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Bello: When Davos Meets Porto Alegre: A Memoir
Commentary, February, 01 2001
Walden Bello
Bello's ZSpace page
Porto Alegre, Brazil "Hemingway said that the rich are different from you and me. How can anyone expect the people in Davos to understand the crisis that globalization has visited on the lives of people like those of us here in Porto Alegre?" Tha...
Deutsch: The Right Mirror
Graphic, January, 31 2001
Barry Deutsch
Deutsch's ZSpace page
media, news, US media,U.S. Media
Dowd: THE NEW ERA OF THE 1920s AND THE NEW ECONOMY OF TODAY: BIRDS OF A FEATHER?
Commentary, January, 31 2001
Douglas Dowd
Dowd's ZSpace page
By Doug DowdThe New Era began poorly, as did our New Economy (dating its take-off as the 1990s). In 1919 there was a short recession, then a sharp inflation and unsteady good times and a very sharp recession, 1921-22; then began the so-called "pro...
Mokhiber: Business Power and Mobility
Commentary, January, 30 2001
Russell Mokhiber
Mokhiber's ZSpace page
The election season makes it patently clear how Big Business is able to transform its financial resources into political power via campaign contributions.
Solomon: LETTER FROM PORTO ALEGRE TO ZNET
Commentary, January, 29 2001
Norman Solomon
Solomon's ZSpace page
The World Social Forum here in southern Brazil is being reported around the planet as an oppositional counterpoint to the annual bash in Davos, where corporate leaders have been gathering for three decades at their World Economic Forum retreat. In...
Pond-mcpherson: An Election Post-mortem
Graphic, January, 28 2001
Scott Pond-mcpherson
Pond-mcpherson's ZSpace page
bush, election, activism,
Guellec: Patients blamed for medical errors
Commentary, January, 28 2001
Dorothy Guellec
Guellec's ZSpace page
The American Medical Association believes it may have discovered a root cause for the many medical errors - patients themselves. Isn't that cute. Rather than focus on the incredible complexity of the system and processes at work and everything nee...
Anderson: Ashcroft
Graphic, January, 27 2001
Kirk Anderson
Anderson's ZSpace page
ashcroft, attorney general
Anderson: Slave auction 2001
Graphic, January, 27 2001
Kirk Anderson
Anderson's ZSpace page
prostitution, sex, internet, slave, prostitute
Peters: Trivializing Teens
Commentary, January, 27 2001
Cynthia Peters
Peters's ZSpace page
The good news is: It takes a constant bombardment of advertising, articles, and advice to convince teens that they ARE their skin-exfoliators, hair de-frizzers, and lip moisturizers.
Bond: Welcome to Jo'burg
Commentary, January, 26 2001
Patrick Bond
Bond's ZSpace page
If you had a choice, which host city would you choose for Rio+10, a.k.a. the 2002 `World Summit on Sustainable Development,' where 60,000 delegates will jawjaw about social and environmental problems, maybe in the process constructing more bits of...
Scipes: ROUND TWO: PEOPLE'S POWER IN THE PHILIPPINES REMOVES ANOTHER PRESIDENT
Commentary, January, 25 2001
Kim Scipes
Scipes's ZSpace page
The government of Joseph "Erap" Estrada in the Philippines has just collapsed, with the president forced out by mass mobilization, and with Vice President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo replacing him as President on January 21. What might this mean for t...
Group: Modern Debate
Graphic, January, 24 2001
Contagion Media Group
Group's ZSpace page
New Labour, third way, New Democrats
Deutsch: The Strange World of Liberal Democrats
Graphic, January, 24 2001
Barry Deutsch
Deutsch's ZSpace page
Bush, George W. Bush, liberals, liberal democrats, two-party system
Author: WHERE ARE THE WOMEN IN THE ABORTION DEBATE?
Commentary, January, 24 2001
Guest Author
Author's ZSpace page
January 22, 2001, marked the 28th anniversary of Roe v. Wade Ð the U.S. Supreme Court decision which transformed abortion from an experience that threatened the lives and health of women into one with the same mortality rate as a tonsillectomy. In...
Reinhart: BARAK'S VERSION OF SHARON
Commentary, January, 23 2001
Tanya Reinhart
Reinhart's ZSpace page
One of the lessons of the massive protest which followed Sharon's war in Lebanon appeared to be that it is no longer possible to drag the Israeli people into wars of choice. But Barak has managed where Sharon failed - He convinced at least the cen...
Jensen: Inauguration 2001: A Citizens' Oath of Office
Commentary, January, 22 2001
Robert Jensen
Jensen's ZSpace page
On Inauguration Day 2001, standing on the steps of the State Capitol just a Êfew blocks from the governor's mansion that George W. Bush recently had Êvacated, about 1,000 Austin residents raised their hands as I administered Êa Citizens' Oath of O...
Anderson: Bush Inaugural protest
Graphic, January, 21 2001
Kirk Anderson
Anderson's ZSpace page
protest, bush, inauguration, campaign finance
Anderson: Inaugural parade
Graphic, January, 21 2001
Kirk Anderson
Anderson's ZSpace page
inauguration, bush, parade, black
Flanders: Extremists? Which Extremists?
Commentary, January, 20 2001
Laura Flanders
Flanders's ZSpace page
Critics are using the word "extremist" to describe John Ashcroft, Gale Ann ÊNorton, Tommy Thompson, and just about every GW Bush nominee. Sure enough, Êthe people Bush wants to install are more hostile to the idea of federal Êoversight of the envi...
