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Solomon: When Online Trading Offers a Reason to Believe
Commentary, November, 09 1999
Norman Solomon
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If you're watching much television these days, you've probably seen a lot of commercials for online investing. Many large brokerage firms are now urging people to play the stock market via the Internet. So, in routine fashion, TV spots dramatize c...
Naiman: Clinton's Debt Relief: Too Generous or Too Stingy
Commentary, November, 06 1999
Robert Naiman
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After President Clinton announced that he supports 100% cancellation of the debts owed by the poorest countries to the United States, some poll data suggested that people thought Clinton was being too generous.
Anderson: Wall St. Pokemon
Graphic, November, 04 1999
Kirk Anderson
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stocks, stock market, wall st., pokemon
Prashad: I'm Part of Today's Unions, Ask Me Why
Commentary, November, 03 1999
Vijay Prashad
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I'm Part of Today's Unions, Ask Me Why
Russell: The Private Health Care Juggernaut Needs Jilting
Commentary, November, 02 1999
Marta Russell
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Presidential hopeful Bill Bradley has placed health care reform on the national agenda as well it should be. However, the Bradley plan does not go far enough to resolve real need and it protects the insurance industry - the very culprit which is u...
Hahnel: Going To Greet The WTO In Seattle
Zmag Article, November, 01 1999
Robin Hahnel
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Going To Greet The WTO In Seattle
Pilger: Hidden Agendas
Zmag Article, November, 01 1999
John Pilger
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Pilger NY: New Press, 1999, pbk. 424 pp. Review by Anthony Arnove John Pilger is perhaps best known in the United States for his documentary Death of a Nation, a stunning expose on the genocide in East Timor. He has wri...
Mokhiber: The Criminal Element
Commentary, November, 01 1999
Russell Mokhiber
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The criminal element has seeped deep into every nook and cranny of American society. Forget about the underworld -- these crooks dominate every aspect of our market, culture, and politics. They cast a deep dark shadow over life in turn of the cent...
Weisbrot: Time to End Debt Slavery
Commentary, October, 31 1999
Mark Weisbrot
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It has become a truism that "there are no easy answers" to the world's most pressing economic and social problems. The phrase is often repeated by academics, policy wonks, and others whose occupation immerses them in the details of real or imagine...
Mokhiber: Keep the Public in Public Health
Commentary, October, 26 1999
Russell Mokhiber
Mokhiber's ZSpace page
The great thing about the American Public Health Association (APHA) is in its name -- it's about public health -- what we as a society do to assure the conditions in which people can be healthy.
Weisbrot: Budget Baloney
Commentary, October, 20 1999
Mark Weisbrot
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How much falsehood and stupidity should the media allow to go unchallenged in public debate? At what point do journalists and the press have an obligation to step in and supply the necessary facts and explanations, so that the public can have a ch...
Guellec: Marketizing HMOs to Latin America
Commentary, October, 02 1999
Dorothy Guellec
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The number of for-profit health care organizations has quadrupled in the pas 17 years, a study by the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation said. For-profit HMO's were 18% of all plans in 1981 but increased to 74% by 1998. The proportion of enrollees ...
Fitz: Genetic Engineering
Zmag Article, October, 01 1999
Don Fitz
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Fitz Monsanto claims that genetic engineering is necessary to feed the worlds growing population. But a growing coalition of environmentalists, farmers, and scientists is exposing this claim as a cover for grabbing control of world agri...
Herman: The "Permanent Interests" Budget
Zmag Article, October, 01 1999
Edward Herman
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S. Herman What James Madison in the Federalist Papers referred to as the "permanent interests" of societyi.e., property owners, or Veblens "substantial citizens"are doing extremely well in the New World Or...
Chomsky: East Timor Questions & Answers
Zmag Article, October, 01 1999
Noam Chomsky
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Stephen R. Shalom, Noam Chomsky, & Michael Albert This issue of Z was being prepared as the situation worsened in East Timor. The following Q&A is intended to give readers background information on the situation and U.S. interests in the area....
Pollack: Nasdaq Japan
Zmag Article, October, 01 1999
Andy Pollack
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Andy Pollack Last week the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), operator of New Yorks Nasdaq exchange, announced it would open a new "electronic stock market" in Tokyo in the last quarter of the year 2000,...
Whitman: The New South 1999
Zmag Article, October, 01 1999
Claudia Whitman
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Claudia Whitman Brian Baldwin took his final steps to Alabamas electric chair on Thursday night, June 17, 1999. Twenty-two years earlier, on arriving on death row at the Holman Unit in Atmore, guards had pushed him in front of this omino...
Petras: NATO in Kosova
Zmag Article, October, 01 1999
James Petras
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James Petras Tony Blair, Madeline Albright, and Javier Solano all returned to Kosova to cheering Albanian crowds, praising NATO and the KLA for their efforts on behalf of peace and democracy. The triumphal returns and euphoric rhetoric...
Russell: George W. Bush Y2000?
Commentary, October, 01 1999
Marta Russell
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In his "new" fight against poverty, Republican presidential candidate George W. Bush says he will issue a call to America's "armies of compassion" to end poverty, hunger, welfare and crime by donating to charity. The political goal of compassionat...
Weisbrot: The Looting of Russia
Commentary, September, 29 1999
Mark Weisbrot
Weisbrot's ZSpace page
What were they thinking? When executives at the Bank of New York saw billions of dollars floating in from the home computer of a Russian businessman with ties to organized crime there, did they really believe that these were just ordinary profits?


