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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
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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
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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
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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
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Celebrating Pete Seeger
Petras: Our Man in Mexico and the Chiapas Massacre
Zmag Article, April, 01 1998
James Petras
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The massacre of 45 Indians in Chiapas by government-sponsored paramilitary forces has to be viewed within the broader context of regimes’ vigorous implementation of the socio-economic model and its growing political isolat...
Herman: All The News Fit To Print (Part I)
Zmag Article, April, 01 1998
Edward Herman
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The New York Times’s masthead logo, "All The News That’s Fit to Print," dates back to 1896, the first year of Ochs-Sulzberger family control of the paper, and both the family control and arrogant belief in the benevolence and superior ju...
Bacon: A New Europe?
Zmag Article, March, 01 1998
David Bacon
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Morena Pivetti’s mother was a dedicated school teacher. Until she retired a few years ago, she devoted her working life to Italy’s greatest and most-loved resource, its children. When she retired, she got one of the b...
Staff: Stop the Insanity!
Zmag Article, March, 01 1998
Z Staff
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don’t care about typos, only content, and that this reflects badly on the whole left, no less. Be serious folks. Does Z look like it was created by bumbling folks who have no aesthetic or "professional pride?" We profread it u...
