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Commentary Reinhart: The Israeli Elections

Commentary, May, 18 1999 Tanya Reinhart
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This is a translation of a column that appeared in the Israeli daily 'yediot' on May 16, 1999 (a day before the elections).

Commentary Lusane: Jackson and the Contradictions of War

Commentary, May, 13 1999 Clarence Lusane
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Into the storm's eye of the Balkin war stepped Rev. Jesse Jackson, and, once again, he emerges with prisoners of war.

Commentary Chomsky: Moral Principles and International Law

Commentary, May, 09 1999 Noam Chomsky
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I'm afraid the first question is not a "genuine question," though there is a huge literature, for thousands of years, attempting to say at least something about these topics, without much success.

Commentary Raptis: The Greeks, Kosovo, and the U.S.

Commentary, May, 02 1999 Nikos Raptis
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Following the Chomskyan distinction, in the present text the word Greeks refers to the inhabitants of the geographic region of Greece as distinct from the political and economic elits that "govern" the country. (The use of the quotation marks is e...

Zmag Article Herman: The Godfather's New World Order

Zmag Article, May, 01 1999 Edward Herman
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The Godfather's New World Order

Zmag Article Albert: The Kosovo/NATO Conflict

Zmag Article, May, 01 1999 Michael Albert
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The Kosovo/NATO Conflict

Zmag Article Chomsky: Crisis in the Balkans

Zmag Article, May, 01 1999 Noam Chomsky
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Crisis in the Balkans

Commentary Bohmer: Fight the Power

Commentary, April, 30 1999 Peter Bohmer
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Last weekend, my son, Inti, who is 20 and I, who am quite a few years older than that, went to San Francisco to take part in a rally and demonstration in support of political prisoner and death row inmate, Mumia Abu-Jamal.

Commentary Bronski: Writing and Thinking Amidst Hostile Intentions

Commentary, April, 27 1999 Michael Bronski
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Most every writer likes to see her or his work quoted and cited. It gives you, if nothing else, the idea that at least someone somewhere reads what you write and publish.

Commentary Herman: The U.S. Versus the Rules of War

Commentary, April, 25 1999 Edward Herman
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It is clear that the U.S./NATO military strategy in Yugoslavia is to use capital intensive warfare to ravage Serbian military forces and civil society until either the Serbs surrender or are so completely crushed that there is a "permissive enviro...

Commentary Wise: Famous Last Words

Commentary, April, 24 1999 Tim Wise
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Every now and then a lesson comes easy. Other times we learn things by accident, if at all. And inevitably it seems, the lessons that matter most, often come from the least likely sources, and at the most inopportune moments.

Commentary Solomon: For Whom The Media Bell Tolls

Commentary, April, 23 1999 Norman Solomon
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For several weeks now, the suffering of refugees from Kosovo has filled our TV screens. Empathy seems to motivate much of the public support for the ceaseless bombing of Yugoslavia.

Commentary Solomon: American Journalist Have No Reason to be Smug

Commentary, April, 13 1999 Norman Solomon
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Ever since the start of NATO 's bombing blitz more than two weeks ago, the regime in Belgrade has maintained total control of Serbia's press -- and American journalists have scornfully reported on the propaganda role of Yugoslavian news media. But...

Commentary Dominick: Behind Enemy Lines

Commentary, April, 11 1999 Brian Dominick
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In a disturbing case of hypocritical Western propaganda tripping over its own distortions, the Associated Press recently reported that Turkish troops and warplanes have crossed into Northeastern Iraq in pursuit of Kurdish rebels presumably taking ...

Commentary Glass: Letter from London

Commentary, April, 02 1999 Charles Glass
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The war against Slobodan Milosevic was clearly lost when the London papers ran a front-page photograph of Defence Secretary George Robertson in Italy aboard a warplane.

Zmag Article Herman: All the Book Reviews Fit to Print

Zmag Article, April, 01 1999 Edward Herman
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All the Book Reviews Fit to Print

Commentary Shalom: Terrorists and Madmen

Commentary, March, 27 1999 Stephen1 Shalom
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The official U.S. explanation for the missile strikes on the Sudanese pharmaceutical plant last summer was so transparently bogus that even the NEW YORK TIMES -- after its initial approving editorial -- was forced a few days later to run a skeptic...

Commentary Albert: Some Thoughts About the Bombings

Commentary, March, 26 1999 Michael Albert
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Does it ring any bells for anyone else that bombing country A may not have anything to do with country A per se, at least in recent times? Once it begins, bombing almost never yields a sought outcome regarding the place bombed (save, of course, wh...

Commentary Schechter: Dung on All Their Houses - The New Censorship

Commentary, March, 16 1999 Danny Schechter
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On October l, thousands of New York artists, activists and politicians rallied outside the Brooklyn Museum against threats by the city's Mayor Rudolph Giuliani to defund one of the city's preeminent cultural institutions because of one painting on...

Commentary Wise: Kill First, Ask Questions Later

Commentary, March, 15 1999 Tim Wise
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It's been nearly four decades since the last execution in Tennessee. During that time, my state has resisted boarding the killing train engineered by folks in places like Florida and Texas, where execution has been refined to a near science, appli...

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