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Commentary Dumble: In the name of freedom: Terror, Death, Hunger, Misogyny, and Genocide in Afghanistan

Commentary, October, 31 2001 Lynette Dumble
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Contrary to the dreams of US President George W. Bush and his allies, Operation Enduring Freedom is unlikely to be remembered by the world's women as a successful strategy to either eliminate terrorism or liberate the long-suffering people of Afgh...

Commentary Podur: 'We mean Dead or Dead'

Commentary, October, 30 2001 Justin Podur
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'If Osama bin Laden were hiding in the jungles of Colombia instead of Afghanistan, whose help would we enlist to find him? U.S. Army Special Forces? The Colombian Army? I don't think so.

Commentary Reinhart: Stop Israel!

Commentary, October, 30 2001 Tanya Reinhart
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For a whole week now, The Israeli army has been terrorizing cities and villages in the West Bank. As in the darkest days at the beginning of the present Intifada, desperate voices and reports pour through the internet, telling of massive shelling,...

Commentary Hartmann: The Return of Relevance

Commentary, October, 29 2001 Betsy Hartmann
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Trying to stay afloat in the turbulent wake of September 11, I was full of fear like most people, fear of another attack, fear of the U.S. war machine, fear of racist assaults on Arab-Americans and South Asians, fear of further erosion of civil li...

Commentary Weisbrot: Protecting Pharmaceutical Companies from the Threat of Bio-Terrorism

Commentary, October, 29 2001 Mark Weisbrot
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Some principles are so important that they cannot be violated even in a time of national emergency. One of those, it now appears, is the principle of patent rights for multi-billion dollar pharmaceutical companies.

Commentary Kagarlitsky: Facing WTO Life Sentence

Commentary, October, 28 2001 Boris Kagarlitsky
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The attacks in New York and Washington have provided the impetus for a new round of rapprochement between the United States and Russia. After several years of cool relations and confrontational rhetoric, the Russian government is demonstrating a w...

Commentary Wise: Who’s Being Naïve? War-Time Realism Through the Looking Glass

Commentary, October, 28 2001 Tim Wise
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To hear those who support the current air assault on Afghanistan tell it, those of us who doubt the likely efficacy of such a campaign, and who question its fundamental morality are not only insufficiently patriotic but dangerously naïve.

Commentary Wise: WhoÕs Being Na•ve? War-Time Realism Through the Looking Glass

Commentary, October, 28 2001 Tim Wise
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To hear those who support the current air assault on Afghanistan tell it, those of us who doubt the likely efficacy of such a campaign, and who question its fundamental morality are not only insufficiently patriotic but dangerously na•ve.

Commentary Choudry: Prising Open The Pacific: New Trade Deals Reflect Old Agendas

Commentary, October, 27 2001 Aziz Choudry
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The winds of change, so the clichŽ goes, are blowing across the Pacific. Yet looking at the background to two regional trade agreements launched in August makes me think that sometimes the more things change, the more they stay the same.

Commentary Burchill: Corrected: Mad, Bad, Dangerous To Know

Commentary, October, 26 2001 Scott Burchill
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WASHINGTON'S decision to renew friendships with the Northern Alliance for its war against al-Qa'ida and the Taliban provides clues as to what George W. Bush, Tony Blair and John Howard mean by "our values".

Commentary Solomon: War Needs Good Public Relations

Commentary, October, 26 2001 Norman Solomon
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For some people, war is terror, disaster and death. For others, it's a PR problem.

Commentary Landau: Fast trick on fast track

Commentary, October, 25 2001 Saul Landau
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While Congress remains in its bipartisan spasm, Bush Administration fast talkers try to pass fast track on free trade by placing it into their national unity package. Fast track gives the President power to negotiate broad trade agreements like NA...

Commentary Author: War On The Poor And Working Class

Commentary, October, 25 2001 Guest Author
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This week the U.S. House of Representatives will take up an economic stimulus package that indicates just how much the House has sold out to the big corporate and wealthy interests at the expense of poor and working class people. It is class warf...

Commentary Guellec: If You Can't Pay For Chemotherapy - You'll Die!!

Commentary, October, 24 2001 Dorothy Guellec
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It is a shame that we all can't, or won't, see what is going on! Taxol, a drug discovered by the government and used for many of the 100 or so different kinds of cancers has gone generic.

Commentary Peters: Where are the Afghan Women?

Commentary, October, 23 2001 Cynthia Peters
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In my previous commentary, I used Cynthia Enloe's question, "Where are the women?" to explore how gender politics are being used to ignite patriotism on the domestic front. What happens when we apply the same question to the country the U.S. is cu...

Commentary Lusane: In Memory of Lisa Sullivan

Commentary, October, 22 2001 Clarence Lusane
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On October 1, to the shock of most of her friends and supporters, progressive activist and youth leader Lisa Yvette Sullivan passed suddenly due to congestive heart failure.

Commentary Jensen: Constricting critical inquiry in universities

Commentary, October, 21 2001 Robert Jensen
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Each year on our annual reports, University of Texas faculty members are asked to list grants we have received, one of the many ways we demonstrate to the bosses that we have been Òproductive.Ó

Commentary Podur: Review of ‘The Activist’s Handbook’ and ‘Rules for Radicals’

Commentary, October, 20 2001 Justin Podur
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‘The Activist’s Handbook’ by Randy Shaw compares itself to all the self-help and managerial expertise how-to books out there, lamenting the absence of similar books designed to help people win social change.

Commentary Podur: Review of ÔThe ActivistÕs HandbookÕ and ÔRules for RadicalsÕ

Commentary, October, 20 2001 Justin Podur
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ÔThe ActivistÕs HandbookÕ by Randy Shaw compares itself to all the self-help and managerial expertise how-to books out there, lamenting the absence of similar books designed to help people win social change.

Commentary Albert: What’s So Complex About It?

Commentary, October, 19 2001 Michael Albert
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In the past few weeks I have minutely explored, often with Stephen Shalom, multifold concerns about September 11 and the “war on terrorism.” With him I have tried to calmly and soberly respond to all kinds of concerns people feel. ...

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