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Commentary Zinn: A CAMPAIGN WITHOUT CLASS

Commentary, September, 30 2000 Howard Zinn
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There came a rare amusing moment in this election campaign when George Bush (who has raised $150 million or thereabouts, anyhow, for his campaign) accused Al Gore (who has only raised $140 million or thereabouts, anyway, for his campaign) of appea...

Commentary Schechter: From Sydney To Prague: Newspeak Clouds Global Coverage

Commentary, September, 28 2000 Danny Schechter
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LAUSANNE, SWITZERLAND: Poor NBC. They spent a small fortune to scoop up the rights to the Olympic Games, and now no one in the United States is watching. To get the games, they paid buckeroo bucks, even reportedly "donating" a cool million to the ...

Commentary Weisbrot: Protests Keep Spotlight on IMF and World Bank Failures

Commentary, September, 26 2000 Mark Weisbrot
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PRAGUE, September 25-- With thousands of people converging from throughout Europe to demonstrate against the IMF and World Bank at their annual meetings, many people here in Prague are wondering what all the fuss is about. Security is tight, and r...

Commentary Schechter: Surviving "Survivor" While Thinking Of Abbie

Commentary, September, 25 2000 Danny Schechter
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Wonder what Mr. Survival of the Fittest Charles Darwin would be thinking as the surreality show "Survivor" moves from the realm of television into the arena of TV legend. CBS has cashed in already, and all l6 of the "survivors" of this staged sitc...

Commentary Wise: Freeh's Blind Mice: A Critical Look at "Tolerance Training," FBI Style

Commentary, September, 24 2000 Tim Wise
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That I'm no Biblical scholar is an understatement of monumental proportions. And yet, recently I found myself--for reasons I'll explain shortly--thinking of the following verse from the book of Matthew, if memory serves:

Commentary 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...

Commentary Randall: A CULTURE OF RAGE

Commentary, September, 19 2000 Margaret Randall
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This weekÕs mail brought a letter quite suddenly and unceremoniously informing me that my health insurance provider is discontinuing my group policy. "Your existing QualMed health care coverage will end on October 31, 2000. . . this is the only no...

Commentary 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...

Commentary 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...

Commentary Hoodbhoy: THE MENACE OF EDUCATION

Commentary, September, 14 2000 Pervez Hoodbhoy
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From brain size and hair colour to the shape and texture of toe-nails, every characteristic of an individual is totally determined by just two twisted strands of human DNA. A similar cultural DNA - a society's education system - contains within it...

Commentary Herman: THE MONEY, MEDIA, AND LIBERAL-LEFT ROLE IN PLUTOCRATIC ELECTIONS

Commentary, September, 13 2000 Edward Herman
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In many ways the system is working beautifully right now. First of all, money dominates the initial selection and weeding out of presidential candidates, so that only those who will serve the corporate interest on the basics--advancing "free trade...

Commentary Georgakas: Previewing Kosovo

Commentary, September, 12 2000 Dan Georgakas
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The only constant in American and NATO policy in the Balkans has been the breakup of a socialist, multi-ethnic state into a series of small, capitalist-oriented states based on narrowly defined religious/ethnic identity. Given that pattern, it is ...

Commentary 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...

Commentary Weisbrot: World Bank Can't Seem to "Think Different"

Commentary, September, 07 2000 Mark Weisbrot
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The World Bank spends millions of dollars each year on public relations, promoting the idea that the organization is well-run, accountable, transparent, and working for "a world free of poverty" (the slogan on their web site). This effort has grow...

Commentary Naiman: Banning Imports from Burma

Commentary, September, 03 2000 Robert Naiman
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In Burma - "Myanmar" to its military regime - Aung San Suu Kyi, leader of the democracy movement, sits in her car, blocked by the military dictatorship from meeting her supporters.

Commentary Dowd: ROTTING AWAY; THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF CORRUPTION AND DECADENCE

Commentary, September, 02 2000 Douglas Dowd
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History is replete with corrupt and decadent societies, including (but not beginning with) that of 1st Century Rome, where decadent/corrupt Nero fiddled as corrupt/decadent Rome burned. Iniquity -- and inequality -- in ancient and medieval societ...

Commentary Edwards: THIS SPORTING LIE: THE 'GREEN' OLYMPICS

Commentary, September, 01 2000 David Edwards
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A month before the great 'Green Games' in Sydney were due to open, a group of international scientists arrived at the North Pole to find, not ice, but a stretch of open water at least one mile wide - the first time the North Pole has not been ice-...

Commentary Prashad: The Affirmative Action Election

Commentary, August, 30 2000 Vijay Prashad
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As we approach the calendar end of the Christian millennium, we, as progressives, are posed with an electoral choice that has begun to startle me. So much commentary seems to go by these days on what appears to be the only election worth anything,...

Commentary 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 "...

Commentary Schechter: Speaking Back to the Media

Commentary, August, 20 2000 Danny Schechter
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There used to be something called equal time and the right to reply to TV editorials and coverage. I am reminded of this by the publication, in a thin booklet called Poems for the Nation, of the text of a previously unpublished television address ...

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