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Zmag Article Administrator: Zapatista Report

Zmag Article, December, 01 1999 Site Administrator
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Mercedes Osun, translated by Irlandesa The causes that led to the Zapatista uprising—poverty, hunger, diseases, a lack of services, injustice and racism against the indigenous communities—have not, in any way, been resolved. The econ...

Commentary Administrator: A Short Guide to the WTO

Commentary, November, 24 1999 Site Administrator
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The World Trade Organization (WTO) is coming to Seattle at the end of November and tens of thousands of labor, environmental, and progressive activists are organizing to give them a hot reception.

Commentary Albert: The WTO and Mumia Abu Jamal

Commentary, October, 18 1999 Michael Albert
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The World Trade Organization treats working people in countries throughout the world as assets to manipulate in pursuit of private corporate profit. From Guatemala to South Africa and from Thailand to the South Bronx, this causes impoverishment, i...

Commentary Shalom: Political Correctness and the Desert Storm Law

Commentary, October, 13 1999 Stephen1 Shalom
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Conservative pundits and their frequent liberal allies have been complaining for years about "Political Correctness" -- the intrusion of left-wing ideology into the academy, supposedly subverting academic standards.

Zmag Article Albert: Mother Jones, Todd Gitlin, & Kosovo

Zmag Article, October, 01 1999 Michael Albert
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Michael Albert Many people were concerned during the Kosovo conflict that crimes against the Albanian Kosovars were so horrific that however painful it might be to undertake, NATO intervention was warranted. Such folks felt that genocide ...

Commentary Administrator: Nazi Nostalgia in Croatia

Commentary, September, 26 1999 Site Administrator
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When I visited Croatia three years ago, the book most prominently displayed in the leading bookstores of the capital city Zagreb was a new edition of the notorious anti-Semitic classic, "The Protocols of the Elders of Zion".

Commentary Administrator: International Labor Solidarity Puts Pressure on Indonesia

Commentary, September, 17 1999 Site Administrator
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In contrast to organized labor's division over what should be done about the Kosovo crisis, the current mayhem and mass killing in East Timor has galvanized a powerful and unified response from unions internationally. Organized labor, and most esp...

Commentary Shalom: The State of the World

Commentary, September, 14 1999 Stephen1 Shalom
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This summer, the United Nations Development Programme issued its annual Human Development Report. The document is a stinging indictment of globalization and its horrific impact on the well-being of so many of the world's people.

Commentary Administrator: Hitler Analogies Betray Past and Present

Commentary, August, 28 1999 Site Administrator
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The war was launched to protect an oppressed ethnic minority, to punish a massacre, and to secure a New World Order. Which war was that? Why, Hitler's war of course, which came to be known as World War II.

Commentary Shalom: Another Attack on Affirmative Action

Commentary, August, 14 1999 Stephen1 Shalom
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In the present dreary political climate, another court decision against affirmative action might not warrant special comment. But a ruling last month by a Federal District judge in Savannah, Georgia, is worth considering if only because it illustr...

Commentary Albert: Prison Policy

Commentary, August, 10 1999 Michael Albert
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About 25 years ago I was at a dinner party with a bunch of leftist economics faculty and grad students, and I posed a hypothetical question to engender some dinner debate. If you had only two choices, I asked, would you open all prison doors and l...

Commentary Administrator: Labor Law and the Heavy Hand of the State

Commentary, July, 23 1999 Site Administrator
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There is one remarkable exception to the deregulatory trend in the United States. While politicians happily hack away at regulation, protective legislation, standards and governmental's ability to action on behalf of the whole community, one organ...

Commentary Albert: Pacifica, Pacifica!

Commentary, June, 23 1999 Michael Albert
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The current crisis at Pacifica was unleashed with recent firings of prominent and appreciated employees leading to irate listeners and employees demonstrating their opposition widely and militantly. Any progressive alternative institution has to u...

Commentary Shalom: Lessons -- and Hope -- from Kerala

Commentary, June, 21 1999 Stephen1 Shalom
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Are there alternatives to the dominant economic model that consigns increasing numbers of people to lives of misery? One such alternative is offered by the state of Kerala in southern India which has been the site of fascinating social experimenta...

Commentary Administrator: The Right to Organize - A Week of Action

Commentary, June, 06 1999 Site Administrator
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For seven days in June, from the 19th to the 25th, unions and their allies all over the US will be organizing hearings and forums, rallies and actions aimed at drawing public attention to the dismal state of labor rights, especially the most funda...

Commentary Administrator: REFUGEES

Commentary, June, 03 1999 Site Administrator
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Ethnic Albanians are reportedly unique in one respect: they do not run away from bombing. The small province of Kosovo has been turned into a proving ground for advanced U.S. weaponry, but the Albanian inhabitants would not think of taking the kid...

Zmag Article Albert: Lend Me Your Ear

Zmag Article, June, 01 1999 Michael Albert
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Lend Me Your Ear

Commentary Shalom: The Milosevic Indictment

Commentary, May, 29 1999 Stephen1 Shalom
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Following World War II, a war crimes tribunal was held in Tokyo to try Japanese political and military leaders. There is no doubt that the defendants were responsible for appalling atrocities, but, as the Indian judge on the tribunal wrote in his ...

Commentary Administrator: The Milosevic Indictment

Commentary, May, 29 1999 Site Administrator
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Following World War II, a war crimes tribunal was held in Tokyo to try Japanese political and military leaders.

Commentary Administrator: The Restive Allies

Commentary, May, 24 1999 Site Administrator
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The florid and reckless war rhetoric of British Prime Minister Tony Blair and his Foreign Secretary Robin Cook is the stuff British tabloids are made of.

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