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Reinhart: DON'T SAY YOU DIDN'T KNOW
Commentary, November, 08 2000
Tanya Reinhart
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As the media keeps us busy with reports on cease-fire, peace initiatives, and 'reduction of violence', Israeli crimes in the occupied territories continue undisturbed. To understand the extent of these daily crimes we should look at the injuries, ...
Solomon: Media Spin &the Israeli Occupation
Zmag Article, November, 01 2000
Norman Solomon
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Media Spin &the Israeli Occupation
Urbina: Palestinian Bantustan
Zmag Article, November, 01 2000
Ian Urbina
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Just weeks ago President Clinton was negotiating a ‘final status’ peace agreement in the Israelis and Palestinians. What seemed like a sudden deterioration in the region belies the deeper frustrations with the peace process which h...
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...
Chomsky: Al-Aqsa Intifida
Commentary, October, 26 2000
Noam Chomsky
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After three weeks of virtual war in the Israeli occupied territories, Prime Minister Ehud Barak announced a new plan to determine the final status of the region. During these weeks, over 100 Palestinians were killed, including 30 children, often b...
Reinhart: GREEN LIGHT TO SLAUGHTER
Commentary, October, 23 2000
Tanya Reinhart
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In the Sharm-al-Sheikh summit last week, Barak got from the US his green light to slaughter. To judge by the Israeli media, what we have seen so far is just the prelude. "The most important will come in the middle of next week, when...Israel will ...
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 $...
Solomon: MEDIA SPIN REMAINS IN SYNC WITH ISRAELI OCCUPATION
Commentary, October, 14 2000
Norman Solomon
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The formula for American media coverage of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is simple: Report on the latest developments in the fragile "peace process." Depict U.S. officials as honest brokers in the negotiations. Emphasize the need for restraint ...
Shalom: Turmoil in Palestine: The Basic Context
Commentary, October, 10 2000
Stephen1 Shalom
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As the occupied Palestinian territories suffer their worst paroxysm of violence in years, with the casualties, as always, overwhelmingly Palestinian, the mainstream media, also as always, focus on peripheral questions, offer misleading answers, an...
Weisbrot: Clinton in Colombia: The Ugly American
Commentary, October, 04 2000
Mark Weisbrot
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When President Clinton announced his trip to Colombia, he said his purpose was "to seek peace, to fight illicit drugs, to build its economy, and to deepen democracy."
Reinhart: Mount Temple
Commentary, October, 02 2000
Tanya Reinhart
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In today's setting, it is hard to recall that just a few years ago, only some fringe lunatics demanded Israeli control of 'Mount-temple'. Every time they tried to enter the place and pray, Israeli police would be there to block their entrance or d...
Chomsky: none
Zmag Article, October, 01 2000
Noam Chomsky
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Common Courage Press Review by Michael Hardesty For a couple of months in the spring and summer of 1999 many western liberals thought they were reliving the glorious days of World War II—the good war—as the social democrats...
Peck: Remilitarizing Africa for Corporate Profit
Zmag Article, October, 01 2000
John e. Peck
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Remilitarizing Africa for Corporate Profit
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:
Chomsky: Summits
Commentary, September, 17 2000
Noam Chomsky
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The United Nations Summit in New York in September was the second major gathering of government leaders marking the millennium. The first was the South Summit in Havana in April. The UN Summit received considerable national publicity, while the So...
Wise: Gore-Vey!: Joe Lieberman, Jewish Mobility, and the Politics of Race in America
Commentary, August, 29 2000
Tim Wise
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I am a Jew. And according to what others of my faith tradition tell me, I should be beaming with pride at the fact that Al Gore--a Southern Baptist whose denominational leaders once said God didn't answer the prayers of folks like me--has picked a...
Solomon: HOLY SMOKE AND MIRRORS: THE RISE OF CENTRIST THEOCRATS
Commentary, August, 12 2000
Norman Solomon
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It's always dangerous when politicians claim to be doing God's will. So, as the novelty fades from Al Gore's selection of Joseph Lieberman, journalists should ask some probing questions about the ticket's conspicuous piety.
Landau: THE DRUG WAR IS AS AMERICAN AS APPLE PIE AND COCAINE
Commentary, August, 10 2000
Saul Landau
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One of my friends mocks the drug war and sneers at President Clinton's request that Congress fund a new $1.2 billion military aid package for Colombia, so the Colombian military can better engage the iniquitous narco-traffickers. "You don't unders...
Chomsky: "Peace Process" Prospects
Commentary, July, 27 2000
Noam Chomsky
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The latest AP report from Camp David (evening, July 25) begins: "The Middle East peace talks at Camp David collapsed Tuesday over rival claims to East Jerusalem. Disappointed, President Clinton said he tried several approaches but could not come u...
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...
