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Bohmer: Cuba Today
Commentary, April, 26 2001
Peter Bohmer
Bohmer's ZSpace page
Forty years ago on April 16th , 2001, in the Vedado section of Havana, Fidel Castro announced to the Cuban people and beyond that the Cuban revolution had become a socialist revolution. On April 16th, 2001 in the same place, Fidel reaffirmed CubaÕ...
Prashad: Hindutva For a Few Dollars a Day
Commentary, April, 25 2001
Vijay Prashad
Prashad's ZSpace page
Bangru Laxman asks the intrepid tehelka.com journalists to bring him $30,000 to their next meeting. He has already taken Rs. 1 lakh. "You can give dollars," said the President of the BJP. "You talk to us directly. We normally turn to [National Sec...
Peters: Purchasing for your Poodle: Consumerism Unleashed
Commentary, April, 24 2001
Cynthia Peters
Peters's ZSpace page
A refugee from the Sudan is in a grocery store in Fargo, North Dakota. Orphaned by war, traumatized by loss and violence, and having survived most his life on minimal rations, this young man, Peter, is understandably amazed by the endless of aisle...
Anderson: FTAA violence
Graphic, April, 23 2001
Kirk Anderson
Anderson's ZSpace page
FTAA, free trade, globalization, protest, media
Mokhiber: Stop the Torture Trade
Commentary, April, 23 2001
Russell Mokhiber
Mokhiber's ZSpace page
Torture predates the development of the corporation. But corporations are entangled in the modern-day commerce in devices of torture. In a new report, Amnesty International shines a spotlight on the makers of law enforcement equipment and how the...
Anderson: FTAA regulatory walls
Graphic, April, 22 2001
Kirk Anderson
Anderson's ZSpace page
FTAA, regulation
Anderson: Free Trade Area of America
Graphic, April, 22 2001
Kirk Anderson
Anderson's ZSpace page
ftaa, globalization, free trade
Weisbrot: Why We Need Free Trade for Life-Saving Medicines
Commentary, April, 22 2001
Mark Weisbrot
Weisbrot's ZSpace page
The story of the decade, and perhaps the century, has finally made it to the front pages: millions of people who could be saved are dying from AIDS. The reason for their unnecessary, premature, and often agonizing deaths is now becoming clear: it ...
Weiss: Colombia's Paramilitary
Znet Article, April, 22 2001
Adam Weiss
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The paramilitaries of Colombia are among the most brutal human rights violators in the world today. They are waging a war against the civilian population of Colombia, taking on the "dirty war" aspects of a counterinsurgency campaign that the Colo...
Guellec: The Abandonment of the patient In profit-driven health care
Commentary, April, 21 2001
Dorothy Guellec
Guellec's ZSpace page
Profit-driven healthcare is what we have today, but the end may be in sight, at least the former JAMA Editor George D. Lundberg (Journal of the American Medical Association) thinks so. In his explosive new book ÒSevered Trust: Why American Medicin...
Deutsch: Censorship Ain't Even Necessary
Graphic, April, 20 2001
Barry Deutsch
Deutsch's ZSpace page
FTAA, media, censorship
Deutsch: Effects of NAFTA
Graphic, April, 20 2001
Barry Deutsch
Deutsch's ZSpace page
NAFTA, FTAA, George Bush, Bush, George W. Bush, globalization
Choudry: Battling to derail the TNCs in New Zealand
Commentary, April, 20 2001
Aziz Choudry
Choudry's ZSpace page
The UNCTAD World Investment Report 2000 rated New Zealand as the most transnationalised economy in the OECD. Most of New Zealand's productive, financial, energy, retail, transport, media and communications sectors are now in the hands of transnati...
Administrator: Learning About Quebec and Canada
Commentary, April, 18 2001
Site Administrator
Administrator's ZSpace page
In a few weeks, activists will be traveling to Quebec to protest the attempt by government leaders to negotiate a Free Trade Areas of the Americas (FTAA). ThereÕs been much talk about the security and anti-protest measures being taken by the Canad...
Deutsch: Getting Priorities Straight in Cincinnati
Graphic, April, 17 2001
Barry Deutsch
Deutsch's ZSpace page
police, police brutality, Cincinnati, police shootings, cops, racism, race
Rosenberg: Warming up the cold war
Graphic, April, 17 2001
Martha Rosenberg
Rosenberg's ZSpace page
arms race, iron curtain
Wise: 15 Dead in Ohio: The Black and the Blue in Cincinnati
Commentary, April, 17 2001
Tim Wise
Wise's ZSpace page
Sometimes, folks don't even bother hiding their racism. Take Keith Fangman, President of the Cincinnati Fraternal Order of Police. In the wake of this past week's uprising to protest the killing of Tim Thomas and fourteen other black men by his co...
Edwards: To The Mad House With Them
Commentary, April, 16 2001
David Edwards
Edwards's ZSpace page
In his study of obedience in modern society, psychologist Stanley Milgram wrote, "There is always some element of bad form in objecting to the destructive course of events, or indeed, in making it a topic of conversation." Milgram noted that even ...
Drda: Elementary Economic Education
Graphic, April, 15 2001
Darrin Drda
Drda's ZSpace page
elementary, economic, education, free trade, Greenspan
Rosenberg: Back to the Arms Race
Graphic, April, 15 2001
Martha Rosenberg
Rosenberg's ZSpace page
cold war, nuclear proliferation
