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Street: The Obama Illusion
Zmag Article, February, 01 2007
Paul Street
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L ong before any formal announcement (I’m writing this in early January), it was obvious that overnight sensation Senator Barack Obama (D-IL) wanted to be the U.S.’s next chief executiv...
Sargent: Armed, Cleavaged, and Legal
Zmag Article, February, 01 2007
Lydia Sargent
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W elcome to Hotel Satire where gals come to learn how to be men’s decorative appendages—as dictated by God in the Bible, uh, somewhere. There has been some exciting news recently to hel...
Herman: Bush’s Alleged Democracy Goal in Iraq
Zmag Article, February, 01 2007
Edward Herman
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L iberation and democracy came late as an alleged major goal of the Bush administration in its invasion-occupation of Iraq. Despite this lateness, and a vast array of reasons and evidence that at b...
Dirnbach: Unions, Activists, & the Global Apparel Industry
Zmag Article, February, 01 2007
Eric Dirnbach
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T he global apparel industry is a vast sweatshop enterprise employing tens of millions of workers in over 100 countries. The workers’ struggle to improve their conditions within this global s...
Schivone: Determining Justice in Our Current History
Zmag Article, February, 01 2007
Gabriel matthew Schivone
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G.M: Here in Tucson, Arizona, we are feeling the effects of President Bush’s deployment this past summer of National Guard troops to marshal the U.S. border. Bush also called for 18,000 agents of ...
Rasmus: The Trillian Dollar Income Shift, Part 1
Zmag Article, February, 01 2007
Jack Rasmus
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F or three decades, from 1942 to the mid-1970s, a “great leveling” of incomes between classes in America occurred as the standard of living rose for tens of millions of American workers...
Heneghan: Boston Workers Alliance
Zmag Article, February, 01 2007
Chris Heneghan
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M embers of the Boston Workers Alliance (BWA) met last October in New York City for the second national conference of the U.S. Federation of Worker Cooperatives. They were there to discuss plans fo...
Gupta: Bush's Iraq Strategy for 2007
Zmag Article, February, 01 2007
A.k. Gupta
Gupta's ZSpace page
A fter all the study groups and reports, an electoral repudiation of a failed war, months of deliberation, and hundreds of thousands dead, the Bush administration policy debate boils down to t...
Bennett: Colombia Solidarity Work
Zmag Article, February, 01 2007
Hans Bennett
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A viva Chomsky is professor of history and Latin American Studies at Salem State College in Massachusetts. She is also a founder of the North Shore Colombia Solidarity Committee, which has been wor...
Street: Bedtime Stories for the Bewildered Herd
Zmag Article, January, 01 2007
Paul Street
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T he standard power-worshipping position and consent-manufacturing role of the United States’ “free press” has been clearly demonstrated before and during the illegal invasion and occupation of Iraq. ...
Herman: Democratic Betrayal Breaking promises again
Zmag Article, January, 01 2007
Edward Herman
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I t has become standard practice for parties of the left, or that claim to represent mass constituencies, to make populist and peace-stressing promises and gestures that are betrayed instantly on the assumption of ...
Bacon: Sportswriter At The Barricades
Zmag Article, January, 01 2007
David Bacon
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W hile the turmoil in the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca was in the headlines last fall for weeks, little media coverage noted that at its center was a crusading newspaper, Noticias. The paper’s ...
Ott: On Capitalism, Europe, and the World Bank
Zmag Article, January, 01 2007
Dennis Ott
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OTT: In an interview you quoted Thorstein Veblen, who contrasted “substantial people” and “underlying population.” At a shareholder’s meeting of Allianz AG, major shareholder Hans-Marti...
Petras: Crisis of Capitalism?
Zmag Article, January, 01 2007
James Petras
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P rogressive, radical, and even a few “Bearish” Wall Street pundits have been arguing for years about the coming collapse, decline, or demise of U.S. capitalism. While the left preaches “the crisis an...
Kuras: Kurds in Turkey Still fighting for freedom
Zmag Article, January, 01 2007
Eva Kuras
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T he Toronto Sun reported in June 2004, “Tens of thousands of Kurds wept and danced” when four parliamentarians were freed from prison in Turkey that month. The most well known of the parliamenta...
Berkowitz: Lincoln Group
Zmag Article, January, 01 2007
Bill Berkowitz
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S ince the inception of the Iraq war, and even during the runup to the invasion, the Bush administration aimed to control the news about and from Iraq. Early on, embedded reporters told stories about the toppling o...
Tokar: Murray Bookchin, Visionary Social Theorist
Zmag Article, September, 01 2006
Brian Tokar
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M urray Bookchin, the visionary and often iconoclastic social theorist and activist, died Sunday, July 30 in his home in Burlington, Vermont. He was 85. During a prolific career of writing, teachin...
Peters: "If You Don't Fight, You've Already Lost" An interview with Steve Meacham
Zmag Article, September, 01 2006
Cynthia Peters
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S ince meeting Steve Meacham six years ago, I have spoken with him many times about the challenges of seeking radical change in the course of daily reform work. Meacham is someone who is in the str...
Herman: The U.S. and Israel
Zmag Article, September, 01 2006
Edward Herman
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W ith Israel engaged once again in a major war of aggression in Lebanon, and protected once again from any effective global response by U.S. power and veto, it becomes clearer than ever that the ce...
Gibler: Mexico's Other Campaign
Zmag Article, September, 01 2006
John Gibler
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O btilia Eugenio Manuel, a 30-year-old Me’phaa indigenous woman, stands in the hollowed concrete frame of a two-room schoolhouse, its walls peppered with bullet holes. She holds a microphone ...
