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Weisbrot: Spring Protests in Washington, D.C: Another Seattle?
Commentary, March, 24 2000
Mark Weisbrot
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The Clinton administration claims to have learned something from the outpouring of protest against the World Trade Organization (WTO) last December. "Those who heard a wake-up call in Seattle got the right message," said President Clinton. Maybe s...
Sommers: Understanding the March 26th Russian Election
Commentary, March, 23 2000
Jeffrey Sommers
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Russian democracy rode high in the late 1980s and into the early 1990s. Glasnost created a genuine culture of citizen participation in political life. Sterile arguments remain over whether this was done to preserve communism or tear it down. Whate...
Wise: A Tale of Two Cities: "Rational Racism," Amadou Diallo, and Us
Commentary, March, 22 2000
Tim Wise
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They are two places that at first appear wholly unrelated to one another; but of course, rarely are things as they seem. On the one hand, we have New York City, whose police-thanks to acquittals in the Diallo shooting trial-have been given carte b...
Hightower: ELECTION 2000: A SPACE ODYSSEY
Commentary, March, 21 2000
Jim Hightower
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The quadrennial presidential horserace is on, and the media establishment has unleashed its multimillion-dollar army of pundits, pollsters, powdered anchors, analysts, chart makers, gossips, make-up artists, set designers and others to drum up the...
Peters: The Teenage Liberation Handbook
Commentary, March, 20 2000
Cynthia Peters
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group, national or religious or even social, in the competititon with other groups. It is this motive, in the main, which determines the subjects taught, the knowledge offered and the knowledge Grace Llewellyn, author of ÒThe Teenage Liberation Ha...
Albert: Vision Matters
Commentary, March, 19 2000
Michael Albert
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So far I have sent out an economic vision and strategy commentary each of the past eight Sundays. I assumed we would quickly agree that we don't have but that we do very much need a shared economic vision, and that to get one we need to collective...
Bonpane: A DEPARTMENT OF PEACE?
Commentary, March, 18 2000
BlasŽ Bonpane
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A few months ago I met with Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio) and he told me of his plans to formulate a Department of Peace for the United States Government. He now has a draft of a bill to establish such a department.
Schechter: 'WE ARE THE WORLD' AS AN OLDIE: "BEEN THERE, DONE THAT"
Commentary, March, 17 2000
Danny Schechter
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As the story is told, it was a slow news day at NBC back in 1985 when staffers looked up at an incoming satellite feed on one of their many monitors. The newsroom fell silent as a parade of harrowing images from the dying fields of Ethiopia stream...
Mokhiber: Somebody Else's Wealth
Commentary, March, 15 2000
Russell Mokhiber
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Where does the vast wealth of the United States come from? It is hard to read the financial and popular press today without encountering stories that suggest the answer is the creativity of entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley.
