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Chomsky: Market Democracy in a Neoliberal Order: Doctrines and Reality
Zmag Article, November, 01 1997
Noam Chomsky
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Market Democracy in a Neoliberal Order: Doctrines and Reality
Bacon: The Revolt In The Asbestos
Zmag Article, November, 01 1997
David Bacon
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Sergio Ruiz Nuñez is a lonely man. Remembering his wife and daughter left behind in Mexico City a year ago, he cannot speak. To hide the water welling up in the corners of his eyes, he turns away. "You know," he finally says, &q...
Smith: Unions From 61 Countries Meet
Zmag Article, November, 01 1997
Jim Smith
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Just as the pivotal UPS strike was getting underway, union activists from 61 countries were assembling in Havana, Cuba, intent on breathing new life into the international labor movement. The International Workers Conference Against Neoli...
Sargent: Creating Institutions
Zmag Article, October, 01 1997
Lydia Sargent
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Lydia Sargent I was going to write an impersonal account of institution-building vis-a-vis describing Z Media Institute. That’s why all the ZMI photos in this article. But my original plan seemed: (a) impossi...
Peterson: The Global Media
Zmag Article, October, 01 1997
David Peterson
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David Peterson Edward S. Herman and Robert W. McChesney are two of the most important critics of the global media scene. A Professor Emeritus of Finance at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, and...
Ruggiero: On the Growing Free Media Movement
Zmag Article, October, 01 1997
Greg Ruggiero
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Greg Ruggiero & Kate Duncan From July 26 through August 3 more than 3,000 people gathered in Spain for the Zapatista initiated Second Encuentro for Humanity and Against Neoliberalism. Following up last year...
Chomsky: Market Democracy in a Neoliberal Order: Doctrines and Reality
Zmag Article, September, 01 1997
Noam Chomsky
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Noam Chomsky I have been asked to speak on some aspect of academic or human freedom, an invitation that offers many choices. I will keep to some simple ones. Freedom without opportunity is a devil’s gift, and...
Solomon: Clinton And JFK -- Media Myth, R.I.P.
Zmag Article, September, 01 1997
Norman Solomon
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Clinton And JFK -- Media Myth, R.I.P.
Howe: none
Zmag Article, September, 01 1997
Genevieve Howe
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The American Association of World Health released an extensive study in March 1997 of the impact of the U.S. government’s embargo on public health and nutrition in Cuba. Through hundreds of examples, the study provides an ...
Kovel: Bad News for Fast Food: What's wrong with McDonald's?
Zmag Article, September, 01 1997
Joel Kovel
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In 1990, London Greenpeace circulated a six-page leaflet entitled "What’s Wrong With McDonald’s? Everything they don’t want you to know." The ever-vigilant fast-food merchant did what it routinely does in such instance...
Herman: The Economics of the Rich
Zmag Article, July, 01 1997
Edward Herman
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S. Herman Back in 1849, the British economist Nassau Senior chided those defending trade unions and minimum wage regulations for expounding an "economics of the poor." The idea that he and his estab...
Glick: Unity in Diversity
Zmag Article, July, 01 1997
Ted Glick
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Glick Over the weekend of May 2-4, 1997, 150 people from over 90 organizations and from 19 states, the District of Columbia, and Mexico attended the National Independent Politics Summit/97 in Decatur, Illinois. ...
Petras: El Salvador Elections
Zmag Article, July, 01 1997
James Petras
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Petras The signing of a peace accord between the guerrilla commanders and the right-wing government in 1992 promised a period of freedom, prosperity, and peace. Overseas donors would contribute funds for reco...
Gibson: In Memory: Paulo Freire
Zmag Article, July, 01 1997
Rich Gibson
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Gibson Paulo Freire, the radical Brazilian "Vagabond of the Obvious" and the most widely known educator in the world, died on May 2, 1997 in Sao Paulo, Brazil. He was 75. Freire drew on humanis...
Herman: Word Tricks & Propaganda
Zmag Article, June, 01 1997
Edward Herman
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Edward S. Herman The mainstream media carry out their propaganda service on behalf of the corporate and political establishment in many ways: by choice of topics addressed (government rather than corporate abuses,...
James: Haiti: The Roof Is Leaking
Zmag Article, June, 01 1997
Clara James
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Clara James On April 6, Haiti held elections to fill one-third of the Senate seats and positions on over 500 communal and town councils. The only problem was, most Haitians did not go to the polls. Only about 5 pe...
Grytting: Newspeak
Zmag Article, June, 01 1997
Wayne Grytting
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Wayne Grytting Advertisers Becoming Literate Major advertisers are "changing the rules of magazine publishing," reports the Wall Street Journal, by breaking down the walls separating ads from e...
Wright: Mobuto Was Chaos
Zmag Article, June, 01 1997
George Wright
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George Wright As this article is being written in early May, the 32-year regime of Zairean President Mobutu Sese Seko is coming to an end. A guerrilla offensive carried out by the Alliance of Democratic Forces for...
Chomsky: Expanding the Floor of the Cage, Part IIl
Zmag Article, June, 01 1997
Noam Chomsky
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This essay is part of the ZNet Classics series. Three times a week we will re-post an article that we think is of timeless importance. This one was first published June, 1997.
Kovel: Cuba & South Africa
Zmag Article, June, 01 1997
Joel Kovel
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Joel Kovel  The linkage between Castro’s Cuba and Mandela’s South Africa runs deep. Cuban slave society was less efficient in demolishing ties to Africa than its North American counterpart, allowing Cuba to retain ...
