| Back | Search Results - New Search |
Freire: Pedagogy of Freedom: Ethics, Democracy and Civil Discourse
Book, December, 13 2000
This book displays the striking creativity and profound insight that characterized Freire's work to the very end of his life-an uplifting and provocative exploration not only for educators, but also for all that learn and live.
Flanders: A Racist Elephant in Our Living Room
Commentary, December, 13 2000
Laura Flanders
Flanders's ZSpace page
There's an elephant in our electoral living room that Democratic leaders want Êto hide. In all the talk about cranky voting machines, chads and butterflies, Êthis is one topic the Gore camp has not touched. It will hurt them. It has Êalready. In t...
Podur: Mexico's New President Vicente Fox and the Zapatistas
Commentary, December, 12 2000
Justin Podur
Podur's ZSpace page
Mexico's New President Vicente Fox and the Zapatistas
Anderson: Childlike Belief in Supreme Court
Graphic, December, 11 2000
Kirk Anderson
Anderson's ZSpace page
rehnquist, supreme court, santa, election
Peters: On Breakfast, Kids and Common Sense
Commentary, December, 11 2000
Cynthia Peters
Peters's ZSpace page
Ivy League institutions, major hospitals, and corporate money teamed up recently to make the startling revelation: kids should eat breakfast. You may be forgiven for thinking that you already knew eating in the morning was a good idea for kids, a...
Chomsky: Propaganda and Indoctrination
Commentary, December, 10 2000
Noam Chomsky
Chomsky's ZSpace page
This is the first of three Chomsky Commentaries I will send this month...each answers one or more queries from David Barsamian (DB) and all are excerpted from a still to be published interview... DB: Lets talk about a theme that we return to peri...
Anderson: Colombia Policy
Graphic, December, 09 2000
Kirk Anderson
Anderson's ZSpace page
colombia, drug war
Cromwell: FALLOUT FROM THE CLIMATE TALKS
Commentary, December, 08 2000
David Cromwell
Cromwell's ZSpace page
The planet is burning, while politicians fiddle the books. If yet more proof was needed that capitalist society is rotten to the core, then just look to the recently collapsed climate talks in The Hague. No agreements, paltry or otherwise. Just bi...
Prashad: Beauty Queens and the Capitalist Beast
Commentary, December, 07 2000
Vijay Prashad
Prashad's ZSpace page
All the men are computer programmers, all the women are beauty queens, and some of us are humorless. So it seems in the land of Silicon(e) India. Bill Gates says that Indians are the second smartest people on the planet, and the international cons...
Bond: South Africa's municipal elections: Finally, basic services for the masses?
Commentary, December, 06 2000
Patrick Bond
Bond's ZSpace page
Tuesday, December 5, is a national election in South Africa, as nearly 9,000 councilors in 284 municipalities seek the support of ten million voters. The African National Congress (ANC), which since 1994 has won three national, provincial and loca...
Deutsch: An Impartial Negotiator in the Middle East
Graphic, December, 05 2000
Barry Deutsch
Deutsch's ZSpace page
Israel, Palestine, Israelis, Palestinians, middle east, Middle East
Hightower: The Uncounted Majority
Commentary, December, 05 2000
Jim Hightower
Hightower's ZSpace page
Not all computer errors involve vote counts in Florida. Writing in Funny Times, Richard Lederer tells about a computer glitch that caused the publisher of an economics report to have to issue an apology to subscribers: "Instead of the figures on t...
Wise: Of Monsters and Vampires: People Who Kill People (and the People Who Kill Them)
Commentary, December, 04 2000
Tim Wise
Wise's ZSpace page
My mother lied to me. She told me when I was a boy, so as to allay my fears to the contrary, that there were no such things as vampires; that there were not, in real life, those whose lust for human blood drove their every waking moment. And this ...
Author: Gendered Assaults: The Attack on Immigrant Women
Commentary, December, 03 2000
Guest Author
Author's ZSpace page
If you opened a newspaper in Iowa this spring, you might have come across an advertisement stating: ÒHow do you feel about paving over the amber waves of grain, the purple mountain majesties and the fruited plain?Ó If you read the small print, you...
Schechter: The Media And HIV/AIDS: What Should We Do?
Commentary, December, 02 2000
Danny Schechter
Schechter's ZSpace page
Sorry. So sorry if you were given "unnecessary offense." So sayeth the BBC as part of an apology for a stunt concocted for a TV show that plays practical jokes on the public. "Aunty," as the Beeb is known, hired a child actor to pose as an Afric...
Cohen: Toxic Waste As Strategy, Part 2
Zmag Article, December, 01 2000
Mitchel Cohen
Cohen's ZSpace page
The trade in toxic waste is more than a lucrative industry; it is also a central strategy of the New World Order, an intentional way of enclosing lands and resources—the very air we breathe—previously held in common and setting up trade in “pollut...
Barsamian: Maid to Order
Zmag Article, December, 01 2000
David Barsamian
Barsamian's ZSpace page
Maid to Order
Albert: Election Lessons
Zmag Article, December, 01 2000
Michael Albert
Albert's ZSpace page
Election Lessons
Barsamian: Intifada 2000: The Palestinian Uprising
Zmag Article, December, 01 2000
David Barsamian
Barsamian's ZSpace page
Intifada 2000: The Palestinian Uprising
Spaulding: S26 Actions in Prague
Zmag Article, December, 01 2000
Holly Spaulding
Spaulding's ZSpace page
S26 Actions in Prague
