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Zmag Article Tokar: Gathering RAGE

Zmag Article, June, 01 2000 Brian Tokar
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One important feature of the actions in Seattle and Washington, DC was many activists’ focus on a serious new threat to our food and health: The rise of genetic engineering as the technology-of-choice in countless new areas of co...

Zmag Article Herman: Krugman On Economists As Hacks

Zmag Article, June, 01 2000 Edward Herman
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Following up his April attacks on the critics of the World Bank and IMF as economic illiterates, and after being criticized by them in turn as an establishment spokesperson, Paul Krugman offered readers of his New York Times colu...

Zmag Article Chomsky: The Colombia Plan: April 2000

Zmag Article, June, 01 2000 Noam Chomsky
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  In 1999, Colombia became the leading recipient of U.S. military and police assistance, replacing Turkey (Israel and Egypt are in a separate category). The figure is scheduled to increase sharply with the anticipa...

Zmag Article Carter: Review Round-Up

Zmag Article, June, 01 2000 Sandy Carter
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From the first half of the year, some of the good and better releases not yet getting their due. Marianne Faithfull, Vagabond Ways (Instinct) For better and for worse, Marianne Faithfull’s best work usually d...

Zmag Article Su: xa1Ni una bomba mxe1s! U.S. Navy Out of Vieques!

Zmag Article, June, 01 2000 Carlos Su
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On April 19, 1999, the practice bombings that the U.S. Navy has conducted on training camps in the small Puerto Rican Island of Vieques since 1941 killed,  civilian security guard David Sanes. This incident sparked a series ...

Commentary Chomsky: Unsustainable Non Development

Commentary, May, 30 2000 Noam Chomsky
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At a recent talk Chomsky was asked ÒWhat are the motivations of the U.S. push for sustainable development in the developing world?Ó Here was his answerÉ

Commentary Hoodbhoy: EQBAL AHMAD: POST-POKHARAN DAYS

Commentary, May, 11 2000 Pervez Hoodbhoy
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He fought for Kashmiri self-determination in 1948, against French imperialism in Algeria in the early 60's, roused students on American campuses in the early 70's against their government's immoral war in Vietnam, dodged arrest by the CIA in a cas...

Commentary Solomon: THE POWER AND LIMITS OF PHOTOJOURNALISM

Commentary, May, 04 2000 Norman Solomon
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Despite all the emphasis on new media, photography has never lost the power to move us. Some recent photo essays in major American magazines, focusing on the poor and dispossessed, are efforts to break through abstraction and indifference. They te...

Zmag Article Barsamian: Public Relations: Corporate Spin and Propaganda

Zmag Article, May, 01 2000 David Barsamian
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Stuart Ewen is a professor of media studies at Hunter College in New York. He is the author of a number of books on the media and public relations, most notably PR: A Social History of Spin. BARSAMIAN: In the introduct...

Zmag Article Sinyai: Battle of Brooklyn's Domino Sugar

Zmag Article, May, 01 2000 Clayton Sinyai
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Now well into its eighth month, the International Longshoremen’s Association (ILA) Local 1814’s strike against the Domino Sugar refinery in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn is a good example of what workers can expe...

Commentary Weisbrot: Protesters 2, Multinational Monsters 0

Commentary, April, 22 2000 Mark Weisbrot
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It's amazing what an organized group of people can accomplish when their cause is just and they are willing to be stubborn and creative about it. Last December they knocked the wind out of the WTO in Seattle. Now this diverse and expanding movemen...

Commentary Hahnel: Let's Review

Commentary, April, 08 2000 Robin Hahnel
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For almost 20 years an accelerating process many of us now call corporate sponsored globalization has been changing the way the international economy operates. Under the title “neoliberalism” multinational corporations have succeed...

Commentary Bond: Run on the Bank

Commentary, April, 05 2000 Patrick Bond
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"We can't REALLY aim to shut down the International Monetary Fund and World Bank, you know, Patrick. What would we do without them? What would take their place?"

Zmag Article Carter: Grammy Awards Follow the Money

Zmag Article, April, 01 2000 Sandy Carter
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Every year when the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences celebrates its Grammy Awards, I gag at the notion that any of this music industry pomp honors the best music of the past year. Although all of the big time...

Zmag Article Bacon: The Poor Fight For UNAM

Zmag Article, April, 01 2000 David Bacon
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In early February, when Mexico’s Federal government moved to end the strike at the National Autonomous University (UNAM), its action was motivated less by concern over the fate of the institution and its students, and much m...

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...

Zmag Article Weisbrot: Anti-WTO Organizing

Zmag Article, March, 01 2000 Mark Weisbrot
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  The demonstrations against the WTO in Seattle were probably among the most effective protests in modern American history. The sequel—on April 16 in Washington DC, at the IMF/World Bank spring meetings—may have an even great...

Zmag Article Sargent: 37.7 Seconds, Part IV

Zmag Article, March, 01 2000 Lydia Sargent
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In Parts I and II of this series I looked at the “scientific” claims made about women in Dianne Hales’s book Just Like A Woman. In Part III I began examining Helen Fisher’s book The First Sex, published by Random House an...

Zmag Article Herman: Russia: U.S. Rival, Dependent, Victim

Zmag Article, March, 01 2000 Edward Herman
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The U.S. establishment’s and media’s treatment of post-Soviet Russia has been confused, sometimes hostile, and more often than not, apologetic. This is because Russia occupies the odd position of being simultaneously a rival and ob...

Zmag Article Thomas: Bill Bradley: Progressives' Pal or Wall Street Stooge?

Zmag Article, March, 01 2000 Martin Thomas
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In the next decade, the most pressing issue likely to face the president will involve disputes over international economics, finance, and trade. It is important we have a president who needs no tutoring,” says David M. Smick, former chi...

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