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Solomon: The Twain Most Americans Never Meet
Commentary, November, 19 1999
Norman Solomon
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With the start of 2000 less than two months away, I've been thinking about a beloved American writer who stuck his neck out the last time people went through a change of centuries.
Pilger: Hidden Agendas
Zmag Article, November, 01 1999
John Pilger
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Pilger NY: New Press, 1999, pbk. 424 pp. Review by Anthony Arnove John Pilger is perhaps best known in the United States for his documentary Death of a Nation, a stunning expose on the genocide in East Timor. He has wri...
Bronski: Wag the Dogma
Zmag Article, November, 01 1999
Michael Bronski
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Wag the Dogma
Weisbrot: Time to End Debt Slavery
Commentary, October, 31 1999
Mark Weisbrot
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It has become a truism that "there are no easy answers" to the world's most pressing economic and social problems. The phrase is often repeated by academics, policy wonks, and others whose occupation immerses them in the details of real or imagine...
Albert: The WTO and Mumia Abu Jamal
Commentary, October, 18 1999
Michael Albert
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The World Trade Organization treats working people in countries throughout the world as assets to manipulate in pursuit of private corporate profit. From Guatemala to South Africa and from Thailand to the South Bronx, this causes impoverishment, i...
Zinn: A Larger Consciousness
Commentary, October, 10 1999
Howard Zinn
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Some years ago, when I was teaching at Boston University, I was asked by a Jewish group to give a talk on the Holocaust. I spoke that evening, but not about the Holocaust of World War II, not about the genocide of six million Jews.
Fitz: Genetic Engineering
Zmag Article, October, 01 1999
Don Fitz
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Fitz Monsanto claims that genetic engineering is necessary to feed the world’s growing population. But a growing coalition of environmentalists, farmers, and scientists is exposing this claim as a cover for grabbing control of world agri...
Lusane: Clinton Escapes Again
Commentary, September, 07 1999
Clarence Lusane
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Each Summer the major civil rights organizations hold their annual gatherings. Attended by thousands, these events include workshops, plenaries, and major addresses by civil rights leaders, trade union officials, representatives from women and you...
Dominick: An Appeal for Continued Anti-War Efforts
Commentary, September, 05 1999
Brian Dominick
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Sept. 5, 1999 An Appeal for Continued Anti-War Efforts By Brian Dominick Did I just see what I think I saw? Has a growing anti-war movement suddenly become dormant, for the umpteenth time in the past few decades - in ...
Zinn: Beyond the Soviet Union
Commentary, September, 02 1999
Howard Zinn
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In the spirit of killing two obligations with one effort, I offer as my Commentary a response I just made to a letter by a retired professor in California, who wrote: "As a great admirer of Howard Zinn [should he have said "as a former great admir...
Schechter: China on My Mind
Commentary, August, 31 1999
Danny Schechter
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In less than two months, on October 1st, the People's Republic of China turns fifty. Mao's long march liberated a country which in a half century has gone from championing world revolution to building "socialism with Chinese characteristics."
Halimi: Media Critics of the World Unite
Commentary, August, 15 1999
Serge Halimi
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Few countries publish as many books and articles on media criticism as the United States. Logically, all of this good work has little to no effect on the shaping and publication of news. Any adequate criticism, which describes media indoctrination...
Gonsalves: Aiding Africa
Commentary, August, 09 1999
Sean Gonsalves
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As part of a U.S. State Department special envoy, Tony Lake, former national security adviser to President Clinton, recently met with Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi, Eritrean President Isayas Afewerki and Organization of African Unity (OAU)...
Carter: Cures For The Summertime Blues
Zmag Article, July, 01 1999
Sandy Carter
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Cures For The Summertime Blues
Shalom: Lessons -- and Hope -- from Kerala
Commentary, June, 21 1999
Stephen1 Shalom
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Are there alternatives to the dominant economic model that consigns increasing numbers of people to lives of misery? One such alternative is offered by the state of Kerala in southern India which has been the site of fascinating social experimenta...
Wise: The Threat of a Good Example
Commentary, June, 20 1999
Tim Wise
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Occasionally when I'm speaking to college students, attempting to inspire at least a few to commit themselves to social justice as a way of life and perhaps career, I'm asked the question for which there is no easy answer; the one that goes: "What...
Landau: Remember Angola
Commentary, June, 17 1999
Saul Landau
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As Kosovo atrocities dominate the headlines, I wait for some former national security maven to confess to US government crimes committed during the Cold War. We know the CIA assassinated people, fomented coups and destabilized countries we claimed...
Solomon: Three On Kosovo
Commentary, May, 28 1999
Norman Solomon
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A few days ago, the president of the United States openly violated the War Powers Act -- and the national media yawned.
Lusane: Jackson and the Contradictions of War
Commentary, May, 13 1999
Clarence Lusane
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Into the storm's eye of the Balkin war stepped Rev. Jesse Jackson, and, once again, he emerges with prisoners of war.
Chomsky: Moral Principles and International Law
Commentary, May, 09 1999
Noam Chomsky
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I'm afraid the first question is not a "genuine question," though there is a huge literature, for thousands of years, attempting to say at least something about these topics, without much success.
