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Znet Article Jensen: U.S. Still Adrift In Mideast

Znet Article, April, 12 2004 Robert Jensen
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U.S. Still Adrift In Mideast

Znet Article 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...

Znet Article 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 ...

Znet Article 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...

Znet Article 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,...

Znet Article Jensen: Through eyes of foreigners

Znet Article, September, 08 2003 Robert Jensen
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Through eyes of foreigners

Znet Article 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...

Znet Article 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...

Znet Article 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...

Znet Article 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 ...

Znet Article 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;...

Znet Article 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

Znet Article 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...

Znet Article 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

Znet Article 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...

Znet Article 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...

Znet Article 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...

Znet Article 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...

Znet Article Jensen: Get Up, Stand Up

Znet Article, February, 03 2003 Robert Jensen
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Get Up, Stand Up

Znet Article 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...

Znet Article 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...

Znet Article 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 ...

Znet Article 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...

Znet Article 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...

Znet Article 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...

Znet Article 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...

Znet Article 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...

Znet Article Jensen: ZNet Interviews Robert Jensen About

Znet Article, October, 14 2002 Robert Jensen
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ZNet Interviews Robert Jensen About

Znet Article 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...

Znet Article Jensen: Bush's Illogic

Znet Article, October, 08 2002 Robert Jensen
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Bush's Illogic

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