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Bond: Zimbabwe Lurches Toward a Pauper's Burial
Zmag Article, July, 01 2001
Patrick Bond
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Zimbabwe Lurches Toward a Pauper's Burial
Russell: Market Steamroller
Commentary, July, 01 2001
Marta Russell
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Bush & Wall Street are about to turn a phony Social Security crisis into a real one. Part one, the tax cut, has already been accomplished. The combo of the $1.3 trillion tax cut and a lagging economy are shrinking federal surpluses available for...
Prashad: Red Star over West Bengal
Commentary, June, 28 2001
Vijay Prashad
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A few years ago I traveled around rural West Bengal to study the gains made by the Left Front government, notably as a result of the experiments in the devolution of power. By then I knew the statistical advances almost by heart. West Bengal has t...
Shalom: Exxon-Mobil in Aceh
Commentary, June, 26 2001
Stephen1 Shalom
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On June 20, 2001, the International Labor Rights Fund filed lawsuit in Federal District Court in Washington, DC, on behalf of eleven anonymous villagers from the Indonesian province of Aceh -- seven John Does and four Jane Does who fear for their ...
Choudry: We Must Mobilise Against A Miasma of Mini-MAIs
Commentary, June, 21 2001
Aziz Choudry
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YouÕve got to wonder at the nerve of New Zealand trade officials. During the furtive Multilateral Agreement on Investment negotiations and the subsequent international waves of opposition they were quietly hatching binding bilateral investment dea...
Mokhiber: A Call to Defy Corporate Domination
Commentary, June, 17 2001
Russell Mokhiber
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Since 1953, the percentage of unionized workers in the United States has declined from 26 percent to less than 14 percent. Yet, given the choice of joining a union or not, 48 percent of workers in this country say they would join. So, why isn't ...
Flanders: Beltway Brinkmanship - Nothing to risk our rights on
Commentary, June, 08 2001
Laura Flanders
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My grandmother's spirits were downcast last week because of baseball (the Red Sox lost lead of the American League.) But they soared when she remembered the Senate: "Just thinking about Jeffords cheers me up," she beamed. And this Memorial Day, sh...
Bickerton: Labour Looks Forward From Quebec City
Commentary, June, 03 2001
Geoff Bickerton
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As we look forward to planning future political actions in opposition to free trade and globalization, unions in English Canada can learn much from the People's Summit and the anti-FTAA protests held in Quebec City in April.
Solomon: SIMULATING DEMOCRACY CAN BE A VIRTUAL BREEZE
Commentary, June, 02 2001
Norman Solomon
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Few media eyebrows went up when the World Bank recently canceled a global meeting set for Barcelona in late June -- and shifted it to the Internet. Thousands of street demonstrators would have been in Spain's big northeastern port city to confront...
Albert: The Trajectory Of Struggle
Zmag Article, June, 01 2001
Michael Albert
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The Trajectory Of Struggle
Administrator: A World Struggle Is Underway
Zmag Article, June, 01 2001
Site Administrator
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A World Struggle Is Underway
Guardino: Akwesasne Border Action
Zmag Article, June, 01 2001
Matt Guardino
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Akwesasne Border Action
Schwartz: Resistance in Peru
Zmag Article, June, 01 2001
Eric Schwartz
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Resistance in Peru
Dowd: DOWN WITH THE BAH HUMBUG OF TAXES
Commentary, June, 01 2001
Douglas Dowd
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The flagrantly unjust and harmful policies for taxes, governmental spending and real and imagined surpluses in place or on their way had their beginnings in the last years of Carter's presidency -- prodded and facilitated by what Richard Du Boff t...
Podur: A few more moves ahead
Commentary, May, 25 2001
Justin Podur
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There is too much at stake for social change to be a game. But if it were a game, the side that had the ability to think many moves ahead, anticipate its opponents moves, know what its goal was and move toward it relentlessly, would have huge adva...
Edwards: HOW TO KILL THE TRUTH - Part 2
Commentary, May, 24 2001
David Edwards
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On December 22, 2000, I asked Alan Rusbridger, editor of the 'liberal' flagship newspaper, the Guardian, if he thought wealthy owners, parent companies, advertisers, flak machines, and allied political pressures compromised press reporting:
Prashad: The State of Well-Being: Welfare Fights in CT
Commentary, May, 17 2001
Vijay Prashad
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I hate authority. Whenever I'm in front of someone with power, and if I feel alone, I get awkward and silly. No wonder I hate the Connecticut State House, all opulent and aristocratic, with the lobbyists gathered like sharks in the stairwell, and ...
Rebick: Of Catapults and Teddy Bears
Commentary, May, 10 2001
Judy Rebick
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The teddy bear hurling catapult at the demonstrations in Quebec City may turn out to be the most effective piece of street theatre in protest history. Designed to mock the wall separating leaders at the Summit of the Americas from the people prote...
