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Kovel: Global Warming And Realo-Fundi Greens
Zmag Article, February, 01 2001
Joel Kovel
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The breakdown last November 25 of the Hague talks on ratifying the 1997 Kyoto protocols on global warming was bad news indeed. But it would have been worse had the U.S. gotten its way. Fortunately, Europe, chiefly France, Scandinavia, and Germany,...
Solomon: LETTER FROM PORTO ALEGRE TO ZNET
Commentary, January, 29 2001
Norman Solomon
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The World Social Forum here in southern Brazil is being reported around the planet as an oppositional counterpoint to the annual bash in Davos, where corporate leaders have been gathering for three decades at their World Economic Forum retreat. In...
Scipes: ROUND TWO: PEOPLE'S POWER IN THE PHILIPPINES REMOVES ANOTHER PRESIDENT
Commentary, January, 25 2001
Kim Scipes
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The government of Joseph "Erap" Estrada in the Philippines has just collapsed, with the president forced out by mass mobilization, and with Vice President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo replacing him as President on January 21. What might this mean for t...
Jensen: Inauguration 2001: A Citizens' Oath of Office
Commentary, January, 22 2001
Robert Jensen
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On Inauguration Day 2001, standing on the steps of the State Capitol just a Êfew blocks from the governor's mansion that George W. Bush recently had Êvacated, about 1,000 Austin residents raised their hands as I administered Êa Citizens' Oath of O...
Flanders: Extremists? Which Extremists?
Commentary, January, 20 2001
Laura Flanders
Flanders's ZSpace page
Critics are using the word "extremist" to describe John Ashcroft, Gale Ann ÊNorton, Tommy Thompson, and just about every GW Bush nominee. Sure enough, Êthe people Bush wants to install are more hostile to the idea of federal Êoversight of the envi...
Author: Gendered Assaults: The Attack on Immigrant Women
Commentary, January, 17 2001
Guest Author
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If you opened a newspaper in Iowa this spring, you might have come across an advertisement stating: ÒHow do you feel about paving over the amber waves of grain, the purple mountain majesties and the fruited plain?Ó If you read the small print, you...
Albert: Thinking About DU
Commentary, January, 16 2001
Michael Albert
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The past week has seen a steadily escalating rush of commentary about Depleted Uranium used in the Gulf War and the Balkans bombing. Particularly in England but in much of Europe and the U.S. as well, left journalists are condemning DUÕs use. E-ma...
Bello: 2000: The Year of Global Protest against Globalization
Commentary, January, 10 2001
Walden Bello
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The last year will probably go down as one of those defining Êmoments in the history of the world economy, like 1929. Of course, the Êstructures of global capitalism appear to be solid, with many in the global Êelite in Washington, Europe, and Asi...
Glick: "This Land Is Your Land?"
Commentary, January, 07 2001
Ted Glick
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Several days ago I was asked to be part of a program next month commemorating the 60th anniversary of Woody Guthrie's song, "This Land Is Your Land." This got me thinking.
Steel: Smile, And We Might Yet Defeat Global Capitalism
Commentary, January, 03 2001
Mark Steel
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"We need a revolution," said the lad, no more than 19, in the packed meeting organised by People and Planet at the University of Warwick. "And we, I mean us here, can begin to make that revolution Ð right after this meeting by..." He paused. What ...
Sommers: Small States and Neoliberalism: LatviaÕs
Commentary, January, 02 2001
Jeffrey Sommers
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The time is long overdue for a reassessment of LatviaÕs economic development. A decade after economic reforms, and nine years after independence, in Orwellian fashion this Baltic nationÕs failures are somehow presented as achievements, as was the ...
Giroux: Zero Tolerance
Zmag Article, January, 01 2001
Henry a. Giroux
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Zero Tolerance
Perry: School of the Americas
Zmag Article, January, 01 2001
Baker Perry
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The weekend of November 17-18 marked the 11-year anniversary of the assassination of 6 Jesuit priests, their co-worker and her 13-year-old daughter. A UN Truth commission later found that 19 of the 26 responsible for the killings were gradua...
Aravinda: People's Knowledge in a Paperless Society
Zmag Article, January, 01 2001
Ls Aravinda
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People's Knowledge in a Paperless Society
Mokhiber: The Real Thing: Democracy as a Contact Sport
Commentary, January, 01 2001
Russell Mokhiber
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A few weeks ago, we received an invitation to attend an event at the Library of Congress. Coca-Cola was about to make an "historic contribution" to the Library of Congress, and the Library, and Coca-Cola, were inviting reporters to cover the even...
Herman: THE PACIFICA COUNTERREVOLUTION HITS WBAI
Commentary, December, 30 2000
Edward Herman
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One of the most crushing series of blows to the U.S. left, and to democracy in this country, has been the gradual transformation of the five station Pacifica Radio network from locally-based and left-oriented stations into centrally controlled, ma...
Bond: Africa's Progressive Movements
Commentary, December, 28 2000
Patrick Bond
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ZNet Commentator Patrick Bond (pbond@wn.apc.org) chats with South African poet/activist ZNet Commentator Dennis Brutus about the state of the African Left PB: Good to see you back in Johannesburg, comrade Dennis, even briefly, in the midst of you...
Brecher: Draft of an Alternative Program for the Global Economy
Commentary, December, 18 2000
Jeremy Brecher
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Commenting on the Battle of Seattle, Newsweek wrote, "One of the most important lessons of Seattle is that there are now two visions of globalization on offer, one led by commerce, one by social activism." Globalization from below's vision has bee...
Chomsky: Overcoming Orthodoxies
Commentary, December, 16 2000
Noam Chomsky
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David Barsamian: I want to come back to the idea of what individuals can do in overcoming orthodoxies. Steve Biko, the South African activist who was murdered by the apartheid regime while he was in custody, once said, The most powerful weapon in ...
Cohen: Toxic Waste As Strategy, Part 2
Zmag Article, December, 01 2000
Mitchel Cohen
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The trade in toxic waste is more than a lucrative industry; it is also a central strategy of the New World Order, an intentional way of enclosing lands and resources—the very air we breathe—previously held in common and setting up trade in “pollut...
