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Commentary Prashad: Forward Into the Past: US War Aims

Commentary, October, 05 2001 Vijay Prashad
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The US State Department-Pentagon has a bad record on war aims. During the lead-up to the Gulf War, the Bush administration, Part 1, argued that the US was needed to liberate Kuwait.

Commentary Monbiot: Genocide or Peace

Commentary, October, 02 2001 George Monbiot
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Peace has been declared before the war has begun. Those who advocated the obliteration of Kabul and Baghdad have retreated in the face of insuperable complexity. Many of those who argued against aggression have relaxed as the threat of carpet bomb...

Commentary Raptis: Of Pyramids and Skyscrapers

Commentary, September, 30 2001 Nikos Raptis
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That the skyscraper is the "monumental" structure par excellence of the US culture is difficult to dispute. "The decision for the construction of multistory buildings in any country, either for living space or for work is a political act with very...

Commentary Albert: Albert Interviews Chomsky

Commentary, September, 29 2001 Michael Albert
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I sent six questions to Noam Chomsky. His answers, by email, are below.

Commentary Hoodbhoy: BLACK TUESDAY: THE VIEW FROM ISLAMABAD

Commentary, September, 17 2001 Pervez Hoodbhoy
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Samuel Huntington's evil desire for a clash between civilizations may well come true after Tuesday's terror attacks. The crack that divided Muslims everywhere from the rest of the world is no longer a crack. It is a gulf, that if not bridged, will...

Commentary Pilger: Inevitable ring to the unimaginable

Commentary, September, 14 2001 John Pilger
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If the attacks on America have their source in the Islamic world, who can really be surprised?

Commentary Burchill: Megawati's Indonesia and US regional policy

Commentary, August, 21 2001 Scott Burchill
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Following the visit by U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell and Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, security issues in the East Asian region are starting to look much clearer. A widespread belief that Indonesia is edging towards disintegration s...

Commentary Prashad: Hindutva and Zionism: Comprador States of Pentagon, Inc.

Commentary, August, 08 2001 Vijay Prashad
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George W. Bush has a cat named India. In New Delhi, about thirty activists of the Hindu Right's political formation, the BJP, stood before the US Embassy outraged with this news. "We are not cats," said one man, "we are lions."

Commentary Shah: Unveiling the Taleban Dress Codes Are Not the Issue, New Study Finds

Commentary, July, 10 2001 Sonia Shah
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While outrage over the Taleban's requirement that Afghan women wear a head-to-toe veil continues, a new comprehensive study shows that the majority of Afghan women consider the Taleban's dress codes a non-issue, and many choose to wear the burqa o...

Commentary Chomsky: Hegemony or Survival Part One

Commentary, July, 03 2001 Noam Chomsky
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At the end of June,, the UN Conference on Disarmament concludes the second of its year 2001 sessions. Prospects for any constructive outcome of disarmament efforts are slim. Discussions have been blocked by US insistence on pursuing ballistic miss...

Commentary Raptis: Racism; The Greek Variety

Commentary, July, 02 2001 Nikos Raptis
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On October 21, 1999 my wife and I attended the presentation of the latest book of a friend, in downtown Athens. After the presentation, at around 12 midnight, the author invited five or six of us to dinner at a nearby tavern. My wife was not feeli...

Commentary Podur: Mexico's 'Modern Right'

Commentary, June, 11 2001 Justin Podur
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In March, while they were on the March of Indigenous Dignity, on their way to Mexico City to press for the passage of the law on indigenous rights and culture, the Zapatistas berated the 'hardliners' in the government who called them terrorists an...

Commentary Bongard: Advantages of an Active Democracy – in numbers

Commentary, May, 26 2001 Christian Bongard
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In the West, we continuously confuse the terms “consumer” and “citizen”: what the Old Greeks used to know, we do not know anymore. When we speak of representative and other forms of democracy, namely a participative...

Commentary Pilger: Academia is silent on imperialism, as German universities were during the rise of the Nazis

Commentary, April, 29 2001 John Pilger
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The other day, I attended a conference at the University of Sussex on the "new imperialism". What was extraordinary was that it took place at all. Julian Saurin, who teaches in the school of African and Asian studies at Sussex, said that, in ten y...

Commentary Hoodbhoy: OUR BLIND NUCLEAR PROPHETS

Commentary, April, 12 2001 Pervez Hoodbhoy
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Having thrown away several hundred, I still have in my possession about a hundred newspaper articles on the nuclear issue written in Pakistan and India over the past decade. The authors, overwhelmingly, are establishment nuclear "experts" and "str...

Commentary Guellec: Cuba offers free medical education to US minority students

Commentary, March, 27 2001 Dorothy Guellec
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ItÕs all about altruism man, not politics. It would be unthinkable in the US to offer much of anything for nothing, let alone a 6-year medical education, but the Cubans have been doing this for many countries in the past, and now Americans may app...

Commentary Guellec: Violence is a Public Health Problem

Commentary, March, 10 2001 Dorothy Guellec
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According to the FBI there are 240 million firearms in America today. Former U.S. Surgeon General C. Everett Koop identified violence as a public health issue in 1991. The Centers for Disease Control tells us "the United States may be a more viole...

Commentary Prashad: Beauty Queens and the Capitalist Beast

Commentary, December, 07 2000 Vijay Prashad
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All the men are computer programmers, all the women are beauty queens, and some of us are humorless. So it seems in the land of Silicon(e) India. Bill Gates says that Indians are the second smartest people on the planet, and the international cons...

Commentary Hoodbhoy: THE MENACE OF EDUCATION

Commentary, September, 14 2000 Pervez Hoodbhoy
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From brain size and hair colour to the shape and texture of toe-nails, every characteristic of an individual is totally determined by just two twisted strands of human DNA. A similar cultural DNA - a society's education system - contains within it...

Commentary Chomsky: National Missile Defense

Commentary, July, 20 2000 Noam Chomsky
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Taking into account the results of the recent test, should President Clinton ask the Pentagon to go ahead with the national missile defense system?I would prefer to respond to a slight reformulation of the question. The most hopeful prospect for t...

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