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Znet Article Stokes: Colombia Primer

Znet Article, April, 16 2002 Doug Stokes
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What is Plan Colombia and the Andean Regional Initiative? Colombia's 35 year old civil war has created the third largest refugee population in the world, produces over 4,000 politically motivated murders every year, and has contributed to the 1.5 ...

Znet Article Herman: Susan Douglas, And The Nation, On Pacifica

Znet Article, April, 15 2002 Edward Herman
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The Nation magazine has had a serious conflict of interest in reporting on the Pacifica struggle. During the reign of the old Pacifica management, the magazine had its own program on Pacifica's Los Angeles station KPFK, with the program run by Con...

Znet Article Mokhiber: A Corporate Lawyer Speaks Out

Znet Article, April, 15 2002 Russell Mokhiber
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Look at the law in each of the fifty U.S. states. All have a provision similar to that of Maine's section 716: "The directors and officers of a corporation shall exercise their powers and discharge their duties with a view to the interest of the c...

Znet Article Glass: Ending the Occupation

Znet Article, April, 15 2002 Charles Glass
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Paris. The return of Secretary of State Colin Powell to Israel has revived language that, until now, the Bush administration has avoided: peace process, peace partner and the other words that implied America would intervene in negotiations. The Un...

Znet Article Weisbrot: Venezuelan Democracy Survives, In Spite of Washington

Znet Article, April, 15 2002 Mark Weisbrot
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A joke that was once popular in Latin America has become relevant again: Why has there never been a military coup in the United States? Answer: because there's no U.S. embassy here. Latin Americans would not be surprised to read that the military...

Znet Article Fisk: Mr Powell Must See For Himself What Israel Inflicted On Jenin

Znet Article, April, 14 2002 Robert Fisk
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Why doesn't Colin Powell go to Jenin? What has happened to the world's moral compass indeed to the United States when America's most famous ex-general, the Secretary of State of the most powerful country on earth, on a supposedly desperate mission...

Znet Article Edwards: The Bbc, The Sunday Telegraph, And Cancer In Iraq

Znet Article, April, 13 2002 David Edwards
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Regular Media Lens readers will know that we have generally focused on the performance of the 'liberal' media. The reason for this is that we assume that it is obvious that the 'right wing' media - the Times and the Telegraph, for example - is not...

Commentary Peters: On Going to D.C. and On Going Home

Commentary, April, 12 2002 Cynthia Peters
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The long weekend of April 19-22 in Washington, DC represents an historic opportunity for progressive social change movements. The anti-capitalist globalization movement, the newly forming anti-war movement, the growing mobilization against domesti...

Znet Article Flanders: New Yorkers say no

Znet Article, April, 12 2002 Laura Flanders
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          The mood was somber in Public School 3 this Tuesday, when members of New Yorkers Say No To War gathered to talk about Israel, Palestine and Us. New Yorkers Say No has been meeting each week since September 18th. ...

Znet Article Wilpert: Coup in Venezuela: An Eyewitness Account

Znet Article, April, 12 2002 Gregory Wilpert
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The orchestration of the coup was impeccable and, in all likelihood, planned a long time ago. Hugo Chavez, the fascist communist dictator of Venezuela could not stand the truth and thus censored the media relentlessly. For his own personal gain an...

Commentary Mokhiber: Rotten To The Core

Commentary, April, 10 2002 Russell Mokhiber
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Frank Easterbrook and Daniel Fischel are University of Chicago law professors who believe that, when it comes to making profits, nothing -- not even the law -- should stand in the way. (For almost two decades, Easterbrook has also been a federal a...

Znet Article Kagarlitsky: Roots of Anti-Americanism

Znet Article, April, 10 2002 Boris Kagarlitsky
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Roots of Anti-Americanism

Znet Article Jensen: U.S. Culpability

Znet Article, April, 10 2002 Robert Jensen
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U.S. Culpability

Znet Article Monbiot: World Bank To West Bank

Znet Article, April, 10 2002 George Monbiot
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Two sets of human shields are in use in the West Bank. The first is less than willing. The Israeli army, like some of the terrorist groups it has fought, has been taking hostages. Its soldiers have been propelling Palestinian civilians through the...

Znet Article Prashad: Memories of Barbarity: Sharonism and September

Znet Article, April, 10 2002 Vijay Prashad
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The Israeli Defense Force continues its inhuman assault on the Palestinian population of the Occupied Territories, sometimes euphemistically called the Palestinian Authority. The Oslo Accords that produced this sham of freedom did not change the f...

Znet Article Wilpert: An Imminent Coup in Venezuela?

Znet Article, April, 10 2002 Gregory Wilpert
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It appears that the strategy of President Chavez’ opposition is to create as much chaos and disorder in Venezuela as possible, so that Chavez is left with no other choice than to call a state of emergency. This, in turn could either lead t...

Commentary Flanders: Our Church Our Scandal

Commentary, April, 09 2002 Laura Flanders
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Interesting Examination of the recent scandals that have rocked the catholic church and the importance of these scamdals to everyone.

Znet Article Peters: On Going To Dc And On Going Home

Znet Article, April, 09 2002 Cynthia Peters
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The long weekend of April 19-22 in Washington, DC represents an historic opportunity for progressive social change movements. The anti-capitalist globalization movement, the newly forming anti-war movement, the growing mobilization against domesti...

Znet Article Arnove: Israel and the Threat of Transfer

Znet Article, April, 09 2002 Anthony Arnove
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The threat of “transfer” of Palestinians “is a real danger and not just a bunch of empty slogans,” Dr. Haidar Abdel Shafi, an 83-year-old refugee and a Palestinian activist based in the Ga...

Znet Article Chomsky: Chomsky Interview

Znet Article, April, 08 2002 Noam Chomsky
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TONY JONES: Noam Chomsky, President Bush's position on the Middle East crisis is evolving fast now, but until recently there have been confusing and contradictory signals coming from his administration. What do you think has been happening? PROFES...

Znet Article Fisk: This will be the week when we see who runs the US-Israeli alliance

Znet Article, April, 08 2002 Robert Fisk
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So what's the surprise? Suddenly Israel doesn't want to take our advice. Ex-general Ariel Sharon prefers to go on wrecking the Palestinian Authority, tearing up the Oslo agreement in the name of his Holy War on terror. Why should he worry about th...

Commentary Podur: Nation States?

Commentary, April, 07 2002 Justin Podur
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A state can be defined as a 'coercion-wielding organization that exercises priority over all other organizations in a definite territory', after Charles Tilly. Tilly says that the logic of states is to try to expand their power territorially by ma...

Znet Article Said: Thinking ahead: After survival, what happens?

Znet Article, April, 07 2002 Edward Said
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Anyone with any connection at all to Palestine is today in a state of stunned outrage and shock. While almost a repeat of what happened in 1982, Israel's current all-out colonial assault on the Palestinian people (with George Bush's astoundingly i...

Commentary Edwards: Arms, Climate Change, And The Grand Media Deception

Commentary, April, 06 2002 David Edwards
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In a recent Guardian article, Julian Borger reports a massive 11% increase in U.S. defence spending. It is estimated that by 2007 defence spending will be 20% higher than average cold war levels. While September 11 is cited as justification, the i...

Commentary Shalom: Exile for the Enemy of Peace?

Commentary, April, 06 2002 Stephen1 Shalom
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As fighting between Israelis and Palestinians reaches horrible new heights, many are asking whether the time has not finally come to stop tolerating an intransigent leader who refuses to put an end to the violence. Not that he should be killed, or...

Znet Article Solomon: Palestinians Are Blurry In The Editorial Frame

Znet Article, April, 06 2002 Norman Solomon
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In times of crisis, many policymakers and journalists pay special attention to the editorializing from America's most influential papers. The spin of news coverage and the mix of individual opinion pieces usually indicate the outlooks of the media...

Znet Article Pilger: Hollywood Hurrah

Znet Article, April, 06 2002 John Pilger
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I sat down the other night to watch Mai Masri's film Frontiers of Dreams and Fears. It was on videotape; like most of her remarkable work about the Palestinians, ten films in all, it has not been shown in the cinema or on television in this countr...

Znet Article Monbiot: America's Bioterror

Znet Article, April, 06 2002 George Monbiot
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America's Bioterror

Commentary Shalom: The Crisis in Palestine

Commentary, April, 05 2002 Stephen1 Shalom
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The basic problem in the Israel-Palestine conflict today remains what it's been for decades: the denial of self-determination to the Palestinian people. Palestinians have been living under a brutal and humiliating occupation since 1967 and no solu...

Znet Article Pilger: Not in our name

Znet Article, April, 05 2002 John Pilger
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President George W Bush yesterday called on Israel to withdraw from the Palestinian cities occupied by its forces during the last week. He excused Israel's violence, but lectured the Palestinians and the rest of the Middle East on the need for re...

Znet Article Dominick: Barking Up the Wrong Olive Branch

Znet Article, April, 05 2002 Brian Dominick
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All posturing aside, and despite numerous mixed messages, the US and perhaps even Israeli governments are beginning to admit in murmur what has been a starkly obvious reality for some time now: Whether they like it or not, it is improbable that th...

Znet Article Fisk: A Speech Laced With Obsessions And Little Else

Znet Article, April, 05 2002 Robert Fisk
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Ariel Sharon could not have done better. The heaping of blame upon an occupied people, the obsessive use of the word terror - by my rough count there were 50 references in just 10 minutes - and the brief, frightened remarks about "occupation" and ...

Znet Article Podur: The War Foretold

Znet Article, April, 05 2002 Justin Podur
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Most of the victims of the perpetual war in Colombia are unarmed poor civilians.  For every military casualty there are six civilian deaths.  In the words of one peasant leader, the Colombian war 'is not a civil war.  It's a war aga...

Commentary Podur: Cut Through The Lies In Palestine

Commentary, April, 04 2002 Justin Podur
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It's possible that there are more distortions and lies printed about

Znet Article Fisk: The Bloody Battle of Bethlehem

Znet Article, April, 04 2002 Robert Fisk
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Jerusalem: Rotting bodies in Bethlehem, Israeli soldiers surrounding Palestinian civilians and militiamen in the place of Christ's birth, unburied corpses in Ramallah - Israel's latest war is turning into a human and political tragedy on a vast sc...

Znet Article Shalom: Exile for the Enemy of Peace?

Znet Article, April, 03 2002 Stephen1 Shalom
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As fighting between Israelis and Palestinians reaches horrible new heights, many are asking whether the time has not finally come to stop tolerating an intransigent leader who refuses t...

Commentary Choudry: Playing With Children's Lives A Tried and Tested Tactic for Australian Government

Commentary, April, 02 2002 Aziz Choudry
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"I regard this as one of the most disturbing practices I've come across", Australia's Minister for Immigration and Multicultural and Indigenous Affairs, Philip Ruddock told media at the time.

Znet Article Shalom: The Crisis in Palestine

Znet Article, April, 02 2002 Stephen1 Shalom
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The basic problem in the Israel-Palestine conflict today remains what it's been for decades: the denial of self-determination to the Palestinian people. Palestinians have been living under a brutal and humiliating occupation since 1967 and no solu...

Znet Article Monbiot: Angel Of Death

Znet Article, April, 02 2002 George Monbiot
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Clare Short is a paradoxical figure. She has hinted that she might resign if Britain helps the US to invade Iraq. She has bravely blocked the aid money which would have been spent on a useless British air traffic system due to have been deployed, ...

Znet Article Fisk: Armored Invasion Brings No Peace

Znet Article, April, 02 2002 Robert Fisk
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If this is a war on terror, Jesus wasn't born in Bethlehem. The first to die was an 80-year-old Palestinian man, whose body never made it to the morgue. Then a woman and her son were critically wounded by Israeli gunfire. A cloud of black smoke sw...

Znet Article Fisk: Farce And Terror In Ramallah

Znet Article, April, 02 2002 Robert Fisk
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Farce And Terror In Ramallah

Commentary Herman: Mad Dogs, Scared Rabbits--laughing While Resisting

Commentary, April, 01 2002 Edward Herman
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For good reason it is hard for many people to see anything amusing at the current political scene, with a "war on terrorism" already devastating one small country, first class war criminal Ariel Sharon unleashed to assault another civilian populat...

Znet Article Gordon: Open Letter to the Commander of the Israeli Paratroopers

Znet Article, April, 01 2002 Neve Gordon
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 This letter by Israeli human rights activist and writer Neve Gordon was published in the weekly Jerusalem newspaper Kol Ha'Ir. It is addressed to Aviv Kohavi, Brigade Commander of the Israeli Paratroopers, and describes the Israeli military ...

Commentary Weisbrot: The Myth Of The Global Economy

Commentary, March, 31 2002 Mark Weisbrot
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Now that the US recession is over (Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan has pronounced it), it is worth glancing back at the widespread concerns of a global economic slowdown that prevailed just a few months ago. These fears turned out to be o...

Commentary Arnove: Convenient And Not So Convenient Massacres

Commentary, March, 30 2002 Anthony Arnove
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A frequent justification for toppling Saddam Hussein has been that he used chemical weapons on "his own people". A look at the US response at the time of the Halabja Massacre shows the US concern for the Kurdish to be an utter lie.

Znet Article Fisk: The lies leaders tell when they want to go to war

Znet Article, March, 30 2002 Robert Fisk
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How much longer can Ariel Sharon pretend that he's fighting in the "war against terror"? How much longer are we supposed to believe this nonsense? How much longer can the Americans remain so gutlessly silent in the face of a vicious conflict which...

Commentary Russell: Docs Refuse Medicare

Commentary, March, 29 2002 Marta Russell
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Affordable housing, never firmly dealt with in the US, was already at a crisis point pre-S11 during the economic boom. Now in the deepening recession, people are being pink-slipped and losing their jobs by the tens of thousands.

Znet Article Monbiot: Race War

Znet Article, March, 29 2002 George Monbiot
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Those of us who opposed the bombing of Afghanistan warned that the war between nations would not stop there. Now, as Tony Blair prepares the British people for an attack on Iraq, the conflict seems to be proliferating faster than most of us predic...

Znet Article Wise: White Perceptions

Znet Article, March, 28 2002 Tim Wise
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This is an interaction lifted from the ZNet Sustainer Forum System. In addition to receiving daily commentaries ZNet Sustainers have the opportunity to ask questions and interact with many other activists and intellectuals such as Noam Chomsky, Ho...

Commentary Peters: Using MLK to Keep You in Your Place

Commentary, March, 27 2002 Cynthia Peters
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There are all sorts of rationalizations people will offer for not envisioning a better future. "It's utopian," some will say. "You're dreaming. The best we can do is make small improvements on what we've got."

Znet Article Bello: US Military Operations in the Philippines

Znet Article, March, 27 2002 Walden Bello
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I think that the best way to begin is to repeat what Fr. Cirilo Nacorda said two days ago in Lamitan, Basilan, when he thanked the members of the International Peace Mission for "risking their lives" in going to Basilan to look for the truth. My c...

Znet Article Fisk: Arab Summit Lies In Ruins

Znet Article, March, 27 2002 Robert Fisk
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Israel's Prime Minister, Ariel Sharon, threw Yasser Arafat into the valley of humiliation last night, banning his visit to the Beirut Arab summit in the face of feeble American protests. "Unfortunately, the conditions are not yet ripe for Chairman...

Znet Article Street: Empire Abroad, Prisons At Home: Dark Connections

Znet Article, March, 27 2002 Paul Street
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It is commonplace for left writers and activists to note stark contradictions between the declared objectives of United States foreign policy and the harsh imperial realities of that policy. It is difficult, we note, with good reason, for thinking...

Znet Article Glick: Mass Mobilization And Politcal Change

Znet Article, March, 27 2002 Ted Glick
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Over the weekend of April 19-22, 2002, particularly on April 20th, tens of thousands of people from around the country will participate in a wide range of peace and justice activities in Washington, D.C. In an unprecedented show of political matur...

Znet Article Russell: Docs Refuse Medicare

Znet Article, March, 27 2002 Marta Russell
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I know without having to read the New York Times that docs are refusing to take Medicare patients because as an under 65 year old on Medicare due to disability I've been on the losing end of that stick for years. "For the first time" the New Y...

Commentary Street: Empire Abroad, Prisons At Home: Dark Connections

Commentary, March, 26 2002 Paul Street
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An examination of the connections between US foreign policy and the mass incarceration of poor people of color.

Znet Article Edwards: Media Lens Debate On Iraq Continued

Znet Article, March, 26 2002 David Edwards
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Following our Media Alert Update, 'The Observer's Nick Cohen and Observer Editor Roger Alton Respond On Iraq' (March 20, 2002 - for this and other Media Alerts see: http://www.medialens.org/frameset_alerts.html) Media Lens received this reply...

Commentary Brecher: Globalization Today

Commentary, March, 25 2002 Jeremy Brecher
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Since the beginning of the new millenium, the process of global economic integration we call globalization from above has sped from crisis to calamity. That has intensified both the need for and the strength of the convergence of social movements ...

Commentary Solomon: Six Months Later, The Basic Tool Is Language

Commentary, March, 24 2002 Norman Solomon
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Cameras have recorded countless defining moments. And many months after Sept. 11, some nightmarish televised glimpses of that day's horrors still resonate deeply. Visual images are powerful. Yet there's no substitute for words that sum up what mig...

Znet Article Kagarlitsky: Hercules Cleaned Out

Znet Article, March, 24 2002 Boris Kagarlitsky
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On March 11th the Russian Duma approved the resignation of Central Bank chief Viktor Gerashchenko. This act doesn't only mark the departure of one of the few larger-than-life characters remaining in Russian politics and a man who has played a -- i...

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