Table of Contents - November 2003

The WTO Stalemate: One very big "no" by Site Administrator

The World Trade Organization (WTO) is a paradoxical institution. It was founded on the ostensible notion of “free trade” improving living sta... More / Printer Friendly Version

Not So Fast Times at Queermont High by Michael Bronski

At a weekly news briefing on June 28, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced that the Harvey Milk School, which operated for nearly 20 years as a 2... More / Printer Friendly Version

Blowback and the Sorrows of Empire: Interview with Chalmers Johnson by Site Administrator

Chalmers Johnson is a professor of political science and has taught at UC Berkeley and UC San Diego. He founded and is currently president of the Japan... More / Printer Friendly Version

Bolivia's Gas War Protests by Site Administrator

In September and early October, road blockades, protests, and strikes gained momentum across Bolivia as new sectors entered the movement against the ex... More / Printer Friendly Version

Different Name for the Same Old Crap by Site Administrator

Somewhere along the way, I became an associate. Before that, I was a waiter who became a server. Hell, I’ve even been periodically transformed fro... More / Printer Friendly Version

The NYT's Thomas Friedman: The Geraldo Rivera of the NYT by Edward Herman

The principal diplomatic correspondents for the New York Times, from Cyrus Sulzberger through Flora Lewis, James Reston, and Leslie Gelb to Thomas Frie... More / Printer Friendly Version

Report from Baghdad: Destruction everywhere by Lee Siu hin

Everywhere in Iraq, you can see the destruction from the U.S.-UK invasions. Half of the city’s utilities, destroyed in the 1991 Gulf War and never... More / Printer Friendly Version

Looking for Color in the Anti-War Movement by Elizabeth Martinez

Part I: Why “Anti-War” has to be “Anti-Racist” too  As a speaker at a San Francisco anti-war rally last fall, I tried to... More / Printer Friendly Version

Affordable Housing in Crisis by Chhandasi Pandya

In September, as Bush administration officials and economists touted the impending rebound in the U.S. economy, thanks in large part to the strength of... More / Printer Friendly Version

The Blindfold's Eyes: My Journey from Torture to Truth by Dianna Ortiz (Marknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 2002) by Site Administrator

In Sister Dianna Ortiz’s The Blindfold’s Eyes: My Journey from Torture to Truth, an Hispanic nun from the U.S. is kidnapped and tortured by G... More / Printer Friendly Version

Weapons of Mass Deception by Sheldon Rampton & John Stauber (Tarcher/Putnam, 2003, 215 pp.) by Site Administrator

A number of opinion surveys have recently reported that for the first time since the beginning of the war in Iraq a solid majority of Americans believe... More / Printer Friendly Version

Press Box Red: The Story of Lester Rodney, the Communist Who Helped Break the Color Line in American Sports by Irwin Silber (Temple University Press: Philadelphia, 2003) by Tom Gallagher

I’ve been told that I’m the only sportswriter still perpendicular who was at that fight”—since the fight in question is the 1938 Jo... More / Printer Friendly Version

Our Cultural Vulva by Lydia Sargent

Welcome to Hotel Satire where we teach gals how to be the passive twits they were born to be.  Except that right now we are in deep ... More / Printer Friendly Version

The Global Sell-out of Higher Education: WTO and the University of Texas by Nick Schwellenbach

On September 8 and 9, 2003, two days prior to the World Trade Organization’s (WTO) meeting in Cancun, Mexico, students from around the globe conve... More / Printer Friendly Version

The Human Shield Movement by Stefan Simanowitz

On a bright afternoon in January, a convoy of three double- decker buses left London for Baghdad in a blaze of media coverage. On board were over 50 hu... More / Printer Friendly Version

Media Tips for the Next Recall by Norman Solomon

Now that California’s electorate has rewarded a dramatic recall effort, it’s a good bet that political operatives in many states will try to ... More / Printer Friendly Version

Fixed or Murky? by Toni Solo

Like it or not, computer technology will be used for most elections in some way or other before too long. Already, even in impoverished countries like ... More / Printer Friendly Version

Fear Was the Spoiler in California Election by Site Administrator

Fear was the spoiler in California’s October 7 gubernatorial election. So-called progressives abandoned their ideals and didn’t vote for Gree... More / Printer Friendly Version

Odd Times in the U.S. by Z Staff

Life is always odd in the U.S., but now it seems to have gone over the top.  If you pay attention to TV these days, beyond railing a... More / Printer Friendly Version