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Znet Article Abu-jamal: Death Of Pensions?

Znet Article, July, 06 2005 Mumia Abu-jamal
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With the judicial seal of approval of the United Airlines plan to ditch its pensions, comes another battle in the long war of capital against labor. By this attack on those who have spent their lives making the fortunes of United, the 'business co...

Zmag Article Street: Race, Place, and the Perils of Prisonomics

Zmag Article, July, 01 2005 Paul Street
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I t’s the silences that speak the loudest in dominant media’s coverage of current events. Consider, for example, a Detroit News story that appeared in mid -uly 2001 under the curious title...

Zmag Article Bronski: No Hope for the Pope

Zmag Article, July, 01 2005 Michael Bronski
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I t should have come as no surprise, but somehow liberal Catholics in the U.S. were caught off guard when the conservative Cardinal John Ratzinger became Benedict XVI. With this new hardline Pope in place, U.S. liberal...

Znet Article Ehrenreich: Longevity Crisis? Kill Grandma

Znet Article, June, 12 2005 Barbara Ehrenreich
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A specter is stalking the Western world, and it looks a lot like Grandma. As President Bush has repeatedly put it, the problem with Social Security is that "baby boomers will be living longer." Not "too" long, he's careful to say, but long enough ...

Znet Article Graeber: Without Cause

Znet Article, May, 14 2005 David Graeber
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David Graeber, PhD, is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Yale University, and the author of Toward an Anthropological Theory of Value: The False Coin of Our Own Dreams and Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology, among many other schol...

Znet Article Administrator: Who Pays for Life With Dignity?

Znet Article, April, 14 2005 Site Administrator
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The only dignified voice to appear in the midst of the outrageous media circus which has been created around the slow death of Theresa Marie Schindler Sciavo has been that of the disabled community. Ms. Schindler Sciavo is familiarly called in the...

Znet Article Mokhiber: Corporate College

Znet Article, April, 12 2005 Russell Mokhiber
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By Believe or not, there exists a group of homeschooling parents who teach their kids at home because they believe that the public schools have been destroyed by corporations. The food is corporate junk. The street clothes and sportswear are cov...

Znet Article Hoodbhoy: Reforming Our Universities

Znet Article, January, 11 2005 Pervez Hoodbhoy
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There is a severe and long-standing crisis in higher education. But, until the present military government took the init...

Zmag Article Bronski: The Problem With Martyrs

Zmag Article, January, 01 2005 Michael Bronski
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T he moment ABC’s “20/20” announced it would air an hour-long show on the “real facts” behind the 1998 Matthew Shepard murder, controversies began to swirl. Without having seen the program, ...

Znet Article Street: Inequality, Deep Poverty, and Moral Vision

Znet Article, November, 16 2004 Paul Street
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Comments to Work, Welfare and Families Annual Summit on Low-Income Families Chicago, IL November 11, 2004 I want to thank Work, Welfare, and Families for inviting me to speak today. I'd also like to thank the Institute for Women's Policy Resea...

Zmag Article Peters: Community Organizer

Zmag Article, August, 01 2004 Cynthia Peters
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K lare Allen is a mother of four children and a long-time welfare and environmental justice activist. When welfare moved her and her family into a hotel after she became homeless, she started organ...

Znet Article Engler: Status, Health And Stupidity

Znet Article, July, 11 2004 Yves Engler
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U.S. residents are dumber than people living in every other industrialized nation.     That conclusion doesn’t come from some left-wing Frenchman or Russian commie or pinko Canadian — it is the logical inference of...

Znet Article Hepburn: Protesting Bio 2004 - Why Can't We Just Be Nice?

Znet Article, June, 09 2004 John Hepburn
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San Francisco, 8th June 2004: BIO 2004. The worlds largest gathering of the biotechnology industry is happening here in San Francisco over the next few days. It is truly a gathering of the biotech glitterati with over 20,000 delegates expected to ...

Znet Article Albert: Present and Future Education

Znet Article, May, 18 2004 Michael Albert
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Thinking about education involves two broad frames of reference that in turn generate two approaches of...

Znet Article Turse: The Military-Academic Complex:

Znet Article, April, 27 2004 Nick Turse
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Since 1961, thanks to President Dwight D. Eisenhower, we've all been cognizant of the "unwarranted influence" of the military-industrial complex in America. Later in that decade, Senator J. William Fulbright spoke out against the militarization of...

Znet Article Street: Thought Control

Znet Article, April, 27 2004 Paul Street
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Thought Control

Znet Article Fisk: Iraq Anarchy

Znet Article, April, 07 2004 Robert Fisk
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Fallujah. Not content with surrounding the largest Sunni city west of Baghdad with tanks, armoured personnel carriers and heavy machine-guns, US forces used Apache helicopters to attack the Shia Muslim slums of Shoula yesterday, sent dozens of the...

Znet Article Sharma: Genetically Modified Crops in India

Znet Article, April, 03 2004 Devinder Sharma
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Opinion is divided on whether genetic engineering and genetically modified (GM) crops offer a solution to hunger in the developing countries. Devinder Sharma, a former visiting fellow at the International Rice Research Institute and Cambridge Univ...

Zmag Article Engler: Rising Health Costs

Zmag Article, April, 01 2004 Yves Engler
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F ord, General Motors, and DaimlerChrysler recently joined a legal challenge to block two Michigan health systems from building two new hospitals in the Detroit suburbs. The Big 3 automakers, with ...

Zmag Article Bronski: Carnival As Organizing

Zmag Article, April, 01 2004 Michael Bronski
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A decade ago the idea of seriously organizing for gay marriage—or, more correctly stated, same-sex marriage—was barely imaginable. The idea of actually getting any place with it was unthinkable. ...

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