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Prashad: The Ground Beneath Our Feet: Earthquake in India
Commentary, February, 07 2001
Vijay Prashad
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Never underestimate the power of the Earth. Vast, deep, unstable. Tectonic plates in motion beneath miles of sod and stone. And above, flora and fauna bursting forth. Of that lot the humans walk on the Earth at our own rhythm, divided by classes a...
Albert: Gloves Off
Commentary, February, 06 2001
Michael Albert
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February 2, in ÒResolving the Pacifica Crisis Revisted,Ó I argued that progressive organizations should employ participatory and self-managing rather than corporate structures. I urged that advocating self-managing structures has not only long-run...
Reinhart: THE VOTE THAT CAN DECIDE
Commentary, February, 05 2001
Tanya Reinhart
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Beneath the surface, there is deep anxiety in Israeli society: The media is full of reports of war preparations: "Home Front Command to stage 'mother of all exercises' " (JP, Jan 22); "Ministry tells purchasers to prepare for emergency" (Ha'aretz,...
Raptis: Quake in India
Commentary, February, 04 2001
Nikos Raptis
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Today (Jan. 31, '01) the number of dead from the earthquake that hit India six days ago is estimated "by officials and aid workers to be from 15,000 to 100,000." The higher estimate came from the Indian Defence Minister, George Fernandes, as his "...
Author: The PanAm 103 Verdict
Commentary, February, 03 2001
Guest Author
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The papers are filled with pictures of happy relatives of the victims of the 1988 bombing of PanAm 103. A Libyan, Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed al Megrahi, was just found guilty of the bombing by a Scottish court in the Hague, his co-defendant, Al Amin Kh...
Albert: Resolving the Pacifica Crisis Revisited
Commentary, February, 02 2001
Michael Albert
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When an institution like Pacifica devolves into dysfunctional infighting involving police interventions, lock outs, firings and protest resignations, rallies and recirminations, many possible causes invite investigation.Ê
Street: How Dubya Got To Be President
Zmag Article, February, 01 2001
Paul Street
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By Paul Street On January 20, George W. Bush began his reign as perhaps one of the meanest and certainly one of the dumbest presidents in the history of the United States. He becomes the chief executive of the world’s most powerful n...
Herman: Russia's Medical System Collapse as "Freedom's Toll"
Zmag Article, February, 01 2001
Edward Herman
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Russia's Medical System Collapse as "Freedom's Toll"
Sargent: Feminists Are Undermining Our Society On Purpose!
Zmag Article, February, 01 2001
Lydia Sargent
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Welcome to Hotel Satire, where a Bush is back in the White House, at last. Surely he will avert the crisis that has been brewing for the last EIGHT years—a feminist takevoer of the White House, not to mention that crucial ideological ar...
Chomsky: Voting Patterns and Abstentions
Zmag Article, February, 01 2001
Noam Chomsky
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In commenting on the November 2000 elections (Z January), I only hinted at important considerations that lend further insight into the functioning of contemporary democracy: patterns of voting and abstention. Useful information on these matt...
