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Graphic Deutsch: Don't Stop Believing

Graphic, October, 25 2000 Barry Deutsch
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free trade, globalization, growth, washington consensus

Commentary 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.

Commentary 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...

Commentary 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...

Commentary 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 ...

Commentary 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...

Commentary 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...

Commentary 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...

Graphic 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

Commentary 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...

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