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Commentary Dowd: Down with the Bah Humbug of Taxes, Surpluses, Spending, and Deficits, up with What We Need and Can Do

Commentary, May, 15 2001 Douglas Dowd
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The flagrantly unjust and harmful policies for taxes, governmental spending and real and imagined surpluses in place or on their way had their beginnings in the last years of CarterÕs presidency Ñ prodded and facilitated by what Richard Du Boff te...

Commentary Shah: Lost in Translation On the Liabilities of Being an American Abroad

Commentary, May, 14 2001 Sonia Shah
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You get so used to walking around feeling like a big smart smartypants, understanding (and disapproving of) most things around you (come on, you know what I mean) and then something simple happens that shows you, in a flash, how fragile and circum...

Commentary Choudry: Market Missionaries Flock To The Pacific

Commentary, May, 12 2001 Aziz Choudry
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ÒYour nonsense spreads to Pacific beliefs like the plague bubonic/ speaking tongues parallel to concrete jungle mumbo.Ó Ê (Reverse Resistance, by King Kapisi) Samoan hiphop artist King Kapisi slams colonialism and missionary beliefs on his Savag...

Commentary Peters: Mother’s Day, 2001

Commentary, May, 12 2001 Cynthia Peters
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The problem with Mother’s Day rituals is that they reinforce what I call the telescope effect on Moms and their kids. Most days of the year, disproportionate blame is leveled at Moms for their kids’ shortcomings. On Mother’...

Commentary Peters: MotherÕs Day, 2001

Commentary, May, 12 2001 Cynthia Peters
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The problem with MotherÕs Day rituals is that they reinforce what I call the telescope effect on Moms and their kids. Most days of the year, disproportionate blame is leveled at Moms for their kidsÕ shortcomings. On MotherÕs Day, they are privatel...

Commentary Herman: PUBLIC VERSUS POWER INTELLECTUALS, Part 1

Commentary, May, 11 2001 Edward Herman
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The conventional use of the term "public intellectual" has been a source of growing confusion and bombast of late. At a forum on "The Future of Public Intellectuals" held some months ago in New York City, Russell Jacoby of The Last Intellectuals f...

Commentary Herman: PUBLIC VERSUS POWER INTELLECTUALS, Part 1

Commentary, May, 11 2001 Edward Herman
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The conventional use of the term "public intellectual" has been a source of growing confusion and bombast of late. At a forum on "The Future of Public Intellectuals" held some months ago in New York City, Russell Jacoby of The Last Intellectuals f...

Commentary Rebick: Of Catapults and Teddy Bears

Commentary, May, 10 2001 Judy Rebick
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The teddy bear hurling catapult at the demonstrations in Quebec City may turn out to be the most effective piece of street theatre in protest history. Designed to mock the wall separating leaders at the Summit of the Americas from the people prote...

Commentary Albert: Anarchism?!

Commentary, May, 10 2001 Michael Albert
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Like most social movements anarchism is diverse. Most broadly an anarchist seeks out and identifies structures of authority, hierarchy, and domination throughout life, and tries to challenge them as conditions and the pursuit of justice permit. An...

Commentary Edwards: Media Mendacity and The Art of Self-Deception

Commentary, May, 09 2001 David Edwards
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On 27 January 1986, the O-ring task force of Morton Thiokol met to discuss the likely consequences of a proposed Space Shuttle launch the following day at a temperature of 18 degrees Fahrenheit. O-rings are designed to take up the slack in the Shu...

Commentary Solomon: MEDIA AND VIETNAM: APPARITIONS OF INNOCENCE

Commentary, May, 08 2001 Norman Solomon
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Media commentators are split about Bob Kerrey and what happened 32 years ago in the Vietnamese village of Thanh Phong. Some journalists seem eager to exonerate the former senator. Others appear inclined to turn him into a lightning rod for nationa...

Commentary Weisbrot: Bob Kerrey's Nightmare Tells the Story of Vietnam

Commentary, May, 07 2001 Mark Weisbrot
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Some people are wondering why the New York Times and CBS' 60 minutes II would spend two and a half years investigating war crimes allegedly committed by former Senator Bob Kerrey 32 years ago in Vietnam. But this is journalism at its best: it is f...

Commentary Glick: On Historical Moments

Commentary, May, 07 2001 Ted Glick
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Organized efforts to bring about significant reforms need a number of things if they are to be successful. One is an ability to discern when, for whatever the reasons may be, there has been a change from what might be called the "keep plugging awa...

Commentary Peters: The Hand that Rocks the Cradle Generates the Statistics

Commentary, May, 06 2001 Cynthia Peters
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Once again, a lot of very smart scientists with significant institutional backing have spent a lot of time and a lot of money coming up with brainless conclusions and age-old solutions.

Commentary Klein: Talk to your neighbours

Commentary, May, 05 2001 Naomi Klein
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The idea of turning London into a life-sized Monopoly board on May Day sounded like a great idea. The most familiar criticism lobbed at modern protesters is that they lack focus and clear goals such as "Save the trees" or "Drop the debt." And yet...

Commentary Albert: New Targets

Commentary, May, 04 2001 Michael Albert
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We anti-globalists oppose imperial trade arrangements. We reject that the rich get richer. We repudiate that the poor get poorer. We laugh at pundits claiming that globalization positively entwines world centers via new modes of communication and ...

Commentary Mokhiber: Ari the Evader

Commentary, May, 03 2001 Russell Mokhiber
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Ari Fleischer is a nice guy. He likes baseball. We like baseball. That's about where the similarities end. Fleischer is the most recent in a long unbroken line of press secretaries of corporate presidents of the United States.

Commentary Russell: Craig Shirley Does the Disabled

Commentary, May, 02 2001 Marta Russell
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Craig Shirley is the guy whose PR firm created the newly formed Disabled Americans for Death Tax Repeal. Disabled Americans for Death Tax Repeal ran a full-page ad in The Wall Street Journal and Washington Times to lobby Congress to abolish the fe...

Commentary Herman: THE MEDIA AT THE BARRICADES IN SUPPORT OF "FREE TRADE"

Commentary, April, 30 2001 Edward Herman
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Back at the time of the struggle over the North American Free Trade Agreement (Nafta) in 1993, the mainstream media lined up in solid phalanx in its support, and Meg Greenfield, opinion editor of the Washington Post explained the one-sidedness of ...

Commentary Pilger: Academia is silent on imperialism, as German universities were during the rise of the Nazis

Commentary, April, 29 2001 John Pilger
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The other day, I attended a conference at the University of Sussex on the "new imperialism". What was extraordinary was that it took place at all. Julian Saurin, who teaches in the school of African and Asian studies at Sussex, said that, in ten y...

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