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Galeano: SOS
Znet Article, September, 17 2002
Eduardo Galeano
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[translated by Francisco Gonzalez] Who gets the water? The monkey with the stick does. The unarmed monkey dies of thirst. This prehistory lesson opens the film "2001: A Space Odyssey". Now, for the 2003 odyssey, President Bush announces a militar...
Gonsalves: Who cares about Africa?
Commentary, June, 04 2002
Sean Gonsalves
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Who cares about Africa? Me for one. And the Bush administration apparently does, too. ThatÕs what BushÕs $10 billion aid proposal for Africa and the Bono and OÕNeill 10-day tour of sub-Sahara Africa was all about. WasnÕt it?
Shiva: Export at Any Cost
Znet Article, May, 14 2002
Vandana2 Shiva
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Oxfam International's report "Rigged Rules and Double Standards" on Trade, globalisation and the fight against poverty is a brave attempt at combining two paradigms. However, when two paradigms are incommensurate, putting them together only create...
Chomsky: The War In Afghanistan
Zmag Article, February, 01 2002
Noam Chomsky
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The War In Afghanistan
Pilger: The Colder War
Znet Article, January, 29 2002
John Pilger
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LAST week, the US government announced that it was building the bigg...
Lusane: The World is Hungry
Commentary, November, 27 2001
Clarence Lusane
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What do the people who are starving in the world outside of Afghanistan have to do to get food?
Gonsalves: Dumb and Dumber?
Commentary, June, 30 2001
Sean Gonsalves
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IÕve been duped! But thanks to New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman, thereÕs hope for me yet. ÒAmerica has lost the propaganda war with Saddam. Period,Ó he wrote back in February.
Barsamian: Liberating the Mind from Orthodoxies
Zmag Article, May, 01 2001
David Barsamian
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Liberating the Mind from Orthodoxies
Chomsky: Escaping Orthodoxies
Commentary, December, 31 2000
Noam Chomsky
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DB: Talk in concrete ways about liberating the mind from orthodoxies. Take for example, humanitarian intervention.
Wise: White Christmas?
Commentary, December, 21 2000
Tim Wise
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Well it's that time of year again. Time for all good Americans to focus on what really matters. Not family, community, or world peace, but that national sacrament of late-stage capitalism known as Holiday shopping. Whether you do it online, or dra...
Burchill: The Problem With Panic Merchants
Commentary, July, 06 2000
Scott Burchill
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Some just never learn. From the same people who told us that East Timor should not and would not become independent, now comes the argument that the people of West Papua should also be denied the right to determine their political arrangements.
Edwards: CLIMATE WARS Paying The Ultimate Price For Corporate Control of Society
Commentary, May, 25 2000
David Edwards
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Declared 98% successful in destroying Iraqi Scud missiles during the Gulf War, the Patriot missile system was subsequently found to have achieved a success rate "close to zeroÓ by Professor Ted Postol of MIT. But by then the deception had done it...
Carter: The Second Coming Of Patti Smith
Zmag Article, May, 01 2000
Sandy Carter
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The Second Coming Of Patti Smith
Schechter: 'WE ARE THE WORLD' AS AN OLDIE: "BEEN THERE, DONE THAT"
Commentary, March, 17 2000
Danny Schechter
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As the story is told, it was a slow news day at NBC back in 1985 when staffers looked up at an incoming satellite feed on one of their many monitors. The newsroom fell silent as a parade of harrowing images from the dying fields of Ethiopia stream...
Prashad: An Afro-Dalit Story
Zmag Article, March, 01 2000
Vijay Prashad
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On January 30, 1998, I went on air with Ron Daniels for his two-hour radio program on the National Urban Radio Network. The theme for the show was Gandhi and Dr. King, since it was the 50th anniversary of Gandhi’s assassination. After a...
Georgakas: Blacks in Antiquity
Commentary, February, 10 2000
Dan Georgakas
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A few years ago Martin Bernal's Black Athena stimulated considerable commentary about the role of blacks in antiquity. Many leftists applauded Bernal's perceptive analysis of the racism of many nineteenth century German scholars without understand...
Sargent: 37.7 Seconds, Part II
Zmag Article, January, 01 2000
Lydia Sargent
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Lydia Sargent As I said in Part I, the title 37.7 seconds refers to the average amount of time fathers spent each day communicating with their babies during the first three months of life, according to a 1971 study quoted in Has Feminism Chang...
Fitz: Genetic Engineering
Zmag Article, October, 01 1999
Don Fitz
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Fitz Monsanto claims that genetic engineering is necessary to feed the world’s growing population. But a growing coalition of environmentalists, farmers, and scientists is exposing this claim as a cover for grabbing control of world agri...
Gonsalves: Aiding Africa
Commentary, August, 09 1999
Sean Gonsalves
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As part of a U.S. State Department special envoy, Tony Lake, former national security adviser to President Clinton, recently met with Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi, Eritrean President Isayas Afewerki and Organization of African Unity (OAU)...
Chomsky: Crisis in the Balkans
Zmag Article, May, 01 1999
Noam Chomsky
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Crisis in the Balkans
