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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,...
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...
Edwards: BIG BROTHER'S BAD INFLUENCE
Commentary, March, 07 2001
David Edwards
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December 2001 will see London hosting the first conference exploring the extent to which radical writing tends to incorporate, and be corrupted by, mainstream prejudices, emphases and ethical presumptions.
Barsamian: Childhood Memories
Zmag Article, March, 01 2001
David Barsamian
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Childhood Memories
Ingalls: "Smart" Sanctions On Afghanistan
Zmag Article, March, 01 2001
James Ingalls
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"Smart" Sanctions On Afghanistan
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...
Naiman: The Economic and Social Toll of U.S. Policy Towards Iraq
Commentary, February, 13 2001
Robert Naiman
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Ten years after the United States and its allies imposed economic sanctions following Iraq's invasion of Kuwait, the embargo rremains largely in place. Theembargo continues to exact a heavy toll on Iraqi society, even after the passage of United N...
Herman: THE MEDIA NORMALIZE A RIGHTWING COUP D'ETAT
Commentary, February, 08 2001
Edward Herman
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We have just gone through a remarkable moment in U.S. history, in which a Republican activist-dominated Supreme Court has refused to allow a complete vote count in Florida which would have given Al Gore the presidency, and by judicial fiat simply ...
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,...
Raptis: Quake in India
Commentary, February, 04 2001
Nikos Raptis
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Today (Jan. 31, '01) the number of dead from the earthquake that hit India six days ago is estimated "by officials and aid workers to be from 15,000 to 100,000." The higher estimate came from the Indian Defence Minister, George Fernandes, as his "...
Hahnel: Imperialism, Human Rights, and Protectionism
Zmag Article, February, 01 2001
Robin Hahnel
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Recently I was asked to answer some questions about tactical choices facing the movement against corporate sponsored globalization. Unfortunately, people and groups inside the movement differ in their answers to these questions, and those di...
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...
Giroux: Zero Tolerance, Part 2
Zmag Article, February, 01 2001
Henry a. Giroux
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Zero Tolerance, Part 2
