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Commentary Henwood: What is Globalization, Anyway

Commentary, November, 26 1999 Doug Henwood
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If there's one thing that analysts and activists across the political spectrum agree on today it's that we live in an era of economic globalization. This is taken by both critics and cheerleaders as self-evident and largely unprecedented. We shoul...

Commentary Shah: Our Deeply Twisted Understanding of the World 

Commentary, November, 21 1999 Sonia Shah
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"Do people in India leave their dead in the street?" This was the question posed to my family by a coworker invited for dinner. (She wasn't invited back.)

Commentary Solomon: The Twain Most Americans Never Meet

Commentary, November, 19 1999 Norman Solomon
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With the start of 2000 less than two months away, I've been thinking about a beloved American writer who stuck his neck out the last time people went through a change of centuries.

Commentary Peters: East Timor: Reparations and Responsibility

Commentary, November, 17 1999 Cynthia Peters
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The New York Times reported on October 25 the claim that the United States had "poured billions" into East Timor. The next day the Times ran a "correction," saying that in fact "Washington's foreign aid" to East Timor "has not amounted to billions."

Commentary Peters: East Timor: Reparations and Responsibility

Commentary, November, 17 1999 Cynthia Peters
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The New York Times reported on October 25 the claim that the United States had "poured billions" into East Timor. The next day the Times ran a "correction," saying that in fact "Washington's foreign aid" to East Timor "has not amounted to billions."

Commentary Herman: The Times and East Timor

Commentary, November, 14 1999 Edward Herman
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Seth Mydans's October 31 piece on the Indonesian departure from East Timor, "A Calamitous Era Plays Out Quietly For East Timorese," with its admission that 200,000 had died in Indonesia's 24 year failed pacification effort, including its final "ra...

Commentary Schechter: The Media Channel

Commentary, November, 13 1999 Danny Schechter
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An IPO a day seems to keep the market in play as Internet deals continue to hit the jackpot throwing up new e-commerce driven sites and throwing off a new crop of instant gazillionaires. Business schools across the world report their best students...

Commentary Guellec: Health Care Shouldn't Be Commercial

Commentary, November, 10 1999 Dorothy Guellec
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Certain things should be "off limits to commerce" Healthcare in my view can be compared to Education which, so far, has not been totally privatized. If shareholders must be satisfied, then patients' interests will be compromised. The way managed c...

Commentary Landau: More Nuclear Disasters

Commentary, November, 08 1999 Saul Landau
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"We have contained the spread of radiation from last week's nuclear accident," Japanese authorities assured their citizens. They blame the chain reaction on improper handling of materials by low level workers.

Commentary Burchill: A Fresh Start

Commentary, November, 05 1999 Scott Burchill
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Sometimes statistics tell a grim tale. In the first weeks of September this 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 peo...

Commentary Marable: The Black Radical Congress: Moving On Up To Congress 2000

Commentary, November, 04 1999 Manning Marable
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On June 19, 1998, over two thousand African Americans gathered in Chicago to participate in the founding conference of the Black Radical Congress (BRC).

Commentary Mokhiber: The Criminal Element

Commentary, November, 01 1999 Russell Mokhiber
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The criminal element has seeped deep into every nook and cranny of American society. Forget about the underworld -- these crooks dominate every aspect of our market, culture, and politics. They cast a deep dark shadow over life in turn of the cent...

Commentary Landau: Will it Be NATO or the UN

Commentary, October, 28 1999 Saul Landau
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Who should lead the world toward peace in the 21st Century? NATO or the UN.

Commentary Mokhiber: Keep the Public in Public Health

Commentary, October, 26 1999 Russell Mokhiber
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The great thing about the American Public Health Association (APHA) is in its name -- it's about public health -- what we as a society do to assure the conditions in which people can be healthy.

Commentary Herman: Missing Bodies

Commentary, October, 25 1999 Edward Herman
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A Reuters news dispatch of October 13 bylined Pristina, Kosovo, is entitled " Absolutely No Bodies Found in Supposed Mine Shaft Mass Grave in Kosovo." This follows an earlier report by a Spanish forensic team that went into a part of Kosovo allege...

Commentary Hightower: Various Shorts

Commentary, October, 24 1999 Jim Hightower
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It's Goober Time again {Beanie-cap Breakdown} -- time to give the Hightower Radio "Gooberhead Award" to yet another public figure who's got his tongue going 100 miles an hour . . . but forgot to put his brain in gear.

Commentary Chomsky: East Timor Is Not Yesterday's Story

Commentary, October, 23 1999 Noam Chomsky
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According to recent reports, the UN mission in East Timor has been able to account for just over 150,000 people out of an estimated population of 850,000. It reports that 260,000 "are now languishing in squalid refugee camps in West Timor under...

Znet Article Galeano: A Contradiction Called Uruguay

Znet Article, October, 22 1999 Eduardo Galeano
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translated by Francisco Gonzalez We Uruguayans have a certain tendency to believe that our country exists, but that the world remains unaware of it. The mass media--the media that has a worldwide impact--never mentions this tiny nation lost on th...

Commentary Albert: The WTO and Mumia Abu Jamal

Commentary, October, 18 1999 Michael Albert
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The World Trade Organization treats working people in countries throughout the world as assets to manipulate in pursuit of private corporate profit. From Guatemala to South Africa and from Thailand to the South Bronx, this causes impoverishment, i...

Commentary Shalom: Political Correctness and the Desert Storm Law

Commentary, October, 13 1999 Stephen1 Shalom
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Conservative pundits and their frequent liberal allies have been complaining for years about "Political Correctness" -- the intrusion of left-wing ideology into the academy, supposedly subverting academic standards.

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