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Chomsky: East Timor Questions & Answers
Zmag Article, October, 01 1999
Noam Chomsky
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Stephen R. Shalom, Noam Chomsky, & Michael Albert This issue of Z was being prepared as the situation worsened in East Timor. The following Q&A is intended to give readers background information on the situation and U.S. interests in the area....
Phillips: Untold Stories of U.S./NATO War
Zmag Article, October, 01 1999
Peter Phillips
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Peter Phillips The mainstream media in the United States were aware that the Pentagon and NATO were releasing biased and false information regarding the war in Kosovo yet they continued to pass on the information to the American public as if i...
Pollack: Nasdaq Japan
Zmag Article, October, 01 1999
Andy Pollack
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Andy Pollack Last week the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), operator of New Yorks Nasdaq exchange, announced it would open a new "electronic stock market" in Tokyo in the last quarter of the year 2000,...
Whitman: The New South 1999
Zmag Article, October, 01 1999
Claudia Whitman
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Claudia Whitman Brian Baldwin took his final steps to Alabamas electric chair on Thursday night, June 17, 1999. Twenty-two years earlier, on arriving on death row at the Holman Unit in Atmore, guards had pushed him in front of this omino...
Laforge: A European Walk for Disarmament
Zmag Article, October, 01 1999
John m. Laforge
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M. LaForge Calling itself "an international citizens inspection team to prevent war crimes," 500 nonviolent activists from around the world who had walked more than 100 miles from The Hague, converged on the beleaguered NATO headquar...
Nurmela: Why Are We Still Researching Nuclear Weapons?
Zmag Article, October, 01 1999
Lillian Nurmela
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Lillian Nurmela In all the furor over insufficient security at our nuclear weapons labs and the claim that China has stolen our secrets, neither the media nor Congress has questioned why the U.S. is continuing to research nuclear weapons. Ther...
Petras: NATO in Kosova
Zmag Article, October, 01 1999
James Petras
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James Petras Tony Blair, Madeline Albright, and Javier Solano all returned to Kosova to cheering Albanian crowds, praising NATO and the KLA for their efforts on behalf of peace and democracy. The triumphal returns and euphoric rhetoric...
Weisbrot: The Looting of Russia
Commentary, September, 29 1999
Mark Weisbrot
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What were they thinking? When executives at the Bank of New York saw billions of dollars floating in from the home computer of a Russian businessman with ties to organized crime there, did they really believe that these were just ordinary profits?
Raptis: European Labor
Commentary, September, 19 1999
Nikos Raptis
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The German word "Reichstag" means parliament. In colloquial German it also means the parliament building. It is not an exaggeration to say that this building, the Reichstag, is a very important part of the history of the 20th century.
Herman: Russian Corruption
Commentary, September, 12 1999
Edward Herman
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With the discovery of the massive laundering of Russian money-- some of it compliments of the IMF, and U.S. taxpayers--through the Bank of New York, the issue of Russian corruption is now "in." But it presents the establishment with a problem.
Lusane: Clinton Escapes Again
Commentary, September, 07 1999
Clarence Lusane
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Each Summer the major civil rights organizations hold their annual gatherings. Attended by thousands, these events include workshops, plenaries, and major addresses by civil rights leaders, trade union officials, representatives from women and you...
Dominick: An Appeal for Continued Anti-War Efforts
Commentary, September, 05 1999
Brian Dominick
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Sept. 5, 1999 An Appeal for Continued Anti-War Efforts By Brian Dominick Did I just see what I think I saw? Has a growing anti-war movement suddenly become dormant, for the umpteenth time in the past few decades - in ...
Zinn: Beyond the Soviet Union
Commentary, September, 02 1999
Howard Zinn
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In the spirit of killing two obligations with one effort, I offer as my Commentary a response I just made to a letter by a retired professor in California, who wrote: "As a great admirer of Howard Zinn [should he have said "as a former great admir...
Cagan: Thinking About Turkey
Commentary, August, 25 1999
Leslie Cagan
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I sit and watch in horror as the toll continues to rise from the earthquake in Turkey. Today they say over 12,000 dead and with 35 - 40,000 people still missing it's clear this number will grow in the coming days. The Turkish government has alread...
Raptis: Life Complexities / Quakes
Commentary, August, 20 1999
Nikos Raptis
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In 1943 as the Nazis were rounding up the Jews of Salonica in a part of the city, a 16-year-old girl (not a Jew) stood by in the street watching with curiosity (and I hope with horror) as the Nazis were loading them on trucks.
Raptis: The Statue of a Benefactor
Commentary, August, 08 1999
Nikos Raptis
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After WWI at the Versailles peace conference, in 1919, an irregular line of nations, north to south from Finland to Albania, with Britain controlling Greece and Turkey, was designated a "cordon sanitaire" to divide Europe into two parts; the capit...
Herman: Resisting Illegitimate Autbority
Commentary, July, 26 1999
Edward Herman
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My feeling that the government in Washington represents illegitimate authority ebbs and flows, but it has gathered strength over the past few years, and even months. One reason is the blatant further dollarization of the electoral process, with Bu...
Zinn: Inspire Please
Commentary, July, 16 1999
Howard Zinn
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The order came from above (I will not reveal the name, unless tortured) ): "Write something inspirational." The exact words were: "Inspire, please."
Raptis: The Dictionary
Commentary, July, 14 1999
Nikos Raptis
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Last year (1998) George Babiniotis, professor of linguistics at the University of Athens, compiled "The Dictionary of the Modern Greek Language." The dictionary was a much needed work, given the fact that all Greek dictionaries up to that time wer...
Carter: Cures For The Summertime Blues
Zmag Article, July, 01 1999
Sandy Carter
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Cures For The Summertime Blues


