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Solomon: THE CASE FOR CORPORATE-GIVEN NAMES
Commentary, July, 11 2000
Norman Solomon
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A public-interest group is urging sportswriters to resist a free-enterprise wave of the future. "Corporations are seizing the names of our beloved parks and stadiums, and replacing these with their own," Commercial Alert complains in a letter that...
Anderson: Missile test starting gun
Graphic, July, 10 2000
Kirk Anderson
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national missile defense, missile defense, missile test, star wars, sdi
Dowd: NEITHER A BORROWER NOR A LENDER BE
Commentary, July, 10 2000
Douglas Dowd
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Anyone giving that advice today would be seen as deranged; but, as some oldies will remember, such was once the received truth, as proclaimed by Founding Father Ben Franklin (along with "Waste not, want not" and "A penny saved is a penny earned").
Author: The New Eugenics: The Case Against Genetically Modified Humans
Commentary, July, 09 2000
Guest Author
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At the cusp of dot-com frenzy and the biotech century, a group of influential scientists and pundits has begun zealously promoting a new bio-engineered utopia. In the world of their visionary fervor, parents will strive to afford the latest geneti...
Glick: The Nader/Laduke Campaign The Nader/LaDuke Movement
Commentary, July, 08 2000
Ted Glick
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There is no question, absolutely none, that of the four "name recognition" Presidential candidates--Bush, Gore, Nader and Buchanan--Ralph Nader is far and away the most progressive. He will be on the ballot in almost all of the states. As distinct...
Herman: THE NEW YORK TIMES VERSUS NADER--AND DEMOCRACY
Commentary, July, 07 2000
Edward Herman
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In its editorial, "Mr. Nader's Misguided Crusade" (June 30), the New York Times assails Nader's candidacy and campaign on grounds that are partly fraudulent and misleading (as I describe below). But it is also clear that this attack is based ultim...
Burchill: The Problem With Panic Merchants
Commentary, July, 06 2000
Scott Burchill
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Some just never learn. From the same people who told us that East Timor should not and would not become independent, now comes the argument that the people of West Papua should also be denied the right to determine their political arrangements.
Chomsky: Humanitarian Intervention
Commentary, July, 05 2000
Noam Chomsky
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At a public talk in February Chomsky was asked: "President Clinton recently said the U.S. has the right on humanitarian grounds to intervene, with force, in any country which it deems is abusing the human rights of its citizens. Do you agree ...
Zinn: A Fourth of July Commentary
Commentary, July, 04 2000
Howard Zinn
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In this year 2000, I cannot comment more meaningfully on the Fourth of July than Frederick Douglass did when he was invited in 1852 to give an Independence Day address. He could not help thinking about the irony of the promise of the Declaration o...
Deutsch: Merit Badge in Logic
Graphic, July, 03 2000
Barry Deutsch
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Boy Scouts, gay, queer, gay rights, queer rights, Scouts, homosexual, homosexual rights
