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Podur: A few more moves ahead
Commentary, May, 25 2001
Justin Podur
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There is too much at stake for social change to be a game. But if it were a game, the side that had the ability to think many moves ahead, anticipate its opponents moves, know what its goal was and move toward it relentlessly, would have huge adva...
Author: Bush's Dangerous Star Wars Pipe Dream
Commentary, May, 25 2001
Guest Author
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President Bush's "Star Wars" speech reminded me of a conversation I had late in the Clinton era with Ezra Vogel, who served headed the State Department's Asia intelligence during the first Clinton Administration. He had returned to Harvard, but wa...
Edwards: HOW TO KILL THE TRUTH - Part 2
Commentary, May, 24 2001
David Edwards
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On December 22, 2000, I asked Alan Rusbridger, editor of the 'liberal' flagship newspaper, the Guardian, if he thought wealthy owners, parent companies, advertisers, flak machines, and allied political pressures compromised press reporting:
Bond: Ghana's hydro-class struggles
Commentary, May, 23 2001
Patrick Bond
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ACCRA -- Notwithstanding the horrific soccer stadium disaster in which at least 165 people were killed in a police-incited stampede on May 9, the past week offered signs of genuine hope in Ghana.
Thrupkaew: A Letter from Cuba
Commentary, May, 22 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, and Hermanas, an organization dedicated to building solidarity between U.S. and Caribbean women. Away...
Mokhiber: Every Nook and Cranny
Commentary, May, 21 2001
Russell Mokhiber
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We've heard it said that commercialism will keep expanding its frontiers until every boundary has been smashed and non-commercial values are completely extinguished.
Raptis: A New Film
Commentary, May, 20 2001
Nikos Raptis
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In the late '40s and early '50s quite a few young Greek leftists had to flee their country to avoid at best torture and long prison terms and at worst execution in the hands of the US appointed local puppet Greek Government.
Wise: Breaking the Cycle of White Dependence: A Call for Majority Self-Sufficiency
Commentary, May, 19 2001
Tim Wise
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I think itÕs called Ôprojection.Õ When someone subconsciously realizes that a particular trait applies to them, and then attempts to locate that trait in others, so as to alleviate the stigma or self-doubt engendered by the trait in question.
Guellec: The Unraveling Safety Net
Commentary, May, 18 2001
Dorothy Guellec
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In all of American medicine, the only place that Federal Law guarantees Americans the right to a physician 24-7 is in the Emergency Room. This is because of the 1986 "anti-dumping" law, the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act, known as EMTAL...
Prashad: The State of Well-Being: Welfare Fights in CT
Commentary, May, 17 2001
Vijay Prashad
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I hate authority. Whenever I'm in front of someone with power, and if I feel alone, I get awkward and silly. No wonder I hate the Connecticut State House, all opulent and aristocratic, with the lobbyists gathered like sharks in the stairwell, and ...
Gonsalves: Results we are after
Commentary, May, 16 2001
Sean Gonsalves
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When that U.S. spy plane was snooping around the coast of China, crashed into a Chinese military plane, killing its pilot, the "liberal" media swung into action and gave us constant coverage of the international incident.
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...
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...
Choudry: Market Missionaries Flock To The Pacific
Commentary, May, 12 2001
Aziz Choudry
Choudry's ZSpace page
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...
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’...
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...
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...
Herman: PUBLIC VERSUS POWER INTELLECTUALS, Part 1
Commentary, May, 11 2001
Edward Herman
Herman's ZSpace page
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...
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...
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...
