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Chomsky: Voting Patterns and Abstentions
Zmag Article, February, 01 2001
Noam Chomsky
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In commenting on the November 2000 elections (Z January), I only hinted at important considerations that lend further insight into the functioning of contemporary democracy: patterns of voting and abstention. Useful information on these matt...
Peters: Trivializing Teens
Commentary, January, 27 2001
Cynthia Peters
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The good news is: It takes a constant bombardment of advertising, articles, and advice to convince teens that they ARE their skin-exfoliators, hair de-frizzers, and lip moisturizers.
Daniels: A United Front To Mobilize Millions For Democracy on January 20
Zmag Article, January, 01 2001
Ron Daniels
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A United Front To Mobilize Millions For Democracy on January 20
Chomsky: Elections 2000
Zmag Article, January, 01 2001
Noam Chomsky
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Elections 2000
Chomsky: Escaping Orthodoxies
Commentary, December, 31 2000
Noam Chomsky
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DB: Talk in concrete ways about liberating the mind from orthodoxies. Take for example, humanitarian intervention.
Chomsky: Overcoming Orthodoxies
Commentary, December, 16 2000
Noam Chomsky
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David Barsamian: I want to come back to the idea of what individuals can do in overcoming orthodoxies. Steve Biko, the South African activist who was murdered by the apartheid regime while he was in custody, once said, The most powerful weapon in ...
Zinn: TENNIS ON THE TITANIC
Commentary, December, 16 2000
Howard Zinn
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As the prize of the presidency lurched wildly back and forth in the last days of the year, with the entire nation hypnotized by the spectacle, I had a vision. I saw the Titanic churning through the waters of the North Atlantic toward an iceberg lo...
Podur: Mexico's New President Vicente Fox and the Zapatistas
Commentary, December, 12 2000
Justin Podur
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Mexico's New President Vicente Fox and the Zapatistas
Peters: On Breakfast, Kids and Common Sense
Commentary, December, 11 2000
Cynthia Peters
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Ivy League institutions, major hospitals, and corporate money teamed up recently to make the startling revelation: kids should eat breakfast. You may be forgiven for thinking that you already knew eating in the morning was a good idea for kids, a...
Chomsky: Propaganda and Indoctrination
Commentary, December, 10 2000
Noam Chomsky
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This is the first of three Chomsky Commentaries I will send this month...each answers one or more queries from David Barsamian (DB) and all are excerpted from a still to be published interview... DB: Lets talk about a theme that we return to peri...
Peters: Children's Museums A Rant
Commentary, November, 25 2000
Cynthia Peters
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Question: What do you get when you cross "generous funding" from bloated financial institutions with a culture that picks on parents? Answer: Children's Museums.
Sargent: 37.7 Seconds, Part IX
Zmag Article, November, 01 2000
Lydia Sargent
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By Lydia Sargent I have been writing in this column for the last 10 months about the experience of reading current “feminist” sociobiology and evolutionary psychology where the hot topic is the differences that have been discove...
Chomsky: Al-Aqsa Intifida
Commentary, October, 26 2000
Noam Chomsky
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After three weeks of virtual war in the Israeli occupied territories, Prime Minister Ehud Barak announced a new plan to determine the final status of the region. During these weeks, over 100 Palestinians were killed, including 30 children, often b...
Chomsky: Chomsky Comments on Milosevic Ouster, etc.
Commentary, October, 12 2000
Noam Chomsky
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A number of people in the ZNet forum system and elsewhere have raised questions about the prominent role they see assigned to US-NATO in the flood of commentary on recent events in Yugoslavia, "gloating over the victory of the opposition in Yugosl...
Shalom: Turmoil in Palestine: The Basic Context
Commentary, October, 10 2000
Stephen1 Shalom
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As the occupied Palestinian territories suffer their worst paroxysm of violence in years, with the casualties, as always, overwhelmingly Palestinian, the mainstream media, also as always, focus on peripheral questions, offer misleading answers, an...
Chomsky: none
Zmag Article, October, 01 2000
Noam Chomsky
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Common Courage Press Review by Michael Hardesty For a couple of months in the spring and summer of 1999 many western liberals thought they were reliving the glorious days of World War II—the good war—as the social democrats...
Zinn: A CAMPAIGN WITHOUT CLASS
Commentary, September, 30 2000
Howard Zinn
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There came a rare amusing moment in this election campaign when George Bush (who has raised $150 million or thereabouts, anyhow, for his campaign) accused Al Gore (who has only raised $140 million or thereabouts, anyway, for his campaign) of appea...
Chomsky: Summits
Commentary, September, 17 2000
Noam Chomsky
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The United Nations Summit in New York in September was the second major gathering of government leaders marking the millennium. The first was the South Summit in Havana in April. The UN Summit received considerable national publicity, while the So...
Peters: Same-Sex Domestic Partnership Benefits Represent a Limited Gain
Commentary, August, 25 2000
Cynthia Peters
Peters's ZSpace page
Since when did we imagine that the countryÕs top automakers, Disney Corporation, AT&T, Nike, and the Gap had the interests of gays and lesbians in mind?
Cagan: Toys, the Death Penalty and the Gay Movement
Commentary, August, 24 2000
Leslie Cagan
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In case you missed it, the Week in Review section of the 7/23/00 Sunday New York Times ran a most incredible piece. Instead of summarizing from it, let me just quote a few choice sentences:"Never Say Die, Just Execute.
