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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...
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.
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...
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 ...
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.
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...
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...
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...
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, "...
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, "...
Raptis: Genoa and (Persistent) Resistance in the Balkans
Commentary, July, 17 2001
Nikos Raptis
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Genoa: The G8 Summit What follows is a short report on the situation in Genoa as of July 8, 2001. The coordinator of the protest movement against the G8 Summit at Genoa is the Italian organization Genoa Social Forum (GSF).
Solomon: THE PENTAGON PAPERS: MEDIA PRAISE RINGING HOLLOW
Commentary, July, 16 2001
Norman Solomon
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When they challenged the power of the White House by claiming the right to publish the Pentagon Papers, the nation's two most influential newspapers took a laudable stand. During the three decades since then, praise for their journalistic courage ...
Mokhiber: You Don't Know Jack
Commentary, July, 15 2001
Russell Mokhiber
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The clock is running out for Jack Welch, CEO of General Electric. It is also winding down for Don Morrison, a dairy farmer in upstate New York.
Pilger: Trivial and Serious Violence
Commentary, July, 14 2001
John Pilger
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The young people who have had the courage to take to the streets on every continent, and were among the 20,000 protesters at Gothenburg (June 25), should take satisfaction from the panic of new right politicians like Blair and Berlusconi. Abuse an...
Reinhart: OUT NOW!
Commentary, July, 13 2001
Tanya Reinhart
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In contrast to the spirit of blood and revenge which is now dominating the Israeli public discourse, there has been for years a wide consensus in the Israeli society that peace with the Palestinians requires withdrawal from the occupied territorie...
Bond: “Sustainable" South Africa?
Commentary, July, 12 2001
Patrick Bond
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In South Africa, three interesting processes related to "sustainable development"--that ghastly phrase, denoting an allegedly more eco-friendly capitalism, often with a few "polluter-pays" regulations and social safety- net provisions added to ort...
Bond: ÒSustainable" South Africa?
Commentary, July, 12 2001
Patrick Bond
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In South Africa, three interesting processes related to "sustainable development"--that ghastly phrase, denoting an allegedly more eco-friendly capitalism, often with a few "polluter-pays" regulations and social safety- net provisions added to ort...
Brutus: World Conference Against Racism: South Africa Between a Rock and a Hard Place
Commentary, July, 11 2001
Dennis Brutus
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IF YOU WERE planning a holiday in South Africa's east-coast resort of Durban before the warm winter season is over, you'd be well advised to steer clear of the city during the last few days of August and the first week in September.
Shah: Unveiling the Taleban Dress Codes Are Not the Issue, New Study Finds
Commentary, July, 10 2001
Sonia Shah
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While outrage over the Taleban's requirement that Afghan women wear a head-to-toe veil continues, a new comprehensive study shows that the majority of Afghan women consider the Taleban's dress codes a non-issue, and many choose to wear the burqa o...
Wise: Fear and Loathing in Suburbia
Commentary, July, 09 2001
Tim Wise
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If intellectual gymnastics were an Olympic sport, we white folks would be the team to beat. Especially whites from the suburbs, who go to amazing and tortured lengths to convince others (and perhaps themselves) that their wish to steer clear of bl...


