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Berkowitz: The Interfaith Council for Environmental Stewardship
Zmag Article, July, 01 2000
Bill Berkowitz
Berkowitz's ZSpace page
A not-so-funny thing happened on the way to this year’s 30th anniversary of Earth Day. A group of Religious Right leaders, scientists, and academics, basking in the dual spotlights of Earth Day and Holy Week, launched the Interfaith Cou...
Bauder: Guilty of Living in Detroit
Zmag Article, July, 01 2000
Harald Bauder
Bauder's ZSpace page
When a client of a suburban Detroit temp agency demanded “no Detroit residents” in its recruitment profile, the agency’s personnel manager cried foul. She filed a complaint at the regional office of the Equal Employment Opportun...
Ali: NUCLEAR PERILS IN SOUTH ASIA
Commentary, July, 01 2000
Tariq Ali
Ali's ZSpace page
The nuclear games being played by India and Pakistan are both dangerous and obscene. They are dangerous because there are Taliban-type elements within the Pakistan Army (and I'm sure their equivalents in India), who could, in extremis, press the d...
Albert: Class, Race, Sex?!
Zmag Article, July, 01 2000
Michael Albert
Albert's ZSpace page
Toward the end of the 1960s, Marxism climbed into the left’s ideological saddle. Left thought elevated economics. Class became paramount. Imperialism became the reigning enemy. Astute activists felt that the plight of the ghettoes, the sex life of...
Administrator: THE BERLIN TRIBUNAL: MORE SERIOUS THAN THE HAGUE
Commentary, June, 30 2000
Site Administrator
Administrator's ZSpace page
Last June 3, two tribunals reached opposite conclusions concerning accusations of war crimes brought against NATO for its 1999 bombing campaign against Yugoslavia. In The Hague, Carla Del Ponte, chief prosecutor at the "International Criminal Trib...
Anderson: Boy Scouts
Graphic, June, 29 2000
Kirk Anderson
Anderson's ZSpace page
boy scouts, gay rights
Guellec: A Single Payer System for the U.S.?
Commentary, June, 29 2000
Dorothy Guellec
Guellec's ZSpace page
Americans are not correctly informed about the Canadian system. This may or may not be a conscious media effort, but I want to set the record straight. Healthcare delivery in Canada reflects the countryÕs principles, in particular universal entitl...
Deutsch: Objective Coverage
Graphic, June, 27 2000
Barry Deutsch
Deutsch's ZSpace page
Nader, press bias, Buchanan, election
Russell: Noxious Earnings Restrictions
Commentary, June, 27 2000
Marta Russell
Russell's ZSpace page
My friend David just went through what could be termed an noxious and unproductive bout with the Social Security Administration(SSA). David was an understudy for Dustin HoffmanÕs Rainman character (autistic) and works for a large chain electronics...
Edwards: Mobile Phones, Health Effects and the Problem with Advertisers
Commentary, June, 26 2000
David Edwards
Edwards's ZSpace page
Jim Mochnacz worked for British Telecom's Cellnet for eight years, initially siting and installing mobile phone transmission masts, before managing installations throughout a third of Britain. At the end of this period, Mochnacz fell seriously ill...
Bond: Zimbabwe's Election: Who's Right, Who's Left?
Commentary, June, 25 2000
Patrick Bond
Bond's ZSpace page
On Saturday and Sunday, Zimbabweans cast their vote for members of parliament in the most important election here since the country's first democratic poll, in 1980. It won't be a truly democratic, free-and-fair poll, thanks to intimidation and th...
Dowd: Capitalism and Technology: To whose benefit, at what costs?
Commentary, June, 24 2000
Douglas Dowd
Dowd's ZSpace page
In 1917, as war ripped Europe apart, Einstein wrote to a friend that "Our much-praised technological progress, and civilization gene rally, could be compared to an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal." Subsequently, in showing that E=MC2,...
Herman: KOSOVO ONE YEAR LATER: FROM SERB REPRESSION TO NATO-SPONSORED ETHNIC CLEANSING
Commentary, June, 23 2000
Edward Herman
Herman's ZSpace page
Now a little more than one year after the ending of Nato's 78- day bombing of Yugoslavia and the beginning of Nato control of Kosovo (June 10-12, 1999), the mainstream media have been exceedingly reticent in offering the public serious retrospecti...
Wise: Membership Has It's Privileges: Thoughts on Acknowledging and Challenging Whiteness
Commentary, June, 22 2000
Tim Wise
Wise's ZSpace page
Being white means never having to think about it. James Baldwin said that many years ago, and it's perhaps the truest thing ever said about race in America. That's why I get looks of bewilderment whenever I ask, as I do when lecturing to a mostly ...
Author: Is globalization dangerous to our health?
Commentary, June, 21 2000
Guest Author
Author's ZSpace page
When asked about globalization, Margaret Thatcher, the former Prime Minister of Great Britain, replied, "There is no alternative." Her reply was shortened to "TINA," which some people think is a newly discovered law of nature. Yet, public resistan...
Anderson: Reality Television
Graphic, June, 20 2000
Kirk Anderson
Anderson's ZSpace page
reality television, reality tv, reality-based programming, survivor
Rebick: Pitch battle is at doors of Ontario legislature
Commentary, June, 20 2000
Judy Rebick
Rebick's ZSpace page
The Ontario Coalition against Poverty wanted to be heard. Ever since right-wing Ontario Premier Mike Harris was elected, the organization has tried everything to get the government to pay attention to the desperate straits facing poor and homeles...
Anderson: Hou$ing-rising tide
Graphic, June, 19 2000
Kirk Anderson
Anderson's ZSpace page
housing, poverty
Anderson: Missile Decoys
Graphic, June, 19 2000
Kirk Anderson
Anderson's ZSpace page
national missile defense, nmd, sdi, star wars, missile defense, missile decoys, missile technology
Solomon: VIRTUAL COMMANDMENTS OF THE DOT-COM FAITH
Commentary, June, 19 2000
Norman Solomon
Solomon's ZSpace page
Inside the temples of true believers, ardent faith has a way of prevailing. And so, in the Dot-Com year of 2000, vast numbers of followers seem eager to fulfill a sacred digital future.
