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Peters: Teacher, There's a Brand Name in My Math Problem
Commentary, August, 23 1999
Cynthia Peters
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Teacher, There's a Brand Name in My Math Problem
Solomon: In the Nation's Capital, Media Fixations Prevail
Commentary, August, 21 1999
Norman Solomon
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Few phrases in American politics have more negative connotations than "inside the Beltway." In this rarified and unreal zone, we often assume, the activities of politicians and bureaucrats are disconnected from the main concerns of most Americans....
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.
Solomon: Broadcasting and Democracy: Oil and Water
Commentary, August, 18 1999
Norman Solomon
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Is it really possible for broadcasting and democracy to mix? In theory, yes. But right now, the prospects look bleak.
Landau: Pinochet and Valdez
Commentary, August, 17 1999
Saul Landau
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Juan Gabriel Valdes, Chile's new foreign minister, will meet with Secretary of State Madeline Albright to ask her to help return Augusto Pinochet to Chile. Since last October, British authorities have held Pinochet on a request from the Spanish Ju...
Weisbrot: Trade Wars: Where's the Beef
Commentary, August, 16 1999
Mark Weisbrot
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Should countries have the right to set health and safety standards for the food that their citizens eat? Should they be allowed to exclude foreign-produced foods that don't meet national standards? Or should these questions be decided by the World...
Halimi: Media Critics of the World Unite
Commentary, August, 15 1999
Serge Halimi
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Few countries publish as many books and articles on media criticism as the United States. Logically, all of this good work has little to no effect on the shaping and publication of news. Any adequate criticism, which describes media indoctrination...
Shalom: Another Attack on Affirmative Action
Commentary, August, 14 1999
Stephen1 Shalom
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In the present dreary political climate, another court decision against affirmative action might not warrant special comment. But a ruling last month by a Federal District judge in Savannah, Georgia, is worth considering if only because it illustr...
Bronski: The Exciting Sex Life of Gay Toys
Commentary, August, 13 1999
Michael Bronski
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It has become a commonplace that gay people are everywhere. We are everywhere - is even on bumper stickers. We are Martina and Greg, Rupert and Ian, Ellen and Will on Will and Grace.
Wise: Hate Crimes
Commentary, August, 12 1999
Tim Wise
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There is no question so irrelevant as the one to which all or nearly all can respond in like fashion. Thus, asking people their views on child molestation, or whether or not they'd like the schools to be "better" has always seemed absurd: like ask...
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...
Gonsalves: Aiding Africa
Commentary, August, 09 1999
Sean Gonsalves
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As part of a U.S. State Department special envoy, Tony Lake, former national security adviser to President Clinton, recently met with Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi, Eritrean President Isayas Afewerki and Organization of African Unity (OAU)...
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...
Shah: What Are You On? Hormones?
Commentary, August, 07 1999
Sonia Shah
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I am not proud, but not ashamed either, to admit I am humbled by hormones. I used to pride myself on being logical: as a philosophy major, I got an A+ in deductive logic in school. But under the powerful effect of estrogens and other biochemicals ...
Brecher: Review of Panic Rules
Commentary, August, 05 1999
Jeremy Brecher
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A funny thing happened on the way to the New Millenium: the Old Millenium crashed. According to economist Paul Krugman, "Never in the course of economic events -- not even in the early years of the Depression -- has so large a part of the world ec...
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 ...
Mokhiber: Biotech Untamed
Commentary, August, 02 1999
Russell Mokhiber
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When Secretary of Agriculture Dan Glickman wanted to address the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. to rave about the biotech industry and its wonders, he called Gene Grabowski.
Glass: Hacks Versus Flacks
Commentary, August, 01 1999
Charles Glass
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The London media world is under fire and taking shelter. Prime Minister Tony Blair's head flack, Alistair Campbell, has challenged the patriotism of the British press. It's as if Sid Blumenthal had questioned the loyalty under fire of the New York...
Peters: Give em Ritalin
Commentary, July, 31 1999
Cynthia Peters
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Although there is no medical proof that there is such a thing as Attention Deficit and Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), over 3.5 million children in the United States are diagnosed as having some form of it.
