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Zaidi: Adjuncts Arise
Zmag Article, October, 01 1998
Ali Zaidi
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Earning as little as $1,000 per course, adjuncts now teach about half of the university courses in the U.S. Because so few have health and retirement benefits, job security, intellectual freedom, or involvement in the decision-m...
Romano: Inspecting the Inspectors
Zmag Article, October, 01 1998
Vincent Romano
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Disarmament Inspecting the Inspectors By Vincent Romano It is August 1998 and for the umpteenth time, a crisis with Iraq looms. The government of Saddam Hussein has barred UNSCOM inspectors from implementing t...
Petras: The New Revolutionary Peasantry
Zmag Article, October, 01 1998
James Petras
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Latin America The New Revolutionary Peasantry The growth of peasant-led opposition to neoliberalism By James Petras I was invited to give one of the inaugural speeches at the Second Latin American Congress of Rural O...
Burton-rose: Long-Distance Running
Zmag Article, October, 01 1998
Daniel Burton-rose
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Being Left Long-Distance Running An Interview with Staughton and Alice Lynd By Daniel Burton-Rose In the process of putting together their classic work of oral history Rank and File: Personal Histories by Working-Class ...
Hughes: Women in Iran
Zmag Article, October, 01 1998
Donna m. Hughes
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Women in Iran want equality, respect, and the right to participate in all social, political, and economic activities. They want to live their lives productively and with dignity. Throughout the 20th Century Iranian women have or...
Brown: Religiously Affiliated Hospital Mergers
Zmag Article, October, 01 1998
Lisa Brown
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Reproductive Rights Religiously Affiliated Hospital Mergers By Lisa Brown With the latest trend of religiously affiliated hospital mergers, particularly Catholic hospitals, a female tax-payer’s right to the full ra...
Herman: Their Terrorists and Ours
Zmag Article, September, 01 1998
Edward Herman
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Their Terrorists and Ours By Edward S. Herman On July 12 and 13, 1998, the New York Times had successive front-page articles on the career of Luis Carriles Posada, a world class terrorist who had been trained by the CIA ...
Carter: Some Kind Of Country
Zmag Article, September, 01 1998
Sandy Carter
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Ever since the late 1960s, when the Byrds, the Flying Burrito Brothers, and Bob Dylan started making the lonesome moan of a pedal steel guitar hip for rock audiences, various mutant strains of country music have been sprouting u...
Bacon: The GM Strike
Zmag Article, September, 01 1998
David Bacon
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The GM Strike By David Bacon Ending the strike of two auto parts plants near Detroit—a process which used to take just a few days—has instead lasted weeks. But delay and stubborn conflict is not the most unique fa...
Ehrenreich: Transcendence, Hope, & Ecstasy
Zmag Article, September, 01 1998
Barbara Ehrenreich
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Ehrenreich Perhaps the best kept political secret of our time is that politics, as a democratic undertaking, can be not only “fun,” in the entertaining sense, but profoundly uplifting, even ecstatic. My ...
Barsamian: Navigating the Media
Zmag Article, September, 01 1998
David Barsamian
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Ben Bagdikian is a respected critic of the media. He is winner of almost every top prize in American journalism, including the Pulitzer. His career as a reporter and editor spans more than 50 years. He is former Dean of the Graduate Schoo...
Crotty: Labor Resistance in Korea
Zmag Article, September, 01 1998
Jim Crotty
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Labor Resistance in Korea By Jim Crotty & Gary Dymski Since our article in the July-August issue, Asia has fallen into a self-reinforcing regional collapse. It may be at the edge of...
Martinez: Weaving A Net That Works
Zmag Article, September, 01 1998
Elizabeth Martinez
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It was lunchtime in a dusty barrio near Tijuana, Mexico, where the Southwest Network for Environmental and Economic Justice (SNEEJ) had come to meet in July 1993. The schedule called for us to march to a transfer station for hazardous waste,...
Shah: Looking Back, Moving Forward
Zmag Article, September, 01 1998
Sonia Shah
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peace organization that embodies and furthers this ideological change? Where are the new laws bearing on this issue? Or look at typical mainstream culture. There is a tremendous change in people’s understanding of what’s wrong and in the ide...
Herman: The U.S. Jobs Miracle
Zmag Article, July, 01 1998
Edward Herman
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In both Europe and the United States, the substantial growth in U.S. jobs over the past several decades has been repeatedly cited in support of the view that a “flexible” labor market is the solution to the problem of ...
Chomsky: Hordes of Vigilantes & Popular elements defeat MAI, for now
Zmag Article, July, 01 1998
Noam Chomsky
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Noam Chomsky This is a follow-up to my article on the Multilateral Agreement on Investment (MAI) in the May issue. That went to press a few weeks before the April 27 target date for signing of the MAI by the OECD coun...
Carter: Feminism and Classic Blues
Zmag Article, July, 01 1998
Sandy Carter
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Because blues is such a heavily male dominated musical genre, it’s often forgotten that the first popular blues recording stars were women. During the 1920s when the emerging recording industry first realized the commercial...
Bronski: Onward, Christian Soldiers?
Zmag Article, July, 01 1998
Michael Bronski
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Onward, Christian Soldiers?
Brecher: Labor Update: Organizing the New Workforce
Zmag Article, July, 01 1998
Jeremy Brecher
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Jeremy Brecher Traditionally, the majority of American union members have been blue-collar white males. Over the past quarter-century, this group became a smaller and smaller minority in the workforce, while other groups—somet...
