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Znet Article Z: Missile Envy

Znet Article, February, 13 2003 Mickey Z
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"Every government is run by liars and nothing they say should be believed." --I.F. Stone Two leads from February 12, 2003: "International missile experts found that an Iraqi missile exceeded the maximum 93-mile range allowed under U.N. resolutio...

Znet Article Z: From Dresden To Baghdad

Znet Article, February, 08 2003 Mickey Z
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"If war is forced upon us, we will fight in a just cause and by just means sparing, in every way we can, the innocent." --George W. Bush, in his State of the Union Address, January 28, 2003 ------------ The Pentagon recently revealed its plan fo...

Znet Article Z: Taking Up Space

Znet Article, February, 04 2003 Mickey Z
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Within 24 hours of the Columbia Space Shuttle accident, NASA made three announcements worth examining. On Sunday, February 2, as reported by AP writer, Pam Easton, "NASA warned members of the public Sunday against trying to sell purported Columbia...

Znet Article Z: Bush, Brain Damage, And State Of The Union

Znet Article, January, 29 2003 Mickey Z
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"One can lie with the mouth, but with the accompanying grimace, one nevertheless tells the truth." -Nietzsche President-Select George W. Bush delivered the yearly State of the Union address last night (January 28, 2003). While members of congress...

Znet Article Z: IBM's Gambit Declined

Znet Article, January, 27 2003 Mickey Z
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Just as we're submitted to television spectacles of sprinters racing giraffes, Dylan Loeb McClain of the New York Times informs us "Garry Kasparov, the world's top-ranked player and the former world champion, will play a $1 million, six-game match...

Znet Article Z: They Paved Paradise

Znet Article, January, 22 2003 Mickey Z
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Washington Post columnist, Howard Kurtz wrote about the latest controversy over SUVs...utilizing the corporate media's standard version of cute. The January 22, 2003 piece, entitled "The New Axle of Evil" (see what I mean?), Kurtz takes on the "De...

Znet Article Z: Malpractice Makes Perfect

Znet Article, January, 17 2003 Mickey Z
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"Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died." -Erma Bombeck Two articles in the January 17, 2003 New York Times offered a telling glimpse at what passes for health care in the home of the brave. First, in "White House Allows Limits on Em...

Znet Article Z: Thoughts on the Death Penalty

Znet Article, January, 13 2003 Mickey Z
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Nearly 3600 human beings languish on death row all across the land of the free. Some are guilty, some innocent, some mentally disabled; but all await a grisly, taxpayer-subsidized death. Why? The most common justification given for capital punis...

Znet Article Z: The A Word

Znet Article, January, 10 2003 Mickey Z
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There's a petition making the rounds on the Internet that reads: "We demand that the government of the United States cease and desist its failed policy of appeasement concerning Saddam Hussein and with all dispatch and all force necessary, rid us ...

Znet Article Z: Without A Clousseau

Znet Article, January, 06 2003 Mickey Z
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With a defense budget...wait, let's cut with the bullshit: With a war budget of over $350 billion dollars per year, even a Soldier of Fortune subscriber might be wondering if we taxpayers are getting our money's worth. Is all the legal tender bein...

Znet Article Z: "We can use the fruits of it"

Znet Article, December, 30 2002 Mickey Z
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"Nothing changes on New Year's Day..." (U2) In the corporate media equivalent of a scoop, Dana Priest and Barton Gellman of the Washington Post "broke" the story of US torture of Arab and Afghan "detainees." The December 26 article, perfectly tim...

Znet Article Z: His Own People?

Znet Article, December, 20 2002 Mickey Z
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It appears more inevitable than ever that the US and a few allies will broaden the assault on Iraq that began in 1990 and has continued unabated since then (as of Dec. 16, the US and Britain have bombed Iraq 61 times in 2002 alone). The ostensible...

Znet Article Z: Today

Znet Article, December, 12 2002 Mickey Z
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As we go on with our lives we tend to forget that the jails and the hospitals and the madhouses and the graveyards are packed. Today, I walk the stairs up to the elevated platform, ready to join 3.5 million of my closest friends on the subway. Ju...

Znet Article Z: Giving Thanks In The Land Of Denial

Znet Article, November, 28 2002 Mickey Z
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"Thanks for the wild turkey and the passengerpigeons, destined to be shit out through wholesomeAmerican guts."From "A Thanksgiving Prayer"William S. Burroughs, 1988 -----------When New York Times columnist William Safire informs us that Saddam H...

Znet Article Z: Ariel Sharon's Generation

Znet Article, November, 18 2002 Mickey Z
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New York Times columnist William Safire has never made a secret of his pro-Israeli partiality. Thus it came as no surprise when, in a November 11, 2002 op-ed, he described Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon as "a passionate Zionist, hearty, good-...

Znet Article Z: Convincing The Skeptics

Znet Article, October, 26 2002 Mickey Z
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As I write this on a day of worldwide protest (October 26, 2002), the US government and the corporations that own it are poised for another exercise in international criminality. This time it's a major escalation of the ongoing assault on Iraq. Wi...

Znet Article Z: Noble Carter?

Znet Article, October, 11 2002 Mickey Z
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The October 11, 2002 Washington Post article reported that former U.S. President Jimmy Carter had beat out peace-loving nominees like George W. Bush and Tony Blair to win the Nobel Peace Prize “for his decades of untiring effort to find pe...

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