Z Magazine Online

Here's a little more print media hype (of the electronic variety . . . which maybe means it's not print media, but that sort of feels like an existentialist dialogue coming on, and we've got football and baseball to watch): I haven't read a single article yet, which makes this one of my more openly shallow posts, but the contents page of Z Magazine Online looks pretty damn compelling. Unfortunately (but understandably, sort of; I waver on whether I think politico-socio-cultural websites are better served selling or giving away their online product) the bulk of the site content is available only to subscribers. A handful of taster articles are available, however, to lure us in. And they look alluring indeed:

GAY & LESBIAN COMMUNITY NOTES: Sex and the Single Issue Movement
Michael Bronski
The lesbian, gay, and transgender (LGBT) movement has been fighting for 50-plus years to challenge the oppression of queer people and make the world a better, less hostile, and safer place for everyone. Fifty years is not a particularly long time and given the entrenched cultural homophobia in the United States, the LGBT movement has done a pretty good job so far—except when it comes to dealing with sexuality.; (More)

CARAVAN FOR PEACE: On the Road with Cindy Sheehan
Paul Bloom
Rather than telling the truth about U.S. actions in other people’s countries, mainstream media present us with a false picture, a patriotized history. In this imaginary world, U.S. actions have the same five characteristics regardless of place or time. (More)

FOREIGN POLICY: Cold War II
Noam Chomsky
These are exciting days in Washington, as the government directs its energies to the demanding task of “containing Iran” in what Washington Post correspondent Robin Wright, joining others, calls “Cold War II.” (More)

TWENTIETH ANNIVERSARY: The Silenced Majority
Barbara Ehrenreich
YOU MAY not have noticed, but 50,000 U.S. coal miners were on strike for four months this spring and summer 1989. The 10-state strike featured the unprecedented mass application of nonviolent civil disobedience to a labor struggle: Thousands of miners and family members have been arrested for peacefully blocking mine entrances. Troops have been called in; they have, in some instances, fired on the strikers.(More)

Okay. Gotta go read some Chomsky. Thanks to Mostly Water for putting Z Mag on my radar.