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Albert: New Targets
Commentary, May, 04 2001
Michael Albert
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We anti-globalists oppose imperial trade arrangements. We reject that the rich get richer. We repudiate that the poor get poorer. We laugh at pundits claiming that globalization positively entwines world centers via new modes of communication and ...
Trigona: Zapatista Caravan
Zmag Article, May, 01 2001
Marie Trigona
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The Zapatista rebels made a historic journey to Mexico City this March in order to rally support and to make demands for indigenous rights in Mexico. An estimated 200,000 people came to Mexico City's center square Sunday, March 11 to hear the dema...
Barsamian: Liberating the Mind from Orthodoxies
Zmag Article, May, 01 2001
David Barsamian
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Liberating the Mind from Orthodoxies
Galaktik: Make The Switch
Zmag Article, May, 01 2001
Ron Galaktik
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Make The Switch
Podur: Invisible Struggles in Colombia
Commentary, April, 27 2001
Justin Podur
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If you had the chance to see 'Traffic', you know the War on Drugs is a sham. There's a good chance you know that its domestic effects are to imprison thousands and thousands of non-violent offenders who aren't dangerous, cut them off from their fa...
Prashad: Hindutva For a Few Dollars a Day
Commentary, April, 25 2001
Vijay Prashad
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Bangru Laxman asks the intrepid tehelka.com journalists to bring him $30,000 to their next meeting. He has already taken Rs. 1 lakh. "You can give dollars," said the President of the BJP. "You talk to us directly. We normally turn to [National Sec...
Weisbrot: Why We Need Free Trade for Life-Saving Medicines
Commentary, April, 22 2001
Mark Weisbrot
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The story of the decade, and perhaps the century, has finally made it to the front pages: millions of people who could be saved are dying from AIDS. The reason for their unnecessary, premature, and often agonizing deaths is now becoming clear: it ...
Hoodbhoy: OUR BLIND NUCLEAR PROPHETS
Commentary, April, 12 2001
Pervez Hoodbhoy
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Having thrown away several hundred, I still have in my possession about a hundred newspaper articles on the nuclear issue written in Pakistan and India over the past decade. The authors, overwhelmingly, are establishment nuclear "experts" and "str...
Solomon: Reporting On AIDS in Africa
Zmag Article, April, 01 2001
Norman Solomon
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Reporting On AIDS in Africa
Wilayto: The Bradley Foundation
Zmag Article, April, 01 2001
Phil Wilayto
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The Bradley Foundation
Oshinskie: The Rest Of The Story Behind Genetic Engineering
Zmag Article, April, 01 2001
Mark Oshinskie
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The Rest Of The Story Behind Genetic Engineering
Everest: California's Energy Crisis
Zmag Article, April, 01 2001
Larry Everest
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California's Energy Crisis
Prashad: The Problem of the Twenty-First Century is the Problem of the ColorBlind
Commentary, March, 31 2001
Vijay Prashad
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A few years ago I had the fortune of spending a morning debating Dinesh D'Souza on the question of affirmative action. It was in Chicago at the South Asian Students' Association annual meeting. I was a bit apprehensive. I've debated people before,...
Guellec: Cuba offers free medical education to US minority students
Commentary, March, 27 2001
Dorothy Guellec
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ItÕs all about altruism man, not politics. It would be unthinkable in the US to offer much of anything for nothing, let alone a 6-year medical education, but the Cubans have been doing this for many countries in the past, and now Americans may app...
Prashad: Magical Realism in the Fabulous World of the Indian Economy
Commentary, March, 21 2001
Vijay Prashad
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Magical Realism is an Indian habitus discovered accidentally by Latin American fiction. Gabriel Garcia Marquez, may his recent illness be as painless as possible, wrote in a style that evokes for me the social relations of the Indian subcontinent....
Guellec: Violence is a Public Health Problem
Commentary, March, 10 2001
Dorothy Guellec
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According to the FBI there are 240 million firearms in America today. Former U.S. Surgeon General C. Everett Koop identified violence as a public health issue in 1991. The Centers for Disease Control tells us "the United States may be a more viole...
Shah: The Curious Politics of Milk
Commentary, March, 05 2001
Sonia Shah
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Part OneOne night, a small American boy slipped into bed with his mother and suckled at her breast for a few minutes before dropping off to sleep. The next day, he told his babysitter he wanted to stop doing so, but "Mommy wouldn't let me." The ch...
Ingalls: "Smart" Sanctions On Afghanistan
Zmag Article, March, 01 2001
James Ingalls
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"Smart" Sanctions On Afghanistan
Gonsalves: Facts on the ground
Commentary, March, 01 2001
Sean Gonsalves
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JERUSALEM -- I was humbled by my ignorance. But even the ignorant quickly learns that studying maps and learning the lay of the land is central to understanding the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
