| Back | Search Results - New Search |
Hahnel: Imperialism, Human Rights, and Protectionism
Zmag Article, February, 01 2001
Robin Hahnel
Hahnel's ZSpace page
Recently I was asked to answer some questions about tactical choices facing the movement against corporate sponsored globalization. Unfortunately, people and groups inside the movement differ in their answers to these questions, and those di...
Giroux: Zero Tolerance, Part 2
Zmag Article, February, 01 2001
Henry a. Giroux
Giroux's ZSpace page
Zero Tolerance, Part 2
Richards: none
Zmag Article, February, 01 2001
Jennifer baumgardner and amy Richards
Richards's ZSpace page
Ariana Ghasedi & Andy Cornell With Bush poised to create a straight flush Republican government, with female incarceration rates soaring as poverty is increasingly feminized, the time couldn’t be better for activists to asses...
Kovel: Global Warming And Realo-Fundi Greens
Zmag Article, February, 01 2001
Joel Kovel
Kovel's ZSpace page
The breakdown last November 25 of the Hague talks on ratifying the 1997 Kyoto protocols on global warming was bad news indeed. But it would have been worse had the U.S. gotten its way. Fortunately, Europe, chiefly France, Scandinavia, and Germany,...
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...
Author: Gendered Assaults: The Attack on Immigrant Women
Commentary, January, 17 2001
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...
Aravinda: People's Knowledge in a Paperless Society
Zmag Article, January, 01 2001
Ls Aravinda
Aravinda's ZSpace page
People's Knowledge in a Paperless Society
Dowd: A TALE OF TWO CITIES
Commentary, December, 14 2000
Douglas Dowd
Dowd's ZSpace page
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...
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
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...
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...
Berkowitz: RU-486
Zmag Article, December, 01 2000
Bill Berkowitz
Berkowitz's ZSpace page
Shortly after Rev. John Earl, pastor at St. Patrick’s Church in Rochelle, Illinois, learned the Food and Drug Administration had approved the abortion pill RU-486, he paid an up-close- and-personal visit to a nearby health clinic. Rev. ...
Edwards: THE CLIMATE KILLERS
Commentary, November, 29 2000
David Edwards
Edwards's ZSpace page
An anonymous US official once advised, "We must counter, both in the UN and within the framework of the North-South dialogue, any discussion of global problems which questions the validity of the free market and of free enterprise in the countries...
Monbiot: Reality Re-Asserts ItselfT
Commentary, November, 14 2000
George Monbiot
Monbiot's ZSpace page
Just as floods and tornadoes were laying waste to our homes, we earthlings watched the launch of an exciting new venture. Three cosmonauts were blasted into orbit, to pioneer the permanent inhabitation of space. Humanity is already making plans fo...
Cohen: Toxic Wastes and the New World Order, Part 1
Zmag Article, November, 01 2000
Mitchel Cohen
Cohen's ZSpace page
Twelve years ago, the soon-to-be infamous barge, the Khian Sea, left the territorial waters of the United States and began circling the oceans in search of a country willing to accept its cargo: 14,000 tons of toxic incinerator ash. Fir...
Berkowitz: Farm Bureau Is a Front
Zmag Article, November, 01 2000
Bill Berkowitz
Berkowitz's ZSpace page
When singer/songwriter Willie Nelson took the stage in mid-September in Bristow, Virginia, kicking off the 15th annual Farm Aid concert, he once again called the nation’s attention to the desperate plight of America’s small family ...
Cromwell: Silent Democracy
Commentary, October, 24 2000
David Cromwell
Cromwell's ZSpace page
"It's sociologically interesting, though scary", said the actor Anthony Sher in a recent interview, "that you can be inside an evil system and be somehow unaware of it." South African by birth, Sher was talking about the former system of apartheid...
Cromwell: Silent Democracy
Commentary, October, 24 2000
David Cromwell
Cromwell's ZSpace page
"It's sociologically interesting, though scary", said the actor Anthony Sher in a recent interview, "that you can be inside an evil system and be somehow unaware of it." South African by birth, Sher was talking about the former system of apartheid...
Cromwell: Supping with the devil
Commentary, October, 07 2000
David Cromwell
Cromwell's ZSpace page
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 ...
