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Commentary Landau: Bay of Pigs Lessons

Commentary, April, 15 2001 Saul Landau
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What have we learned from what historian Arthur Schlesinger Jr dubbed "the perfect failure?" Schlesinger, who served as a high level adviser to president John F. Kennedy, opposed the CIA backed invasion of Cuba's Bay of Pigs by a brigade of anti C...

Commentary Healy: Is Globalization Inevitable

Commentary, April, 15 2001 Sean Healy
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ÒThe greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist.Ó Ñ Roger ÒVerbalÓ Kint (Kevin Spacey), The Usual Suspects, 1995. ÒM1 can be as big as it likesÓ, someone recently said to me, Òbut isn't opposing globalisati...

Commentary Thrupkaew: Going Geisha

Commentary, April, 14 2001 Noy Thrupkaew
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After returning from Japan a few years ago, I was surprised to see that the States was in a lather over "geisha chic"-which persists to this day. Chopsticks were stuck in heads fair and dark. Madonna, that fashion chameleon, appeared in a red viny...

Commentary Bond: The World Bank in the time of cholera

Commentary, April, 13 2001 Patrick Bond
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One of the most painful preventable diseases known to humankind, cholera, continues to spread in South Africa, affecting hundreds of people a day. More than 80,000 people have been infected over the last eight months, and approximately 180 have lo...

Commentary Hoodbhoy: OUR BLIND NUCLEAR PROPHETS

Commentary, April, 12 2001 Pervez Hoodbhoy
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Having thrown away several hundred, I still have in my possession about a hundred newspaper articles on the nuclear issue written in Pakistan and India over the past decade. The authors, overwhelmingly, are establishment nuclear "experts" and "str...

Commentary Ali: CRISIS ON ANIMAL FARM

Commentary, April, 11 2001 Tariq Ali
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'Don't worry,' New Farmer Blair told a visiting delegation of over a hundred sheep when news of the plague first reached him. 'Everything is safe and under control. We will be tough on the plague and tough on the causes of the plague.'

Commentary Shah: The Curious Politics of Milk: Part Three

Commentary, April, 10 2001 Sonia Shah
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Anti-formula activists and development officials often claim that millions of infants die every year because they are not breastfed (this is probably based on the fact that millions of infants die of diarrhea from contaminated water every year--wh...

Commentary Herman: UNCLE CHUTZPAH GETS BACK INTO THE RING

Commentary, April, 09 2001 Edward Herman
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Now that the humanitarian warrior Bill Clinton has been replaced by a compassionate conservative extremely close to the oil industry, military-industrial-complex, and Christian Right/"pro- life" (fetal, that is, not post-fetal) forces, what may we...

Commentary Peters: Solidarity with East Timor: New Challenges, New Opportunities

Commentary, April, 08 2001 Cynthia Peters
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U.S. activists' contribution to the effort to end Indonesia's brutal 25-year occupation of East Timor paid off. In August 1999 a vast majority of East Timorese - after years of immense suffering and patient organizing -- courageously voted for ind...

Commentary Monbiot: Mad Cows Are Back

Commentary, April, 07 2001 George Monbiot
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It should have been dead and buried years ago. But somehow the spectre of BSE keeps rising from the grave. In Britain, where billions of pounds have been spent and millions of cattle slaughtered to stamp out the disease, new cases continue to emer...

Commentary Solomon: U.S.-CHINA DISPUTE: FROM OTHER SIDE OF MEDIA WINDOW

Commentary, April, 06 2001 Norman Solomon
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It's not easy to look at ourselves as others might see us. For a Êcountry, the need is especially acute in times of international crisis -- Êbut that's when nationalism and other reflexive biases are most likely to Êbecome pivotal. One of the way...

Commentary Bond: Globalization from Below

Commentary, April, 05 2001 Patrick Bond
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In the year since Seattle, the movement for global economic justice has shown that it's here to stay. It has staged three national demonstrations against the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, and the one-party system controlled by corpo...

Commentary Marable: Public Education and Black Empowerment

Commentary, April, 04 2001 Manning Marable
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I recently was keynote speaker at the National Caucus of Black School Board Members, held during the sixty-first annual National School Boards Association in San Diego. I met hundreds of dedicated, progressive African-American community leaders wh...

Commentary Bagdikian: A SECRET IN THE NEWS: THE COUNTRY'S PERMANENT POOR

Commentary, April, 03 2001 Ben Bagdikian
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It can be the best of times or the worst of times, but whether in prosperity or recession, there is one constant in the United States economy--the richest country in the world has maintained a permanent class of Americans who are poor. That is not...

Commentary Raptis: Norman Rockwell

Commentary, April, 02 2001 Nikos Raptis
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Norman Rockwell was born in 1894 and died in 1978. For almost sixty years he worked as an illustrator. He did covers for the Saturday Evening Post, for 47 years. Those covers played a significant role in the cultural environment in which two gener...

Commentary Flanders: Taxes for Terrorists?

Commentary, April, 01 2001 Laura Flanders
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The promoters of Faith-based action appear to be divided: Don Eberly, deputy Êdirector of the of White House Office of Faith-based and Community ÊInitiatives told the Washington Post March 11 that the Administration is Êdelaying its plan to funnel...

Commentary Prashad: The Problem of the Twenty-First Century is the Problem of the ColorBlind

Commentary, March, 31 2001 Vijay Prashad
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A few years ago I had the fortune of spending a morning debating Dinesh D'Souza on the question of affirmative action. It was in Chicago at the South Asian Students' Association annual meeting. I was a bit apprehensive. I've debated people before,...

Commentary Mokhiber: House Call

Commentary, March, 30 2001 Russell Mokhiber
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Recently, we have become friends with Matt Hahn, a young medical doctor who lives in the eastern panhandle of West Virginia. Dr. Hahn is a conventional doctor in many ways -- his clinic is littered with little notepads supplied by drug companies,...

Commentary Rebick: Police repression biggest threat at Quebec City

Commentary, March, 29 2001 Judy Rebick
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Not since the War Measures Act, thirty years ago, has there been a greater display of the armed might of the state in Canada than there will be in Quebec City during the Summit of the Americas on April 20-22. And not since the War Measures Act, wh...

Commentary Russell: What's Wrong with "Charitable Choice"?

Commentary, March, 28 2001 Marta Russell
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President Bush is assembling his Òarmies of compassionÓ under the banner of Charitable choice -- a decisive move to contract out federal social service functions such as counseling for alcohol and drug substance abuse, shelter and food services fo...

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