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Zmag Article Administrator: U.S. atomic bomb test unreported

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It’s around 11:00 AM on August 30, 2006. I’m in Hiroshima, Japan. Inside the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum, I see a gaggle of media people with TV cameras filming and there is someone talking beneath an old clock on ...

Zmag Article Administrator: Renaissance 2010: From the Front Lines

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Why are unions important? This is the question that Jackson Potter and Albert Ramirez, two Chicago Public School teachers, explore in their independently produced documentary on Chicago’s flagship school policy known as Renaiss...

Zmag Article Administrator: From State House to Court House

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At the end of April state legislators in Missouri effectively defeated a constitutional amendment to make English the state’s official language. The proposed amendment, House Joint Resolution 7, stated, “English shall ...

Zmag Article Administrator: OPERATION PEACE INSTITUTE

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To help commemorate Z Magazine?s 20th year of publication, we are running a series featuring memorable articles from the past. In this issue, we are featuring ?Operation Peace Institute? by Sarah Diamond and Richard Hatch, which appeared in the Ju...

Zmag Article Administrator: Hunger Strike at Harvard

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For nine days, from May 3, when 11 students initiated a hunger strike as part of their Stand for Security Campaign, until May 11, when the 9 remaining strikers received bowls of soup from custodian Arit Alasti, Harvard Yard and...

Zmag Article Administrator: An interview with Tariq Ali

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Tariq Ali, an internationally renowned writer, was born in Lahore in 1943. It was then a part of British-ruled India, now in Pakistan. For many years he has been based in London where he is an editor of the New Left Review. ...

Zmag Article Administrator: Michael Moore’s SiCKO

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It seems as though the Bush administration is bowling for Michael Moore’s head. Hopefully, they’ll throw a gutter ball. The U.S. Treasury Department announced in May that it was investigating filmmaker Michael Moore for...

Zmag Article Administrator: Manufacturing Conscription

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Of all the slogans used to stifle opposition to America’s aggressive foreign policy, the most infamous is “Support Our Troops.” After dispatching its massive force across the Atlantic, the U.S. public relations indust...

Zmag Article Administrator: Where is the European Labor Movement?

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In March the European Union (EU) celebrated its 50th anniversary. The signing of the Treaty of Rome in 1957 served as the inspiration for the end of a war-torn divided Europe and the beginning of political and economic unity for a new Europe...

Zmag Article Administrator: Right to the City

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On January 11, 2007 at the Japanese American Cultural Community Center in Little Tokyo in downtown Los Angeles, Gihan Perera, the executive director of the Miami Workers Center, addressed an energetic crowd of over 100 community organizers, ...

Zmag Article Administrator: The U. S. Now Poses the Greatest Threat of Any Country in History

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My harsh title is not based on the belief that U.S. leaders are the most vicious ever, although they are amply arrogant, ruthless, and even vicious, rendered more hypocritical by the veneer of self-righteousness and “godly” serv...

Zmag Article Administrator: Alberto Gonzales & the Lawyers of the Third Reich

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As Attorney General Alberto Gonzales struggles to keep his job due to the U.S. Attorney firings scandal, many have forgotten the role he played in creating policies that are profoundly more troubling from a global perspective. These po...

Zmag Article Administrator: Trans Inclusion

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W hile the lives and struggles of transgender people remain largely invisible to the mainstream, trans people have long been an active part of feminist organizing and progressive movements. Women’s groups and spaces, fr...

Zmag Article Administrator: Stephen Kinzer's Overthrow

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I n the last installment of a multi-part series, entitled “The Partisans of Ali,” NPR correspondent Mike Shuster noted, in regards to Shia and Sunni conflict in the Middle East, that there seemed to be “...

Zmag Article Administrator: Battle of the Beagles

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I n case you hadn’t heard, FBI Deputy Assistant Director John Lewis has identified the number one domestic terrorist threat to the U.S. and it’s not radical Muslims. Or right-wing paramilitary types. Or gun-toting pr...

Zmag Article Administrator: Custom Against Women

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I f we uncritically immerse ourselves in the cultural context of any society, seeing it only as it sees itself, then we are embracing its self-serving illusions. Perceiving a society “purely ...

Zmag Article Administrator: Cuba: The Revolution Lives On

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U nderstanding Cuban society objectively is incredibly difficult, given 45 years of unremitting U.S. propaganda against Fidel Castro, the Cuban government, and Cuban society. Even for those ind...

Zmag Article Administrator: Which Way Forward for the Green Party?

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At their 2005 Annual National Meeting in Tulsa, Oklahoma, Green Party delegates voted down resolutions offered by the Greens for Democracy and Independence (GDI) designed to ensure proportional represe...

Zmag Article Administrator: Weather Wars: Will unnatral disasters bankrupt the empire?

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Global warming alone did not cause two of recorded history’s most intense Atlantic hurricanes—Katrina and Rita—in 2005. Nothing is “caused” by one factor alone, ...

Zmag Article Administrator: Collecting Social Security at 100

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Are you turning 65 when the stock market takes a post-bubble dive? Don’t worry, you’ll only have to wait until you’re 100 to retire under privatized Social Security. The s...

Zmag Article Administrator: Good Things Happening in Venezuela

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E ven before I arrived in Venezuela for a recent visit, I encountered the great class divide in that country. On my connecting flight from Miami to Caracas, I found myself seated next to an exquisitely dressed Venezuel...

Zmag Article Administrator: Worker-Run Cooperatives in Buenos Aires

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D uring the economic crisis of 2001, when politicians and banks failed, many Argentines took matters into their own hands. Poverty, homelessness, and unemployment were countered with barter systems and grassroots, micr...

Zmag Article Administrator: A Military Draft

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In May 2004, the Seattle Post Intelligencer published an article about a document they received through the Freedom of Information Act. The paper learned that the Social Security Serice (SSS) is currently “designing ...

Zmag Article Administrator: UNITE’s Current Campaign

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When attempting to form or join unions, workers, especially workers of color, face almost insurmountable challenges. If they complain or speak-up, they are harassed, fired, bullied into quitting and, in many cases, blackli...

Zmag Article Administrator: Freeing the World to Death: Essays on the American Empire by William Blum (Common Courage, 2005, 314 pp.)

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Freeing the World to Death: Essays on the American Empire is the latest addition of William Blum’s growing canon of books exposing the brutal realities of U.S. government actions. This compilation of essays, written f...

Zmag Article Administrator: Why School Sucks: My rant on cumpulsory schooling

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In ninth grade, I flunked algebra. That same year, my algebra teacher flunked eight other kids in my class, so at least I wasn’t the only one. While everyone else moved on to the challenging world of theorems and geom...

Zmag Article Administrator: Project ELF RIP

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The curtains are about to close on an epic drama in the north woods of Wisconsin and Michigan. On Friday, September 17, the U.S. Navy announced intentions to close its two ELF (extremely low frequency) communications sites...

Zmag Article Administrator: U.S. Aggression & Propaganda Against Cuba

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I n recent times, U.S.-Cuban relations have gone from bad to worse. Under the Administration of George W. Bush, the U.S. boycott has been more stringently imposed. Anti-government agitation within ...

Zmag Article Administrator: Interview with Medha Patkar

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O ver the past two decades the struggle against dam projects that threaten the right to life and livelihood for the people of India’s Narmada valley has grown into one of the world’s la...

Zmag Article Administrator: Hidden Unemployment

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T hat delicious smell? It’s the Economy Cooking”—this is Business Week (December 8, 2003) greeting the news that the gross domestic product expanded at an annual rate of 8.2 pe...

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