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Wednesday, July 10, 2002
A visit to the enchanted land of the free market The latest This Modern World is another great one. Read it here.
Monday, July 08, 2002
We like it when you don't vote "That is neoliberal democracy in a nutshell: trivial debate over minor issues by parties that basically pursue the same probusiness policies regardless of formal differences and campaign debate. Democracy is permissible as long as the control of business is off-limits to popular deliberation or change; that is, so long as it isn't democracy." Read more of this facinating excerpt from Rich Media, Poor Democracy by Robert McChesney here. I think I may have to find myself a copy of this book.
Propaganda and lies "UNITED Nations weapons inspectors colluded with British secret service agents to spread disinformation about Saddam Hussein's nuclear, biological and chemical weapons programs as part of a campaign to justify military strikes, according to the head of the UN inspection team in Iraq. In an interview with The Herald, Scott Ritter, who led the United Nations Special Commission (UNSCOM) team in Iraq for seven years in the 90s, claims he helped to leak propaganda to journalists. He resigned from the post in 1998 but said his experience then suggested that recent claims that Iraq was developing weapons of mass destruction should be treated skeptically." In case you needed another reason to not want to see American soldiers die in Iraq so that Shrub can get himself re-elected in 2004. Read the short article here.
How the Israeli army handles Palestinians who break curfew "The film of their last moments begins with the two boys and a number of other civilians running towards the camera along an otherwise deserted street in Jenin." The BBC has recently acquired a videotape which apparently shows that an Israeli tank fired on a group of fleeing civilians a few weeks ago, killing two children. Read the full story here, and then wonder why the major US media outlets don't seem to care.
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