{"article":{"id":18735,"heading":"Zimbabwe Under Siege","author":"Gregory Elich","created":"2002-08-29 15:30:55","modified":"2002-08-29 15:55:30","last_modified":"Thu, 29 Aug 2002 22:55:30","article":"<p>A history of Zimbabwe and its ongoing land reform struggles in the face of drought, starvation and economic disaster perpetrated by Western intervention and demands.  <br><br> Article at  <br><br> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.swans.com\/library\/art8\/elich004.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/www.swans.com\/library\/art8\/elich004.html<\/a> <br>  <br> <\/p>\n","contact":"gelich@worldnet.att.net","link":"","address":"","phone":"","parent_id":0,"mime_type":"text\/plain","summary":"A history of Zimbabwe and its ongoing land reform struggles in the face of drought, starvation and economic disaster perpetrated by Western intervention and demands. \r\n\r\n","numcomment":1,"fileurl":"\/uploads\/","filesize":null,"article_url":"\/news\/2002\/08\/18735.php"},"attachments":[],"comments":[{"id":18738,"heading":"Is that crack I smell?","article":"To blame anyone but Robert Mugabe for the failure of Zimbabwe is laughable.  This despot shamelessly uses racism and the Left looks the other way.  He is a brutal thug that is in time-honored Socialist fashion starving his country to consolidate his power.  In two decades this man has reduced the second-best economy in Africa to a shambles.  Put him up against a wall.","author":"Douglas O'Brien","parent_id":18735,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2002-08-29 15:55:30","modified":"2002-08-29 15:55:30","fileurl":""}]}