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Znet Article Klein: The Robbery of Reconstruction

Znet Article, June, 26 2004 Naomi Klein
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Good news out of Baghdad: the Program Management Office, which oversees the $18.4bn in US reconstruction funds, has finally set a goal it can meet. Sure, electricity is below pre-war levels, the streets are rivers of sewage and more Iraqis have be...

Znet Article Klein: Baghdad

Znet Article, June, 15 2004 Naomi Klein
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In Baghdad, every encounter we had was a bit like going through customs. "American?" was the inevitable first question. "No, no, Canadian," our over-eager reply. Sometimes our word wasn't good enough and our interrogators wanted proof. We'd pu...

Znet Article Klein: The Bush Doctrine: Thumbs Up, No Matter What

Znet Article, May, 15 2004 Naomi Klein
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The Bush Doctrine: Thumbs Up, No Matter What

Znet Article Klein: Mutiny is the only way out

Znet Article, May, 01 2004 Naomi Klein
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Can we please stop calling it a quagmire? The United States isn't mired in a bog in Iraq, or a marsh; it is free-falling off a cliff. The only question now is: who will follow the Bush clan off this precipice, and who will refuse to jump? More a...

Znet Article Klein: Fury Ignites Solidarity In Iraq

Znet Article, April, 11 2004 Naomi Klein
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Los Angeles Times April 9, 2004 COMMENTARY BAGHDAD - April 9, 2003, was the day this city fell to U.S. forces. One year later, it is rising up against them. Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld claims that the resistance is just a few "thugs...

Znet Article Klein: Freedom Fires

Znet Article, April, 05 2004 Naomi Klein
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I heard the sound of freedom in Baghdad's Firdos Square, the famous plaza where the statue of Saddam Hussein was toppled one year ago. It sounds like machine gun fire. On Sunday, Iraqi soldiers, trained and controlled by Coalition forces, opened ...

Znet Article Klein: Let's Make Enemies

Znet Article, April, 03 2004 Naomi Klein
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Do you have any rooms?" we ask the hotelier. She looks us over, dwelling on my travel partner's bald, white head. "No," she replies. We try not to notice that there are sixty room keys in pigeonholes behind her desk--the place is empty. "W...

Znet Article Klein: Iraq Under The U.s. Thumb

Znet Article, March, 25 2004 Naomi Klein
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Baghdad -- In London, they unfurled a protest sign on Big Ben; in Rome a million demonstrators filled the streets. Here in Iraq, there were no such spectacular markings of the one-year anniversary of the invasion -- a sign, the BBC speculated, tha...

Znet Article Klein: The Year of the Fake

Znet Article, March, 20 2004 Naomi Klein
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The Year of the Fake

Znet Article Klein: Feel Guilt. Then Move On

Znet Article, February, 20 2004 Naomi Klein
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It was Mary Vargas, a 44-year-old engineer in Renton, Washington, who carried US therapy culture to its new zenith. Explaining why the war in Iraq was no longer her top election issue, she told Salon, the online magazine, that "when they didn't fi...

Znet Article Klein: Appointocracy

Znet Article, January, 23 2004 Naomi Klein
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'The people of Iraq are free," declared U.S. President George W. Bush in Tuesday's State of the Union address. The day before, 100,000 Iraqis begged to differ. They took to the streets of Baghdad shouting "Yes, yes to elections. No, no to selectio...

Znet Article Klein: Not Neo-con, Just Plain Greed

Znet Article, December, 21 2003 Naomi Klein
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Contrary to all predictions, the heavy doors of Old Europe weren't slammed in James Baker's face as he asked forgiveness for Iraq's foreign debt. France and Germany appear to have signed on, and Russia is softening its line. Just last week, there...

Znet Article Klein: The War on Dissent

Znet Article, November, 25 2003 Naomi Klein
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In December, 1990, U.S. President George Bush Sr. travelled through South America to sell the continent on a bold new dream: "a free-trade system that links all of the Americas." Addressing the Argentine congress, he said that the plan, later to b...

Znet Article Klein: Iraq Is Not America's To Sell

Znet Article, November, 07 2003 Naomi Klein
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Bring Halliburton home. Cancel the contracts. Ditch the deals. Rip up the rules. Those are just a few of the suggestions for slogans that could help unify the growing movement against the occupation of Iraq. So far, activist debates have focused o...

Znet Article Klein: Free Trade Is War

Znet Article, September, 13 2003 Naomi Klein
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Free Trade Is War

Znet Article Klein: Stark Message Of The Mutiny

Znet Article, August, 16 2003 Naomi Klein
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What does it take to become a major news ...

Znet Article Klein: An Olympic Land Grab

Znet Article, July, 23 2003 Naomi Klein
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In sport, as in life, "security" trumps peace. That's what happened when the International Olympic Committee chose Vancouver, Canada, over PyeongChang, South Korea, for the 2010 Winter Games. PyeongChang pitched itself as the peace candidate: w...

Znet Article Klein: Bomb Before You Buy

Znet Article, July, 15 2003 Naomi Klein
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The military occupation of Iraq has not gone according to the plan made in Washington long before the war was launched against Saddam Hussein's government. Since President Bush declared major hostilities over in Iraq on May 1, more than 30 U.S. an...

Znet Article Klein: Bush to NGOs: Watch your mouths

Znet Article, June, 24 2003 Naomi Klein
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The Bush administration has found its next target for pre-emptive war, but it's not Iran, Syria or North Korea -- not yet, anyway. Before launching any new foreign adventures, the Bush gang has some homeland housekeeping to take care of: It is go...

Znet Article Klein: Elections vs. Democracy in Argentina

Znet Article, May, 14 2003 Naomi Klein
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In most of the world, it's the sign for peace, but here in Argentina it means war. The index and middle finger, held to form a V, means to his followers, Menem vuelve, Menem will return. Carlos Menem, poster boy of Latin American neoliberalism, pr...

Znet Article Klein: Snapshot Of A Nation

Znet Article, April, 29 2003 Naomi Klein
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In 1812, bands of British weavers and knitters raided textile mills and smashed industrial machines with their hammers. According to the Luddites, the new mechanised looms had eliminated thousands of jobs and broken communities and deserved to be ...

Znet Article Klein: Argentina's Luddite Rulers

Znet Article, April, 24 2003 Naomi Klein
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In 1812, bands of British weavers and knitters raided textile mills and smashed industrial machines with their hammers. According to the Luddites, the new mechanized looms had eliminated thousands of jobs, broken communities and deserved to be des...

Znet Article Klein: Rebuilding Iraq?

Znet Article, April, 13 2003 Naomi Klein
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On April 6, Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz spelled it out: There will be no role for the United Nations in setting up an interim government in Iraq. The US-run regime will last at least six months, "probably...longer than that."And by the...

Znet Article Klein: Evicting Indymedia Argentina?

Znet Article, March, 27 2003 Naomi Klein
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When Argentina exploded in a popular uprising on December 19 and 20th 2001, overthrowing four presidents in two weeks, the mainstream international press reported on the news as the 'collapse' of a country. Frustrated, I went to Indymedia Argentin...

Znet Article Klein: So, Bush Wants Civil Disobedience?

Znet Article, February, 28 2003 Naomi Klein
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The U.S. President is urging Iraqis to rise up against Saddam Hussein. It's time to turn the domestic tables and -- voilà! -- escalate the war against the war At the Pentagon, they call it the Voilà Moment. That's when Iraqi soldiers and civil...

Znet Article Klein: More Democracy - Not More Political Strongmen

Znet Article, February, 03 2003 Naomi Klein
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The key word at this year's World Social Forum, held this week in Porto Alegre, Brazil, was "big". Big attendance: more than 100,000 delegates in all. Big speeches: more than 15,000 crammed in to see Noam Chomsky. And most of all, big men. Luiz In...

Znet Article Klein: Out Of The Ordinary

Znet Article, January, 31 2003 Naomi Klein
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In late 2001, the people of Argentina took to the streets, driven to despair by the economic chaos into which their leaders had dragged them. Among them was Gustavo Benedetto, a 23-year-old killed on his first ever protest. Naomi Klein reports on ...

Znet Article Klein: Don' Fence Us In

Znet Article, October, 06 2002 Naomi Klein
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A few months ago, while riffling through my clippings searching for a lost statistic, I noticed a recurring theme: the fence. The image came up again and again: barriers separating people from previously public resources, locking them away from mu...

Znet Article Klein: Old Hates Fueled By Fear

Znet Article, April, 24 2002 Naomi Klein
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I knew from e-mail reports that something new was going on in Washington last weekend. A demonstration against the World Bank and International Monetary Fund was joined by an antiwar march, as well as a demonstration against the Israeli occupation...

Znet Article Klein: IMF Go To Hell

Znet Article, March, 19 2002 Naomi Klein
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On Tuesday in Buenos Aires, only a few blocks from where Argentine President Eduardo Duhalde was negotiating with the International Monetary Fund, a group of residents were going through a negotiation of a different kind. They were trying to save ...

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