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Zmag Article Scioscia: Keeping My Religion

Zmag Article, January, 01 2000 Amanda Scioscia
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Amanda Scioscia As I stood face to face with Marta Alanis, regional coordinator of Catholics for A Free Choice in Latin America, we looked at each other with scrutiny. "I thought you’d be older," she said. "I ...

Commentary Reinhart: With Barak No Withdrawal, No Peace

Commentary, December, 29 1999 Tanya Reinhart
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In Israel, there is a feeling of a great historical moment. Finally, after much pressure and diplomacy - the story goes - Asad agreed to turn to the road of peace. In the expected peace agreement, Syria will get back all of the Golan Heights, and ...

Commentary Herman: THEY BROUGHT IT ON THEMSELVES

Commentary, December, 18 1999 Edward Herman
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One of the tricks of imperialism is to pretend that a targeted enemy has been offered a negotiating option, quickly claim that that option has been rejected, and then ruthlessly attack or continue sanctions that may be taking a heavy human toll.

Zmag Article Sargent: 37.7 Seconds, Part I

Zmag Article, December, 01 1999 Lydia Sargent
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Lydia Sargent What is the significance of my title, 37.7? I got it from Has Feminism Changed Science? by Londa Schiebinger who writes: "A study in 1971 reported that fathers spent an average of only 37.7 seconds each day communicating w...

Zmag Article Carter: Bruce Springsteen's Land Of Hope And Dreams

Zmag Article, December, 01 1999 Sandy Carter
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Carter As we come to the end of the 20th century, it’s increasingly difficult to believe in the power of rock and roll to change lives. But with the current reunion tour of Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band, the tradition ...

Zmag Article Herman: Clinton Is The World's Leading Active War Criminal

Zmag Article, December, 01 1999 Edward Herman
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S. Herman I use war crimes to encompass the commission of all acts declared illegal under international rules of war as enumerated in the various Hague and Geneva agreements and conventions and pronounced in the Nuremberg and Tokyo tribunals. ...

Zmag Article Bacon: Dried Garlic And A Busted Union

Zmag Article, December, 01 1999 David Bacon
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David Bacon & Bill Berkowitz King City, California is a tough agricultural town about an hour south of Salinas. In King City, vegetables are king—people mostly work in the fields picking them, or in the huge Basic Vegetable Products p...

Zmag Article Kozloff: Miami South Com

Zmag Article, December, 01 1999 Nikolas Kozloff
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Nikolas Kozloff Slowly but surely, the U.S. presence is escalating in Colombia’s counterinsurgency war against left wing rebels. Currently there are 1,000 U.S. marines stationed at a military base on the Colombian Pacific coast at Bahia M...

Zmag Article Corr: none

Zmag Article, December, 01 1999 Anders Corr
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South End Press, Cambridge, MA 1999 Review by Alexander Dwinell There’s a verse of Woody Guthrie’s popular anthem "This Land is Your Land" neglected by most school assemblies. It goes: Was a big high wall there that tr...

Commentary Solomon: Nearing Global Summit, WTO On High Media Ground

Commentary, November, 23 1999 Norman Solomon
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When thousands of protesters converge on Seattle at the end of this month to challenge the global summit of the World Trade Organization, they're unlikely to get a fair hearing from America's mass media.

Commentary Landau: More Nuclear Disasters

Commentary, November, 08 1999 Saul Landau
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"We have contained the spread of radiation from last week's nuclear accident," Japanese authorities assured their citizens. They blame the chain reaction on improper handling of materials by low level workers.

Commentary Raptis: The Pnyx

Commentary, November, 07 1999 Nikos Raptis
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Pnyx is the name of a low (357 feet high) hill about 450 yards to the west of the Acropolis in Athens. The word "Pnyx" means "tightly crowded together." The "crowding" refers to the male citizens (also known and as "demos") of classical Athens, wh...

Zmag Article Hahnel: Going To Greet The WTO In Seattle

Zmag Article, November, 01 1999 Robin Hahnel
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Going To Greet The WTO In Seattle

Zmag Article Pilger: Hidden Agendas

Zmag Article, November, 01 1999 John Pilger
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Pilger NY: New Press, 1999, pbk. 424 pp. Review by Anthony Arnove John Pilger is perhaps best known in the United States for his documentary Death of a Nation, a stunning expose on the genocide in East Timor. He has wri...

Commentary Raptis: The Harvard Lady

Commentary, October, 30 1999 Nikos Raptis
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The U.S. (corporate or state) institutions that dominate the life of ordinary people in almost all countries, though impersonal, need some individuals who as part of a local elite promote the ideology and the goals of these institutions. The portr...

Commentary Herman: Missing Bodies

Commentary, October, 25 1999 Edward Herman
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A Reuters news dispatch of October 13 bylined Pristina, Kosovo, is entitled " Absolutely No Bodies Found in Supposed Mine Shaft Mass Grave in Kosovo." This follows an earlier report by a Spanish forensic team that went into a part of Kosovo allege...

Znet Article Galeano: A Contradiction Called Uruguay

Znet Article, October, 22 1999 Eduardo Galeano
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translated by Francisco Gonzalez We Uruguayans have a certain tendency to believe that our country exists, but that the world remains unaware of it. The mass media--the media that has a worldwide impact--never mentions this tiny nation lost on th...

Commentary Solomon: The Enduring Spirit of a Dissident Senator

Commentary, October, 03 1999 Norman Solomon
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The black-and-white TV footage is grainy and faded, but it still jumps off the screen -- a portentous clash between a prominent reporter and a maverick politician.

Zmag Article Chomsky: World Order and its Rules

Zmag Article, October, 01 1999 Noam Chomsky
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Chomsky Despite the desperate efforts of ideologues to prove that circles are square, there is no serious doubt that the NATO bombings further undermine what remains of the fragile structure of international law. The U.S. made that clear in th...

Zmag Article Albert: Mother Jones, Todd Gitlin, & Kosovo

Zmag Article, October, 01 1999 Michael Albert
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Michael Albert Many people were concerned during the Kosovo conflict that crimes against the Albanian Kosovars were so horrific that however painful it might be to undertake, NATO intervention was warranted. Such folks felt that genocide ...

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