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April 11, 2002
Alexander Cockburn
From the West Bank to BBQ
to Old Sparky, And Beyond
April 10, 2002
M. Juniad Alam
Blaming the Victims:
Hating the Palestinians
George
Monbiot
World
Bank to West Bank
Fran Schor
US-Sponsored State Terror
David
Vest
Political
Color Schemes
Jack McCarthy
Florida State Radicals:
The Berkeley of the South
Rises Again
Doreen
Miller
A
Tale of Two Warring Tribes
Michael Neumann
Israelis and Indians
April 9, 2002
Bernard
Weiner
Colin
Powell's Table Talk
Matt Vidal
Thomas Friedman,
Another Wasted Pulitzer
Ron Jacobs
Buyer
Beware
Robert Jensen
I Helped Kill a Palestinian
Vijay
Prashad
Memories
of Barbarity:
Sharonism and September
Wayne Madsen
Anthrax and the Agency:
Thinking the Unthinkable
April 8, 2002
David
Vest
From
Birmingham to Nashville:
The Making of Tammy Wynette
Rick Giombetti
Paxil, Suicide and Science
Dr. Neve
Gordon
Letter
to an IDF Colonel:
How Did You Become
a War Criminal?
Dave Marsh
DeskScan:
This Week's Top 10 CDs
Jordy
Cummings
Not
in My Name Anymore
Gavin Keeney
Bush and the Middle East:
Mouth Wide Shut
Edward
Said
The
Future of Palestine
April 7, 2002
Beth Daoud
Accompanying Ambulances
in Bethlehem
Nancy
Stohlman
After
the Invasion:
The Search for Bread
Among the Ruins
Thomas Mountain
"Yellow Peril" In Hawai'i:
Judge Orders Chains and Shackles for Chinese Witnesses
Tariq
Ali
Who
Killed Daniel Pearl?
April 6, 2002
Philip Farruggio
War, Snake Oil and Circuses
Viktor
Litovkin
Russian
Generals Raise Questions About Pentagon Victories in Afghanistan
Patrick Cockburn
CIA Survey of Iraqi Airfields
May Herald Attack
Walt Brasch
Oil
Slick George:
Bush-whacking the Environment
Ralph Nader
Campaign Finance Sham
Sam Bahour
The
Blind Leading the Criminal
Bill Christison:
A Former CIA Official on
Oil and the Middle East
April 5, 2002
Charmaine
Seitz
In
Ramallah: The Grueling Reoccupation Grinds On
Nancy Stohlman
The Invasion of Bethlehem
and Our Tax Dollars at Work
Beth Daoud
The
Siege of Bethlehem:
"What Do You Mean God Is Punishing Me?"
Fareed Marjaee:
Demonizing Iran
Mokhiber
/ Weissman
Philip
Morris to Canada:
"Drop Dead"
Alex Lynch
Tampa Campus Mirrors
Middle East Strife
Alexander
Cockburn
Sharon's
Wars: How the
News Gets Through
April 4, 2002
Ray Hanania
Sharon's Latest Lie About the Church
of the Nativity
Mike Leon
Rightwing
Assault on Madison Progressives Misfires
Tom Turnipseed
Stop the Killing Now!
Nancy
Stohlman
An
American Under Siege in a West Bank Refugee Camp
Christopher Reilly
Kissinger, Chile and Justice
at Long Last?
M. Shahid
Alam
The
Lies of Thomas Friedman
April 3, 2002
Don Henley
Dear Loathsome Trade Hacks
Bernard
Weiner
An
American Jew Talks
About His Shame
David Vest
Sting of Stings
Gabriel Ash
America's Bravest
John Chuckman
Of
War, Islam and Israel
Robert Fisk
The Siege of Bethlehem
Alexander
Cockburn
The
Sins of the Church
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April 11, 2002
It Survived the Nazis, But Can
It Withstand the Developers?
Battle for the
St. Petersburg Zoo
By Patrick Cockburn
in St. Petersburg
The hippopotamus in Leningrad zoo survived the
German siege of the city in the Second World War because keepers
persuaded him to eat dubious porridge mainly made from sawdust.
Now the 165-year-old zoo, in the Alexander
Garden near the Peter and Paul Fortress in the city centre, is
under threat again --allegedly because local developers, helped
by the governor's office, want to turn it into a leisure centre.
The battle over St Petersburg zoo involves
President Vladimir Putin and Alexander Yakovlev, the city governor.
The zoo has had six directors in 10 months, including a woman
who lasted three days and a mysterious military officer who refused
to tell anybody his rank. For a city trying to clean up its act
in time for its 300th anniversary next year, it has not looked
good.
The feud first came to public notice
when Irena Yakovleva, the governor's wife, sacked Dr Ivan Korneyev,
the zoo's director for 11 years. Her husband, a powerful politician,
had set up a foundation called Zoosad to make plans for the future
of the zoo, which is owned by the city.
These plans envisaged moving the zoo
to an outer suburb of St Petersburg, where it would be filled
with herds of wild animals at a cost of nearly $1 billion. Since
no money was allocated, Dr Korneyev believed the real purpose
was to use the zoo site to build hotels. He said: "The aim
was to convert the Alexander Garden, or at least the zoo part
of it, into a leisure centre. The animals' problems were the
last thing they ever thought of."
Dr Korneyev's attacks drew so much attention
that the plan was dropped. But he had become an enemy of the
governor's wife. Mr Putin sympathises but the city owns the zoo.
"If the authorities decide to close the zoo tomorrow, nobody
can stop them," said Dr Korneyev, adding that only the mayor's
resignationwould save the zoo.
Nikolai Konotovsky, an official in the
governor's office, claims the position is not so bad and "everything
is OK with the animals". But Valentina Shurganova, its deputy
director, who has spent 19 years at the zoo, is gloomy. "The
situation was never as bad as it is now," she says. "We
cannot understand what will become of us."
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