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Zmag Article, December, 01 1999
Anders Corr
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South End Press, Cambridge, MA 1999 Review by Alexander Dwinell Theres a verse of Woody Guthries popular anthem "This Land is Your Land" neglected by most school assemblies. It goes: Was a big high wall there that tr...
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.
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.
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...
Hahnel: Going To Greet The WTO In Seattle
Zmag Article, November, 01 1999
Robin Hahnel
Hahnel's ZSpace page
Going To Greet The WTO In Seattle
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...
Raptis: The Harvard Lady
Commentary, October, 30 1999
Nikos Raptis
Raptis's ZSpace page
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...
Herman: Missing Bodies
Commentary, October, 25 1999
Edward Herman
Herman's ZSpace page
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...
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...
Solomon: The Enduring Spirit of a Dissident Senator
Commentary, October, 03 1999
Norman Solomon
Solomon's ZSpace page
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.
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...
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 ...
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
Weisbrot's ZSpace page
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?


