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Commentary Herman: Resisting Illegitimate Autbority

Commentary, July, 26 1999 Edward Herman
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My feeling that the government in Washington represents illegitimate authority ebbs and flows, but it has gathered strength over the past few years, and even months. One reason is the blatant further dollarization of the electoral process, with Bu...

Commentary Burchill: Marx on Globalization

Commentary, July, 24 1999 Scott Burchill
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In the 1850s, Karl Marx believed that the spread of capitalism, or what today we would call globalization, was transforming human society from a collection of separate nation-states to a world capitalist society where the principal form of conflic...

Commentary Administrator: Labor Law and the Heavy Hand of the State

Commentary, July, 23 1999 Site Administrator
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There is one remarkable exception to the deregulatory trend in the United States. While politicians happily hack away at regulation, protective legislation, standards and governmental's ability to action on behalf of the whole community, one organ...

Commentary Cagan: Some Concerns About the Internet as an Organizing Vehicle

Commentary, July, 21 1999 Leslie Cagan
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For reasons I don't totally understand, I was somewhat late in getting on line. About five years ago the small organization I coordinated - the Cuba Information Project - went on line, but usually the other staff person handled the email communica...

Commentary Solomon: Journalists Inspire Support for Community Radio / Pacifica Continues

Commentary, July, 18 1999 Norman Solomon
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Last Wednesday afternoon, radio journalist Aileen Alfandary stood on the sidewalk in front of the building where she has worked for many years. She looked out of place. The deadline for the KPFA evening news was fast approaching -- but all the doo...

Commentary Shiva: Monsanto's Expanding Monopolies From Seed to Water

Commentary, July, 17 1999 Vandana2 Shiva
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Over the past few years, Monsanto, a chemical company, has positioned itself as an agricultural company through control over seed the first link in the food chain. Monsanto now wants to control water, the very basis of life.

Commentary Zinn: Inspire Please

Commentary, July, 16 1999 Howard Zinn
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The order came from above (I will not reveal the name, unless tortured) ): "Write something inspirational." The exact words were: "Inspire, please."

Commentary Solomon: The Public is Secondary

Commentary, July, 15 1999 Norman Solomon
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Across the country, PBS stations are in denial. And if we think the programming they provide is worthy of the name "public television," then maybe we're in denial, too.

Commentary Raptis: The Dictionary

Commentary, July, 14 1999 Nikos Raptis
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Last year (1998) George Babiniotis, professor of linguistics at the University of Athens, compiled "The Dictionary of the Modern Greek Language." The dictionary was a much needed work, given the fact that all Greek dictionaries up to that time wer...

Commentary Peters: Children: Their Deficiencies,

Commentary, July, 13 1999 Cynthia Peters
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We are at my 7-year old daughter's annual check-up. After a peering in her ears and mouth, palpating her glands, and listening to her heart, the Doctor points at Zoe's crotch and asks abruptly, "Does anyone ever touch you here?" Zoe is taken aback...

Commentary Schechter: Our Profile and Theirs

Commentary, July, 11 1999 Danny Schechter
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When Dr. W.E.B DuBois predicted the question of color would become the problem of the twentieth century, he was writing before the advent of television, the proliferation of the mass media, and the many uses (and abuses) of the idea of racial prof...

Commentary Landau: Indictments of Kissenger and Bush

Commentary, July, 10 1999 Saul Landau
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The US government has released the first batch of documents relating to the violence unleashed between 1973-1990 by General Augusto Pinochet's dictatorship in Chile. Reading some of the memos, cables and intelligence reports, I was shocked -- the ...

Commentary Weisbrot: Fed Preemptive Strike

Commentary, July, 09 1999 Mark Weisbrot
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The Fed launched a "pre-emptive strike" this week against an unseen enemy -- inflation -- by raising interest rates one-quarter percentage point. With inflation at its lowest level in 30 years (2.1%), why would the Fed want to start down a path th...

Commentary Carter: Buena Vista Social Club

Commentary, July, 08 1999 Sandy Carter
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Because nearly all music heard in the United States is driven by dreams of fame and fortune, the sounds of the Cuban ensemble known as the Buena Vista Social Club are immediately startling. The melodies, rhythms, and songs of the group pull you in...

Commentary 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...

Commentary Wise: Whiteness and the Recollection of History

Commentary, July, 03 1999 Tim Wise
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For the writer, there's nothing so frustrating as to sit in front of a keyboard and find oneself at a loss for words. To know there are a million things which need saying, and yet, you can't think of even one. Having experienced this often, I've d...

Commentary Solomon: Big Name Candidates Bow To Media Power

Commentary, July, 02 1999 Norman Solomon
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Every modern presidential contest generates a lot of discussion about how the nation's most prominent journalists cover major candidates. But there's not much analysis of how candidates get along with the media conglomerates that employ those jour...

Commentary Lusane: Defending the New Klan

Commentary, July, 02 1999 Clarence Lusane
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It is perhaps a sign of millennium madness that the century will end with the bizzare phenomena of an African American lawyer defending in court the right of a member of the Ku Klux Klan - whose name ironically is Black - to burn crosses. However,...

Commentary 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...

Commentary Hightower: The Money Primary

Commentary, June, 30 1999 Jim Hightower
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What-you say the election's not until next year? Yeah, well, technically that's true. The caucuses and primaries don't begin until February of 2000, but there are about 70,000 Americans who get an extra special vote, casting their ballots this yea...

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