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Glick: "This Land Is Your Land?"
Commentary, January, 07 2001
Ted Glick
Glick's ZSpace page
Several days ago I was asked to be part of a program next month commemorating the 60th anniversary of Woody Guthrie's song, "This Land Is Your Land." This got me thinking.
Steel: Smile, And We Might Yet Defeat Global Capitalism
Commentary, January, 03 2001
Mark Steel
Steel's ZSpace page
"We need a revolution," said the lad, no more than 19, in the packed meeting organised by People and Planet at the University of Warwick. "And we, I mean us here, can begin to make that revolution Ð right after this meeting by..." He paused. What ...
Sommers: Small States and Neoliberalism: LatviaÕs
Commentary, January, 02 2001
Jeffrey Sommers
Sommers's ZSpace page
The time is long overdue for a reassessment of LatviaÕs economic development. A decade after economic reforms, and nine years after independence, in Orwellian fashion this Baltic nationÕs failures are somehow presented as achievements, as was the ...
Giroux: Zero Tolerance
Zmag Article, January, 01 2001
Henry a. Giroux
Giroux's ZSpace page
Zero Tolerance
Perry: School of the Americas
Zmag Article, January, 01 2001
Baker Perry
Perry's ZSpace page
The weekend of November 17-18 marked the 11-year anniversary of the assassination of 6 Jesuit priests, their co-worker and her 13-year-old daughter. A UN Truth commission later found that 19 of the 26 responsible for the killings were gradua...
Aravinda: People's Knowledge in a Paperless Society
Zmag Article, January, 01 2001
Ls Aravinda
Aravinda's ZSpace page
People's Knowledge in a Paperless Society
Mokhiber: The Real Thing: Democracy as a Contact Sport
Commentary, January, 01 2001
Russell Mokhiber
Mokhiber's ZSpace page
A few weeks ago, we received an invitation to attend an event at the Library of Congress. Coca-Cola was about to make an "historic contribution" to the Library of Congress, and the Library, and Coca-Cola, were inviting reporters to cover the even...
Herman: THE PACIFICA COUNTERREVOLUTION HITS WBAI
Commentary, December, 30 2000
Edward Herman
Herman's ZSpace page
One of the most crushing series of blows to the U.S. left, and to democracy in this country, has been the gradual transformation of the five station Pacifica Radio network from locally-based and left-oriented stations into centrally controlled, ma...
Bond: Africa's Progressive Movements
Commentary, December, 28 2000
Patrick Bond
Bond's ZSpace page
ZNet Commentator Patrick Bond (pbond@wn.apc.org) chats with South African poet/activist ZNet Commentator Dennis Brutus about the state of the African Left PB: Good to see you back in Johannesburg, comrade Dennis, even briefly, in the midst of you...
Brecher: Draft of an Alternative Program for the Global Economy
Commentary, December, 18 2000
Jeremy Brecher
Brecher's ZSpace page
Commenting on the Battle of Seattle, Newsweek wrote, "One of the most important lessons of Seattle is that there are now two visions of globalization on offer, one led by commerce, one by social activism." Globalization from below's vision has bee...
Chomsky: Overcoming Orthodoxies
Commentary, December, 16 2000
Noam Chomsky
Chomsky's ZSpace page
David Barsamian: I want to come back to the idea of what individuals can do in overcoming orthodoxies. Steve Biko, the South African activist who was murdered by the apartheid regime while he was in custody, once said, The most powerful weapon in ...
Cohen: Toxic Waste As Strategy, Part 2
Zmag Article, December, 01 2000
Mitchel Cohen
Cohen's ZSpace page
The trade in toxic waste is more than a lucrative industry; it is also a central strategy of the New World Order, an intentional way of enclosing lands and resources—the very air we breathe—previously held in common and setting up trade in “pollut...
Albert: Election Lessons
Zmag Article, December, 01 2000
Michael Albert
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Election Lessons
Berkowitz: RU-486
Zmag Article, December, 01 2000
Bill Berkowitz
Berkowitz's ZSpace page
Shortly after Rev. John Earl, pastor at St. Patrick’s Church in Rochelle, Illinois, learned the Food and Drug Administration had approved the abortion pill RU-486, he paid an up-close- and-personal visit to a nearby health clinic. Rev. ...
Guellec: Assisted suicide and Euthanasia: the illusion and faade
Commentary, November, 30 2000
Dorothy Guellec
Guellec's ZSpace page
Why are the long-standing ethics of our health care system suddenly so threatened? Maybe it is all about money, or is it? HMOÕs already induce physicians to keep costs low, using a combination of financial rewards or punishments, which create in m...
Dowd: WHAT DO WE WANT? AND WHO ARE "WE"?
Commentary, November, 23 2000
Douglas Dowd
Dowd's ZSpace page
Alongside and arising from "Seattle" and subsequent protests are questions such as the above -- by those participating in and supporting, and those against the protests. Those and related questions have always deserved serious answers; now more t...
Herman: CENSORSHIP AS A PACIFICA MANAGEMENT TOOL
Commentary, November, 02 2000
Edward Herman
Herman's ZSpace page
Studying the recent history of Pacifica over the past several weeks, I have been once again impressed with how important a role censorship has played in the tactics and apparent strategy of the Pacifica management. Censorship by the use of gag r...
Cohen: Toxic Wastes and the New World Order, Part 1
Zmag Article, November, 01 2000
Mitchel Cohen
Cohen's ZSpace page
Twelve years ago, the soon-to-be infamous barge, the Khian Sea, left the territorial waters of the United States and began circling the oceans in search of a country willing to accept its cargo: 14,000 tons of toxic incinerator ash. Fir...
Schwartz: After LA: Organizing to Win
Zmag Article, November, 01 2000
Eric Schwartz
Schwartz's ZSpace page
After LA: Organizing to Win
Berkowitz: Farm Bureau Is a Front
Zmag Article, November, 01 2000
Bill Berkowitz
Berkowitz's ZSpace page
When singer/songwriter Willie Nelson took the stage in mid-September in Bristow, Virginia, kicking off the 15th annual Farm Aid concert, he once again called the nation’s attention to the desperate plight of America’s small family ...
