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Commentary Jensen: Even Now We Lie To Ourselves About Vietnam

Commentary, November, 27 2000 Robert Jensen
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Bill Clinton has always been keen on apologizing, for himself and on behalf of the nation. He has apologized not only for a sex scandal, but for U.S. support of repression in Guatemala and for slavery.

Commentary Glass: Ramallah, West Bank

Commentary, November, 24 2000 Charles Glass
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Most afternoons, the boys head from their schools down to the edge of town where Israeli tanks and soldiers are standing by to watch unarmed children wage war. A wide road heads from the center of Ramallah downhill towards a hotel, the City Inn, w...

Commentary Dowd: WHAT DO WE WANT? AND WHO ARE "WE"?

Commentary, November, 23 2000 Douglas Dowd
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Alongside and arising from "Seattle" and subsequent protests are questions such as the above -- by those participating in and supporting, and those against the protests. Those and related questions have always deserved serious answers; now more t...

Commentary Herman: LIBERAL APOLOGETICS FOR IMPERIALISM

Commentary, November, 21 2000 Edward Herman
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Edward S. HermanThe American Prospect (TAP) magazine, edited by Robert Kuttner and Paul Starr, with Robert Reich as "National Editor," is a liberal magazine par excellence, and has frequent articles on domestic policy issues that represent the bes...

Commentary Sommers: Report from Kiev

Commentary, November, 20 2000 Jeffrey Sommers
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I am in Kiev as the pampered guest of a Baltic offshore company which helps CIS nations avoid taxation by incorporating in the Channel Islands, Cyprus, the Cayman Islands, or even the USÕs own outlaw banking state of Delaware. Granted, many of the...

Commentary Prashad: Betrayed Redemption in Chile

Commentary, November, 15 2000 Vijay Prashad
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On Friday, 10 November, the Santiago (Chile) Court of Appeals refused to grant parole to retired army General Torres Silva. A few hours later, Judge Sergio Munoz indicted a general on active duty, Hernan Ramirez for the same crime. Both these lead...

Commentary Monbiot: Reality Re-Asserts ItselfT

Commentary, November, 14 2000 George Monbiot
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Just as floods and tornadoes were laying waste to our homes, we earthlings watched the launch of an exciting new venture. Three cosmonauts were blasted into orbit, to pioneer the permanent inhabitation of space. Humanity is already making plans fo...

Commentary Albert: Election Issues

Commentary, November, 13 2000 Michael Albert
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The election fiasco is an unexpected spur to progressive prospects. Lots of people are thinking hard about what good government is. This could yield positive political vision, not just a list of things we donÕt like.The coming assault on the Elec...

Commentary Mokhiber: Ford/Firestone: Homicide?

Commentary, November, 04 2000 Russell Mokhiber
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In 1998, in Corpus Christi, Texas, 17-year-old Matthew Hendricks was on his way to pick up his girlfriend. He was driving a Ford Explorer. The tread ripped off one of the Ford's Firestone's tires, causing him to lose control. He was thrown from th...

Commentary Herman: CENSORSHIP AS A PACIFICA MANAGEMENT TOOL

Commentary, November, 02 2000 Edward Herman
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Studying the recent history of Pacifica over the past several weeks, I have been once again impressed with how important a role censorship has played in the tactics and apparent strategy of the Pacifica management. Censorship by the use of gag r...

Commentary Landau: Haitian and Cuban Refugees

Commentary, October, 30 2000 Saul Landau
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Over the last two months, smugglers routinely drop Haitians and Cubans off the South Florida coast. US authorities arrest these presumably "illegal" immigrants and haul them off to Krome detention center. All the Haitians then await hearings for d...

Commentary Cromwell: Silent Democracy

Commentary, October, 24 2000 David Cromwell
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"It's sociologically interesting, though scary", said the actor Anthony Sher in a recent interview, "that you can be inside an evil system and be somehow unaware of it." South African by birth, Sher was talking about the former system of apartheid...

Commentary Cromwell: Silent Democracy

Commentary, October, 24 2000 David Cromwell
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"It's sociologically interesting, though scary", said the actor Anthony Sher in a recent interview, "that you can be inside an evil system and be somehow unaware of it." South African by birth, Sher was talking about the former system of apartheid...

Commentary Scipes: Building Labor Solidarity

Commentary, October, 21 2000 Kim Scipes
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To many people in the United States, the AFL-CIO is a progressive organization, joining unions across the country to fight for higher wages, better working conditions and progressive social programs for workers and people in our communities. Howe...

Commentary Bond: The African grassroots and the global movement

Commentary, October, 19 2000 Patrick Bond
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In a ZNet commentary last month, Noam Chomsky observed South-South-North alliances "taking shape at the grassroots level--an impressive development, rich in opportunity and promise, and surely causing no little concern in high places." I want to f...

Commentary Ratner: Labor Rights, Free Trade Zones & The Chentex Struggle in Nicaragua

Commentary, October, 18 2000 Michael Ratner
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(see: www.humanrightsnow.com) In mid-September I traveled to Nicaragua as part of a delegation organized by the National Labor Committee (NLC), an organization that fights sweatshops and supports labor rights around the world. Charles Kernaghan a...

Commentary Guellec: Billions Spent Marketing Drugs to Consumers

Commentary, October, 16 2000 Dorothy Guellec
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In the two years since the FDA began an experiment to let the mass media broadcast the prescription-drug message directly to consumers, the pharmaceutical industry has shelled out a whopping $1.3 billion per year on consumer ads. That dwarfs the $...

Commentary Schechter: RED STAR OVER THE UN: The Media Downplays Human Rights in China

Commentary, October, 15 2000 Danny Schechter
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As the United Nations opens its Millennial Summit in New York September 6 with an expected 150 heads of state in attendance, the world organization is trying to refocus its mission and revive its credibility. (Never mind the cost of staging the wo...

Commentary Cromwell: Supping with the devil

Commentary, October, 07 2000 David Cromwell
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When Chris Tuppen, a senior manager with British Telecom, was granted space a couple of years ago in a green pressure groupÕs magazine, he made a plea for business and the green movement to "settle their differences" and "work together". But what ...

Commentary Prashad: Nobody Hid This Crime: The Police Open Fire in Naidu.Com

Commentary, October, 06 2000 Vijay Prashad
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This crime was committed under the shadow of the State Assembly in Hyderabad (Andhra Pradesh, India). For three quarters of an hour the guns of the police tore through the thousands of people, hundreds fell, two never to rise again. The streets co...

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