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Healy: Empty promises don't feed poor children
Commentary, June, 23 2001
Sean Healy
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A funny thing happened on the way to the Third United Nations Conference on Least Developed Countries in Brussels: the representatives of rich country governments suddenly discovered that their restrictions on market access for poor countries' goo...
Shah: The New Yellow Peril: China-Bashing for New Defense Spending Fuels Hate Against Asian Americans
Commentary, June, 22 2001
Sonia Shah
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Senator Feinstein surprised the civil rights organizers who threw her an informal wine-and-cheese shmoozer a couple months ago with an impromptu speech warning of the gathering speed of anti-China sentiment in Congress and the impending fallout fo...
Choudry: We Must Mobilise Against A Miasma of Mini-MAIs
Commentary, June, 21 2001
Aziz Choudry
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YouÕve got to wonder at the nerve of New Zealand trade officials. During the furtive Multilateral Agreement on Investment negotiations and the subsequent international waves of opposition they were quietly hatching binding bilateral investment dea...
Deutsch: Orwell in the Senate
Graphic, June, 20 2001
Barry Deutsch
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gay rights, queer rights, gay, senate, republicans, orwell, boy scouts
Herman: HITCHENS ON "BODY COUNT IN KOSOVO"
Commentary, June, 19 2001
Edward Herman
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An important public relations bonanza for the U.S. and other NATO powers' actions across the globe has been the accommodation of many leftists to the priorities and channeled benevolence of their leaders. These "New Humanitarians" have been furiou...
Herman: HITCHENS ON "BODY COUNT IN KOSOVO"
Commentary, June, 19 2001
Edward Herman
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An important public relations bonanza for the U.S. and other NATO powers' actions across the globe has been the accommodation of many leftists to the priorities and channeled benevolence of their leaders. These "New Humanitarians" have been furiou...
Edwards: THE MEDIA ELECTION 2001: LOW FARCE
Commentary, June, 18 2001
David Edwards
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Traditionally, general elections in Britain are a time for much quasi-religious talk of the blessed gift of democracy - so recently won at such high cost, we are told - and the importance of paying due homage to that great principle at the busines...
Mokhiber: A Call to Defy Corporate Domination
Commentary, June, 17 2001
Russell Mokhiber
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Since 1953, the percentage of unionized workers in the United States has declined from 26 percent to less than 14 percent. Yet, given the choice of joining a union or not, 48 percent of workers in this country say they would join. So, why isn't ...
Monbiot: Big Business vs Big Ideas
Commentary, June, 16 2001
George Monbiot
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If Gordon Brown was serious yesterday about creating an environment for "business dynamism" like that of the United States, he could do no better than to champion the entrepreneurial work of Conwy Council in North Wales. Conwy has done as all busi...
Prashad: Shooting Stars
Commentary, June, 15 2001
Vijay Prashad
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On 21 April 1988, Mikhail Gorbachev turned to Colin Powell, then an aide of the US National Security Advisor, and said "What are you going to do now that you've lost your best enemy?" Gorbachev's unilateral disarmament of Soviet nuclear forces in ...
