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Commentary Klein: After Genoa

Commentary, September, 06 2001 Naomi Klein
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Part of the tourist ritual of traipsing through Italy in August is marvelling at how the locals have mastered the art of living -- and then complaining bitterly about how everything is closed. ÒSo civilised,Ó you can hear North Americans remarkin...

Commentary Wise: Reflections on Zionism From a Dissident Jew

Commentary, September, 05 2001 Tim Wise
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So itÕs official. The U.S. has withdrawn from theÊWorld Conference on Racism, being held inÊDurban, South Africa. And thoughÊthe cynical and historically observant might suspect that this decision was merely in keeping withÊour longstanding unwill...

Commentary Pilger: Liberal elites have always disguised their innate conservatism

Commentary, September, 04 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 Russell: "Rational" Discrimination in the Health Insurance Market

Commentary, September, 03 2001 Marta Russell
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If you have a disability, chances are you have a hard time getting inexpensive insurance (or any private insurance) and a job. As someone actively involved in disability rights, I regularly hear from disabled people who have been discriminated ag...

Commentary Gonsalves: The Opposite of Racism Isn't Colorblindness

Commentary, September, 02 2001 Sean Gonsalves
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If St. Paul was right, that the wages of sin is death, is it a stretch to say that the wages of white supremacy is colorblindness? To suggest such a thing, I'm sure, makes a good number of white brothers and sisters uneasy, thinking perhaps Black...

Commentary Glick: White Progressives, Black Reparations

Commentary, September, 02 2001 Ted Glick
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How many white progressives "get it" when it comes to the issue of reparations for people of African descent? More to the point, how many are able to genuinely and rationally consider it?

Commentary Author: The Australian Government's war against asylum seekers The Tampa Affair

Commentary, September, 01 2001 Guest Author
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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 ...

Commentary Author: The Australian Government's war against asylum seekers The Tampa Affair

Commentary, September, 01 2001 Guest Author
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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 ...

Commentary 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...

Commentary 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...

Commentary 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...

Commentary Author: Amira Hass: Life under Israeli occupation

Commentary, August, 28 2001 Guest Author
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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...

Commentary 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 ...

Commentary 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.

Commentary 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 ...

Commentary Author: IMF'S FOUR STEPS TO DAMNATION

Commentary, August, 24 2001 Guest Author
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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.

Commentary Author: IMF'S FOUR STEPS TO DAMNATION

Commentary, August, 24 2001 Guest Author
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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.

Commentary 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...

Commentary 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...

Commentary 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...

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