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Chomsky: Voting Patterns and Abstentions
Zmag Article, February, 01 2001
Noam Chomsky
Chomsky's ZSpace page
In commenting on the November 2000 elections (Z January), I only hinted at important considerations that lend further insight into the functioning of contemporary democracy: patterns of voting and abstention. Useful information on these matt...
Chomsky: none
Zmag Article, October, 01 2000
Noam Chomsky
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Common Courage Press Review by Michael Hardesty For a couple of months in the spring and summer of 1999 many western liberals thought they were reliving the glorious days of World War II—the good war—as the social democrats...
Street: The Anti-Sweatshop Movement
Zmag Article, June, 01 2000
Paul Street
Street's ZSpace page
For nearly three years now, American campuses have been experiencing a resurgence of student activism. This new college activism targets the $2.5 billion collegiate licensing industry, which includes companies like Nike, Champion...
Chomsky: The Colombia Plan: April 2000
Zmag Article, June, 01 2000
Noam Chomsky
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In 1999, Colombia became the leading recipient of U.S. military and police assistance, replacing Turkey (Israel and Egypt are in a separate category). The figure is scheduled to increase sharply with the anticipa...
Chomsky: In Retrospect
Zmag Article, May, 01 2000
Noam Chomsky
Chomsky's ZSpace page
The absurdity of the principle of retrospective justification is, surely, recognized at some level. Accordingly, many attempts to justify the NATO bombing take a different tack. One typical version is that “Serbia assaulted ...
Chomsky: In Retrospect
Zmag Article, April, 01 2000
Noam Chomsky
Chomsky's ZSpace page
The tumult having subsided, it should be possible to undertake a relatively dispassionate review and analysis of NATO’s war over Kosovo. One might have expected the theme to have dominated the year-end millennarianism, consi...
Street: Capitalism and Democracy "Don't Mix Very Well"
Zmag Article, February, 01 2000
Paul Street
Street's ZSpace page
Economic globalization enthusiasts like Bill Clinton, Madeline Albright, Tony Blair, New York Times foreign policy columnist Thomas Friedman, and the unelected officials of the World Trade Organization repeat a classic Cold War mistake by cl...
Pilger: Hidden Agendas
Zmag Article, November, 01 1999
John Pilger
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Pilger NY: New Press, 1999, pbk. 424 pp. Review by Anthony Arnove John Pilger is perhaps best known in the United States for his documentary Death of a Nation, a stunning expose on the genocide in East Timor. He has wri...
Chomsky: World Order and its Rules
Zmag Article, October, 01 1999
Noam Chomsky
Chomsky's ZSpace page
Chomsky Despite the desperate efforts of ideologues to prove that circles are square, there is no serious doubt that the NATO bombings further undermine what remains of the fragile structure of international law. The U.S. made that clear in th...
Chomsky: East Timor Questions & Answers
Zmag Article, October, 01 1999
Noam Chomsky
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Stephen R. Shalom, Noam Chomsky, & Michael Albert This issue of Z was being prepared as the situation worsened in East Timor. The following Q&A is intended to give readers background information on the situation and U.S. interests in the area....
Chomsky: Crisis in the Balkans
Zmag Article, May, 01 1999
Noam Chomsky
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Crisis in the Balkans
Chomsky: Hordes of Vigilantes & Popular elements defeat MAI, for now
Zmag Article, July, 01 1998
Noam Chomsky
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Noam Chomsky This is a follow-up to my article on the Multilateral Agreement on Investment (MAI) in the May issue. That went to press a few weeks before the April 27 target date for signing of the MAI by the OECD coun...
Chomsky: Domestic Constituencies
Zmag Article, May, 01 1998
Noam Chomsky
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Domestic Constituencies
Chomsky: Rogue States
Zmag Article, April, 01 1998
Noam Chomsky
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The concept of "rogue state" plays a pre-eminent role today in policy planning and analysis. The current Iraq crisis is only the latest example. Washington and London declared Iraq a "rogue state," a threat ...
Chomsky: Market Democracy in a Neoliberal Order: Doctrines and Reality
Zmag Article, November, 01 1997
Noam Chomsky
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Market Democracy in a Neoliberal Order: Doctrines and Reality
Chomsky: What Makes Mainstream Media Mainstream
Zmag Article, October, 01 1997
Noam Chomsky
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Noam Chomsky Part of the reason why I write about the media is because I am interested in the whole intellectual culture, and the part of it that is easiest to study is the media. It comes out every day. You can d...
Chomsky: Market Democracy in a Neoliberal Order: Doctrines and Reality
Zmag Article, September, 01 1997
Noam Chomsky
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Noam Chomsky I have been asked to speak on some aspect of academic or human freedom, an invitation that offers many choices. I will keep to some simple ones. Freedom without opportunity is a devil’s gift, and...
Chomsky: Expanding the Floor of the Cage, Part IIl
Zmag Article, June, 01 1997
Noam Chomsky
Chomsky's ZSpace page
This essay is part of the ZNet Classics series. Three times a week we will re-post an article that we think is of timeless importance. This one was first published June, 1997.
Chomsky: The Passion for Free Markets
Zmag Article, May, 01 1997
Noam Chomsky
Chomsky's ZSpace page
For more than half a century, the United Nations has been the main forum for the United States to try to create a world in its image, maneuvering with its allies ...
Chomsky: Expanding the Floor of the Cage, Part II
Zmag Article, April, 01 1997
Noam Chomsky
Chomsky's ZSpace page
As far as I know Clinton and Dole are moderate Republicans, more or less interchangeable representatives of the business community, old-time government insiders. Maybe there were personality differences. They have somewhat different constituencies...
