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Cevoli: The Freeze: A Look Back
Zmag Article, July, 01 1998
Catherine Cevoli
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It was the summer of 1992, and I was watching the second presidential debate. George Bush was explaining how Reagan’s military build-up ended the Cold War. “The Russians couldn’t keep up and it destroyed them,...
Staff: A Progressive Online Distribution Center?
Zmag Article, July, 01 1998
Z Staff
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Suppose this Fall three different companies release new “electronic book” products. These are book size “consoles” weighing a pound or two, with a very readable screen meant to replace books (and/or magazines...
Crotty: The Korean Struggle
Zmag Article, July, 01 1998
James Crotty
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& Gary Dymski Just a few months after getting a clean bill of economic health from the OECD in mid 1997, South Korea’s economy plunged into a foreign exchange crisis. By December the Korean government had signed a loan agreeme...
Zarate-laun: The War On Drugs From The Supply Side
Zmag Article, July, 01 1998
Cecilia Zarate-laun
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The War On Drugs From The Supply Side
Barsamian: Let's Fight the Bastards: Believing in the common good
Zmag Article, June, 01 1998
David Barsamian
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Street, by Wall Street and for Wall Street." HIGHTOWER: Bingo. And now it’s not just Wall Street, but the Japanese and the European conglomerates as well, the new global economy. Are we looking here, then, at an El Niñ...
Herman: Pol Pot's Death In The Propaganda System
Zmag Article, June, 01 1998
Edward Herman
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The death of Pol Pot on April 15, 1998 unleashed a media barrage of indignation and sanitized history that illustrates well their role as agents in a system of propaganda. While Pol Pot was undoubtedly a mass killer and evil fo...
Cagan: It Should Be Possible, It Has To Be Possible
Zmag Article, June, 01 1998
Leslie Cagan
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For over 30 years, Leslie Cagan has been a tireless organizer: from the Vietnam War to racism at home, from nuclear disarmament to lesbian/gay liberation, from fighting sexism to working agai...
Bacon: High-Tech Transportation Workers
Zmag Article, June, 01 1998
David Bacon
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High-Tech Transportation Workers
Vosters: The Celling of America
Zmag Article, June, 01 1998
Helen Vosters
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and Paul Wright Common Courage Press; 249 pp. Review by Helene Vosters Incarceration is a growth industry—crime pays. Now, from behind the cell doors of America’s modern day dungeons, prisoners speak out exposin...
Sferios: Population, Immigration, & the Environment
Zmag Article, June, 01 1998
Emanuel Sferios
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During March and April the national Sierra Club membership voted by a 20 percent margin against a ballot initiative which would have adopted a Club policy calling for a reduction in U.S. immigration. Out of the 78,069 members w...
Kolko: none
Zmag Article, May, 01 1998
Gabriel Kolko
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Routledge; 190 pp. Review by Asad Ismi What should a communist party do when it leads a nation to victory over the most powerful empire the world has ever known at the cost of three million lives? Build an equitable soci...
Chomsky: Domestic Constituencies
Zmag Article, May, 01 1998
Noam Chomsky
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Domestic Constituencies
Carter: Short Cuts
Zmag Article, May, 01 1998
Sandy Carter
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In the last decade the music industry has gradually discovered the music of American Indians. As a result, at least a small portion of the music buying public has started to hear sounds that have nothing to do with the Hollywoo...
Brecher: Resisting Concessions
Zmag Article, May, 01 1998
Jeremy Brecher
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While the number of strikes and strikers plummeted during the 1980s and 1990s, most of the major labor struggles that did take place were in resistance to management demands for concessions. Three of the most important—and...
Staff: Economics?
Zmag Article, May, 01 1998
Z Staff
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Robert Barro of Harvard recently was offered a $300,000 salary to jump to Columbia. In reaction, MIT’s Paul Krugman wrote in Microsoft’s online magazine, Slate: "the ability to do innovative economic researc...
Petras: The Post-Communist Generation
Zmag Article, May, 01 1998
James Petras
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The Soviet Union has transited from a repressive and authoritarian communist regime in which social welfare, full employment, and a secure old age predominated to a savage capitalism in which a small minority of Mafia business ...
Feldman: Years After The 1968 Columbia Revolt
Zmag Article, May, 01 1998
Bob Feldman
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solidarity with justice and freedom for others (in Vietnam and Harlem)—and by risking their own privileged futures, they forged meanings and discovered their own humanity. When several hundred students disrupted the status quo and defie...
Solomon: Media Beat
Zmag Article, May, 01 1998
Norman Solomon
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Sex-Scandal Coverage Evades Contradictions In the days since Kathleen Willey’s interview on "60 Minutes," media outlets have flooded us with renewed debates over President Clinton’s sexual conduct. But news coverage still fails to co...
Peters: The American Doll
Zmag Article, April, 01 1998
Cynthia Peters
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Zoe, my six-year-old, was practically vibrating with delight when she opened the big rectangular box and pulled out her first American Girl doll. It was her birthday. She had asked for Felicity—the "colonial era"...
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 ...
