| Back | Search Results - New Search |
Burns: The Marc Rich Hearings
Zmag Article, May, 01 2001
Margie Burns
Burns's ZSpace page
The Marc Rich Hearings
Group: May Day!
Graphic, April, 30 2001
Contagion Media Group
Group's ZSpace page
may day, yugoslavia, kosovo, iraq
Herman: THE MEDIA AT THE BARRICADES IN SUPPORT OF "FREE TRADE"
Commentary, April, 30 2001
Edward Herman
Herman's ZSpace page
Back at the time of the struggle over the North American Free Trade Agreement (Nafta) in 1993, the mainstream media lined up in solid phalanx in its support, and Meg Greenfield, opinion editor of the Washington Post explained the one-sidedness of ...
Pilger: Academia is silent on imperialism, as German universities were during the rise of the Nazis
Commentary, April, 29 2001
John Pilger
Pilger's ZSpace page
The other day, I attended a conference at the University of Sussex on the "new imperialism". What was extraordinary was that it took place at all. Julian Saurin, who teaches in the school of African and Asian studies at Sussex, said that, in ten y...
Naini: Profits Over People: The FTAA’s Negative Impacts on the People of the Western Hemisphere
Commentary, April, 29 2001
Ali Naini
Recently, the leaders of thirty-four nations in the Americas, representing every country except Cuba, gathered to discuss the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA), a proposed trade agreement encompassing 800 million people and eleven trillion do...
Author: Profits Over People: The FTAAÕs Negative Impacts on the People of the Western Hemisphere
Commentary, April, 29 2001
Guest Author
Author's ZSpace page
Recently, the leaders of thirty-four nations in the Americas, representing every country except Cuba, gathered to discuss the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA), a proposed trade agreement encompassing 800 million people and eleven trillion do...
Naiman: Debt Cancellation, Not Corporate Trade Deals, Would Help the Poor
Commentary, April, 28 2001
Robert Naiman
Naiman's ZSpace page
The verbal flubs of President Bush in Quebec City were widely reported to the amusement of the educated. He referred to the language of Mexico (Spanish) as "Mexican" and called the Canadian leader "amigo" (rather than using the French "ami.")
Glick: On Winning Hearts and Minds
Commentary, April, 28 2001
Ted Glick
Glick's ZSpace page
A year ago, on April 17th, 2000, I wrote a Future Hope column which likened both the forms of action and the relative organizational coherence of the April 16th actions in D.C. against the IMF/World Bank to a regular army without violent weapons, ...
Podur: Invisible Struggles in Colombia
Commentary, April, 27 2001
Justin Podur
Podur's ZSpace page
If you had the chance to see 'Traffic', you know the War on Drugs is a sham. There's a good chance you know that its domestic effects are to imprison thousands and thousands of non-violent offenders who aren't dangerous, cut them off from their fa...
Bohmer: Cuba Today
Commentary, April, 26 2001
Peter Bohmer
Bohmer's ZSpace page
Forty years ago on April 16th , 2001, in the Vedado section of Havana, Fidel Castro announced to the Cuban people and beyond that the Cuban revolution had become a socialist revolution. On April 16th, 2001 in the same place, Fidel reaffirmed CubaÕ...
Prashad: Hindutva For a Few Dollars a Day
Commentary, April, 25 2001
Vijay Prashad
Prashad's ZSpace page
Bangru Laxman asks the intrepid tehelka.com journalists to bring him $30,000 to their next meeting. He has already taken Rs. 1 lakh. "You can give dollars," said the President of the BJP. "You talk to us directly. We normally turn to [National Sec...
Peters: Purchasing for your Poodle: Consumerism Unleashed
Commentary, April, 24 2001
Cynthia Peters
Peters's ZSpace page
A refugee from the Sudan is in a grocery store in Fargo, North Dakota. Orphaned by war, traumatized by loss and violence, and having survived most his life on minimal rations, this young man, Peter, is understandably amazed by the endless of aisle...
Anderson: FTAA violence
Graphic, April, 23 2001
Kirk Anderson
Anderson's ZSpace page
FTAA, free trade, globalization, protest, media
Mokhiber: Stop the Torture Trade
Commentary, April, 23 2001
Russell Mokhiber
Mokhiber's ZSpace page
Torture predates the development of the corporation. But corporations are entangled in the modern-day commerce in devices of torture. In a new report, Amnesty International shines a spotlight on the makers of law enforcement equipment and how the...
Anderson: FTAA regulatory walls
Graphic, April, 22 2001
Kirk Anderson
Anderson's ZSpace page
FTAA, regulation
Anderson: Free Trade Area of America
Graphic, April, 22 2001
Kirk Anderson
Anderson's ZSpace page
ftaa, globalization, free trade
Weisbrot: Why We Need Free Trade for Life-Saving Medicines
Commentary, April, 22 2001
Mark Weisbrot
Weisbrot's ZSpace page
The story of the decade, and perhaps the century, has finally made it to the front pages: millions of people who could be saved are dying from AIDS. The reason for their unnecessary, premature, and often agonizing deaths is now becoming clear: it ...
Weiss: Colombia's Paramilitary
Znet Article, April, 22 2001
Adam Weiss
Weiss's ZSpace page
The paramilitaries of Colombia are among the most brutal human rights violators in the world today. They are waging a war against the civilian population of Colombia, taking on the "dirty war" aspects of a counterinsurgency campaign that the Colo...
Guellec: The Abandonment of the patient In profit-driven health care
Commentary, April, 21 2001
Dorothy Guellec
Guellec's ZSpace page
Profit-driven healthcare is what we have today, but the end may be in sight, at least the former JAMA Editor George D. Lundberg (Journal of the American Medical Association) thinks so. In his explosive new book ÒSevered Trust: Why American Medicin...
Deutsch: Censorship Ain't Even Necessary
Graphic, April, 20 2001
Barry Deutsch
Deutsch's ZSpace page
FTAA, media, censorship
