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Commentary Author: Rogue Nation

Commentary, December, 21 2001 Guest Author
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1. In December 2001, the United States officially withdrew from the 1972 Antiballistic Missile Treaty, gutting the landmark agreement-the first time in the nuclear era that the US renounced a major arms control accord.

Commentary Jensen: Why I Write (for Newspapers)

Commentary, December, 20 2001 Robert Jensen
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My clearest memory of the 1991 Persian Gulf War is a few moments on a bus when the world melted in front of me.

Commentary Author: Rush to Judgement

Commentary, December, 19 2001 Guest Author
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Just a few weeks ago, in Massachusetts, acting Governor Jane Swift approved a bill that exonerates the accused witches hung in 1692 and 1693 during the Salem Witch Trials. The women were the last of the 20 victims to be cleared by the legislature ...

Commentary Author: Private Power

Commentary, December, 18 2001 Guest Author
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In Papua New Guinea a quiet revolution has just taken place, demonstrating the power of major translational companies, and writing into law what has long been the defacto, and until now not publicly acknowledged, relationship between this countryÕ...

Commentary Bond: Momentum Returns to the Movements against Corporate Globalisation

Commentary, December, 17 2001 Patrick Bond
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I was glad to see Mokhiber/Weissman writing for ZNet last week on the durability of the anti-neoliberal movement. Here in Johannesburg, September 11 came and went, with linkages made between the Left peace movement's urgent agenda--anti-war demons...

Commentary Wise: Playing the World War Two Card: Nostalgia in the Crusade Against Terrorism

Commentary, December, 16 2001 Tim Wise
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Traveling through airports, as I often do, can prove to be quite an educational experience. Therein, one can engage in people watching, examine the culinary habits of corporate types and tourists, and occasionally gain insight into the mindset of ...

Commentary Glass: The Scene Is Set For Another Lebanon

Commentary, December, 16 2001 Charles Glass
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Another Palestinian has killed himself in Jerusalem. He was walking towards the David Citadel Hotel in King David Street, where two Israeli ministers were staying. The minister of public security, Uzi Landau, and the religious affairs minister, As...

Commentary Healy: Mai Rises From The Dead

Commentary, December, 15 2001 Sean Healy
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In B-grade splatter films, even after the evil villain has been sliced, diced and dunked in lava, you just know he'll be back for the sequel. Apparently it's the same with corporate plots to take over the world -- because the Multilateral Agreemen...

Commentary Flanders: Beyond The Burqa

Commentary, December, 14 2001 Laura Flanders
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There was a moment in this war when the Bush administration appeared to care about nothing so much as women's liberation.

Commentary Raptis: Do the (Ordinary) Americans Know?

Commentary, December, 13 2001 Nikos Raptis
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Does the ordinary American know what the American Government has been doing to the other peoples of the world?

Commentary Russell: Damn Lies

Commentary, December, 12 2001 Marta Russell
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Economist/pundits, distanced from the harsh realities of the now official recession, talk of the rising numbers of unemployed as if there is no human cost to the "natural" business cycle. Worse, they act as public relations agents for capitalism; ...

Znet Article Russell: Damn Lies

Znet Article, December, 12 2001 Marta Russell
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Economist/pundits, distanced from the harsh realities of the now official recession, talk of the rising numbers of unemployed as if there is no human cost to the "natural" business cycle. Worse, they act as public relations agents for capitalism; ...

Commentary Choudry: Mekim Na Savvy: Bougainville - Small Nation, Big Message

Commentary, December, 11 2001 Aziz Choudry
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These days we are swamped by information about the impact of corporate capitalism, structural adjustment, and the power and influence of transnational corporations. We are bludgeoned with propaganda about the inevitability of globalisation, of the...

Commentary Glick: The Democrats in Wartime

Commentary, December, 10 2001 Ted Glick
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As I write it's now seven weeks since the U.S. began it's near-unilateral war against Al Qaeda, the Taliban and, in the words of President Bush on November 21st, "other terrorists who threaten America and our friends," as well as "other nations wh...

Commentary Landau: The Logic Of Our Time

Commentary, December, 10 2001 Saul Landau
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Since September 11, our officials have offered a strange brand of logic to the apparently accepting American public. Let me analyze the meaning of the new axioms and twists in bureaucratic discourse.

Commentary Cromwell: Terror, Delusion And Obscenities

Commentary, December, 09 2001 David Cromwell
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A few weeks ago, while awaiting a flight from Heathrow to Glasgow, I encountered an alleged war criminal walking around freely. His name? Robin Cook. Yes, the former British foreign secretary, now leader of the House of Commons. Iraq, Serbia, East...

Commentary Weisbrot: The New Economy?

Commentary, December, 08 2001 Mark Weisbrot
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In economic history, great myths are often made and sustained not so much by the difficulty of the subject matter, but by the failure of the discussants to look at the readily available data. America's longest business cycle expansion, which has n...

Commentary Author: December 7 Means More Than Pearl Harbor

Commentary, December, 07 2001 Guest Author
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December 7, 2001 will mark the 60th anniversary of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Between the recent Hollywood version of this event and the endless analogies with September 11th, the media focus that day will predictably be squarely on 1941...

Commentary Flanders: Protect Us, Please

Commentary, December, 06 2001 Laura Flanders
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Senate Democrats split in early November over a deal that would limit punitive damage claims in cases of terrorism. At issue was a deal on so-called "emergency government terrorism insurance," specifically, a bill before the Senate Banking committ...

Commentary Author: Boondocks Cartoon Censored

Commentary, December, 05 2001 Guest Author
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Boondocks Cartoon Censored

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