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Author: The Australian Government's war against asylum seekers The Tampa Affair
Commentary, September, 01 2001
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According to the Howard Administration, the Australian Government has a "decent, generous and compassionate" track record when it comes to accommodating a share of the world's refugees. Events of recent times tell otherwise, with daily reports of ...
Landau: MURDER CHARGES AGAINST CASTRO?
Commentary, August, 31 2001
Saul Landau
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The June 8 conviction of a small group of Cuban spies in south Florida holds ominous news on the US-Cuba front. The South Florida US Attorney Guy Lewis hinted that he might indict Fidel Castro by stating that the conviction of spymaster Gerardo He...
Weisbrot: Return of the Lockbox
Commentary, August, 30 2001
Mark Weisbrot
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Just when you thought the debate over national budget and economic policy couldn't get any more confusing or silly, the "lockbox" is back. Big time. The Democratic National Committee is running TV ads asserting that "the Bush budget raids the Medi...
Albert: Responding to the Nation
Commentary, August, 29 2001
Michael Albert
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The NationÕs (Sept 3) unsigned editorial treats PacificaÕs management as if they have ÒworthyÓ aims but indulge in a bit too much coffee each morning. Yet PacificaÕs management has routinely lied, employed pink slips as a bludgeon, hired thugs, is...
Author: Amira Hass: Life under Israeli occupation
Commentary, August, 28 2001
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Amira Hass doesn't merely report on the experiences of Palestinians on the West Bank - she shares their lives. Robert Fisk meets a determined and unflinching witness to oppression By Robert Fisk Whenever Amira Hass tries to explain her vocation...
Podur: Loincloths, Ski Masks, and Social Movements
Commentary, August, 27 2001
Justin Podur
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ÒCertainly a soldier, myself included, is an absurd and irrational man, because he has the ability to resort to arms in order to convince. In the end, thatÕs what a soldier does when he gives an order: convince by force of arms. ThatÕs why we say ...
Solomon: DESIGNS FOR A DIFFERENT MEDIA FUTURE
Commentary, August, 26 2001
Norman Solomon
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What we see is what we get, or so the adage goes. But when we see the designs of mass media, what do we truly get? That's a troubling question for those who wonder what the constant barrages of media-generated images are doing to our lives.
Choudry: Mike's Masquerades
Commentary, August, 25 2001
Aziz Choudry
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"The tide is high but I'm holding on, I'm gonna be your number one, I'm not the kind of guy who gives up just like that..." Mike Moore, two-thirds of the way through his stint as Director-General of the World Trade Organisation is crooning to the ...
Author: IMF'S FOUR STEPS TO DAMNATION
Commentary, August, 24 2001
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It was like a scene out of Le Carré: the brilliant agent comes in from the cold and, in hours of debriefing, empties his memory of horrors committed in the name of an ideology gone rotten.
Author: IMF'S FOUR STEPS TO DAMNATION
Commentary, August, 24 2001
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It was like a scene out of Le CarrŽ: the brilliant agent comes in from the cold and, in hours of debriefing, empties his memory of horrors committed in the name of an ideology gone rotten.
Wise: A New Round of White Denial
Commentary, August, 23 2001
Tim Wise
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In a time of multiple school and workplace shootings, middle-aged mass murderers, drug-saturated rave parties, and moms who drown their kids in tubs, lakes, or dump them in garbage cans, one question comes to mind. How long willÊsuburban white Ame...
Edwards: A CLIMATE OF PROFIT
Commentary, August, 22 2001
David Edwards
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To what extent is business a positive force for good in a world undergoing potentially devastating human-induced climate change? In the week that government leaders met in Bonn to discuss the rapidly-crumbling Kyoto Protocol, The Guardian took a l...
Edwards: A CLIMATE OF PROFIT
Commentary, August, 22 2001
David Edwards
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To what extent is business a positive force for good in a world undergoing potentially devastating human-induced climate change? In the week that government leaders met in Bonn to discuss the rapidly-crumbling Kyoto Protocol, The Guardian took a l...
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...
Monbiot: Hell's Grannies
Commentary, August, 20 2001
George Monbiot
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Ariel Sharon's decision not to blast the Palestinians out of existence after last week's suicide bombings is, at first sight, mystifying. While jets blew up the Palestinians' police station in Ramallah and Israeli soldiers occupied their East Je...
Author: Reporting On Palestine
Commentary, August, 19 2001
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People look back on apartheid South Africa with horror and disgust. But you don't have to go to the history books to find out what apartheid is like. You only need to visit Palestine.
Brecher: The Road From Genoa
Commentary, August, 18 2001
Jeremy Brecher
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The battle in Genoa was not only the key event in the summer of 2001, but also marked a watershed for the anti-corporate movement. From the outset, the Big Eight summit in Genoa was doomed to become nothing more than a pretext for widespread prote...
Naiman: World Bank Grants Would Reduce Poor Country Debt Without Cost to U.S.
Commentary, August, 17 2001
Robert Naiman
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President Bush proposed in Genoa that up to 50% of the World Bank's lending to the poorest countries be converted to grants focused on education, health care, access to clean water, and sanitation. This would be a step towards addressing the unbea...
Naiman: Reparations Should Include Universal Access to Health Care and Education
Commentary, August, 17 2001
Robert Naiman
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At the end of August in South Africa, the United Nations will convene the "World Conference Against Racism." News reports say that the U.S. and European governments have opposed efforts by African countries to address demands for "reparations" for...
Peters: An S30 Victory Six Weeks in Advance
Commentary, August, 16 2001
Cynthia Peters
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In a joint statement released on August 14, 2001, the IMF/World Bank reported that their annual meeting, originally scheduled to run for two weeks, would be reduced to two days. (The normal two-week meeting had previously been shortened to one wee...
