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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...
Chomsky: National Missile Defense
Commentary, July, 20 2000
Noam Chomsky
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Taking into account the results of the recent test, should President Clinton ask the Pentagon to go ahead with the national missile defense system?I would prefer to respond to a slight reformulation of the question. The most hopeful prospect for t...
Bond: A Political Economy of South African AIDS
Commentary, July, 17 2000
Patrick Bond
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Johannesburg, South Africa Up to a point, Danny Schechter is absolutely right to focus on the power and the appalling discursive-policy mistake of a single personality, SA president Thabo Mbeki, in this country's recent HIV-AIDS fiasco ("Mbeki'...
Schechter: MBEKI's MUDDLE South Africa's Aids Debate
Commentary, July, 13 2000
Danny Schechter
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Durban, South Africa: What was Mbeki going to say? That's what the press and the crowd packed into the Kingsmead Cricket stadium were buzzing about as they waited May 9th under an African sky threatening rain for South Africa's second democratical...
Shalom: The Crash of the Osprey
Commentary, July, 03 2000
Stephen1 Shalom
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On April 8, a hybrid helicopter-airplane known as the V-22 Osprey crashed in Arizona, killing all 19 Marines aboard. It was, said Air Force Magazine, "one of the worst accidents in the history of Marine Corps aviation and one of the deadliest mili...
Schirmer: President Clinton, A Corporate Offensive, and Okinawan Bases
Zmag Article, July, 01 2000
Daniel Schirmer
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President Clinton, A Corporate Offensive, and Okinawan Bases
Ali: NUCLEAR PERILS IN SOUTH ASIA
Commentary, July, 01 2000
Tariq Ali
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The nuclear games being played by India and Pakistan are both dangerous and obscene. They are dangerous because there are Taliban-type elements within the Pakistan Army (and I'm sure their equivalents in India), who could, in extremis, press the d...
Wise: Membership Has It's Privileges: Thoughts on Acknowledging and Challenging Whiteness
Commentary, June, 22 2000
Tim Wise
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Being white means never having to think about it. James Baldwin said that many years ago, and it's perhaps the truest thing ever said about race in America. That's why I get looks of bewilderment whenever I ask, as I do when lecturing to a mostly ...
Tokar: Gathering RAGE
Zmag Article, June, 01 2000
Brian Tokar
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One important feature of the actions in Seattle and Washington, DC was many activists’ focus on a serious new threat to our food and health: The rise of genetic engineering as the technology-of-choice in countless new areas of co...
Street: The Anti-Sweatshop Movement
Zmag Article, June, 01 2000
Paul Street
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For nearly three years now, American campuses have been experiencing a resurgence of student activism. This new college activism targets the $2.5 billion collegiate licensing industry, which includes companies like Nike, Champion...
Carter: Review Round-Up
Zmag Article, June, 01 2000
Sandy Carter
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From the first half of the year, some of the good and better releases not yet getting their due. Marianne Faithfull, Vagabond Ways (Instinct) For better and for worse, Marianne Faithfull’s best work usually d...
Lazaroff: Steelworkers Face Off Against Kaiser
Zmag Article, June, 01 2000
Leon Lazaroff
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Like most workers at Kaiser Aluminum Corp.’s plant in Gramercy, Louisiana, Ray Scroggs never thought he’d still be out of work 20 months after talks between his union, the United Steelworkers of America, and company man...
Edwards: CLIMATE WARS Paying The Ultimate Price For Corporate Control of Society
Commentary, May, 25 2000
David Edwards
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Declared 98% successful in destroying Iraqi Scud missiles during the Gulf War, the Patriot missile system was subsequently found to have achieved a success rate "close to zeroÓ by Professor Ted Postol of MIT. But by then the deception had done it...
Guellec: Death in America
Commentary, May, 24 2000
Dorothy Guellec
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Most people do not take hunger in America seriously, but add this to cutbacks in food stamps, the daily need for insulin, and low wages, and then we really have a life-threatening situation here. If diabetics donÕt eat, they can develop ketoacidos...
Burchill: New Rules of Engagement
Commentary, May, 18 2000
Scott Burchill
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In the first weeks of September last 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 people being driven across the border into...
Hightower: WHAT'S FOR DINNER?
Commentary, May, 14 2000
Jim Hightower
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Have you heard of the "Butterfly Effect?" Both a scientific concept and an ecological reality, its essence is that the flapping of a million butterfly wings in central Mexico can have consequences in New York City, Rome, or Hong Kong. The notion i...
Prashad: 'Just Say No to PepsiCo': So Say 101 Indian workers
Commentary, May, 13 2000
Vijay Prashad
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One hundred million people and sixty million cattle in India are in the midst of a crippling drought. The states of Gujarat, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Orissa and Andhra Pradesh have been hit with poor monsoon rain. According to the Union Minister...
Hoodbhoy: EQBAL AHMAD: POST-POKHARAN DAYS
Commentary, May, 11 2000
Pervez Hoodbhoy
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He fought for Kashmiri self-determination in 1948, against French imperialism in Algeria in the early 60's, roused students on American campuses in the early 70's against their government's immoral war in Vietnam, dodged arrest by the CIA in a cas...
Zinn: THE HEROES AROUND US
Commentary, May, 07 2000
Howard Zinn
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Recently, meeting with a group of high school students, I was asked by one of them: "I read in your book, A PEOPLE'S HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES, about the massacres of Indians, the long history of racism, the persistence of poverty in the rich...
Harris: George W. Bush
Zmag Article, May, 01 2000
Bob Harris
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“Can you name the president of Chechnya?”—Andy Hiller, WHDH- TV Boston, to George W. Bush, 11/4/99 “No, can you?”—George W. Bush You won’t hear about it on CNN, but George W. Bus...
