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Choudry: Market Missionaries Flock To The Pacific
Commentary, May, 12 2001
Aziz Choudry
Choudry's ZSpace page
ÒYour nonsense spreads to Pacific beliefs like the plague bubonic/ speaking tongues parallel to concrete jungle mumbo.Ó Ê (Reverse Resistance, by King Kapisi) Samoan hiphop artist King Kapisi slams colonialism and missionary beliefs on his Savag...
Peters: Mother’s Day, 2001
Commentary, May, 12 2001
Cynthia Peters
Peters's ZSpace page
The problem with Mother’s Day rituals is that they reinforce what I call the telescope effect on Moms and their kids. Most days of the year, disproportionate blame is leveled at Moms for their kids’ shortcomings. On Mother’...
Peters: MotherÕs Day, 2001
Commentary, May, 12 2001
Cynthia Peters
Peters's ZSpace page
The problem with MotherÕs Day rituals is that they reinforce what I call the telescope effect on Moms and their kids. Most days of the year, disproportionate blame is leveled at Moms for their kidsÕ shortcomings. On MotherÕs Day, they are privatel...
Herman: PUBLIC VERSUS POWER INTELLECTUALS, Part 1
Commentary, May, 11 2001
Edward Herman
Herman's ZSpace page
The conventional use of the term "public intellectual" has been a source of growing confusion and bombast of late. At a forum on "The Future of Public Intellectuals" held some months ago in New York City, Russell Jacoby of The Last Intellectuals f...
Herman: PUBLIC VERSUS POWER INTELLECTUALS, Part 1
Commentary, May, 11 2001
Edward Herman
Herman's ZSpace page
The conventional use of the term "public intellectual" has been a source of growing confusion and bombast of late. At a forum on "The Future of Public Intellectuals" held some months ago in New York City, Russell Jacoby of The Last Intellectuals f...
Rebick: Of Catapults and Teddy Bears
Commentary, May, 10 2001
Judy Rebick
Rebick's ZSpace page
The teddy bear hurling catapult at the demonstrations in Quebec City may turn out to be the most effective piece of street theatre in protest history. Designed to mock the wall separating leaders at the Summit of the Americas from the people prote...
Albert: Anarchism?!
Commentary, May, 10 2001
Michael Albert
Albert's ZSpace page
Like most social movements anarchism is diverse. Most broadly an anarchist seeks out and identifies structures of authority, hierarchy, and domination throughout life, and tries to challenge them as conditions and the pursuit of justice permit. An...
Deutsch: Ya can't get more consistent than that!
Graphic, May, 09 2001
Barry Deutsch
Deutsch's ZSpace page
first amendment, abortion, pro-life, Wind Done Gone
Edwards: Media Mendacity and The Art of Self-Deception
Commentary, May, 09 2001
David Edwards
Edwards's ZSpace page
On 27 January 1986, the O-ring task force of Morton Thiokol met to discuss the likely consequences of a proposed Space Shuttle launch the following day at a temperature of 18 degrees Fahrenheit. O-rings are designed to take up the slack in the Shu...
Anderson: Vietnam remembered
Graphic, May, 08 2001
Kirk Anderson
Anderson's ZSpace page
kerrey, bob kerrey, vietnam, viet nam
Anderson: Missile "defense"
Graphic, May, 08 2001
Kirk Anderson
Anderson's ZSpace page
nmd, missile defense, national missile defense, star wars
Anderson: UN & US
Graphic, May, 08 2001
Kirk Anderson
Anderson's ZSpace page
un, united nations, human rights commission, unhcr, un hcr
Anderson: Energy conservation
Graphic, May, 08 2001
Kirk Anderson
Anderson's ZSpace page
cheney, conservation, energy
Anderson: Global warming highway
Graphic, May, 08 2001
Kirk Anderson
Anderson's ZSpace page
global warming
Anderson: Murdered American priest
Graphic, May, 08 2001
Kirk Anderson
Anderson's ZSpace page
kenya, kaiser
Solomon: MEDIA AND VIETNAM: APPARITIONS OF INNOCENCE
Commentary, May, 08 2001
Norman Solomon
Solomon's ZSpace page
Media commentators are split about Bob Kerrey and what happened 32 years ago in the Vietnamese village of Thanh Phong. Some journalists seem eager to exonerate the former senator. Others appear inclined to turn him into a lightning rod for nationa...
Moore: Paging Kurt Waldheim
Graphic, May, 07 2001
Kevin Moore
Moore's ZSpace page
Bob Kerrey, Vietnam, Thanh Phong
Weisbrot: Bob Kerrey's Nightmare Tells the Story of Vietnam
Commentary, May, 07 2001
Mark Weisbrot
Weisbrot's ZSpace page
Some people are wondering why the New York Times and CBS' 60 minutes II would spend two and a half years investigating war crimes allegedly committed by former Senator Bob Kerrey 32 years ago in Vietnam. But this is journalism at its best: it is f...
Glick: On Historical Moments
Commentary, May, 07 2001
Ted Glick
Glick's ZSpace page
Organized efforts to bring about significant reforms need a number of things if they are to be successful. One is an ability to discern when, for whatever the reasons may be, there has been a change from what might be called the "keep plugging awa...
Peters: The Hand that Rocks the Cradle Generates the Statistics
Commentary, May, 06 2001
Cynthia Peters
Peters's ZSpace page
Once again, a lot of very smart scientists with significant institutional backing have spent a lot of time and a lot of money coming up with brainless conclusions and age-old solutions.
