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Solomon: NPR FLOATS AN OMBUDSMAN, BUT PROBLEMS RUN DEEP
Commentary, March, 13 2000
Norman Solomon
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What if a big restaurant chain announced that it was hiring a chief inspector -- and filled the job with the person who'd been in charge of the company's kitchens? We might roll our eyes if the incoming inspector proclaimed from the outset that th...
Albert: Participatory Allocation
Commentary, March, 12 2000
Michael Albert
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An economy needs some procedure for coordinating different workers' activities with one another and with the desires of consumers. The procedure, called economic allocation, determines how much of each input and output is used or produced, and whe...
Gonsalves: This is not a campaign issue?
Commentary, March, 11 2000
Sean Gonsalves
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Thanks to the state department and our "adversarial" free press, even those who consider themselves well-informed about foreign policy have tremendous gaps in their knowledge when it comes to our policy in Iraq.
Guellec: The Problem of Experimentation on "Decisionally Incapacitated" Humans
Commentary, March, 10 2000
Dorothy Guellec
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Five of the world's 10 leading causes of disability are psychiatric depression, alcohol abuse, bipolar mood disorder, schizophrenia, and obsessive-compulsive disorder. These disorders have genetic determinants and physical correlates. In the past ...
Zinn: Sender Garlin
Commentary, March, 09 2000
Howard Zinn
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As the twentieth century came to an end last December, an extraordinary man, whose life spanned the century, died at the age of ninety-seven. His name was Sender Garlin.
Martinez: Students of Color Fight Racism at Univ. of Mich. with Month-Long Occupation
Commentary, March, 08 2000
Elizabeth Martinez
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Since Feb. 6, the Students of Color Coalition (SCC) has occupied the tower of the University of Michigan Union building to protest ongoing racist practices on a campus that claims to have a longstanding commitment to multiculturalism and diversity...
Wagner: GOP Hijacked by Religious Right
Graphic, March, 06 2000
Pete Wagner
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Religious Right, George W. Bush, Bush, Falwell, GOP, Republican Party, Moral Majority
Hartmann: A Visit to Los Alamos
Commentary, March, 06 2000
Betsy Hartmann
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In January I made my first trip to New Mexico. My partner and I visited the ancient Pueblo cliff dwellings at Bandelier National Monument. Like many tourists before us, we were awed by the beauty of the Frijoles Canyon and the knowledge that an an...
Albert: A Program Seeking Dignified Work
Commentary, March, 05 2000
Michael Albert
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We want to dignify work so we seek to equalize the empowerment effects of all jobs. But how?
Shalom: The Diallo Case
Commentary, March, 04 2000
Stephen1 Shalom
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During the Vietnam War, the court martial trials of Lt. William Calley and other U.S. military personnel who massacred hundreds of unarmed civilians at My Lai was deeply contentious. Conservatives opposed the trials as besmirching the good name of...
