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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...

Commentary 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...

Commentary 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'...

Commentary 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...

Commentary 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...

Zmag Article 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

Commentary 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...

Commentary 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 ...

Zmag Article 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...

Zmag Article 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...

Zmag Article 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...

Zmag Article 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...

Commentary 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...

Commentary 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...

Commentary 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...

Commentary 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...

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