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Nevins: Culture and Resistance
Zmag Article, April, 01 2006
Bill Nevins
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Z achary Richard is a unique voice, expressing both remembered loss and retained hope, rooted in historical awareness and crossing cultural and national boundaries. Richard is a direct descendant o...
Fischer-hoffman: Women’s Unwaged Caring Work
Zmag Article, April, 01 2006
Cory Fischer-hoffman
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A delegation of 70 women from the Global Women’s Strike, an organization formed to win economic and social recognition for unwaged caring work, stood together in the community of La Padera, V...
Gupta: Iraq Civil War
Zmag Article, April, 01 2006
A.k. Gupta
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T he explosion of outright civil war in Iraq has left the country traumatized, the Iraqi government crippled, and the U.S. occupation in ruins, but most ominously, it may be the beginning of the en...
Berkowitz: Rick Warren’s PEACE Mission
Zmag Article, April, 01 2006
Bill Berkowitz
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Y ou may have seen Rick Warren on the “Larry King Show.” Or some well-intentioned person may have given you The Purpose Driven Life or The Purpose Driven Church , ...
Andrews: No Dancing with the "Red Devils" in Nepal U.S. rejects peace overtures
Zmag Article, April, 01 2006
Jason Andrews
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O n February 13, 1996 a small band of communist rebels, modeling themselves after the Chinese revolutionary leader Mao, attacked police posts in two remote districts in the western part of Nepal, i...
Sargent: The Social Forum of the Americas
Zmag Article, March, 01 2006
Lydia Sargent
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T he planning committee of the World Social Forum (WSF) 2005 decided that 2006 would be a year of “polycentric” (decentralized) meetings around the world. Gatherings were to be held in ...
Herman: Ethnic Cleansing and the “Moral Instinct”
Zmag Article, March, 01 2006
Edward Herman
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O ne of the most dubious clichés of the humanitarian intervention intellectuals and media editors and pundits is that human rights have become more important to the United States and other NAT...
Barsamian: Imperial Hubris
Zmag Article, March, 01 2006
David Barsamian
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T ariq Ali was born in Lahore, then a part of British-ruled India, now in Pakistan. For many years he has been based in London where he is an editor of New Left Review. He’s written more than...
Yahn: Helping New Orleans
Zmag Article, March, 01 2006
Mimi Yahn
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H aving recently returned from New Orleans, I can report that everyone I talked to there said the same thing: “Please come down and help us rebuild.” There is virtually no help coming f...
Leopold: The Enron Scandal
Zmag Article, March, 01 2006
Jason Leopold
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F or many people familiar with Enron’s meteoric rise and subsequent downfall four years ago, the high-flying energy company and its crooked “E” logo has come to represent corporat...
Moderator: Coretta Scott King
Zmag Article, March, 01 2006
Portside Moderator
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C oretta Scott King, who died on January 30, 2006 at the age of 78, was a committed activist and a courageous and visionary person. Coretta Scott was born in Heiberger, Alabama. She was exposed at ...
Siu hin: The Battle for Immigrant Rights
Zmag Article, March, 01 2006
Lee Siu hin
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F or the past two years, the United States has been quietly pursuing its largest anti-immigrant campaign in 50 years. President Bush, right-wing Republicans, and many Democrats are once again using...
Hanieh: Palestinian Elections
Zmag Article, March, 01 2006
Adam Hanieh
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H amas’s landslide victory in the January 25 elections for the 132-seat Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC) is an unprecedented turning point for politics in both Palestine and the broader ...
Truthout.org: Betty Friedan
Zmag Article, March, 01 2006
Truthout.org
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B etty Friedan, the feminist crusader and author whose first book, The Feminine Mystique , ignited the contemporary women’s movement in 1963, died in February 2006, on her 85th bir...
Rowbotham: Woman's Consciousness, Man's World
Zmag Article, February, 01 2006
Sheila Rowbotham
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The Z Classics series is intended to chronicle the many contributions activsts and scholars have made to current inclusive revolutionary theory, vision, and strategy. Sheila Rowbotham's book, Woman's Consiousness, Man's World, excerpted here, was ...
Herman: On the Preeminence of State Terrorism Globalizing &ldquo
Zmag Article, February, 01 2006
Edward Herman
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B y any generally applicable standard—i.e., excluding the fraudulent but widely used “terrorism is what somebody else does” criterion—state terrorism is vastly more destruct...
Barsamian: The Problem of the Media
Zmag Article, February, 01 2006
David Barsamian
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R obert McChesney is president and co-founder of Free Press, an organization working to increase public participation in media policy debates, and to generate policies that will produce a more demo...
Hornaday: CAFTA & Women
Zmag Article, February, 01 2006
Melissa Hornaday
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D espite union opposition in several countries, the Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA) squeaked through the House of Representatives by only two votes on July 28, after passing the Senat...
Freedman: Belize and Bananas
Zmag Article, February, 01 2006
Alexandra Freedman
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O n January 1, 2006 a small banana export market in the sparsely populated country of Belize suffered an enormous blow. After 11 years of negotiations in WTO courts, U.S. and Latin American banana ...
Cositore: ALBA
Zmag Article, February, 01 2006
Carolina Cositore
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T here is a shift in the prevailing winds coming from the South, above all in South America and the Caribbean. The transformations in progress can be difficult to understand because they are differ...
