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Anderson: Bush environmental policy
Graphic, April, 01 2001
Kirk Anderson
Anderson's ZSpace page
bush, oil, environment
Rosenberg: To the Bimbohood Born
Graphic, April, 01 2001
Martha Rosenberg
Rosenberg's ZSpace page
blonds, sex crimes, Puritanism
Flanders: Taxes for Terrorists?
Commentary, April, 01 2001
Laura Flanders
Flanders's ZSpace page
The promoters of Faith-based action appear to be divided: Don Eberly, deputy Êdirector of the of White House Office of Faith-based and Community ÊInitiatives told the Washington Post March 11 that the Administration is Êdelaying its plan to funnel...
Prashad: The Problem of the Twenty-First Century is the Problem of the ColorBlind
Commentary, March, 31 2001
Vijay Prashad
Prashad's ZSpace page
A few years ago I had the fortune of spending a morning debating Dinesh D'Souza on the question of affirmative action. It was in Chicago at the South Asian Students' Association annual meeting. I was a bit apprehensive. I've debated people before,...
Mokhiber: House Call
Commentary, March, 30 2001
Russell Mokhiber
Mokhiber's ZSpace page
Recently, we have become friends with Matt Hahn, a young medical doctor who lives in the eastern panhandle of West Virginia. Dr. Hahn is a conventional doctor in many ways -- his clinic is littered with little notepads supplied by drug companies,...
Rebick: Police repression biggest threat at Quebec City
Commentary, March, 29 2001
Judy Rebick
Rebick's ZSpace page
Not since the War Measures Act, thirty years ago, has there been a greater display of the armed might of the state in Canada than there will be in Quebec City during the Summit of the Americas on April 20-22. And not since the War Measures Act, wh...
Russell: What's Wrong with "Charitable Choice"?
Commentary, March, 28 2001
Marta Russell
Russell's ZSpace page
President Bush is assembling his Òarmies of compassionÓ under the banner of Charitable choice -- a decisive move to contract out federal social service functions such as counseling for alcohol and drug substance abuse, shelter and food services fo...
Solomon: Bad News Bears Change Tone of Media Script
Commentary, March, 28 2001
Norman Solomon
Solomon's ZSpace page
When the Ameritrade company launched a $200 million marketingÊ drive to explain the joys of online trading in autumn 1999, a barrage of TVÊ commercials invited viewers to join in the fun. The news was bullish, and Êthe firm's motto -- "Believe in ...
Guellec: Cuba offers free medical education to US minority students
Commentary, March, 27 2001
Dorothy Guellec
Guellec's ZSpace page
ItÕs all about altruism man, not politics. It would be unthinkable in the US to offer much of anything for nothing, let alone a 6-year medical education, but the Cubans have been doing this for many countries in the past, and now Americans may app...
Cromwell: The resurgence of nuclear power?
Commentary, March, 26 2001
David Cromwell
Cromwell's ZSpace page
We haven't heard an awful lot about nuclear power lately. Does that mean it's a technology whose time has come and gone? Not likely. There remains the possibility that nuclear power could make a comeback through the backdoor, courtesy of the so-ca...
Herman: THE MEDIA-RIGHTWING POLITICAL CORRECTNESS GAMBIT RENEWED: HOROWITZ AND REPARATIONS
Commentary, March, 24 2001
Edward Herman
Herman's ZSpace page
The heavy media attention being given to rejections of David Horowitz's ad on reparations for slavery is a throwback to the rightwing and "liberal media" political correctness campaign of 1991. In that earlier campaign, it was the alleged free spe...
Albert: Not Free Speech
Commentary, March, 24 2001
Michael Albert
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Ed Herman has laid waste the pretensions of those bleating over the plight of poor abused David Horowitz that they are sincerely concerned about free speech. But there is more to the situationÉso letÕs address another aspect. Setting aside mainst...
Herman: The Media-Rightwing Political Correctness Gambit Renewed: Horowitz And Reparations
Commentary, March, 24 2001
Edward Herman
Herman's ZSpace page
The heavy media attention being given to rejections of David Horowitz's ad on reparations for slavery is a throwback to the rightwing and "liberal media" political correctness campaign of 1991. In that earlier campaign, it was the alleged free spe...
Gonsalves: The sky is falling?
Commentary, March, 23 2001
Sean Gonsalves
Gonsalves's ZSpace page
The sky is not falling. That used to be something you said to Armageddon aficionados as an antidote to their end-of-the-world predictions. It appears that clichŽ is in need of some revision. The Russian MIR space station is slated to crash land o...
Glass: The first casualty
Commentary, March, 22 2001
Charles Glass
Glass's ZSpace page
IN 1984 I filed a report to ABC News on Israeli death squads in south Lebanon that was never broadcast. My camera crew and I had spent a week travelling the roads of south Lebanon in the tracks of plainclothes assassins whom United Nations sold...
Deutsch: Division of Labor
Graphic, March, 21 2001
Barry Deutsch
Deutsch's ZSpace page
feminism, housework, segregation
Prashad: Magical Realism in the Fabulous World of the Indian Economy
Commentary, March, 21 2001
Vijay Prashad
Prashad's ZSpace page
Magical Realism is an Indian habitus discovered accidentally by Latin American fiction. Gabriel Garcia Marquez, may his recent illness be as painless as possible, wrote in a style that evokes for me the social relations of the Indian subcontinent....
Herman: THE GODFATHER AS "HONEST BROKER"
Commentary, March, 20 2001
Edward Herman
Herman's ZSpace page
The Palestinians have repeatedly called for a UN or other international presence to protect them against the brutalities of the Israeli occupation force in their land, and the UN high commissioner for human rights, Mary Robinson, as well as Amnest...
Jensen: FREE SPEECH ON CAMPUS (batteries not included)
Commentary, March, 19 2001
Robert Jensen
Jensen's ZSpace page
The University of Texas' commitment to free speech on campus -- which has been a curiously lethargic commitment given the centrality of such freedom to higher education -- has gotten curiouser lately.
