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Edwards: THIS SPORTING LIE: THE 'GREEN' OLYMPICS
Commentary, September, 01 2000
David Edwards
Edwards's ZSpace page
A month before the great 'Green Games' in Sydney were due to open, a group of international scientists arrived at the North Pole to find, not ice, but a stretch of open water at least one mile wide - the first time the North Pole has not been ice-...
Marable: Racism, Prisons and the Future of Black America
Commentary, August, 31 2000
Manning Marable
Marable's ZSpace page
There are today over two million Americans incarcerated in federal and state prisons and local jails throughout the United States. More than one-half, or one million, are black men and women. The devastating human costs of the mass incarceration o...
Anderson: Colombia's allowance money
Graphic, August, 30 2000
Kirk Anderson
Anderson's ZSpace page
colombia
Prashad: The Affirmative Action Election
Commentary, August, 30 2000
Vijay Prashad
Prashad's ZSpace page
As we approach the calendar end of the Christian millennium, we, as progressives, are posed with an electoral choice that has begun to startle me. So much commentary seems to go by these days on what appears to be the only election worth anything,...
Anderson: US's Pinochet files
Graphic, August, 29 2000
Kirk Anderson
Anderson's ZSpace page
pinochet, cia, chile
Wise: Gore-Vey!: Joe Lieberman, Jewish Mobility, and the Politics of Race in America
Commentary, August, 29 2000
Tim Wise
Wise's ZSpace page
I am a Jew. And according to what others of my faith tradition tell me, I should be beaming with pride at the fact that Al Gore--a Southern Baptist whose denominational leaders once said God didn't answer the prayers of folks like me--has picked a...
Glick: Respecting Your Elders?
Commentary, August, 28 2000
Ted Glick
Glick's ZSpace page
Respect for elders is a tradition deeply rooted within most cultures in this world. This is as it should be; older people, generally speaking, have accumulated the wisdom gained from years of experience. Does the progressive movement have any uniq...
Pond-mcpherson: Back to School
Graphic, August, 27 2000
Scott Pond-mcpherson
Pond-mcpherson's ZSpace page
school, education, media, advertising, youth
Guellec: Investing in Death Benefits – Exploiting AIDS patients
Commentary, August, 27 2000
Dorothy Guellec
Guellec's ZSpace page
Once the domain of the terminally ill, viatical settlements or arrangements – the reassignment of a life insurance policy to a third party in return for a cash settlement – are set to explode in the next decade as the market evolve...
Guellec: Investing in Death Benefits Ð Exploiting AIDS patients
Commentary, August, 27 2000
Dorothy Guellec
Guellec's ZSpace page
Once the domain of the terminally ill, viatical settlements or arrangements Ð the reassignment of a life insurance policy to a third party in return for a cash settlement Ð are set to explode in the next decade as the market evolves to include hea...
Peters: Same-Sex Domestic Partnership Benefits Represent a Limited Gain
Commentary, August, 25 2000
Cynthia Peters
Peters's ZSpace page
Since when did we imagine that the countryÕs top automakers, Disney Corporation, AT&T, Nike, and the Gap had the interests of gays and lesbians in mind?
Cagan: Toys, the Death Penalty and the Gay Movement
Commentary, August, 24 2000
Leslie Cagan
Cagan's ZSpace page
In case you missed it, the Week in Review section of the 7/23/00 Sunday New York Times ran a most incredible piece. Instead of summarizing from it, let me just quote a few choice sentences:"Never Say Die, Just Execute.
Bond: Can Thabo Mbeki change the world?
Commentary, August, 22 2000
Patrick Bond
Bond's ZSpace page
In a formidable recent speech, South African President Thabo Mbeki, quoting Shakespeare, publicly attacked not only a senior white politician for alleged racism and arrogance over the AIDS treatment tragedy. He also castigated the section of the "...
Mokhiber: Cop Killer
Commentary, August, 22 2000
Russell Mokhiber
Mokhiber's ZSpace page
Cop killer. No, we are not talking about Mumia Abu-Jamal. After a trial that the National Journal's Stuart Taylor called "grotesquely unfair" and that included "fabricated evidence," Abu-Jamal was convicted of killing a Philadelphia police office...
Albert: Lesser Evil?
Commentary, August, 21 2000
Michael Albert
Albert's ZSpace page
The general anti-Nader argument is very simple. To vote/work for Nader means not voting/working for Gore. That's uncontestable. In states with close Gore/Bush ratings, Gore could lose enough votes to Nader for Bush to win the state, and ultimately...
Schechter: Speaking Back to the Media
Commentary, August, 20 2000
Danny Schechter
Schechter's ZSpace page
There used to be something called equal time and the right to reply to TV editorials and coverage. I am reminded of this by the publication, in a thin booklet called Poems for the Nation, of the text of a previously unpublished television address ...
Weisbrot: Verizon Workers Defend the Right to Organize
Commentary, August, 19 2000
Mark Weisbrot
Weisbrot's ZSpace page
Workers at Verizon Communications had a lot of reasons to go out on strike against the nation's largest provider of local telephone and wireless services: loss of jobs to non- union sub-contractors, forced overtime, overbearing management. And a...
Anderson: Bush-Gore Pepsi-Coke
Graphic, August, 18 2000
Kirk Anderson
Anderson's ZSpace page
bush, gore, election, pepsi, coke
Anderson: Al Gore photo album
Graphic, August, 18 2000
Kirk Anderson
Anderson's ZSpace page
gore, al gore, convention, election
Zinn: Downfall
Commentary, August, 18 2000
Howard Zinn
Zinn's ZSpace page
I am surprised that my friend Hans Koning, a stalwart protester against the war in Vietnam, seems to have been taken in by the argument of Richard Frank, in his review of Frank's DOWNFALL. Yes, we must all be willing to reconsider our most hardene...
