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Peters: Parenting
Zmag Article, September, 01 1997
Cynthia Peters
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Parenting It Takes A Whole Baby Product And Toy Industry To Raise A Child By Cynthia Peters Buy a copy of the Prenatal Classroom and learn how to give your fetus a jumpstart on learning. Have a &quo...
Sargent: The Church of Chastity Belts
Zmag Article, September, 01 1997
Lydia Sargent
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The Church of Chastity Belts
Herman: Pol Pot And Kissinger
Zmag Article, September, 01 1997
Edward Herman
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Edward S. Herman The hunt is on once again for war criminals, with ongoing trials of accused Serbs in The Hague, NATO raids seizing and killing other accused Serbs, and much discussion and enthusiasm in the media for bringi...
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...
Solomon: Clinton And JFK -- Media Myth, R.I.P.
Zmag Article, September, 01 1997
Norman Solomon
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Clinton And JFK -- Media Myth, R.I.P.
Lewiston: Motown '97
Zmag Article, September, 01 1997
Tom Lewiston
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Tom Lewiston In one of Labor’s historic strongholds and the birthplace of the United Auto Workers’ Union war has again been declared on the working class. Near Flint, Michigan the city made famous by ...
Gaal: A Tale of Fear and Greed
Zmag Article, September, 01 1997
Chris Gaal
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A Tale of Fear and Greed
Giroux: Disney, Southern Baptists, & Children's Culture
Zmag Article, September, 01 1997
Henry a. Giroux
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Henry A. Giroux The Southern Baptist Convention in June generated a lot of media attention when it called for a boycott of the Disney Company for promoting "immoral ideologies such as homose...
Kovel: Bad News for Fast Food: What's wrong with McDonald's?
Zmag Article, September, 01 1997
Joel Kovel
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In 1990, London Greenpeace circulated a six-page leaflet entitled "What’s Wrong With McDonald’s? Everything they don’t want you to know." The ever-vigilant fast-food merchant did what it routinely does in such instance...
Shalom: New Jersey Jokes
Zmag Article, July, 01 1997
Stephen Shalom
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R. Shalom Nineteen ninety-seven is an off-year for mainstream electoral politics in the United States—there are no House or Senate races and only two states are holding gubernatorial contests—so con...
Herman: The Economics of the Rich
Zmag Article, July, 01 1997
Edward Herman
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S. Herman Back in 1849, the British economist Nassau Senior chided those defending trade unions and minimum wage regulations for expounding an "economics of the poor." The idea that he and his estab...
Rapping: The "Ellen" Event
Zmag Article, July, 01 1997
Elayne Rapping
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Rapping When Gil Scott-Heron famously sang, back in the 1960s, that "the revolution [would] not be televised," we all knew what he was talking about. Yet, of all the now legendary "errors" we o...
Petras: El Salvador Elections
Zmag Article, July, 01 1997
James Petras
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Petras The signing of a peace accord between the guerrilla commanders and the right-wing government in 1992 promised a period of freedom, prosperity, and peace. Overseas donors would contribute funds for reco...
Gibson: In Memory: Paulo Freire
Zmag Article, July, 01 1997
Rich Gibson
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Gibson Paulo Freire, the radical Brazilian "Vagabond of the Obvious" and the most widely known educator in the world, died on May 2, 1997 in Sao Paulo, Brazil. He was 75. Freire drew on humanis...
Archer: Export, Eh?
Zmag Article, July, 01 1997
Simon Archer
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Archer In January the Canadian Trade Minister, Art Eggleton, came down with competitive advantage flu and mused that the state should not support or protect Canadian culture, but instead "free" it for ex...
Parenti: Rural Prison as Colonial Master
Zmag Article, June, 01 1997
Christian Parenti
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Christian Parenti In 1964 a tsunami swept over Crescent City, California completely destroying the downtown. Only nine people died, but the town—nestled just below the Oregon border—never recovered. It w...
Herman: Word Tricks & Propaganda
Zmag Article, June, 01 1997
Edward Herman
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Edward S. Herman The mainstream media carry out their propaganda service on behalf of the corporate and political establishment in many ways: by choice of topics addressed (government rather than corporate abuses,...
Johnson: Human Rights Watch World Report 1997: Events Of 1996
Zmag Article, June, 01 1997
Tom Johnson
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In January 1997, the international human rights organization, Human Rights Watch, released its seventh annual report on the worldwide condition of human rights. The report, overall, finds human rights’ cond...
James: Haiti: The Roof Is Leaking
Zmag Article, June, 01 1997
Clara James
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Clara James On April 6, Haiti held elections to fill one-third of the Senate seats and positions on over 500 communal and town councils. The only problem was, most Haitians did not go to the polls. Only about 5 pe...
