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Gonsalves: Creating jobs and expanding opportunity
Commentary, August, 17 2000
Sean Gonsalves
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Ask anyone what was the major event of the post-Civil War period and they'll tell you: the Emancipation Proclamation - the freeing of America's black slaves.
Burchill: Heroes and Villains
Commentary, August, 16 2000
Scott Burchill
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In his first lecture on Indonesian soil after being banished for 26 years, Benedict Anderson spoke about the bewildered expression on the faces of his Indonesian students over the years at Cornell University whenever he asked them "who in Indonesi...
Author: Local Energy, Local Democracy
Commentary, August, 15 2000
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In their 1996 book "Who Owns the Sun?", solar energy campaigners Daniel Berman and John O'Connor rightly declared that "democracy is a false promise if it does not include the power to steer the energy economy". It's a crucial point that not even ...
Naiman: Gun Control, Burma and Corporate Rule
Commentary, August, 14 2000
Robert Naiman
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Robert Naiman Remember the "New Federalism"? State and local governments were supposed to be "laboratories of democracy," where new ideas could be tried out to address social problems, where government would be more responsive to citizen input at...
Weisbrot: Police Abuses Won't Stifle Protests
Commentary, August, 13 2000
Mark Weisbrot
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"When protest becomes effective, governments become repressive." Tom Hayden summed it up in an axiom three decades ago, while describing his own trial on conspiracy charges for organizing protests against the Vietnam War.
Solomon: HOLY SMOKE AND MIRRORS: THE RISE OF CENTRIST THEOCRATS
Commentary, August, 12 2000
Norman Solomon
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It's always dangerous when politicians claim to be doing God's will. So, as the novelty fades from Al Gore's selection of Joseph Lieberman, journalists should ask some probing questions about the ticket's conspicuous piety.
Herman: ROGUE REMOVAL AS OFFICIAL U.S. FOREIGN POLICY
Commentary, August, 11 2000
Edward Herman
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In her August 1 speech before the Republican National Convention, Bush foreign policy adviser Condoleezza Rice explained to the audience that Bush "recognizes that the magnificent men and women of America's armed forces are not a global police for...
Anderson: Carnivore
Graphic, August, 10 2000
Kirk Anderson
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carnivore, fbi, privacy
Landau: THE DRUG WAR IS AS AMERICAN AS APPLE PIE AND COCAINE
Commentary, August, 10 2000
Saul Landau
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One of my friends mocks the drug war and sneers at President Clinton's request that Congress fund a new $1.2 billion military aid package for Colombia, so the Colombian military can better engage the iniquitous narco-traffickers. "You don't unders...
Anderson: Buchanan's Reform fight
Graphic, August, 09 2000
Kirk Anderson
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buchanan, reform
