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Zmag Article Chomsky: In Retrospect

Zmag Article, April, 01 2000 Noam Chomsky
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The tumult having subsided, it should be possible to undertake a relatively dispassionate review and analysis of NATO’s war over Kosovo. One might have expected the theme to have dominated the year-end millennarianism, consi...

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 Loewenstein: Fighting the Lebanese War

Zmag Article, April, 01 2000 Jennifer Loewenstein
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On February 8, Israel Defense Forces (IDF) launched a series of air strikes against Lebanon as revenge against recent Hizbullah attacks in South Lebanon. Three power switching stations, the most vital electricity facilities in th...

Zmag Article Berkowitz: Powerful Right-Wing Alliance Challenges Climate Justice

Zmag Article, April, 01 2000 Bill Berkowitz
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What happens when a little-known, but important right-wing think tank combines forces with a long-time anti-environmental organization? You get a powerful and far-reaching anti-environmental publication that at launch-time already has ...

Commentary Arnove: “Sanctions on Iraq: The ‘Propaganda Campaign’”

Commentary, April, 01 2000 Anthony Arnove
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Hans von Sponeck resigns March 31 as the director of the United Nations humanitarian program in Iraq. Normally, the comings and goings of UN officials isn’t a subject for headlines or a source of encouragement for activists, but von Sponec...

Commentary Herman: EXPORTING DEMOCRACY, OR A FAVORABLE CLIMATE OF INVESTMENT?

Commentary, March, 28 2000 Edward Herman
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The great nineteenth century U.S. agnostic and lecturer, Robert Green Ingersoll, used to delight in telling the story of the test of true faith imposed on those seeking entry into heaven by the heavenly gatekeeper (e.g., in his lecture on the "Mis...

Commentary Schechter: 'WE ARE THE WORLD' AS AN OLDIE: "BEEN THERE, DONE THAT"

Commentary, March, 17 2000 Danny Schechter
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As the story is told, it was a slow news day at NBC back in 1985 when staffers looked up at an incoming satellite feed on one of their many monitors. The newsroom fell silent as a parade of harrowing images from the dying fields of Ethiopia stream...

Commentary Gonsalves: This is not a campaign issue?

Commentary, March, 11 2000 Sean Gonsalves
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Thanks to the state department and our "adversarial" free press, even those who consider themselves well-informed about foreign policy have tremendous gaps in their knowledge when it comes to our policy in Iraq.

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...

Zmag Article Boutros-ghali: none

Zmag Article, March, 01 2000 Boutros Boutros-ghali
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Random House, NY, 1999, 352 pp, Review by Tom Gallagher Some will remember that before serving as spokesperson for the victims of erectile dysfunction, Senator Robert Dole was the 1996 Republican nominee for the United States preside...

Zmag Article Su: xa1 La Huelga Va!

Zmag Article, March, 01 2000 Carlos Su
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Rocío García is one of the participants of the nine-month student strike at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). The strike was called on April 20, 1999, as a response to a dramatic tuition increase by the universit...

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 Georgakas: Blacks in Antiquity

Commentary, February, 10 2000 Dan Georgakas
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A few years ago Martin Bernal's Black Athena stimulated considerable commentary about the role of blacks in antiquity. Many leftists applauded Bernal's perceptive analysis of the racism of many nineteenth century German scholars without understand...

Commentary Schechter: At the Top of the World

Commentary, February, 09 2000 Danny Schechter
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When demonstrators packed the streets of Seattle last December to scuttle the World Trade Organization meeting and shout about their dissatisfaction with economic globalization, some journalists described them as "politically correct" activists.

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 Staff: A Simple Plea

Zmag Article, February, 01 2000 Z Staff
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Here are the opening lines of a piece by Marc Cooper, Nation writer and radio correspondent, in the New York Press, a free weekly newspaper. “I make no New Year’s resolution. Instead, I have a simple plea: Oh Lord, please make 2000...

Zmag Article Leggett: none

Zmag Article, February, 01 2000 Jeremy Leggett
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Penguin Books, 1999 Review by David Cromwell In January 1991, almost seven years before the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change set an overall target for industrialized countries to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 5.2 percent, ...

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 Reinhart: This Ain't the Road of Peace

Commentary, January, 28 2000 Tanya Reinhart
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For many in Israel, it is already difficult to remember the joy and relief in which they received the news about the forthcoming peace with Syria, about a month ago. What was this joy about?

Commentary Cagan: Life After Y2K

Commentary, January, 27 2000 Leslie Cagan
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The nineties opened with a bang. In August, 1990 the Iraqis invaded Kuwait and it was immediately clear that George Bush would do everything in his formidable presidential power to go to war.

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