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Wise: Rebels Without a Clue: Neo-Confederacy and the Ironies of White Supremacy
Commentary, June, 06 2000
Tim Wise
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We Southerners are famous for wishful thinking: in fact, you could say it's something of a regional pastime. This should come as no surprise given our interminable heat in the summer which leaves nearly all wishing for rain to cool things down, an...
Author: Militant Mood Moving Black Youth To Fight For Change
Commentary, June, 05 2000
Guest Author
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On April 4, 1968 Martin Luther King was gunned down as he stood on a hotel balcony in Memphis. He was in Memphis to support a strike by sanitation workers who carried bold signs proclaiming, I AM A MAN. At the time of his
Bonpane: Delegation to Colombia
Commentary, June, 05 2000
BlasŽ Bonpane
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What does Medellin mean to a U.S. citizen? Narco-terrorists, sicarios (hired assassins) and drug lords. It is actually a beautiful and mountainous city located at many altitudes, all of them comfortable.
Solomon: U.S. NEWS MEDIA: A SECURITY ZONE FOR ISRAEL
Commentary, June, 03 2000
Norman Solomon
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One phrase -- "security zone" -- sums up an entire era of media spin about Israel's 22-year occupation of southern Lebanon.
Hightower: HUNGER REPORT BITES BUSH ON BUTT
Commentary, June, 02 2000
Jim Hightower
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At the 1988 Democratic convention in Atlanta, I gave a podium-pounding speech in which I characterized George Bush the Elder as "a man who was born on third and thought he'd hit a triple."
Tokar: Gathering RAGE
Zmag Article, June, 01 2000
Brian Tokar
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One important feature of the actions in Seattle and Washington, DC was many activists’ focus on a serious new threat to our food and health: The rise of genetic engineering as the technology-of-choice in countless new areas of co...
Solomon: The Media Big Six
Zmag Article, June, 01 2000
Norman Solomon
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The push by federal regulators to break up Microsoft is big news. Until recently, the software giant seemed untouchableand few people demanded effective anti-trust efforts against monopoly power in the software industry. Th...
Street: The Anti-Sweatshop Movement
Zmag Article, June, 01 2000
Paul Street
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For nearly three years now, American campuses have been experiencing a resurgence of student activism. This new college activism targets the $2.5 billion collegiate licensing industry, which includes companies like Nike, Champion...
Herman: Krugman On Economists As Hacks
Zmag Article, June, 01 2000
Edward Herman
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Following up his April attacks on the critics of the World Bank and IMF as economic illiterates, and after being criticized by them in turn as an establishment spokesperson, Paul Krugman offered readers of his New York Times colu...
Hahnel: Speaking Truth To Power: Speaking Truth To Ourselves
Zmag Article, June, 01 2000
Robin Hahnel
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First in December in Seattle and then in April in Washington, DC the movement against corporate sponsored globalization spoke truth to power. Thousands of young people said they were sick of corporate arrogance, greed, and callou...


