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Solomon: REPORTING ON THE FIGHT AGAINST AIDS IN POOR NATIONS
Commentary, February, 16 2001
Norman Solomon
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In Africa, 17 million people have already died of AIDS. In Êdeveloping countries around the world, twice that many are now HIV Êpositive. Such statistics are largely unfathomable. And news accounts Êrarely explore basic options for halting the dea...
Prashad: The Ground Beneath Our Feet: Earthquake in India
Commentary, February, 07 2001
Vijay Prashad
Prashad's ZSpace page
Never underestimate the power of the Earth. Vast, deep, unstable. Tectonic plates in motion beneath miles of sod and stone. And above, flora and fauna bursting forth. Of that lot the humans walk on the Earth at our own rhythm, divided by classes a...
Raptis: Quake in India
Commentary, February, 04 2001
Nikos Raptis
Raptis's ZSpace page
Today (Jan. 31, '01) the number of dead from the earthquake that hit India six days ago is estimated "by officials and aid workers to be from 15,000 to 100,000." The higher estimate came from the Indian Defence Minister, George Fernandes, as his "...
Bond: Welcome to Jo'burg
Commentary, January, 26 2001
Patrick Bond
Bond's ZSpace page
If you had a choice, which host city would you choose for Rio+10, a.k.a. the 2002 `World Summit on Sustainable Development,' where 60,000 delegates will jawjaw about social and environmental problems, maybe in the process constructing more bits of...
Scipes: ROUND TWO: PEOPLE'S POWER IN THE PHILIPPINES REMOVES ANOTHER PRESIDENT
Commentary, January, 25 2001
Kim Scipes
Scipes's ZSpace page
The government of Joseph "Erap" Estrada in the Philippines has just collapsed, with the president forced out by mass mobilization, and with Vice President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo replacing him as President on January 21. What might this mean for t...
Glick: "This Land Is Your Land?"
Commentary, January, 07 2001
Ted Glick
Glick's ZSpace page
Several days ago I was asked to be part of a program next month commemorating the 60th anniversary of Woody Guthrie's song, "This Land Is Your Land." This got me thinking.
Prashad: The Great Indian Mail Strike of 2000
Commentary, January, 05 2001
Vijay Prashad
Prashad's ZSpace page
For two weeks in December 2000, almost all of the 600,000 postal workers in India struck work, on behalf of 300,000 part-time workers. From Cyberabad to Silicon Galli computers tried in vain to send packages to each other, as the Sensex sang a dir...
Mahajan: The Cost of Living
Zmag Article, January, 01 2001
Romi Mahajan
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The Cost of Living
Aravinda: People's Knowledge in a Paperless Society
Zmag Article, January, 01 2001
Ls Aravinda
Aravinda's ZSpace page
People's Knowledge in a Paperless Society
Mehta: none
Zmag Article, January, 01 2001
Abhay Mehta
Mehta's ZSpace page
Orient Longman, 2000, 226 pp. Review by Romi Mahajan Two of the most important material consequences of the wave of liberalization and privatization that has swept the globe over the last decade and a half are: (1) The selling ...
Bond: Africa's Progressive Movements
Commentary, December, 28 2000
Patrick Bond
Bond's ZSpace page
ZNet Commentator Patrick Bond (pbond@wn.apc.org) chats with South African poet/activist ZNet Commentator Dennis Brutus about the state of the African Left PB: Good to see you back in Johannesburg, comrade Dennis, even briefly, in the midst of you...
Guellec: Psst. The real scoop on Patient Assistance Programs
Commentary, December, 26 2000
Dorothy Guellec
Guellec's ZSpace page
Drug companies are giving away medications if you know how to ask. This is the best-kept secret because it is not widely known. All of the top 30 pharmaceutical companies make prescriptions available free, and these programs are horribly underutil...
Zinn: TENNIS ON THE TITANIC
Commentary, December, 16 2000
Howard Zinn
Zinn's ZSpace page
As the prize of the presidency lurched wildly back and forth in the last days of the year, with the entire nation hypnotized by the spectacle, I had a vision. I saw the Titanic churning through the waters of the North Atlantic toward an iceberg lo...
Cromwell: FALLOUT FROM THE CLIMATE TALKS
Commentary, December, 08 2000
David Cromwell
Cromwell's ZSpace page
The planet is burning, while politicians fiddle the books. If yet more proof was needed that capitalist society is rotten to the core, then just look to the recently collapsed climate talks in The Hague. No agreements, paltry or otherwise. Just bi...
Prashad: Beauty Queens and the Capitalist Beast
Commentary, December, 07 2000
Vijay Prashad
Prashad's ZSpace page
All the men are computer programmers, all the women are beauty queens, and some of us are humorless. So it seems in the land of Silicon(e) India. Bill Gates says that Indians are the second smartest people on the planet, and the international cons...
Bond: South Africa's municipal elections: Finally, basic services for the masses?
Commentary, December, 06 2000
Patrick Bond
Bond's ZSpace page
Tuesday, December 5, is a national election in South Africa, as nearly 9,000 councilors in 284 municipalities seek the support of ten million voters. The African National Congress (ANC), which since 1994 has won three national, provincial and loca...
Schechter: The Media And HIV/AIDS: What Should We Do?
Commentary, December, 02 2000
Danny Schechter
Schechter's ZSpace page
Sorry. So sorry if you were given "unnecessary offense." So sayeth the BBC as part of an apology for a stunt concocted for a TV show that plays practical jokes on the public. "Aunty," as the Beeb is known, hired a child actor to pose as an Afric...
Salaita: ...Invisible, With Liberty and Justice for All
Zmag Article, December, 01 2000
Steven nasr Salaita
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...Invisible, With Liberty and Justice for All
Dowd: WHAT DO WE WANT? AND WHO ARE "WE"?
Commentary, November, 23 2000
Douglas Dowd
Dowd's ZSpace page
Alongside and arising from "Seattle" and subsequent protests are questions such as the above -- by those participating in and supporting, and those against the protests. Those and related questions have always deserved serious answers; now more t...
Monbiot: Reality Re-Asserts ItselfT
Commentary, November, 14 2000
George Monbiot
Monbiot's ZSpace page
Just as floods and tornadoes were laying waste to our homes, we earthlings watched the launch of an exciting new venture. Three cosmonauts were blasted into orbit, to pioneer the permanent inhabitation of space. Humanity is already making plans fo...
