| Back | Search Results - New Search |
Chomsky: In Retrospect
Zmag Article, May, 01 2000
Noam Chomsky
Chomsky's ZSpace page
The absurdity of the principle of retrospective justification is, surely, recognized at some level. Accordingly, many attempts to justify the NATO bombing take a different tack. One typical version is that “Serbia assaulted ...
Chomsky: Colombia Ð Part Two of Two
Commentary, April, 25 2000
Noam Chomsky
Chomsky's ZSpace page
The sharp increase in arms shipped to Colombia is officially justified in terms of the "drug war," a claim taken seriously by few competent analysts, even apart from the instructive historical pattern, barely sampled here. As many have observed, t...
Chomsky: Colombia – Part Two of Two
Commentary, April, 25 2000
Noam Chomsky
Chomsky's ZSpace page
The sharp increase in arms shipped to Colombia is officially justified in terms of the "drug war," a claim taken seriously by few competent analysts, even apart from the instructive historical pattern, barely sampled here. As many have observed, t...
Chomsky: Colombia Ð Part One of Two
Commentary, April, 24 2000
Noam Chomsky
Chomsky's ZSpace page
In 1999, Colombia became the leading recipient of US military and police assistance, replacing Turkey (Israel and Egypt are in a separate category). The figure is scheduled to increase sharply for the next two years. Through the 1990s, Colombia ha...
Chomsky: Colombia – Part One of Two
Commentary, April, 24 2000
Noam Chomsky
Chomsky's ZSpace page
In 1999, Colombia became the leading recipient of US military and police assistance, replacing Turkey (Israel and Egypt are in a separate category). The figure is scheduled to increase sharply for the next two years. Through the 1990s, Colombia ha...
Peters: The DC Demos
Commentary, April, 18 2000
Cynthia Peters
Peters's ZSpace page
Note: I attended the protests on Sunday and Monday as an individual Òon the fly.Ó The impressions offered here are just that. They are based on my personal viewpoint during the events, and do not include extensive background information. Notes on ...
Sargent: 37.7 Seconds, Part V
Zmag Article, April, 01 2000
Lydia Sargent
Sargent's ZSpace page
I began this series by saying that there was a time when “reading feminism” was a joyful, liberating journey. That was pre-1980. Then it became a depressing experience, a subject for satire or/and outrage as inanities, ...
Chomsky: In Retrospect
Zmag Article, April, 01 2000
Noam Chomsky
Chomsky's ZSpace page
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...
Cagan: The War Is Over...The Struggle Continues
Commentary, March, 31 2000
Leslie Cagan
Cagan's ZSpace page
Hard to believe it, but April 30th will be the 25th anniversary of the end of the war in Vietnam!!
Peters: The Teenage Liberation Handbook
Commentary, March, 20 2000
Cynthia Peters
Peters's ZSpace page
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...
Zinn: Sender Garlin
Commentary, March, 09 2000
Howard Zinn
Zinn's ZSpace page
As the twentieth century came to an end last December, an extraordinary man, whose life spanned the century, died at the age of ninety-seven. His name was Sender Garlin.
Shalom: The Diallo Case
Commentary, March, 04 2000
Stephen1 Shalom
Shalom's ZSpace page
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...
Sargent: 37.7 Seconds, Part IV
Zmag Article, March, 01 2000
Lydia Sargent
Sargent's ZSpace page
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...
Peters: Reproduction and Sexuality 101
Commentary, March, 01 2000
Cynthia Peters
Peters's ZSpace page
I live in a progressive diverse neighborhood where pre-schools stock copies of "Heather Has Two Mommies," but even where this love-makes-a-family consciousness has a strong voice, it does not seem to translate into how we talk to our kids about se...
Shalom: Green Lights and Red Herrings
Commentary, February, 11 2000
Stephen1 Shalom
Shalom's ZSpace page
In December 1975, after receiving a green light from U.S. President Gerald and Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, Indonesian President Suharto launched an invasion of East Timor. The weapons for the attack came from the United States. "Of course ...
Peters: Progressive Causes Provide Marketing Opportunities
Commentary, February, 07 2000
Cynthia Peters
Peters's ZSpace page
What happens when corporations take on progressive social and political issues? We've all had the opportunity to roll our eyes at the marketers who co-opt feminist principles in order to sell their products. "Take Control" hair gel and "Stay Free...
Sargent: Reading "feminism" and glimpses into the "female brain"
Zmag Article, February, 01 2000
Lydia Sargent
Sargent's ZSpace page
In Parts I and II of this series about reading “feminism” I examined the claims in Just Like A Woman by Dianne Hales. I left off with an introduction to The First Sex by Helen Fisher whose theme is that through deep evolutionary hi...
Cagan: Life After Y2K
Commentary, January, 27 2000
Leslie Cagan
Cagan's ZSpace page
The nineties opened with a bang. In August, 1990 the Iraqis invaded Kuwait and it was immediately clear that George Bush would do everything in his formidable presidential power to go to war.
Chomsky: Four from the Forums
Commentary, January, 19 2000
Noam Chomsky
Chomsky's ZSpace page
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...
Shalom: Humanitarian Intervention
Commentary, January, 18 2000
Stephen1 Shalom
Shalom's ZSpace page
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...
