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Bond: Can Thabo Mbeki change the world?
Commentary, August, 22 2000
Patrick Bond
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In a formidable recent speech, South African President Thabo Mbeki, quoting Shakespeare, publicly attacked not only a senior white politician for alleged racism and arrogance over the AIDS treatment tragedy. He also castigated the section of the "...
Mokhiber: Cop Killer
Commentary, August, 22 2000
Russell Mokhiber
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Cop killer. No, we are not talking about Mumia Abu-Jamal. After a trial that the National Journal's Stuart Taylor called "grotesquely unfair" and that included "fabricated evidence," Abu-Jamal was convicted of killing a Philadelphia police office...
Albert: Lesser Evil?
Commentary, August, 21 2000
Michael Albert
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The general anti-Nader argument is very simple. To vote/work for Nader means not voting/working for Gore. That's uncontestable. In states with close Gore/Bush ratings, Gore could lose enough votes to Nader for Bush to win the state, and ultimately...
Schechter: Speaking Back to the Media
Commentary, August, 20 2000
Danny Schechter
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There used to be something called equal time and the right to reply to TV editorials and coverage. I am reminded of this by the publication, in a thin booklet called Poems for the Nation, of the text of a previously unpublished television address ...
Weisbrot: Verizon Workers Defend the Right to Organize
Commentary, August, 19 2000
Mark Weisbrot
Weisbrot's ZSpace page
Workers at Verizon Communications had a lot of reasons to go out on strike against the nation's largest provider of local telephone and wireless services: loss of jobs to non- union sub-contractors, forced overtime, overbearing management. And a...
Anderson: Bush-Gore Pepsi-Coke
Graphic, August, 18 2000
Kirk Anderson
Anderson's ZSpace page
bush, gore, election, pepsi, coke
Anderson: Al Gore photo album
Graphic, August, 18 2000
Kirk Anderson
Anderson's ZSpace page
gore, al gore, convention, election
Zinn: Downfall
Commentary, August, 18 2000
Howard Zinn
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I am surprised that my friend Hans Koning, a stalwart protester against the war in Vietnam, seems to have been taken in by the argument of Richard Frank, in his review of Frank's DOWNFALL. Yes, we must all be willing to reconsider our most hardene...
Gonsalves: Creating jobs and expanding opportunity
Commentary, August, 17 2000
Sean Gonsalves
Gonsalves's ZSpace page
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
Burchill's ZSpace page
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...
