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Zmag Article, July, 01 2000 Stolen lives Project
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By Stolen Lives Project Review by Larry Everest & and the staff of Revolution Books, Berkeley Crime has been dropping for a number of years, but you’d never know it from the capitalist press, which is overflowing with crime co...

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Zmag Article, July, 01 2000 Tom Gallagher
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Karel Bartosek, Jean-Louis Margolin Harvard University Press, 1999 Review by Tom Gallagher Exposes of communism are not new—they date back to the Russian Revolution. Yet, The Black Book of Communism caused a sensation when it...

Zmag Article Black: Cuba and the U.S. in the Age of Elian

Zmag Article, July, 01 2000 Jan knippers Black
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When Elian Gonzalez finally returns to Cuba, there will be a great many Americans wishing he would take along some drunken great uncles. Therein lies the lasting significance of the soap opera. One might have hoped that this lengthy natio...

Zmag Article Berkowitz: The Interfaith Council for Environmental Stewardship

Zmag Article, July, 01 2000 Bill Berkowitz
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A not-so-funny thing happened on the way to this year’s 30th anniversary of Earth Day. A group of Religious Right leaders, scientists, and academics, basking in the dual spotlights of Earth Day and Holy Week, launched the Interfaith Cou...

Zmag Article Bauder: Guilty of Living in Detroit

Zmag Article, July, 01 2000 Harald Bauder
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When a client of a suburban Detroit temp agency demanded “no Detroit residents” in its recruitment profile, the agency’s personnel manager cried foul. She filed a complaint at the regional office of the Equal Employment Opportun...

Commentary Ali: NUCLEAR PERILS IN SOUTH ASIA

Commentary, July, 01 2000 Tariq Ali
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The nuclear games being played by India and Pakistan are both dangerous and obscene. They are dangerous because there are Taliban-type elements within the Pakistan Army (and I'm sure their equivalents in India), who could, in extremis, press the d...

Zmag Article Albert: Class, Race, Sex?!

Zmag Article, July, 01 2000 Michael Albert
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Toward the end of the 1960s, Marxism climbed into the left’s ideological saddle. Left thought elevated economics. Class became paramount. Imperialism became the reigning enemy. Astute activists felt that the plight of the ghettoes, the sex life of...

Commentary Administrator: THE BERLIN TRIBUNAL: MORE SERIOUS THAN THE HAGUE

Commentary, June, 30 2000 Site Administrator
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Last June 3, two tribunals reached opposite conclusions concerning accusations of war crimes brought against NATO for its 1999 bombing campaign against Yugoslavia. In The Hague, Carla Del Ponte, chief prosecutor at the "International Criminal Trib...

Graphic Anderson: Boy Scouts

Graphic, June, 29 2000 Kirk Anderson
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boy scouts, gay rights

Commentary Guellec: A Single Payer System for the U.S.?

Commentary, June, 29 2000 Dorothy Guellec
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Americans are not correctly informed about the Canadian system. This may or may not be a conscious media effort, but I want to set the record straight. Healthcare delivery in Canada reflects the countryÕs principles, in particular universal entitl...

Graphic Deutsch: Objective Coverage

Graphic, June, 27 2000 Barry Deutsch
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Nader, press bias, Buchanan, election

Commentary Russell: Noxious Earnings Restrictions

Commentary, June, 27 2000 Marta Russell
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My friend David just went through what could be termed an noxious and unproductive bout with the Social Security Administration(SSA). David was an understudy for Dustin HoffmanÕs Rainman character (autistic) and works for a large chain electronics...

Commentary Edwards: Mobile Phones, Health Effects and the Problem with Advertisers

Commentary, June, 26 2000 David Edwards
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Jim Mochnacz worked for British Telecom's Cellnet for eight years, initially siting and installing mobile phone transmission masts, before managing installations throughout a third of Britain. At the end of this period, Mochnacz fell seriously ill...

Commentary Bond: Zimbabwe's Election: Who's Right, Who's Left?

Commentary, June, 25 2000 Patrick Bond
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On Saturday and Sunday, Zimbabweans cast their vote for members of parliament in the most important election here since the country's first democratic poll, in 1980. It won't be a truly democratic, free-and-fair poll, thanks to intimidation and th...

Commentary Dowd: Capitalism and Technology: To whose benefit, at what costs?

Commentary, June, 24 2000 Douglas Dowd
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In 1917, as war ripped Europe apart, Einstein wrote to a friend that "Our much-praised technological progress, and civilization gene rally, could be compared to an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal." Subsequently, in showing that E=MC2,...

Commentary Herman: KOSOVO ONE YEAR LATER: FROM SERB REPRESSION TO NATO-SPONSORED ETHNIC CLEANSING

Commentary, June, 23 2000 Edward Herman
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Now a little more than one year after the ending of Nato's 78- day bombing of Yugoslavia and the beginning of Nato control of Kosovo (June 10-12, 1999), the mainstream media have been exceedingly reticent in offering the public serious retrospecti...

Commentary Wise: Membership Has It's Privileges: Thoughts on Acknowledging and Challenging Whiteness

Commentary, June, 22 2000 Tim Wise
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Being white means never having to think about it. James Baldwin said that many years ago, and it's perhaps the truest thing ever said about race in America. That's why I get looks of bewilderment whenever I ask, as I do when lecturing to a mostly ...

Commentary Author: Is globalization dangerous to our health?

Commentary, June, 21 2000 Guest Author
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When asked about globalization, Margaret Thatcher, the former Prime Minister of Great Britain, replied, "There is no alternative." Her reply was shortened to "TINA," which some people think is a newly discovered law of nature. Yet, public resistan...

Graphic Anderson: Reality Television

Graphic, June, 20 2000 Kirk Anderson
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reality television, reality tv, reality-based programming, survivor

Commentary Rebick: Pitch battle is at doors of Ontario legislature

Commentary, June, 20 2000 Judy Rebick
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The Ontario Coalition against Poverty wanted to be heard. Ever since right-wing Ontario Premier Mike Harris was elected, the organization has tried everything to get the government to pay attention to the desperate straits facing poor and homeles...

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