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Commentary Herman: THE LEFT AND ELECTORAL PARTICIPATION

Commentary, May, 02 2000 Edward Herman
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The left always has a problem at election time, and embattled left pens are already trying to demonstrate that we should: (1) forego voting; (2) vote for Ralph Nader; or (3) vote for the lesser evil (Gore). The fact that there is always such vigor...

Commentary Hartmann: Population Policy: Will Coercion Come Back in Vogue?

Commentary, May, 01 2000 Betsy Hartmann
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In February of this year the Indian government announced a new population policy based on a two-child norm. While social activists have welcomed certain elements of the policy, such as free and compulsory elementary education and improvements in h...

Commentary Schechter: The News Dissector In Berlin: Media Mergers And Personal Memories

Commentary, April, 29 2000 Danny Schechter
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In my travels to the "Old World," I often discover how "old" some of my own ideas are. In Berlin last week to speak at a media conference, I learned about Tobias Peucer who, as a student at the University of Leipzig, wrote what may have been the w...

Commentary Chomsky: Colombia – Part Two of Two

Commentary, April, 25 2000 Noam Chomsky
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The sharp increase in arms shipped to Colombia is officially justified in terms of the "drug war," a claim taken seriously by few competent analysts, even apart from the instructive historical pattern, barely sampled here. As many have observed, t...

Commentary Weisbrot: Protesters 2, Multinational Monsters 0

Commentary, April, 22 2000 Mark Weisbrot
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It's amazing what an organized group of people can accomplish when their cause is just and they are willing to be stubborn and creative about it. Last December they knocked the wind out of the WTO in Seattle. Now this diverse and expanding movemen...

Commentary Naiman: A19: The Media Empire Blows Back

Commentary, April, 21 2000 Robert Naiman
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As someone whose central organizing principles in life include figuring out how to reduce and undermine the power and legitimacy of the IMF, the World Bank, the WTO, and kindred institutions, I have to say that the week of protests and education i...

Commentary Prashad: As the Dust Settles: Clinton in the SubcontinentBy

Commentary, April, 17 2000 Vijay Prashad
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I've just returned from India filled with stories of Clinton's trip to the subcontinent. The reaction was extraordinary. After Clinton gave an address in the Central Hall of the Indian Parliament (boycotted by the Communist delegates) he was mobbe...

Commentary Bello: MELTZER REPORT ON BRETTON WOODS TWINS BUILDS CASE FOR ABOLITION BUT HESITATESBy

Commentary, April, 16 2000 Walden Bello
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During the heated debate on whether or not to raise the US quota in the IMF in 1998, the US Congress voted for the quota increase but attached several conditions, including the creation of an independent body to look at the missions and performanc...

Commentary Reinhart: Mideast Apartheid? Peace?

Commentary, April, 14 2000 Tanya Reinhart
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Hundred and twenty Palestinian intellectuals issued a message addressed to the Israeli and Jewish public. "The majority of Palestinians, including the undersigned, believed that the time was ripe for concluding with the Israelis a historic agreeme...

Commentary Naiman: A16: Sweeney Crosses the Rubicon, and a New Movement Takes Its First Steps

Commentary, April, 12 2000 Robert Naiman
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As a participant in the planning for the April 16-17 mobilizations against the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank, I have this to say about all the hype around the April demonstrations and the "new movement for global economic and soci...

Commentary Hahnel: Let's Review

Commentary, April, 08 2000 Robin Hahnel
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For almost 20 years an accelerating process many of us now call corporate sponsored globalization has been changing the way the international economy operates. Under the title “neoliberalism” multinational corporations have succeed...

Commentary Guellec: HMO Execs Debate How to Heal Their Image

Commentary, April, 07 2000 Dorothy Guellec
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Quietly HMO top brass have been meeting in Texas to find ways to improve Òtheir battered public image.Ó They are divided as to how to do this. The three big ones United Health Group, Kaiser Foundation Health Plan and Humana suggest industry wide c...

Commentary Arnove: “Sanctions on Iraq: The ‘Propaganda Campaign’”

Commentary, April, 01 2000 Anthony Arnove
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Hans von Sponeck resigns March 31 as the director of the United Nations humanitarian program in Iraq. Normally, the comings and goings of UN officials isn’t a subject for headlines or a source of encouragement for activists, but von Sponec...

Commentary Cagan: The War Is Over...The Struggle Continues

Commentary, March, 31 2000 Leslie Cagan
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Hard to believe it, but April 30th will be the 25th anniversary of the end of the war in Vietnam!!

Commentary Herman: EXPORTING DEMOCRACY, OR A FAVORABLE CLIMATE OF INVESTMENT?

Commentary, March, 28 2000 Edward Herman
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The great nineteenth century U.S. agnostic and lecturer, Robert Green Ingersoll, used to delight in telling the story of the test of true faith imposed on those seeking entry into heaven by the heavenly gatekeeper (e.g., in his lecture on the "Mis...

Commentary Weisbrot: Spring Protests in Washington, D.C: Another Seattle?

Commentary, March, 24 2000 Mark Weisbrot
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The Clinton administration claims to have learned something from the outpouring of protest against the World Trade Organization (WTO) last December. "Those who heard a wake-up call in Seattle got the right message," said President Clinton. Maybe s...

Commentary Martinez: Students of Color Fight Racism at Univ. of Mich. with Month-Long Occupation

Commentary, March, 08 2000 Elizabeth Martinez
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Since Feb. 6, the Students of Color Coalition (SCC) has occupied the tower of the University of Michigan Union building to protest ongoing racist practices on a campus that claims to have a longstanding commitment to multiculturalism and diversity...

Commentary Hartmann: A Visit to Los Alamos

Commentary, March, 06 2000 Betsy Hartmann
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In January I made my first trip to New Mexico. My partner and I visited the ancient Pueblo cliff dwellings at Bandelier National Monument. Like many tourists before us, we were awed by the beauty of the Frijoles Canyon and the knowledge that an an...

Commentary Shalom: The Diallo Case

Commentary, March, 04 2000 Stephen1 Shalom
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During the Vietnam War, the court martial trials of Lt. William Calley and other U.S. military personnel who massacred hundreds of unarmed civilians at My Lai was deeply contentious. Conservatives opposed the trials as besmirching the good name of...

Commentary Cunningham: SELF-DECEPTION MEANS NEVER HAVING TO SAY YOU'RE SORRY

Commentary, February, 29 2000 Philip Cunningham
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"The Chinese people must speak up to protest the Japanese government for refusing to acknowledge the historical misdeed of the 1937 Nanjing Massacre." These are the words of an unknown hacker who added a new twist to the seven decade old Sino-Japa...

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