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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.
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...
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).
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...
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.
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.
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...
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.
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...
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...
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...
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.
Herman: How the media have protected U.S. Appeasement- Collusion with Indonesia in East Timor
Commentary, October, 12 1999
Edward Herman
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The mainstream U.S. media have performed a semi-miracle in reporting on the East Timor crisis, providing us with a model case of apologetics in the service of state policy.
Solomon: Media Time Capsule
Commentary, October, 11 1999
Norman Solomon
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On the first day of January, many public ceremonies will feature time capsules -- sealed long ago, when "the year 2000" sounded incredibly futuristic. Those containers, intended for opening at the start of the new millennium, presumably hold evoca...
Zinn: A Larger Consciousness
Commentary, October, 10 1999
Howard Zinn
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Some years ago, when I was teaching at Boston University, I was asked by a Jewish group to give a talk on the Holocaust. I spoke that evening, but not about the Holocaust of World War II, not about the genocide of six million Jews.
Landau: The Pinochet Decision
Commentary, October, 09 1999
Saul Landau
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This week, a British magistrate will decide whether to extradite Augusto Pinochet to Spain or release him. England has detained the former Chilean dictator for eleven plus months. In that time, his case has brought to world attention the principal...
Shah: Young and Younger
Commentary, October, 06 1999
Sonia Shah
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As a child, on every birthday morning, I was meant to touch the feet of each of my parents to show my gratitude and respect. This simple and brief act would overwhelm me with its nakedness, its confession of my own powerlessness, its reference to ...
Chomsky: East Timor
Commentary, October, 04 1999
Noam Chomsky
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The events of the past weeks in East Timor should elicit shame as well as horror. The crimes could easily have been stopped.
Solomon: The Enduring Spirit of a Dissident Senator
Commentary, October, 03 1999
Norman Solomon
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The black-and-white TV footage is grainy and faded, but it still jumps off the screen -- a portentous clash between a prominent reporter and a maverick politician.
Guellec: Marketizing HMOs to Latin America
Commentary, October, 02 1999
Dorothy Guellec
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The number of for-profit health care organizations has quadrupled in the pas 17 years, a study by the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation said. For-profit HMO's were 18% of all plans in 1981 but increased to 74% by 1998. The proportion of enrollees ...
