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Salaita: ...Invisible, With Liberty and Justice for All
Zmag Article, December, 01 2000
Steven nasr Salaita
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...Invisible, With Liberty and Justice for All
Albert: Election Issues
Commentary, November, 13 2000
Michael Albert
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The election fiasco is an unexpected spur to progressive prospects. Lots of people are thinking hard about what good government is. This could yield positive political vision, not just a list of things we donÕt like.The coming assault on the Elec...
Albert: Why Not Create A Shadow Government?
Zmag Article, November, 01 2000
Michael Albert
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Why Not Create A Shadow Government?
Bond: The African grassroots and the global movement
Commentary, October, 19 2000
Patrick Bond
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In a ZNet commentary last month, Noam Chomsky observed South-South-North alliances "taking shape at the grassroots level--an impressive development, rich in opportunity and promise, and surely causing no little concern in high places." I want to f...
Albert: The Trajectory Of Change
Commentary, October, 01 2000
Michael Albert
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I think we have a problem. From Seattle through Prague and San Francisco, we have established an activist style needing some mid-course correction. WhatÕs the problem, you might ask? Thousands of militant, courageous people are turning out in ci...
Bond: South-South-North alliances
Commentary, September, 22 2000
Patrick Bond
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Here are two sentences in the concluding paragraph of Chomsky's September 17 ZNet Commentary (`Summits');, in which he champions the Havana South-South Summit of `G77' country leaders that took place in April: "African leaders pointed out that the...
Hoodbhoy: THE MENACE OF EDUCATION
Commentary, September, 14 2000
Pervez Hoodbhoy
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From brain size and hair colour to the shape and texture of toe-nails, every characteristic of an individual is totally determined by just two twisted strands of human DNA. A similar cultural DNA - a society's education system - contains within it...
Albert: What's Napster'and Freenet?
Zmag Article, September, 01 2000
Michael Albert
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The New York Times business pages have lately featured reports of a music industry crisis. Many leftists don’t read these pages, but this is big news for everyone, perhaps especially for the left. Napster Napster is a computer p...
Bond: Can Thabo Mbeki change the world?
Commentary, August, 22 2000
Patrick Bond
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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 "...
Albert: Lesser Evil?
Commentary, August, 21 2000
Michael Albert
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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...
Albert: Anarchism Today
Commentary, August, 07 2000
Michael Albert
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In lieu of attending the North American Anarchist Conference (NAAC), I was asked: Òwhat do you think of anarchism as an existing and potential ideology and movement?Ó Well, I think if anarchism were an ecology, it would be a tropical rain forest--...
Bond: A Political Economy of South African AIDS
Commentary, July, 17 2000
Patrick Bond
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Johannesburg, South Africa Up to a point, Danny Schechter is absolutely right to focus on the power and the appalling discursive-policy mistake of a single personality, SA president Thabo Mbeki, in this country's recent HIV-AIDS fiasco ("Mbeki'...
Albert: Class, Race, Sex?!
Zmag Article, July, 01 2000
Michael Albert
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Toward the end of the 1960s, Marxism climbed into the left’s ideological saddle. Left thought elevated economics. Class became paramount. Imperialism became the reigning enemy. Astute activists felt that the plight of the ghettoes, the sex life of...
Bond: Zimbabwe's Election: Who's Right, Who's Left?
Commentary, June, 25 2000
Patrick Bond
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On Saturday and Sunday, Zimbabweans cast their vote for members of parliament in the most important election here since the country's first democratic poll, in 1980. It won't be a truly democratic, free-and-fair poll, thanks to intimidation and th...
Bond: New Film Projects South African Anti-Globalisation Struggle Onto Washington
Commentary, May, 29 2000
Patrick Bond
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Those in the Z community anxious to hear organic voices from the South debating global socio-economic injustice are probably aware that South African rhetoric is especially hot these days. For evidence, check out the documentary "Two Trevors Go To...
Hoodbhoy: EQBAL AHMAD: POST-POKHARAN DAYS
Commentary, May, 11 2000
Pervez Hoodbhoy
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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...
Bond: Zimbabwe's Crisis Showcases Reasons for Bank/IMF Protest
Commentary, April, 28 2000
Patrick Bond
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In Zimbabwe, President Robert Mugabe appears to have taken leave of his senses, potentially plunging his country of 12 million into civil war. What does this have to do with the mid-April protests against the World Bank and International Monetary ...
Albert: Participatory Economic Program
Commentary, April, 16 2000
Michael Albert
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Participatory economics is a set of institutions for accomplishing production, consumption, and allocation while meeting peopleÕs needs and furthering their development; is a set of institutions designed to propel equity, solidarity, diversity, an...
Bello: MELTZER REPORT ON BRETTON WOODS TWINS BUILDS CASE FOR ABOLITION BUT HESITATESBy
Commentary, April, 16 2000
Walden Bello
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During the heated debate on whether or not to raise the US quota in the IMF in 1998, the US Congress voted for the quota increase but attached several conditions, including the creation of an independent body to look at the missions and performanc...
Bond: Run on the Bank
Commentary, April, 05 2000
Patrick Bond
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"We can't REALLY aim to shut down the International Monetary Fund and World Bank, you know, Patrick. What would we do without them? What would take their place?"
