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Prashad: Betrayed Redemption in Chile
Commentary, November, 15 2000
Vijay Prashad
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On Friday, 10 November, the Santiago (Chile) Court of Appeals refused to grant parole to retired army General Torres Silva. A few hours later, Judge Sergio Munoz indicted a general on active duty, Hernan Ramirez for the same crime. Both these lead...
Herman: NADER, OR DISENFRAN-
Commentary, November, 11 2000
Edward Herman
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It is well understood that this electoral system is sick for reason of the great importance of money. The two dominant parties are even recognized in the mainstream media to have two conventions: the nominal and heavily featured one where the publ...
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, ...
Mokhiber: Ford/Firestone: Homicide?
Commentary, November, 04 2000
Russell Mokhiber
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In 1998, in Corpus Christi, Texas, 17-year-old Matthew Hendricks was on his way to pick up his girlfriend. He was driving a Ford Explorer. The tread ripped off one of the Ford's Firestone's tires, causing him to lose control. He was thrown from th...
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...
Ellner: Venezuela's Foreign Policy
Zmag Article, November, 01 2000
Steve Ellner
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Venezuela's Foreign Policy
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...
Cromwell: Silent Democracy
Commentary, October, 24 2000
David Cromwell
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"It's sociologically interesting, though scary", said the actor Anthony Sher in a recent interview, "that you can be inside an evil system and be somehow unaware of it." South African by birth, Sher was talking about the former system of apartheid...
Cromwell: Silent Democracy
Commentary, October, 24 2000
David Cromwell
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"It's sociologically interesting, though scary", said the actor Anthony Sher in a recent interview, "that you can be inside an evil system and be somehow unaware of it." South African by birth, Sher was talking about the former system of apartheid...
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 ...
Mokhiber: Oversight?
Commentary, October, 22 2000
Russell Mokhiber
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The American Political Science Association's annual convention recently came through town, filling up Washington, D.C. hotels with thousands of academics ready to present their latest research findings.Browsing through the convention's program, we...
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 ...
Chomsky: Chomsky Comments on Milosevic Ouster, etc.
Commentary, October, 12 2000
Noam Chomsky
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A number of people in the ZNet forum system and elsewhere have raised questions about the prominent role they see assigned to US-NATO in the flood of commentary on recent events in Yugoslavia, "gloating over the victory of the opposition in Yugosl...
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...
