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Znet Article Wise: Liberation or Libation?

Znet Article, April, 04 2003 Tim Wise
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I figured it would happen sooner or later. Having written several columns questioning the notion that the current war in Iraq is about "liberation" of that nation's people, it was only a matter of time before I received an email like the one this...

Znet Article Wise: So This Is What War Looks Like?

Znet Article, April, 02 2003 Tim Wise
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So This Is What War Looks Like?

Znet Article Wise: Of Lies, Liberation and American Self-Delusion

Znet Article, March, 27 2003 Tim Wise
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Iraqis must think the American definition of liberation a strange one. First, we destroy all of the key government buildings that we can find in a search for Saddam Hussein. Then we relentlessly attack the Iraqi military, which of course count...

Znet Article Wise: The Moral Calculus of Killing

Znet Article, March, 24 2003 Tim Wise
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The Moral Calculus of Killing

Znet Article Wise: Mental Botox

Znet Article, March, 22 2003 Tim Wise
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I remember the first time I ever visited inmates on Tennessee's death row. What struck me about the experience was not so much the solemnity or the pall of pending execution that hung over the place like a threatening storm cloud. Nor was it the i...

Znet Article Wise: No Ribbons, No Flags, No Fireworks

Znet Article, March, 21 2003 Tim Wise
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Dear neighbor, Please spare me the lecture. Likewise, don’t bother asking me why I refuse to tie a yellow ribbon around the tree in my front yard, or put out a flag, or slather my Honda Civic with “Support the Troops” bump...

Znet Article Wise: Whites Swim In Racial Preference

Znet Article, February, 23 2003 Tim Wise
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Ask a fish what water is and you'll get no answer. Even if fish were capable of speech, they would likely have no explanation for the element they swim in every minute of every day of their lives. Water simply is. Fish take it for granted. So to...

Znet Article Wise: Taliban Jews: Some Extremists are More Equal Than Others

Znet Article, May, 11 2002 Tim Wise
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As tensions flare in the Middle East-the result of Israel's ongoing occupation of Palestinian territory, as well as a spate of suicide/homicide bombings by those resisting the occupation-much has been said of "extremists" and the actions of fanati...

Znet Article Wise: Anti-Semitism, Real and Imagined

Znet Article, April, 29 2002 Tim Wise
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Watching former Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speak to Congress a few weeks ago, I must admit, I was almost sucked in. No, not by his distorted version of reality in the Occupied Territories, nor by his opportunistic and transparently ...

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...

Znet Article Wise: For Black History Month, Remember The True MLK

Znet Article, February, 15 2002 Tim Wise
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As we find ourselves in the midst of Black History Month -- a brief respite from the much whiter version of history we learn and celebrate the rest of the year -- and having recently commemorated another Martin Luther King Jr. holiday, perhaps it ...

Znet Article Wise: Rationalizing Racism

Znet Article, January, 14 2002 Tim Wise
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Random security checks. That’s what they’re called anyway: those extra bag searches and body scans being done at airports across the U.S., presumably to deter a new round of terrorist attacks. On each flight, a handful of passenger...

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