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Barsamian: Monopolies, NPR, & PBS
Zmag Article, February, 01 2000
David Barsamian
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Robert McChesney is Professor of Communications at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is a leading critic of corporate media. He is the author of Telecommunications, Mass Media and Democracy. His latest book is Rich Media, Po...
Bronski: The State of Queer Film
Zmag Article, February, 01 2000
Michael Bronski
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Nearly a decade ago it looked as though we were about to enter a Renaissance of gay and lesbian filmmaking. Unable to have access to mainstream movie making, independent filmmakers, writers, and producers began turning out a remarkable body ...
Kelson: Protesting SOA
Zmag Article, February, 01 2000
Sanford Kelson
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The Columbus, Georgia police estimated that on November 21, 1999 there were nearly 10,000 at the front gate of Fort Benning protesting the School of the Americas which is located on the base. SOA Watch believes the correct number is 12,000. ...
Staff: A Simple Plea
Zmag Article, February, 01 2000
Z Staff
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Here are the opening lines of a piece by Marc Cooper, Nation writer and radio correspondent, in the New York Press, a free weekly newspaper. “I make no New Year’s resolution. Instead, I have a simple plea: Oh Lord, please make 2000...
Smith: Politics in Russia
Zmag Article, February, 01 2000
Jim Smith
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Boris Kagarlitsky is a Moscow-based writer, academic, and democratic socialist political activist. He was a leader of the Party of Labor, which was outlawed by Boris Yeltsin in the aftermath of the 1993 “presidential coup” that res...
Black: An Unindicted War Criminal
Zmag Article, February, 01 2000
Christopher Black
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& Edward S. Herman Among the many ironies of the NATO war against Yugoslavia was the role of the International Criminal Tribunal and its chief prosecutor, Louise Arbour, elevated by Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chretien to Canada’...
Hill: San Francisco Mayoral Race
Zmag Article, February, 01 2000
Steven Hill
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In an otherwise off political year, the San Francisco mayoral race in December 1999 commanded national attention. The quintessential “only in San Francisco” story line of the mainstream media set Willie Brown, the powerful, liberal ...
Leggett: none
Zmag Article, February, 01 2000
Jeremy Leggett
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Penguin Books, 1999 Review by David Cromwell In January 1991, almost seven years before the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change set an overall target for industrialized countries to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 5.2 percent, ...
Demers: Living in Delray Beach
Zmag Article, February, 01 2000
Michael Demers
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The city of Delray Beach, Florida represents a world of two distinct realities for two distinct groups of people: those of upper income and those of middle to low income. The current trends that are shaping the downtown section of this city ...
Steinberg: Stop McNukes
Zmag Article, February, 01 2000
Michael Steinberg
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The deregulation of the U.S. electrical industry was supposed to end monopoly control of that commodity. Unfortunately the nuclear component of the industry has tainted this process. Across the nation ratepayers are getting stuck with pay...
