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Administrator: Different Name for the Same Old Crap
Zmag Article, November, 01 2003
Site Administrator
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Somewhere along the way, I became an associate. Before that, I was a waiter who became a server. Hell, I’ve even been periodically transformed from a barkeep into a mixologist. ...
Herman: The NYT's Thomas Friedman: The Geraldo Rivera of the NYT
Zmag Article, November, 01 2003
Edward Herman
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The principal diplomatic correspondents for the New York Times, from Cyrus Sulzberger through Flora Lewis, James Reston, and Leslie Gelb to Thomas Friedman, have always and necessarily b...
Siu hin: Report from Baghdad: Destruction everywhere
Zmag Article, November, 01 2003
Lee Siu hin
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Everywhere in Iraq, you can see the destruction from the U.S.-UK invasions. Half of the city’s utilities, destroyed in the 1991 Gulf War and never rebuilt because of sanctions, are now newly destr...
Martinez: Looking for Color in the Anti-War Movement
Zmag Article, November, 01 2003
Elizabeth Martinez
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As a speaker at a San Francisco anti-war rally last fall, I tried to emphasize the importance of seeing the threatened war on Iraq in terms of this country’s racism here and around the world. In that spirit, I ended my comments with a chant by s...
Pandya: Affordable Housing in Crisis
Zmag Article, November, 01 2003
Chhandasi Pandya
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In September, as Bush administration officials and economists touted the impending rebound in the U.S. economy, thanks in large part to the strength of the country’s housing market, the Census ...
Administrator: The Blindfold's Eyes: My Journey from Torture to Truth by Dianna Ortiz (Marknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 2002)
Zmag Article, November, 01 2003
Site Administrator
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In Sister Dianna Ortiz’s The Blindfold’s Eyes: My Journey from Torture to Truth, an Hispanic nun from the U.S. is kidnapped and tortured by Guatemalan army officers with a U.S....
Administrator: Weapons of Mass Deception by Sheldon Rampton & John Stauber (Tarcher/Putnam, 2003, 215 pp.)
Zmag Article, November, 01 2003
Site Administrator
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A number of opinion surveys have recently reported that for the first time since the beginning of the war in Iraq a solid majority of Americans believe the Bush administration either stretched the trut...
Gallagher: Press Box Red: The Story of Lester Rodney, the Communist Who Helped Break the Color Line in American Sports by Irwin Silber (Temple University Press: Philadelphia, 2003)
Zmag Article, November, 01 2003
Tom Gallagher
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I’ve been told that I’m the only sportswriter still perpendicular who was at that fight”—since the fight in question is the 1938 Joe Louis-Max Schmeling heavyweight championship bou...
Sargent: Our Cultural Vulva
Zmag Article, November, 01 2003
Lydia Sargent
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Welcome to Hotel Satire where we teach gals how to be the passive twits they were born to be. Except that right now we are in deep crisis and have suspended all gal t...
Schwellenbach: The Global Sell-out of Higher Education: WTO and the University of Texas
Zmag Article, November, 01 2003
Nick Schwellenbach
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On September 8 and 9, 2003, two days prior to the World Trade Organization’s (WTO) meeting in Cancun, Mexico, students from around the globe converged on the Universidad Nacional Autonomous de Mex...
Simanowitz: The Human Shield Movement
Zmag Article, November, 01 2003
Stefan Simanowitz
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On a bright afternoon in January, a convoy of three double- decker buses left London for Baghdad in a blaze of media coverage. On board were over 50 human shields; the first of many hundreds of Western...
Solomon: Media Tips for the Next Recall
Zmag Article, November, 01 2003
Norman Solomon
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Now that California’s electorate has rewarded a dramatic recall effort, it’s a good bet that political operatives in many states will try to learn from this fall’s Golden State extravaga...
Solo: Fixed or Murky?
Zmag Article, November, 01 2003
Toni Solo
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Like it or not, computer technology will be used for most elections in some way or other before too long. Already, even in impoverished countries like Nicaragua, centralized electoral systems use compu...
Administrator: Fear Was the Spoiler in California Election
Zmag Article, November, 01 2003
Site Administrator
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Fear was the spoiler in California’s October 7 gubernatorial election. So-called progressives abandoned their ideals and didn’t vote for Green Party candidate Peter Camejo, the most prominent...
Staff: Odd Times in the U.S.
Zmag Article, November, 01 2003
Z Staff
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Life is always odd in the U.S., but now it seems to have gone over the top. If you pay attention to TV these days, beyond railing at the many really inane shows, you ...
Fisk: Copy the Americans
Znet Article, November, 01 2003
Robert Fisk
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Understanding the brain. That's what you have to do in a guerrilla war. Find out how it works, what it's trying to do. Ramadan? An attack on US headquarters in Baghdad and six suicide bombings, all at the start of Ramadan? Thirty-four dead and 20...
Helweg-larson: Paramilitaries Resurface in Guatemala
Znet Article, November, 01 2003
Simon Helweg-larson
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Four journalists and another person were kidnapped this week by former members of the government-created Civilian Self-Defense Patrols (PAC) paramilitaries. The PAC, officially dismantled after the 1996 peace accords, have recently resurfaced as a...
Solomon: The Politics of Media Filtration
Znet Article, November, 01 2003
Norman Solomon
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Now, after all the national media have done for George W. Bush, the guy's complaining. "There's a sense that people in America aren't getting the truth," he says. What an ingrate! "I'm mindful of the filter through which some news travels," th...
Bond: Mexicans Seek Alternatives To Socio-economic Rot
Commentary, October, 31 2003
Patrick Bond
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ÔWe are becoming critical again,Õ said a delighted Maria de los Angeles of El Colegio de Mexico midway through an October seminar at this Mexico City university. ÔAcademic economists used to stop at analysis of causality. Now we are ready to propo...
Onasch: US Labor Against the War
Znet Article, October, 31 2003
Bill Onasch
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Last January, I was fortunate to attend what will prove to be a milestone in U.S. labor history-the founding of U.S. Labor Against the War. Not since the days of Gene Debs and Mother Jones had there been such substantial organized labor opposition...
