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Weisbrot: Trade Wars: Where's the Beef

Commentary, August, 16 1999 Mark Weisbrot
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Should countries have the right to set health and safety standards for the food that their citizens eat? Should they be allowed to exclude foreign-produced foods that don't meet national standards? Or should these questions be decided by the World...

Brecher: Review of Panic Rules

Commentary, August, 05 1999 Jeremy Brecher
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A funny thing happened on the way to the New Millenium: the Old Millenium crashed. According to economist Paul Krugman, "Never in the course of economic events -- not even in the early years of the Depression -- has so large a part of the world ec...

Mokhiber: Biotech Untamed

Commentary, August, 02 1999 Russell Mokhiber
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When Secretary of Agriculture Dan Glickman wanted to address the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. to rave about the biotech industry and its wonders, he called Gene Grabowski.

Burchill: Marx on Globalization

Commentary, July, 24 1999 Scott Burchill
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In the 1850s, Karl Marx believed that the spread of capitalism, or what today we would call globalization, was transforming human society from a collection of separate nation-states to a world capitalist society where the principal form of conflic...

Shiva: Monsanto's Expanding Monopolies From Seed to Water

Commentary, July, 17 1999 Vandana2 Shiva
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Over the past few years, Monsanto, a chemical company, has positioned itself as an agricultural company through control over seed the first link in the food chain. Monsanto now wants to control water, the very basis of life.

Weisbrot: Fed Preemptive Strike

Commentary, July, 09 1999 Mark Weisbrot
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The Fed launched a "pre-emptive strike" this week against an unseen enemy -- inflation -- by raising interest rates one-quarter percentage point. With inflation at its lowest level in 30 years (2.1%), why would the Fed want to start down a path th...

Peterson: How The New York Times Protects Indonesian Terror In East Timor

Zmag Article, July, 01 1999 Edward s. herman and david Peterson
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How The New York Times Protects Indonesian Terror In East Timor

Shalom: Lessons -- and Hope -- from Kerala

Commentary, June, 21 1999 Stephen1 Shalom
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Are there alternatives to the dominant economic model that consigns increasing numbers of people to lives of misery? One such alternative is offered by the state of Kerala in southern India which has been the site of fascinating social experimenta...

Mokhiber: Laurence Summers, The World Bank, and Humanity

Commentary, June, 18 1999 Russell Mokhiber
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"Just between you and me, shouldn't the World Bank be encouraging more migration of the dirty industries to the LDCs [least developed countries]?" So wrote Treasury Secretary-designee Lawrence Summers, then the chief economist at the World Bank, i...

Peters: Mentoring Toward Revolution

Commentary, June, 08 1999 Cynthia Peters
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Do you have mentors in your life? Are you anyone's mentor? Could we positively affect social change movements by building mentoring relationships into our political work? I think we could.

Albert: Lend Me Your Ear

Zmag Article, June, 01 1999 Michael Albert
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Lend Me Your Ear

Bronski: Liberation by Accumulation

Commentary, May, 27 1999 Michael Bronski
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I hardly ever drink beer, being a cheap red wine and bourbon sort of guy, so I was startled last week when I received more then a dozen e-mail (many from lesbian and gay activists use work I respect) urging me call the Anheuser-Busch company and v...

Weisbrot: No Change at Treasury

Commentary, May, 17 1999 Mark Weisbrot
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Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin picked a good time to resign. As a senior White House official said, Rubin "made his fortune selling at the top of the market."

Peters: What She Really Wants

Commentary, May, 10 1999 Cynthia Peters
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Take a look at that face. It's true. She really could use a little help with her complexion. It may be that with all that mothering work she's been doing she hasn't had time to properly wash, rinse, clarify, tone, moisturize, and treat twice a wee...

Mokhiber: Drugs, Patents, and U.S. Policy

Commentary, May, 03 1999 Russell Mokhiber
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Thanks to new drug therapies, many people with HIV/AIDS in the United States are now able to live relatively healthy lives. "Triple drug" therapies, or "drug cocktails" allow HIV-positive people to reduce their HIV blood load in some cases to unde...