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Commentary Hoodbhoy: BLACK TUESDAY: THE VIEW FROM ISLAMABAD

Commentary, September, 17 2001 Pervez Hoodbhoy
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Samuel Huntington's evil desire for a clash between civilizations may well come true after Tuesday's terror attacks. The crack that divided Muslims everywhere from the rest of the world is no longer a crack. It is a gulf, that if not bridged, will...

Commentary Weissman: Respond to Violence: Teach Peace, Not War

Commentary, September, 15 2001 Robert Weissman
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Open the Washington Post to it's editorial pages, and war talk dominates.

Commentary Pilger: Inevitable ring to the unimaginable

Commentary, September, 14 2001 John Pilger
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If the attacks on America have their source in the Islamic world, who can really be surprised?

Commentary Pilger: Liberal elites have always disguised their innate conservatism

Commentary, September, 04 2001 John Pilger
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At the Hay-on-Wye literary festival in May, leading members of the media and cultural elite assembled in the fine gardens of a Regency house to await the arrival of the great man. They included broadsheet editors, deputy editors, literary editors,...

Commentary Pilger: Liberal elites have always disguised their innate conservatism

Commentary, August, 13 2001 John Pilger
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At the Hay-on-Wye literary festival in May, leading members of the media and cultural elite assembled in the fine gardens of a Regency house to await the arrival of the great man. They included broadsheet editors, deputy editors, literary editors,...

Commentary Edwards: ALL YOU NEED IS LOVE...

Commentary, August, 10 2001 David Edwards
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"All of existence", an ancient sage once wrote, "depends on the tip of a wish." By which he meant that the state of the world is determined by what ultimately motivates us: if enough people basically crave personal wealth and power, then the world...

Commentary Cromwell: DEMOLISHING GLOBAL MYTHS

Commentary, July, 06 2001 David Cromwell
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David Cromwell talks to John Pilger about his forthcoming television documentary, The New Rulers of the World, which examines the real meaning of the 'global economy', including the virtually unknown and bloody history of how globalisation took ro...

Commentary Herman: GODFATHERLY GLOBAL JUSTICE: MILOSEVIC, SHARON AND SUHARTO

Commentary, July, 05 2001 Edward Herman
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The politicization of the system of global justice has reached new heights over the past decade, with the U.S. Godfather asserting his firmer hegemonic position with an arrogance that is a throwback to Secretary of State Richard Olney's statement ...

Commentary Gonsalves: Dumb and Dumber?

Commentary, June, 30 2001 Sean Gonsalves
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IÕve been duped! But thanks to New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman, thereÕs hope for me yet. ÒAmerica has lost the propaganda war with Saddam. Period,Ó he wrote back in February.

Commentary Edwards: THE MEDIA ELECTION 2001: LOW FARCE

Commentary, June, 18 2001 David Edwards
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Traditionally, general elections in Britain are a time for much quasi-religious talk of the blessed gift of democracy - so recently won at such high cost, we are told - and the importance of paying due homage to that great principle at the busines...

Commentary Prashad: Shooting Stars

Commentary, June, 15 2001 Vijay Prashad
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On 21 April 1988, Mikhail Gorbachev turned to Colin Powell, then an aide of the US National Security Advisor, and said "What are you going to do now that you've lost your best enemy?" Gorbachev's unilateral disarmament of Soviet nuclear forces in ...

Commentary 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...

Commentary 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...

Commentary Edwards: HOW TO KILL THE TRUTH - Part 2

Commentary, May, 24 2001 David Edwards
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On December 22, 2000, I asked Alan Rusbridger, editor of the 'liberal' flagship newspaper, the Guardian, if he thought wealthy owners, parent companies, advertisers, flak machines, and allied political pressures compromised press reporting:

Commentary Thrupkaew: A Letter from Cuba

Commentary, May, 22 2001 Noy Thrupkaew
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I recently traveled to Cuba as part of a U.S. women's delegation, sponsored by the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, Sojourner, and Hermanas, an organization dedicated to building solidarity between U.S. and Caribbean women. Away...

Commentary Solomon: MEDIA AND VIETNAM: APPARITIONS OF INNOCENCE

Commentary, May, 08 2001 Norman Solomon
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Media commentators are split about Bob Kerrey and what happened 32 years ago in the Vietnamese village of Thanh Phong. Some journalists seem eager to exonerate the former senator. Others appear inclined to turn him into a lightning rod for nationa...

Commentary 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...

Commentary Mokhiber: Stop the Torture Trade

Commentary, April, 23 2001 Russell Mokhiber
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Torture predates the development of the corporation. But corporations are entangled in the modern-day commerce in devices of torture. In a new report, Amnesty International shines a spotlight on the makers of law enforcement equipment and how the...

Commentary Prashad: The Problem of the Twenty-First Century is the Problem of the ColorBlind

Commentary, March, 31 2001 Vijay Prashad
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A few years ago I had the fortune of spending a morning debating Dinesh D'Souza on the question of affirmative action. It was in Chicago at the South Asian Students' Association annual meeting. I was a bit apprehensive. I've debated people before,...

Commentary Solomon: OBSTINATE MEMORY AND PURSUIT OF THE PRESENT

Commentary, March, 15 2001 Norman Solomon
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Henry Kissinger usually has an easy time defending the indefensible on national television. But he faced some pointed questions during a recent interview with the PBS "NewsHour" about the U.S. role in bringing a military dictatorship to Chile. ...

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