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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, ...

Commentary Podur: A Way out for Colombia

Commentary, July, 28 2001 Justin Podur
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I didn't go to Colombia looking for understanding, although it was there for me in the form of razor-sharp analysts who do their work under fire. I didn't go looking for hope either, although I found some of that too, in the very same people. What...

Commentary Bond: Blue Planet targets PRIVATE commodification of world's water

Commentary, July, 28 2001 Patrick Bond
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The July 5-8 "Blue Planet" conference in Vancouver opened with a call by Maude Barlow to promote "a global water revolution. This is the first of many international civil society meetings to take back control of our water." The host Council of Can...

Commentary Podur: Fumigation and worse in Colombia

Commentary, July, 27 2001 Justin Podur
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"Who in the US benefits from fumigating Colombians?" the man asked me pointedly in the crowded community hall. The community was in a paramilitary-controlled part of Putumayo. Putumayo is a southern department of Colombia where the guerrilla insur...

Commentary Solomon: DANCING - OR YAWNING - ON THE GRAVE OF CARLO GIULIANI

Commentary, July, 27 2001 Norman Solomon
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After a police officer shot Carlo Giuliani in the head, Time magazine published a requiem of sorts -- explaining that the 23-year-old Italian protester pretty much got what he deserved.

Commentary Landau: BEHIND THE VIOLENCE IN JAMAICA

Commentary, July, 26 2001 Saul Landau
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In early July, Jamaica made headlines. Before the repressive forces had restored "order" more than 25 people lay dead. Some had been shot in the back of the head, others at close range. One witness reported that he heard pleas for mercy from insid...

Commentary Monbiot: Stealing Europe The great European dream has been subverted by corporate power

Commentary, July, 25 2001 George Monbiot
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"If people did not sometimes do silly things," Wittgenstein observed, "nothing intelligent would ever get done." In a world in which intelligence is banned from public life, baring our buttocks at George Bush is one of the few means we possess of ...

Commentary Jensen: Fast-track: The next attack on democracy

Commentary, July, 23 2001 Robert Jensen
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Conservatives are usually the most strident defenders of the doctrine of original intent, the idea that we should follow the will of the Founding Fathers in interpreting the U.S. Constitution.

Commentary Rebick: The Spirit of Quebec City comes home

Commentary, July, 22 2001 Judy Rebick
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In early June, antipoverty activists trashed the constituency office of Ontario Finance Minister Jim Flaherty. They overturned desks, smashed glass and threw a microwave oven out of the building in what they called a Òmock eviction.Ó They were pro...

Commentary Starhawk: Genoa 7/20

Commentary, July, 21 2001 Starhawk
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At this point itÕs still not clear to me how many are actually dead. IÕve heard one young man, IÕve heard two, four. IÕve heard that the police shot into the crowd, that someone was clubbed to the ground and, unconscious, run over by a car, IÕve h...

Commentary Author: Knowledge, Power, Banking

Commentary, July, 20 2001 Guest Author
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"Knowledge is power" isn't just a slogan tossed around by polo-necked post-modernists. It's a maxim by which international capital lives. Want proof? Later this month, the World Bank will launch a prototype website that demonstrates amply their ai...

Commentary Author: Riding the Reparations Bandwagon: A White Woman's Perspective

Commentary, July, 18 2001 Guest Author
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I admit it. I, a middle aged white woman, have jumped on the Reparations "band wagon". When I was asked several years ago if I thought reparations for the enslavement of African Americans were in order, I stammered and shuffled my feet and said, "...

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