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Podur: Mexico's 'Modern Right'
Commentary, June, 11 2001
Justin Podur
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In March, while they were on the March of Indigenous Dignity, on their way to Mexico City to press for the passage of the law on indigenous rights and culture, the Zapatistas berated the 'hardliners' in the government who called them terrorists an...
Flanders: Beltway Brinkmanship - Nothing to risk our rights on
Commentary, June, 08 2001
Laura Flanders
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My grandmother's spirits were downcast last week because of baseball (the Red Sox lost lead of the American League.) But they soared when she remembered the Senate: "Just thinking about Jeffords cheers me up," she beamed. And this Memorial Day, sh...
Pilger: Tweedledum and Tweedledee seek your votes
Commentary, June, 05 2001
John Pilger
Pilger's ZSpace page
The singular achievement of Tony Blair and his new right movement is the convergence of British parliamentary politics into two almost identical factions. While journalists try to offer the pretence of choice, the public is more aware than ever of...
Solomon: SIMULATING DEMOCRACY CAN BE A VIRTUAL BREEZE
Commentary, June, 02 2001
Norman Solomon
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Few media eyebrows went up when the World Bank recently canceled a global meeting set for Barcelona in late June -- and shifted it to the Internet. Thousands of street demonstrators would have been in Spain's big northeastern port city to confront...
Albert: The Trajectory Of Struggle
Zmag Article, June, 01 2001
Michael Albert
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The Trajectory Of Struggle
Guardino: Akwesasne Border Action
Zmag Article, June, 01 2001
Matt Guardino
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Akwesasne Border Action
Herman: Israel's Approved Ethnic Cleansing, Part 3
Zmag Article, June, 01 2001
Edward Herman
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Israel's Approved Ethnic Cleansing, Part 3
Schwartz: Resistance in Peru
Zmag Article, June, 01 2001
Eric Schwartz
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Resistance in Peru
Author: Britain's Manmade BSE Disaster: Boundless and Without Borders
Commentary, May, 30 2001
Guest Author
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In 1985, a mystery disease now known as Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy [BSE or mad cow disease] first appeared in a dairy cow from Kent, England. Within the space of three years, the annual number of BSE-infected cattle in Britain rose to 731. B...
Pilger: The big threat in the Middle East is Israel, not Iraq
Commentary, May, 27 2001
John Pilger
Pilger's ZSpace page
As George Bush escalates the new cold war begun by his father, the attention of his planners is moving to the Middle East. Stories about the threat of Iraq's "weapons of mass destruction" are again appearing in the American press, this time concen...
Ali: BLAIR AND BERLOSCUNI
Commentary, May, 27 2001
Tariq Ali
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I was in Turin at the Book Fair recently participating in a round-table to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the left-wing daily paper Il Manifesto, when I read that while the French and German governments were maintaining a certain cool, Tony Bla...
Bongard: Advantages of an Active Democracy Ð in numbers
Commentary, May, 26 2001
Christian Bongard
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In the West, we continuously confuse the terms ÒconsumerÓ and ÒcitizenÓ: what the Old Greeks used to know, we do not know anymore. When we speak of representative and other forms of democracy, namely a participative or active democracy, we only cr...
Author: Bush's Dangerous Star Wars Pipe Dream
Commentary, May, 25 2001
Guest Author
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President Bush's "Star Wars" speech reminded me of a conversation I had late in the Clinton era with Ezra Vogel, who served headed the State Department's Asia intelligence during the first Clinton Administration. He had returned to Harvard, but wa...
Author: Bush's Dangerous Star Wars Pipe Dream
Commentary, May, 25 2001
Guest Author
Author's ZSpace page
President Bush's "Star Wars" speech reminded me of a conversation I had late in the Clinton era with Ezra Vogel, who served headed the State Department's Asia intelligence during the first Clinton Administration. He had returned to Harvard, but wa...
Bond: Ghana's hydro-class struggles
Commentary, May, 23 2001
Patrick Bond
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ACCRA -- Notwithstanding the horrific soccer stadium disaster in which at least 165 people were killed in a police-incited stampede on May 9, the past week offered signs of genuine hope in Ghana.
Thrupkaew: A Letter from Cuba
Commentary, May, 22 2001
Noy Thrupkaew
Thrupkaew's ZSpace page
I recently traveled to Cuba as part of a U.S. women's delegation, sponsored by the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, Sojourner, and Hermanas, an organization dedicated to building solidarity between U.S. and Caribbean women. Away...
Gonsalves: Results we are after
Commentary, May, 16 2001
Sean Gonsalves
Gonsalves's ZSpace page
When that U.S. spy plane was snooping around the coast of China, crashed into a Chinese military plane, killing its pilot, the "liberal" media swung into action and gave us constant coverage of the international incident.
Choudry: Market Missionaries Flock To The Pacific
Commentary, May, 12 2001
Aziz Choudry
Choudry's ZSpace page
ÒYour nonsense spreads to Pacific beliefs like the plague bubonic/ speaking tongues parallel to concrete jungle mumbo.Ó Ê (Reverse Resistance, by King Kapisi) Samoan hiphop artist King Kapisi slams colonialism and missionary beliefs on his Savag...
Glick: On Historical Moments
Commentary, May, 07 2001
Ted Glick
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Organized efforts to bring about significant reforms need a number of things if they are to be successful. One is an ability to discern when, for whatever the reasons may be, there has been a change from what might be called the "keep plugging awa...
