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Ellner: President Hugo Chavez Of Venezuela

Zmag Article, December, 01 1999 Steve Ellner
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Ellner Venezuela’s president Lt. Col. Hugo Chávez frequently makes public appearances in military fatigues and tells his audience that he is "dressed for battle." He adds that his words are ammunition and his targets are those a...

Herman: The "Permanent Interests" Budget

Zmag Article, October, 01 1999 Edward Herman
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S. Herman What James Madison in the Federalist Papers referred to as the "permanent interests" of society—i.e., property owners, or Veblen’s "substantial citizens"—are doing extremely well in the New World Or...

Pollack: Nasdaq Japan

Zmag Article, October, 01 1999 Andy Pollack
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Andy Pollack Last week the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), operator of New York’s Nasdaq exchange, announced it would open a new "electronic stock market" in Tokyo in the last quarter of the year 2000,...

Raptis: European Labor

Commentary, September, 19 1999 Nikos Raptis
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The German word "Reichstag" means parliament. In colloquial German it also means the parliament building. It is not an exaggeration to say that this building, the Reichstag, is a very important part of the history of the 20th century.

Chomsky: Eight Question on Kibbutzim: Answers from Noam Chomsky Questions from Nikos Raptis

Commentary, August, 24 1999 Noam Chomsky
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The origins were in part European libertarian socialist thought. In part they were in a kind of romantic "back to the land" movement, suffused sometimes with Tolstoyan anarchism, in other cases part of a (very conscious) effort to reverse the "inv...

Burchill: Marx on Globalization

Commentary, July, 24 1999 Scott Burchill
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In the 1850s, Karl Marx believed that the spread of capitalism, or what today we would call globalization, was transforming human society from a collection of separate nation-states to a world capitalist society where the principal form of conflic...

Peters: Mentoring Toward Revolution

Commentary, June, 08 1999 Cynthia Peters
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Do you have mentors in your life? Are you anyone's mentor? Could we positively affect social change movements by building mentoring relationships into our political work? I think we could.

Mokhiber: Killing Work

Commentary, May, 21 1999 Russell Mokhiber
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Want to kill somebody and get away with a slap on the wrist? You'd be hard pressed to find a better way than being a employer who endangers his or her employees.

Herman: The Godfather's New World Order

Zmag Article, May, 01 1999 Edward Herman
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The Godfather's New World Order

Albert: The Kosovo/NATO Conflict

Zmag Article, May, 01 1999 Michael Albert
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The Kosovo/NATO Conflict

Chomsky: Crisis in the Balkans

Zmag Article, May, 01 1999 Noam Chomsky
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Crisis in the Balkans

Bacon: Miners' Strike Broken in Cananea

Zmag Article, May, 01 1999 David Bacon
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Miners' Strike Broken in Cananea

Manski: 97 Hours of Struggle

Zmag Article, May, 01 1999 Ben Manski
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97 Hours of Struggle

Weisbrot: The Debacle in Kosovo

Commentary, April, 08 1999 Mark Weisbrot
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The bombing of Yugoslavia is turning out to be a foreign policy debacle of disastrous proportions, yet most of the chattering class insists that we can turn things around if we only commit more troops. We have heard that before.

Pozzi: Labor Repression in Argentina

Commentary, April, 03 1999 Pablo Pozzi
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On Monday, February 16, 1998, in Usuhuaia, the Argentina's southernmost city in Tierra del Fuego, the courts finally declared the innocence of steelworker leader Oscar Martinez.