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Commentary Albert: Movement for a Participatory Economy: An Overview

Commentary, January, 23 2000 Michael Albert
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Besides immediate objectives, great social movements need long-run goals for inspiration and guidance. The abolitionist movement to end slavery and the movement for the eight-hour day both in the nineteenth century, the movement for women's suffra...

Commentary Chomsky: Four from the Forums

Commentary, January, 19 2000 Noam Chomsky
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On graduate unions, it's true enough that (ideally) "graduate teaching is pedagogical training," but that's incomplete. Any teaching, if done at all seriously, is also a way of learning -- about lots of things, including the subject you are teachi...

Commentary Shalom: Humanitarian Intervention

Commentary, January, 18 2000 Stephen1 Shalom
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The issue of humanitarian intervention arises again, propelled by the crises in Kosovo and East Timor and by the memories of the 1994 Rwanda genocide. Some analysts have used these cases to support new principles of international relations. But to...

Commentary Schechter: Attica, Hurricane, and Mumia

Commentary, January, 17 2000 Danny Schechter
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ATTICA! It's a word I hadn't heard in a number of years. It was a word I will never forget, and not just because of Al Pacino's memorable invocation of the term in the movie Dog Day Afternoon. Attica was one of the first stories I dissected in my ...

Commentary Herman: The AOL Time Merger

Commentary, January, 16 2000 Edward Herman
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Each great technological advance in communication begins with claims of the dominance of public service aims and probable effects, which is then followed and concluded by a commercial takeover.

Commentary Albert: Internet Commercialism?!

Commentary, January, 15 2000 Michael Albert
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There is an old economic saying that "there is no free lunch." To get something out of an economy you have to put something in. Contrary to rumors, this holds for the Internet as well as for factories. To provide internet content takes labor, tool...

Commentary Peters: Porn Stars, Promise-Keepers, and "Pound Dawgs" A Comment on: Stiffed, by Susan Faludi

Commentary, January, 14 2000 Cynthia Peters
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Male porn stars get paid based on their ability to sustain an erection. Promise Keepers are told to look to God as a Father they can trust, and to stock up on Promise Keeper mugs, t-shirts, and other memorabilia. "Pound Dawgs" - extreme fans of th...

Commentary Chomsky: Millennial Visions and Selective Vision Part Two

Commentary, January, 13 2000 Noam Chomsky
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In fairness, it should be mentioned that the chorus of self-adulation that closed the millennium was disrupted by some discordant notes. Questions were raised about the consistency of our adherence to the guiding principles: the "new doctrine" tha...

Commentary Chomsky: Millennial Visions and Selective Vision Part One

Commentary, January, 10 2000 Noam Chomsky
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The new year opened with familiar refrains, amplified by the numerology: a chorus of self-adulation, somber ruminations about the incomprehensible evil of our enemies, and the usual recourse to selective amnesia to smooth the way. A few illustrati...

Commentary Herman: Paul Krugman in the NYT

Commentary, January, 07 2000 Edward Herman
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With a column on trade and globalization in the New York Times of January 2 ("Once And Again"), MIT economist Paul Krugman announces his new status as a Times columnist under the heading "Reckonings."

Zmag Article Sargent: 37.7 Seconds, Part II

Zmag Article, January, 01 2000 Lydia Sargent
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Lydia Sargent As I said in Part I, the title 37.7 seconds refers to the average amount of time fathers spent each day communicating with their babies during the first three months of life, according to a 1971 study quoted in Has Feminism Chang...

Zmag Article Hahnel: China & the WTO

Zmag Article, January, 01 2000 Robin Hahnel
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Robin Hahnel After declining to sign a "better deal" last April, the Clinton administration signed off on conditions for permitting China to enter the World Trade Organization (WTO) in November. Even t...

Zmag Article Gordon: Barak's Economic Program

Zmag Article, January, 01 2000 Neve Gordon
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Neve Gordon In 1992, it was still unclear that Bill Clinton’s election would mark the advent of a new breed of leaders. Yet a few years later Tony Blair was elected in England and Lionel Jospin in France. When Germany’s Gerha...

Zmag Article Herman: Hitchens on Serbia and East Timor

Zmag Article, January, 01 2000 Edward Herman
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Edward S. Herman In each U.S. war there are liberals and leftists who lend it support, and even larger numbers who don’t oppose it because the issues and stakes involved seem unclear. Both support and silence are encouraged by the...

Zmag Article Bronski: Justice is Blind and Gagged

Zmag Article, January, 01 2000 Michael Bronski
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Michael Bronski With a final flurry of media attention the trials of Aaron McKinney and Russell Henderson for the brutal murder of Matthew Shepard are now over. But in the quiet after such an emotional social and political storm, two t...

Zmag Article Albert: A Q & A on the WTO, IMF, World Bank, and Activism

Zmag Article, January, 01 2000 Michael Albert
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A Q & A on the WTO, IMF, World Bank, and Activism

Commentary Gonsalves: The liberal media and the feds

Commentary, December, 30 1999 Sean Gonsalves
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In my last column, I quoted espionage expert Phillip Knightly. "An intelligence service thrives on threat," he wrote in "The Second Oldest Profession." The same could be said about the rest of the defense industry.

Commentary Albert: Building Solidarity

Commentary, December, 24 1999 Michael Albert
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Social struggle will never be perfectly choreographed but we can at least have broad norms regarding movement process that benefit all involved constituencies.

Commentary Peters: It Is Not As Easy As ABC

Commentary, December, 23 1999 Cynthia Peters
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A recently released study finds that children from poor families are better off if they spend more time in day care starting at an earlier age. The Abecedarian Project (named for the first four letters of the alphabet), conducted at the University...

Commentary Albert: Different Strokes for Different Folks!?

Commentary, December, 18 1999 Michael Albert
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How do we evaluate movement tactics and particularly property-damaging or truly aggressive or violent tactics?

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