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Author: Britain's Manmade BSE Disaster: Boundless and Without Borders
May 30, 2001
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. By 1989, 400 new cases appeared each week. By 1992, 100 new cases appeared daily. BSE subsequently spread to 15 other mainland European countries, leading to the slaughter of five million cattle over the past 16 years.
Author: Britain's Manmade BSE Disaster: Boundless and Without Borders
May 30, 2001
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. By 1989,
Author: Surprise Party
May 28, 2001
Like a zillion other Americans, I went to see Pearl Harbor on the first day of its release. As I sat there in the jammed bargain matinee, I kept assuring myself that as author of a radical history of WWII, I was merely doing research. Now, I could rant on
Ali: BLAIR AND BERLOSCUNI
May 27, 2001
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 Blair was t
Author: Bush's Dangerous Star Wars Pipe Dream
May 25, 2001
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 was deeply engaged in a wide range of trans-Pacific security negotiations. Responding to a question about his goal for meetings to explore creation of a U.S.-Chinese-Japanese security framework, he said he sought a "grand bargain" with China. How? By threatening deployment of Theater Missile Defenses (TMD) which could theoretically neutralize all China's missiles. As the threat became credible, China would be offered a deal: The U.S. would call off TMD deployments if China would agree not to adopt a more aggressive military doctrine and not to deploy weapons that increased its aggressive capabilities.
Author: Bush's Dangerous Star Wars Pipe Dream
May 25, 2001
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 was deeply
Albert: Anarchism?!
May 10, 2001
Like most social movements anarchism is diverse. Most broadly an anarchist seeks out and identifies structures of authority, hierarchy, and domination throughout life, and tries to challenge them as conditions and the pursuit of justice permit. Anarchists
Albert: New Targets
May 04, 2001
We anti-globalists oppose imperial trade arrangements. We reject that the rich get richer. We repudiate that the poor get poorer. We laugh at pundits claiming that globalization positively entwines world centers via new modes of communication and travel.
Author: Profits Over People: The FTAAÕs Negative Impacts on the People of the Western Hemisphere
Apr 29, 2001
Recently, the leaders of thirty-four nations in the Americas, representing every country except Cuba, gathered to discuss the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA), a proposed trade agreement encompassing 800 million people and eleven trillion dollars (H
Administrator: Learning About Quebec and Canada
Apr 18, 2001
In a few weeks, activists will be traveling to Quebec to protest the attempt by government leaders to negotiate a Free Trade Areas of the Americas (FTAA). ThereÕs been much talk about the security and anti-protest measures being taken by the Canadian gove
Ali: CRISIS ON ANIMAL FARM
Apr 11, 2001
'Don't worry,' New Farmer Blair told a visiting delegation of over a hundred sheep when news of the plague first reached him. 'Everything is safe and under control. We will be tough on the plague and tough on the causes of the plague.'
Albert: Not Free Speech
Mar 24, 2001
Ed Herman has laid waste the pretensions of those bleating over the plight of poor abused David Horowitz that they are sincerely concerned about free speech. But there is more to the situationÉso letÕs address another aspect. Setting aside mainstream med
Ali: Porto Alegre
Mar 17, 2001
The social summit held recently in Porte Allegre Brazil seems to have inspired everyone who attended that, in the slogan of the conference, a better world is possible.
Author: SHAKY GROUND
Mar 03, 2001
By Paul Loeb Last week, I ran into a friend I worked with twenty years ago at a senior center. Lately, he's been working on emergency preparedness--helping Seattle retrofit its homes, businesses, and schools to withstand major earthquakes. Supported by t
Administrator: New Freedom Initiative: Survival of the Fittest “Equalityâ€
Feb 23, 2001
by Marta Russell Unveiling his New Freedom Initiative (NFI), President George W. Bush pronounced “my Administration is committed to tearing down the barriers to equality that face many of the 54 million Americans with disabilities.â€
Author: Visiting Gaza
Feb 22, 2001
I don't want to be overly dramatic, but I was sort of shot at yesterday. I say "sort of" because I don't think the Israeli soldiers in their tower were trying to hit me, or the people with me... if that had been their purpose I have no doubt that they wou
Ali: New Labour, New Bombs
Feb 19, 2001
As the future ripens in the past, so the past rots in the present. American leaders have long been used to treating the cracked British vase as a pisspot, but Attlee and Wilson, while dutifully kissing ass in the White House, did, at least, attempt to res
Ali: Porto Alegre
Feb 10, 2001
The World Social Forum in Porto Alegre, in the deep South of Brazil was more than a symbolic counter to Davos. The aim behind it was serious: to unite the Seattle generation with the Old Left and to think seriously about alternatives to neo-liberalism. It
Albert: Gloves Off
Feb 06, 2001
February 2, in ÒResolving the Pacifica Crisis Revisted,Ó I argued that progressive organizations should employ participatory and self-managing rather than corporate structures. I urged that advocating self-managing structures has not only long-run but als
Jun 06, 2001
Ingrained into the U.S. popular imagination is the idea that the world is overpopulated. Americans talk not so much about "population" as "overpopulation," in the belief that the planet is burdened with too many people. Often, Americans think of this glut