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Weisbrot: Still Hasn't Found What He's Looking For
Commentary, November, 06 2000
Mark Weisbrot
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Star power had boosted the movement to cancel the debt of the world's poorest countries, even if there is still little to show for its efforts. At the International Monetary Fund and World Bank meetings in Prague last month, the most interesting s...
Georgakas: Voting Without Illusion
Commentary, November, 06 2000
Dan Georgakas
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Every time there is a major election, some of my closest political friends decide not to vote. The most obvious reason they give, of course, is that there are no candidates worth voting for.
Mokhiber: Ford/Firestone: Homicide?
Commentary, November, 04 2000
Russell Mokhiber
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In 1998, in Corpus Christi, Texas, 17-year-old Matthew Hendricks was on his way to pick up his girlfriend. He was driving a Ford Explorer. The tread ripped off one of the Ford's Firestone's tires, causing him to lose control. He was thrown from th...
Wise: Getting Serious About White Deviance
Commentary, November, 03 2000
Tim Wise
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To Whom It May Concern: With great excitement, I recently discovered your organization's work for the betterment of mankind, through the applied science of racial research. As someone who has been investigating the disproportionately pathological...
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...
Solomon: Media Spin &the Israeli Occupation
Zmag Article, November, 01 2000
Norman Solomon
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Media Spin &the Israeli Occupation
Street: The Economy is Doing Fine, It's Just the People That Aren't
Zmag Article, November, 01 2000
Paul Street
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The Economy is Doing Fine, It's Just the People That Aren't
Baker: none
Zmag Article, November, 01 2000
Dean Baker
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University of Chicago Press, 2000 Review by Edward Herman This fine book contends, and demonstrates compellingly, that the only “crisis” Social Security faces is posed by its enemies, who have created a phony one to provide...
Sargent: 37.7 Seconds, Part IX
Zmag Article, November, 01 2000
Lydia Sargent
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By Lydia Sargent I have been writing in this column for the last 10 months about the experience of reading current “feminist” sociobiology and evolutionary psychology where the hot topic is the differences that have been discove...
Albert: Why Not Create A Shadow Government?
Zmag Article, November, 01 2000
Michael Albert
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Why Not Create A Shadow Government?
Carter: The Great Folk Scare Continues
Zmag Article, November, 01 2000
Sandy Carter
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The Great Folk Scare Continues
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...
Urbina: Palestinian Bantustan
Zmag Article, November, 01 2000
Ian Urbina
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Just weeks ago President Clinton was negotiating a ‘final status’ peace agreement in the Israelis and Palestinians. What seemed like a sudden deterioration in the region belies the deeper frustrations with the peace process which h...
Schwartz: After LA: Organizing to Win
Zmag Article, November, 01 2000
Eric Schwartz
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After LA: Organizing to Win
Strauss: The Politics of Reading and Dyslexia
Zmag Article, November, 01 2000
Steven l. Strauss
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The Politics of Reading and Dyslexia
Morrison: The Mental Illness Excuse
Zmag Article, November, 01 2000
Charlotte Morrison
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When Raymond Alves left prison at the end of his seven-year sentence last March he triggered a nationwide hunt. Because Alves is a convicted sex offender, New Jersey’s recently enacted Sexually Violent Predator statute required prison o...
Richter: Revolutionary Afghan Women
Zmag Article, November, 01 2000
Kathleen Richter
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Most Americans are by now aware of the abysmal human rights abuses perpetuated in Afghanistan by the ultra fundamentalist Taliban regime—public amputation is the punishment for robbery, adulterers are stoned to death, and women and girl...
Lazaroff: CWA-Verizon
Zmag Article, November, 01 2000
Leon Lazaroff
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The extraordinary thing about the August telephone workers strike against Verizon Communications was that 87,000 operators and line technicians refused to work for 18 days not over the pocketbook issues of wages and benefits, but over the op...
Alan-leach: Agent Orange
Zmag Article, November, 01 2000
Richard Alan-leach
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Media coverage of the April 22 Earth Day enviro-fest contained a curious omission, given that the same month coincided with the 25th anniversary of the fall of Saigon (April 30). While noting Earth Day’s 30-year anniversary, mainstream ...
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 ...
