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Commentary Chomsky: Humanitarian Intervention

Commentary, July, 05 2000 Noam Chomsky
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At a public talk in February Chomsky was asked: "President Clinton recently said the U.S. has the right on humanitarian grounds to intervene, with force, in any country which it deems is abusing the human rights of its citizens. Do you agree ...

Commentary Shalom: The Crash of the Osprey

Commentary, July, 03 2000 Stephen1 Shalom
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On April 8, a hybrid helicopter-airplane known as the V-22 Osprey crashed in Arizona, killing all 19 Marines aboard. It was, said Air Force Magazine, "one of the worst accidents in the history of Marine Corps aviation and one of the deadliest mili...

Commentary Cunningham: DISCONTENT ON THE MOON

Commentary, July, 02 2000 Philip Cunningham
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The Moon river is the lifeline of Isan, bringing sustenance and irrigation to the poorest and most populous part of Thailand. The World Bank identified the Moon, the greatest of the Mekong's tributaries, as a suitable location for a giant dam, and...

Commentary Ali: NUCLEAR PERILS IN SOUTH ASIA

Commentary, July, 01 2000 Tariq Ali
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The nuclear games being played by India and Pakistan are both dangerous and obscene. They are dangerous because there are Taliban-type elements within the Pakistan Army (and I'm sure their equivalents in India), who could, in extremis, press the d...

Commentary Wise: Membership Has It's Privileges: Thoughts on Acknowledging and Challenging Whiteness

Commentary, June, 22 2000 Tim Wise
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Being white means never having to think about it. James Baldwin said that many years ago, and it's perhaps the truest thing ever said about race in America. That's why I get looks of bewilderment whenever I ask, as I do when lecturing to a mostly ...

Commentary Gonsalves: Stubborn facts versus thick skulls

Commentary, June, 18 2000 Sean Gonsalves
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Sean Gonsalves Whoever coined the phrase Òfacts are stubborn thingsÓ has apparently never come across drug war advocates Ð a self-righteous bunch, undeterred by trivial matters of fact.

Commentary Herman: WHAT IS LIBERALISM?

Commentary, June, 12 2000 Edward Herman
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In a May 22 editorial in the liberal The American Prospect (TAP), which he edits along with Paul Starr, Robert Kuttner lauds radicals, for keeping moral demands to the fore and for pioneering on major issues that were central to democratic advance...

Commentary Weisbrot: Labor in 2000: No Place to Go?

Commentary, June, 07 2000 Mark Weisbrot
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In the movie version of Steven King's classic, "The Dead Zone," Christopher Walken reads the mind of the mother of a demonic serial killer. His psychic powers discern that she had long been aware of her son's vicious murders. His eyes widen with s...

Commentary Chomsky: Unsustainable Non Development

Commentary, May, 30 2000 Noam Chomsky
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At a recent talk Chomsky was asked ÒWhat are the motivations of the U.S. push for sustainable development in the developing world?Ó Here was his answerÉ

Commentary Naiman: Globalization: The Fat Lady Ain't Sung

Commentary, May, 27 2000 Robert Naiman
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Champagne corks are popping in Washington, as the corporate lobby celebrates its victory over democracy - bribing Congress into granting "Permanent Normal Trading Relations" to China. Corporations, not China, are the true beneficiaries - they have...

Commentary Edwards: CLIMATE WARS Paying The Ultimate Price For Corporate Control of Society

Commentary, May, 25 2000 David Edwards
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Declared 98% successful in destroying Iraqi Scud missiles during the Gulf War, the Patriot missile system was subsequently found to have achieved a success rate "close to zeroÓ by Professor Ted Postol of MIT. But by then the deception had done it...

Commentary Guellec: Death in America

Commentary, May, 24 2000 Dorothy Guellec
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Most people do not take hunger in America seriously, but add this to cutbacks in food stamps, the daily need for insulin, and low wages, and then we really have a life-threatening situation here. If diabetics donÕt eat, they can develop ketoacidos...

Commentary Landau: McCaffery (Goliath) v. Hersh (David)

Commentary, May, 21 2000 Saul Landau
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I found the May 15 NPR news very even-handed - as always. The host interviewed Seymour Hersh, who wrote for the May 22 New Yorker Overwhelming Force, an expose on General Barry McCaffery's Gulf War conduct. Hersh interviewed soldiers and officers ...

Commentary Burchill: New Rules of Engagement

Commentary, May, 18 2000 Scott Burchill
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In the first weeks of September last year, 70% of all public buildings and private residences in East Timor were destroyed. At least 75% of the population of the territory was displaced, with over 260,000 people being driven across the border into...

Commentary Hightower: WHAT'S FOR DINNER?

Commentary, May, 14 2000 Jim Hightower
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Have you heard of the "Butterfly Effect?" Both a scientific concept and an ecological reality, its essence is that the flapping of a million butterfly wings in central Mexico can have consequences in New York City, Rome, or Hong Kong. The notion i...

Commentary Prashad: 'Just Say No to PepsiCo': So Say 101 Indian workers

Commentary, May, 13 2000 Vijay Prashad
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One hundred million people and sixty million cattle in India are in the midst of a crippling drought. The states of Gujarat, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Orissa and Andhra Pradesh have been hit with poor monsoon rain. According to the Union Minister...

Commentary Chomsky: Assaulting Solidarity -- Privatizing Education

Commentary, May, 12 2000 Noam Chomsky
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There has been a general assault in the last 25 years on solidarity, democracy, social welfare, anything that interferes with private power, and there are many targets. One of the targets is undoubtedly the educational system. In fact, a couple of...

Commentary Hoodbhoy: EQBAL AHMAD: POST-POKHARAN DAYS

Commentary, May, 11 2000 Pervez Hoodbhoy
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He fought for Kashmiri self-determination in 1948, against French imperialism in Algeria in the early 60's, roused students on American campuses in the early 70's against their government's immoral war in Vietnam, dodged arrest by the CIA in a cas...

Commentary Zinn: THE HEROES AROUND US

Commentary, May, 07 2000 Howard Zinn
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Recently, meeting with a group of high school students, I was asked by one of them: "I read in your book, A PEOPLE'S HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES, about the massacres of Indians, the long history of racism, the persistence of poverty in the rich...

Commentary Weisbrot: Four Dead in Ohio: Thirty Years Later

Commentary, May, 05 2000 Mark Weisbrot
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May 4 will mark thirty years since four students protesting the Vietnam War at Kent State University were murdered by Ohio National Guardsmen. It is no exaggeration to call it murder, since the students were unarmed and-- given how far they were f...

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