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Hightower: HUNGER REPORT BITES BUSH ON BUTT
Jun 02, 2000
At the 1988 Democratic convention in Atlanta, I gave a podium-pounding speech in which I characterized George Bush the Elder as "a man who was born on third and thought he'd hit a triple."
Reinhart: WITHDRAWAL?
May 31, 2000
Is Barak determined to achieve peace, or is ÊÊhe exercising Sharon's plan to withdraw from Lebanon and return under 'better conditions'? The problem is that nobody knows, not even the government which has exempted him from the need to inform it on his Leb
Chomsky: Unsustainable Non Development
May 30, 2000
At a recent talk Chomsky was asked ÒWhat are the motivations of the U.S. push for sustainable development in the developing world?Ó Here was his answerÉ
Bond: New Film Projects South African Anti-Globalisation Struggle Onto Washington
May 29, 2000
Those in the Z community anxious to hear organic voices from the South debating global socio-economic injustice are probably aware that South African rhetoric is especially hot these days. For evidence, check out the documentary "Two Trevors Go To Washing
Peters: Robin Hood Was Right
May 28, 2000
The Newtown Florist Club in Gainesville, Georgia was a group of African American churchwomen that brought flowers to the sick. After a while, they noticed that a lot of the sick had gotten that way because of environmental problems. The Newtown churchwome
Naiman: Globalization: The Fat Lady Ain't Sung
May 27, 2000
Champagne corks are popping in Washington, as the corporate lobby celebrates its victory over democracy - bribing Congress into granting "Permanent Normal Trading Relations" to China. Corporations, not China, are the true beneficiaries - they have won "pe
Dowd: THE FREE MARKET; AND ALL THAT JAZZ
May 26, 2000
The rising tide of center/right socioeconomic policies in the United States (among other societies) appalls a goodly share of our people. Riding high on what is now a flood tide, propelled by and propelling it, has been the phenomenal Second Coming of cap
Edwards: CLIMATE WARS
May 25, 2000
Declared 98% successful in destroying Iraqi Scud missiles during the Gulf War, the Patriot missile system was subsequently found to have achieved a success rate "close to zeroÓ by Professor Ted Postol of MIT. But by then the deception had done its job: a
Guellec: Death in America
May 24, 2000
Most people do not take hunger in America seriously, but add this to cutbacks in food stamps, the daily need for insulin, and low wages, and then we really have a life-threatening situation here. If diabetics donÕt eat, they can develop ketoacidosis, a po
Solomon: OVERCOMING THE HAZARDS OF MEDIA
May 22, 2000
After the "Love Bug" virus struck millions of computer hard drives, many news outlets attributed the magnitude of the damage to overwhelming reliance on the same type of software. Suddenly, in the digital world, steep downsides of technical conformity wer
Landau: McCaffery (Goliath) v. Hersh (David)
May 21, 2000
I found the May 15 NPR news very even-handed - as always. The host interviewed Seymour Hersh, who wrote for the May 22 New Yorker Overwhelming Force, an expose on General Barry McCaffery's Gulf War conduct. Hersh interviewed soldiers and officers and revi
Russell: Why not Capitalism?
May 20, 2000
Society still perceives disability as a medical matter. That is, society associates disability with physiological, anatomical, or mental ÒdefectsÓ and hold these conditions responsible for the disabled personÕs lack of full participation in the economic l
Marable: Why Diallo Had To Die
May 19, 2000
For more than one year, the controversy surrounding the New York murder of Amadou Diallo has made headlines throughout the world. Most people have heard by now about the unarmed African immigrant who was fired on 41 times as he stood in the vestibule of h
Burchill: New Rules of Engagement
May 18, 2000
In the first weeks of September last year, 70% of all public buildings and private residences in East Timor were destroyed. At least 75% of the population of the territory was displaced, with over 260,000 people being driven across the border into Indones
Ali: London Defeats Tony Blair: The Consequences of Citizen Ken
May 17, 2000
In these times of political adversity for the left, Ken Livingstone's spectacular triumph against the culture and politics of New Labour marks an important turning point in English politics. Blair refused to accept Livingstone as the Labour candidate beca
Schechter: Rescuing The Children: Elián, AIDS, South Africa and Media
May 16, 2000
I can just hear some Hollywood exec wondering if it has "series potential" while watching the dramatic showdown in the latest episode of the Elián González tug-of-war. On April 22 federal agents in a long overdue and overdrawn response "rescued" the six-year-old from a politically driven soap opera and family feud. He was reunited with his father, a reunion that enjoyed support from the majority of people living outside the Castro-hating hothouse of Miami's Little Havana.
Schechter: Rescuing The Children: Eli‡n, AIDS, South Africa and Media
May 16, 2000
I can just hear some Hollywood exec wondering if it has "series potential" while watching the dramatic showdown in the latest episode of the Eli‡n Gonz‡lez tug-of-war. On April 22 federal agents in a long overdue and overdrawn response "rescued" the six-y
Mokhiber: Sixteen Years for a Snickers Bar
May 15, 2000
Last month, a Texas jury recommended that Kenneth Payne, 29, spend 16 years in jail.Payne's crime? Stealing a Snickers bar from a Tyler, Texas grocery store on December 17, 1999. When Smith county Assistant District Attorney Jodi Brown was asked by the A
Hightower: WHAT'S FOR DINNER?
May 14, 2000
Have you heard of the "Butterfly Effect?" Both a scientific concept and an ecological reality, its essence is that the flapping of a million butterfly wings in central Mexico can have consequences in New York City, Rome, or Hong Kong. The notion is that o
Jun 03, 2000
One phrase -- "security zone" -- sums up an entire era of media spin about Israel's 22-year occupation of southern Lebanon.