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Pond-mcpherson: A Spiritual Moment
Graphic, February, 05 2000
Scott Pond-mcpherson
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religion, spiritual, death, reincarnation, atheism, hell, god, heaven
Burchill: The Limits of Thinkable Thought
Commentary, February, 04 2000
Scott Burchill
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In societies which like to call themselves free and open, liberty is usually defined in contrasting terms. State propaganda and indoctrination, for example, are said to be exclusive characteristics of unfree or totalitarian states at both ends of ...
Herman: Real Journalism
Commentary, February, 03 2000
Edward Herman
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There has long been a strong tendency on the part of Western non-governmental organizations (NGOs) to serve as did the Christian missionaries in the years of colonial expansion and occupation, who followed in the wake of the empire builders to con...
Dominick: Refusing Adulthood: Notes on 'Aging Out'
Commentary, February, 02 2000
Brian Dominick
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Naive as I was in the mid-1990s, for a spell I actually thought there was a good chance that, by the turn of the century, the terms "ageism" and "youth liberation" would be ubiquitous in the Left's vocabulary.
Starhawk: How We Shut Down the WTO
Zmag Article, February, 01 2000
Starhawk
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Its been months since I joined the blockade that shut down the opening meeting of the WTO. Since getting out of jail, Ive been reading the media coverage and trying to make sense out of the divergence between what I know ha...
Street: Capitalism and Democracy "Don't Mix Very Well"
Zmag Article, February, 01 2000
Paul Street
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Economic globalization enthusiasts like Bill Clinton, Madeline Albright, Tony Blair, New York Times foreign policy columnist Thomas Friedman, and the unelected officials of the World Trade Organization repeat a classic Cold War mistake by cl...
Sargent: Reading "feminism" and glimpses into the "female brain"
Zmag Article, February, 01 2000
Lydia Sargent
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In Parts I and II of this series about reading feminism I examined the claims in Just Like A Woman by Dianne Hales. I left off with an introduction to The First Sex by Helen Fisher whose theme is that through deep evolutionary hi...
Solomon: none
Zmag Article, February, 01 2000
Norman Solomon
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A few numbers tell a dramatic story about extreme changes in media fascination with the Internet. After the 1990s ended, I set out to gauge how news coverage of cyberspace shifted during the last half of the decade. The comprehe...
Carter: 1999 In Review
Zmag Article, February, 01 2000
Sandy Carter
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In the decade Ive been writing about music and popular culture in the pages of Z, I cant recall a year when the pop music mainstream seemed more empty of soul and critical thought than in 1999. Commercially speaking, this was a y...
Glick: A Unity Movement Begins to Emerge
Zmag Article, February, 01 2000
Ted Glick
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It is the worst of times, and it is the best of times. With these words Victoria Jackson Gray-Adams, one of the meetings conveners, described the context within which 45 leaders from the Independent Progressive Politics Network m...


