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Cromwell: FALLOUT FROM THE CLIMATE TALKS
Commentary, December, 08 2000
David Cromwell
Cromwell's ZSpace page
The planet is burning, while politicians fiddle the books. If yet more proof was needed that capitalist society is rotten to the core, then just look to the recently collapsed climate talks in The Hague. No agreements, paltry or otherwise. Just bi...
Cohen: Toxic Waste As Strategy, Part 2
Zmag Article, December, 01 2000
Mitchel Cohen
Cohen's ZSpace page
The trade in toxic waste is more than a lucrative industry; it is also a central strategy of the New World Order, an intentional way of enclosing lands and resources—the very air we breathe—previously held in common and setting up trade in “pollut...
Edwards: THE CLIMATE KILLERS
Commentary, November, 29 2000
David Edwards
Edwards's ZSpace page
An anonymous US official once advised, "We must counter, both in the UN and within the framework of the North-South dialogue, any discussion of global problems which questions the validity of the free market and of free enterprise in the countries...
Anderson: Gas Emissions
Graphic, November, 26 2000
Kirk Anderson
Anderson's ZSpace page
kyoto, global warming, climate change
Deutsch: America Wows the International Environmental Commu
Graphic, November, 21 2000
Barry Deutsch
Deutsch's ZSpace page
kyoto, kyoto protocal, hague, the hague, environmentalism, environment
Monbiot: Reality Re-Asserts ItselfT
Commentary, November, 14 2000
George Monbiot
Monbiot's ZSpace page
Just as floods and tornadoes were laying waste to our homes, we earthlings watched the launch of an exciting new venture. Three cosmonauts were blasted into orbit, to pioneer the permanent inhabitation of space. Humanity is already making plans fo...
Cohen: Toxic Wastes and the New World Order, Part 1
Zmag Article, November, 01 2000
Mitchel Cohen
Cohen's ZSpace page
Twelve years ago, the soon-to-be infamous barge, the Khian Sea, left the territorial waters of the United States and began circling the oceans in search of a country willing to accept its cargo: 14,000 tons of toxic incinerator ash. Fir...
Berkowitz: Farm Bureau Is a Front
Zmag Article, November, 01 2000
Bill Berkowitz
Berkowitz's ZSpace page
When singer/songwriter Willie Nelson took the stage in mid-September in Bristow, Virginia, kicking off the 15th annual Farm Aid concert, he once again called the nation’s attention to the desperate plight of America’s small family ...
Cromwell: Silent Democracy
Commentary, October, 24 2000
David Cromwell
Cromwell's ZSpace page
"It's sociologically interesting, though scary", said the actor Anthony Sher in a recent interview, "that you can be inside an evil system and be somehow unaware of it." South African by birth, Sher was talking about the former system of apartheid...
Cromwell: Silent Democracy
Commentary, October, 24 2000
David Cromwell
Cromwell's ZSpace page
"It's sociologically interesting, though scary", said the actor Anthony Sher in a recent interview, "that you can be inside an evil system and be somehow unaware of it." South African by birth, Sher was talking about the former system of apartheid...
Cromwell: Supping with the devil
Commentary, October, 07 2000
David Cromwell
Cromwell's ZSpace page
When Chris Tuppen, a senior manager with British Telecom, was granted space a couple of years ago in a green pressure groupÕs magazine, he made a plea for business and the green movement to "settle their differences" and "work together". But what ...
Landau: Pinochet naked -- at last!
Commentary, September, 09 2000
Saul Landau
Landau's ZSpace page
Picture Homer Simpson's boss, naked, a scrawny figure bent with age, covering his genitals with his general's hat. The caption: "You've stripped me, but don't take my hat!" Augusto Pinochet, former President, Generalissimo, King of the world, now ...
Mokhiber: Toast
Commentary, September, 04 2000
Russell Mokhiber
Mokhiber's ZSpace page
About six years ago, a friend gave us a toaster. It was a present. The friend bought the toaster from Williams-Sonoma, the San Francisco-based kitchen store, with outlets in upscale malls throughout the United States.
Edwards: THIS SPORTING LIE: THE 'GREEN' OLYMPICS
Commentary, September, 01 2000
David Edwards
Edwards's ZSpace page
A month before the great 'Green Games' in Sydney were due to open, a group of international scientists arrived at the North Pole to find, not ice, but a stretch of open water at least one mile wide - the first time the North Pole has not been ice-...
Author: Local Energy, Local Democracy
Commentary, August, 15 2000
Guest Author
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In their 1996 book "Who Owns the Sun?", solar energy campaigners Daniel Berman and John O'Connor rightly declared that "democracy is a false promise if it does not include the power to steer the energy economy". It's a crucial point that not even ...
Anderson: Genetics protest
Graphic, July, 21 2000
Kirk Anderson
Anderson's ZSpace page
genetics, bioengineering, gene
Cunningham: DISCONTENT ON THE MOON
Commentary, July, 02 2000
Philip Cunningham
Cunningham's ZSpace page
The Moon river is the lifeline of Isan, bringing sustenance and irrigation to the poorest and most populous part of Thailand. The World Bank identified the Moon, the greatest of the Mekong's tributaries, as a suitable location for a giant dam, and...
Sapir: Dismembering PACE
Zmag Article, July, 01 2000
Mark Sapir
Sapir's ZSpace page
In October 1999 Tom Bodenheimer, a progressive San Francisco community physician published a review article in the New England Journal of Medicine, presenting an historical overview of the Program of All-inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE)...
