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Cook: From Welfare to Profit Shares
Zmag Article, September, 01 1997
Christopher Cook
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Christopher Cook The four qualifying words in President Clinton’s pledge to end welfare—"as we know it"—are proving to be the ultimate twist of the dagger in the heart of public assistance...
Gaal: A Tale of Fear and Greed
Zmag Article, September, 01 1997
Chris Gaal
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A Tale of Fear and Greed
Giroux: Disney, Southern Baptists, & Children's Culture
Zmag Article, September, 01 1997
Henry a. Giroux
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Henry A. Giroux The Southern Baptist Convention in June generated a lot of media attention when it called for a boycott of the Disney Company for promoting "immoral ideologies such as homose...
Kovel: Bad News for Fast Food: What's wrong with McDonald's?
Zmag Article, September, 01 1997
Joel Kovel
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In 1990, London Greenpeace circulated a six-page leaflet entitled "What’s Wrong With McDonald’s? Everything they don’t want you to know." The ever-vigilant fast-food merchant did what it routinely does in such instance...
Shalom: New Jersey Jokes
Zmag Article, July, 01 1997
Stephen Shalom
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R. Shalom Nineteen ninety-seven is an off-year for mainstream electoral politics in the United States—there are no House or Senate races and only two states are holding gubernatorial contests—so con...
Herman: The Economics of the Rich
Zmag Article, July, 01 1997
Edward Herman
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S. Herman Back in 1849, the British economist Nassau Senior chided those defending trade unions and minimum wage regulations for expounding an "economics of the poor." The idea that he and his estab...
Rapping: The "Ellen" Event
Zmag Article, July, 01 1997
Elayne Rapping
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Rapping When Gil Scott-Heron famously sang, back in the 1960s, that "the revolution [would] not be televised," we all knew what he was talking about. Yet, of all the now legendary "errors" we o...
Petras: El Salvador Elections
Zmag Article, July, 01 1997
James Petras
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Petras The signing of a peace accord between the guerrilla commanders and the right-wing government in 1992 promised a period of freedom, prosperity, and peace. Overseas donors would contribute funds for reco...
Older: Toxic Clean
Zmag Article, July, 01 1997
Amber Older
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Fifty miles southwest of Salt Lake City, in the heart of Tooele (pronounced too-ELL-ah) County, the Tooele Chemical Agent Disposal Facility (TOCDF) has started to burn 42 percent of the nation’s chemical st...
Staff: Editorial: The Personal Is Political?!
Zmag Article, July, 01 1997
Z Staff
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political and social setting. They feel personal, and their details are personal, but their broad texture and character, and especially the limits within which these evolve, are largely systemic. In this sense, the contribution of t...
Hart: Deregulation and Nuclear Power
Zmag Article, July, 01 1997
Kathleen Hart
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Deregulation of the U.S. electricity industry is moving forward quickly, quietly, and with little public debate about its potential dangers—including the increased risk of a nuclear power plant accident. Ca...
Gibson: In Memory: Paulo Freire
Zmag Article, July, 01 1997
Rich Gibson
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Gibson Paulo Freire, the radical Brazilian "Vagabond of the Obvious" and the most widely known educator in the world, died on May 2, 1997 in Sao Paulo, Brazil. He was 75. Freire drew on humanis...
Fairchild: Low-Power Radio
Zmag Article, July, 01 1997
Charles Fairchild
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Fairchild As part of his arguments submitted to the FCC regarding the possibility of low-power radio in the U.S., Free Radio Berkeley founder Stephen Dunifer suggested that low-power broadcasting in Canada could ...
Archer: Export, Eh?
Zmag Article, July, 01 1997
Simon Archer
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Archer In January the Canadian Trade Minister, Art Eggleton, came down with competitive advantage flu and mused that the state should not support or protect Canadian culture, but instead "free" it for ex...
Administrator: CrossCurrents: Imagine A Country
Zmag Article, July, 01 1997
Site Administrator
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Holly Sklar Imagine a country where one out of four children is born into poverty, and wealth is being redistributed upward. Since the 1970s, the top 1 percent of families have doubled their share of the nation...
Parenti: Rural Prison as Colonial Master
Zmag Article, June, 01 1997
Christian Parenti
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Christian Parenti In 1964 a tsunami swept over Crescent City, California completely destroying the downtown. Only nine people died, but the town—nestled just below the Oregon border—never recovered. It w...
Herman: Word Tricks & Propaganda
Zmag Article, June, 01 1997
Edward Herman
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Edward S. Herman The mainstream media carry out their propaganda service on behalf of the corporate and political establishment in many ways: by choice of topics addressed (government rather than corporate abuses,...
Johnson: Human Rights Watch World Report 1997: Events Of 1996
Zmag Article, June, 01 1997
Tom Johnson
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In January 1997, the international human rights organization, Human Rights Watch, released its seventh annual report on the worldwide condition of human rights. The report, overall, finds human rights’ cond...
James: Haiti: The Roof Is Leaking
Zmag Article, June, 01 1997
Clara James
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Clara James On April 6, Haiti held elections to fill one-third of the Senate seats and positions on over 500 communal and town councils. The only problem was, most Haitians did not go to the polls. Only about 5 pe...
