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Chomsky: Chomsky Comments on Milosevic Ouster, etc.
Commentary, October, 12 2000
Noam Chomsky
Chomsky's ZSpace page
A number of people in the ZNet forum system and elsewhere have raised questions about the prominent role they see assigned to US-NATO in the flood of commentary on recent events in Yugoslavia, "gloating over the victory of the opposition in Yugosl...
Deutsch: Why the Average American Goes to Hell
Graphic, October, 11 2000
Barry Deutsch
Deutsch's ZSpace page
iraq, israel, palestine, palestians, iraqis, sanctions, colombia, foreign policy, apathy
Mchombo: ROUNDING UP HOKERS IN MALAWI
Commentary, October, 11 2000
Sam Mchombo
Mchombo's ZSpace page
Sam Mchombo It is a matter of fact that AIDS has taken its toll on human life, with various African countries amongst the worst hit. It has also placed incredible economic burdens on most of those countries which, given the soaring costs of avail...
Shalom: Turmoil in Palestine: The Basic Context
Commentary, October, 10 2000
Stephen1 Shalom
Shalom's ZSpace page
As the occupied Palestinian territories suffer their worst paroxysm of violence in years, with the casualties, as always, overwhelmingly Palestinian, the mainstream media, also as always, focus on peripheral questions, offer misleading answers, an...
Author: Time to Take a Critical Look at Depo-Provera
Commentary, October, 09 2000
Guest Author
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My first experience with Depo-Provera was as a young welfare mother. I had just finished my first post-partum check-up after having had my second child. The doctor pronounced me in great health and then pulled out a syringe and a vial. I am just g...
Russell: Social Security, Work and Poverty
Commentary, October, 08 2000
Marta Russell
Russell's ZSpace page
It is a tight labor market and tight labor markets traditionally threaten to give workers more bargaining power from which to secure significant wage increases. Wall Street and investors get nervous about tight labor markets. They reckon that the ...
Pond-mcpherson: Death Takes a Vacation
Graphic, October, 07 2000
Scott Pond-mcpherson
Pond-mcpherson's ZSpace page
death penalty, capital punishment, murder, dna testing, justice, guilt, illinois
Cromwell: Supping with the devil
Commentary, October, 07 2000
David Cromwell
Cromwell's ZSpace page
When Chris Tuppen, a senior manager with British Telecom, was granted space a couple of years ago in a green pressure groupÕs magazine, he made a plea for business and the green movement to "settle their differences" and "work together". But what ...
Prashad: Nobody Hid This Crime: The Police Open Fire in Naidu.Com
Commentary, October, 06 2000
Vijay Prashad
Prashad's ZSpace page
This crime was committed under the shadow of the State Assembly in Hyderabad (Andhra Pradesh, India). For three quarters of an hour the guns of the police tore through the thousands of people, hundreds fell, two never to rise again. The streets co...
Guellec: RU puzzled, fed up?
Commentary, October, 05 2000
Dorothy Guellec
Guellec's ZSpace page
Last Thursday, September 28,2000, the landscape for abortion really changed. It has been a long time coming. The pill called RU-486 was developed in 1980. and in 1982 the first successful human testing was reported in France. After 10 long years o...
Deutsch: The New Hostage Crisis
Graphic, October, 04 2000
Barry Deutsch
Deutsch's ZSpace page
abortion, bush, gore, two-party system, third parties, feminism, feminists, reproductive rights, election
Weisbrot: Clinton in Colombia: The Ugly American
Commentary, October, 04 2000
Mark Weisbrot
Weisbrot's ZSpace page
When President Clinton announced his trip to Colombia, he said his purpose was "to seek peace, to fight illicit drugs, to build its economy, and to deepen democracy."
Marquez: The Enigma of Chavez
Znet Article, October, 04 2000
Gabriel garcia Marquez
Marquez's ZSpace page
[Translated by Mark McHarry] On December 6, 1998, Hugo Chávez won the presidency of Venezuela, his sixth consecutive election victory. Who really is this man who has awakened as many hopes as fears? With his characteristic style, the author of On...
Rebick: The extreme views of Stockwell Day
Commentary, October, 03 2000
Judy Rebick
Rebick's ZSpace page
Gloria Steinem once quipped that she was going to ask for political asylum in Canada. Michael Moore too talks about how much more progressive is Canada than the U.S. And up until recently, they have been right. In the long shadow cast by free trad...
Reinhart: Mount Temple
Commentary, October, 02 2000
Tanya Reinhart
Reinhart's ZSpace page
In today's setting, it is hard to recall that just a few years ago, only some fringe lunatics demanded Israeli control of 'Mount-temple'. Every time they tried to enter the place and pray, Israeli police would be there to block their entrance or d...
Bronski: Gay Movies
Zmag Article, October, 01 2000
Michael Bronski
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There was a point in film history when almost any film with gay or lesbian characters or content was defined as transgressive. In the 1960s such films as Victim, The Children’s Hour and Compulsion, with their tastefully handled homosex...
Chomsky: none
Zmag Article, October, 01 2000
Noam Chomsky
Chomsky's ZSpace page
Common Courage Press Review by Michael Hardesty For a couple of months in the spring and summer of 1999 many western liberals thought they were reliving the glorious days of World War II—the good war—as the social democrats...
Peck: Remilitarizing Africa for Corporate Profit
Zmag Article, October, 01 2000
John e. Peck
Peck's ZSpace page
Remilitarizing Africa for Corporate Profit
Simon: Texaco's Ecological Terrorism of the Ecuadorian Amazon
Zmag Article, October, 01 2000
Suzanne Simon
Simon's ZSpace page
Texaco's Ecological Terrorism of the Ecuadorian Amazon
