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Zmag Article, November, 01 1997
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The Hesperian Foundation. Berkeley California. 584 pp. Paperback. Review by Cynthia Peters My dogeared copies of Where There is No Doctor, A Village Health Care Handbook (the Hesperian Foundation) and an early edition of Our Bodies ...
Chomsky: Market Democracy in a Neoliberal Order: Doctrines and Reality
Zmag Article, September, 01 1997
Noam Chomsky
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Noam Chomsky I have been asked to speak on some aspect of academic or human freedom, an invitation that offers many choices. I will keep to some simple ones. Freedom without opportunity is a devil’s gift, and...
Johnson: Human Rights Watch World Report 1997: Events Of 1996
Zmag Article, June, 01 1997
Tom Johnson
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In January 1997, the international human rights organization, Human Rights Watch, released its seventh annual report on the worldwide condition of human rights. The report, overall, finds human rights’ cond...
James: Haiti: The Roof Is Leaking
Zmag Article, June, 01 1997
Clara James
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Clara James On April 6, Haiti held elections to fill one-third of the Senate seats and positions on over 500 communal and town councils. The only problem was, most Haitians did not go to the polls. Only about 5 pe...
Grytting: Newspeak
Zmag Article, June, 01 1997
Wayne Grytting
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Wayne Grytting Advertisers Becoming Literate Major advertisers are "changing the rules of magazine publishing," reports the Wall Street Journal, by breaking down the walls separating ads from e...
Kovel: Cuba & South Africa
Zmag Article, June, 01 1997
Joel Kovel
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Joel Kovel  The linkage between Castro’s Cuba and Mandela’s South Africa runs deep. Cuban slave society was less efficient in demolishing ties to Africa than its North American counterpart, allowing Cuba to retain ...
Chomsky: The Passion for Free Markets
Zmag Article, May, 01 1997
Noam Chomsky
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For more than half a century, the United Nations has been the main forum for the United States to try to create a world in its image, maneuvering with its allies ...
Wallace: UMass Student Movement
Zmag Article, May, 01 1997
Dickie Wallace
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Something was up—that was the word around campus. Returning from winter break at the end of January, the talk was of some kind of student protest that would wake peopl...
Howe: Nicaragua: Nearly Gone & Almost Forgotten
Zmag Article, May, 01 1997
Genevieve Howe
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Genevieve Howe Henri Lara Gutierrez was born in Esteli, Nicaragua in October 1979, three months after the July 19, 1979 triumph of the Sandinista revolution. This year, Henri, like the revolution, will turn 18 years...
Pinter: It Never Happened
Zmag Article, February, 01 1997
Harold Pinter
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Pinter Can it be true? Are the other "major powers" in the world finally moving towards a position where their contempt for the assertion of U.S. power is actually being embodied in action? For the fourth year running the United ...
Edwards: Global warming and the political economy of threats
Zmag Article, February, 01 1997
David Edwards
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To a casual observer, the reality, or otherwise, of a threat to humankind would appear to be determined by inexact but essentially rational calculations based on evidence, hard facts, and best guesses all wrapped up in a framework of concern for t...
Galeano: To be like them
Znet Article, May, 05 1991
Eduardo Galeano
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[Translated by Francisco González] Dreams and nightmares are made of the same stuff, but this particular nightmare claims to be the only dream we are allowed to have: a development model that scorns life and worships things. Can we be like them? ...
