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Herman: The Media-Rightwing Political Correctness Gambit Renewed: Horowitz And Reparations
Commentary, March, 24 2001
Edward Herman
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The heavy media attention being given to rejections of David Horowitz's ad on reparations for slavery is a throwback to the rightwing and "liberal media" political correctness campaign of 1991. In that earlier campaign, it was the alleged free spe...
Gonsalves: The sky is falling?
Commentary, March, 23 2001
Sean Gonsalves
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The sky is not falling. That used to be something you said to Armageddon aficionados as an antidote to their end-of-the-world predictions. It appears that clichŽ is in need of some revision. The Russian MIR space station is slated to crash land o...
Glass: The first casualty
Commentary, March, 22 2001
Charles Glass
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IN 1984 I filed a report to ABC News on Israeli death squads in south Lebanon that was never broadcast. My camera crew and I had spent a week travelling the roads of south Lebanon in the tracks of plainclothes assassins whom United Nations sold...
Prashad: Magical Realism in the Fabulous World of the Indian Economy
Commentary, March, 21 2001
Vijay Prashad
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Magical Realism is an Indian habitus discovered accidentally by Latin American fiction. Gabriel Garcia Marquez, may his recent illness be as painless as possible, wrote in a style that evokes for me the social relations of the Indian subcontinent....
Herman: THE GODFATHER AS "HONEST BROKER"
Commentary, March, 20 2001
Edward Herman
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The Palestinians have repeatedly called for a UN or other international presence to protect them against the brutalities of the Israeli occupation force in their land, and the UN high commissioner for human rights, Mary Robinson, as well as Amnest...
Jensen: FREE SPEECH ON CAMPUS (batteries not included)
Commentary, March, 19 2001
Robert Jensen
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The University of Texas' commitment to free speech on campus -- which has been a curiously lethargic commitment given the centrality of such freedom to higher education -- has gotten curiouser lately.
Bond: Globalization from Below
Commentary, March, 18 2001
Patrick Bond
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(Review of `Globalization from Below: The Power of Solidarity,' by Jeremy Brecher, Tim Costello and Brendan Smith, Cambridge, MA, South End Press.) There are more than a dozen new english- language books aimed mainly at an audience of internation...
Ali: Porto Alegre
Commentary, March, 17 2001
Tariq Ali
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The social summit held recently in Porte Allegre Brazil seems to have inspired everyone who attended that, in the slogan of the conference, a better world is possible.
Raptis: The Archbishop
Commentary, March, 16 2001
Nikos Raptis
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The Greek word "orthodox" is a compound word from "orthos" (meaning : right) and "doxa" (meaning : opinion). Therefore, an "orthodox" is a person that has the "right opinion", as opposed to the rest of humanity who have the "wrong opinion".
Solomon: OBSTINATE MEMORY AND PURSUIT OF THE PRESENT
Commentary, March, 15 2001
Norman Solomon
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Henry Kissinger usually has an easy time defending the indefensible on national television. But he faced some pointed questions during a recent interview with the PBS "NewsHour" about the U.S. role in bringing a military dictatorship to Chile. ...
Choudry: New Zealand Plays “Follow the Leader†on spylaws
Commentary, March, 14 2001
Aziz Choudry
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New Zealanders often brag that their country is a world leader. They claim it was first to create a welfare state and give suffrage to women. The 1984-1990 Labour Government declared the country nuclear-free, while, according to the Economist, it ...
Choudry: New Zealand Plays ÒFollow the LeaderÓ on spylaws
Commentary, March, 14 2001
Aziz Choudry
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New Zealanders often brag that their country is a world leader. They claim it was first to create a welfare state and give suffrage to women. The 1984-1990 Labour Government declared the country nuclear-free, while, according to the Economist, it ...
Peters: Punishing and Prescribing Sexuality
Commentary, March, 13 2001
Cynthia Peters
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ItÕs practically clichŽ to say that the marketplace uses sex to sell. Not only do the commercials feature attractive female hands caressing gear shifts, but the shows themselves feature instant sexual gratification, without so much as a nod toward...
Kagarlitsky: Globalization and Russia
Commentary, March, 12 2001
Boris Kagarlitsky
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As often happens with such terms, the word ÒglobalisationÓ has become popular in our country (Russia) only belatedly. To be exact, it has become popular among us at the very moment when people around the world have ceased talking about the rise of...
Shalom: The Sinking of the Ehime Maru and U.S. Bases in Okinawa
Commentary, March, 11 2001
Stephen1 Shalom
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On February 9, the U.S. nuclear attack submarine, the USS Greeneville, with visiting civilians in the control room, surfaced rapidly under a Japanese fishing vessel, the Ehime Maru, sinking it, apparently with the loss of nine lives. The Japanese ...
Guellec: Violence is a Public Health Problem
Commentary, March, 10 2001
Dorothy Guellec
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According to the FBI there are 240 million firearms in America today. Former U.S. Surgeon General C. Everett Koop identified violence as a public health issue in 1991. The Centers for Disease Control tells us "the United States may be a more viole...
Landau: THE PINOCHET CASE: LEGAL COURAGE; POLITICAL COWARDICE
Commentary, March, 09 2001
Saul Landau
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It finally happened. On January 29, Judge Juan Guzman Tapia charged Geralissimo Augusto Pinochet, former dictator, President, chief of the armed forces, with 75 counts of murder and kidnapping. Five years ago, even most optimists had abandoned hop...
Said: The only alternative
Commentary, March, 08 2001
Edward Said
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I first visited South Africa in May 1991: a dark, wet, wintry period, when Apartheid still ruled, although the ANC and Nelson Mandela had been freed. Ten years later I returned, this time to summer, in a democratic country in which Apartheid has b...
Edwards: BIG BROTHER'S BAD INFLUENCE
Commentary, March, 07 2001
David Edwards
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December 2001 will see London hosting the first conference exploring the extent to which radical writing tends to incorporate, and be corrupted by, mainstream prejudices, emphases and ethical presumptions.
Mokhiber: Corporations: Different Than You and Me
Commentary, March, 06 2001
Russell Mokhiber
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Corporations are fundamentally different than you and me. That's a simple truth that Big Business leaders desperately hope the public will not perceive. It helps companies immeasurably that the law in the United States and in many other countrie...
