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Zmag Article 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...

Zmag Article 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...

Zmag Article 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 ...

Commentary 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...

Commentary 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...

Commentary 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 $...

Commentary 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...

Zmag Article Peck: Remilitarizing Africa for Corporate Profit

Zmag Article, October, 01 2000 John e. Peck
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Remilitarizing Africa for Corporate Profit

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Zmag Article, October, 01 2000 M.v. Ramana
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Zmag Article 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

Commentary 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...

Commentary 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:

Commentary 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...

Commentary 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...

Commentary 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...

Commentary Hoodbhoy: THE MENACE OF EDUCATION

Commentary, September, 14 2000 Pervez Hoodbhoy
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From brain size and hair colour to the shape and texture of toe-nails, every characteristic of an individual is totally determined by just two twisted strands of human DNA. A similar cultural DNA - a society's education system - contains within it...

Commentary Marable: Escaping From Blackness: Racial Identity and Public Policy

Commentary, September, 11 2000 Manning Marable
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The greatest struggle of any oppressed group in a racist society is the struggle to reclaim collective memory and identity. At the level of culture, racism seeks to deny people of African, American Indian, Asian and Latino descent their own voices...

Commentary Prashad: The Affirmative Action Election

Commentary, August, 30 2000 Vijay Prashad
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As we approach the calendar end of the Christian millennium, we, as progressives, are posed with an electoral choice that has begun to startle me. So much commentary seems to go by these days on what appears to be the only election worth anything,...

Commentary Bond: Can Thabo Mbeki change the world?

Commentary, August, 22 2000 Patrick Bond
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In a formidable recent speech, South African President Thabo Mbeki, quoting Shakespeare, publicly attacked not only a senior white politician for alleged racism and arrogance over the AIDS treatment tragedy. He also castigated the section of the "...

Commentary Wise: Bill of Whites: Historical Memory Through the Racial Looking Glass

Commentary, July, 24 2000 Tim Wise
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In 1992, white supremacist Jared Taylor lamented the ostensibly growing influence of people of color in the U.S. when he wrote:"The old, standard history united Americans...It emphasized one point of view and ignored others. It was history about w...

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