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Robinson: none
Zmag Article, June, 01 1998
Randall Robinson
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Dutton Books; 304 pp. Review by Camille Goodison Bitter. Black. Beautiful: These, to paraphrase Jimmy Baldwin—vocal in his disdain for American myth-making and its delusions of "innocence,"—would be th...
Gelbspan: The Heat is On
Zmag Article, June, 01 1998
Ross Gelbspan
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Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, Reading, Massachusetts, 1997; 278 pp. Review by Genevieve Howe If you ever lie awake at night wondering how fast we’re destroying the planet, you have plenty to worry about. As long a...
Solomon: Media Beat
Zmag Article, June, 01 1998
Norman Solomon
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After Pulitzer, Graham’s Book Still Lacks Scrutiny In the days since Katharine Graham won a Pulitzer Prize for her autobiography Personal History, media coverage has added new luster to the book’s reputation. United Press Intern...
Sargent: Are You Femme Enough?
Zmag Article, May, 01 1998
Lydia Sargent
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Are You Femme Enough?
Kolko: none
Zmag Article, May, 01 1998
Gabriel Kolko
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Routledge; 190 pp. Review by Asad Ismi What should a communist party do when it leads a nation to victory over the most powerful empire the world has ever known at the cost of three million lives? Build an equitable soci...
Chomsky: Domestic Constituencies
Zmag Article, May, 01 1998
Noam Chomsky
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Domestic Constituencies
Carter: Short Cuts
Zmag Article, May, 01 1998
Sandy Carter
Carter's ZSpace page
In the last decade the music industry has gradually discovered the music of American Indians. As a result, at least a small portion of the music buying public has started to hear sounds that have nothing to do with the Hollywoo...
Bronski: Queering the Scouts
Zmag Article, May, 01 1998
Michael Bronski
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This was a right-wing nightmare that rivaled the image of Barbara Bush and Nancy Reagan announcing that they are lovers on National Coming Out Day, or Kenneth Starr excusing himself as Special Prosecutor because he had walked t...
Brecher: Resisting Concessions
Zmag Article, May, 01 1998
Jeremy Brecher
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While the number of strikes and strikers plummeted during the 1980s and 1990s, most of the major labor struggles that did take place were in resistance to management demands for concessions. Three of the most important—and...
Wall: Towards "2000 in 2000"
Zmag Article, May, 01 1998
Sue Wall
Wall's ZSpace page
One candidate grew up working in Hong Kong sweatshops and led the fight as a school board member against accepting funds from Nike. Another is the chief steward of her union, a single working mother putting her daughter through...
Blum: Sculptures of Charles Dickson
Zmag Article, May, 01 1998
Paul von Blum
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Sculpture has played a powerful role in the artistic heritage of Africa. Too often regarded as "primitive," and routinely consigned to museum "curiosity rooms" and natural history exhibitions, these works ha...
Rosemont, jr.: Whither Asia's Economies?
Zmag Article, May, 01 1998
Henry Rosemont, jr.
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Throughout the 1950s, 1960s, and early 1970s big business made the mistake of letting the U.S. government assume the major responsibility for bending Southeast Asia to capitalism’s will. Because of the incredible heroism a...
Staff: Economics?
Zmag Article, May, 01 1998
Z Staff
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Robert Barro of Harvard recently was offered a $300,000 salary to jump to Columbia. In reaction, MIT’s Paul Krugman wrote in Microsoft’s online magazine, Slate: "the ability to do innovative economic researc...
Petras: The Post-Communist Generation
Zmag Article, May, 01 1998
James Petras
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The Soviet Union has transited from a repressive and authoritarian communist regime in which social welfare, full employment, and a secure old age predominated to a savage capitalism in which a small minority of Mafia business ...
Feldman: Years After The 1968 Columbia Revolt
Zmag Article, May, 01 1998
Bob Feldman
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solidarity with justice and freedom for others (in Vietnam and Harlem)—and by risking their own privileged futures, they forged meanings and discovered their own humanity. When several hundred students disrupted the status quo and defie...
Herman: All The News Fit To Print, Part II
Zmag Article, May, 01 1998
Edward Herman
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The New York Times is a strongly ideological paper, whose biases and frequent propaganda service give its logo phrase "all the news that’s fit to print" an ironical twist. James Reston acknowledged that "we left [out] a great deal of what we kne...
Solomon: Media Beat
Zmag Article, May, 01 1998
Norman Solomon
Solomon's ZSpace page
Sex-Scandal Coverage Evades Contradictions In the days since Kathleen Willey’s interview on "60 Minutes," media outlets have flooded us with renewed debates over President Clinton’s sexual conduct. But news coverage still fails to co...
Peters: The American Doll
Zmag Article, April, 01 1998
Cynthia Peters
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Zoe, my six-year-old, was practically vibrating with delight when she opened the big rectangular box and pulled out her first American Girl doll. It was her birthday. She had asked for Felicity—the "colonial era"...
Chomsky: Rogue States
Zmag Article, April, 01 1998
Noam Chomsky
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The concept of "rogue state" plays a pre-eminent role today in policy planning and analysis. The current Iraq crisis is only the latest example. Washington and London declared Iraq a "rogue state," a threat ...
Carter: Celebrating Pete Seeger
Zmag Article, April, 01 1998
Sandy Carter
Carter's ZSpace page
Celebrating Pete Seeger
