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Commentary Hartmann: Population Policy: Will Coercion Come Back in Vogue?

Commentary, May, 01 2000 Betsy Hartmann
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In February of this year the Indian government announced a new population policy based on a two-child norm. While social activists have welcomed certain elements of the policy, such as free and compulsory elementary education and improvements in h...

Commentary Naiman: A19: The Media Empire Blows Back

Commentary, April, 21 2000 Robert Naiman
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As someone whose central organizing principles in life include figuring out how to reduce and undermine the power and legitimacy of the IMF, the World Bank, the WTO, and kindred institutions, I have to say that the week of protests and education i...

Commentary Prashad: As the Dust Settles: Clinton in the SubcontinentBy

Commentary, April, 17 2000 Vijay Prashad
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I've just returned from India filled with stories of Clinton's trip to the subcontinent. The reaction was extraordinary. After Clinton gave an address in the Central Hall of the Indian Parliament (boycotted by the Communist delegates) he was mobbe...

Zmag Article Cohen: Beware The Violence Initiative Project

Zmag Article, April, 01 2000 Mitchel Cohen
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As late as the 1980s, a small but influential coterie of prize-winning scientists were trying to prove that black children were, on average, less intelligent than white children. Intelligence, they said, ran “in the genes” of rac...

Zmag Article Petras: Rebellion in Ecuador

Zmag Article, April, 01 2000 James Petras
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On January 21 a popular rebellion, led by a coalition of Indians, peasants, and urban workers, supported by junior military officials occupied the Parliament, Judiciary, and surrounded the presidential palace. A three-person junt...

Commentary Martinez: Students of Color Fight Racism at Univ. of Mich. with Month-Long Occupation

Commentary, March, 08 2000 Elizabeth Martinez
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Since Feb. 6, the Students of Color Coalition (SCC) has occupied the tower of the University of Michigan Union building to protest ongoing racist practices on a campus that claims to have a longstanding commitment to multiculturalism and diversity...

Zmag Article Prashad: An Afro-Dalit Story

Zmag Article, March, 01 2000 Vijay Prashad
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On January 30, 1998, I went on air with Ron Daniels for his two-hour radio program on the National Urban Radio Network. The theme for the show was Gandhi and Dr. King, since it was the 50th anniversary of Gandhi’s assassination. After a...

Zmag Article Cromwell: Oil Propaganda Wars

Zmag Article, March, 01 2000 David Cromwell
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In November 1999, the High Court in London ruled that the UK government had failed to uphold the EU Habitats Directive when it awarded offshore oil licenses in British waters of the North Atlantic. Wildlife and ecosystems were being put at r...

Zmag Article Ross: The Spectacle of Standards & Summits

Zmag Article, March, 01 2000 E. Wayne Ross
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In 1989, President Bush called the nation’s governors together for the first national education summit. They set goals and tried to develop ways to measure progress, but were stymied by resistance to federal interference in local school deci...

Zmag Article Melton: Protect Griffy Alliance vs. Indiana University

Zmag Article, March, 01 2000 Jeff Melton
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Early last fall, Indiana University revealed its intention to lease 300 acres of university land to a hastily formed private corporation (formed by IU alumni with close ties to the board of trustees) for the purpose of building a private gol...

Commentary Cunningham: SELF-DECEPTION MEANS NEVER HAVING TO SAY YOU'RE SORRY

Commentary, February, 29 2000 Philip Cunningham
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"The Chinese people must speak up to protest the Japanese government for refusing to acknowledge the historical misdeed of the 1937 Nanjing Massacre." These are the words of an unknown hacker who added a new twist to the seven decade old Sino-Japa...

Commentary Wise: "When Anti-Racism Strikes Out"

Commentary, February, 26 2000 Tim Wise
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When it comes to discussions of racism, or any other kind of "ism" for that matter, sometimes we miss the forest for the trees. Such was the case recently when it was reported that Atlanta Braves relief pitcher John Rocker had cut loose with a str...

Commentary Weissman: The Nature of the Machine

Commentary, February, 16 2000 Robert Weissman
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Imagine this: you study your entire life to reach the pinnacle of your profession. First, you secure an undergraduate degree in biology from Oregon State University. Then a PhD in developmental biology at Yale University. Then on to Indiana Univer...

Commentary Shalom: Green Lights and Red Herrings

Commentary, February, 11 2000 Stephen1 Shalom
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In December 1975, after receiving a green light from U.S. President Gerald and Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, Indonesian President Suharto launched an invasion of East Timor. The weapons for the attack came from the United States. "Of course ...

Commentary Herman: Real Journalism

Commentary, February, 03 2000 Edward Herman
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There has long been a strong tendency on the part of Western non-governmental organizations (NGOs) to serve as did the Christian missionaries in the years of colonial expansion and occupation, who followed in the wake of the empire builders to con...

Zmag Article Street: Capitalism and Democracy "Don't Mix Very Well"

Zmag Article, February, 01 2000 Paul Street
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Economic globalization enthusiasts like Bill Clinton, Madeline Albright, Tony Blair, New York Times foreign policy columnist Thomas Friedman, and the unelected officials of the World Trade Organization repeat a classic Cold War mistake by cl...

Zmag Article Barsamian: Monopolies, NPR, & PBS

Zmag Article, February, 01 2000 David Barsamian
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Robert McChesney is Professor of Communications at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is a leading critic of corporate media. He is the author of Telecommunications, Mass Media and Democracy. His latest book is Rich Media, Po...

Zmag Article Steinberg: Stop McNukes

Zmag Article, February, 01 2000 Michael Steinberg
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The deregulation of the U.S. electrical industry was supposed to end monopoly control of that commodity. Unfortunately the nuclear component of the industry has tainted this process. Across the nation ratepayers are getting stuck with pay...

Commentary Prashad: Go to the Movie

Commentary, February, 01 2000 Vijay Prashad
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I'm not one to pass a good film by, having enjoyed Michael Mann's 'The Insider.' Its send-up of '60 Minutes' was enjoyable even as it felt the need to recuperate that bastion of US liberalism at film's end. This weekend I went to see Tim Robbin's ...

Commentary Albert: Movement for a Participatory Economy: An Overview

Commentary, January, 23 2000 Michael Albert
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Besides immediate objectives, great social movements need long-run goals for inspiration and guidance. The abolitionist movement to end slavery and the movement for the eight-hour day both in the nineteenth century, the movement for women's suffra...

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