| Back | Search Results - New Search |
Naiman: Clinton's Debt Relief: Too Generous or Too Stingy
Commentary, November, 06 1999
Robert Naiman
Naiman's ZSpace page
After President Clinton announced that he supports 100% cancellation of the debts owed by the poorest countries to the United States, some poll data suggested that people thought Clinton was being too generous.
Burchill: A Fresh Start
Commentary, November, 05 1999
Scott Burchill
Burchill's ZSpace page
Sometimes statistics tell a grim tale. In the first weeks of September this year, 70% of all public buildings and private residences in East Timor were destroyed. At least 75% of the population of the territory was displaced, with over 260,000 peo...
Marable: The Black Radical Congress: Moving On Up To Congress 2000
Commentary, November, 04 1999
Manning Marable
Marable's ZSpace page
On June 19, 1998, over two thousand African Americans gathered in Chicago to participate in the founding conference of the Black Radical Congress (BRC).
Prashad: I'm Part of Today's Unions, Ask Me Why
Commentary, November, 03 1999
Vijay Prashad
Prashad's ZSpace page
I'm Part of Today's Unions, Ask Me Why
Russell: The Private Health Care Juggernaut Needs Jilting
Commentary, November, 02 1999
Marta Russell
Russell's ZSpace page
Presidential hopeful Bill Bradley has placed health care reform on the national agenda as well it should be. However, the Bradley plan does not go far enough to resolve real need and it protects the insurance industry - the very culprit which is u...
Mokhiber: The Criminal Element
Commentary, November, 01 1999
Russell Mokhiber
Mokhiber's ZSpace page
The criminal element has seeped deep into every nook and cranny of American society. Forget about the underworld -- these crooks dominate every aspect of our market, culture, and politics. They cast a deep dark shadow over life in turn of the cent...
Weisbrot: Time to End Debt Slavery
Commentary, October, 31 1999
Mark Weisbrot
Weisbrot's ZSpace page
It has become a truism that "there are no easy answers" to the world's most pressing economic and social problems. The phrase is often repeated by academics, policy wonks, and others whose occupation immerses them in the details of real or imagine...
Raptis: The Harvard Lady
Commentary, October, 30 1999
Nikos Raptis
Raptis's ZSpace page
The U.S. (corporate or state) institutions that dominate the life of ordinary people in almost all countries, though impersonal, need some individuals who as part of a local elite promote the ideology and the goals of these institutions. The portr...
Kissenger: Update on Mumia
Commentary, October, 29 1999
Clark Kissenger
Kissenger's ZSpace page
Mumia's legal team and the attorneys for the state of Pennsylvania were asked to a meeting this past Tuesday morning with federal judge William Yohn in his chambers to "get acquainted." This was expected and is usually the way a major case like th...
Landau: Will it Be NATO or the UN
Commentary, October, 28 1999
Saul Landau
Landau's ZSpace page
Who should lead the world toward peace in the 21st Century? NATO or the UN.
Mokhiber: Keep the Public in Public Health
Commentary, October, 26 1999
Russell Mokhiber
Mokhiber's ZSpace page
The great thing about the American Public Health Association (APHA) is in its name -- it's about public health -- what we as a society do to assure the conditions in which people can be healthy.
Herman: Missing Bodies
Commentary, October, 25 1999
Edward Herman
Herman's ZSpace page
A Reuters news dispatch of October 13 bylined Pristina, Kosovo, is entitled " Absolutely No Bodies Found in Supposed Mine Shaft Mass Grave in Kosovo." This follows an earlier report by a Spanish forensic team that went into a part of Kosovo allege...
Hightower: Various Shorts
Commentary, October, 24 1999
Jim Hightower
Hightower's ZSpace page
It's Goober Time again {Beanie-cap Breakdown} -- time to give the Hightower Radio "Gooberhead Award" to yet another public figure who's got his tongue going 100 miles an hour . . . but forgot to put his brain in gear.
Chomsky: East Timor Is Not Yesterday's Story
Commentary, October, 23 1999
Noam Chomsky
Chomsky's ZSpace page
According to recent reports, the UN mission in East Timor has been able to account for just over 150,000 people out of an estimated population of 850,000. It reports that 260,000 "are now languishing in squalid refugee camps in West Timor under...
Hartmann: Cracking Open Crack
Commentary, October, 22 1999
Betsy Hartmann
Hartmann's ZSpace page
We don't allow dogs to breed. We spay them. We neuter them. We try to keep them from having unwanted puppies, and yet these women are literally having litters of children..." These are the words of Barbara Harris, founder of the organization CRACK...
Weisbrot: Budget Baloney
Commentary, October, 20 1999
Mark Weisbrot
Weisbrot's ZSpace page
How much falsehood and stupidity should the media allow to go unchallenged in public debate? At what point do journalists and the press have an obligation to step in and supply the necessary facts and explanations, so that the public can have a ch...
Peters: Class Politics in America: A Fashionable Consumer Item
Commentary, October, 19 1999
Cynthia Peters
Peters's ZSpace page
I spent $44.00 recently to see Dario Fo's farce about hunger, free-market injustice, sexism, and class injustice at the American Repertory Theater in Harvard Square. Dario Fo, "who emulates the jesters of the Middle Ages in scourging authority and...
Albert: The WTO and Mumia Abu Jamal
Commentary, October, 18 1999
Michael Albert
Albert's ZSpace page
The World Trade Organization treats working people in countries throughout the world as assets to manipulate in pursuit of private corporate profit. From Guatemala to South Africa and from Thailand to the South Bronx, this causes impoverishment, i...
Cagan: Two, Three, Many Protests...But All On the Same Night?
Commentary, October, 17 1999
Leslie Cagan
Cagan's ZSpace page
George W. and his new friends in the leadership of the New York State Republican Party gathered at a fund raising dinner in mid-town Manhattan October 5th. They were all there: George W. Bush, George Pataki, Rudolf Giuliani, Al D'Amato and the res...
Schechter: Dung on All Their Houses - The New Censorship
Commentary, October, 16 1999
Danny Schechter
Schechter's ZSpace page
On October l, thousands of New York artists, activists and politicians rallied outside the Brooklyn Museum against threats by the city's Mayor Rudolph Giuliani to defund one of the city's preeminent cultural institutions because of one painting on...


