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Hightower: WHAT'S MISSING IN CAMPAIGN 2000
Commentary, May, 03 2000
Jim Hightower
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Well, there we have it: Gore-Bush. Dull versus dullard. The political establishments of the two-party duopoly successfully rose up to surround, defend, and shove forward their chosen ones, both girded with tens of millions of dollars from the exac...
Herman: THE LEFT AND ELECTORAL PARTICIPATION
Commentary, May, 02 2000
Edward Herman
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The left always has a problem at election time, and embattled left pens are already trying to demonstrate that we should: (1) forego voting; (2) vote for Ralph Nader; or (3) vote for the lesser evil (Gore). The fact that there is always such vigor...
Herman: The NATO-Media Lie Machine
Zmag Article, May, 01 2000
Edward Herman
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NATO’s “humanitarian” enterprise in Kosovo was built on a structure of lies, many of them flowing from NATO headquarters and officials of the NATO powers, and uncritically passed along by the mains...
Chomsky: In Retrospect
Zmag Article, May, 01 2000
Noam Chomsky
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The absurdity of the principle of retrospective justification is, surely, recognized at some level. Accordingly, many attempts to justify the NATO bombing take a different tack. One typical version is that “Serbia assaulted ...
Carter: The Second Coming Of Patti Smith
Zmag Article, May, 01 2000
Sandy Carter
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The Second Coming Of Patti Smith
Bronski: Dr. Laura: Moral Dominatrix
Zmag Article, May, 01 2000
Michael Bronski
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It’s the voice that you can’t get out of your head—aggressive, accusatory, and grotesquely “girlish”—it emanates from the radio in a steady stream of unpleasantness: “What did you think you were...
Barsamian: Public Relations: Corporate Spin and Propaganda
Zmag Article, May, 01 2000
David Barsamian
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Stuart Ewen is a professor of media studies at Hunter College in New York. He is the author of a number of books on the media and public relations, most notably PR: A Social History of Spin. BARSAMIAN: In the introduct...
Sinyai: Battle of Brooklyn's Domino Sugar
Zmag Article, May, 01 2000
Clayton Sinyai
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Now well into its eighth month, the International Longshoremen’s Association (ILA) Local 1814’s strike against the Domino Sugar refinery in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn is a good example of what workers can expe...
Richards: The Wage Gap
Zmag Article, May, 01 2000
Jennifer baumgardner and amy Richards
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Around the same time that it was revealed that Naomi Wolf, the feminist and author, was acting as an advisor for Al Gore and being paid $20,000 a month, Oxygen network for women was launching its first ad campaign. “Men,...
Staff: The April Actions
Zmag Article, May, 01 2000
Z Staff
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It is April 18th, too soon to arrive at conclusions about the anti-WTO/World Bank demonstrations in Washington, DC, but a good time for congratulations. First, issues of IMF and World Bank imposed poverty, powerlessness, and...
