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Schechter: The Media And HIV/AIDS: What Should We Do?
Commentary, December, 02 2000
Danny Schechter
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Sorry. So sorry if you were given "unnecessary offense." So sayeth the BBC as part of an apology for a stunt concocted for a TV show that plays practical jokes on the public. "Aunty," as the Beeb is known, hired a child actor to pose as an Afric...
Salaita: ...Invisible, With Liberty and Justice for All
Zmag Article, December, 01 2000
Steven nasr Salaita
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...Invisible, With Liberty and Justice for All
Dowd: WHAT DO WE WANT? AND WHO ARE "WE"?
Commentary, November, 23 2000
Douglas Dowd
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Alongside and arising from "Seattle" and subsequent protests are questions such as the above -- by those participating in and supporting, and those against the protests. Those and related questions have always deserved serious answers; now more t...
Monbiot: Reality Re-Asserts ItselfT
Commentary, November, 14 2000
George Monbiot
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Just as floods and tornadoes were laying waste to our homes, we earthlings watched the launch of an exciting new venture. Three cosmonauts were blasted into orbit, to pioneer the permanent inhabitation of space. Humanity is already making plans fo...
Mokhiber: Ford/Firestone: Homicide?
Commentary, November, 04 2000
Russell Mokhiber
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In 1998, in Corpus Christi, Texas, 17-year-old Matthew Hendricks was on his way to pick up his girlfriend. He was driving a Ford Explorer. The tread ripped off one of the Ford's Firestone's tires, causing him to lose control. He was thrown from th...
Cohen: Toxic Wastes and the New World Order, Part 1
Zmag Article, November, 01 2000
Mitchel Cohen
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Twelve years ago, the soon-to-be infamous barge, the Khian Sea, left the territorial waters of the United States and began circling the oceans in search of a country willing to accept its cargo: 14,000 tons of toxic incinerator ash. Fir...
Richter: Revolutionary Afghan Women
Zmag Article, November, 01 2000
Kathleen Richter
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Most Americans are by now aware of the abysmal human rights abuses perpetuated in Afghanistan by the ultra fundamentalist Taliban regime—public amputation is the punishment for robbery, adulterers are stoned to death, and women and girl...
Berkowitz: Farm Bureau Is a Front
Zmag Article, November, 01 2000
Bill Berkowitz
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When singer/songwriter Willie Nelson took the stage in mid-September in Bristow, Virginia, kicking off the 15th annual Farm Aid concert, he once again called the nation’s attention to the desperate plight of America’s small family ...
Landau: Haitian and Cuban Refugees
Commentary, October, 30 2000
Saul Landau
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Over the last two months, smugglers routinely drop Haitians and Cubans off the South Florida coast. US authorities arrest these presumably "illegal" immigrants and haul them off to Krome detention center. All the Haitians then await hearings for d...
Bond: The African grassroots and the global movement
Commentary, October, 19 2000
Patrick Bond
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In a ZNet commentary last month, Noam Chomsky observed South-South-North alliances "taking shape at the grassroots level--an impressive development, rich in opportunity and promise, and surely causing no little concern in high places." I want to f...
Guellec: Billions Spent Marketing Drugs to Consumers
Commentary, October, 16 2000
Dorothy Guellec
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In the two years since the FDA began an experiment to let the mass media broadcast the prescription-drug message directly to consumers, the pharmaceutical industry has shelled out a whopping $1.3 billion per year on consumer ads. That dwarfs the $...
Prashad: Nobody Hid This Crime: The Police Open Fire in Naidu.Com
Commentary, October, 06 2000
Vijay Prashad
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This crime was committed under the shadow of the State Assembly in Hyderabad (Andhra Pradesh, India). For three quarters of an hour the guns of the police tore through the thousands of people, hundreds fell, two never to rise again. The streets co...
Peck: Remilitarizing Africa for Corporate Profit
Zmag Article, October, 01 2000
John e. Peck
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Remilitarizing Africa for Corporate Profit
Simon: Texaco's Ecological Terrorism of the Ecuadorian Amazon
Zmag Article, October, 01 2000
Suzanne Simon
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Texaco's Ecological Terrorism of the Ecuadorian Amazon
Zinn: A CAMPAIGN WITHOUT CLASS
Commentary, September, 30 2000
Howard Zinn
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There came a rare amusing moment in this election campaign when George Bush (who has raised $150 million or thereabouts, anyhow, for his campaign) accused Al Gore (who has only raised $140 million or thereabouts, anyway, for his campaign) of appea...
Wise: Freeh's Blind Mice: A Critical Look at "Tolerance Training," FBI Style
Commentary, September, 24 2000
Tim Wise
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That I'm no Biblical scholar is an understatement of monumental proportions. And yet, recently I found myself--for reasons I'll explain shortly--thinking of the following verse from the book of Matthew, if memory serves:
Bond: South-South-North alliances
Commentary, September, 22 2000
Patrick Bond
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Here are two sentences in the concluding paragraph of Chomsky's September 17 ZNet Commentary (`Summits');, in which he champions the Havana South-South Summit of `G77' country leaders that took place in April: "African leaders pointed out that the...
Randall: A CULTURE OF RAGE
Commentary, September, 19 2000
Margaret Randall
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This weekÕs mail brought a letter quite suddenly and unceremoniously informing me that my health insurance provider is discontinuing my group policy. "Your existing QualMed health care coverage will end on October 31, 2000. . . this is the only no...
Mokhiber: Killing Africa with Kindness
Commentary, September, 16 2000
Russell Mokhiber
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With the announcement of a billion-dollar-a-year U.S. government loan program for African countries to buy AIDS drugs, the fight to deliver affordable drugs to people with HIV/AIDS in Africa and elsewhere in the developing world has entered its th...
