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Carter: The Grammies: Follow the Money
Commentary, March, 03 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 and propaganda honors the best music of the past year. Although all of the big time entertai...
Herman: SAUL LANDAU'S LETTER ON "PACIFICA BASHING"
Commentary, March, 02 2000
Edward Herman
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In mid-February of this year Saul Landau issued an "Appeal to All Progressives: Stop the Pacifica Bashing!" And he got some 40 liberals and leftists to sign on, many associated with The Nation and Institute for Policy Studies.
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...
Prashad: An Afro-Dalit Story
Zmag Article, March, 01 2000
Vijay Prashad
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On January 30, 1998, I went on air with Ron Daniels for his two-hour radio program on the National Urban Radio Network. The theme for the show was Gandhi and Dr. King, since it was the 50th anniversary of Gandhi’s assassination. After a...
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...
Bronski: The Destiny of Biology
Zmag Article, March, 01 2000
Michael Bronski
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Anne Fausto-Sterling is one of the leading theorists on science, sexuality, and gender. Trained as a molecular biologist, and a professor of Biology and Women’s Studies at Brown University, her research and writing covers a broad rage o...
Cromwell: Oil Propaganda Wars
Zmag Article, March, 01 2000
David Cromwell
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In November 1999, the High Court in London ruled that the UK government had failed to uphold the EU Habitats Directive when it awarded offshore oil licenses in British waters of the North Atlantic. Wildlife and ecosystems were being put at r...
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...
Ross: The Spectacle of Standards & Summits
Zmag Article, March, 01 2000
E. Wayne Ross
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In 1989, President Bush called the nation’s governors together for the first national education summit. They set goals and tried to develop ways to measure progress, but were stymied by resistance to federal interference in local school deci...
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...
Staff: For Justice and Against Prison
Zmag Article, March, 01 2000
Z Staff
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The Manchester Guardian of February 15 includes an article by a Duncan Campbell of Los Angeles. Here we borrow from his research and from prior Z essays by Christian Parenti, George Wright, and Stephen Shalom. U.S. citizens constitute 5 p...
Rodgers: World Hunger: Twelve Myths
Zmag Article, March, 01 2000
John h. Rodgers
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New York: Grove Press, 1998, 270 pp, paperback, second edition Review by John H. Rodgers In the wake of one crisis after another in the world financial system, there is growing space for the reconsideration of ...
Petras: The Rural Landless Workers Movement
Zmag Article, March, 01 2000
James Petras
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Over the past 30 years, Brazilian governments—both military and civilian—have proclaimed the need for “agrarian reform” but have resisted implementing an effective policy. INCRA (National Institute of Colonization and Agrar...
Dodge: The Juvenile Court
Zmag Article, March, 01 2000
Mara Dodge
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In 1999, 100 years after the establishment of the nation’s first juvenile court in Cook County (Chicago), Illinois, nearly all states have succeeded in passing sweeping legislation to “criminalize” or “adultify” their ...
Boutros-ghali: none
Zmag Article, March, 01 2000
Boutros Boutros-ghali
Boutros-ghali's ZSpace page
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...
Melton: Protect Griffy Alliance vs. Indiana University
Zmag Article, March, 01 2000
Jeff Melton
Melton's ZSpace page
Early last fall, Indiana University revealed its intention to lease 300 acres of university land to a hastily formed private corporation (formed by IU alumni with close ties to the board of trustees) for the purpose of building a private gol...
Su: xa1 La Huelga Va!
Zmag Article, March, 01 2000
Carlos Su
Su's ZSpace page
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...
Administrator: Booming Economic Inequality, Falling Voter Turnout
Zmag Article, March, 01 2000
Site Administrator
Administrator's ZSpace page
We should have a lot more to show for an economic boom that recently broke the record for the longest expansion in our nation’s history. February marked 107 months—nine years—of uninterrupted economic growth beginning in March...
Anderson: Diallo Rorschach
Graphic, March, 01 2000
Kirk Anderson
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diallo, police, cops, murder, police brutality
Peters: Reproduction and Sexuality 101
Commentary, March, 01 2000
Cynthia Peters
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I live in a progressive diverse neighborhood where pre-schools stock copies of "Heather Has Two Mommies," but even where this love-makes-a-family consciousness has a strong voice, it does not seem to translate into how we talk to our kids about se...
