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Commentary Bond: Interpreting Thabo Mbeki's various African initiatives

Commentary, November, 18 2001 Patrick Bond
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Thabo Mbeki's speech last Saturday morning at the UN is the highest-profile opportunity yet for the South African leader to plead for a permanent Security Council seat for Africa. He's already been told that two seats--his first prize (presumably ...

Commentary Rebick: Qatar reveals impact of Sept 11 on trade battle

Commentary, November, 17 2001 Judy Rebick
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After years of battle, the pro-corporate globalization forces have won a victory in Qatar. Maude Barlow in an internet radio report from Qatar www.canadians.org says NGOs on the ground at the World Trade Organization (WTO) talks Òare devastated.Ó

Commentary Prashad: Afghan Aftermaths: the Feign of Inevitability

Commentary, November, 17 2001 Vijay Prashad
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Like ninepins the Afghan cities fell from a band of principled barbarians (the Taliban) to a band of unprincipled barbarians (the so-called Northern Alliance):

Commentary Monbiot: Blasting Our Way to Peace The West's "victory" is a defeat for civilisation

Commentary, November, 16 2001 George Monbiot
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The armchair warriors have proved no more merciful in victory than the Northern Alliance. Yesterday's Sun turned over two pages to an editorial titled "Shame of the traitors: wrong, wrong, wrong ... the fools who said Allies faced disaster".

Commentary Raptis: Nukes and Rationality

Commentary, November, 15 2001 Nikos Raptis
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Let us make the assumption that humans have the potential to think rationally. If the assumption is wrong, this text (or any other text for that matter) is irrelevant. So, if in the nature of man there is the potential for rationality, why is ther...

Commentary Author: Shootdown: Some Reflections

Commentary, November, 14 2001 Guest Author
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Nobody would dare fly from a foreign country into U.S. airspace to try to drop leaflets over Washington. NORAD (North American Aerospace Defense) would be ready for a shootdown.

Commentary Bronski: Gay Rights/ Human Rights: An Interview with Surina Khan

Commentary, November, 13 2001 Michael Bronski
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As a native of Pakistan working full-time in the field of human rights, Surina Khan, executive director of the San Francisco-based International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission (IGLHRC), has a lot to say about America's war on terrorism.

Commentary Monbiot: Trade Piracy Unmasked

Commentary, November, 12 2001 George Monbiot
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Just as woodworkers used to drink in the Carpenter's Arms, or farmhands in the Jolly Ploughman, the trade negotiators from the world's richest nations have found their way to their own hallowed ground.

Commentary Russell: Madmen?

Commentary, November, 11 2001 Marta Russell
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Since the destruction of the World Trade Center buildings on September 11, there have been numerous public outcries casting the terrorists and suspects as disabled.

Commentary Herman: Genocide As Collateral Damage, But With Sincere Regrets

Commentary, November, 10 2001 Edward Herman
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The Bush Afghan war calls up memories of the Vietnam war in both actions and rhetoric: the massive use of superior arms heavily impacting civilians, deliberate food deprivation, wholesale terror allegedly combatting "terrorism," but always "sincer...

Commentary Weisbrot: What Everyone Should Know About Nicaragua

Commentary, November, 09 2001 Mark Weisbrot
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The United States' first post-September 11 foray into Latin American politics -- in Nicaragua's election -- provides a glimpse of how Washington's new "counter-terrorism" policy may play out in this region.

Commentary Author: Hypocrisy, Hatred And The War On Terror

Commentary, November, 09 2001 Guest Author
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"Air campaign"? "Coalition forces"? "War on terror"? How much longer must we go on enduring these lies? There is no "campaign" Ð merely an air bombardment of the poorest and most broken country in the world by the world's richest and most sophisti...

Commentary Choudry: Advance Australia Fair?

Commentary, November, 08 2001 Aziz Choudry
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In historyÕs page let every stage Advance Australia Fair

Commentary Healy: The Empire wants war, not justice

Commentary, November, 07 2001 Sean Healy
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Among all the words the Bush administration has used to describe the September 11 terrorist attacks -- "atrocity", "outrage", "act of evil" -- one phrase has been conspicuously missing: "crime against humanity".

Commentary Starhawk: Now Is the Time to Act

Commentary, November, 07 2001 Starhawk
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I'm sitting here scrolling through my backlog of email, and two themes predominate: the illegitimacy and horror of America's New War, and a multitude of voices from the movement I thought I was a part of telling us to pause, to keep quiet, that pr...

Commentary Shiva: Biotech Companies As Bioterrorists

Commentary, November, 06 2001 Vandana2 Shiva
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While the public is preoccupied by an anthrax scare, another act of bio-terrorism is threatening India's farmers and our rich biodiversity.

Commentary Mokhiber: How Wall Street Created a Nation

Commentary, November, 05 2001 Russell Mokhiber
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Oviodio Diaz Espino was working as a corporate lawyer at J.P. Morgan in New York when he went to a Christmas Party in 1997. At the party, Diaz met a movie producer, Webster Stone. Stone noticed Diaz had a foreign accent and asked him where he was...

Commentary Wise: Holding Terrorists Accountable? It Depends on the Color and the Cause...

Commentary, November, 04 2001 Tim Wise
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Members of his terrorist organization and network have killed Americans, on American soil. Those inspired by his message have engaged in a mass atrocity: blowing innocent people out of their offices as the building where they worked crumbled to th...

Commentary Author: Nicaraguan Election

Commentary, November, 03 2001 Guest Author
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As the US administration continues to flex its military muscles in Central Asia, it hasnÕt been entirely distracted from events in its own backyard.

Commentary Flanders: Dear Mr. Secretary

Commentary, November, 02 2001 Laura Flanders
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Congratulations on your recent deal with the Bayer Corporation of Germany. The newspapers all seem very excited.

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