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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...
Albert: Election Lessons
Zmag Article, December, 01 2000
Michael Albert
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Election Lessons
Berkowitz: RU-486
Zmag Article, December, 01 2000
Bill Berkowitz
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Shortly after Rev. John Earl, pastor at St. Patrick’s Church in Rochelle, Illinois, learned the Food and Drug Administration had approved the abortion pill RU-486, he paid an up-close- and-personal visit to a nearby health clinic. Rev. ...
Guellec: Assisted suicide and Euthanasia: the illusion and faade
Commentary, November, 30 2000
Dorothy Guellec
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Why are the long-standing ethics of our health care system suddenly so threatened? Maybe it is all about money, or is it? HMOÕs already induce physicians to keep costs low, using a combination of financial rewards or punishments, which create in m...
Dowd: WHAT DO WE WANT? AND WHO ARE "WE"?
Commentary, November, 23 2000
Douglas Dowd
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Alongside and arising from "Seattle" and subsequent protests are questions such as the above -- by those participating in and supporting, and those against the protests. Those and related questions have always deserved serious answers; now more t...
Herman: CENSORSHIP AS A PACIFICA MANAGEMENT TOOL
Commentary, November, 02 2000
Edward Herman
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Studying the recent history of Pacifica over the past several weeks, I have been once again impressed with how important a role censorship has played in the tactics and apparent strategy of the Pacifica management. Censorship by the use of gag r...
Cohen: Toxic Wastes and the New World Order, Part 1
Zmag Article, November, 01 2000
Mitchel Cohen
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Twelve years ago, the soon-to-be infamous barge, the Khian Sea, left the territorial waters of the United States and began circling the oceans in search of a country willing to accept its cargo: 14,000 tons of toxic incinerator ash. Fir...
Schwartz: After LA: Organizing to Win
Zmag Article, November, 01 2000
Eric Schwartz
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After LA: Organizing to Win
Berkowitz: Farm Bureau Is a Front
Zmag Article, November, 01 2000
Bill Berkowitz
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When singer/songwriter Willie Nelson took the stage in mid-September in Bristow, Virginia, kicking off the 15th annual Farm Aid concert, he once again called the nation’s attention to the desperate plight of America’s small family ...
Ellner: Venezuela's Foreign Policy
Zmag Article, November, 01 2000
Steve Ellner
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Venezuela's Foreign Policy
Mcchesney2: Will Gore Throw the Election to Bush?
Commentary, October, 27 2000
Bob2 Mcchesney2
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This past Friday a dozen former "Nader's Raiders" held a press conference and told Ralph Nader to drop out of the presidential race and throw his support to Vice-President Al Gore. Concerned about Gore's faltering numbers in the polls, they argued...
Scipes: Building Labor Solidarity
Commentary, October, 21 2000
Kim Scipes
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To many people in the United States, the AFL-CIO is a progressive organization, joining unions across the country to fight for higher wages, better working conditions and progressive social programs for workers and people in our communities. Howe...
Bond: The African grassroots and the global movement
Commentary, October, 19 2000
Patrick Bond
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In a ZNet commentary last month, Noam Chomsky observed South-South-North alliances "taking shape at the grassroots level--an impressive development, rich in opportunity and promise, and surely causing no little concern in high places." I want to f...
Chomsky: Chomsky Comments on Milosevic Ouster, etc.
Commentary, October, 12 2000
Noam Chomsky
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A number of people in the ZNet forum system and elsewhere have raised questions about the prominent role they see assigned to US-NATO in the flood of commentary on recent events in Yugoslavia, "gloating over the victory of the opposition in Yugosl...
Russell: Social Security, Work and Poverty
Commentary, October, 08 2000
Marta Russell
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It is a tight labor market and tight labor markets traditionally threaten to give workers more bargaining power from which to secure significant wage increases. Wall Street and investors get nervous about tight labor markets. They reckon that the ...
Rebick: The extreme views of Stockwell Day
Commentary, October, 03 2000
Judy Rebick
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Gloria Steinem once quipped that she was going to ask for political asylum in Canada. Michael Moore too talks about how much more progressive is Canada than the U.S. And up until recently, they have been right. In the long shadow cast by free trad...
Albert: The Trajectory Of Change
Commentary, October, 01 2000
Michael Albert
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I think we have a problem. From Seattle through Prague and San Francisco, we have established an activist style needing some mid-course correction. WhatÕs the problem, you might ask? Thousands of militant, courageous people are turning out in ci...
Zinn: A CAMPAIGN WITHOUT CLASS
Commentary, September, 30 2000
Howard Zinn
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There came a rare amusing moment in this election campaign when George Bush (who has raised $150 million or thereabouts, anyhow, for his campaign) accused Al Gore (who has only raised $140 million or thereabouts, anyway, for his campaign) of appea...
