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Zmag Article Glick: A Unity Movement Begins to Emerge

Zmag Article, February, 01 2000 Ted Glick
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It is the worst of times, and it is the best of times.” With these words Victoria Jackson Gray-Adams, one of the meeting’s conveners, described the context within which 45 leaders from the Independent Progressive Politics Network m...

Zmag Article Barsamian: Monopolies, NPR, & PBS

Zmag Article, February, 01 2000 David Barsamian
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Robert McChesney is Professor of Communications at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is a leading critic of corporate media. He is the author of Telecommunications, Mass Media and Democracy. His latest book is Rich Media, Po...

Zmag Article Bronski: The State of Queer Film

Zmag Article, February, 01 2000 Michael Bronski
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Nearly a decade ago it looked as though we were about to enter a Renaissance of gay and lesbian filmmaking. Unable to have access to mainstream movie making, independent filmmakers, writers, and producers began turning out a remarkable body ...

Zmag Article Kelson: Protesting SOA

Zmag Article, February, 01 2000 Sanford Kelson
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The Columbus, Georgia police estimated that on November 21, 1999 there were nearly 10,000 at the front gate of Fort Benning protesting the School of the Americas which is located on the base. SOA Watch believes the correct number is 12,000. ...

Zmag Article Staff: A Simple Plea

Zmag Article, February, 01 2000 Z Staff
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Here are the opening lines of a piece by Marc Cooper, Nation writer and radio correspondent, in the New York Press, a free weekly newspaper. “I make no New Year’s resolution. Instead, I have a simple plea: Oh Lord, please make 2000...

Zmag Article Smith: Politics in Russia

Zmag Article, February, 01 2000 Jim Smith
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Boris Kagarlitsky is a Moscow-based writer, academic, and democratic socialist political activist. He was a leader of the Party of Labor, which was outlawed by Boris Yeltsin in the aftermath of the 1993 “presidential coup” that res...

Zmag Article Black: An Unindicted War Criminal

Zmag Article, February, 01 2000 Christopher Black
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& Edward S. Herman Among the many ironies of the NATO war against Yugoslavia was the role of the International Criminal Tribunal and its chief prosecutor, Louise Arbour, elevated by Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chretien to Canada’...

Zmag Article Hill: San Francisco Mayoral Race

Zmag Article, February, 01 2000 Steven Hill
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In an otherwise off political year, the San Francisco mayoral race in December 1999 commanded national attention. The quintessential “only in San Francisco” story line of the mainstream media set Willie Brown, the powerful, liberal ...

Zmag Article Leggett: none

Zmag Article, February, 01 2000 Jeremy Leggett
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Penguin Books, 1999 Review by David Cromwell In January 1991, almost seven years before the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change set an overall target for industrialized countries to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 5.2 percent, ...

Zmag Article Demers: Living in Delray Beach

Zmag Article, February, 01 2000 Michael Demers
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The city of Delray Beach, Florida represents a world of two distinct realities for two distinct groups of people: those of upper income and those of middle to low income. The current trends that are shaping the downtown section of this city ...

Zmag Article Steinberg: Stop McNukes

Zmag Article, February, 01 2000 Michael Steinberg
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The deregulation of the U.S. electrical industry was supposed to end monopoly control of that commodity. Unfortunately the nuclear component of the industry has tainted this process. Across the nation ratepayers are getting stuck with pay...

Commentary Prashad: Go to the Movie

Commentary, February, 01 2000 Vijay Prashad
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I'm not one to pass a good film by, having enjoyed Michael Mann's 'The Insider.' Its send-up of '60 Minutes' was enjoyable even as it felt the need to recuperate that bastion of US liberalism at film's end. This weekend I went to see Tim Robbin's ...

Commentary Guellec: Insurance?

Commentary, January, 31 2000 Dorothy Guellec
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Damaris Urena and Marcus Cruz are today January 4th mourning the loss of their 4-month old baby. It did not have to happen. According to the Daily News the family's ordeal began December 15th at about 5 a.m. when the baby awoke with a high fever c...

Commentary Albert: Just Rewards

Commentary, January, 30 2000 Michael Albert
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In a desirable economy what income does each actor get to enjoy? What is the basis for remuneration?

Commentary Rebick: New Workers' Initiative

Commentary, January, 29 2000 Judy Rebick
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Always on the cutting edge of social change, the Canadian Auto Workers union has just launched an important new initiative. The CAW has set up "A Task Force on Working Class Politics in the 21st Century."

Commentary Reinhart: This Ain't the Road of Peace

Commentary, January, 28 2000 Tanya Reinhart
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For many in Israel, it is already difficult to remember the joy and relief in which they received the news about the forthcoming peace with Syria, about a month ago. What was this joy about?

Commentary Cagan: Life After Y2K

Commentary, January, 27 2000 Leslie Cagan
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The nineties opened with a bang. In August, 1990 the Iraqis invaded Kuwait and it was immediately clear that George Bush would do everything in his formidable presidential power to go to war.

Commentary Wise: Resolutions for Radicals

Commentary, January, 26 2000 Tim Wise
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I don't normally make New Year's resolutions, or use the new year as an excuse for significant reflection on the one just ended. But this year, I'm making an exception. After all, we have (arguably, I know) entered a new millennium: and the end of...

Commentary Landau: Contradictory Cuba Policies

Commentary, January, 25 2000 Saul Landau
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Explain US-Cuba policy, my friends ask. Last week's prison riot occurred in Louisiana where Cuban prisoners had served their sentences, yet remained locked up because they didn't qualify to stay in the US. They had committed crimes before gaining ...

Commentary Author: Military Indigenous Coup Aborted by Military High Command

Commentary, January, 24 2000 Guest Author
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Quito, January 22, 2000: The coup carried out yesterday in Ecuador by mid-level military officers together with leaders of the indigenous movement lasted less than 24 hours.

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