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Petras: Nato Expansion
Zmag Article, September, 01 1997
James Petras
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Petras The admission of three former members of the Eastern bloc into NATO was described by President Clinton as "a very great day not only for Europe and the United States, not simply for NATO but indeed for...
Howe: none
Zmag Article, September, 01 1997
Genevieve Howe
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The American Association of World Health released an extensive study in March 1997 of the impact of the U.S. government’s embargo on public health and nutrition in Cuba. Through hundreds of examples, the study provides an ...
Harris: Where's There's Smoke... Someone's Getting Burned
Zmag Article, September, 01 1997
Bob Harris
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Harris OK, so the big tobacco companies and their lobbyists have cobbled together a backroom deal to save their hides. And now the various state Attorneys General can return to their respective capitals and gran...
Cook: From Welfare to Profit Shares
Zmag Article, September, 01 1997
Christopher Cook
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Christopher Cook The four qualifying words in President Clinton’s pledge to end welfare—"as we know it"—are proving to be the ultimate twist of the dagger in the heart of public assistance...
Gaal: A Tale of Fear and Greed
Zmag Article, September, 01 1997
Chris Gaal
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A Tale of Fear and Greed
Giroux: Disney, Southern Baptists, & Children's Culture
Zmag Article, September, 01 1997
Henry a. Giroux
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Henry A. Giroux The Southern Baptist Convention in June generated a lot of media attention when it called for a boycott of the Disney Company for promoting "immoral ideologies such as homose...
Kovel: Bad News for Fast Food: What's wrong with McDonald's?
Zmag Article, September, 01 1997
Joel Kovel
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In 1990, London Greenpeace circulated a six-page leaflet entitled "What’s Wrong With McDonald’s? Everything they don’t want you to know." The ever-vigilant fast-food merchant did what it routinely does in such instance...
Shalom: New Jersey Jokes
Zmag Article, July, 01 1997
Stephen Shalom
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R. Shalom Nineteen ninety-seven is an off-year for mainstream electoral politics in the United States—there are no House or Senate races and only two states are holding gubernatorial contests—so con...
Herman: The Economics of the Rich
Zmag Article, July, 01 1997
Edward Herman
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S. Herman Back in 1849, the British economist Nassau Senior chided those defending trade unions and minimum wage regulations for expounding an "economics of the poor." The idea that he and his estab...
Glick: Unity in Diversity
Zmag Article, July, 01 1997
Ted Glick
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Glick Over the weekend of May 2-4, 1997, 150 people from over 90 organizations and from 19 states, the District of Columbia, and Mexico attended the National Independent Politics Summit/97 in Decatur, Illinois. ...
Rapping: The "Ellen" Event
Zmag Article, July, 01 1997
Elayne Rapping
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Rapping When Gil Scott-Heron famously sang, back in the 1960s, that "the revolution [would] not be televised," we all knew what he was talking about. Yet, of all the now legendary "errors" we o...
Petras: El Salvador Elections
Zmag Article, July, 01 1997
James Petras
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Petras The signing of a peace accord between the guerrilla commanders and the right-wing government in 1992 promised a period of freedom, prosperity, and peace. Overseas donors would contribute funds for reco...
Older: Toxic Clean
Zmag Article, July, 01 1997
Amber Older
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Fifty miles southwest of Salt Lake City, in the heart of Tooele (pronounced too-ELL-ah) County, the Tooele Chemical Agent Disposal Facility (TOCDF) has started to burn 42 percent of the nation’s chemical st...
Staff: Editorial: The Personal Is Political?!
Zmag Article, July, 01 1997
Z Staff
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political and social setting. They feel personal, and their details are personal, but their broad texture and character, and especially the limits within which these evolve, are largely systemic. In this sense, the contribution of t...
Hart: Deregulation and Nuclear Power
Zmag Article, July, 01 1997
Kathleen Hart
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Deregulation of the U.S. electricity industry is moving forward quickly, quietly, and with little public debate about its potential dangers—including the increased risk of a nuclear power plant accident. Ca...
Harris: The Scoop
Zmag Article, July, 01 1997
Bob Harris
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Harris The Gingrich Bailout In accepting $300,000 from Bob Dole, Newt Gingrich claims he took the high ground. If enough folks examine the deal closely, he may have to head on up to the hills. ...
Gibson: In Memory: Paulo Freire
Zmag Article, July, 01 1997
Rich Gibson
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Gibson Paulo Freire, the radical Brazilian "Vagabond of the Obvious" and the most widely known educator in the world, died on May 2, 1997 in Sao Paulo, Brazil. He was 75. Freire drew on humanis...
Fairchild: Low-Power Radio
Zmag Article, July, 01 1997
Charles Fairchild
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Fairchild As part of his arguments submitted to the FCC regarding the possibility of low-power radio in the U.S., Free Radio Berkeley founder Stephen Dunifer suggested that low-power broadcasting in Canada could ...
