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Zmag Article Bacon: Will A Social Clause In Trade Agreements Advance International Solidarity?

Zmag Article, January, 01 2000 David Bacon
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David Bacon On November 30 the AFL-CIO mobilized thousands of union members to demonstrate in Seattle outside the meeting of trade ministers of the World Trade Organization. The labor federation called for incor...

Zmag Article Achieng: Outlook 2000

Zmag Article, January, 01 2000 Judith Achieng
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Judith Achieng With only limited success in enforcing universal respect for children’s rights so far, UN agencies and rights groups are hoping the next century will see new efforts to achieve the goals of the 1990 World Children S...

Zmag Article Herman: Clinton Is The World's Leading Active War Criminal

Zmag Article, December, 01 1999 Edward Herman
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S. Herman I use war crimes to encompass the commission of all acts declared illegal under international rules of war as enumerated in the various Hague and Geneva agreements and conventions and pronounced in the Nuremberg and Tokyo tribunals. ...

Zmag Article Wright: Summit on Race at Ole Miss

Zmag Article, December, 01 1999 Keith Wright
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Keith Wright In Oxford, Mississippi once again, racial stereotypes hurtled through the October air, and people were talking about James Meredith, the first black student to attend the University of Mississippi in 1962. He arrived at Ol...

Commentary Solomon: The Twain Most Americans Never Meet

Commentary, November, 19 1999 Norman Solomon
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With the start of 2000 less than two months away, I've been thinking about a beloved American writer who stuck his neck out the last time people went through a change of centuries.

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...

Zmag Article Bronski: Wag the Dogma

Zmag Article, November, 01 1999 Michael Bronski
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Wag the Dogma

Commentary Weisbrot: Time to End Debt Slavery

Commentary, October, 31 1999 Mark Weisbrot
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It has become a truism that "there are no easy answers" to the world's most pressing economic and social problems. The phrase is often repeated by academics, policy wonks, and others whose occupation immerses them in the details of real or imagine...

Commentary Albert: The WTO and Mumia Abu Jamal

Commentary, October, 18 1999 Michael Albert
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The World Trade Organization treats working people in countries throughout the world as assets to manipulate in pursuit of private corporate profit. From Guatemala to South Africa and from Thailand to the South Bronx, this causes impoverishment, i...

Commentary Zinn: A Larger Consciousness

Commentary, October, 10 1999 Howard Zinn
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Some years ago, when I was teaching at Boston University, I was asked by a Jewish group to give a talk on the Holocaust. I spoke that evening, but not about the Holocaust of World War II, not about the genocide of six million Jews.

Zmag Article Fitz: Genetic Engineering

Zmag Article, October, 01 1999 Don Fitz
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Fitz Monsanto claims that genetic engineering is necessary to feed the world’s growing population. But a growing coalition of environmentalists, farmers, and scientists is exposing this claim as a cover for grabbing control of world agri...

Commentary Lusane: Clinton Escapes Again

Commentary, September, 07 1999 Clarence Lusane
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Each Summer the major civil rights organizations hold their annual gatherings. Attended by thousands, these events include workshops, plenaries, and major addresses by civil rights leaders, trade union officials, representatives from women and you...

Commentary Dominick: An Appeal for Continued Anti-War Efforts

Commentary, September, 05 1999 Brian Dominick
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Sept. 5, 1999 An Appeal for Continued Anti-War Efforts By Brian Dominick Did I just see what I think I saw? Has a growing anti-war movement suddenly become dormant, for the umpteenth time in the past few decades - in ...

Commentary Zinn: Beyond the Soviet Union

Commentary, September, 02 1999 Howard Zinn
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In the spirit of killing two obligations with one effort, I offer as my Commentary a response I just made to a letter by a retired professor in California, who wrote: "As a great admirer of Howard Zinn [should he have said "as a former great admir...

Commentary Schechter: China on My Mind

Commentary, August, 31 1999 Danny Schechter
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In less than two months, on October 1st, the People's Republic of China turns fifty. Mao's long march liberated a country which in a half century has gone from championing world revolution to building "socialism with Chinese characteristics."

Commentary Halimi: Media Critics of the World Unite

Commentary, August, 15 1999 Serge Halimi
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Few countries publish as many books and articles on media criticism as the United States. Logically, all of this good work has little to no effect on the shaping and publication of news. Any adequate criticism, which describes media indoctrination...

Commentary Gonsalves: Aiding Africa

Commentary, August, 09 1999 Sean Gonsalves
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As part of a U.S. State Department special envoy, Tony Lake, former national security adviser to President Clinton, recently met with Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi, Eritrean President Isayas Afewerki and Organization of African Unity (OAU)...

Zmag Article Carter: Cures For The Summertime Blues

Zmag Article, July, 01 1999 Sandy Carter
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Cures For The Summertime Blues

Commentary Shalom: Lessons -- and Hope -- from Kerala

Commentary, June, 21 1999 Stephen1 Shalom
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Are there alternatives to the dominant economic model that consigns increasing numbers of people to lives of misery? One such alternative is offered by the state of Kerala in southern India which has been the site of fascinating social experimenta...

Commentary Wise: The Threat of a Good Example

Commentary, June, 20 1999 Tim Wise
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Occasionally when I'm speaking to college students, attempting to inspire at least a few to commit themselves to social justice as a way of life and perhaps career, I'm asked the question for which there is no easy answer; the one that goes: "What...

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