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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
Chomsky's ZSpace page
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....
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...
Hartmann: Cross Dressing Malthus
Commentary, September, 23 1999
Betsy Hartmann
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October 12, 1999 has the dubious distinction of being both Columbus Day and 'Day of 6 Billion,' ostensibly the day world population will pass the six billion people mark.
Shiva: Stopping Biopiracy
Commentary, September, 06 1999
Vandana2 Shiva
Shiva's ZSpace page
The patents on the anti-diabetic properties of karela, jamun, brinjal once again highlight the problem of Biopiracy - the patenting of indigenous biodiversity related knowledge.
Marable: Chickens Coming Home to Roost
Commentary, September, 01 1999
Manning Marable
Marable's ZSpace page
Immediately following the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, Malcolm X was asked by the media for his response. Malcolm was not surprised by this tragic event, because white America had long fostered violence and racism throughout society...
Schechter: China on My Mind
Commentary, August, 31 1999
Danny Schechter
Schechter's ZSpace page
In less than two months, on October 1st, the People's Republic of China turns fifty. Mao's long march liberated a country which in a half century has gone from championing world revolution to building "socialism with Chinese characteristics."
Halimi: Media Critics of the World Unite
Commentary, August, 15 1999
Serge Halimi
Halimi's ZSpace page
Few countries publish as many books and articles on media criticism as the United States. Logically, all of this good work has little to no effect on the shaping and publication of news. Any adequate criticism, which describes media indoctrination...
Wise: Hate Crimes
Commentary, August, 12 1999
Tim Wise
Wise's ZSpace page
There is no question so irrelevant as the one to which all or nearly all can respond in like fashion. Thus, asking people their views on child molestation, or whether or not they'd like the schools to be "better" has always seemed absurd: like ask...
Prashad: Behind the Front; Nuclear Deterrance Indo-Pak Style
Commentary, August, 04 1999
Vijay Prashad
Prashad's ZSpace page
May, 1998. India and then, Pakistan, tested nuclear devices of questionable ferocity to launch themselves as nuclear power States. Both countries made diplomatic bids to join the discriminatory nuclear bargain currently being flogged to the world ...
Shiva: Monsanto's Expanding Monopolies From Seed to Water
Commentary, July, 17 1999
Vandana2 Shiva
Shiva's ZSpace page
Over the past few years, Monsanto, a chemical company, has positioned itself as an agricultural company through control over seed the first link in the food chain. Monsanto now wants to control water, the very basis of life.
Herman: The Importance of a Left Media
Commentary, July, 05 1999
Edward Herman
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A jarring moment in the Philadelphia area propaganda outpouring in support of the bombing of Yugoslavia was a passionately prowar Op Ed column in the Philadelphia Inquirer by long-time local antiwar activist Mark Sacharoff ("NATO did what it had t...
Wise: Whiteness and the Recollection of History
Commentary, July, 03 1999
Tim Wise
Wise's ZSpace page
For the writer, there's nothing so frustrating as to sit in front of a keyboard and find oneself at a loss for words. To know there are a million things which need saying, and yet, you can't think of even one. Having experienced this often, I've d...
Shalom: Lessons -- and Hope -- from Kerala
Commentary, June, 21 1999
Stephen1 Shalom
Shalom's ZSpace page
Are there alternatives to the dominant economic model that consigns increasing numbers of people to lives of misery? One such alternative is offered by the state of Kerala in southern India which has been the site of fascinating social experimenta...
Peters: Historically
Commentary, June, 02 1999
Cynthia Peters
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At a recent birthday, my daughter became the proud owner of the much coveted American Girl doll. We had vaguely supported her strong desire to have an American Girl doll. We knew that the doll would come with books that told the girl's story, that...
Chomsky: Moral Principles and International Law
Commentary, May, 09 1999
Noam Chomsky
Chomsky's ZSpace page
I'm afraid the first question is not a "genuine question," though there is a huge literature, for thousands of years, attempting to say at least something about these topics, without much success.
Mokhiber: Drugs, Patents, and U.S. Policy
Commentary, May, 03 1999
Russell Mokhiber
Mokhiber's ZSpace page
Thanks to new drug therapies, many people with HIV/AIDS in the United States are now able to live relatively healthy lives. "Triple drug" therapies, or "drug cocktails" allow HIV-positive people to reduce their HIV blood load in some cases to unde...
Chomsky: Crisis in the Balkans
Zmag Article, May, 01 1999
Noam Chomsky
Chomsky's ZSpace page
Crisis in the Balkans
Shah: Asian American?
Commentary, April, 26 1999
Sonia Shah
Shah's ZSpace page
I was recently asked to write about Asian American History Month, which, since 1979, has been observed during the month of May.
Hahnel: Capitalist Globalism In Crisis
Zmag Article, April, 01 1999
Robin Hahnel
Hahnel's ZSpace page
Capitalist Globalism In Crisis


