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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 I am reminded of this by the publication, in a thin booklet called Poems for the Nation, of the text of a previously unpublished television address ...

Commentary Zinn: Downfall

Commentary, August, 18 2000 Howard Zinn
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I am surprised that my friend Hans Koning, a stalwart protester against the war in Vietnam, seems to have been taken in by the argument of Richard Frank, in his review of Frank's DOWNFALL. Yes, we must all be willing to reconsider our most hardene...

Commentary Gonsalves: Creating jobs and expanding opportunity

Commentary, August, 17 2000 Sean Gonsalves
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Ask anyone what was the major event of the post-Civil War period and they'll tell you: the Emancipation Proclamation - the freeing of America's black slaves.

Commentary Burchill: Heroes and Villains

Commentary, August, 16 2000 Scott Burchill
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In his first lecture on Indonesian soil after being banished for 26 years, Benedict Anderson spoke about the bewildered expression on the faces of his Indonesian students over the years at Cornell University whenever he asked them "who in Indonesi...

Commentary 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...

Commentary Weisbrot: Police Abuses Won't Stifle Protests

Commentary, August, 13 2000 Mark Weisbrot
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"When protest becomes effective, governments become repressive." Tom Hayden summed it up in an axiom three decades ago, while describing his own trial on conspiracy charges for organizing protests against the Vietnam War.

Commentary Herman: ROGUE REMOVAL AS OFFICIAL U.S. FOREIGN POLICY

Commentary, August, 11 2000 Edward Herman
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In her August 1 speech before the Republican National Convention, Bush foreign policy adviser Condoleezza Rice explained to the audience that Bush "recognizes that the magnificent men and women of America's armed forces are not a global police for...

Commentary Edwards: Two on Iraq

Commentary, August, 06 2000 David Edwards
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August 6 is the tenth anniversary of sanctions on Iraq...and we have two commentaries on the broad topic to deliver...

Commentary Glick: Leftists and Popular Movements

Commentary, August, 04 2000 Ted Glick
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There are a number of reasons why some of those who are left of center in the United States have not yet decided to support the Ralph Nader/Winona LaDuke Green Party independent Presidential campaign. Some have the usual "lesser of two evils" argu...

Commentary 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',"...

Commentary Wise: Bill of Whites: Historical Memory Through the Racial Looking Glass

Commentary, July, 24 2000 Tim Wise
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In 1992, white supremacist Jared Taylor lamented the ostensibly growing influence of people of color in the U.S. when he wrote:"The old, standard history united Americans...It emphasized one point of view and ignored others. It was history about w...

Commentary Schechter: Long Live Chairman Levin!

Commentary, July, 23 2000 Danny Schechter
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A long time ago, in the days when evil empires threatened freedom-loving peoples everywhere, there were a few men we were taught to fear. They led massive, top-down international networks of true believers committed to infiltrating our minds and w...

Commentary Mokhiber: Which Way, CFA?

Commentary, July, 22 2000 Russell Mokhiber
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The Consumer Federation of America is at a crossroads. Set up in 1968 to advocate in Washington, D.C. for consumer interests, the Federation is being consumed by Washington's corporate culture. Will it seek to reverse course and get back to its co...

Commentary Chomsky: National Missile Defense

Commentary, July, 20 2000 Noam Chomsky
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Taking into account the results of the recent test, should President Clinton ask the Pentagon to go ahead with the national missile defense system?I would prefer to respond to a slight reformulation of the question. The most hopeful prospect for t...

Commentary Guellec: The dark side of the Canadian Healthcare system’s decline

Commentary, July, 19 2000 Dorothy Guellec
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My wise uncle told me that the real meaning of Globalization “is to make the world safe for the American and other multinational corporations to penetrate and take over as much as the world’s economy, country by country, as possibl...

Commentary 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.

Commentary 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'...

Commentary 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...

Commentary 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.

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