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Schechter: Newman's Own PR War (On Nuclear War)
Commentary, June, 11 2000
Danny Schechter
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When he took off his sunglasses, you knew it was screen star Paul Newman. Those blue eyes always give him away. One day last week, I found myself staring into them from behind a video camera, as Newman recorded a message beginning with a recollect...
Anderson: Missile defense
Graphic, June, 10 2000
Kirk Anderson
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national missile defense, missile defense, nmd, star wars, sdi
Landau: "POOR PINOCHET"-- AN UPDATE ON THE TRIALS OF THE TYRANT
Commentary, June, 10 2000
Saul Landau
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The Santiago Appeals Court apparently voted 13-9 to revoke General Augusto Pinochet's parliamentary immunity. This makes Pinochet vulnerable to prosecution in Chile for allegedly ordering his subordinates to carry out a mass murder campaign - whic...
Solomon: AD INDUSTRY: GIVING WOMEN SPECIAL TREATMENT
Commentary, June, 09 2000
Norman Solomon
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Last fall, when Jean Kilbourne's new book "Deadly Persuasion" was arriving on shelves, Publishers Weekly praised it as "a wake-up call about the damaging effects of advertising in our media-saturated culture." But six months later, the mass media'...
Anderson: Party fundraising
Graphic, June, 08 2000
Kirk Anderson
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fundraising, money in politics, campaign finance
Author: AN EMBARGO TOO FAR
Commentary, June, 08 2000
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Mariam Hamza has beautiful eyes, a loving personality and immense courage. She is also a symbol of one of the greatest human rights abuses of our time. This four year old Iraqi leukaemia patient hit the headlines in 1998 when George Galloway, MP f...
Weisbrot: Labor in 2000: No Place to Go?
Commentary, June, 07 2000
Mark Weisbrot
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In the movie version of Steven King's classic, "The Dead Zone," Christopher Walken reads the mind of the mother of a demonic serial killer. His psychic powers discern that she had long been aware of her son's vicious murders. His eyes widen with s...
Wise: Rebels Without a Clue: Neo-Confederacy and the Ironies of White Supremacy
Commentary, June, 06 2000
Tim Wise
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We Southerners are famous for wishful thinking: in fact, you could say it's something of a regional pastime. This should come as no surprise given our interminable heat in the summer which leaves nearly all wishing for rain to cool things down, an...
Author: Militant Mood Moving Black Youth To Fight For Change
Commentary, June, 05 2000
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On April 4, 1968 Martin Luther King was gunned down as he stood on a hotel balcony in Memphis. He was in Memphis to support a strike by sanitation workers who carried bold signs proclaiming, I AM A MAN. At the time of his
Bonpane: Delegation to Colombia
Commentary, June, 05 2000
BlasŽ Bonpane
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What does Medellin mean to a U.S. citizen? Narco-terrorists, sicarios (hired assassins) and drug lords. It is actually a beautiful and mountainous city located at many altitudes, all of them comfortable.
