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Landau: REPORT FROM SANTIAGO: DEJA VU
Commentary, May, 08 2000
Saul Landau
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History repeats itself, wrote Marx, first as tragedy and then again as farce. First time: Chile, November, 1970. In one photo, a helmeted officer just to the right of and behind Allende's car wears a bored, or maybe slightly pained, expression. Ge...
Anderson: Vieques
Graphic, May, 07 2000
Kirk Anderson
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vieques, puerto rico, navy, military
Zinn: THE HEROES AROUND US
Commentary, May, 07 2000
Howard Zinn
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Recently, meeting with a group of high school students, I was asked by one of them: "I read in your book, A PEOPLE'S HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES, about the massacres of Indians, the long history of racism, the persistence of poverty in the rich...
Dowd: THE GREAT BRAIN ROBBERY
Commentary, May, 06 2000
Douglas Dowd
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Let not young souls be smothered out before They do quaint deeds and fully flaunt their pride. It is the world's one crime its babes grow dull, Its poor are ox-like, limp and leaden-eyed. Set those words beside these: I am somehow less inte...
Weisbrot: Four Dead in Ohio: Thirty Years Later
Commentary, May, 05 2000
Mark Weisbrot
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May 4 will mark thirty years since four students protesting the Vietnam War at Kent State University were murdered by Ohio National Guardsmen. It is no exaggeration to call it murder, since the students were unarmed and-- given how far they were f...
Anderson: Data privacy
Graphic, May, 04 2000
Kirk Anderson
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data privacy, privacy
Solomon: THE POWER AND LIMITS OF PHOTOJOURNALISM
Commentary, May, 04 2000
Norman Solomon
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Despite all the emphasis on new media, photography has never lost the power to move us. Some recent photo essays in major American magazines, focusing on the poor and dispossessed, are efforts to break through abstraction and indifference. They te...
Deutsch: Abortion Funnies!
Graphic, May, 03 2000
Barry Deutsch
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abortion, Gore, Al Gore, vote, voting, pro-choice, pro-life, anti-choice
Hightower: WHAT'S MISSING IN CAMPAIGN 2000
Commentary, May, 03 2000
Jim Hightower
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Well, there we have it: Gore-Bush. Dull versus dullard. The political establishments of the two-party duopoly successfully rose up to surround, defend, and shove forward their chosen ones, both girded with tens of millions of dollars from the exac...
Herman: THE LEFT AND ELECTORAL PARTICIPATION
Commentary, May, 02 2000
Edward Herman
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The left always has a problem at election time, and embattled left pens are already trying to demonstrate that we should: (1) forego voting; (2) vote for Ralph Nader; or (3) vote for the lesser evil (Gore). The fact that there is always such vigor...
