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Herman: Pol Pot's Death In The Propaganda System
Zmag Article, June, 01 1998
Edward Herman
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The death of Pol Pot on April 15, 1998 unleashed a media barrage of indignation and sanitized history that illustrates well their role as agents in a system of propaganda. While Pol Pot was undoubtedly a mass killer and evil fo...
Carter: Conjunto Cxe9spedes
Zmag Article, June, 01 1998
Sandy Carter
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Although the Bay Area-based Conjunto Cspedes is now being recognized as one of the most exciting Afro-Cuban ensembles in the country, Guillermo Cspedes, the group’s musical director, recalls that until very recently there ...
Cagan: It Should Be Possible, It Has To Be Possible
Zmag Article, June, 01 1998
Leslie Cagan
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For over 30 years, Leslie Cagan has been a tireless organizer: from the Vietnam War to racism at home, from nuclear disarmament to lesbian/gay liberation, from fighting sexism to working agai...
Sferios: Population, Immigration, & the Environment
Zmag Article, June, 01 1998
Emanuel Sferios
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During March and April the national Sierra Club membership voted by a 20 percent margin against a ballot initiative which would have adopted a Club policy calling for a reduction in U.S. immigration. Out of the 78,069 members w...
Sargent: Are You Femme Enough?
Zmag Article, May, 01 1998
Lydia Sargent
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Are You Femme Enough?
Chomsky: Domestic Constituencies
Zmag Article, May, 01 1998
Noam Chomsky
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Domestic Constituencies
Carter: Short Cuts
Zmag Article, May, 01 1998
Sandy Carter
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In the last decade the music industry has gradually discovered the music of American Indians. As a result, at least a small portion of the music buying public has started to hear sounds that have nothing to do with the Hollywoo...
Brecher: Resisting Concessions
Zmag Article, May, 01 1998
Jeremy Brecher
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While the number of strikes and strikers plummeted during the 1980s and 1990s, most of the major labor struggles that did take place were in resistance to management demands for concessions. Three of the most important—and...
Petras: The Post-Communist Generation
Zmag Article, May, 01 1998
James Petras
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The Soviet Union has transited from a repressive and authoritarian communist regime in which social welfare, full employment, and a secure old age predominated to a savage capitalism in which a small minority of Mafia business ...
Feldman: Years After The 1968 Columbia Revolt
Zmag Article, May, 01 1998
Bob Feldman
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solidarity with justice and freedom for others (in Vietnam and Harlem)—and by risking their own privileged futures, they forged meanings and discovered their own humanity. When several hundred students disrupted the status quo and defie...
Herman: All The News Fit To Print, Part II
Zmag Article, May, 01 1998
Edward Herman
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The New York Times is a strongly ideological paper, whose biases and frequent propaganda service give its logo phrase "all the news that’s fit to print" an ironical twist. James Reston acknowledged that "we left [out] a great deal of what we kne...
Solomon: Media Beat
Zmag Article, May, 01 1998
Norman Solomon
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Sex-Scandal Coverage Evades Contradictions In the days since Kathleen Willey’s interview on "60 Minutes," media outlets have flooded us with renewed debates over President Clinton’s sexual conduct. But news coverage still fails to co...
Peters: The American Doll
Zmag Article, April, 01 1998
Cynthia Peters
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Zoe, my six-year-old, was practically vibrating with delight when she opened the big rectangular box and pulled out her first American Girl doll. It was her birthday. She had asked for Felicity—the "colonial era"...
Chomsky: Rogue States
Zmag Article, April, 01 1998
Noam Chomsky
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The concept of "rogue state" plays a pre-eminent role today in policy planning and analysis. The current Iraq crisis is only the latest example. Washington and London declared Iraq a "rogue state," a threat ...
Carter: Celebrating Pete Seeger
Zmag Article, April, 01 1998
Sandy Carter
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Celebrating Pete Seeger
Herman: All The News Fit To Print (Part I)
Zmag Article, April, 01 1998
Edward Herman
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The New York Times’s masthead logo, "All The News That’s Fit to Print," dates back to 1896, the first year of Ochs-Sulzberger family control of the paper, and both the family control and arrogant belief in the benevolence and superior ju...
Bacon: A New Europe?
Zmag Article, March, 01 1998
David Bacon
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Morena Pivetti’s mother was a dedicated school teacher. Until she retired a few years ago, she devoted her working life to Italy’s greatest and most-loved resource, its children. When she retired, she got one of the b...
Genius: Liberal Genius
Zmag Article, March, 01 1998
Liberal Genius
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Cold War was supposed to bring not only a peace dividend, with less money spent on defense, but a sort of moral dividend, too. The United States, which had suppressed its ethical standards in the higher battle against godless Communism, was ...
Herman: GLOBAL ROGUE STATE
Zmag Article, February, 01 1998
Edward Herman
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GLOBAL ROGUE STATE
