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Jensen: U.S. Still Adrift In Mideast
Znet Article, April, 12 2004
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U.S. Still Adrift In Mideast
Jensen: Key Bush Administration Mistakes Came After 9/11
Znet Article, April, 11 2004
Robert Jensen
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Condoleezza Rice's testimony before the 9/11 commission didn't resolve questions about what the Bush administration could, or should, have done to prevent the attack, but her comments made it clear how Bush policies since 9/11 have made American...
Jensen: Purported Bush Tape Raises Fear of New Attacks
Znet Article, November, 28 2003
Robert Jensen
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A tape today surfaced in U.S. media outlets of someone purporting to be George W. Bush at a U.S. military base in Baghdad. Intelligence analysts around the world are studying the videotapes. "It certainly looked and sounded like him, but we get ...
Jensen: What the Fighting Sioux can tell us about white people
Znet Article, October, 27 2003
Robert Jensen
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A talk by Robert Jensen at the University of North Dakota on October 10, 2003, sponsored by BRIDGES, a student group that works to remove the university's "Fighting Sioux" nickname and logo. [Jensen, a professor of journalism at the University of...
Jensen: Shell Game Speech
Znet Article, September, 09 2003
Robert Jensen
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The Bush administration's contempt for the intelligence of Americans hit a new low Sunday night in the President's speech about Iraq. People around the country are asking about the failure to find evidence of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq,...
Jensen: Through eyes of foreigners
Znet Article, September, 08 2003
Robert Jensen
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Through eyes of foreigners
Jensen: Sustainability And Politics
Znet Article, July, 10 2003
Robert Jensen
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Wes Jackson and his colleagues at The Land Institute are working on a 10,000 year-old problem -- agriculture. Not simply problems in agriculture, but the problem of agriculture. That fundamental problem is that no one has come up with a sustain...
Jensen: Texas Pledge Of Allegiance Law Undermines Democracy And Critical Thinking
Znet Article, June, 05 2003
Robert Jensen
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Among its many dubious achievements this session, the Texas Legislature -- in the name of promoting appreciation for democratic political values in the public schools -- struck a blow against the critical thinking skills crucial for meaningful dem...
Jensen: Where's The Pretext?
Znet Article, April, 30 2003
Robert Jensen
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How blatantly can an administration lie to promote a war and get away with it? We'll find out in the coming weeks, as U.S. forces in Iraq search for evidence of banned weapons and U.S. officials shape postwar Iraq. Ironically, the conduct of th...
Jensen: For Self-determination In Iraq, The U.s. Must Leave
Znet Article, April, 14 2003
Robert Jensen
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The U.S. attack on Iraqi has brought the collapse of Saddam Hussein's brutal regime, which is cause for celebration. For the first time in at least 35 years, the conditions could exist for Iraqis to chart their own destiny. Now the United States ...
Jensen: The Unseen War
Znet Article, April, 11 2003
Robert Jensen
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It was the picture of the day -- the toppling of a Saddam Hussein statue in Baghdad -- and may end up being the picture of the war, the single image that comes to define the conflict. The message will be clear: The U.S. liberated the Iraqi people;...
Jensen: Arnett Paid A Price For Being Truly Neutral
Znet Article, April, 02 2003
Robert Jensen
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Arnett Paid A Price For Being Truly Neutral
Jensen: On NPR, Please Follow The Script
Znet Article, March, 24 2003
Robert Jensen
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Last week I found out that National Public Radio wants the opinions of antiwar activists -- as long as we follow the right script. After a day of antiwar protests on the University of Texas campus and in Austin, I found myself booked as a late-ni...
Jensen: Confronting Our Fears So We Can Confront The Empire
Znet Article, March, 17 2003
Robert Jensen
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Confronting Our Fears So We Can Confront The Empire
Jensen: Bush's Contempt For Democracy
Znet Article, March, 03 2003
Robert Jensen
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Many around the world are skeptical when George Bush says he wants to use war to help create democracy in Iraq. As a step toward bolstering his credibility, Bush might start taking seriously democracy in the rest of the world, and at home. U.S. r...
Jensen: Putting The Public Back In Public Policy
Znet Article, February, 17 2003
Robert Jensen
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On Saturday (Feb. 15), we stood on the Capitol steps in Austin, Texas -- across the street from the governor's mansion where George W. Bush once lived -- and spoke to 10,000 Texans who had gathered to reject Bush's mad rush to war in Iraq. The ne...
Jensen: Smoking Guns And Big Guns: The Us Drive To War
Znet Article, February, 05 2003
Robert Jensen
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The world's attention Wednesday was trained on what Secretary of State Colin Powell said at the United Nations, but far more crucial was what he didn't say. Most important was the one word at the core of plans for war but which never crossed Powe...
Jensen: The message from Porto Alegre to the United States: Restrain the empire
Znet Article, February, 03 2003
Robert Jensen
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Last week at the World Social Forum in Porto Alegre, Brazil, I talked with dozens of people from around the world. I learned a lot about the struggles for justice in their countries, but the most important lesson I brought home was about my own co...
Jensen: Get Up, Stand Up
Znet Article, February, 03 2003
Robert Jensen
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Get Up, Stand Up
Jensen: Without Justice There Can Be No Peace
Znet Article, January, 21 2003
Robert Jensen
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One way to cover up a crime is to find a benign term that hides the violence and cruelty of the act. Such is the case with "transfer," an idea increasingly being put forward in Israel as a solution to conflict with the Palestinians. Transfer con...
Jensen: From The Streets Into The Studio
Znet Article, January, 21 2003
Robert Jensen
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On a blustery Sunday morning outside the CBS studio in Washington, D.C., I shared a moment with veteran television journalist Bob Schieffer that spoke volumes about the sad state of democracy and journalism in the United States. Schieffer was ins...
Jensen: Bob Woodward And The Bush At War Hagiography
Znet Article, December, 08 2002
Robert Jensen
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Bob Woodward's latest travelogue through the minds of the powerful, "Bush at War," has been widely praised as a compelling account of the Bush administration post-9/11. The book is, in one sense, quite an accomplishment: Woodward manages to make ...
Jensen: President Bush plans an unprecedented shift of almost half of government
Znet Article, November, 24 2002
Robert Jensen
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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...
Jensen: World's Policeman or Bully?
Znet Article, November, 18 2002
Robert Jensen
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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...
Jensen: Bush's Lies And Simple Truths
Znet Article, October, 28 2002
Robert Jensen
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A few weeks ago Jim McDermott, a courageous congressman from Washington state, traveled to Baghdad in pursuit of peace and was sharply criticized, particularly for his comment that George Bush "might mislead" the American public to build support f...
Jensen: Citizens As Soldiers, Citizens As Prey
Znet Article, October, 20 2002
Robert Jensen
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In what could be one of the final steps toward the permanent militarization of U.S. society, we all are being recruited as soldiers in the Bush administration's unlimited war against endless enemies (also known as the "war on terrorism"). Last De...
Jensen: Citizens As Soldiers, Citizens As Prey
Znet Article, October, 20 2002
Robert Jensen
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In what could be one of the final steps toward the permanent militarization of U.S. society, we all are being recruited as soldiers in the Bush administration's unlimited war against endless enemies (also known as the "war on terrorism"). Last De...
Jensen: ZNet Interviews Robert Jensen About
Znet Article, October, 14 2002
Robert Jensen
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ZNet Interviews Robert Jensen About
Jensen: The American Political Paradox
Znet Article, October, 14 2002
Robert Jensen
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Since September 11, I have been speaking freely in the United States, a nation whose institutions have many democratic features. My free speech, which has been harshly critical of the leaders of the United States and their policies, has been disse...
Jensen: Bush's Illogic
Znet Article, October, 08 2002
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Bush's Illogic


