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Pettifer: Mi General
Zmag Article, April, 01 2000
Ann Pettifer
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Early this year, the British Home Secretary, Jack Straw, announced that he was minded to send General Augusto Pinochet back to Chile. Pinochet has been detained in Britain for 18 months awaiting extradition to Spain, ...
Gateley: Reinventing Government At The NRC
Zmag Article, April, 01 2000
Susan peterson Gateley
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As deregulation sweeps across the market place for electric power, public utilities are quickly changing the way they do business. No area of change will have more effect on public health, safety, and the environment than that pe...
Arnove: “Sanctions on Iraq: The ‘Propaganda Campaign’â€
Commentary, April, 01 2000
Anthony Arnove
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Hans von Sponeck resigns March 31 as the director of the United Nations humanitarian program in Iraq. Normally, the comings and goings of UN officials isn’t a subject for headlines or a source of encouragement for activists, but von Sponec...
Author: ÒSanctions on Iraq: The ÔPropaganda CampaignÕÓ
Commentary, April, 01 2000
Guest Author
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Hans von Sponeck resigns March 31 as the director of the United Nations humanitarian program in Iraq. Normally, the comings and goings of UN officials isnÕt a subject for headlines or a source of encouragement for activists, but von Sponeck is now...
Georgakas: New Jersey Cubans Divided Equally Over Return of Elian
Commentary, March, 29 2000
Dan Georgakas
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A public opinion poll released by the New Jersey City University in early February had some unexpected findings regarding the views of Hudson County residents about American-Cuban relations. In huge headlines The Jersey Journal declared: Hudson t...
Herman: EXPORTING DEMOCRACY, OR A FAVORABLE CLIMATE OF INVESTMENT?
Commentary, March, 28 2000
Edward Herman
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The great nineteenth century U.S. agnostic and lecturer, Robert Green Ingersoll, used to delight in telling the story of the test of true faith imposed on those seeking entry into heaven by the heavenly gatekeeper (e.g., in his lecture on the "Mis...
Sommers: Understanding the March 26th Russian Election
Commentary, March, 23 2000
Jeffrey Sommers
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Russian democracy rode high in the late 1980s and into the early 1990s. Glasnost created a genuine culture of citizen participation in political life. Sterile arguments remain over whether this was done to preserve communism or tear it down. Whate...
Bonpane: A DEPARTMENT OF PEACE?
Commentary, March, 18 2000
BlasŽ Bonpane
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A few months ago I met with Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio) and he told me of his plans to formulate a Department of Peace for the United States Government. He now has a draft of a bill to establish such a department.
Schechter: 'WE ARE THE WORLD' AS AN OLDIE: "BEEN THERE, DONE THAT"
Commentary, March, 17 2000
Danny Schechter
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As the story is told, it was a slow news day at NBC back in 1985 when staffers looked up at an incoming satellite feed on one of their many monitors. The newsroom fell silent as a parade of harrowing images from the dying fields of Ethiopia stream...
Gonsalves: This is not a campaign issue?
Commentary, March, 11 2000
Sean Gonsalves
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Thanks to the state department and our "adversarial" free press, even those who consider themselves well-informed about foreign policy have tremendous gaps in their knowledge when it comes to our policy in Iraq.
Herman: Russia: U.S. Rival, Dependent, Victim
Zmag Article, March, 01 2000
Edward Herman
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The U.S. establishments and medias treatment of post-Soviet Russia has been confused, sometimes hostile, and more often than not, apologetic. This is because Russia occupies the odd position of being simultaneously a rival and ob...
Ross: The Spectacle of Standards & Summits
Zmag Article, March, 01 2000
E. Wayne Ross
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In 1989, President Bush called the nation’s governors together for the first national education summit. They set goals and tried to develop ways to measure progress, but were stymied by resistance to federal interference in local school deci...
Thomas: Bill Bradley: Progressives' Pal or Wall Street Stooge?
Zmag Article, March, 01 2000
Martin Thomas
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In the next decade, the most pressing issue likely to face the president will involve disputes over international economics, finance, and trade. It is important we have a president who needs no tutoring, says David M. Smick, former chi...
Cunningham: SELF-DECEPTION MEANS NEVER HAVING TO SAY YOU'RE SORRY
Commentary, February, 29 2000
Philip Cunningham
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"The Chinese people must speak up to protest the Japanese government for refusing to acknowledge the historical misdeed of the 1937 Nanjing Massacre." These are the words of an unknown hacker who added a new twist to the seven decade old Sino-Japa...
Gonsalves: The Debate Over Institutional Values
Commentary, February, 19 2000
Sean Gonsalves
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A few lingering thoughts on the whole WTO event: WTO supporters, which includes Clinton and his "liberal" media, say they are for freedom. Front-line and armchair protesters - not to be confused with the handful of vandals that destroyed property ...
Landau: Elian's Miami Family May Be Drunk Drivers And Criminals, But They Love Him And Believe In Freedom
Commentary, February, 18 2000
Saul Landau
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Since last December, Eli‡n Gonzalez, the 6-year-old Cuban refugee boy, has become for those who love gossip about the living what Jon Benet Ramsey was for the morbid Enquirer readers. Who killed Jon Benet remains a police issue.
Shalom: Green Lights and Red Herrings
Commentary, February, 11 2000
Stephen1 Shalom
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In December 1975, after receiving a green light from U.S. President Gerald and Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, Indonesian President Suharto launched an invasion of East Timor. The weapons for the attack came from the United States. "Of course ...
Naiman: A Small Victim of the Embargo
Commentary, February, 08 2000
Robert Naiman
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There's great consternation in Cuba and Florida over the fate of Elian Gonzalez. If he were from any other country, he would already be home with his father. Yet only a handful of the media reports mention the extreme U.S. embargo that led to the ...
Street: Capitalism and Democracy "Don't Mix Very Well"
Zmag Article, February, 01 2000
Paul Street
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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...
Barsamian: Monopolies, NPR, & PBS
Zmag Article, February, 01 2000
David Barsamian
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Robert McChesney is Professor of Communications at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is a leading critic of corporate media. He is the author of Telecommunications, Mass Media and Democracy. His latest book is Rich Media, Po...


