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Pond-mcpherson: Tweedledum and Tweedledee
Graphic, October, 17 2000
Scott Pond-mcpherson
Pond-mcpherson's ZSpace page
Bush, Gore, Nader, election, vote,
Gonsalves: Selling with Shrink Think
Commentary, October, 17 2000
Sean Gonsalves
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Life is good. Psychologists are supposed to make it better, or at least help individuals reach a certain level of maturity. Much has been written about psychology and much of that is simply verbose foolishness. I'm especially turned off by those ...
Guellec: Billions Spent Marketing Drugs to Consumers
Commentary, October, 16 2000
Dorothy Guellec
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In the two years since the FDA began an experiment to let the mass media broadcast the prescription-drug message directly to consumers, the pharmaceutical industry has shelled out a whopping $1.3 billion per year on consumer ads. That dwarfs the $...
Schechter: RED STAR OVER THE UN: The Media Downplays Human Rights in China
Commentary, October, 15 2000
Danny Schechter
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As the United Nations opens its Millennial Summit in New York September 6 with an expected 150 heads of state in attendance, the world organization is trying to refocus its mission and revive its credibility. (Never mind the cost of staging the wo...
Solomon: MEDIA SPIN REMAINS IN SYNC WITH ISRAELI OCCUPATION
Commentary, October, 14 2000
Norman Solomon
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The formula for American media coverage of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is simple: Report on the latest developments in the fragile "peace process." Depict U.S. officials as honest brokers in the negotiations. Emphasize the need for restraint ...
Bronski: Heterosexuality: A Romance of the Right
Commentary, October, 13 2000
Michael Bronski
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Imagine my appalled surprise when I discovered that I was quoted as a "radical advocate of same-sex marriage" in, of all places, this month's Commentary -- the last place where I expect to be noticed. Also Ð and this is a telling detail Ð I am not...
Chomsky: Chomsky Comments on Milosevic Ouster, etc.
Commentary, October, 12 2000
Noam Chomsky
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A number of people in the ZNet forum system and elsewhere have raised questions about the prominent role they see assigned to US-NATO in the flood of commentary on recent events in Yugoslavia, "gloating over the victory of the opposition in Yugosl...
Deutsch: Why the Average American Goes to Hell
Graphic, October, 11 2000
Barry Deutsch
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iraq, israel, palestine, palestians, iraqis, sanctions, colombia, foreign policy, apathy
Mchombo: ROUNDING UP HOKERS IN MALAWI
Commentary, October, 11 2000
Sam Mchombo
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Sam Mchombo It is a matter of fact that AIDS has taken its toll on human life, with various African countries amongst the worst hit. It has also placed incredible economic burdens on most of those countries which, given the soaring costs of avail...
Shalom: Turmoil in Palestine: The Basic Context
Commentary, October, 10 2000
Stephen1 Shalom
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As the occupied Palestinian territories suffer their worst paroxysm of violence in years, with the casualties, as always, overwhelmingly Palestinian, the mainstream media, also as always, focus on peripheral questions, offer misleading answers, an...
Author: Time to Take a Critical Look at Depo-Provera
Commentary, October, 09 2000
Guest Author
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My first experience with Depo-Provera was as a young welfare mother. I had just finished my first post-partum check-up after having had my second child. The doctor pronounced me in great health and then pulled out a syringe and a vial. I am just g...
Russell: Social Security, Work and Poverty
Commentary, October, 08 2000
Marta Russell
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It is a tight labor market and tight labor markets traditionally threaten to give workers more bargaining power from which to secure significant wage increases. Wall Street and investors get nervous about tight labor markets. They reckon that the ...
Pond-mcpherson: Death Takes a Vacation
Graphic, October, 07 2000
Scott Pond-mcpherson
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death penalty, capital punishment, murder, dna testing, justice, guilt, illinois
Cromwell: Supping with the devil
Commentary, October, 07 2000
David Cromwell
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When Chris Tuppen, a senior manager with British Telecom, was granted space a couple of years ago in a green pressure groupÕs magazine, he made a plea for business and the green movement to "settle their differences" and "work together". But what ...
Prashad: Nobody Hid This Crime: The Police Open Fire in Naidu.Com
Commentary, October, 06 2000
Vijay Prashad
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This crime was committed under the shadow of the State Assembly in Hyderabad (Andhra Pradesh, India). For three quarters of an hour the guns of the police tore through the thousands of people, hundreds fell, two never to rise again. The streets co...
Guellec: RU puzzled, fed up?
Commentary, October, 05 2000
Dorothy Guellec
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Last Thursday, September 28,2000, the landscape for abortion really changed. It has been a long time coming. The pill called RU-486 was developed in 1980. and in 1982 the first successful human testing was reported in France. After 10 long years o...
Deutsch: The New Hostage Crisis
Graphic, October, 04 2000
Barry Deutsch
Deutsch's ZSpace page
abortion, bush, gore, two-party system, third parties, feminism, feminists, reproductive rights, election
Weisbrot: Clinton in Colombia: The Ugly American
Commentary, October, 04 2000
Mark Weisbrot
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When President Clinton announced his trip to Colombia, he said his purpose was "to seek peace, to fight illicit drugs, to build its economy, and to deepen democracy."
Marquez: The Enigma of Chavez
Znet Article, October, 04 2000
Gabriel garcia Marquez
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[Translated by Mark McHarry] On December 6, 1998, Hugo Chávez won the presidency of Venezuela, his sixth consecutive election victory. Who really is this man who has awakened as many hopes as fears? With his characteristic style, the author of On...
Rebick: The extreme views of Stockwell Day
Commentary, October, 03 2000
Judy Rebick
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Gloria Steinem once quipped that she was going to ask for political asylum in Canada. Michael Moore too talks about how much more progressive is Canada than the U.S. And up until recently, they have been right. In the long shadow cast by free trad...
