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Reinhart: THE VOTE THAT CAN DECIDE
Commentary, February, 05 2001
Tanya Reinhart
Reinhart's ZSpace page
Beneath the surface, there is deep anxiety in Israeli society: The media is full of reports of war preparations: "Home Front Command to stage 'mother of all exercises' " (JP, Jan 22); "Ministry tells purchasers to prepare for emergency" (Ha'aretz,...
Raptis: Quake in India
Commentary, February, 04 2001
Nikos Raptis
Raptis's ZSpace page
Today (Jan. 31, '01) the number of dead from the earthquake that hit India six days ago is estimated "by officials and aid workers to be from 15,000 to 100,000." The higher estimate came from the Indian Defence Minister, George Fernandes, as his "...
Author: The PanAm 103 Verdict
Commentary, February, 03 2001
Guest Author
Author's ZSpace page
The papers are filled with pictures of happy relatives of the victims of the 1988 bombing of PanAm 103. A Libyan, Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed al Megrahi, was just found guilty of the bombing by a Scottish court in the Hague, his co-defendant, Al Amin Kh...
Albert: Resolving the Pacifica Crisis Revisited
Commentary, February, 02 2001
Michael Albert
Albert's ZSpace page
When an institution like Pacifica devolves into dysfunctional infighting involving police interventions, lock outs, firings and protest resignations, rallies and recirminations, many possible causes invite investigation.Ê
Street: How Dubya Got To Be President
Zmag Article, February, 01 2001
Paul Street
Street's ZSpace page
By Paul Street On January 20, George W. Bush began his reign as perhaps one of the meanest and certainly one of the dumbest presidents in the history of the United States. He becomes the chief executive of the world’s most powerful n...
Herman: Russia's Medical System Collapse as "Freedom's Toll"
Zmag Article, February, 01 2001
Edward Herman
Herman's ZSpace page
Russia's Medical System Collapse as "Freedom's Toll"
Sargent: Feminists Are Undermining Our Society On Purpose!
Zmag Article, February, 01 2001
Lydia Sargent
Sargent's ZSpace page
Welcome to Hotel Satire, where a Bush is back in the White House, at last. Surely he will avert the crisis that has been brewing for the last EIGHT years—a feminist takevoer of the White House, not to mention that crucial ideological ar...
Chomsky: Voting Patterns and Abstentions
Zmag Article, February, 01 2001
Noam Chomsky
Chomsky's ZSpace page
In commenting on the November 2000 elections (Z January), I only hinted at important considerations that lend further insight into the functioning of contemporary democracy: patterns of voting and abstention. Useful information on these matt...
Fitz: Who Should Nominate Political Candidates?
Zmag Article, February, 01 2001
Don Fitz
Fitz's ZSpace page
Who Should Nominate Political Candidates?
Hahnel: Imperialism, Human Rights, and Protectionism
Zmag Article, February, 01 2001
Robin Hahnel
Hahnel's ZSpace page
Recently I was asked to answer some questions about tactical choices facing the movement against corporate sponsored globalization. Unfortunately, people and groups inside the movement differ in their answers to these questions, and those di...
Bronski: Feminism and Hollywood
Zmag Article, February, 01 2001
Michael Bronski
Bronski's ZSpace page
Feminism and Hollywood
Carter: Best of 2000
Zmag Article, February, 01 2001
Sandy Carter
Carter's ZSpace page
The pop world of 2000 was a dreadful mess, still dominated by boy band bromides, naughty sweet boy toys, rap-metal meatheads, and gangsta nihilism. Against that backdrop rises the sensational Eminem whose critically hailed and mass selling T...
Bacon: Junked Workers Test NAFTA
Zmag Article, February, 01 2001
David Bacon
Bacon's ZSpace page
Plant managers called them the “jonkeados”—the junked ones. They were workers who got so sick, so chronically disabled, that they were given special jobs. But they weren’t put on “light duty,” to tide them over un...
Minnich: COSATU Conference
Zmag Article, February, 01 2001
Rebecca Minnich
Minnich's ZSpace page
On a brilliantly sunny November afternoon in Cape Town, 12 seasoned labor organizers are gathered in conference at the Western Cape headquarters of the Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU). For weeks COSATU leaders in the Western ...
Urfer: Her Majesty's Tireless Threatens Mediterranean
Zmag Article, February, 01 2001
John laforge and bonnie Urfer
Urfer's ZSpace page
Her Majesty's Tireless Threatens Mediterranean
Zarate-laun: Introduction To Putumayo
Zmag Article, February, 01 2001
Cecilia Zarate-laun
Zarate-laun's ZSpace page
Introduction To Putumayo
Grossman: Aerospace Executives On Bush Star Wars Team
Zmag Article, February, 01 2001
Karl Grossman
Grossman's ZSpace page
U.S. preparations to wage war in and from space will be getting a huge boost with the assumption of power of George W. Bush and Richard Cheney. They represent a confluence of corporate and right-wing political power pushing for expanded s...
Gallagher: Upset in San Francisco
Zmag Article, February, 01 2001
Tom Gallagher
Gallagher's ZSpace page
Mayor Willie Brown recently donated one of his famous fedoras for a time capsule that will show future San Franciscans what their city was like in 2000. The mayor’s generosity may have been prompted by the feeling that he hasn’t su...
Giroux: Zero Tolerance, Part 2
Zmag Article, February, 01 2001
Henry a. Giroux
Giroux's ZSpace page
Zero Tolerance, Part 2
Mclaughlin-alcock: Black Farmers Asssociation
Zmag Article, February, 01 2001
Colin Mclaughlin-alcock
Mclaughlin-alcock's ZSpace page
The Reverend Willie J. Burns is a black family farmer. Years ago, increasingly high operating costs in an increasingly unprofitable business forced him to turn to the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) for financial help. He applied for a...
