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Zmag Article 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...

Commentary Chomsky: Four from the Forums

Commentary, January, 19 2000 Noam Chomsky
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On graduate unions, it's true enough that (ideally) "graduate teaching is pedagogical training," but that's incomplete. Any teaching, if done at all seriously, is also a way of learning -- about lots of things, including the subject you are teachi...

Commentary Chomsky: Millennial Visions and Selective Vision Part Two

Commentary, January, 13 2000 Noam Chomsky
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In fairness, it should be mentioned that the chorus of self-adulation that closed the millennium was disrupted by some discordant notes. Questions were raised about the consistency of our adherence to the guiding principles: the "new doctrine" tha...

Commentary Chomsky: Millennial Visions and Selective Vision Part One

Commentary, January, 10 2000 Noam Chomsky
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The new year opened with familiar refrains, amplified by the numerology: a chorus of self-adulation, somber ruminations about the incomprehensible evil of our enemies, and the usual recourse to selective amnesia to smooth the way. A few illustrati...

Zmag Article Barsamian: Challenging Corporate Power

Zmag Article, January, 01 2000 David Barsamian
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Barsamian Richard Grossman is co-director of the Program on Corporations, Law and Democracy. He is co-author of Taking Care of Business: Citizenship and the Charter of Incorporation. He lectures widely on issues of corporate power, law, and d...

Zmag Article Galeano: Dreams And Another Look At The Year 2000

Zmag Article, December, 01 1999 Eduardo Galeano
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Eduardo Galeano The new millennium is upon us. It’s not something to be taken all that seriously considering the fact that the year 2001 of the Christian era is the year 1379 of the Muslims, the year 5114 of the Mayans and the year 5762 o...

Zmag Article Pilger: Hidden Agendas

Zmag Article, November, 01 1999 John Pilger
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Pilger NY: New Press, 1999, pbk. 424 pp. Review by Anthony Arnove John Pilger is perhaps best known in the United States for his documentary Death of a Nation, a stunning expose on the genocide in East Timor. He has wri...

Commentary Chomsky: East Timor Is Not Yesterday's Story

Commentary, October, 23 1999 Noam Chomsky
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According to recent reports, the UN mission in East Timor has been able to account for just over 150,000 people out of an estimated population of 850,000. It reports that 260,000 "are now languishing in squalid refugee camps in West Timor under...

Znet Article Galeano: A Contradiction Called Uruguay

Znet Article, October, 22 1999 Eduardo Galeano
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translated by Francisco Gonzalez We Uruguayans have a certain tendency to believe that our country exists, but that the world remains unaware of it. The mass media--the media that has a worldwide impact--never mentions this tiny nation lost on th...

Commentary Chomsky: East Timor

Commentary, October, 04 1999 Noam Chomsky
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The events of the past weeks in East Timor should elicit shame as well as horror. The crimes could easily have been stopped.

Zmag Article Chomsky: World Order and its Rules

Zmag Article, October, 01 1999 Noam Chomsky
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Chomsky Despite the desperate efforts of ideologues to prove that circles are square, there is no serious doubt that the NATO bombings further undermine what remains of the fragile structure of international law. The U.S. made that clear in th...

Zmag Article Chomsky: East Timor Questions & Answers

Zmag Article, October, 01 1999 Noam Chomsky
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Stephen R. Shalom, Noam Chomsky, & Michael Albert This issue of Z was being prepared as the situation worsened in East Timor. The following Q&A is intended to give readers background information on the situation and U.S. interests in the area....

Zmag Article Chomsky: East Timor Questions & Answers

Zmag Article, October, 01 1999 Noam Chomsky
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Stephen R. Shalom, Noam Chomsky, & Michael Albert This issue of Z was being prepared as the situation worsened in East Timor. The following Q&A is intended to give readers background information on the situation and U.S. interests in the area....

Commentary Chomsky: Eight Question on Kibbutzim: Answers from Noam Chomsky Questions from Nikos Raptis

Commentary, August, 24 1999 Noam Chomsky
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The origins were in part European libertarian socialist thought. In part they were in a kind of romantic "back to the land" movement, suffused sometimes with Tolstoyan anarchism, in other cases part of a (very conscious) effort to reverse the "inv...

Commentary Chomsky: Moral Principles and International Law

Commentary, May, 09 1999 Noam Chomsky
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I'm afraid the first question is not a "genuine question," though there is a huge literature, for thousands of years, attempting to say at least something about these topics, without much success.

Zmag Article Chomsky: Crisis in the Balkans

Zmag Article, May, 01 1999 Noam Chomsky
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Crisis in the Balkans

Commentary Chomsky: A Farewell to Oscar

Commentary, March, 17 1999 Noam Chomsky
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On March 11, Oskar Lafontaine resigned his position as German Finance Minister and chair of the Social Democratic Party (SPD). His resignation elicited "euphoria" in "jubilant" financial markets, editorial offices, and news rooms.

Commentary Chomsky: On Staying Informed and Inteelectual Self Defense

Commentary, March, 08 1999 Noam Chomsky
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There's no way to be informed without devoting effort to the task, whether we have in mind what's happening in the world, physics, major league baseball, or anything else.

Zmag Article Barsamian: The Future of History, Part I

Zmag Article, March, 01 1999 David Barsamian
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The Future of History, Part I

Zmag Article Barsamian: Navigating the Media

Zmag Article, September, 01 1998 David Barsamian
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Ben Bagdikian is a respected critic of the media. He is winner of almost every top prize in American journalism, including the Pulitzer. His career as a reporter and editor spans more than 50 years. He is former Dean of the Graduate Schoo...

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