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Edwards: Just War and A Dissident's Role
Znet Article, December, 07 2002
David Edwards
Edwards's ZSpace page
In response to our recent Media Alert Update, "George Monbiot Responds on Iraq and 'Just War'" (December 2, 2002), Monbiot has sent the following response: Dear MediaLens, Two issues appear to divide us, one philosophical, one practical. The ph...
Kolhatkar: Outwardly Progressive, Internally Corporate: Pacifica's Next Challenge
Znet Article, September, 29 2002
Sonali Kolhatkar
Kolhatkar's ZSpace page
In an article on Pacifica titled "Gloves Off", Michael Albert wrote: "progressive organizations should employ partic...
Albert: Democracy Is Coming To Pacifica!
Znet Article, September, 29 2002
Michael Albert
Albert's ZSpace page
This essay was written in early January 2002, ten months ago, immediately after the turning over of Pacifica to new hands, resolving the years-long struggle with the old bosses. The only addition is the subtitle... Pacifica’s strug...
Parrish: A Moment Of Deep Hope
Znet Article, September, 21 2002
Geov Parrish
Parrish's ZSpace page
Recently I had the tremendous honor, and pleasure, of sitting down for a conversation with one of the true heroes of global efforts to create a more equitable and sustainable world. Indian physicist Vandana Shiva is one of the most renowned and re...
Fisk: A Strange Kind Of Freedom
Znet Article, July, 13 2002
Robert Fisk
Fisk's ZSpace page
Inside the First Congregational Church of Berkeley, the Californian audience had been struck silent. Dennis Bernstein, the Jewish host of KPFA Radio's Flashpoint current affairs programme, was reading some recent e-mails that he had received from ...
Herman: Susan Douglas, And The Nation, On Pacifica
Znet Article, April, 15 2002
Edward Herman
Herman's ZSpace page
The Nation magazine has had a serious conflict of interest in reporting on the Pacifica struggle. During the reign of the old Pacifica management, the magazine had its own program on Pacifica's Los Angeles station KPFK, with the program run by Con...
Buffa: Pacifica Radio Crisis Is Settled
Zmag Article, April, 01 2002
Andrea Buffa
Buffa's ZSpace page
Pacifica Radio Crisis Is Settled
Galeano: Black Humor
Znet Article, March, 14 2002
Eduardo Galeano
Galeano's ZSpace page
Joke # 1 Adding lead to gasoline was a little trick invented in the U.S. Back in the nineteen twenties, leaded gasoline became the norm in America and in the rest of the world. By the time the United States government banned it in 1986, it was kil...
Solomon: DETERMINED STRUGGLE BRINGS A RADIO NETWORK BACK TO LIFE
Znet Article, January, 20 2002
Norman Solomon
Solomon's ZSpace page
The art of the deal is a media dream: Savvy achievers get to the top. Guile and artifice -- even outright deception -- may well be part of the game, but there's nothing like success. One way or another, money and centralized power end up calling t...
Albert: Democracy Is Coming To Pacifica
Znet Article, January, 11 2002
Michael Albert
Albert's ZSpace page
Pacifica’s struggle is in a new phase, about to take a big leap forward. Countless activists have pursued diverse strategies and have resisted recriminations and have now finally overcome reactionary obstacles. A majority progressive inter...
Mokhiber: Killing Africa with Kindness
Commentary, September, 16 2000
Russell Mokhiber
Mokhiber's ZSpace page
With the announcement of a billion-dollar-a-year U.S. government loan program for African countries to buy AIDS drugs, the fight to deliver affordable drugs to people with HIV/AIDS in Africa and elsewhere in the developing world has entered its th...
Albert: What's Napster'and Freenet?
Zmag Article, September, 01 2000
Michael Albert
Albert's ZSpace page
The New York Times business pages have lately featured reports of a music industry crisis. Many leftists don’t read these pages, but this is big news for everyone, perhaps especially for the left. Napster Napster is a computer p...
Albert: Media & Democracy
Zmag Article, December, 01 1997
Michael Albert
Albert's ZSpace page
Michael Albert The Second Media and Democracy Congress was held this past October 16–18. It was an auspicious affair, bringing together nearly 1,000 folks from all manner of media operations and projects arou...
Albert: What Makes Alternative Media Alternative?
Zmag Article, October, 01 1997
Michael Albert
Albert's ZSpace page
Is the Nation an alternative media institution? What about Dollars and Sense or Mother Jones, or, for that matter, Z Magazine? Do these institutions make decisions in an acceptably alternative manner? Do they treat workers prop...
