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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 Brecher: The Global Sustainable Development Resolution

Commentary, April, 22 1999 Jeremy Brecher
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For the past decade, through both Republican and Democratic administrations, the United States government has promoted a model of free-market global capitalism that it claimed would benefit the great majority of people both at home and abroad. Thi...

Commentary Peters: Responding To Sentiment

Commentary, April, 21 1999 Cynthia Peters
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There was a lengthy debate at my dinner table the other night about the situation in Yugoslavia. Most of my relatives defended the NATO bombings as the only moral action to take in the face of crimes being committed against ethnic Albanians. I arg...

Commentary Burchill: Kosovo and East Timor

Commentary, April, 20 1999 Scott Burchill
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The arrest of Care Australia's Steve Pratt and Peter Wallace by Serb authorities exposes more than the risks faced by aid workers in a war which masquerades as "humanitarian relief". It also reveals the perils faced by good people as a result of t...

Commentary Mokhiber: Essential Information

Commentary, April, 19 1999 Russell Mokhiber
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There is a new breed of activist roaming the land. These are activists who believe that there is something fundamentally wrong with the large corporation itself -- that it is not what corporations do wrong that is the problem, it is corporations t...

Commentary Dominick: Young People and Activism

Commentary, April, 18 1999 Brian Dominick
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Young people in movement circles are often met with a great deal of admiration and little to no respect. Impressed as they are by kidsÕ very presence at activist events and meetings, given the preoccupations and pressures of modern youth; adults r...

Commentary Schechter: Edward R Murrow Is Dead

Commentary, April, 17 1999 Danny Schechter
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In June 1993, a human rights television program I co-produced obtained remarkable footage from inside Kosovo. We led our "Rights & Wrongs" program with an exclusive from what we called "the next powder keg in the Balkans."

Commentary Lusane: Racism's Enablers

Commentary, April, 14 1999 Clarence Lusane
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While much of the American publicÕs attention has been focused on the evils of Milosovich and his efforts at ethnic cleansing, AmericaÕs home grown fascists and their enablers have gotten a free ride.

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 Peters: Is There A Truth About Rigoberto Menchu

Commentary, April, 10 1999 Cynthia Peters
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My friend the anthropologist says there is no such thing as truth. She says that sheÕs interviewed people in the field who completely contradict each other. One says the volcano erupted and the other says it didnÕt. They both say it with equal con...

Commentary Bronski: Harassment

Commentary, April, 09 1999 Michael Bronski
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Several weeks ago I was walking with my lover in a quiet neighborhood in Cambridge Mass, on our way to a late afternoon movie. We were holding hands in an offhanded sort of way, chatting together when a group of young teens sitting on a front stoo...

Commentary Weisbrot: The Debacle in Kosovo

Commentary, April, 08 1999 Mark Weisbrot
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The bombing of Yugoslavia is turning out to be a foreign policy debacle of disastrous proportions, yet most of the chattering class insists that we can turn things around if we only commit more troops. We have heard that before.

Commentary Schechter: The Talking Kosovo Blues

Commentary, April, 07 1999 Danny Schechter
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It was for me the big booking: an hour on MSNBC in the middle of a crisis. I had pitched the network proposing to talk about the media coverage of the Kosovo catastrophe. As a TV producer, I had been covering the Balkan wars for a public televisio...

Commentary Herman: Oligarchic Control of Mutual Organizations

Commentary, April, 06 1999 Edward Herman
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Many years ago I participated in a Wharton School study of the savings and loan industry, my assignment being to analyse their control and conflict of interest problems.

Commentary Administrator: Branislav Canak and the Independent Unions in Yugoslavia

Commentary, April, 04 1999 Site Administrator
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With all the bleak news out of Kosovo and Yugoslavia, IÕve been trying to make contact with the independent union federation Nezavisnost.

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.

Commentary Wise: White America's Dirty Little Secrets

Commentary, April, 01 1999 Tim Wise
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Sometimes itÕs best to just tell the truth. Even when it makes folks angry. In fact, particularly then, because itÕs at precisely those times that the truth is obviously most in need of being spokenÐotherwise resistance to it probably wouldnÕt be ...

Commentary Hightower: Selected Shorts

Commentary, March, 31 1999 Jim Hightower
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Travel again [space music] into the Far, Far, Far-Out Frontiers of Free Enterprise. Today, Spaceship Hightower takes you to that far-out cosmic cusp where public purpose and private profiteering overlap.

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