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Swanson: Flame-Broiled Shark
Zmag Article, May, 01 2005
David Swanson
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I f someone told you that a bunch of low-income people, most of them African-American or Latino, most of them women, most of them elderly, had been victimized by a predatory mortgage lender that stripped them of much o...
Modotti: El Salvador on the Brink of Economic Collapse?
Zmag Article, May, 01 2005
Alex Modotti
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E l Salvador ended 2004 with a series of grim economic records, including a significant rise in the cost of living that is straining the already tight pocketbooks of working and middle class Salvadorans. The statistics ...
Loiselle: Looting the Commons
Zmag Article, May, 01 2005
Pierre Loiselle
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I ssues around intellectual property rights have spurred a lot of absurd scenarios with a plethora of bizarre claims and litigations in the courts. Furthermore, we are seeing how the U.S.-imposed patent system is assau...
Hayes: Amplifying Women’s Voices
Zmag Article, May, 01 2005
Loie Hayes
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S hould we try to infiltrate mainstream media or put our considerable energies into creating our own communication channels? An energized group of 200 women writers, radio producers, and critics debated this and other ...
Depaul: New Welfare Reforms
Zmag Article, May, 01 2005
Amy Depaul
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S ingle mothers receiving welfare who are trying to better their lives by earning a two- or four-year college degrees recently got a lifeline in their continuing struggle to stay afloat. But it appears their time is ru...
Bernstein: On the Ground in Beirut An interview with Robert Fisk
Zmag Article, May, 01 2005
Dennis Bernstein
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R ecently, Robert Fisk, the Lebanon-based correspondent for the Independent of London, has been traveling the countryside, touching base with key players in a volatile political situation. I spoke to Fisk on ...
Herman: The Political Economy Of Taxes
Zmag Article, April, 01 2005
Edward Herman
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R obert Cay Johnston’s book Perfectly Legal (Portfolio, 2003) discloses its main theme in its subtitle: The Covert Campaign To Rig Our Tax System To Benefit The Super Rich—An...
Bacon: Who Murdered Gilberto Soto?
Zmag Article, April, 01 2005
David Bacon
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A s evening fell on November 5, Gilberto Soto received a call on his cell phone at his mother’s home in a working-class neighborhood of Usulutan, El Salvador. Unable to understand the caller, Soto stepped o...
Johnson: AFL-CIO Leaders Move Forward
Zmag Article, April, 01 2005
William Johnson
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A re you worried about the future of the labor movement? Are you working longer hours for less money than workers like you have for decades? Have you noticed the rapid decline of union power in your workplace and our s...
Swanson: Taking Action on Minimum Wage
Zmag Article, April, 01 2005
David Swanson
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T he current federal minimum wage of $5.15 per hour is over 40 percent below the 1968 level adjusted for inflation. A full-time worker taking no vacation or holidays and earning the federal minimum wage earns 55 percen...
Laursen: The Death of South Tel Avi
Zmag Article, April, 01 2005
Eric Laursen
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S outh Tel Aviv was never paradise. But to Alusine Idris Swaray, a Sierra Leonian civil-servant-turned-house cleaner in Israel, sometimes it seems like it was, once. Swaray has lived in Israel since 1989 ...
Klassen: Lebanese Anti-Capitalism
Zmag Article, April, 01 2005
Jerome Klassen
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T his past summer I traveled to Lebanon to network with activists in the Palestinian camps and from Lebanon’s independent left. This interview is from a discussion with Ghassan Makarem, who works on a number of i...
Johansen: Global Warming Approaching
Zmag Article, April, 01 2005
Bruce Johansen
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A mong scientists who keep tabs on the pace of global warming, anxiety has been rising that the Earth is reaching an ominous threshold, a point of no return (“tipping point” in the scientific literature) at...
Frank: Muzzled Activist in the Age of Terror
Zmag Article, April, 01 2005
Josh Frank
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O n the afternoon of January 24, 2002, approximately 25 federal agents, guns in hand, stormed the home of Sherman Austin, a Sherman Oaks, California activist who founded www.raisethefist. com, an online site that hoste...
Davies: Whose War Is This Anyway?
Zmag Article, April, 01 2005
Nicolas j. s. Davies
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M any of the government and media executives who participated in the marketing campaign for the U.S. war of aggression in Iraq are now calling it a “serious mistake.” Richard Perle, the former head of the D...
Burbach: Right Confronts Lula as Movements Smolder
Zmag Article, April, 01 2005
Roger Burbach
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T he murder in Rio de Janeiro of Dorothy Stang, a 73-year-old U.S. nun who helped peasants engage in sustainable agriculture in the Amazonian rain forest, comes as oligarchic interests and the parliamentary right are o...
Berkowitz: Cash And Carry
Zmag Article, April, 01 2005
Bill Berkowitz
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I n early February, a headline in the Sun Myung Moon-owned Washington Times read “Bush continues outreach to blacks.” Bill Sammon reported that President Bush had met in the White House with ...
Administrator: Worker-Run Cooperatives in Buenos Aires
Zmag Article, April, 01 2005
Site Administrator
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D uring the economic crisis of 2001, when politicians and banks failed, many Argentines took matters into their own hands. Poverty, homelessness, and unemployment were countered with barter systems and grassroots, micr...
Sargent: War, Torture, & Other Fashion Statements
Zmag Article, March, 01 2005
Lydia Sargent
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War, Torture, & Other Fashion Statements
Herman: Major Bush Themes in Intensifying Class Warfare
Zmag Article, March, 01 2005
Edward Herman
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O ne of the world’s wonders is that the reelected Bush now has the power to carry out an agenda that will be hurtful to the material interests of a majority of the 59 million who gave him their vote. For these vo...
