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Wise: Freeh's Blind Mice: A Critical Look at "Tolerance Training," FBI Style
Commentary, September, 24 2000
Tim Wise
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That I'm no Biblical scholar is an understatement of monumental proportions. And yet, recently I found myself--for reasons I'll explain shortly--thinking of the following verse from the book of Matthew, if memory serves:
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...
Chomsky: Summits
Commentary, September, 17 2000
Noam Chomsky
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The United Nations Summit in New York in September was the second major gathering of government leaders marking the millennium. The first was the South Summit in Havana in April. The UN Summit received considerable national publicity, while the So...
Herman: THE MONEY, MEDIA, AND LIBERAL-LEFT ROLE IN PLUTOCRATIC ELECTIONS
Commentary, September, 13 2000
Edward Herman
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In many ways the system is working beautifully right now. First of all, money dominates the initial selection and weeding out of presidential candidates, so that only those who will serve the corporate interest on the basics--advancing "free trade...
Georgakas: Previewing Kosovo
Commentary, September, 12 2000
Dan Georgakas
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The only constant in American and NATO policy in the Balkans has been the breakup of a socialist, multi-ethnic state into a series of small, capitalist-oriented states based on narrowly defined religious/ethnic identity. Given that pattern, it is ...
Wise: Gore-Vey!: Joe Lieberman, Jewish Mobility, and the Politics of Race in America
Commentary, August, 29 2000
Tim Wise
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I am a Jew. And according to what others of my faith tradition tell me, I should be beaming with pride at the fact that Al Gore--a Southern Baptist whose denominational leaders once said God didn't answer the prayers of folks like me--has picked a...
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 "...
Burchill: Heroes and Villains
Commentary, August, 16 2000
Scott Burchill
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In his first lecture on Indonesian soil after being banished for 26 years, Benedict Anderson spoke about the bewildered expression on the faces of his Indonesian students over the years at Cornell University whenever he asked them "who in Indonesi...
Solomon: HOLY SMOKE AND MIRRORS: THE RISE OF CENTRIST THEOCRATS
Commentary, August, 12 2000
Norman Solomon
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It's always dangerous when politicians claim to be doing God's will. So, as the novelty fades from Al Gore's selection of Joseph Lieberman, journalists should ask some probing questions about the ticket's conspicuous piety.
Herman: ROGUE REMOVAL AS OFFICIAL U.S. FOREIGN POLICY
Commentary, August, 11 2000
Edward Herman
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In her August 1 speech before the Republican National Convention, Bush foreign policy adviser Condoleezza Rice explained to the audience that Bush "recognizes that the magnificent men and women of America's armed forces are not a global police for...
Landau: THE DRUG WAR IS AS AMERICAN AS APPLE PIE AND COCAINE
Commentary, August, 10 2000
Saul Landau
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One of my friends mocks the drug war and sneers at President Clinton's request that Congress fund a new $1.2 billion military aid package for Colombia, so the Colombian military can better engage the iniquitous narco-traffickers. "You don't unders...
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...
Cagan: Philadelphia: Sunday, July 30
Commentary, August, 01 2000
Leslie Cagan
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As the several thousand delegates to the Republican PartyÕs Nominating Convention were arriving in Philadelphia this weekend, protests were already in full swing. There is too much happening for me to report on it all, but the Independent Media Ce...
Chomsky: "Peace Process" Prospects
Commentary, July, 27 2000
Noam Chomsky
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The latest AP report from Camp David (evening, July 25) begins: "The Middle East peace talks at Camp David collapsed Tuesday over rival claims to East Jerusalem. Disappointed, President Clinton said he tried several approaches but could not come u...
Chomsky: National Missile Defense
Commentary, July, 20 2000
Noam Chomsky
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Taking into account the results of the recent test, should President Clinton ask the Pentagon to go ahead with the national missile defense system?I would prefer to respond to a slight reformulation of the question. The most hopeful prospect for t...
Reinhart: LAND FOR APPARTHEID (The Camp David summit)
Commentary, July, 15 2000
Tanya Reinhart
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Barak went to the summit with a magic formula: 10-90. 10 percent annexation, and in the rest - a Palestinian state. No previous Israeli plan ever offered so much land to the Palestinians. Where do these numbers come from?
Glick: The Nader/Laduke Campaign The Nader/LaDuke Movement
Commentary, July, 08 2000
Ted Glick
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There is no question, absolutely none, that of the four "name recognition" Presidential candidates--Bush, Gore, Nader and Buchanan--Ralph Nader is far and away the most progressive. He will be on the ballot in almost all of the states. As distinct...
Chomsky: Humanitarian Intervention
Commentary, July, 05 2000
Noam Chomsky
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At a public talk in February Chomsky was asked: "President Clinton recently said the U.S. has the right on humanitarian grounds to intervene, with force, in any country which it deems is abusing the human rights of its citizens. Do you agree ...
Weiss: No-Fly Zones On Trial In Des Moines, Iowa
Zmag Article, July, 01 2000
Jeffrey j. Weiss
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Are the no-fly zones deployed by the United States and Britain over Northern and Southern Iraq a violation of international law? If so, is a citizen of the United States legally authorized to attempt to prevent their enforcement, even by tre...
