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Jenkins: Letter from Santiago
Zmag Article, March, 01 2001
Alan Jenkins
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Letter from Santiago
Author: Visiting Gaza
Commentary, February, 22 2001
Guest Author
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I don't want to be overly dramatic, but I was sort of shot at yesterday. I say "sort of" because I don't think the Israeli soldiers in their tower were trying to hit me, or the people with me... if that had been their purpose I have no doubt that ...
Solomon: REPORTING ON THE FIGHT AGAINST AIDS IN POOR NATIONS
Commentary, February, 16 2001
Norman Solomon
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In Africa, 17 million people have already died of AIDS. In Êdeveloping countries around the world, twice that many are now HIV Êpositive. Such statistics are largely unfathomable. And news accounts Êrarely explore basic options for halting the dea...
Ali: Porto Alegre
Commentary, February, 10 2001
Tariq Ali
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The World Social Forum in Porto Alegre, in the deep South of Brazil was more than a symbolic counter to Davos. The aim behind it was serious: to unite the Seattle generation with the Old Left and to think seriously about alternatives to neo-libera...
Author: The PanAm 103 Verdict
Commentary, February, 03 2001
Guest Author
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The papers are filled with pictures of happy relatives of the victims of the 1988 bombing of PanAm 103. A Libyan, Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed al Megrahi, was just found guilty of the bombing by a Scottish court in the Hague, his co-defendant, Al Amin Kh...
Hahnel: Imperialism, Human Rights, and Protectionism
Zmag Article, February, 01 2001
Robin Hahnel
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Recently I was asked to answer some questions about tactical choices facing the movement against corporate sponsored globalization. Unfortunately, people and groups inside the movement differ in their answers to these questions, and those di...
Carter: Best of 2000
Zmag Article, February, 01 2001
Sandy Carter
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The pop world of 2000 was a dreadful mess, still dominated by boy band bromides, naughty sweet boy toys, rap-metal meatheads, and gangsta nihilism. Against that backdrop rises the sensational Eminem whose critically hailed and mass selling T...
Minnich: COSATU Conference
Zmag Article, February, 01 2001
Rebecca Minnich
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On a brilliantly sunny November afternoon in Cape Town, 12 seasoned labor organizers are gathered in conference at the Western Cape headquarters of the Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU). For weeks COSATU leaders in the Western ...
Giroux: Zero Tolerance, Part 2
Zmag Article, February, 01 2001
Henry a. Giroux
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Zero Tolerance, Part 2
Bello: When Davos Meets Porto Alegre: A Memoir
Commentary, February, 01 2001
Walden Bello
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Porto Alegre, Brazil "Hemingway said that the rich are different from you and me. How can anyone expect the people in Davos to understand the crisis that globalization has visited on the lives of people like those of us here in Porto Alegre?" Tha...
Bond: Welcome to Jo'burg
Commentary, January, 26 2001
Patrick Bond
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If you had a choice, which host city would you choose for Rio+10, a.k.a. the 2002 `World Summit on Sustainable Development,' where 60,000 delegates will jawjaw about social and environmental problems, maybe in the process constructing more bits of...
Said: Trying again and again
Commentary, January, 11 2001
Edward Said
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The last-ditch American effort to make Yasser Arafat terminate his own people's sovereign existence bears the heavy imprint not only of the US-Israeli lobby but of Bill Clinton's political style. To say of Clinton's bridging proposals, as they hav...
Chomsky: Elections 2000
Zmag Article, January, 01 2001
Noam Chomsky
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Elections 2000
Chomsky: Escaping Orthodoxies
Commentary, December, 31 2000
Noam Chomsky
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DB: Talk in concrete ways about liberating the mind from orthodoxies. Take for example, humanitarian intervention.
Bond: Africa's Progressive Movements
Commentary, December, 28 2000
Patrick Bond
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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...
Wise: White Christmas?
Commentary, December, 21 2000
Tim Wise
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Well it's that time of year again. Time for all good Americans to focus on what really matters. Not family, community, or world peace, but that national sacrament of late-stage capitalism known as Holiday shopping. Whether you do it online, or dra...
Chomsky: Overcoming Orthodoxies
Commentary, December, 16 2000
Noam Chomsky
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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 ...
Bond: South Africa's municipal elections: Finally, basic services for the masses?
Commentary, December, 06 2000
Patrick Bond
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Tuesday, December 5, is a national election in South Africa, as nearly 9,000 councilors in 284 municipalities seek the support of ten million voters. The African National Congress (ANC), which since 1994 has won three national, provincial and loca...
Schechter: The Media And HIV/AIDS: What Should We Do?
Commentary, December, 02 2000
Danny Schechter
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Sorry. So sorry if you were given "unnecessary offense." So sayeth the BBC as part of an apology for a stunt concocted for a TV show that plays practical jokes on the public. "Aunty," as the Beeb is known, hired a child actor to pose as an Afric...
Cohen: Toxic Waste As Strategy, Part 2
Zmag Article, December, 01 2000
Mitchel Cohen
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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...
