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Zmag Article Ollman: Promoting Democracy In The USA

Zmag Article, June, 01 2006 Bertell Ollman
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When someone asked what he thought about Western civilization, Mahatma Gandhi replied, “I think it would be a good idea.” Inspired by this, three dozen progressive scholars, lawyers, and activists—in...

Zmag Article Bronski: Wayne Healy v. Luis Spencer

Zmag Article, June, 01 2006 Michael Bronski
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Wayne Healy v. Luis Spencer

Zmag Article Tirmizey: Earth Democracy

Zmag Article, June, 01 2006 Kasim Tirmizey
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V andana Shiva is an Indian activist, writer, and thinker. Her books include Water Wars: Pollution, Profits, and Privatization , Biopiracy: The Plunder of Nature and Knowledge an...

Zmag Article Deusen: Changing Employment In The Green Mountains

Zmag Article, June, 01 2006 David Van Deusen
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O n March 3 the 98-year-old Capital City Press in Berlin, Vermont shut its doors for the last time and 200 skilled workers, members of the Teamster-affiliated Lithographers Local 1, found themselve...

Zmag Article O’donnell: The Political Economy of the U.S.-Iran Crisis

Zmag Article, June, 01 2006 Tom O’donnell
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J ust as the true reasons for the U.S.-British invasion of Iraq were not “weapons of mass destruction” or “links to Al Qaeda,” so too, the real reason for the present U.S.-I...

Zmag Article Nuess: Nicaragua, CAFTA, & CIPRES

Zmag Article, June, 01 2006 Mike Nuess
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N icaragua is almost the size of Washington state with a similar population density. Its greatest physical resource is its rich land, with about five acres of good farmland per person. Agriculture ...

Zmag Article Gupta: Wall Street and Big Oil Profit from Global Turmoil

Zmag Article, June, 01 2006 A.k. Gupta
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W ith gas prices breaking the $3 barrier the notion of “peak oil”—that geological constraints will force a permanent decline in crude oil production—is the apocalyptic flavo...

Zmag Article Dearden: Israel’s New Government, Old Policies

Zmag Article, June, 01 2006 Nick Dearden
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C oming only four weeks after the European declaration of sanctions against the Palestinian Authority, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert’s announcement in May of a new Israeli government should rais...

Zmag Article Martinez: Latinos Create a New Political Climate

Zmag Article, June, 01 2006 Elizabeth Martinez
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Between March 10 and May 1, 2006, five million people—mostly Latino—filled the streets in over 100 U.S. towns and cities with cries for justice in its treatment of migrant workers. Their dignified determination and fearless persistence startle...

Zmag Article Sargent: Chick Lit & Rent for Sex

Zmag Article, May, 01 2006 Lydia Sargent
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Chick Lit & Rent for Sex

Zmag Article Grubacic: Remembering Bobby Sands

Zmag Article, May, 01 2006 Andrej Grubacic
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D enis O’Hearn was born in New Mexico and is of Irish and Native Alaskan (Aleut) ancestry. He moved to Belfast in the 1970s and his articles for In These Times and the Guardian introdu...

Zmag Article Bennis: Iran, the U.S., and Nukes in the Middle East

Zmag Article, May, 01 2006 Phyllis Bennis
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T he Bush administration’s rapid escalation of anti-Iran rhetoric in the last few months should not be dismissed as posturing. Some of the attacks, especially Vice-President Cheney’s an...

Zmag Article Bacon: The People Shout No

Zmag Article, May, 01 2006 David Bacon
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N o! That’s what hundreds of thousands of people were saying as they came out of their homes into the streets all over the country—a million in Los Angeles, half a million in Chicago, t...

Zmag Article Model: The Invisible Continent

Zmag Article, May, 01 2006 David Model
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E very day there is an inundation of news debating the myriad issues on Iraq and Iran. Missing from the radar screen is the tragic plight of the people of Africa who have suffered the effects of wa...

Zmag Article Popkin: The Personal is Political

Zmag Article, May, 01 2006 Anna Popkin
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This essay is from an edited collection titled They Should Have Served That Cup of Coffee: 7 Radicals Remember the 60s, edited by Dick Cluster (South End Press, 1979). The essays are all writ...

Zmag Article Zinn: A World Without Borders

Zmag Article, May, 01 2006 Howard Zinn
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Howard Zinn, professor emeritus at Boston University, is perhaps this country's premier radical historian. He was an active figure in the civil rights and anti-Vietnam War movements of the 1960s. Today, he speaks all over the country to large and ...

Zmag Article Bronski: When Is a Hate Crime Not a Hate Crime?

Zmag Article, April, 01 2006 Michael Bronski
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F rom being physically harassed in my middle-class New Jersey Catholic high school in the mid-1960s to being assaulted in Boston’s outdoor cruising areas, I’ve seen a lot of anti-gay ha...

Zmag Article Bacon: Hunger On The Border

Zmag Article, April, 01 2006 David Bacon
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T oday the U.S./Mexico border is the subject of intense political controversy. Most of the fireworks focuses, however, on the idea that more enforcement can keep people from crossing it. Lost in th...

Zmag Article Sen: Legalized Human Trafficking

Zmag Article, April, 01 2006 Basav Sen
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T he World Trade Organization (WTO) negotiations in Hong Kong in December 2005 have been praised in the mainstream U.S. media for further freeing world trade to bring greater global prosperity.&nbs...

Zmag Article Rasmus: Executive Pay in the U.S.

Zmag Article, April, 01 2006 Jack Rasmus
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T he most fundamental and singular result of corporate policies of the past 25 years has been a massive shift in relative income from the roughly 105 million workers to the wealthiest 10 percent no...

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