WG: March 2002

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                            March 2002

                          In this issue:
                                 
     ...The US, the search for new enemies, dirty DU danger,
       Afghan women free to die; Israel's soldiers say no;
     volunteers for Palestine; Iran v. the heroin smugglers;
    Japan, tired of the old politics; El Salvador, rebranding
     the revolutionaries; US workplace love-in; Turkey's Big
      Brother; Belgium repents; and José Saramago asks what
                     happened to democracy...

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     It couldn't be easier...


The other axis of evil

by IGNACIO RAMONET

                                   Translated by Luke Sandford

       <http://MondeDiplo.com/2002/03/01axis>


OFFENSIVE NEW PENTAGON DEFENCE DOCTRINE

Making enemies *

by PAUL-MARIE DE LA GORCE

     The United States military seems to be preparing for an
     attack on Iraq, its plans based on a new Washington
     defence doctrine and even newer hi-tech weaponry. The
     Pentagon is gathering its resources to declare
     pre-emptive war in the name of American national
     self-defence.

                                    Translated by Barry Smerin



DEPLETED URANIUM IN BUNKER BOMBS

America's big dirty secret

by ROBERT JAMES PARSONS

     The United States loudly and proudly boasted this month
     of its new bomb currently being used against al-Qaida
     hold-outs in Afghanistan; it sucks the air from
     underground installations, suffocating those within. The
     US has also admitted that it has used depleted uranium
     weaponry over the last decade against bunkers in Iraq,
     Kosovo, and now Afghanistan.

                                      Translated by the author

       <http://MondeDiplo.com/2002/03/03uranium>


INSECURE, EXASPERATED AND BORED WITH THE OLD POLITICS

Japan fights the future *

by our special correspondent ANNE GARRIGUE

     Last year's election of Junichiro Koizumi as Japan's
     prime minister was supposed to begin the end of the
     corrupt, conservative Liberal Democrat regime in power
     for nearly 50 years. It didn't, and he has lost
     popularity. The economy is stagnating, and the nation is
     still locked into a subservient financial and diplomatic
     relationship with the United States. The only real change
     is tentatively coming from new, local grassroots
     organisations.

                                   Translated by Luke Sandford



The American shogunate *

by CHALMERS JOHNSON

                               Translated by Malcolm Greenwood



THE PEACE MOVEMENT REVIVAL

Israel's army refuseniks *

by JOSEPH ALGAZY

     As Israel and the Palestinian territories descend into
     chaos, there are new international humanitarian efforts
     in the West Bank and Gaza; and the Israeli peace movement
     has revived, with big demonstrations, a new joint action
     group and a growing refusal by Israeli soldiers to serve
     in Palestinian territories. A third of Israelis now back
     this refusal.

                              Translated by Wendy Kristianasen



To protect and serve *

by ISABELLE AVRAN

                              Translated by Wendy Kristianasen



Dehumanised in Gaza: the movie

by DOMINIQUE GODRČCHE

                              Translated by Wendy Kristianasen

       <http://MondeDiplo.com/2002/03/08palestine>


FMLN ACTS LOCAL, THINKS NATIONAL

Revolutionary management in El Salvador

by our special correspondent KARIM BOURTEL

     A transport strike paralysed El Salvador last month after
     the rightwing government rejected a traffic plan that had
     been negotiated by San Salvador's leftwing mayor. Former
     guerrilla fighters now rule the capital and the outcome
     of the 2004 presidential elections may depend on them.

                                   Translated by Luke Sandford

       <http://MondeDiplo.com/2002/03/09salvador>


The Blairite ex-guerrillas *

by our special correspondent KARIM BOURTEL

                                   Translated by Luke Sandford



BRUSSELS REPENTS ITS AFRICAN SINS

Belgium's murky history *

by COLETTE BRAECKMAN

     Two Rwandans were convicted in Belgium last year of
     playing a part in genocide, under a 1993 law giving
     Belgian courts universal jurisdiction. Perhaps this
     ethical policy means Belgium is admitting its dark
     colonial past.

                                      Translated by Lorna Dale



AMERICA NEVER CARED ABOUT AFGHAN WOMEN

Free to die *

by CHRISTINE DELPHY

                                  Translated by Barbara Wilson



THE HEROIN ROUTE FROM AFGHANISTAN TO EUROPE

Iran loses its drugs war

by CÉDRIC GOUVERNEUR

     Most heroin sold in Europe comes from Afghanistan's
     poppies. Drugs cross the permeable border with Iran on
     their way to Turkey and Europe despite Iran's desperate
     efforts, costing many lives, to combat trafficking at the
     border. Europe doesn't help Iran with the cost of
     policing, and does even less to finance Afghan farmers to
     plant alternative crops.

                                   Translated by Harry Forster

       <http://MondeDiplo.com/2002/03/13drug>


The enemy within

by CEDRIC GOUVERNEUR

                                   Translated by Harry Forster

       <http://MondeDiplo.com/2002/03/14drug>


The European market

                                   Translated by Harry Forster

       <http://MondeDiplo.com/2002/03/15drug>


END OF THE NEW WORKPLACE

Smiling serfs of the new economy *

by IBRAHIM WARDE

     Will the crash of Enron, following the dot.com debacle,
     end the abuse of the 'new economy' employees in the
     United States, who surrendered their basic rights in the
     interests of company shareholders and even had to make
     voluntary 'contributions' to their firms' political
     friends?

                                      Translated by the author



TUNE IN, TUNE OUT

Turkey's unreality TV *

by NICOLAS MONCEAU

     Turkey is in financial crisis and with a severe cultural
     identity problem. And what is everyone doing, rich, poor
     and poorer across the nation? Watching television game
     shows and the Istanbul version of Big Brother.

                               Translated by Malcolm Greenwood



JUSTICE AND DEMOCRACY DENIED

For whom the bell tolls *

by JOSÉ SARAMAGO

                                    Translated by Julie Stoker




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