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Bond: Ghana's hydro-class struggles
Commentary, May, 23 2001
Patrick Bond
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ACCRA -- Notwithstanding the horrific soccer stadium disaster in which at least 165 people were killed in a police-incited stampede on May 9, the past week offered signs of genuine hope in Ghana.
Thrupkaew: A Letter from Cuba
Commentary, May, 22 2001
Noy Thrupkaew
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I recently traveled to Cuba as part of a U.S. women's delegation, sponsored by the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, Sojourner, and Hermanas, an organization dedicated to building solidarity between U.S. and Caribbean women. Away...
Herman: Israel's Approved Ethnic Cleansing
Zmag Article, May, 01 2001
Edward Herman
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Israel's Approved Ethnic Cleansing
Barsamian: Liberating the Mind from Orthodoxies
Zmag Article, May, 01 2001
David Barsamian
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Liberating the Mind from Orthodoxies
Herman: THE MEDIA AT THE BARRICADES IN SUPPORT OF "FREE TRADE"
Commentary, April, 30 2001
Edward Herman
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Back at the time of the struggle over the North American Free Trade Agreement (Nafta) in 1993, the mainstream media lined up in solid phalanx in its support, and Meg Greenfield, opinion editor of the Washington Post explained the one-sidedness of ...
Peters: Purchasing for your Poodle: Consumerism Unleashed
Commentary, April, 24 2001
Cynthia Peters
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A refugee from the Sudan is in a grocery store in Fargo, North Dakota. Orphaned by war, traumatized by loss and violence, and having survived most his life on minimal rations, this young man, Peter, is understandably amazed by the endless of aisle...
Weisbrot: Why We Need Free Trade for Life-Saving Medicines
Commentary, April, 22 2001
Mark Weisbrot
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The story of the decade, and perhaps the century, has finally made it to the front pages: millions of people who could be saved are dying from AIDS. The reason for their unnecessary, premature, and often agonizing deaths is now becoming clear: it ...
Bond: The World Bank in the time of cholera
Commentary, April, 13 2001
Patrick Bond
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One of the most painful preventable diseases known to humankind, cholera, continues to spread in South Africa, affecting hundreds of people a day. More than 80,000 people have been infected over the last eight months, and approximately 180 have lo...
Marable: Public Education and Black Empowerment
Commentary, April, 04 2001
Manning Marable
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I recently was keynote speaker at the National Caucus of Black School Board Members, held during the sixty-first annual National School Boards Association in San Diego. I met hundreds of dedicated, progressive African-American community leaders wh...
Herman: Israel's Approved Ethnic Cleansing, Part 1
Zmag Article, April, 01 2001
Edward Herman
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Israel's Approved Ethnic Cleansing, Part 1
Solomon: Reporting On AIDS in Africa
Zmag Article, April, 01 2001
Norman Solomon
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Reporting On AIDS in Africa
Bond: Globalization from Below
Commentary, March, 18 2001
Patrick Bond
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(Review of `Globalization from Below: The Power of Solidarity,' by Jeremy Brecher, Tim Costello and Brendan Smith, Cambridge, MA, South End Press.) There are more than a dozen new english- language books aimed mainly at an audience of internation...
Solomon: OBSTINATE MEMORY AND PURSUIT OF THE PRESENT
Commentary, March, 15 2001
Norman Solomon
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Henry Kissinger usually has an easy time defending the indefensible on national television. But he faced some pointed questions during a recent interview with the PBS "NewsHour" about the U.S. role in bringing a military dictatorship to Chile. ...
Choudry: New Zealand Plays “Follow the Leader†on spylaws
Commentary, March, 14 2001
Aziz Choudry
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New Zealanders often brag that their country is a world leader. They claim it was first to create a welfare state and give suffrage to women. The 1984-1990 Labour Government declared the country nuclear-free, while, according to the Economist, it ...
Guellec: Violence is a Public Health Problem
Commentary, March, 10 2001
Dorothy Guellec
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According to the FBI there are 240 million firearms in America today. Former U.S. Surgeon General C. Everett Koop identified violence as a public health issue in 1991. The Centers for Disease Control tells us "the United States may be a more viole...
Said: The only alternative
Commentary, March, 08 2001
Edward Said
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I first visited South Africa in May 1991: a dark, wet, wintry period, when Apartheid still ruled, although the ANC and Nelson Mandela had been freed. Ten years later I returned, this time to summer, in a democratic country in which Apartheid has b...
Burchill: The East Timorese of Western Sahara
Commentary, March, 02 2001
Scott Burchill
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1975 was an extraordinary year for revolutionary upheavals in the Third World. The Khmer Rouge marched into Phnom Penh in April just two weeks before the US puppet regime in Saigon collapsed. The Pathet Lao took control of Laos the following month...
Burchill: The East Timorese of Western Sahara
Znet Article, March, 02 2001
Scott Burchill
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1975 was an extraordinary year for revolutionary upheavals in the Third World. The Khmer Rouge marched into Phnom Penh in April just two weeks before the US puppet regime in Saigon collapsed. The Pathet Lao took control of Laos the following month...
Ingalls: "Smart" Sanctions On Afghanistan
Zmag Article, March, 01 2001
James Ingalls
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"Smart" Sanctions On Afghanistan
Jenkins: Letter from Santiago
Zmag Article, March, 01 2001
Alan Jenkins
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Letter from Santiago
