshipped because it is the source of renewal of soil fertility and hence the sustainability ...
Boudreau: Smoking Gun
Znet Article, November, 20 2002
Ned Boudreau
Boudreau's ZSpace page
Advocates of globalization can hardly celebrate the political, economic and social debacle that Argentina is suffering. Yet they are making all and any attempts to point the finger away from the IMF to cronyism and corruption. However, it is a f...
Russell: No Nursing Homes On Wheels
Commentary, November, 19 2002
Marta Russell
Russell's ZSpace page
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 "least restric...
Street: Our Tears, Their Opportunity
Commentary, November, 18 2002
Paul Street
Street's ZSpace page
What a Difference a Day Made
Jensen: World's Policeman or Bully?
Znet Article, November, 18 2002
Robert Jensen
Jensen's ZSpace page
In the debate about a U.S. war against Iraq, the question often pops up: Should the United States be the world's policeman? This is a case where the answer doesn't matter, because it is the wrong question. The United States isn't offering to be t...
Shiva: In Praise Of Cowdung
Commentary, November, 17 2002
Vandana2 Shiva
Shiva's ZSpace page
In India we worship cow dung as Lakshmi, the goddess of wealth. Gobur-dhan puja is literally the worship of gobur (cowdung) dhan (wealth).
Parrish: Match Game
Znet Article, November, 16 2002
Geov Parrish
Parrish's ZSpace page
A year ago this week, the Taliban abandoned Kabul, and the U.S.-backed Northern Alliance army entered Kabul. The Alliance, an ally of convenience for the combat-averse Americans, was a ragtag collection of warlords and former (and current) mass mu...
Zinn: Veterans Day
Commentary, November, 15 2002
Howard Zinn
Zinn's ZSpace page
Veterans Day used to be called Armistice Day, because it was November 11, 1918, at 11 AM - the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month, that the first World War came to an end. It would be good to remember a few things about tha...
Edwards: Iraq: BBC World Service Editor Responds
Znet Article, November, 15 2002
David Edwards
Edwards's ZSpace page
In response to our recent Media Alert - Our Pravda: The BBC, Panorama and Iraq (November 8, 2002) - we received these emails from Bill Hayton of the BBC's World Service: Hi, Having read some of your material from time to time and agreed with part...
Shah: I Went To The Other Side Of The World And Found Bush Fires Burning
Commentary, November, 14 2002
Sonia Shah
Shah's ZSpace page
Even when we first touched down on this flat, salty, ancient continent, we knew we were on the other side of the world. The moon was half-full, but just the bottom half was visible, a porcelain tea-cup. We were in the far north, it was winter, and...
Cook: Finishing The Job
Znet Article, November, 14 2002
Jonathan Cook
Cook's ZSpace page
What caused Benny Morris's recent conversion to the racist ideology of transfer? The "new historian" who began unravelling Israel's narrative of the war of 1948 -- that the Palestinians fled rather than that most were expelled or terrorised from...
Healy: Another Globalization Is Possible
Znet Article, November, 14 2002
Sean Healy
Healy's ZSpace page
FLORENCE -- It was always going to be a recipe for chaos. Take 40,000 European leftists, fractious at the best of times, shoe-horn them into a Renaissance era Italian city and tell them to discuss, across half a dozen languages, the state of the w...
Podur: Discussion of UN 1441 continued
Znet Article, November, 14 2002
Justin Podur
Podur's ZSpace page
Dear Znet and Zmag folks, I am writing in regards to Justin Podur?s commentary on UN SC Resolution 1441 re Iraq. I am a UN Representative for several NGOs and have been following the Security Council deliberations. I would ask you to forward my c...
Fisk: Bin Laden Is Alive
Znet Article, November, 14 2002
Robert Fisk
Fisk's ZSpace page
It is him. The man on the tape is Bin Laden. He is alive. It took only a brief flurry of phone calls to the Middle East and south-west Asia for the most impeccable sources to confirm that Osama bin Laden is alive and that it was his gravelly voice...
Choudry: APEC 2002: Americans Plot To Expand Crusade
Commentary, November, 13 2002
Aziz Choudry
Choudry's ZSpace page
Remember APEC (Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation)? Once described by former Australian foreign affairs minister Gareth Evans as Òfour adjectives in search of a nounÓ, it stumbled through the 1990s into the 21st century barely alive. Espousing Òo...
Dominick: Attack Of The Liberals
Commentary, November, 13 2002
Brian Dominick
Dominick's ZSpace page
The four high-horsemen of the Liberal Left have mounted and are riding
