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Zmag Article Cohen: Beware The Violence Initiative Project

Zmag Article, April, 01 2000 Mitchel Cohen
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As late as the 1980s, a small but influential coterie of prize-winning scientists were trying to prove that black children were, on average, less intelligent than white children. Intelligence, they said, ran “in the genes” of rac...

Zmag Article Chomsky: In Retrospect

Zmag Article, April, 01 2000 Noam Chomsky
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The tumult having subsided, it should be possible to undertake a relatively dispassionate review and analysis of NATO’s war over Kosovo. One might have expected the theme to have dominated the year-end millennarianism, consi...

Zmag Article Bronski: The Subversive Ms. Highsmith and The Talented Mr. Ripley

Zmag Article, April, 01 2000 Michael Bronski
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Isn’t that the cute Matt Damon playing a beguiling, decidedly dangerous, homosexual in Anthony Minghella’s film The Talented Mr. Ripley? Damon acts to perfection the role of Tom Ripley, the accomplished young American h...

Commentary Arnove: “Sanctions on Iraq: The ‘Propaganda Campaign’”

Commentary, April, 01 2000 Anthony Arnove
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Hans von Sponeck resigns March 31 as the director of the United Nations humanitarian program in Iraq. Normally, the comings and goings of UN officials isn’t a subject for headlines or a source of encouragement for activists, but von Sponec...

Commentary Herman: EXPORTING DEMOCRACY, OR A FAVORABLE CLIMATE OF INVESTMENT?

Commentary, March, 28 2000 Edward Herman
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The great nineteenth century U.S. agnostic and lecturer, Robert Green Ingersoll, used to delight in telling the story of the test of true faith imposed on those seeking entry into heaven by the heavenly gatekeeper (e.g., in his lecture on the "Mis...

Commentary Albert: A Program Seeking Participatory Allocation

Commentary, March, 26 2000 Michael Albert
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Participatory planning is the allocation component of participatory economics. Producers and consumers organized in councils cooperatively negotiate labor, resource, and output allocations. The procedure organizes economic choices and simultaneous...

Commentary Weisbrot: Spring Protests in Washington, D.C: Another Seattle?

Commentary, March, 24 2000 Mark Weisbrot
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The Clinton administration claims to have learned something from the outpouring of protest against the World Trade Organization (WTO) last December. "Those who heard a wake-up call in Seattle got the right message," said President Clinton. Maybe s...

Commentary Peters: The Teenage Liberation Handbook

Commentary, March, 20 2000 Cynthia Peters
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group, national or religious or even social, in the competititon with other groups. It is this motive, in the main, which determines the subjects taught, the knowledge offered and the knowledge Grace Llewellyn, author of ÒThe Teenage Liberation Ha...

Commentary Albert: Vision Matters

Commentary, March, 19 2000 Michael Albert
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So far I have sent out an economic vision and strategy commentary each of the past eight Sundays. I assumed we would quickly agree that we don't have but that we do very much need a shared economic vision, and that to get one we need to collective...

Commentary Schechter: 'WE ARE THE WORLD' AS AN OLDIE: "BEEN THERE, DONE THAT"

Commentary, March, 17 2000 Danny Schechter
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As the story is told, it was a slow news day at NBC back in 1985 when staffers looked up at an incoming satellite feed on one of their many monitors. The newsroom fell silent as a parade of harrowing images from the dying fields of Ethiopia stream...

Commentary Albert: Participatory Allocation

Commentary, March, 12 2000 Michael Albert
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An economy needs some procedure for coordinating different workers' activities with one another and with the desires of consumers. The procedure, called economic allocation, determines how much of each input and output is used or produced, and whe...

Commentary Gonsalves: This is not a campaign issue?

Commentary, March, 11 2000 Sean Gonsalves
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Thanks to the state department and our "adversarial" free press, even those who consider themselves well-informed about foreign policy have tremendous gaps in their knowledge when it comes to our policy in Iraq.

Commentary Martinez: Students of Color Fight Racism at Univ. of Mich. with Month-Long Occupation

Commentary, March, 08 2000 Elizabeth Martinez
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Since Feb. 6, the Students of Color Coalition (SCC) has occupied the tower of the University of Michigan Union building to protest ongoing racist practices on a campus that claims to have a longstanding commitment to multiculturalism and diversity...

Commentary Albert: A Program Seeking Dignified Work

Commentary, March, 05 2000 Michael Albert
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We want to dignify work so we seek to equalize the empowerment effects of all jobs. But how?

Commentary Shalom: The Diallo Case

Commentary, March, 04 2000 Stephen1 Shalom
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During the Vietnam War, the court martial trials of Lt. William Calley and other U.S. military personnel who massacred hundreds of unarmed civilians at My Lai was deeply contentious. Conservatives opposed the trials as besmirching the good name of...

Commentary Herman: SAUL LANDAU'S LETTER ON "PACIFICA BASHING"

Commentary, March, 02 2000 Edward Herman
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In mid-February of this year Saul Landau issued an "Appeal to All Progressives: Stop the Pacifica Bashing!" And he got some 40 liberals and leftists to sign on, many associated with The Nation and Institute for Policy Studies.

Zmag Article Weisbrot: Anti-WTO Organizing

Zmag Article, March, 01 2000 Mark Weisbrot
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  The demonstrations against the WTO in Seattle were probably among the most effective protests in modern American history. The sequel—on April 16 in Washington DC, at the IMF/World Bank spring meetings—may have an even great...

Zmag Article Sargent: 37.7 Seconds, Part IV

Zmag Article, March, 01 2000 Lydia Sargent
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In Parts I and II of this series I looked at the “scientific” claims made about women in Dianne Hales’s book Just Like A Woman. In Part III I began examining Helen Fisher’s book The First Sex, published by Random House an...

Zmag Article Bronski: The Destiny of Biology

Zmag Article, March, 01 2000 Michael Bronski
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Anne Fausto-Sterling is one of the leading theorists on science, sexuality, and gender. Trained as a molecular biologist, and a professor of Biology and Women’s Studies at Brown University, her research and writing covers a broad rage o...

Zmag Article Herman: Russia: U.S. Rival, Dependent, Victim

Zmag Article, March, 01 2000 Edward Herman
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The U.S. establishment’s and media’s treatment of post-Soviet Russia has been confused, sometimes hostile, and more often than not, apologetic. This is because Russia occupies the odd position of being simultaneously a rival and ob...

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