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Dowd: Capitalism and Technology: To whose benefit, at what costs?
Commentary, June, 24 2000
Douglas Dowd
Dowd's ZSpace page
In 1917, as war ripped Europe apart, Einstein wrote to a friend that "Our much-praised technological progress, and civilization gene rally, could be compared to an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal." Subsequently, in showing that E=MC2,...
Herman: KOSOVO ONE YEAR LATER: FROM SERB REPRESSION TO NATO-SPONSORED ETHNIC CLEANSING
Commentary, June, 23 2000
Edward Herman
Herman's ZSpace page
Now a little more than one year after the ending of Nato's 78- day bombing of Yugoslavia and the beginning of Nato control of Kosovo (June 10-12, 1999), the mainstream media have been exceedingly reticent in offering the public serious retrospecti...
Wise: Membership Has It's Privileges: Thoughts on Acknowledging and Challenging Whiteness
Commentary, June, 22 2000
Tim Wise
Wise's ZSpace page
Being white means never having to think about it. James Baldwin said that many years ago, and it's perhaps the truest thing ever said about race in America. That's why I get looks of bewilderment whenever I ask, as I do when lecturing to a mostly ...
Author: Is globalization dangerous to our health?
Commentary, June, 21 2000
Guest Author
Author's ZSpace page
When asked about globalization, Margaret Thatcher, the former Prime Minister of Great Britain, replied, "There is no alternative." Her reply was shortened to "TINA," which some people think is a newly discovered law of nature. Yet, public resistan...
Anderson: Reality Television
Graphic, June, 20 2000
Kirk Anderson
Anderson's ZSpace page
reality television, reality tv, reality-based programming, survivor
Rebick: Pitch battle is at doors of Ontario legislature
Commentary, June, 20 2000
Judy Rebick
Rebick's ZSpace page
The Ontario Coalition against Poverty wanted to be heard. Ever since right-wing Ontario Premier Mike Harris was elected, the organization has tried everything to get the government to pay attention to the desperate straits facing poor and homeles...
Anderson: Hou$ing-rising tide
Graphic, June, 19 2000
Kirk Anderson
Anderson's ZSpace page
housing, poverty
Anderson: Missile Decoys
Graphic, June, 19 2000
Kirk Anderson
Anderson's ZSpace page
national missile defense, nmd, sdi, star wars, missile defense, missile decoys, missile technology
Solomon: VIRTUAL COMMANDMENTS OF THE DOT-COM FAITH
Commentary, June, 19 2000
Norman Solomon
Solomon's ZSpace page
Inside the temples of true believers, ardent faith has a way of prevailing. And so, in the Dot-Com year of 2000, vast numbers of followers seem eager to fulfill a sacred digital future.
Group: My Way
Graphic, June, 18 2000
Contagion Media Group
Group's ZSpace page
homophobia, Brian Souter, Scotland, Stagecoach, Coach USA, evangelical christians
Gonsalves: Stubborn facts versus thick skulls
Commentary, June, 18 2000
Sean Gonsalves
Gonsalves's ZSpace page
Sean Gonsalves Whoever coined the phrase Òfacts are stubborn thingsÓ has apparently never come across drug war advocates Ð a self-righteous bunch, undeterred by trivial matters of fact.
Anderson: Drug war in black & white
Graphic, June, 16 2000
Kirk Anderson
Anderson's ZSpace page
drug war, war on drugs, racial disparity, drugs, race
Chomsky: Credibility
Commentary, June, 16 2000
Noam Chomsky
Chomsky's ZSpace page
At a talk earlier this year, Chomsky was asked -- "KosovoÑwhat are the interests driving intervention? What do you foresee for the people of the region?"
Anderson: Southern Baptists
Graphic, June, 15 2000
Kirk Anderson
Anderson's ZSpace page
southern baptist convention, southern baptist
Anderson: Southern Baptists
Graphic, June, 15 2000
Kirk Anderson
Anderson's ZSpace page
southern baptist convention, southern baptist
Author: The Sport of Business/The Business of Sport in Media Ethics
Commentary, June, 14 2000
Guest Author
Author's ZSpace page
It is often asserted by conservatives, and widely taken as a fact by the general public, that the American news media are Òanti-business.Ó ItÕs a rather silly claim, given the capitalist/managerial framework in which U.S. journalists work, but it ...
Glick: History and Communications
Commentary, June, 13 2000
Ted Glick
Glick's ZSpace page
A few weeks ago I received a letter from someone who quoted Karl Marx as having once said, "History moves with the speed of communication." This quote struck me.
Group: An Offer You Can't Refuse?
Graphic, June, 12 2000
Contagion Media Group
Group's ZSpace page
prison labor, death penalty, imperialism, Uncle Sam
Herman: WHAT IS LIBERALISM?
Commentary, June, 12 2000
Edward Herman
Herman's ZSpace page
In a May 22 editorial in the liberal The American Prospect (TAP), which he edits along with Paul Starr, Robert Kuttner lauds radicals, for keeping moral demands to the fore and for pioneering on major issues that were central to democratic advance...
Wagner: Microsoft Ruling
Graphic, June, 11 2000
Pete Wagner
Wagner's ZSpace page
Bill Gates, Microsoft
