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Mchombo: ROUNDING UP HOKERS IN MALAWI
Commentary, October, 11 2000
Sam Mchombo
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Sam Mchombo It is a matter of fact that AIDS has taken its toll on human life, with various African countries amongst the worst hit. It has also placed incredible economic burdens on most of those countries which, given the soaring costs of avail...
Shalom: Turmoil in Palestine: The Basic Context
Commentary, October, 10 2000
Stephen1 Shalom
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As the occupied Palestinian territories suffer their worst paroxysm of violence in years, with the casualties, as always, overwhelmingly Palestinian, the mainstream media, also as always, focus on peripheral questions, offer misleading answers, an...
Author: Time to Take a Critical Look at Depo-Provera
Commentary, October, 09 2000
Guest Author
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My first experience with Depo-Provera was as a young welfare mother. I had just finished my first post-partum check-up after having had my second child. The doctor pronounced me in great health and then pulled out a syringe and a vial. I am just g...
Russell: Social Security, Work and Poverty
Commentary, October, 08 2000
Marta Russell
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It is a tight labor market and tight labor markets traditionally threaten to give workers more bargaining power from which to secure significant wage increases. Wall Street and investors get nervous about tight labor markets. They reckon that the ...
Pond-mcpherson: Death Takes a Vacation
Graphic, October, 07 2000
Scott Pond-mcpherson
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death penalty, capital punishment, murder, dna testing, justice, guilt, illinois
Cromwell: Supping with the devil
Commentary, October, 07 2000
David Cromwell
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When Chris Tuppen, a senior manager with British Telecom, was granted space a couple of years ago in a green pressure groupÕs magazine, he made a plea for business and the green movement to "settle their differences" and "work together". But what ...
Prashad: Nobody Hid This Crime: The Police Open Fire in Naidu.Com
Commentary, October, 06 2000
Vijay Prashad
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This crime was committed under the shadow of the State Assembly in Hyderabad (Andhra Pradesh, India). For three quarters of an hour the guns of the police tore through the thousands of people, hundreds fell, two never to rise again. The streets co...
Guellec: RU puzzled, fed up?
Commentary, October, 05 2000
Dorothy Guellec
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Last Thursday, September 28,2000, the landscape for abortion really changed. It has been a long time coming. The pill called RU-486 was developed in 1980. and in 1982 the first successful human testing was reported in France. After 10 long years o...
Deutsch: The New Hostage Crisis
Graphic, October, 04 2000
Barry Deutsch
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abortion, bush, gore, two-party system, third parties, feminism, feminists, reproductive rights, election
Weisbrot: Clinton in Colombia: The Ugly American
Commentary, October, 04 2000
Mark Weisbrot
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When President Clinton announced his trip to Colombia, he said his purpose was "to seek peace, to fight illicit drugs, to build its economy, and to deepen democracy."
