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Anderson: China trade punch-card
Graphic, May, 18 2000
Kirk Anderson
Anderson's ZSpace page
china, trade, pntr, free trade, china trade, mfn, globalization
Deutsch: Is Too Much Thinking Bad for Grades?
Graphic, May, 18 2000
Barry Deutsch
Deutsch's ZSpace page
Nigeria, Shell, oil, guilt, divestment
Burchill: New Rules of Engagement
Commentary, May, 18 2000
Scott Burchill
Burchill's ZSpace page
In the first weeks of September last year, 70% of all public buildings and private residences in East Timor were destroyed. At least 75% of the population of the territory was displaced, with over 260,000 people being driven across the border into...
Ali: London Defeats Tony Blair: The Consequences of Citizen Ken
Commentary, May, 17 2000
Tariq Ali
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In these times of political adversity for the left, Ken Livingstone's spectacular triumph against the culture and politics of New Labour marks an important turning point in English politics. Blair refused to accept Livingstone as the Labour candid...
Schechter: Rescuing The Children: Elián, AIDS, South Africa and Media
Commentary, May, 16 2000
Danny Schechter
Schechter's ZSpace page
I can just hear some Hollywood exec wondering if it has "series potential" while watching the dramatic showdown in the latest episode of the Elián González tug-of-war. On April 22 federal agents in a long overdue and overdrawn response "rescued"...
Schechter: Rescuing The Children: Eli‡n, AIDS, South Africa and Media
Commentary, May, 16 2000
Danny Schechter
Schechter's ZSpace page
I can just hear some Hollywood exec wondering if it has "series potential" while watching the dramatic showdown in the latest episode of the Eli‡n Gonz‡lez tug-of-war. On April 22 federal agents in a long overdue and overdrawn response "rescued" t...
Mokhiber: Sixteen Years for a Snickers Bar
Commentary, May, 15 2000
Russell Mokhiber
Mokhiber's ZSpace page
Last month, a Texas jury recommended that Kenneth Payne, 29, spend 16 years in jail.Payne's crime? Stealing a Snickers bar from a Tyler, Texas grocery store on December 17, 1999. When Smith county Assistant District Attorney Jodi Brown was asked ...
Wagner: Corporate Media on Vietnam War
Graphic, May, 14 2000
Pete Wagner
Wagner's ZSpace page
vietnam war coverage
Wagner: Vietnam War Hero
Graphic, May, 14 2000
Pete Wagner
Wagner's ZSpace page
vietnam war, conscientious objector, militarism, history
Hightower: WHAT'S FOR DINNER?
Commentary, May, 14 2000
Jim Hightower
Hightower's ZSpace page
Have you heard of the "Butterfly Effect?" Both a scientific concept and an ecological reality, its essence is that the flapping of a million butterfly wings in central Mexico can have consequences in New York City, Rome, or Hong Kong. The notion i...
Anderson: China PNTR
Graphic, May, 13 2000
Kirk Anderson
Anderson's ZSpace page
china, trade, free trade, pntr, mfn, normal trade relations, most favored nation, foreign trade
Prashad: 'Just Say No to PepsiCo': So Say 101 Indian workers
Commentary, May, 13 2000
Vijay Prashad
Prashad's ZSpace page
One hundred million people and sixty million cattle in India are in the midst of a crippling drought. The states of Gujarat, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Orissa and Andhra Pradesh have been hit with poor monsoon rain. According to the Union Minister...
Chomsky: Assaulting Solidarity -- Privatizing Education
Commentary, May, 12 2000
Noam Chomsky
Chomsky's ZSpace page
There has been a general assault in the last 25 years on solidarity, democracy, social welfare, anything that interferes with private power, and there are many targets. One of the targets is undoubtedly the educational system. In fact, a couple of...
Hoodbhoy: EQBAL AHMAD: POST-POKHARAN DAYS
Commentary, May, 11 2000
Pervez Hoodbhoy
Hoodbhoy's ZSpace page
He fought for Kashmiri self-determination in 1948, against French imperialism in Algeria in the early 60's, roused students on American campuses in the early 70's against their government's immoral war in Vietnam, dodged arrest by the CIA in a cas...
Deutsch: The End of Racism?
Graphic, May, 10 2000
Barry Deutsch
Deutsch's ZSpace page
racism, statistical discrimination, race, white, whites, white people
Wise: "Seeing the System: Alan Greenspan, Unemployment, and the Validation of Radical Analysis
Commentary, May, 10 2000
Tim Wise
Wise's ZSpace page
"What's the difference between a radical and a liberal?" It is a question I'm regularly asked at lectures, usually by college students struggling with their own sense of the world, trying desperately to figure out where they stand on the seemingly...
Peters: Cure `em or Kill `em
Commentary, May, 09 2000
Cynthia Peters
Peters's ZSpace page
Disability rights activists have been waiting for Christopher Reeve to get over his ÒI-will-walk-againÓ thing. But itÕs been 5 years since the actor, best known for his role as ÒSuperman,Ó became a quadriplegic after a horse-riding accident, and h...
Landau: REPORT FROM SANTIAGO: DEJA VU
Commentary, May, 08 2000
Saul Landau
Landau's ZSpace page
History repeats itself, wrote Marx, first as tragedy and then again as farce. First time: Chile, November, 1970. In one photo, a helmeted officer just to the right of and behind Allende's car wears a bored, or maybe slightly pained, expression. Ge...
Anderson: Vieques
Graphic, May, 07 2000
Kirk Anderson
Anderson's ZSpace page
vieques, puerto rico, navy, military
Zinn: THE HEROES AROUND US
Commentary, May, 07 2000
Howard Zinn
Zinn's ZSpace page
Recently, meeting with a group of high school students, I was asked by one of them: "I read in your book, A PEOPLE'S HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES, about the massacres of Indians, the long history of racism, the persistence of poverty in the rich...
