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Commentary 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...

Commentary Shah: The Curious Politics of Milk

Commentary, March, 05 2001 Sonia Shah
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Part OneOne night, a small American boy slipped into bed with his mother and suckled at her breast for a few minutes before dropping off to sleep. The next day, he told his babysitter he wanted to stop doing so, but "Mommy wouldn't let me." The ch...

Commentary Monbiot: How the Superstores Gave Us Foot and Mouth

Commentary, March, 04 2001 George Monbiot
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"You enterprised a railroad through the valley," John Ruskin charged the railway companies in 1889. "The valley is gone, and the gods with it; and now every fool in Buxton can be at Bakewell in half-an-hour, and every fool in Bakewell at Buxton." ...

Commentary Author: SHAKY GROUND

Commentary, March, 03 2001 Guest Author
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By Paul Loeb Last week, I ran into a friend I worked with twenty years ago at a senior center. Lately, he's been working on emergency preparedness--helping Seattle retrofit its homes, businesses, and schools to withstand major earthquakes. Suppor...

Commentary Burchill: The East Timorese of Western Sahara

Commentary, March, 02 2001 Scott Burchill
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1975 was an extraordinary year for revolutionary upheavals in the Third World. The Khmer Rouge marched into Phnom Penh in April just two weeks before the US puppet regime in Saigon collapsed. The Pathet Lao took control of Laos the following month...

Znet Article Burchill: The East Timorese of Western Sahara

Znet Article, March, 02 2001 Scott Burchill
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1975 was an extraordinary year for revolutionary upheavals in the Third World. The Khmer Rouge marched into Phnom Penh in April just two weeks before the US puppet regime in Saigon collapsed. The Pathet Lao took control of Laos the following month...

Commentary Gonsalves: Facts on the ground

Commentary, March, 01 2001 Sean Gonsalves
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JERUSALEM -- I was humbled by my ignorance. But even the ignorant quickly learns that studying maps and learning the lay of the land is central to understanding the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Commentary Podur: Onward to Mexico City

Commentary, February, 28 2001 Justin Podur
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To call it waffling would be an understatement. But whatever you call it, Mexico's President Vicente Fox has been changing his position on the Zapatistas at least every fifteen minutes. Maybe even every five minutes.

Commentary Weisbrot: Beyond Tax Relief for the Prosperous Few

Commentary, February, 27 2001 Mark Weisbrot
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The political success of the Bush Administration's tax cut strategy will depend on how much they can deceive people as to who gets what. Most Americans, no matter how much they hate paying taxes, do not believe that the richest people should be fi...

Commentary Mokhiber: Marc Rich's Hidden History as a Union-Buster

Commentary, February, 26 2001 Russell Mokhiber
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Longtime fugitive from justice Marc Rich has become the most notorious recipient of a presidential pardon since Richard Nixon. President Clinton issued a pardon for the commodities trader in the final hours of his tenure in office.

Commentary Peters: Sex in Service of the Marketplace

Commentary, February, 25 2001 Cynthia Peters
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LetÕs see. Where was I? Oh yesÉlamenting the shallow, voyeuristic, mystified, moralistic ways we talk about sex.

Commentary Dowd: DEREGULATION BLUES

Commentary, February, 24 2001 Douglas Dowd
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Just when we're about to blow our tops at the airlines for the delays and crowding and lousy service -- and rising prices -- we get blindsided by blackouts and for our electricity and rising prices (as also for gas, and water, and gasoline). How c...

Commentary Russell: New Freedom Initiative: Survival of the Fittest ÒEqualityÓ

Commentary, February, 23 2001 Marta Russell
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by Marta Russell Unveiling his New Freedom Initiative (NFI), President George W. Bush pronounced Òmy Administration is committed to tearing down the barriers to equality that face many of the 54 million Americans with disabilities.Ó

Commentary Author: Visiting Gaza

Commentary, February, 22 2001 Guest Author
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I don't want to be overly dramatic, but I was sort of shot at yesterday. I say "sort of" because I don't think the Israeli soldiers in their tower were trying to hit me, or the people with me... if that had been their purpose I have no doubt that ...

Commentary Monbiot: No Blood Please, We're British

Commentary, February, 21 2001 George Monbiot
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The British approach to gynaecology was encapsulated in the furious whisper I once heard in the pub, from a man arguing bitterly with his girlfriend: "I don't want to talk about menstruation. Period." We might be obsessed by sex, but our distaste ...

Commentary Schechter: IMMOLATE THIS

Commentary, February, 20 2001 Danny Schechter
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What could be more dramatic? People setting themselves on fire in Tiananmen Square in the heart of Beijing. CNN is there. The police just happen to have fire extinguishers on hand. The victims are rushed to a hospital but only after their agonies ...

Commentary Ali: New Labour, New Bombs

Commentary, February, 19 2001 Tariq Ali
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As the future ripens in the past, so the past rots in the present. American leaders have long been used to treating the cracked British vase as a pisspot, but Attlee and Wilson, while dutifully kissing ass in the White House, did, at least, attemp...

Commentary Bronski: Gay Media Monopoly

Commentary, February, 18 2001 Michael Bronski
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While the Bush administration is considering a possible reversal of the Microsoft antitrust case activists in the gay and lesbian community are debating their own looming monopoly problems.

Commentary Weisbrot: Can Haitian Democracy Survive?

Commentary, February, 17 2001 Mark Weisbrot
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As President Jean-Bertrand Aristide takes the reins of power in Haiti for the third time in ten years, a debate over his presidency is taking place in US foreign policy circles and the press. The discussion centers around whether Aristide is "full...

Commentary Solomon: REPORTING ON THE FIGHT AGAINST AIDS IN POOR NATIONS

Commentary, February, 16 2001 Norman Solomon
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In Africa, 17 million people have already died of AIDS. In Êdeveloping countries around the world, twice that many are now HIV Êpositive. Such statistics are largely unfathomable. And news accounts Êrarely explore basic options for halting the dea...

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