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Ali: NUCLEAR PERILS IN SOUTH ASIA
Commentary, July, 01 2000
Tariq Ali
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The nuclear games being played by India and Pakistan are both dangerous and obscene. They are dangerous because there are Taliban-type elements within the Pakistan Army (and I'm sure their equivalents in India), who could, in extremis, press the d...
Gonsalves: Stubborn facts versus thick skulls
Commentary, June, 18 2000
Sean Gonsalves
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Sean Gonsalves Whoever coined the phrase Òfacts are stubborn thingsÓ has apparently never come across drug war advocates Ð a self-righteous bunch, undeterred by trivial matters of fact.
Burchill: New Rules of Engagement
Commentary, May, 18 2000
Scott Burchill
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In the first weeks of September last year, 70% of all public buildings and private residences in East Timor were destroyed. At least 75% of the population of the territory was displaced, with over 260,000 people being driven across the border into...
Hoodbhoy: EQBAL AHMAD: POST-POKHARAN DAYS
Commentary, May, 11 2000
Pervez Hoodbhoy
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He fought for Kashmiri self-determination in 1948, against French imperialism in Algeria in the early 60's, roused students on American campuses in the early 70's against their government's immoral war in Vietnam, dodged arrest by the CIA in a cas...
Prashad: As the Dust Settles: Clinton in the SubcontinentBy
Commentary, April, 17 2000
Vijay Prashad
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I've just returned from India filled with stories of Clinton's trip to the subcontinent. The reaction was extraordinary. After Clinton gave an address in the Central Hall of the Indian Parliament (boycotted by the Communist delegates) he was mobbe...
Rebick: New Workers' Initiative
Commentary, January, 29 2000
Judy Rebick
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Always on the cutting edge of social change, the Canadian Auto Workers union has just launched an important new initiative. The CAW has set up "A Task Force on Working Class Politics in the 21st Century."
Prashad: No Farewell for This Admiral: Reflections on Diego Garcia
Commentary, January, 06 2000
Vijay Prashad
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No Farewell for This Admiral: Reflections on Diego Garcia
Gonsalves: The liberal media and the feds
Commentary, December, 30 1999
Sean Gonsalves
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In my last column, I quoted espionage expert Phillip Knightly. "An intelligence service thrives on threat," he wrote in "The Second Oldest Profession." The same could be said about the rest of the defense industry.
Prashad: The Tragedy of Flight IC-814
Commentary, December, 28 1999
Vijay Prashad
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No one can guess the horror of Ms. Rachna Katyal as she sits aboard the Indian Airlines plane (IC-814) in Kandahar, Afghanistan. Recently married, Ms. Katyal was on her way home to Delhi from a honeymoon in Kathmandu when her plane was hijacked fo...
Bolsen: The Pakistan Coup
Zmag Article, December, 01 1999
Shahid Bolsen
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Shahid Bolsen Pakistan has the bomb. It also has an antagonizing enemy, which also has the bomb. It has a passionately disputed territory which it dearly wants to see liberated from its enemy. Now, Pakistan has a new military leader who has pr...
Landau: More Nuclear Disasters
Commentary, November, 08 1999
Saul Landau
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"We have contained the spread of radiation from last week's nuclear accident," Japanese authorities assured their citizens. They blame the chain reaction on improper handling of materials by low level workers.
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 ...
Shah: Asian American?
Commentary, April, 26 1999
Sonia Shah
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I was recently asked to write about Asian American History Month, which, since 1979, has been observed during the month of May.
