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Albert: A Program Seeking Self Management
Commentary, February, 20 2000
Michael Albert
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Agreeing that self-management, or decision making input in proportion as one is affected, is a core goal for a participatory economic movement, what demands can we fight for today that will help move us toward self-management tomorrow?
Gonsalves: The Debate Over Institutional Values
Commentary, February, 19 2000
Sean Gonsalves
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A few lingering thoughts on the whole WTO event: WTO supporters, which includes Clinton and his "liberal" media, say they are for freedom. Front-line and armchair protesters - not to be confused with the handful of vandals that destroyed property ...
Landau: Elian's Miami Family May Be Drunk Drivers And Criminals, But They Love Him And Believe In Freedom
Commentary, February, 18 2000
Saul Landau
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Since last December, Eli‡n Gonzalez, the 6-year-old Cuban refugee boy, has become for those who love gossip about the living what Jon Benet Ramsey was for the morbid Enquirer readers. Who killed Jon Benet remains a police issue.
Solomon: BILL BRADLEY, NEWS MEDIA AND "THE POLITICS OF AMBIGUITY"
Commentary, February, 17 2000
Norman Solomon
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Andrew Jackson won the White House in 1828 with a fresh approach to oratory. "Jackson was the first president to master the liberal rhetoric," wrote historian Howard Zinn, who called it "the new politics of ambiguity -- speaking for the lower and ...
Weissman: The Nature of the Machine
Commentary, February, 16 2000
Robert Weissman
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Imagine this: you study your entire life to reach the pinnacle of your profession. First, you secure an undergraduate degree in biology from Oregon State University. Then a PhD in developmental biology at Yale University. Then on to Indiana Univer...
Weisbrot: Drug Companies Fight Prescription Benefits for Seniors
Commentary, February, 15 2000
Mark Weisbrot
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What are the limits to corporate greed in the year 2000? We may be about to find out. The pharmaceutical companies, whose rate of profit is more than three times the average of other corporations, have been using their enormous clout to block pres...
Author: Look Who Is Acting Like Microsoft
Commentary, February, 14 2000
Guest Author
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For the past year we have watched the U.S. government's attempt to apply anti-monopoly laws to the business practices of Microsoft. Ever since the Sherman Antitrust Act was passed a century ago, it has been widely accepted that domination of a mar...
Albert: Self Management as a Goal
Commentary, February, 13 2000
Michael Albert
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How much say should each actor in an economy have over decisions in that economy? Why should we aim for self-management defined as decision-making input proportionate to the degree one is affected by outcomes?
Solomon: E Vandalism Intrudes on Right to be Heard
Commentary, February, 12 2000
Norman Solomon
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A specter is haunting cyberspace -- the specter of e-vandalism. Media alarms have been loud in recent days: Electronic commerce is under siege. A virtual crime wave threatens to wreak havoc on the World Wide Web. Any site is vulnerable, no matter...
Shalom: Green Lights and Red Herrings
Commentary, February, 11 2000
Stephen1 Shalom
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In December 1975, after receiving a green light from U.S. President Gerald and Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, Indonesian President Suharto launched an invasion of East Timor. The weapons for the attack came from the United States. "Of course ...
