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Deutsch: Corporate Humor
Graphic, March, 13 2001
Barry Deutsch
Deutsch's ZSpace page
sweatshops, Nike, third world
Peters: Punishing and Prescribing Sexuality
Commentary, March, 13 2001
Cynthia Peters
Peters's ZSpace page
ItÕs practically clichŽ to say that the marketplace uses sex to sell. Not only do the commercials feature attractive female hands caressing gear shifts, but the shows themselves feature instant sexual gratification, without so much as a nod toward...
Kagarlitsky: Globalization and Russia
Commentary, March, 12 2001
Boris Kagarlitsky
Kagarlitsky's ZSpace page
As often happens with such terms, the word ÒglobalisationÓ has become popular in our country (Russia) only belatedly. To be exact, it has become popular among us at the very moment when people around the world have ceased talking about the rise of...
Shalom: The Sinking of the Ehime Maru and U.S. Bases in Okinawa
Commentary, March, 11 2001
Stephen1 Shalom
Shalom's ZSpace page
On February 9, the U.S. nuclear attack submarine, the USS Greeneville, with visiting civilians in the control room, surfaced rapidly under a Japanese fishing vessel, the Ehime Maru, sinking it, apparently with the loss of nine lives. The Japanese ...
Guellec: Violence is a Public Health Problem
Commentary, March, 10 2001
Dorothy Guellec
Guellec's ZSpace page
According to the FBI there are 240 million firearms in America today. Former U.S. Surgeon General C. Everett Koop identified violence as a public health issue in 1991. The Centers for Disease Control tells us "the United States may be a more viole...
Landau: THE PINOCHET CASE: LEGAL COURAGE; POLITICAL COWARDICE
Commentary, March, 09 2001
Saul Landau
Landau's ZSpace page
It finally happened. On January 29, Judge Juan Guzman Tapia charged Geralissimo Augusto Pinochet, former dictator, President, chief of the armed forces, with 75 counts of murder and kidnapping. Five years ago, even most optimists had abandoned hop...
Pond-mcpherson: Same Old New Economy
Graphic, March, 08 2001
Scott Pond-mcpherson
Pond-mcpherson's ZSpace page
economy, unions, homeless, recession, technology, poverty, unemployment, employment
Said: The only alternative
Commentary, March, 08 2001
Edward Said
Said's ZSpace page
I first visited South Africa in May 1991: a dark, wet, wintry period, when Apartheid still ruled, although the ANC and Nelson Mandela had been freed. Ten years later I returned, this time to summer, in a democratic country in which Apartheid has b...
Deutsch: Military Intelligence At Work
Graphic, March, 07 2001
Barry Deutsch
Deutsch's ZSpace page
Star Wars, NMD, Missiles, National Missile Defense, Missile Defense, army
Edwards: BIG BROTHER'S BAD INFLUENCE
Commentary, March, 07 2001
David Edwards
Edwards's ZSpace page
December 2001 will see London hosting the first conference exploring the extent to which radical writing tends to incorporate, and be corrupted by, mainstream prejudices, emphases and ethical presumptions.
