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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 ...
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...
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.
Naiman: A Small Victim of the Embargo
Commentary, February, 08 2000
Robert Naiman
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There's great consternation in Cuba and Florida over the fate of Elian Gonzalez. If he were from any other country, he would already be home with his father. Yet only a handful of the media reports mention the extreme U.S. embargo that led to the ...
Peters: Progressive Causes Provide Marketing Opportunities
Commentary, February, 07 2000
Cynthia Peters
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What happens when corporations take on progressive social and political issues? We've all had the opportunity to roll our eyes at the marketers who co-opt feminist principles in order to sell their products. "Take Control" hair gel and "Stay Free...
Albert: A Program Seeking Just Rewards
Commentary, February, 06 2000
Michael Albert
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Suppose we agree that people ought to be paid only according to how hard they work and how onerous their work conditions are. To attain these Just Rewards we must reduce and ultimately eliminate reward for property, power, and output; reduce and f...
Pond-mcpherson: A Spiritual Moment
Graphic, February, 05 2000
Scott Pond-mcpherson
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religion, spiritual, death, reincarnation, atheism, hell, god, heaven
Burchill: The Limits of Thinkable Thought
Commentary, February, 04 2000
Scott Burchill
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In societies which like to call themselves free and open, liberty is usually defined in contrasting terms. State propaganda and indoctrination, for example, are said to be exclusive characteristics of unfree or totalitarian states at both ends of ...
Herman: Real Journalism
Commentary, February, 03 2000
Edward Herman
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There has long been a strong tendency on the part of Western non-governmental organizations (NGOs) to serve as did the Christian missionaries in the years of colonial expansion and occupation, who followed in the wake of the empire builders to con...
Dominick: Refusing Adulthood: Notes on 'Aging Out'
Commentary, February, 02 2000
Brian Dominick
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Naive as I was in the mid-1990s, for a spell I actually thought there was a good chance that, by the turn of the century, the terms "ageism" and "youth liberation" would be ubiquitous in the Left's vocabulary.
Starhawk: How We Shut Down the WTO
Zmag Article, February, 01 2000
Starhawk
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It’s been months since I joined the blockade that shut down the opening meeting of the WTO. Since getting out of jail, I’ve been reading the media coverage and trying to make sense out of the divergence between what I know ha...
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...
Sargent: Reading "feminism" and glimpses into the "female brain"
Zmag Article, February, 01 2000
Lydia Sargent
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In Parts I and II of this series about reading “feminism” I examined the claims in Just Like A Woman by Dianne Hales. I left off with an introduction to The First Sex by Helen Fisher whose theme is that through deep evolutionary hi...
Solomon: none
Zmag Article, February, 01 2000
Norman Solomon
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A few numbers tell a dramatic story about extreme changes in media fascination with the Internet. After the 1990s ended, I set out to gauge how news coverage of cyberspace shifted during the last half of the decade. The comprehe...
Carter: 1999 In Review
Zmag Article, February, 01 2000
Sandy Carter
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In the decade I’ve been writing about music and popular culture in the pages of Z, I can’t recall a year when the pop music mainstream seemed more empty of soul and critical thought than in 1999. Commercially speaking, this was a y...
Glick: A Unity Movement Begins to Emerge
Zmag Article, February, 01 2000
Ted Glick
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It is the worst of times, and it is the best of times.” With these words Victoria Jackson Gray-Adams, one of the meeting’s conveners, described the context within which 45 leaders from the Independent Progressive Politics Network m...
Barsamian: Monopolies, NPR, & PBS
Zmag Article, February, 01 2000
David Barsamian
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Robert McChesney is Professor of Communications at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is a leading critic of corporate media. He is the author of Telecommunications, Mass Media and Democracy. His latest book is Rich Media, Po...
Bronski: The State of Queer Film
Zmag Article, February, 01 2000
Michael Bronski
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Nearly a decade ago it looked as though we were about to enter a Renaissance of gay and lesbian filmmaking. Unable to have access to mainstream movie making, independent filmmakers, writers, and producers began turning out a remarkable body ...
Kelson: Protesting SOA
Zmag Article, February, 01 2000
Sanford Kelson
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The Columbus, Georgia police estimated that on November 21, 1999 there were nearly 10,000 at the front gate of Fort Benning protesting the School of the Americas which is located on the base. SOA Watch believes the correct number is 12,000. ...
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...
