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Peters: On Breakfast, Kids and Common Sense
Commentary, December, 11 2000
Cynthia Peters
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Ivy League institutions, major hospitals, and corporate money teamed up recently to make the startling revelation: kids should eat breakfast. You may be forgiven for thinking that you already knew eating in the morning was a good idea for kids, a...
Chomsky: Propaganda and Indoctrination
Commentary, December, 10 2000
Noam Chomsky
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This is the first of three Chomsky Commentaries I will send this month...each answers one or more queries from David Barsamian (DB) and all are excerpted from a still to be published interview... DB: Lets talk about a theme that we return to peri...
Anderson: Colombia Policy
Graphic, December, 09 2000
Kirk Anderson
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colombia, drug war
Cromwell: FALLOUT FROM THE CLIMATE TALKS
Commentary, December, 08 2000
David Cromwell
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The planet is burning, while politicians fiddle the books. If yet more proof was needed that capitalist society is rotten to the core, then just look to the recently collapsed climate talks in The Hague. No agreements, paltry or otherwise. Just bi...
Prashad: Beauty Queens and the Capitalist Beast
Commentary, December, 07 2000
Vijay Prashad
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All the men are computer programmers, all the women are beauty queens, and some of us are humorless. So it seems in the land of Silicon(e) India. Bill Gates says that Indians are the second smartest people on the planet, and the international cons...
Bond: South Africa's municipal elections: Finally, basic services for the masses?
Commentary, December, 06 2000
Patrick Bond
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Tuesday, December 5, is a national election in South Africa, as nearly 9,000 councilors in 284 municipalities seek the support of ten million voters. The African National Congress (ANC), which since 1994 has won three national, provincial and loca...
Deutsch: An Impartial Negotiator in the Middle East
Graphic, December, 05 2000
Barry Deutsch
Deutsch's ZSpace page
Israel, Palestine, Israelis, Palestinians, middle east, Middle East
Hightower: The Uncounted Majority
Commentary, December, 05 2000
Jim Hightower
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Not all computer errors involve vote counts in Florida. Writing in Funny Times, Richard Lederer tells about a computer glitch that caused the publisher of an economics report to have to issue an apology to subscribers: "Instead of the figures on t...
Wise: Of Monsters and Vampires: People Who Kill People (and the People Who Kill Them)
Commentary, December, 04 2000
Tim Wise
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My mother lied to me. She told me when I was a boy, so as to allay my fears to the contrary, that there were no such things as vampires; that there were not, in real life, those whose lust for human blood drove their every waking moment. And this ...
Author: Gendered Assaults: The Attack on Immigrant Women
Commentary, December, 03 2000
Guest Author
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If you opened a newspaper in Iowa this spring, you might have come across an advertisement stating: ÒHow do you feel about paving over the amber waves of grain, the purple mountain majesties and the fruited plain?Ó If you read the small print, you...
