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Hutchinson: Terror Over Bush's Supreme Court Picks May Not Be Justified
Commentary, December, 19 2000
Earl ofari Hutchinson
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Nothing stirs greater terror among civil rights and womenÕs rights groups than the prospect of Bush making politically disastrous picks to the U.S. Supreme Court. During the presidential campaign, Jesse Jackson, NAACP President Kweisi Mfume, le...
Brecher: Draft of an Alternative Program for the Global Economy
Commentary, December, 18 2000
Jeremy Brecher
Brecher's ZSpace page
Commenting on the Battle of Seattle, Newsweek wrote, "One of the most important lessons of Seattle is that there are now two visions of globalization on offer, one led by commerce, one by social activism." Globalization from below's vision has bee...
Anderson: How Grinch Stole Christmas
Graphic, December, 17 2000
Kirk Anderson
Anderson's ZSpace page
christmas, consumerism, consume, grinch
Zinn: TENNIS ON THE TITANIC
Commentary, December, 16 2000
Howard Zinn
Zinn's ZSpace page
As the prize of the presidency lurched wildly back and forth in the last days of the year, with the entire nation hypnotized by the spectacle, I had a vision. I saw the Titanic churning through the waters of the North Atlantic toward an iceberg lo...
Chomsky: Overcoming Orthodoxies
Commentary, December, 16 2000
Noam Chomsky
Chomsky's ZSpace page
David Barsamian: I want to come back to the idea of what individuals can do in overcoming orthodoxies. Steve Biko, the South African activist who was murdered by the apartheid regime while he was in custody, once said, The most powerful weapon in ...
Raptis: Hitler : The (Strange) Elser Case
Commentary, December, 16 2000
Nikos Raptis
Raptis's ZSpace page
Johann Georg Elser was born in the German Village of Hermaringen in 1903. At the age of fourteen he was apprenticed as a (lathe) turner in a local iron factory. In 1922 he passed his journeyman's exam as a cabinet-maker and became a specialist in ...
Landau: THE PRIZZI BUSHES WILL OCCUPY THE WHITE HOUSE
Commentary, December, 15 2000
Saul Landau
Landau's ZSpace page
Maureen Down has cleverly labeled them the Kennebunkport Corrleones. But I Êthink of the Bushes as the Texas Prizzis, that Mafia branch that has moved Êto cowboy country and have successfully filched the 2000 election. Recall Êin Prizzi's Honor ho...
Author: CONNECTIONS OF CANF'S TREASURER
Commentary, December, 15 2000
Guest Author
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The Cuban American National Foundation is well-represented on the GOP's list of presidential electors from Florida by CANF's treasurer, Feliciano M. Foyo, who happens to be a good friend of Florida Governor Jeb Bush. Foyo has another friend named...
Author: CONNECTIONS OF CANF'S TREASURER
Commentary, December, 15 2000
Guest Author
Author's ZSpace page
The Cuban American National Foundation is well-represented on the GOP's list of presidential electors from Florida by CANF's treasurer, Feliciano M. Foyo, who happens to be a good friend of Florida Governor Jeb Bush. Foyo has another friend named...
Anderson: Electoral College
Graphic, December, 14 2000
Kirk Anderson
Anderson's ZSpace page
electoral college, supreme court
Dowd: A TALE OF TWO CITIES
Commentary, December, 14 2000
Douglas Dowd
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The two cities are Bologna and Venice. The environmental problems threatening both, despite well-publicized "remedies," have not improved but worsened in recent decades; the cities, their problems, and their failure to deal with them exemplify all...
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
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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...
