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Hightower: WHAT'S MISSING IN CAMPAIGN 2000
Commentary, May, 03 2000
Jim Hightower
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Well, there we have it: Gore-Bush. Dull versus dullard. The political establishments of the two-party duopoly successfully rose up to surround, defend, and shove forward their chosen ones, both girded with tens of millions of dollars from the exac...
Sinyai: Battle of Brooklyn's Domino Sugar
Zmag Article, May, 01 2000
Clayton Sinyai
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Now well into its eighth month, the International Longshoremen’s Association (ILA) Local 1814’s strike against the Domino Sugar refinery in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn is a good example of what workers can expe...
Harris: George W. Bush
Zmag Article, May, 01 2000
Bob Harris
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“Can you name the president of Chechnya?”—Andy Hiller, WHDH- TV Boston, to George W. Bush, 11/4/99 “No, can you?”—George W. Bush You won’t hear about it on CNN, but George W. Bus...
Hahnel: Let's Review
Commentary, April, 08 2000
Robin Hahnel
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For almost 20 years an accelerating process many of us now call corporate sponsored globalization has been changing the way the international economy operates. Under the title “neoliberalism†multinational corporations have succeed...
Kneen: none
Zmag Article, April, 01 2000
Brewster Kneen
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New Society Publishers, 240 pp. Review by Barbara Beebe If one were to depend solely on the mainstream media for information regarding genetically modified organisms (GMOs), one would come away with the im...
Mokhiber: Somebody Else's Wealth
Commentary, March, 15 2000
Russell Mokhiber
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Where does the vast wealth of the United States come from? It is hard to read the financial and popular press today without encountering stories that suggest the answer is the creativity of entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley.
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...
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...
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...
Su: xa1 La Huelga Va!
Zmag Article, March, 01 2000
Carlos Su
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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
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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...
Rebick: Feminist Origins
Commentary, February, 28 2000
Judy Rebick
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With memories of the Battle of Seattle still dancing in our heads and thoughts of the World March of Women against poverty and violence beginning to take shape, it might be a good time to think about how social movements actually develop.
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.
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...
Black: An Unindicted War Criminal
Zmag Article, February, 01 2000
Christopher Black
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& Edward S. Herman Among the many ironies of the NATO war against Yugoslavia was the role of the International Criminal Tribunal and its chief prosecutor, Louise Arbour, elevated by Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chretien to Canada’...
Rebick: New Workers' Initiative
Commentary, January, 29 2000
Judy Rebick
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Always on the cutting edge of social change, the Canadian Auto Workers union has just launched an important new initiative. The CAW has set up "A Task Force on Working Class Politics in the 21st Century."
Hahnel: China & the WTO
Zmag Article, January, 01 2000
Robin Hahnel
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Robin Hahnel After declining to sign a "better deal" last April, the Clinton administration signed off on conditions for permitting China to enter the World Trade Organization (WTO) in November. Even t...
Bacon: Will A Social Clause In Trade Agreements Advance International Solidarity?
Zmag Article, January, 01 2000
David Bacon
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David Bacon On November 30 the AFL-CIO mobilized thousands of union members to demonstrate in Seattle outside the meeting of trade ministers of the World Trade Organization. The labor federation called for incor...
Rebick: First Mourn, Then Work for Change
Commentary, December, 13 1999
Judy Rebick
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It has been 10 years since that terrible day, December 6, 1989. Ten years since a lone gunman who blamed feminists for his problems walked into Ecole Polytechnique in Montreal and systematically slaughtered only women. Fourteen young women who die...
Steinberg: Genocide in East Timor
Zmag Article, December, 01 1999
Michael Steinberg
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Michael Steinberg The U.S. role in the recent catalog of horrors in East Timor is deep and far reaching, the culmination of over three decades of nurturing the Indonesian fascist regime. Just as the U.S. mainstream media has attempted to suppr...
