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Bagdikian: THE CYNICISM OF SECRECY
Commentary, June, 29 2001
Ben Bagdikian
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Last year the Republicans tried to cast a wider and more punitive net over anyone who violated what they said were "classified secrets." It is a move that is either naive to the point of uneducable ignorance or it is cynical to the point of conte...
Deutsch: There is Only One Subject
Graphic, June, 28 2001
Barry Deutsch
Deutsch's ZSpace page
men, feminist, feminism, rape, men's rights, anti-feminists, anti-feminism
Prashad: Red Star over West Bengal
Commentary, June, 28 2001
Vijay Prashad
Prashad's ZSpace page
A few years ago I traveled around rural West Bengal to study the gains made by the Left Front government, notably as a result of the experiments in the devolution of power. By then I knew the statistical advances almost by heart. West Bengal has t...
Deutsch: Those Wacky Democrats!
Graphic, June, 27 2001
Barry Deutsch
Deutsch's ZSpace page
democrats, two-party system, clinton, vieques, arsenic
Landau: TRANSPORTATION CRISIS?
Commentary, June, 27 2001
Saul Landau
Landau's ZSpace page
We live in the best of all possible worlds. Indeed, we export our way of life zealously to those who havenÕt yet tasted its rewards, especially to residents of China, India and Brazil, the big markets as we now know them. When systemic problems ar...
Shalom: Exxon-Mobil in Aceh
Commentary, June, 26 2001
Stephen1 Shalom
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On June 20, 2001, the International Labor Rights Fund filed lawsuit in Federal District Court in Washington, DC, on behalf of eleven anonymous villagers from the Indonesian province of Aceh -- seven John Does and four Jane Does who fear for their ...
Moore: 21st Century Schizoid Ma-a-an
Graphic, June, 25 2001
Kevin Moore
Moore's ZSpace page
Bush, Putin, missile defense, ABM treaty
Klein: Genetic Tampering
Commentary, June, 25 2001
Naomi Klein
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Genetic Tampering by Naomi Klein Europeans would be forgiven for thinking that the war against genetic tampering in the food supply has been all but won. There are labels in the supermarkets aisles, there is mounting political support for organi...
Drda: Dr. Dubya Will Kill the Patients' Bill
Graphic, June, 24 2001
Darrin Drda
Drda's ZSpace page
patients bill, health care, Bush, Dubya, patients' bill
Peters: The Howling Inhospitable Wilderness of...the Marketplace?
Commentary, June, 24 2001
Cynthia Peters
Peters's ZSpace page
ItÕs instructive that the heroics of early 20th century explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton are being mined by businesspeople for how-to pointers regarding increasing the bottom line, maintaining employee loyalty, nurturing creativity among managers, a...
Healy: Empty promises don't feed poor children
Commentary, June, 23 2001
Sean Healy
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A funny thing happened on the way to the Third United Nations Conference on Least Developed Countries in Brussels: the representatives of rich country governments suddenly discovered that their restrictions on market access for poor countries' goo...
Shah: The New Yellow Peril: China-Bashing for New Defense Spending Fuels Hate Against Asian Americans
Commentary, June, 22 2001
Sonia Shah
Shah's ZSpace page
Senator Feinstein surprised the civil rights organizers who threw her an informal wine-and-cheese shmoozer a couple months ago with an impromptu speech warning of the gathering speed of anti-China sentiment in Congress and the impending fallout fo...
Choudry: We Must Mobilise Against A Miasma of Mini-MAIs
Commentary, June, 21 2001
Aziz Choudry
Choudry's ZSpace page
YouÕve got to wonder at the nerve of New Zealand trade officials. During the furtive Multilateral Agreement on Investment negotiations and the subsequent international waves of opposition they were quietly hatching binding bilateral investment dea...
Deutsch: Orwell in the Senate
Graphic, June, 20 2001
Barry Deutsch
Deutsch's ZSpace page
gay rights, queer rights, gay, senate, republicans, orwell, boy scouts
Herman: HITCHENS ON "BODY COUNT IN KOSOVO"
Commentary, June, 19 2001
Edward Herman
Herman's ZSpace page
An important public relations bonanza for the U.S. and other NATO powers' actions across the globe has been the accommodation of many leftists to the priorities and channeled benevolence of their leaders. These "New Humanitarians" have been furiou...
Herman: HITCHENS ON "BODY COUNT IN KOSOVO"
Commentary, June, 19 2001
Edward Herman
Herman's ZSpace page
An important public relations bonanza for the U.S. and other NATO powers' actions across the globe has been the accommodation of many leftists to the priorities and channeled benevolence of their leaders. These "New Humanitarians" have been furiou...
Edwards: THE MEDIA ELECTION 2001: LOW FARCE
Commentary, June, 18 2001
David Edwards
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Traditionally, general elections in Britain are a time for much quasi-religious talk of the blessed gift of democracy - so recently won at such high cost, we are told - and the importance of paying due homage to that great principle at the busines...
Mokhiber: A Call to Defy Corporate Domination
Commentary, June, 17 2001
Russell Mokhiber
Mokhiber's ZSpace page
Since 1953, the percentage of unionized workers in the United States has declined from 26 percent to less than 14 percent. Yet, given the choice of joining a union or not, 48 percent of workers in this country say they would join. So, why isn't ...
Monbiot: Big Business vs Big Ideas
Commentary, June, 16 2001
George Monbiot
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If Gordon Brown was serious yesterday about creating an environment for "business dynamism" like that of the United States, he could do no better than to champion the entrepreneurial work of Conwy Council in North Wales. Conwy has done as all busi...
Prashad: Shooting Stars
Commentary, June, 15 2001
Vijay Prashad
Prashad's ZSpace page
On 21 April 1988, Mikhail Gorbachev turned to Colin Powell, then an aide of the US National Security Advisor, and said "What are you going to do now that you've lost your best enemy?" Gorbachev's unilateral disarmament of Soviet nuclear forces in ...
