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Albert: Guns and Alternative Media?
Commentary, November, 04 2003
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There are about 30,000 gun related deaths in the U.S. per year, plus a huge number of lesser violations ranging from minor wounds to lasting disabilities. Gun control of diverse sorts could hugely diminish these losses, yet U.S. gun control is ine...
Administrator: The WTO Stalemate: One very big "no"
Zmag Article, November, 01 2003
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The World Trade Organization (WTO) is a paradoxical institution. It was founded on the ostensible notion of “free trade” improving living standards around the world, but its agreements serve ...
Administrator: Blowback and the Sorrows of Empire: Interview with Chalmers Johnson
Zmag Article, November, 01 2003
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Chalmers Johnson is a professor of political science and has taught at UC Berkeley and UC San Diego. He founded and is currently president of the Japan Policy Research Institute in Cardiff California. ...
Administrator: Bolivia's Gas War Protests
Zmag Article, November, 01 2003
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In September and early October, road blockades, protests, and strikes gained momentum across Bolivia as new sectors entered the movement against the exportation of the country’s gas to the U.S.&nb...
Administrator: Different Name for the Same Old Crap
Zmag Article, November, 01 2003
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Somewhere along the way, I became an associate. Before that, I was a waiter who became a server. Hell, I’ve even been periodically transformed from a barkeep into a mixologist. ...
Administrator: The Blindfold's Eyes: My Journey from Torture to Truth by Dianna Ortiz (Marknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 2002)
Zmag Article, November, 01 2003
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In Sister Dianna Ortiz’s The Blindfold’s Eyes: My Journey from Torture to Truth, an Hispanic nun from the U.S. is kidnapped and tortured by Guatemalan army officers with a U.S....
Administrator: Weapons of Mass Deception by Sheldon Rampton & John Stauber (Tarcher/Putnam, 2003, 215 pp.)
Zmag Article, November, 01 2003
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A number of opinion surveys have recently reported that for the first time since the beginning of the war in Iraq a solid majority of Americans believe the Bush administration either stretched the trut...
Administrator: Fear Was the Spoiler in California Election
Zmag Article, November, 01 2003
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Fear was the spoiler in California’s October 7 gubernatorial election. So-called progressives abandoned their ideals and didn’t vote for Green Party candidate Peter Camejo, the most prominent...
Albert: Albert Replies to Green
Znet Article, October, 30 2003
Michael Albert
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I recently was directed to a serious essay by Joseph Green about participatory economics. I don't know how to engage with him and the essay, but will offer some reactions and hope that they find their way to the relevant audiences, and to Green hi...
Albert: Albert Rejoins Green
Znet Article, October, 30 2003
Michael Albert
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Hi Joe, I wonder where this piece is appearing. I am replying to you, here, but it would be nice if you could convey this to wherever you put your response... I thank you, of course, for you ample interest! There is only so much time I can give ...
Administrator: An Uncertain Peace in Bolivia
Znet Article, October, 25 2003
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Bolivia’s conflicts regarding the proposal to export the nation’s gas to the US through a Chilean port proved to be the spark that fueled a much larger fire of national discontent. Arising from the din of the Gas War were dem...
Administrator: The Philippine Model
Commentary, October, 22 2003
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Addressing a joint session of the Philippine Congress on Saturday, President Bush said to skeptical critics of his Iraq policy, "Some say the culture of the Middle East will not sustain the institutions of democracy. The same doubts were once expr...
Shalom: The Philippine Model
Znet Article, October, 21 2003
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Addressing a joint session of the Philippine Congress on Saturday, President Bush said to skeptical critics of his Iraq policy, "Some say the culture of the Middle East will not sustain the institutions o...
Administrator: Bolivian Government Falling Apart
Znet Article, October, 17 2003
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After a more than a month of intense protests against the exportation of Bolivia's gas to the US through a Chilean port, many protesting sectors are focusing their demands solely on the resignation of their president, Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada. B...
Administrator: Thirty Killled in Gas War
Znet Article, October, 13 2003
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In the past three days, in the city of El Alto, a prolonged confrontation between security forces and protesters resulted in thirty dead over one hundred wounded, the great majority from bullet wounds. Protesters in El Alto have been maintaining t...
Albert: Elena Molinari Interviews Michael Albert
Znet Article, October, 09 2003
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(1) Many mainstream economists and historians claim that there is only one economic system viable in the world in the XXI century, and that is capitalism. Is the system of Participatory economy alternative to both capitalism and socialism? How and...
Albert: Iqtidar Interviews Albert
Znet Article, October, 06 2003
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Iqtidar Interviews Albert
Administrator: Afghanistan: Terror Returns
Znet Article, October, 06 2003
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Afghanistan: Terror Returns
Wilpert: Venezuela in USNews
Znet Article, October, 04 2003
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An article recently appeared in one of the largest U.S. news magazines, an article which will remind well-informed readers of a typical disinformation campaign. The article in question, "Terror Close to Home," by Linda Robinson, appeared in U.S. N...
Administrator: Speech at Labor Notes Conference - September 2003
Znet Article, September, 30 2003
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Speech at Labor Notes Conference - September 2003
