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Dowd: SOCIAL SECURITY: FROM SCAM TO SCANDAL IN 65 YEARS
Apr 05, 2000
Of course it's been better than nothing, considering only the great number of old and survivors it has kept at or above the poverty line; or so we are told. But at least two points: about 40 percent of families over 65 have an annual income of under $15,0
Bond: Run on the Bank
Apr 05, 2000
"We can't REALLY aim to shut down the International Monetary Fund and World Bank, you know, Patrick. What would we do without them? What would take their place?"
Solomon: SELF-CENSORSHIP IS SHADOWING THE NEW MEDIA ERA
Apr 04, 2000
Months have passed since America Online and Time Warner announced plans to merge. Big news at the time, the formation of the world's largest media firm is already old hat. And so it goes: Like the rest of us, journalists quickly get used to the latest con
Mokhiber: Who Owns America?
Apr 03, 2000
The other day, at our local bookstore, we passed a book. And then doubled back. ÊThe book is titled Who Owns America?: A Declaration of Independence. Sounded like it was written by people we should know. But on further investigation, we recognized none of
Albert: Economics and the Rest Of Society
Apr 02, 2000
A Participatory Economy produces, consumes, and allocates to meet peopleÕs needs and develop their capacities. It also promotes equity, solidarity, diversity, and self-management. Its central features are workersÕ and consumersÕ councils, remuneration acc
Arnove: “Sanctions on Iraq: The ‘Propaganda Campaign’â€
Apr 01, 2000
Hans von Sponeck resigns March 31 as the director of the United Nations humanitarian program in Iraq. Normally, the comings and goings of UN officials isn’t a subject for headlines or a source of encouragement for activists, but von Sponeck is now the second person to resign from this position, which involves oversight of the UN’s oil-for-food program. Like his predecessor, Denis J. Halliday, von Sponeck has issued a clear call for an end to the sanctions after seeing first-hand their devastating consequences for the Iraqi people.
Author: ÒSanctions on Iraq: The ÔPropaganda CampaignÕÓ
Apr 01, 2000
Hans von Sponeck resigns March 31 as the director of the United Nations humanitarian program in Iraq. Normally, the comings and goings of UN officials isnÕt a subject for headlines or a source of encouragement for activists, but von Sponeck is now the sec
Cagan: The War Is Over...The Struggle Continues
Mar 31, 2000
Hard to believe it, but April 30th will be the 25th anniversary of the end of the war in Vietnam!!
Administrator: ANTI-CORPORATE PROTECTION MARKET
Mar 30, 2000
One of the more entertaining pieces of email to cross my screen in the last few weeks, was a cover letter with a "Guide to the Seattle Meltdown: A Compendium of Activists at the WTO Ministerial." The letter noted that the "perceived success" of the groups
Georgakas: New Jersey Cubans Divided Equally Over Return of Elian
Mar 29, 2000
A public opinion poll released by the New Jersey City University in early February had some unexpected findings regarding the views of Hudson County residents about American-Cuban relations. In huge headlines The Jersey Journal declared: Hudson to Elian:
Herman: EXPORTING DEMOCRACY, OR A FAVORABLE CLIMATE OF INVESTMENT?
Mar 28, 2000
The great nineteenth century U.S. agnostic and lecturer, Robert Green Ingersoll, used to delight in telling the story of the test of true faith imposed on those seeking entry into heaven by the heavenly gatekeeper (e.g., in his lecture on the "Mistakes of
Marable: White Supremacy in Dixie
Mar 27, 2000
How far has America actually progressed toward more constructive race relations? Judging by some recent events, not much.
Albert: A Program Seeking Participatory Allocation
Mar 26, 2000
Participatory planning is the allocation component of participatory economics. Producers and consumers organized in councils cooperatively negotiate labor, resource, and output allocations. The procedure organizes economic choices and simultaneously foste
Prashad: Center for Third World Organizing (CTWO): All Power to the People
Mar 25, 2000
On Friday, January 28th at 1:41am, Cornell Young Jr. was shot to death in Providence, Rhode Island. This 30-year-old African American was a police officer and the son of the Providence Police DepartmentÕs first Black officer to become a Major.
Weisbrot: Spring Protests in Washington, D.C: Another Seattle?
Mar 24, 2000
The Clinton administration claims to have learned something from the outpouring of protest against the World Trade Organization (WTO) last December. "Those who heard a wake-up call in Seattle got the right message," said President Clinton. Maybe so, but t
Sommers: Understanding the March 26th Russian Election
Mar 23, 2000
Russian democracy rode high in the late 1980s and into the early 1990s. Glasnost created a genuine culture of citizen participation in political life. Sterile arguments remain over whether this was done to preserve communism or tear it down. Whatever the
Wise: A Tale of Two Cities: "Rational Racism," Amadou Diallo, and Us
Mar 22, 2000
They are two places that at first appear wholly unrelated to one another; but of course, rarely are things as they seem. On the one hand, we have New York City, whose police-thanks to acquittals in the Diallo shooting trial-have been given carte blanche t
Hightower: ELECTION 2000: A SPACE ODYSSEY
Mar 21, 2000
The quadrennial presidential horserace is on, and the media establishment has unleashed its multimillion-dollar army of pundits, pollsters, powdered anchors, analysts, chart makers, gossips, make-up artists, set designers and others to drum up the drama,
Peters: The Teenage Liberation Handbook
Mar 20, 2000
group, national or religious or even social, in the competititon with other groups. It is this motive, in the main, which determines the subjects taught, the knowledge offered and the knowledge Grace Llewellyn, author of ÒThe Teenage Liberation Handbook:
Apr 07, 2000
Quietly HMO top brass have been meeting in Texas to find ways to improve Òtheir battered public image.Ó They are divided as to how to do this. The three big ones United Health Group, Kaiser Foundation Health Plan and Humana suggest industry wide changes t