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Kovel: End Times In Copenhagen
Znet Article, November, 19 2009
Joel Kovel
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It’s hard to overstate the importance of the upcoming December meetings at Copenhagen, Denmark, set up by the UN for the purpose of renegotiating the climate protocols set forth in Kyoto, in 1997 and due to expire in 2012. These latter were gree...
Kovel: Naomi Klein and Durban
Znet Article, September, 09 2009
Joel Kovel
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“Minority Death Match,†Naomi Klein’s feature story in the September Harper’s, is about the two ill-fated United Nations-sponsored Durban conferences on racism—in 2001 at the South African city, and in Geneva earlier this year—and what...
Kovel: Statement Regarding Termination By Bard College
Znet Article, February, 23 2009
Joel Kovel
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Statement Of Joel Kovel Regarding His Termination By Bard College
Kovel: Green Follies
Znet Article, June, 24 2004
Joel Kovel
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A shocking scenario is unfolding before our eyes which, if carried through, will constitute the greatest mistake made by the left in many years. A small but very determined fraction of the Green Party is prepared to package Ralph Nader with Peter ...
Kovel: On left anti-semitism and the special status of Israel
Znet Article, May, 09 2003
Joel Kovel
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The tangled question of anti-Semitism within the United States Left was highlighted this past February in a heated controversy between Rabbi Michael Lerner, editor and founder of Tikkun, and the Marxist-Leninist anti-war group, A.N.S.W.E.R (Act No...
Kovel: Global Warming And Realo-Fundi Greens
Zmag Article, February, 01 2001
Joel Kovel
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The breakdown last November 25 of the Hague talks on ratifying the 1997 Kyoto protocols on global warming was bad news indeed. But it would have been worse had the U.S. gotten its way. Fortunately, Europe, chiefly France, Scandinavia, and Germany,...
Kovel: So You Want To Be A Senator?
Zmag Article, January, 01 1999
Joel Kovel
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When I was asked by the Green Party to run for Al D'Amato's senate seat in New York, I faced a starkly unfavorable prospect. The winner-take-all election system is designed to keep small parties out, in contrast to the proportional representation ...
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...
Kovel: Cuba & South Africa
Zmag Article, June, 01 1997
Joel Kovel
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Joel Kovel  The linkage between Castro’s Cuba and Mandela’s South Africa runs deep. Cuban slave society was less efficient in demolishing ties to Africa than its North American counterpart, allowing Cuba to retain ...
