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Marable: Seattle and Beyond
Commentary, January, 22 2000
Manning Marable
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It was immensely significant for black America that the last major public demonstration in the U.S. in the 20th century was a protest over global economics and trade.
Solomon: AOL / Time Warner: Calling the Faithful to Their Knees
Commentary, January, 21 2000
Norman Solomon
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And so, early in the year 2000, it came to pass that visions of a seamless media web enraptured the keepers of pecuniary faith as never before. A grand new structure, AOL Time Warner, emerged while a few men proclaimed themselves trustees of a hol...
Bonpane: Fasting for Justice
Commentary, January, 20 2000
BlasŽ Bonpane
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In the wake of a dozen Vigils throughout the United States on January 11, 2000, Lori Berenson began a hunger fast. This news has been confirmed by the Peruvian prison authorities and the U.S. Embassy in Peru. This date represents the fourth annive...
Chomsky: Four from the Forums
Commentary, January, 19 2000
Noam Chomsky
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On graduate unions, it's true enough that (ideally) "graduate teaching is pedagogical training," but that's incomplete. Any teaching, if done at all seriously, is also a way of learning -- about lots of things, including the subject you are teachi...
Shalom: Humanitarian Intervention
Commentary, January, 18 2000
Stephen1 Shalom
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The issue of humanitarian intervention arises again, propelled by the crises in Kosovo and East Timor and by the memories of the 1994 Rwanda genocide. Some analysts have used these cases to support new principles of international relations. But to...
Schechter: Attica, Hurricane, and Mumia
Commentary, January, 17 2000
Danny Schechter
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ATTICA! It's a word I hadn't heard in a number of years. It was a word I will never forget, and not just because of Al Pacino's memorable invocation of the term in the movie Dog Day Afternoon. Attica was one of the first stories I dissected in my ...
Group: Go For It!
Graphic, January, 16 2000
Contagion Media Group
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genetically modified organism, gm food, Tony Blair, New Labour, third way
Herman: The AOL Time Merger
Commentary, January, 16 2000
Edward Herman
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Each great technological advance in communication begins with claims of the dominance of public service aims and probable effects, which is then followed and concluded by a commercial takeover.
Albert: Internet Commercialism?!
Commentary, January, 15 2000
Michael Albert
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There is an old economic saying that "there is no free lunch." To get something out of an economy you have to put something in. Contrary to rumors, this holds for the Internet as well as for factories. To provide internet content takes labor, tool...
Peters: Porn Stars, Promise-Keepers, and "Pound Dawgs" A Comment on: Stiffed, by Susan Faludi
Commentary, January, 14 2000
Cynthia Peters
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Male porn stars get paid based on their ability to sustain an erection. Promise Keepers are told to look to God as a Father they can trust, and to stock up on Promise Keeper mugs, t-shirts, and other memorabilia. "Pound Dawgs" - extreme fans of th...
