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Deutsch: Don't Stop Believing
Graphic, October, 25 2000
Barry Deutsch
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free trade, globalization, growth, washington consensus
Author: The Supreme Court of India and the Narmada Valley
Commentary, October, 25 2000
Guest Author
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The law follows politics. The decisions made in a Supreme Court are not the disinterested, enlightened application of universal truths enshrined in a country's legal code but the congealment of power relations and interests in that country.
Cromwell: Silent Democracy
Commentary, October, 24 2000
David Cromwell
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"It's sociologically interesting, though scary", said the actor Anthony Sher in a recent interview, "that you can be inside an evil system and be somehow unaware of it." South African by birth, Sher was talking about the former system of apartheid...
Cromwell: Silent Democracy
Commentary, October, 24 2000
David Cromwell
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"It's sociologically interesting, though scary", said the actor Anthony Sher in a recent interview, "that you can be inside an evil system and be somehow unaware of it." South African by birth, Sher was talking about the former system of apartheid...
Reinhart: GREEN LIGHT TO SLAUGHTER
Commentary, October, 23 2000
Tanya Reinhart
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In the Sharm-al-Sheikh summit last week, Barak got from the US his green light to slaughter. To judge by the Israeli media, what we have seen so far is just the prelude. "The most important will come in the middle of next week, when...Israel will ...
Mokhiber: Oversight?
Commentary, October, 22 2000
Russell Mokhiber
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The American Political Science Association's annual convention recently came through town, filling up Washington, D.C. hotels with thousands of academics ready to present their latest research findings.Browsing through the convention's program, we...
Scipes: Building Labor Solidarity
Commentary, October, 21 2000
Kim Scipes
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To many people in the United States, the AFL-CIO is a progressive organization, joining unions across the country to fight for higher wages, better working conditions and progressive social programs for workers and people in our communities. Howe...
Bond: The African grassroots and the global movement
Commentary, October, 19 2000
Patrick Bond
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In a ZNet commentary last month, Noam Chomsky observed South-South-North alliances "taking shape at the grassroots level--an impressive development, rich in opportunity and promise, and surely causing no little concern in high places." I want to f...
Deutsch: Do Not Anger the Great TV God
Graphic, October, 18 2000
Barry Deutsch
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presidential campaign, media, Bush, George W. Bush, Gore, Al Gore, George Bush
Ratner: Labor Rights, Free Trade Zones & The Chentex Struggle in Nicaragua
Commentary, October, 18 2000
Michael Ratner
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(see: www.humanrightsnow.com) In mid-September I traveled to Nicaragua as part of a delegation organized by the National Labor Committee (NLC), an organization that fights sweatshops and supports labor rights around the world. Charles Kernaghan a...
