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Herman: HITCHENS ON "BODY COUNT IN KOSOVO"
Commentary, June, 19 2001
Edward Herman
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An important public relations bonanza for the U.S. and other NATO powers' actions across the globe has been the accommodation of many leftists to the priorities and channeled benevolence of their leaders. These "New Humanitarians" have been furiou...
Edwards: THE MEDIA ELECTION 2001: LOW FARCE
Commentary, June, 18 2001
David Edwards
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Traditionally, general elections in Britain are a time for much quasi-religious talk of the blessed gift of democracy - so recently won at such high cost, we are told - and the importance of paying due homage to that great principle at the busines...
Prashad: Shooting Stars
Commentary, June, 15 2001
Vijay Prashad
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On 21 April 1988, Mikhail Gorbachev turned to Colin Powell, then an aide of the US National Security Advisor, and said "What are you going to do now that you've lost your best enemy?" Gorbachev's unilateral disarmament of Soviet nuclear forces in ...
Pilger: Tweedledum and Tweedledee seek your votes
Commentary, June, 05 2001
John Pilger
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The singular achievement of Tony Blair and his new right movement is the convergence of British parliamentary politics into two almost identical factions. While journalists try to offer the pretence of choice, the public is more aware than ever of...
Herman: Israel's Approved Ethnic Cleansing, Part 3
Zmag Article, June, 01 2001
Edward Herman
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Israel's Approved Ethnic Cleansing, Part 3
Raskin: Courting Injustice
Zmag Article, June, 01 2001
Jamin b. Raskin
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Courting Injustice
Pilger: The big threat in the Middle East is Israel, not Iraq
Commentary, May, 27 2001
John Pilger
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As George Bush escalates the new cold war begun by his father, the attention of his planners is moving to the Middle East. Stories about the threat of Iraq's "weapons of mass destruction" are again appearing in the American press, this time concen...
Edwards: HOW TO KILL THE TRUTH - Part 2
Commentary, May, 24 2001
David Edwards
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On December 22, 2000, I asked Alan Rusbridger, editor of the 'liberal' flagship newspaper, the Guardian, if he thought wealthy owners, parent companies, advertisers, flak machines, and allied political pressures compromised press reporting:
Thrupkaew: A Letter from Cuba
Commentary, May, 22 2001
Noy Thrupkaew
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I recently traveled to Cuba as part of a U.S. women's delegation, sponsored by the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, Sojourner, and Hermanas, an organization dedicated to building solidarity between U.S. and Caribbean women. Away...
Solomon: MEDIA AND VIETNAM: APPARITIONS OF INNOCENCE
Commentary, May, 08 2001
Norman Solomon
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Media commentators are split about Bob Kerrey and what happened 32 years ago in the Vietnamese village of Thanh Phong. Some journalists seem eager to exonerate the former senator. Others appear inclined to turn him into a lightning rod for nationa...
Russell: Craig Shirley Does the Disabled
Commentary, May, 02 2001
Marta Russell
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Craig Shirley is the guy whose PR firm created the newly formed Disabled Americans for Death Tax Repeal. Disabled Americans for Death Tax Repeal ran a full-page ad in The Wall Street Journal and Washington Times to lobby Congress to abolish the fe...
Herman: Israel's Approved Ethnic Cleansing
Zmag Article, May, 01 2001
Edward Herman
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Israel's Approved Ethnic Cleansing
Barsamian: Liberating the Mind from Orthodoxies
Zmag Article, May, 01 2001
David Barsamian
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Liberating the Mind from Orthodoxies
Pilger: Academia is silent on imperialism, as German universities were during the rise of the Nazis
Commentary, April, 29 2001
John Pilger
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The other day, I attended a conference at the University of Sussex on the "new imperialism". What was extraordinary was that it took place at all. Julian Saurin, who teaches in the school of African and Asian studies at Sussex, said that, in ten y...
Prashad: Hindutva For a Few Dollars a Day
Commentary, April, 25 2001
Vijay Prashad
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Bangru Laxman asks the intrepid tehelka.com journalists to bring him $30,000 to their next meeting. He has already taken Rs. 1 lakh. "You can give dollars," said the President of the BJP. "You talk to us directly. We normally turn to [National Sec...
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...
Edwards: To The Mad House With Them
Commentary, April, 16 2001
David Edwards
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In his study of obedience in modern society, psychologist Stanley Milgram wrote, "There is always some element of bad form in objecting to the destructive course of events, or indeed, in making it a topic of conversation." Milgram noted that even ...
Herman: UNCLE CHUTZPAH GETS BACK INTO THE RING
Commentary, April, 09 2001
Edward Herman
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Now that the humanitarian warrior Bill Clinton has been replaced by a compassionate conservative extremely close to the oil industry, military-industrial-complex, and Christian Right/"pro- life" (fetal, that is, not post-fetal) forces, what may we...
