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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...
Herman: Israel's Approved Ethnic Cleansing, Part 1
Zmag Article, April, 01 2001
Edward Herman
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Israel's Approved Ethnic Cleansing, Part 1
Herman: THE MEDIA-RIGHTWING POLITICAL CORRECTNESS GAMBIT RENEWED: HOROWITZ AND REPARATIONS
Commentary, March, 24 2001
Edward Herman
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The heavy media attention being given to rejections of David Horowitz's ad on reparations for slavery is a throwback to the rightwing and "liberal media" political correctness campaign of 1991. In that earlier campaign, it was the alleged free spe...
Glass: The first casualty
Commentary, March, 22 2001
Charles Glass
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IN 1984 I filed a report to ABC News on Israeli death squads in south Lebanon that was never broadcast. My camera crew and I had spent a week travelling the roads of south Lebanon in the tracks of plainclothes assassins whom United Nations sold...
Herman: THE GODFATHER AS "HONEST BROKER"
Commentary, March, 20 2001
Edward Herman
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The Palestinians have repeatedly called for a UN or other international presence to protect them against the brutalities of the Israeli occupation force in their land, and the UN high commissioner for human rights, Mary Robinson, as well as Amnest...
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. ...
Said: The only alternative
Commentary, March, 08 2001
Edward Said
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I first visited South Africa in May 1991: a dark, wet, wintry period, when Apartheid still ruled, although the ANC and Nelson Mandela had been freed. Ten years later I returned, this time to summer, in a democratic country in which Apartheid has b...
Gonsalves: Facts on the ground
Commentary, March, 01 2001
Sean Gonsalves
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JERUSALEM -- I was humbled by my ignorance. But even the ignorant quickly learns that studying maps and learning the lay of the land is central to understanding the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Mokhiber: Marc Rich's Hidden History as a Union-Buster
Commentary, February, 26 2001
Russell Mokhiber
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Longtime fugitive from justice Marc Rich has become the most notorious recipient of a presidential pardon since Richard Nixon. President Clinton issued a pardon for the commodities trader in the final hours of his tenure in office.
Ali: New Labour, New Bombs
Commentary, February, 19 2001
Tariq Ali
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As the future ripens in the past, so the past rots in the present. American leaders have long been used to treating the cracked British vase as a pisspot, but Attlee and Wilson, while dutifully kissing ass in the White House, did, at least, attemp...
Reinhart: THE VOTE THAT CAN DECIDE
Commentary, February, 05 2001
Tanya Reinhart
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Beneath the surface, there is deep anxiety in Israeli society: The media is full of reports of war preparations: "Home Front Command to stage 'mother of all exercises' " (JP, Jan 22); "Ministry tells purchasers to prepare for emergency" (Ha'aretz,...
Grossman: Aerospace Executives On Bush Star Wars Team
Zmag Article, February, 01 2001
Karl Grossman
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U.S. preparations to wage war in and from space will be getting a huge boost with the assumption of power of George W. Bush and Richard Cheney. They represent a confluence of corporate and right-wing political power pushing for expanded s...
Reinhart: BARAK'S VERSION OF SHARON
Commentary, January, 23 2001
Tanya Reinhart
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One of the lessons of the massive protest which followed Sharon's war in Lebanon appeared to be that it is no longer possible to drag the Israeli people into wars of choice. But Barak has managed where Sharon failed - He convinced at least the cen...
Said: Trying again and again
Commentary, January, 11 2001
Edward Said
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The last-ditch American effort to make Yasser Arafat terminate his own people's sovereign existence bears the heavy imprint not only of the US-Israeli lobby but of Bill Clinton's political style. To say of Clinton's bridging proposals, as they hav...
Reinhart: COUNT THE BLANK BALLOTS
Commentary, January, 04 2001
Tanya Reinhart
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Never was Israel further from democracy as it is in the coming elections. In the polls, 60% of the voters wanted another candidate to run against the two generals, but the political system, blatantly ignoring anything known about the will of the m...
Chomsky: Elections 2000
Zmag Article, January, 01 2001
Noam Chomsky
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Elections 2000
Barsamian: Intifada 2000: The Palestinian Uprising
Zmag Article, December, 01 2000
David Barsamian
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Intifada 2000: The Palestinian Uprising
Glass: Ramallah, West Bank
Commentary, November, 24 2000
Charles Glass
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Most afternoons, the boys head from their schools down to the edge of town where Israeli tanks and soldiers are standing by to watch unarmed children wage war. A wide road heads from the center of Ramallah downhill towards a hotel, the City Inn, w...
Herman: LIBERAL APOLOGETICS FOR IMPERIALISM
Commentary, November, 21 2000
Edward Herman
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Edward S. HermanThe American Prospect (TAP) magazine, edited by Robert Kuttner and Paul Starr, with Robert Reich as "National Editor," is a liberal magazine par excellence, and has frequent articles on domestic policy issues that represent the bes...
Herman: NADER, OR DISENFRAN-
Commentary, November, 11 2000
Edward Herman
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It is well understood that this electoral system is sick for reason of the great importance of money. The two dominant parties are even recognized in the mainstream media to have two conventions: the nominal and heavily featured one where the publ...
