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Shalom: Green Lights and Red Herrings
Commentary, February, 11 2000
Stephen1 Shalom
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In December 1975, after receiving a green light from U.S. President Gerald and Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, Indonesian President Suharto launched an invasion of East Timor. The weapons for the attack came from the United States. "Of course ...
Reinhart: This Ain't the Road of Peace
Commentary, January, 28 2000
Tanya Reinhart
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For many in Israel, it is already difficult to remember the joy and relief in which they received the news about the forthcoming peace with Syria, about a month ago. What was this joy about?
Chomsky: Four from the Forums
Commentary, January, 19 2000
Noam Chomsky
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On graduate unions, it's true enough that (ideally) "graduate teaching is pedagogical training," but that's incomplete. Any teaching, if done at all seriously, is also a way of learning -- about lots of things, including the subject you are teachi...
Chomsky: Millennial Visions and Selective Vision Part Two
Commentary, January, 13 2000
Noam Chomsky
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In fairness, it should be mentioned that the chorus of self-adulation that closed the millennium was disrupted by some discordant notes. Questions were raised about the consistency of our adherence to the guiding principles: the "new doctrine" tha...
Gordon: Barak's Economic Program
Zmag Article, January, 01 2000
Neve Gordon
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Neve Gordon In 1992, it was still unclear that Bill Clinton’s election would mark the advent of a new breed of leaders. Yet a few years later Tony Blair was elected in England and Lionel Jospin in France. When Germany’s Gerha...
Herman: Hitchens on Serbia and East Timor
Zmag Article, January, 01 2000
Edward Herman
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Edward S. Herman In each U.S. war there are liberals and leftists who lend it support, and even larger numbers who don’t oppose it because the issues and stakes involved seem unclear. Both support and silence are encouraged by the...
Reinhart: With Barak No Withdrawal, No Peace
Commentary, December, 29 1999
Tanya Reinhart
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In Israel, there is a feeling of a great historical moment. Finally, after much pressure and diplomacy - the story goes - Asad agreed to turn to the road of peace. In the expected peace agreement, Syria will get back all of the Golan Heights, and ...
Herman: The Times and East Timor
Commentary, November, 14 1999
Edward Herman
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Seth Mydans's October 31 piece on the Indonesian departure from East Timor, "A Calamitous Era Plays Out Quietly For East Timorese," with its admission that 200,000 had died in Indonesia's 24 year failed pacification effort, including its final "ra...
Zinn: A Larger Consciousness
Commentary, October, 10 1999
Howard Zinn
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Some years ago, when I was teaching at Boston University, I was asked by a Jewish group to give a talk on the Holocaust. I spoke that evening, but not about the Holocaust of World War II, not about the genocide of six million Jews.
Albert: Mother Jones, Todd Gitlin, & Kosovo
Zmag Article, October, 01 1999
Michael Albert
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Michael Albert Many people were concerned during the Kosovo conflict that crimes against the Albanian Kosovars were so horrific that however painful it might be to undertake, NATO intervention was warranted. Such folks felt that genocide ...
Nurmela: Why Are We Still Researching Nuclear Weapons?
Zmag Article, October, 01 1999
Lillian Nurmela
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Lillian Nurmela In all the furor over insufficient security at our nuclear weapons labs and the claim that China has stolen our secrets, neither the media nor Congress has questioned why the U.S. is continuing to research nuclear weapons. Ther...
Chomsky: Eight Question on Kibbutzim: Answers from Noam Chomsky Questions from Nikos Raptis
Commentary, August, 24 1999
Noam Chomsky
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The origins were in part European libertarian socialist thought. In part they were in a kind of romantic "back to the land" movement, suffused sometimes with Tolstoyan anarchism, in other cases part of a (very conscious) effort to reverse the "inv...
Reinhart: The Israeli Elections
Commentary, May, 18 1999
Tanya Reinhart
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This is a translation of a column that appeared in the Israeli daily 'yediot' on May 16, 1999 (a day before the elections).
Herman: The Godfather's New World Order
Zmag Article, May, 01 1999
Edward Herman
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The Godfather's New World Order
Albert: The Kosovo/NATO Conflict
Zmag Article, May, 01 1999
Michael Albert
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The Kosovo/NATO Conflict
Chomsky: Crisis in the Balkans
Zmag Article, May, 01 1999
Noam Chomsky
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Crisis in the Balkans
Herman: The U.S. Versus the Rules of War
Commentary, April, 25 1999
Edward Herman
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It is clear that the U.S./NATO military strategy in Yugoslavia is to use capital intensive warfare to ravage Serbian military forces and civil society until either the Serbs surrender or are so completely crushed that there is a "permissive enviro...
Glass: Letter from London
Commentary, April, 02 1999
Charles Glass
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The war against Slobodan Milosevic was clearly lost when the London papers ran a front-page photograph of Defence Secretary George Robertson in Italy aboard a warplane.
Herman: All the Book Reviews Fit to Print
Zmag Article, April, 01 1999
Edward Herman
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All the Book Reviews Fit to Print
Bohmer: Pres. Clinton's Visit to Central America
Commentary, January, 15 1999
Peter Bohmer
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President Bill Clinton just completed a four day visit to Central America. In Nicaragua and Honduras, he briefly visited areas most devastated by Hurricane Mitch in late October, 1998.
