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Bond: South-South-North alliances
Commentary, September, 22 2000
Patrick Bond
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Here are two sentences in the concluding paragraph of Chomsky's September 17 ZNet Commentary (`Summits');, in which he champions the Havana South-South Summit of `G77' country leaders that took place in April: "African leaders pointed out that the...
Mokhiber: Killing Africa with Kindness
Commentary, September, 16 2000
Russell Mokhiber
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With the announcement of a billion-dollar-a-year U.S. government loan program for African countries to buy AIDS drugs, the fight to deliver affordable drugs to people with HIV/AIDS in Africa and elsewhere in the developing world has entered its th...
Landau: Pinochet naked -- at last!
Commentary, September, 09 2000
Saul Landau
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Picture Homer Simpson's boss, naked, a scrawny figure bent with age, covering his genitals with his general's hat. The caption: "You've stripped me, but don't take my hat!" Augusto Pinochet, former President, Generalissimo, King of the world, now ...
Edwards: THIS SPORTING LIE: THE 'GREEN' OLYMPICS
Commentary, September, 01 2000
David Edwards
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A month before the great 'Green Games' in Sydney were due to open, a group of international scientists arrived at the North Pole to find, not ice, but a stretch of open water at least one mile wide - the first time the North Pole has not been ice-...
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 "...
Edwards: Two on Iraq
Commentary, August, 06 2000
David Edwards
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August 6 is the tenth anniversary of sanctions on Iraq...and we have two commentaries on the broad topic to deliver...
Weisbrot: Venezuelan Elections Offer Hope of Real Reform
Commentary, August, 02 2000
Mark Weisbrot
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The electoral victory of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez on Sunday, greeted with celebration by the country's poor majority, may have implications beyond Venezuela's borders.
Herman: THE HACK STRIKES AGAIN!: KRUGMAN ON NADER
Commentary, July, 29 2000
Edward Herman
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In his op-ed column of July 23rd entitled "Saints and Profits," Paul Krugman shows once again why the New York Times put him on as a regular (for a more extended discussion, see my "Krugman On Economists As Hacks: Or, 'Mirror Mirror on the Wall',"...
Guellec: The dark side of the Canadian Healthcare system’s decline
Commentary, July, 19 2000
Dorothy Guellec
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My wise uncle told me that the real meaning of Globalization “is to make the world safe for the American and other multinational corporations to penetrate and take over as much as the world’s economy, country by country, as possibl...
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'...
Prashad: The Hunt for Mexicans
Commentary, July, 16 2000
Vijay Prashad
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On 16 February 2000, the American Federation of Labor-Coalition of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO) which represents 13 million US workers dropped a bombshell. Vice President Linda Chavez-Thompson said that 'the current system of immigration enf...
Bonpane: CIRCLES OF HOPE
Commentary, July, 14 2000
BlasŽ Bonpane
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With very short notice, the Director of Pastors for Peace, Tom Hansen, asked me to lead a delegation to the peace talks at San Andres Larrainzar in the state of Chiapas, Mexico. Picture an indigenous village in the highlands of Chiapas where cloud...
Landau: WATCH OUT FOR THE FOX IN THE MEXICAN HEN HOUSE
Commentary, July, 12 2000
Saul Landau
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US pundits and government figures gush over Vicente Fox's victory last Week as if Mexicans had elected Abraham Lincoln's reincarnation as their new president. Fox represents the right of center PAN, National Action Party. He stands for NAFTA, corp...
Bacon: Unions Take On Immigration-Related Firings
Zmag Article, July, 01 2000
David Bacon
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Unions Take On Immigration-Related Firings
Palafox: Arizona Ranchers Hunt Mexicans
Zmag Article, July, 01 2000
Jose Palafox
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I flew out to Tucson, Arizona (a little over an hour from Nogales, Mexico) to help out a local border rights group in their “week of action” to commemorate the life of Esequiel Hernandez Jr. He was a high school student shot and ki...
Mclarty: AIDS Drugs for Africa
Zmag Article, July, 01 2000
Scott Mclarty
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AIDS Drugs for Africa
Many: A Z Compendium for the 'Summer of Convention Convergences
Zmag Article, July, 01 2000
Authors Many
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alphabetically: Michael Albert, Tariq Ali, Leslie Cagan, Doug Dowd, Dorothy Guellec, Robert Naiman, Cynthia Peters, Lydia Sargent, Danny Schechter, Steve Shalom, Karen Wald, and Tim Wise. Michael Albert Solving Problems For "outward or...
Gallagher: none
Zmag Article, July, 01 2000
Tom Gallagher
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Karel Bartosek, Jean-Louis Margolin Harvard University Press, 1999 Review by Tom Gallagher Exposes of communism are not new—they date back to the Russian Revolution. Yet, The Black Book of Communism caused a sensation when it...
Black: Cuba and the U.S. in the Age of Elian
Zmag Article, July, 01 2000
Jan knippers Black
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When Elian Gonzalez finally returns to Cuba, there will be a great many Americans wishing he would take along some drunken great uncles. Therein lies the lasting significance of the soap opera. One might have hoped that this lengthy natio...
