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Commentary Solomon: A GREEN PARTY CAMPAIGN FOR PRESIDENT IN 2004?

Commentary, August, 15 2001 Norman Solomon
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Two years from now, the national committee of the Green Party will make a big decision: Should the party run a candidate for president in 2004?

Commentary Rebick: The New Politics Initiative: Towards a Living Democracy

Commentary, August, 14 2001 Judy Rebick
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What is participatory democracy? It is government that involves citizens at every level of decision-making. The form of participatory democracy we know best in Canada involves consulting citizens about policy. While experiences like the citizens c...

Commentary Pilger: Liberal elites have always disguised their innate conservatism

Commentary, August, 13 2001 John Pilger
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At the Hay-on-Wye literary festival in May, leading members of the media and cultural elite assembled in the fine gardens of a Regency house to await the arrival of the great man. They included broadsheet editors, deputy editors, literary editors,...

Commentary Flanders: Rule Britannia

Commentary, August, 12 2001 Laura Flanders
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British libel law is called that, you'd think, because it applies in Britain. When it comes to libel, the UK is about the most plaintiff-friendly country in the world. British citizens enjoy no freedom to write, to speak, let alone to publish. It'...

Commentary Herman: GENOCIDE AS THE SOLUTION TO "TERRORISM" IN THE OCCUPIED TERRITORIES?

Commentary, August, 11 2001 Edward Herman
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The word "genocide" is used very loosely and irresponsibly these days; Sebastian Unger could see it in Kosovo by looking at the body of one Albanian alleged to be a victim of Serb paramilitaries ("A Different Kind of Killing," NYT Magazine, Feb. 2...

Commentary Edwards: ALL YOU NEED IS LOVE...

Commentary, August, 10 2001 David Edwards
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"All of existence", an ancient sage once wrote, "depends on the tip of a wish." By which he meant that the state of the world is determined by what ultimately motivates us: if enough people basically crave personal wealth and power, then the world...

Commentary Mokhiber: Corporate Globalization and the Poor

Commentary, August, 09 2001 Russell Mokhiber
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George Bush has thrown down the gauntlet, issuing a public challenge to the anti-corporate globalization movement. When hundreds of thousands last month demonstrated against the G-8 meeting of rich country leaders in Genoa, Italy, George Bush decr...

Commentary Author: World Conference Against Racism Is Ambushed by White House

Commentary, August, 09 2001 Guest Author
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Can we have some outrage here? In just one week, the Bush Administration killed an international agreement enforcing the 1972 ban on biological weapons (Cold War anyone?) and then reneged on the 1997 Kyoto Treaty.

Commentary Prashad: Hindutva and Zionism: Comprador States of Pentagon, Inc.

Commentary, August, 08 2001 Vijay Prashad
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George W. Bush has a cat named India. In New Delhi, about thirty activists of the Hindu Right's political formation, the BJP, stood before the US Embassy outraged with this news. "We are not cats," said one man, "we are lions."

Commentary Thrupkaew: A Letter from Cuba, Part II: Cuban Women, Beyond Prostitution

Commentary, August, 07 2001 Noy Thrupkaew
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I recently traveled to Cuba as part of a U.S. women's delegation, sponsored by the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, Sojourner, a feminist newspaper, and Hermanas, an organization dedicated to building solidarity between U.S. and...

Commentary Weisbrot: Has Globalization Helped the Poor?

Commentary, August, 06 2001 Mark Weisbrot
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It has become increasingly fashionable for our government officials and their friends to promote Washington's global agenda as a helping hand to the world's poor. "If one is concerned about the developing countries, both history and recent studies...

Commentary Author: Hiroshima

Commentary, August, 05 2001 Guest Author
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"It is an atomic bomb.... It is the greatest thing in history." President Harry S. Truman, August 6, 1945 About two months ago, I wrote an article about the film, Pearl Harbor, in which I attempted to present some context about December 7, 194...

Commentary Peters: Treating Teens Contemptuously: The Retail Squeeze

Commentary, August, 04 2001 Cynthia Peters
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Type "teen jobs" in the findinfo.com search engine, and a good portion of what it turns up will have something to do with teens and blow jobs. The few actual links to job listings talk in glorified terms about "career planning" or lighthearted sl...

Commentary Choudry: Bringing It All Back Home

Commentary, August, 03 2001 Aziz Choudry
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"We are faced with a two-fold challenge, to struggle as best we can to deal with the immediate consequences of globalisation. Secondly, and more difficult, to contextualise those problems within the 500-year-and-more history of the culture of colo...

Commentary Brecher: The Road from Genoa

Commentary, August, 03 2001 Jeremy Brecher
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In the year-and-a-half from the Battle of Seattle to the Battle of Genoa, the WTO, World Bank, IMF, and G-8 have provided spectacular "targets of opportunity" for the transnational movement challenging top-down globalization. The movement has refr...

Commentary Wise: See No Evil: Perception and Reality in Black and White

Commentary, August, 02 2001 Tim Wise
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Just a few years ago, a public opinion poll indicated that only 6% of whites in the U.S. believed racism was still a "very serious" problem facing African Americans. While larger percentages believed racism to be somewhat of a problem, only this a...

Commentary Kissenger: Government Targets Mumia for Death: Outrageous New Court Ruling

Commentary, August, 01 2001 Clark Kissenger
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In yet another step in the governmentÕs plan to railroad Mumia Abu-Jamal into the death chamber, a federal court has refused to take testimony from a man named Arnold Beverly, who has come forward to state that he is the person who actually shot P...

Commentary Russell: Eroding the Employment-At-Will Doctrine

Commentary, July, 31 2001 Marta Russell
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Opportunities to make revolutionary change sometimes go unrecognized and are missed. When too few people fully grasp the potential of what is before them there is a failure to present a powerful societal force to secure reform. As Vijay Prashad no...

Commentary Bronski: Prescription for Sex Ignored

Commentary, July, 30 2001 Michael Bronski
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It can't be easy being the Surgeon General. Well, at least not when you choose to talk about sex. After months of what appears to contentious infighting within and with the Bush Administration Dr. David Satcher has finally released Ð or been allow...

Commentary Glick: The Difference a Month Can Make

Commentary, July, 29 2001 Ted Glick
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Think back for a moment to last December and January. There was tremendous outrage over the 5-4 Bush victory in the Supreme Court. Large numbers of people, the largest since the Vietnam War, demonstrated in D.C. on January 20th, inauguration day, ...

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