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Edwards: Mobile Phones, Health Effects and the Problem with Advertisers
Commentary, June, 26 2000
David Edwards
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Jim Mochnacz worked for British Telecom's Cellnet for eight years, initially siting and installing mobile phone transmission masts, before managing installations throughout a third of Britain. At the end of this period, Mochnacz fell seriously ill...
Bond: Zimbabwe's Election: Who's Right, Who's Left?
Commentary, June, 25 2000
Patrick Bond
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On Saturday and Sunday, Zimbabweans cast their vote for members of parliament in the most important election here since the country's first democratic poll, in 1980. It won't be a truly democratic, free-and-fair poll, thanks to intimidation and th...
Dowd: Capitalism and Technology: To whose benefit, at what costs?
Commentary, June, 24 2000
Douglas Dowd
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In 1917, as war ripped Europe apart, Einstein wrote to a friend that "Our much-praised technological progress, and civilization gene rally, could be compared to an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal." Subsequently, in showing that E=MC2,...
Herman: KOSOVO ONE YEAR LATER: FROM SERB REPRESSION TO NATO-SPONSORED ETHNIC CLEANSING
Commentary, June, 23 2000
Edward Herman
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Now a little more than one year after the ending of Nato's 78- day bombing of Yugoslavia and the beginning of Nato control of Kosovo (June 10-12, 1999), the mainstream media have been exceedingly reticent in offering the public serious retrospecti...
Wise: Membership Has It's Privileges: Thoughts on Acknowledging and Challenging Whiteness
Commentary, June, 22 2000
Tim Wise
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Being white means never having to think about it. James Baldwin said that many years ago, and it's perhaps the truest thing ever said about race in America. That's why I get looks of bewilderment whenever I ask, as I do when lecturing to a mostly ...
Author: Is globalization dangerous to our health?
Commentary, June, 21 2000
Guest Author
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When asked about globalization, Margaret Thatcher, the former Prime Minister of Great Britain, replied, "There is no alternative." Her reply was shortened to "TINA," which some people think is a newly discovered law of nature. Yet, public resistan...
Anderson: Reality Television
Graphic, June, 20 2000
Kirk Anderson
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reality television, reality tv, reality-based programming, survivor
Rebick: Pitch battle is at doors of Ontario legislature
Commentary, June, 20 2000
Judy Rebick
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The Ontario Coalition against Poverty wanted to be heard. Ever since right-wing Ontario Premier Mike Harris was elected, the organization has tried everything to get the government to pay attention to the desperate straits facing poor and homeles...
Anderson: Hou$ing-rising tide
Graphic, June, 19 2000
Kirk Anderson
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housing, poverty
Anderson: Missile Decoys
Graphic, June, 19 2000
Kirk Anderson
Anderson's ZSpace page
national missile defense, nmd, sdi, star wars, missile defense, missile decoys, missile technology
