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Znet Article Zinn: What War Looks Like

Znet Article, October, 01 2002 Howard Zinn
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In all the solemn statements by self-important politicians and newspaper columnists about a coming war against Iraq, and even in the troubled comments by some who are opposed to the war, there is something missing. The talk is about strategy and t...

Znet Article Fisk: Roll call of 322 children killed in the intifada

Znet Article, October, 01 2002 Robert Fisk
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In one of its most shocking reports on the Israeli-Palestinian war, Amnesty International today condemns both sides in the conflict for their "utter disregard" for the lives of children - 250 of them Palestinian and 72 Israeli - who have been kill...

Znet Article Pilger: To The Streets

Znet Article, September, 30 2002 John Pilger
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A GREAT many people believe that democracy has been lost in this country. Today, true democracy will demonstrate its resilience on the streets of London. In the week that Parliament was manipulated by the Government and denied a proper vote on wh...

Znet Article Said: Low Point Of Powerlessness

Znet Article, September, 30 2002 Edward Said
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Sixty years ago, the Jews of Europe were at the lowest point of their collective existence. Herded like cattle into trains, they were transported from the rest of Europe by Nazi soldiers into death camps where they were systematically exterminated...

Commentary Jensen: Iraq Debate In Mainstream Is Ultra-hawks V. Moderate-hawks

Commentary, September, 29 2002 Robert Jensen
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The question dominating the news: When will we go to war against Iraq? The answer: We are already at war with Iraq.

Znet Article Kolhatkar: Outwardly Progressive, Internally Corporate: Pacifica's Next Challenge

Znet Article, September, 29 2002 Sonali Kolhatkar
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In an article on Pacifica titled "Gloves Off", Michael Albert wrote: "progressive organizations should employ partic...

Znet Article Albert: Democracy Is Coming To Pacifica!

Znet Article, September, 29 2002 Michael Albert
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This essay was written in early January 2002, ten months ago, immediately after the turning over of Pacifica to new hands, resolving the years-long struggle with the old bosses. The only addition is the subtitle... Pacifica’s strug...

Znet Article Ali: London Report

Znet Article, September, 29 2002 Tariq Ali
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London: Saturday 28th September. It was a beautiful clear blue sky. No mists but a great deal of mellow fruitfulness. The Stop the War Coalition--- a united front that includes socialists of most stripes, liberals and radicals, pacifists and the...

Znet Article Roy: Print Excerpt / Lannan Speech

Znet Article, September, 29 2002 Arundhati Roy
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Recently, those who have criticised the actions of the US government (myself included) have been called "anti-American". Anti-Americanism is in the process of being consecrated into an ideology. The term is usually used by the American establishme...

Znet Article Roy: Come September

Znet Article, September, 29 2002 Arundhati Roy
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Howard Zinn: Well, thank you. [Applause]. This is a very nice crowd. [Laughter] Thank you Patrick Lannan for that introduction. I almost recognized myself. [Laughter] I'm here to introduce Arundhati Roy. I say this in hushed tones. Really, I never...

Znet Article Kagarlitsky: German Luck

Znet Article, September, 28 2002 Boris Kagarlitsky
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It looks as though everyone lost. Or almost everyone. The German elections have come and...

Znet Article Street: Iraq War Debate

Znet Article, September, 28 2002 Paul Street
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Iraq War Debate

Commentary Edwards: Conspiracy-free Conformity

Commentary, September, 27 2002 David Edwards
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Chemistry teachers have long delighted students by showing how near-perfect symmetrical structures can be produced by pouring a large number of small balls into a square box, whereupon a perfect pyramid is inevitably produced. The balls either lan...

Znet Article Mokhiber: 10 (More) Reasons to Protest the IMF and World Bank

Znet Article, September, 27 2002 Russell Mokhiber
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The International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank are again holding their annual meetings in Washington, D.C. With financial crises wracking Argentina and Brazil, and deepening poverty further engulfing most of Africa -- even as all these nati...

Commentary Choudry: The George and Gloria Show: Philippine Progressives Under Renewed Attack

Commentary, September, 26 2002 Aziz Choudry
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ÒWhen an individual commits violence against innocent civilians contrary to US interests, Bush calls him a "terroristÓ. When an individual commits violence against innocent civilians in furtherance of US interests, Bush calls him a "freedom fighte...

Znet Article Podur: South Asia, 'Stiffed'

Znet Article, September, 26 2002 Justin Podur
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With terror feeding terror all over the world, with the United States preparing to escalate a war against Iraq that has killed hundreds of thousands over the past ten years, to think of the kind of voice, the kind of force, India should have been ...

Znet Article Deshpande: Terror Feeds Terror

Znet Article, September, 26 2002 Sudhanva Deshpande
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On the evening of Tuesday, 24 September 2002, thirteen days after 9/11, armed militants stormed into the Swaminarayan temple in Gandhinagar, the capital of the western Indian state of Gujarat, and opened fire on Hindu devotees gathered there for e...

Znet Article Solomon: Spinning Media Gears For A Far Away War

Znet Article, September, 26 2002 Norman Solomon
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BAGHDAD -- From the 12th floor of the Al-Rashid Hotel, the view is much like the panorama of any large metropolis. Along wide streets, cars are in constant motion. The cityscape is filled with tall buildings and residential neighborhoods. Nothing ...

Znet Article Monbiot: They Are Systematically Destroying Economies

Znet Article, September, 26 2002 George Monbiot
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 GEORGE MONBIOT has become one of the leading voices of the global justice movement worldwide. He is a regular columnist for Britain’s Guardian newspaper and author of Captive State: The Corporate Takeover of Britain. He was recentl...

Znet Article Edwards: Hide The Looking Glass

Znet Article, September, 26 2002 David Edwards
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When order and symmetry manifest in the natural world in the absence of conscious design, we feel a sense of wonder - the structural perfection of a snowflake, for example, is remarkable precisely because it is unplanned. Similarly, media reportin...

Commentary Vera-zavala: Democracy As Resistance

Commentary, September, 25 2002 America Vera-zavala
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The Palestinian people have tried all means of resistance an occupied people can think of. One dangerous and effective way involved a lot of people and made the Israeli occupying power so full of fear it threatened and banned the act of resistance...

Znet Article Ali: War and Rumours of War

Znet Article, September, 25 2002 Tariq Ali
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[A major rally was organised by the South Asian Alliance in Birmingham on Sunday 15th September 2002.The aim of the rally was to look at the world one year on from September the 11th.The speakers at the rally were Tariq Ali, Shaukat Butt, Asma Jha...

Znet Article Stokes: US Military Doctrine and Colombia's War of Terror

Znet Article, September, 25 2002 Doug Stokes
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Under the new presidency of Colombia's Alvaro Uribe Velez paramilitarism is once again legal. His new network of a million paid informants essentially makes overt what has long been a joint covert US-Colombian strategy of brutal counter-insurgent ...

Znet Article Fisk: The Dishonesty Of This So-called Dossier

Znet Article, September, 25 2002 Robert Fisk
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Tony Blair's "dossier" on Iraq is a shocking document. Reading it can only fill a decent human being with shame and outrage. Its pages are final proof – if the contents are true – that a massive crime against humanity has been comm...

Znet Article Fisk: Prosecute Sharon For War Crimes, Israeli Women Say

Znet Article, September, 24 2002 Robert Fisk
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    In an astonishing letter to the Palestinian survivors of the 1982 Sabra and Shatila camps massacres, nine Israeli women's peace groups have told Palestinians in Beirut that they support their efforts to indict the Israeli Prime Min...

Commentary Bagdikian: Vague Warnings And Public Panic

Commentary, September, 23 2002 Ben Bagdikian
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The American public, already traumatized by the horrors of September 11, are periodically warned that another such act is on the way. Justified warnings, based on realistic knowledge, are necessary and appreciated. But there is a social cost in ra...

Znet Article Arnove: The Case Against Bush's War

Znet Article, September, 23 2002 Anthony Arnove
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Once again, the U.S. government is gunning for Iraq. After twelve years of imposing the most comprehensive and deadly sanctions in history, after destroying much of the country and killing tens of thousands of civilians in the 1991 Gulf War, and a...

Commentary Edwards: Force-feeding The Dream

Commentary, September, 22 2002 David Edwards
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A current Peugeot advert depicts an Indian driver in a dusty, impoverished village smashing his wreck of a car - what appears to be an old Morris Oxford - forwards and backwards into walls. The driver then coaxes an elephant to sit on the bonnet, ...

Znet Article Mondragon: Colombia: The Struggle Against Uribe Begins

Znet Article, September, 22 2002 Hector Mondragon
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[translated by Justin Podur] The new Colombian government's program includes: -A labor reform that reduces overnight and overtime wages-A pension reform that increases the retirement age by 1/3 -The reduction of public sector salaries by 30%, ov...

Znet Article Herman: Christopher Hitchens And The Uses Of Demagoguery

Znet Article, September, 22 2002 Edward Herman
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In his latest phase as flack for the war party, Christopher Hitchens has taken on some of the qualities of his leader George W. Bush. A notable similarity is in his demagogic statement of the issues "we" face since 9/11--in W's words, an "evil" en...

Commentary Solomon: Baghdad, Autumn 2002: City Of Doom

Commentary, September, 21 2002 Norman Solomon
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BAGHDAD -- When Iraqi deputy prime minister Tariq Aziz described the box that Washington has meticulously constructed for Iraq, he put it this way: ÒDoomed if you do, doomed if you donÕt.Ó

Znet Article Parrish: A Moment Of Deep Hope

Znet Article, September, 21 2002 Geov Parrish
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Recently I had the tremendous honor, and pleasure, of sitting down for a conversation with one of the true heroes of global efforts to create a more equitable and sustainable world. Indian physicist Vandana Shiva is one of the most renowned and re...

Znet Article Mokhiber: The Bush Victory In Iraq

Znet Article, September, 21 2002 Russell Mokhiber
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George Bush has already won a victory in Iraq, and we're not talking about weapons inspectors' access inside the country. The administration's beating of the war drums has drowned out the dominant stories of two months ago -- the corporate scand...

Commentary Raptis: The Relatives Of The Aggressors

Commentary, September, 20 2002 Nikos Raptis
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In the May 13, 2002 issue of "Newsweek" there is an article by Martha Brant and Weston Kosova on Barbara Bush. The title of the article is: "The Queen Mother."

Znet Article Pilger: Diplomacy?

Znet Article, September, 19 2002 John Pilger
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The making of a United Nations fig leaf, designed to cover an Anglo-American attack on Iraq, has a revealing past. In 1990, a vers...

Znet Article Edwards: Power, Fear, And Silence

Znet Article, September, 19 2002 David Edwards
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It is ironic that when politicians hail the urgent need to defend ourdemocratic traditions, their words are generally communicated by giantmedia corporations, which are essentially totalitarian structures ofpower. There is not even a pretence of d...

Commentary Kagarlitsky: Looking At American Problems From Russia: Enron, Worldcom, And Now All The Rest?

Commentary, September, 18 2002 Boris Kagarlitsky
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No-one is surprised any more to hear bad news from the US, at any rate where the economy is concerned. Nevertheless, the failure of WorldCom has been something out of the ordinary. It is not just the scale of the bankruptcy. Six months ago the cra...

Znet Article Cromwell: Mass Media Stoke The Fires Of War

Znet Article, September, 18 2002 David Cromwell
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News broadcasts and column inches are rapidly saturating with the rhetoric of war. The fate of the Iraqi people hangs in the balance. Iraq has now backed down in the face of overwhelming US/UK threats to launch a massive attack on that devastated ...

Znet Article Fisk: Bush Wants War Not Justice

Znet Article, September, 18 2002 Robert Fisk
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You've got to hand it to Saddam. In one brisk, neat letter to Kofi Annan, he pulled the rug from right under George Bush's feet. There was the American president last week, playing the role of multilateralist, warning the world that Iraq had one l...

Commentary Mokhiber: Advertise This!

Commentary, September, 17 2002 Russell Mokhiber
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Corporations are gaining ground fast in their effort to assume all of the U.S. constitutional protections afforded human beings.

Znet Article Galeano: SOS

Znet Article, September, 17 2002 Eduardo Galeano
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[translated by Francisco Gonzalez] Who gets the water? The monkey with the stick does. The unarmed monkey dies of thirst. This prehistory lesson opens the film "2001: A Space Odyssey". Now, for the 2003 odyssey, President Bush announces a militar...

Commentary Starhawk: Linking The Bank And The War: Why Go To Washington?

Commentary, September, 16 2002 Starhawk
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In November of 1969, President Nixon was preparing to use nuclear weapons against Hanoi and Haiphong. What stopped him were the anti-war mobilizations of that autumn. There were Òtoo many people in the street." This September, as Bush continues to...

Znet Article Albert: Marxism Debate

Znet Article, September, 16 2002 Michael Albert
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Our topic in this debate (see the whole exchange at http://www.zmag.org/debateiso.htm) has been the relevance of Marxism for seeking social change today. My view has been that while Marxism of course contains many powerful and important insights...

Znet Article Pilger: Palestine is still the Issue

Znet Article, September, 16 2002 John Pilger
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Palestine is still the Issue

Znet Article Albert: What Do We Want? How Do We Get It?

Znet Article, September, 16 2002 Michael Albert
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What Do We Want? How Do We Get It?

Commentary Burchill: If Weapons Were Found

Commentary, September, 15 2002 Scott Burchill
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The English historian A.J.P. Taylor once argued that the principal difference between the methodologies of the lawyer and the historian was that "the lawyer aims to make a case; the historian wishes to understand a situation." According to Taylor,...

Znet Article Fisk: America's Case For War Is Built On Blindness, Hypocrisy And Lies

Znet Article, September, 15 2002 Robert Fisk
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Years ago, in a snug underground restaurant in downtown Tehran, drinking duq – an Iranian beverage of mint and yoghurt – Saddam Hussein's former head of nuclear research told me what happened when he made a personal appeal for the ...

Commentary Mondragon: The Disastrous Economics Of Counterterrorism In Colombia

Commentary, September, 14 2002 Hector Mondragon
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Sorry about the commentary that went out earlier -- it was an old piece. MAde amistake in the shuffle of new servers today, etc.

Commentary Choudry: Counting For Nothing: Reflections On The First Anniversary Of 9/11

Commentary, September, 13 2002 Aziz Choudry
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"The media seems to be implying as if this was the first ever macabre happening in this world and no other atrocity has been seen before. From the projection of pain and grief by media one can assume that intensity of feeling pain is measured on o...

Znet Article Edwards: We Cry. We Live. We Feel: September 11 - October 7

Znet Article, September, 13 2002 David Edwards
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Two possible options were immediately obvious in the aftermath of the appalling atrocities of September 11: we could seek to identify and address the true causes of the catastrophe in the real and perceived grievances of those who caused it; or we...

Znet Article Jensen: Bush At The U.n.:

Znet Article, September, 13 2002 Robert Jensen
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In the age of American empire, this is what diplomacy looks like: After months of open expressions of contempt for international law and disregard for the opinions of other nations (allies and enemies alike), the U.S. president deigned to appear ...

Znet Article Fisk: The Mantra That Means This Time It's Serious

Znet Article, September, 13 2002 Robert Fisk
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How small he looked in the high-backed chair. You had to sit in the auditorium of the UN General Assembly yesterday to realise that George Bush Jnr – threatening war in what was built as a house of peace – could appear such a littl...

Znet Article Steel: The Tortured Logic That Leads Iraq To This Memorial

Znet Article, September, 13 2002 Mark Steel
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After all that business yesterday, there must be dozens of celebrities devastated that no one asked them where they were when they heard the news. And they'd have a point, as most of them managed to get a piece in somewhere along the lines of "I'd...

Commentary Albert: Disputes about Anti-War Strategy

Commentary, September, 12 2002 Michael Albert
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(This commentary was spurred and informed by a Chomsky ZNet Forum Post on the same topic.)

Znet Article Chomsky: Chomsky replies about Avoiding American Crimes

Znet Article, September, 12 2002 Noam Chomsky
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Chomsky replies about Avoiding American Crimes

Znet Article Ali: Doing As The Romans Did

Znet Article, September, 12 2002 Tariq Ali
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The consequences of 11 September remain visible on several fronts. Psychologically, the American empire has constructed a new enemy: Islamic terrorism. Its practitioners were evil, the threat was global and, for that reason, bombs had to be droppe...

Commentary Vltchek: It’s Illegal To Have Aids In Burma

Commentary, September, 11 2002 Andre Vltchek
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ICG, the International Crisis Group, warns that “HIV prevalence is rising rapidly in Burma/Myanmar, fuelled by population mobility, poverty and frustration that breeds risky sexual activity and drug-taking. Already, one in fifty adults are...

Commentary Hoodbhoy: Were We Too Hijacked On 9/11?

Commentary, September, 11 2002 Pervez Hoodbhoy
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Al-Qaida had to be bombed, to let the Taliban be was not an option. When fanatics, inspired by Osama bin Laden, flew airliners packed with people into two of America's tallest buildings, it was unreasonable to expect otherwise. So, yes, I agree wi...

Znet Article Pilger: This War Is A Failure

Znet Article, September, 11 2002 John Pilger
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THE anniversary of September 11 will be remembered with highly charged images, especially those of the grieving families of the victims. The respect and sympathy owed to these suffering people will, or ought to be, unqualified and universal. ...

Znet Article Fisk: One Year On

Znet Article, September, 11 2002 Robert Fisk
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September 11 did not change the world. Indeed, for months afterwards, no one was allowed even to question the motives of the mass murderers. To point out that they were all Arabs and Muslims was fair enough. But any attempt to connect these facts ...

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