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Pilger: Tweedledum and Tweedledee seek your votes
Commentary, June, 05 2001
John Pilger
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The singular achievement of Tony Blair and his new right movement is the convergence of British parliamentary politics into two almost identical factions. While journalists try to offer the pretence of choice, the public is more aware than ever of...
Klein: Give Me a Hug: When Multinationals Want to Be Our Friend
Commentary, May, 31 2001
Naomi Klein
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When I was 17, I worked after school at an Esprit clothing store in Montreal. It was a pleasant job, mostly involving folding cotton garments into little squares so sharp that their corners could take out your eye.
Pilger: The big threat in the Middle East is Israel, not Iraq
Commentary, May, 27 2001
John Pilger
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As George Bush escalates the new cold war begun by his father, the attention of his planners is moving to the Middle East. Stories about the threat of Iraq's "weapons of mass destruction" are again appearing in the American press, this time concen...
Klein: Talk to your neighbours
Commentary, May, 05 2001
Naomi Klein
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The idea of turning London into a life-sized Monopoly board on May Day sounded like a great idea. The most familiar criticism lobbed at modern protesters is that they lack focus and clear goals such as "Save the trees" or "Drop the debt." And yet...
Barsamian: Liberating the Mind from Orthodoxies
Zmag Article, May, 01 2001
David Barsamian
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Liberating the Mind from Orthodoxies
Pilger: Academia is silent on imperialism, as German universities were during the rise of the Nazis
Commentary, April, 29 2001
John Pilger
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The other day, I attended a conference at the University of Sussex on the "new imperialism". What was extraordinary was that it took place at all. Julian Saurin, who teaches in the school of African and Asian studies at Sussex, said that, in ten y...
Barsamian: Childhood Memories
Zmag Article, March, 01 2001
David Barsamian
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Childhood Memories
Chomsky: Voting Patterns and Abstentions
Zmag Article, February, 01 2001
Noam Chomsky
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In commenting on the November 2000 elections (Z January), I only hinted at important considerations that lend further insight into the functioning of contemporary democracy: patterns of voting and abstention. Useful information on these matt...
Chomsky: Elections 2000
Zmag Article, January, 01 2001
Noam Chomsky
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Elections 2000
Barsamian: Listening In
Zmag Article, January, 01 2001
David Barsamian
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Listening In
Chomsky: Escaping Orthodoxies
Commentary, December, 31 2000
Noam Chomsky
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DB: Talk in concrete ways about liberating the mind from orthodoxies. Take for example, humanitarian intervention.
Chomsky: Overcoming Orthodoxies
Commentary, December, 16 2000
Noam Chomsky
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David Barsamian: I want to come back to the idea of what individuals can do in overcoming orthodoxies. Steve Biko, the South African activist who was murdered by the apartheid regime while he was in custody, once said, The most powerful weapon in ...
Chomsky: Propaganda and Indoctrination
Commentary, December, 10 2000
Noam Chomsky
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This is the first of three Chomsky Commentaries I will send this month...each answers one or more queries from David Barsamian (DB) and all are excerpted from a still to be published interview... DB: Lets talk about a theme that we return to peri...
Barsamian: Maid to Order
Zmag Article, December, 01 2000
David Barsamian
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Maid to Order
Barsamian: Intifada 2000: The Palestinian Uprising
Zmag Article, December, 01 2000
David Barsamian
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Intifada 2000: The Palestinian Uprising
Chomsky: Al-Aqsa Intifida
Commentary, October, 26 2000
Noam Chomsky
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After three weeks of virtual war in the Israeli occupied territories, Prime Minister Ehud Barak announced a new plan to determine the final status of the region. During these weeks, over 100 Palestinians were killed, including 30 children, often b...
Chomsky: Chomsky Comments on Milosevic Ouster, etc.
Commentary, October, 12 2000
Noam Chomsky
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A number of people in the ZNet forum system and elsewhere have raised questions about the prominent role they see assigned to US-NATO in the flood of commentary on recent events in Yugoslavia, "gloating over the victory of the opposition in Yugosl...
Chomsky: none
Zmag Article, October, 01 2000
Noam Chomsky
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Common Courage Press Review by Michael Hardesty For a couple of months in the spring and summer of 1999 many western liberals thought they were reliving the glorious days of World War II—the good war—as the social democrats...
Chomsky: Summits
Commentary, September, 17 2000
Noam Chomsky
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The United Nations Summit in New York in September was the second major gathering of government leaders marking the millennium. The first was the South Summit in Havana in April. The UN Summit received considerable national publicity, while the So...
Chomsky: "Peace Process" Prospects
Commentary, July, 27 2000
Noam Chomsky
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The latest AP report from Camp David (evening, July 25) begins: "The Middle East peace talks at Camp David collapsed Tuesday over rival claims to East Jerusalem. Disappointed, President Clinton said he tried several approaches but could not come u...
