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Raptis: Life Complexities / Quakes
Commentary, August, 20 1999
Nikos Raptis
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In 1943 as the Nazis were rounding up the Jews of Salonica in a part of the city, a 16-year-old girl (not a Jew) stood by in the street watching with curiosity (and I hope with horror) as the Nazis were loading them on trucks.
Albert: Prison Policy
Commentary, August, 10 1999
Michael Albert
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About 25 years ago I was at a dinner party with a bunch of leftist economics faculty and grad students, and I posed a hypothetical question to engender some dinner debate. If you had only two choices, I asked, would you open all prison doors and l...
Raptis: The Statue of a Benefactor
Commentary, August, 08 1999
Nikos Raptis
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After WWI at the Versailles peace conference, in 1919, an irregular line of nations, north to south from Finland to Albania, with Britain controlling Greece and Turkey, was designated a "cordon sanitaire" to divide Europe into two parts; the capit...
Prashad: Behind the Front; Nuclear Deterrance Indo-Pak Style
Commentary, August, 04 1999
Vijay Prashad
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May, 1998. India and then, Pakistan, tested nuclear devices of questionable ferocity to launch themselves as nuclear power States. Both countries made diplomatic bids to join the discriminatory nuclear bargain currently being flogged to the world ...
Herman: The Importance of a Left Media
Commentary, July, 05 1999
Edward Herman
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A jarring moment in the Philadelphia area propaganda outpouring in support of the bombing of Yugoslavia was a passionately prowar Op Ed column in the Philadelphia Inquirer by long-time local antiwar activist Mark Sacharoff ("NATO did what it had t...
Wise: Exploring the Depths of Racist Socialization
Zmag Article, July, 01 1999
Tim Wise
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Exploring the Depths of Racist Socialization
Peterson: How The New York Times Protects Indonesian Terror In East Timor
Zmag Article, July, 01 1999
Edward s. herman and david Peterson
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How The New York Times Protects Indonesian Terror In East Timor
Bronski: The Crime That Dare Not Speak Its Name
Commentary, July, 01 1999
Michael Bronski
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The ferocity of the New York City police assault against Haitian immigrant Abner Louima in the summer of 1977 was so striking that, even in the current context of urban police brutality, it became emblematic of the sustained, sanctioned violence o...
Shalom: Lessons -- and Hope -- from Kerala
Commentary, June, 21 1999
Stephen1 Shalom
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Are there alternatives to the dominant economic model that consigns increasing numbers of people to lives of misery? One such alternative is offered by the state of Kerala in southern India which has been the site of fascinating social experimenta...
Wise: The Threat of a Good Example
Commentary, June, 20 1999
Tim Wise
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Occasionally when I'm speaking to college students, attempting to inspire at least a few to commit themselves to social justice as a way of life and perhaps career, I'm asked the question for which there is no easy answer; the one that goes: "What...
Landau: Remember Angola
Commentary, June, 17 1999
Saul Landau
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As Kosovo atrocities dominate the headlines, I wait for some former national security maven to confess to US government crimes committed during the Cold War. We know the CIA assassinated people, fomented coups and destabilized countries we claimed...
Raptis: U.S. Occupation
Commentary, June, 16 1999
Nikos Raptis
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In the core of this "sophisticated and careful" planning one finds the need for a US occupation of the "Grand Area." The dictionary "definition" of occupation is: "The holding and control of an area by a foreign military force."
Herman: Kosovo and Doublespeak
Commentary, June, 15 1999
Edward Herman
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War, propaganda, and the proliferation of doublespeak have always gone hand-in-hand. As was the case during the Persian Gulf war, the NATO war against Yugoslavia witnessed a collapse of mainstream media integrity and a new surge of doublespeak in ...
Glass: Top Drawer
Commentary, June, 13 1999
Charles Glass
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Diana is dead. Tony lives. Miracles have begun. The first on record comes, as so often with the Bible and Lives of the Saints, in the form of a cure.
Dominick: Signs of Movement? The State of Anti-War Activism in the U.S.
Commentary, June, 11 1999
Brian Dominick
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It has been a tense several days for those of us paying close attention to the war, as we evaluate both the status of so-called "negotiations" in Europe and that of the anti-war movement here at home.
Herman: 'Balance' Sickness at The Nation
Commentary, June, 05 1999
Edward Herman
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The Nation has not distinguished itself in its coverage of the Kosovo crisis. It has had some good editorials and articles, but these are nicely balanced by pro-war pieces. It should embarrass the editors that its UN Correspondent Ian Williams is ...
Albert: Lend Me Your Ear
Zmag Article, June, 01 1999
Michael Albert
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Lend Me Your Ear
Wise: The Devil Made 'Em Do It: Social Crisis and the Misuse of Faith in America
Commentary, June, 01 1999
Tim Wise
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I mean, what does one do if Satan really is the author of all this unhappiness? IÕm pretty sure that at that point gun laws and conflict resolution training become sortaÕ useless.
Herman: Bomb the NYT
Commentary, May, 31 1999
Edward Herman
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NATO spokespersons have justified the bombing of Serbian TV and radio on the grounds that these broadcasters are an "instrument of state propaganda," tell lies, spew forth hatred, provide no "balance" in their offerings, and thus help prolong the ...
Solomon: Three On Kosovo
Commentary, May, 28 1999
Norman Solomon
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A few days ago, the president of the United States openly violated the War Powers Act -- and the national media yawned.
