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Bond: South-South-North alliances
Commentary, September, 22 2000
Patrick Bond
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Here are two sentences in the concluding paragraph of Chomsky's September 17 ZNet Commentary (`Summits');, in which he champions the Havana South-South Summit of `G77' country leaders that took place in April: "African leaders pointed out that the...
Naiman: An "Underground Railroad" for Patented Drugs?
Commentary, September, 21 2000
Robert Naiman
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September 18th was the 150th anniversary of an infamous Act. In 1850, Congress passed the Fugitive Slave Act, making the federal government responsible for tracking down escaped slaves in the North and sending them back to slavery. The Act galvani...
Chomsky: Summits
Commentary, September, 17 2000
Noam Chomsky
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The United Nations Summit in New York in September was the second major gathering of government leaders marking the millennium. The first was the South Summit in Havana in April. The UN Summit received considerable national publicity, while the So...
Mokhiber: Killing Africa with Kindness
Commentary, September, 16 2000
Russell Mokhiber
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With the announcement of a billion-dollar-a-year U.S. government loan program for African countries to buy AIDS drugs, the fight to deliver affordable drugs to people with HIV/AIDS in Africa and elsewhere in the developing world has entered its th...
Marable: Escaping From Blackness: Racial Identity and Public Policy
Commentary, September, 11 2000
Manning Marable
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The greatest struggle of any oppressed group in a racist society is the struggle to reclaim collective memory and identity. At the level of culture, racism seeks to deny people of African, American Indian, Asian and Latino descent their own voices...
Bonpane: The Death of the Dinosaur, the Saber Tooth Tiger, and Militarism
Commentary, September, 10 2000
BlasŽ Bonpane
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Take a look at the La Brea Tar Pits numerous millennia ago. The saber tooth tiger attempts to attack a wild horse. The tiger gets stuck in the tar. The most ferocious animals are generally on the endangered species list, the lions the tigers, the ...
Marable: Racism, Prisons and the Future of Black America
Commentary, August, 31 2000
Manning Marable
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There are today over two million Americans incarcerated in federal and state prisons and local jails throughout the United States. More than one-half, or one million, are black men and women. The devastating human costs of the mass incarceration o...
Bond: Can Thabo Mbeki change the world?
Commentary, August, 22 2000
Patrick Bond
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In a formidable recent speech, South African President Thabo Mbeki, quoting Shakespeare, publicly attacked not only a senior white politician for alleged racism and arrogance over the AIDS treatment tragedy. He also castigated the section of the "...
Naiman: Gun Control, Burma and Corporate Rule
Commentary, August, 14 2000
Robert Naiman
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Robert Naiman Remember the "New Federalism"? State and local governments were supposed to be "laboratories of democracy," where new ideas could be tried out to address social problems, where government would be more responsive to citizen input at...
Landau: THE DRUG WAR IS AS AMERICAN AS APPLE PIE AND COCAINE
Commentary, August, 10 2000
Saul Landau
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One of my friends mocks the drug war and sneers at President Clinton's request that Congress fund a new $1.2 billion military aid package for Colombia, so the Colombian military can better engage the iniquitous narco-traffickers. "You don't unders...
Herman: THE HACK STRIKES AGAIN!: KRUGMAN ON NADER
Commentary, July, 29 2000
Edward Herman
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In his op-ed column of July 23rd entitled "Saints and Profits," Paul Krugman shows once again why the New York Times put him on as a regular (for a more extended discussion, see my "Krugman On Economists As Hacks: Or, 'Mirror Mirror on the Wall',"...
Chomsky: "Peace Process" Prospects
Commentary, July, 27 2000
Noam Chomsky
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The latest AP report from Camp David (evening, July 25) begins: "The Middle East peace talks at Camp David collapsed Tuesday over rival claims to East Jerusalem. Disappointed, President Clinton said he tried several approaches but could not come u...
Landau: THE 47TH ANNIVERSARY OF FIDEL'S ATTACK ON MONCADA
Commentary, July, 26 2000
Saul Landau
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July 26, 1953. Fidel Castro leads 158 men to attack Fort Moncada, in Santiago de Cuba, the island's second largest military installation. Flashback. 1860. John Brown's raiders hit Harper's Ferry. Brown, like Castro, lost the battle. Both of these ...
Weisbrot: Trade Trumps Human Rights in Supreme Court Decision
Commentary, July, 18 2000
Mark Weisbrot
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The Supreme Court's unanimous decision yesterday to strike down the Massachusetts Burma law says more about the pro- business bias of the present Court than it does about the legal principles involved in the case.
Bond: A Political Economy of South African AIDS
Commentary, July, 17 2000
Patrick Bond
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Johannesburg, South Africa Up to a point, Danny Schechter is absolutely right to focus on the power and the appalling discursive-policy mistake of a single personality, SA president Thabo Mbeki, in this country's recent HIV-AIDS fiasco ("Mbeki'...
Schechter: MBEKI's MUDDLE South Africa's Aids Debate
Commentary, July, 13 2000
Danny Schechter
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Durban, South Africa: What was Mbeki going to say? That's what the press and the crowd packed into the Kingsmead Cricket stadium were buzzing about as they waited May 9th under an African sky threatening rain for South Africa's second democratical...
Burchill: The Problem With Panic Merchants
Commentary, July, 06 2000
Scott Burchill
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Some just never learn. From the same people who told us that East Timor should not and would not become independent, now comes the argument that the people of West Papua should also be denied the right to determine their political arrangements.
Chomsky: Humanitarian Intervention
Commentary, July, 05 2000
Noam Chomsky
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At a public talk in February Chomsky was asked: "President Clinton recently said the U.S. has the right on humanitarian grounds to intervene, with force, in any country which it deems is abusing the human rights of its citizens. Do you agree ...
