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Herman: KOSOVO ONE YEAR LATER: FROM SERB REPRESSION TO NATO-SPONSORED ETHNIC CLEANSING
Commentary, June, 23 2000
Edward Herman
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Now a little more than one year after the ending of Nato's 78- day bombing of Yugoslavia and the beginning of Nato control of Kosovo (June 10-12, 1999), the mainstream media have been exceedingly reticent in offering the public serious retrospecti...
Tokar: Gathering RAGE
Zmag Article, June, 01 2000
Brian Tokar
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One important feature of the actions in Seattle and Washington, DC was many activists’ focus on a serious new threat to our food and health: The rise of genetic engineering as the technology-of-choice in countless new areas of co...
Solomon: The Media Big Six
Zmag Article, June, 01 2000
Norman Solomon
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The push by federal regulators to break up Microsoft is big news. Until recently, the software giant seemed untouchable—and few people demanded effective anti-trust efforts against monopoly power in the software industry. Th...
Chomsky: The Colombia Plan: April 2000
Zmag Article, June, 01 2000
Noam Chomsky
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In 1999, Colombia became the leading recipient of U.S. military and police assistance, replacing Turkey (Israel and Egypt are in a separate category). The figure is scheduled to increase sharply with the anticipa...
Carter: Review Round-Up
Zmag Article, June, 01 2000
Sandy Carter
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From the first half of the year, some of the good and better releases not yet getting their due. Marianne Faithfull, Vagabond Ways (Instinct) For better and for worse, Marianne Faithfull’s best work usually d...
Su: xa1Ni una bomba mxe1s! U.S. Navy Out of Vieques!
Zmag Article, June, 01 2000
Carlos Su
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On April 19, 1999, the practice bombings that the U.S. Navy has conducted on training camps in the small Puerto Rican Island of Vieques since 1941 killed, civilian security guard David Sanes. This incident sparked a series ...
Hoodbhoy: EQBAL AHMAD: POST-POKHARAN DAYS
Commentary, May, 11 2000
Pervez Hoodbhoy
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He fought for Kashmiri self-determination in 1948, against French imperialism in Algeria in the early 60's, roused students on American campuses in the early 70's against their government's immoral war in Vietnam, dodged arrest by the CIA in a cas...
Landau: REPORT FROM SANTIAGO: DEJA VU
Commentary, May, 08 2000
Saul Landau
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History repeats itself, wrote Marx, first as tragedy and then again as farce. First time: Chile, November, 1970. In one photo, a helmeted officer just to the right of and behind Allende's car wears a bored, or maybe slightly pained, expression. Ge...
Herman: The NATO-Media Lie Machine
Zmag Article, May, 01 2000
Edward Herman
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NATO’s “humanitarian” enterprise in Kosovo was built on a structure of lies, many of them flowing from NATO headquarters and officials of the NATO powers, and uncritically passed along by the mains...
Chomsky: In Retrospect
Zmag Article, May, 01 2000
Noam Chomsky
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The absurdity of the principle of retrospective justification is, surely, recognized at some level. Accordingly, many attempts to justify the NATO bombing take a different tack. One typical version is that “Serbia assaulted ...
Barsamian: Public Relations: Corporate Spin and Propaganda
Zmag Article, May, 01 2000
David Barsamian
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Stuart Ewen is a professor of media studies at Hunter College in New York. He is the author of a number of books on the media and public relations, most notably PR: A Social History of Spin. BARSAMIAN: In the introduct...
Sinyai: Battle of Brooklyn's Domino Sugar
Zmag Article, May, 01 2000
Clayton Sinyai
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Now well into its eighth month, the International Longshoremen’s Association (ILA) Local 1814’s strike against the Domino Sugar refinery in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn is a good example of what workers can expe...
Harris: George W. Bush
Zmag Article, May, 01 2000
Bob Harris
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“Can you name the president of Chechnya?”—Andy Hiller, WHDH- TV Boston, to George W. Bush, 11/4/99 “No, can you?”—George W. Bush You won’t hear about it on CNN, but George W. Bus...
Burbach: Pinochet's Trial and Tribulations
Zmag Article, May, 01 2000
Roger Burbach
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The return of Augusto Pinochet to Chile has sparked a broad movement to bring the former dictator to trial. Ricardo Lagos, the newly installed socialist president, in his first public address from the balcony of the presidential ...
Schechter: The News Dissector In Berlin: Media Mergers And Personal Memories
Commentary, April, 29 2000
Danny Schechter
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In my travels to the "Old World," I often discover how "old" some of my own ideas are. In Berlin last week to speak at a media conference, I learned about Tobias Peucer who, as a student at the University of Leipzig, wrote what may have been the w...
Reinhart: Mideast Apartheid? Peace?
Commentary, April, 14 2000
Tanya Reinhart
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Hundred and twenty Palestinian intellectuals issued a message addressed to the Israeli and Jewish public. "The majority of Palestinians, including the undersigned, believed that the time was ripe for concluding with the Israelis a historic agreeme...
Sargent: 37.7 Seconds, Part V
Zmag Article, April, 01 2000
Lydia Sargent
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I began this series by saying that there was a time when “reading feminism” was a joyful, liberating journey. That was pre-1980. Then it became a depressing experience, a subject for satire or/and outrage as inanities, ...
Herman: Key Words In The New World Order
Zmag Article, April, 01 2000
Edward Herman
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As the 21st century begins, with the U.S. hegemon and transnational capitalism roaming the earth like the dinosaurs of the distant past, we should take stock of the key words that help rationalize their rampages. Many are heart-w...
Chomsky: In Retrospect
Zmag Article, April, 01 2000
Noam Chomsky
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The tumult having subsided, it should be possible to undertake a relatively dispassionate review and analysis of NATO’s war over Kosovo. One might have expected the theme to have dominated the year-end millennarianism, consi...
Carter: Grammy Awards Follow the Money
Zmag Article, April, 01 2000
Sandy Carter
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Every year when the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences celebrates its Grammy Awards, I gag at the notion that any of this music industry pomp honors the best music of the past year. Although all of the big time...
