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Commentary Thrupkaew: The New Face of Tobacco

Commentary, February, 14 2001 Noy Thrupkaew
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While the Marlboro Man surveys the great Eastern frontier from posters, walls, and cigarette stands all over Vietnam, young ÒMarlboro cowgirlsÓ offer free cigarettes to pedestrians and beckon young people into company-sponsored events such as ÒHol...

Commentary Naiman: The Economic and Social Toll of U.S. Policy Towards Iraq

Commentary, February, 13 2001 Robert Naiman
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Ten years after the United States and its allies imposed economic sanctions following Iraq's invasion of Kuwait, the embargo rremains largely in place. Theembargo continues to exact a heavy toll on Iraqi society, even after the passage of United N...

Commentary Wise: Motive and Opportunity: The Difference Between White and ‘Other’ Racism

Commentary, February, 12 2001 Tim Wise
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There are few points made about racism that get folks as upset as the oft-heard and repeated maxim by some, that only whites can be racist, because racism is a power relationship, and only whites have institutional power--at least in the United St...

Commentary Wise: Motive and Opportunity: The Difference Between White and ÔOtherÕ Racism

Commentary, February, 12 2001 Tim Wise
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There are few points made about racism that get folks as upset as the oft-heard and repeated maxim by some, that only whites can be racist, because racism is a power relationship, and only whites have institutional power--at least in the United St...

Commentary Mokhiber: The Corporate Conservative Administration

Commentary, February, 11 2001 Russell Mokhiber
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Compassionate conservativism? Try corporate conservativism. It's corporate conservatism that is going to be the defining feature of the Bush White House. Pushing beyond the corporate corrupting frontiers blazed by the Clinton administration, the...

Commentary Ali: Porto Alegre

Commentary, February, 10 2001 Tariq Ali
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The World Social Forum in Porto Alegre, in the deep South of Brazil was more than a symbolic counter to Davos. The aim behind it was serious: to unite the Seattle generation with the Old Left and to think seriously about alternatives to neo-libera...

Commentary Peters: Jesse, You Should Have Used a Condom

Commentary, February, 09 2001 Cynthia Peters
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Jesse Jackson has begged our forgiveness for his extra-marital affair, which produced a child born about 20 months ago. But itÕs none of our business who Jesse sleeps with (assuming his relationships are consensual). If the public has anything to ...

Commentary Herman: THE MEDIA NORMALIZE A RIGHTWING COUP D'ETAT

Commentary, February, 08 2001 Edward Herman
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We have just gone through a remarkable moment in U.S. history, in which a Republican activist-dominated Supreme Court has refused to allow a complete vote count in Florida which would have given Al Gore the presidency, and by judicial fiat simply ...

Commentary Prashad: The Ground Beneath Our Feet: Earthquake in India

Commentary, February, 07 2001 Vijay Prashad
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Never underestimate the power of the Earth. Vast, deep, unstable. Tectonic plates in motion beneath miles of sod and stone. And above, flora and fauna bursting forth. Of that lot the humans walk on the Earth at our own rhythm, divided by classes a...

Commentary Albert: Gloves Off

Commentary, February, 06 2001 Michael Albert
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February 2, in ÒResolving the Pacifica Crisis Revisted,Ó I argued that progressive organizations should employ participatory and self-managing rather than corporate structures. I urged that advocating self-managing structures has not only long-run...

Commentary Reinhart: THE VOTE THAT CAN DECIDE

Commentary, February, 05 2001 Tanya Reinhart
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Beneath the surface, there is deep anxiety in Israeli society: The media is full of reports of war preparations: "Home Front Command to stage 'mother of all exercises' " (JP, Jan 22); "Ministry tells purchasers to prepare for emergency" (Ha'aretz,...

Commentary Raptis: Quake in India

Commentary, February, 04 2001 Nikos Raptis
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Today (Jan. 31, '01) the number of dead from the earthquake that hit India six days ago is estimated "by officials and aid workers to be from 15,000 to 100,000." The higher estimate came from the Indian Defence Minister, George Fernandes, as his "...

Commentary Author: The PanAm 103 Verdict

Commentary, February, 03 2001 Guest Author
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The papers are filled with pictures of happy relatives of the victims of the 1988 bombing of PanAm 103. A Libyan, Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed al Megrahi, was just found guilty of the bombing by a Scottish court in the Hague, his co-defendant, Al Amin Kh...

Commentary Albert: Resolving the Pacifica Crisis Revisited

Commentary, February, 02 2001 Michael Albert
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When an institution like Pacifica devolves into dysfunctional infighting involving police interventions, lock outs, firings and protest resignations, rallies and recirminations, many possible causes invite investigation.Ê

Commentary Bello: When Davos Meets Porto Alegre: A Memoir

Commentary, February, 01 2001 Walden Bello
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Porto Alegre, Brazil "Hemingway said that the rich are different from you and me. How can anyone expect the people in Davos to understand the crisis that globalization has visited on the lives of people like those of us here in Porto Alegre?" Tha...

Commentary Dowd: THE NEW ERA OF THE 1920s AND THE NEW ECONOMY OF TODAY: BIRDS OF A FEATHER?

Commentary, January, 31 2001 Douglas Dowd
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By Doug DowdThe New Era began poorly, as did our New Economy (dating its take-off as the 1990s). In 1919 there was a short recession, then a sharp inflation and unsteady good times and a very sharp recession, 1921-22; then began the so-called "pro...

Commentary Mokhiber: Business Power and Mobility

Commentary, January, 30 2001 Russell Mokhiber
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The election season makes it patently clear how Big Business is able to transform its financial resources into political power via campaign contributions.

Commentary Solomon: LETTER FROM PORTO ALEGRE TO ZNET

Commentary, January, 29 2001 Norman Solomon
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The World Social Forum here in southern Brazil is being reported around the planet as an oppositional counterpoint to the annual bash in Davos, where corporate leaders have been gathering for three decades at their World Economic Forum retreat. In...

Commentary Guellec: Patients blamed for medical errors

Commentary, January, 28 2001 Dorothy Guellec
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The American Medical Association believes it may have discovered a root cause for the many medical errors - patients themselves. Isn't that cute. Rather than focus on the incredible complexity of the system and processes at work and everything nee...

Commentary Peters: Trivializing Teens

Commentary, January, 27 2001 Cynthia Peters
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The good news is: It takes a constant bombardment of advertising, articles, and advice to convince teens that they ARE their skin-exfoliators, hair de-frizzers, and lip moisturizers.

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