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Shalom: The Diallo Case
Commentary, March, 04 2000
Stephen1 Shalom
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During the Vietnam War, the court martial trials of Lt. William Calley and other U.S. military personnel who massacred hundreds of unarmed civilians at My Lai was deeply contentious. Conservatives opposed the trials as besmirching the good name of...
Wagner: John McCain, Flaming Liberal
Graphic, March, 03 2000
Pete Wagner
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John McCain, Liberalism, Liberal, Conservatism
Carter: The Grammies: Follow the Money
Commentary, March, 03 2000
Sandy Carter
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Every year when the National Academy Of Recording Arts and Sciences celebrates its Grammy Awards, I gag at the notion that any of this music industry pomp and propaganda honors the best music of the past year. Although all of the big time entertai...
Herman: SAUL LANDAU'S LETTER ON "PACIFICA BASHING"
Commentary, March, 02 2000
Edward Herman
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In mid-February of this year Saul Landau issued an "Appeal to All Progressives: Stop the Pacifica Bashing!" And he got some 40 liberals and leftists to sign on, many associated with The Nation and Institute for Policy Studies.
Weisbrot: Anti-WTO Organizing
Zmag Article, March, 01 2000
Mark Weisbrot
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The demonstrations against the WTO in Seattle were probably among the most effective protests in modern American history. The sequel—on April 16 in Washington DC, at the IMF/World Bank spring meetings—may have an even great...
Prashad: An Afro-Dalit Story
Zmag Article, March, 01 2000
Vijay Prashad
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On January 30, 1998, I went on air with Ron Daniels for his two-hour radio program on the National Urban Radio Network. The theme for the show was Gandhi and Dr. King, since it was the 50th anniversary of Gandhi’s assassination. After a...
Sargent: 37.7 Seconds, Part IV
Zmag Article, March, 01 2000
Lydia Sargent
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In Parts I and II of this series I looked at the “scientific” claims made about women in Dianne Hales’s book Just Like A Woman. In Part III I began examining Helen Fisher’s book The First Sex, published by Random House an...
Bronski: The Destiny of Biology
Zmag Article, March, 01 2000
Michael Bronski
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Anne Fausto-Sterling is one of the leading theorists on science, sexuality, and gender. Trained as a molecular biologist, and a professor of Biology and Women’s Studies at Brown University, her research and writing covers a broad rage o...
Cromwell: Oil Propaganda Wars
Zmag Article, March, 01 2000
David Cromwell
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In November 1999, the High Court in London ruled that the UK government had failed to uphold the EU Habitats Directive when it awarded offshore oil licenses in British waters of the North Atlantic. Wildlife and ecosystems were being put at r...
Herman: Russia: U.S. Rival, Dependent, Victim
Zmag Article, March, 01 2000
Edward Herman
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The U.S. establishment’s and media’s treatment of post-Soviet Russia has been confused, sometimes hostile, and more often than not, apologetic. This is because Russia occupies the odd position of being simultaneously a rival and ob...
