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Commentary Albert: Thinking About DU

Commentary, January, 16 2001 Michael Albert
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The past week has seen a steadily escalating rush of commentary about Depleted Uranium used in the Gulf War and the Balkans bombing. Particularly in England but in much of Europe and the U.S. as well, left journalists are condemning DUÕs use. E-ma...

Commentary Bello: 2000: The Year of Global Protest against Globalization

Commentary, January, 10 2001 Walden Bello
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The last year will probably go down as one of those defining Êmoments in the history of the world economy, like 1929. Of course, the Êstructures of global capitalism appear to be solid, with many in the global Êelite in Washington, Europe, and Asi...

Commentary Glick: "This Land Is Your Land?"

Commentary, January, 07 2001 Ted Glick
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Several days ago I was asked to be part of a program next month commemorating the 60th anniversary of Woody Guthrie's song, "This Land Is Your Land." This got me thinking.

Commentary Prashad: The Great Indian Mail Strike of 2000

Commentary, January, 05 2001 Vijay Prashad
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For two weeks in December 2000, almost all of the 600,000 postal workers in India struck work, on behalf of 300,000 part-time workers. From Cyberabad to Silicon Galli computers tried in vain to send packages to each other, as the Sensex sang a dir...

Commentary Sommers: Small States and Neoliberalism: Latvia’s

Commentary, January, 02 2001 Jeffrey Sommers
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The time is long overdue for a reassessment of Latvia’s economic development. A decade after economic reforms, and nine years after independence, in Orwellian fashion this Baltic nation’s failures are somehow presented as achieveme...

Commentary Mokhiber: The Real Thing: Democracy as a Contact Sport

Commentary, January, 01 2001 Russell Mokhiber
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A few weeks ago, we received an invitation to attend an event at the Library of Congress. Coca-Cola was about to make an "historic contribution" to the Library of Congress, and the Library, and Coca-Cola, were inviting reporters to cover the even...

Commentary Chomsky: Escaping Orthodoxies

Commentary, December, 31 2000 Noam Chomsky
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DB: Talk in concrete ways about liberating the mind from orthodoxies. Take for example, humanitarian intervention.

Commentary Herman: THE PACIFICA COUNTERREVOLUTION HITS WBAI

Commentary, December, 30 2000 Edward Herman
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One of the most crushing series of blows to the U.S. left, and to democracy in this country, has been the gradual transformation of the five station Pacifica Radio network from locally-based and left-oriented stations into centrally controlled, ma...

Commentary Bond: Africa's Progressive Movements

Commentary, December, 28 2000 Patrick Bond
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ZNet Commentator Patrick Bond (pbond@wn.apc.org) chats with South African poet/activist ZNet Commentator Dennis Brutus about the state of the African Left PB: Good to see you back in Johannesburg, comrade Dennis, even briefly, in the midst of you...

Commentary Guellec: Psst. The real scoop on Patient Assistance Programs

Commentary, December, 26 2000 Dorothy Guellec
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Drug companies are giving away medications if you know how to ask. This is the best-kept secret because it is not widely known. All of the top 30 pharmaceutical companies make prescriptions available free, and these programs are horribly underutil...

Commentary Cromwell: An Unholy Trinity: Truth, Market Forces and the Media

Commentary, December, 25 2000 David Cromwell
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Are you a regular newspaper reader? If so, you'll have noticed that many journalists and columnists include an email address at the bottom of their articles. They surely crave your feedback! So here's a fun experiment. Fire off an email to the com...

Commentary Burchill: Australia & East Timor: Senate Passes Judgement

Commentary, December, 22 2000 Scott Burchill
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Largely unnoticed last week amongst the publicity splash produced by the release of a new Australian Defence White Paper, another significant parliamentary report quietly entered the public domain. The Australian Senate Committee enquiry into Aust...

Commentary Zinn: TENNIS ON THE TITANIC

Commentary, December, 16 2000 Howard Zinn
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As the prize of the presidency lurched wildly back and forth in the last days of the year, with the entire nation hypnotized by the spectacle, I had a vision. I saw the Titanic churning through the waters of the North Atlantic toward an iceberg lo...

Commentary Chomsky: Overcoming Orthodoxies

Commentary, December, 16 2000 Noam Chomsky
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David Barsamian: I want to come back to the idea of what individuals can do in overcoming orthodoxies. Steve Biko, the South African activist who was murdered by the apartheid regime while he was in custody, once said, The most powerful weapon in ...

Commentary Dowd: A TALE OF TWO CITIES

Commentary, December, 14 2000 Douglas Dowd
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The two cities are Bologna and Venice. The environmental problems threatening both, despite well-publicized "remedies," have not improved but worsened in recent decades; the cities, their problems, and their failure to deal with them exemplify all...

Commentary Cromwell: FALLOUT FROM THE CLIMATE TALKS

Commentary, December, 08 2000 David Cromwell
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The planet is burning, while politicians fiddle the books. If yet more proof was needed that capitalist society is rotten to the core, then just look to the recently collapsed climate talks in The Hague. No agreements, paltry or otherwise. Just bi...

Commentary Prashad: Beauty Queens and the Capitalist Beast

Commentary, December, 07 2000 Vijay Prashad
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All the men are computer programmers, all the women are beauty queens, and some of us are humorless. So it seems in the land of Silicon(e) India. Bill Gates says that Indians are the second smartest people on the planet, and the international cons...

Commentary Bond: South Africa's municipal elections: Finally, basic services for the masses?

Commentary, December, 06 2000 Patrick Bond
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Tuesday, December 5, is a national election in South Africa, as nearly 9,000 councilors in 284 municipalities seek the support of ten million voters. The African National Congress (ANC), which since 1994 has won three national, provincial and loca...

Commentary Schechter: The Media And HIV/AIDS: What Should We Do?

Commentary, December, 02 2000 Danny Schechter
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Sorry. So sorry if you were given "unnecessary offense." So sayeth the BBC as part of an apology for a stunt concocted for a TV show that plays practical jokes on the public. "Aunty," as the Beeb is known, hired a child actor to pose as an Afric...

Commentary Monbiot: The Massacre Starts Tomorrow

Commentary, December, 01 2000 George Monbiot
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There's an odd component of globalisation, which I find myself at a loss to explain. We are, we're assured, living in a global village, whose people are daily brought closer together. Yet we hear ever less about what is happening in distant parts ...

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