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Mokhiber: Busted: the Genentech/American Heart Association Connection
Commentary, December, 20 2000
Russell Mokhiber
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For years, Genentech Inc.'s clotbuster drug tPA has been used to treat heart attacks.Last year, the American Heart Association published guidelines for physicians advising that tPA be used to treat strokes. Whether these new guidelines will help ...
Deutsch: Concise History of Black-White Relations in the US
Graphic, December, 19 2000
Barry Deutsch
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race, blacks, whites, white people, racism, affirmative action, african americans, race justice
Hutchinson: Terror Over Bush’s Supreme Court Picks May Not Be Justified
Commentary, December, 19 2000
Earl ofari Hutchinson
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Nothing stirs greater terror among civil rights and women’s rights groups than the prospect of Bush making politically disastrous picks to the U.S. Supreme Court. During the presidential campaign, Jesse Jackson, NAACP President Kweisi M...
Hutchinson: Terror Over Bush's Supreme Court Picks May Not Be Justified
Commentary, December, 19 2000
Earl ofari Hutchinson
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Nothing stirs greater terror among civil rights and womenÕs rights groups than the prospect of Bush making politically disastrous picks to the U.S. Supreme Court. During the presidential campaign, Jesse Jackson, NAACP President Kweisi Mfume, le...
Brecher: Draft of an Alternative Program for the Global Economy
Commentary, December, 18 2000
Jeremy Brecher
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Commenting on the Battle of Seattle, Newsweek wrote, "One of the most important lessons of Seattle is that there are now two visions of globalization on offer, one led by commerce, one by social activism." Globalization from below's vision has bee...
Anderson: How Grinch Stole Christmas
Graphic, December, 17 2000
Kirk Anderson
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christmas, consumerism, consume, grinch
Zinn: TENNIS ON THE TITANIC
Commentary, December, 16 2000
Howard Zinn
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As the prize of the presidency lurched wildly back and forth in the last days of the year, with the entire nation hypnotized by the spectacle, I had a vision. I saw the Titanic churning through the waters of the North Atlantic toward an iceberg lo...
Chomsky: Overcoming Orthodoxies
Commentary, December, 16 2000
Noam Chomsky
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David Barsamian: I want to come back to the idea of what individuals can do in overcoming orthodoxies. Steve Biko, the South African activist who was murdered by the apartheid regime while he was in custody, once said, The most powerful weapon in ...
Raptis: Hitler : The (Strange) Elser Case
Commentary, December, 16 2000
Nikos Raptis
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Johann Georg Elser was born in the German Village of Hermaringen in 1903. At the age of fourteen he was apprenticed as a (lathe) turner in a local iron factory. In 1922 he passed his journeyman's exam as a cabinet-maker and became a specialist in ...
Landau: THE PRIZZI BUSHES WILL OCCUPY THE WHITE HOUSE
Commentary, December, 15 2000
Saul Landau
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Maureen Down has cleverly labeled them the Kennebunkport Corrleones. But I Êthink of the Bushes as the Texas Prizzis, that Mafia branch that has moved Êto cowboy country and have successfully filched the 2000 election. Recall Êin Prizzi's Honor ho...
