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Author: Gendered Assaults: The Attack on Immigrant Women
Commentary, January, 17 2001
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If you opened a newspaper in Iowa this spring, you might have come across an advertisement stating: ÒHow do you feel about paving over the amber waves of grain, the purple mountain majesties and the fruited plain?Ó If you read the small print, you...
Albert: Thinking About DU
Commentary, January, 16 2001
Michael Albert
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The past week has seen a steadily escalating rush of commentary about Depleted Uranium used in the Gulf War and the Balkans bombing. Particularly in England but in much of Europe and the U.S. as well, left journalists are condemning DUÕs use. E-ma...
Jensen: Martin Luther King Jr.: America's all-purpose icon
Commentary, January, 15 2001
Robert Jensen
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People who once branded King a threat to the nation will march today in MLK Day parades. Cities around the country -- even places where King battled segregation -- name streets after him and put up statues. People of all colors invoke his name, le...
Russell: Came with a Rake? Came with a Screwdriver?
Commentary, January, 14 2001
Marta Russell
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ÒDETROIT--A policeman was charged with manslaughter Wednesday for shooting to death a deaf-mute who approached officers with a rake in his hands. David Krupinski, 23, fired on 39-year-old Errol Shaw after police were called about a family dispute ...
Naiman: Missile Defense - Few Dare Call It Corporate Welfare
Commentary, January, 13 2001
Robert Naiman
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The Bush team arrives committed to the construction of what its proponents call "national missile defense." Critics call it "Star Wars" - the implementation of a system for shooting down incoming nuclear missiles.
Monbiot: Dying of Consumption
Commentary, January, 12 2001
George Monbiot
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The modern industrial economy works like this: resources are dug from a hole in the ground on one side of the planet, used for a few weeks, then dumped in a hole on the other side of the planet. This is known as the Creation of Value. The Creation...
Said: Trying again and again
Commentary, January, 11 2001
Edward Said
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The last-ditch American effort to make Yasser Arafat terminate his own people's sovereign existence bears the heavy imprint not only of the US-Israeli lobby but of Bill Clinton's political style. To say of Clinton's bridging proposals, as they hav...
Bello: 2000: The Year of Global Protest against Globalization
Commentary, January, 10 2001
Walden Bello
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The last year will probably go down as one of those defining Êmoments in the history of the world economy, like 1929. Of course, the Êstructures of global capitalism appear to be solid, with many in the global Êelite in Washington, Europe, and Asi...
Solomon: ASHCROFT: NOT JUST WHISTLING DIXIE
Commentary, January, 09 2001
Norman Solomon
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More than 13 decades after Robert E. Lee surrendered at ÊAppomattox, the U.S. Senate is getting ready to confirm as attorney general Êsomeone who has voiced fervent admiration for the Confederacy. It's an Êalmost unbelievable situation. Yet many n...
Russell: The Bush Nine
Commentary, January, 09 2001
Marta Russell
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As the word spreads about the many protests planned the week of the presidential inauguration on Jan. 20, Y2000, ADAPTERs burned by W. in Texas will be amongst the uninvited guests travelling to DC.
Marable: Two on the Election
Commentary, January, 08 2001
Manning Marable
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We have just witnessed, in the United States, the massive and wholesale theft of the presidency. Yet the fraudulent political dynamics that propelled loser George W. Bush into the White House have happened before. A political philosopher once obse...
Glick: "This Land Is Your Land?"
Commentary, January, 07 2001
Ted Glick
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Several days ago I was asked to be part of a program next month commemorating the 60th anniversary of Woody Guthrie's song, "This Land Is Your Land." This got me thinking.
Landau: FIDEL AND THE REVOLUTION, FORTY YEARS LATER
Commentary, January, 06 2001
Saul Landau
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On January 2, 1959, Habaneros filled the streets to greet the small band of long-haired, guerrilla warriors. The hated dictator, Fulgencio Batista, had fled to Florida, with his entourage. But what would the new government do? Everyone knew the re...
Prashad: The Great Indian Mail Strike of 2000
Commentary, January, 05 2001
Vijay Prashad
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For two weeks in December 2000, almost all of the 600,000 postal workers in India struck work, on behalf of 300,000 part-time workers. From Cyberabad to Silicon Galli computers tried in vain to send packages to each other, as the Sensex sang a dir...
Reinhart: COUNT THE BLANK BALLOTS
Commentary, January, 04 2001
Tanya Reinhart
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Never was Israel further from democracy as it is in the coming elections. In the polls, 60% of the voters wanted another candidate to run against the two generals, but the political system, blatantly ignoring anything known about the will of the m...
Steel: Smile, And We Might Yet Defeat Global Capitalism
Commentary, January, 03 2001
Mark Steel
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"We need a revolution," said the lad, no more than 19, in the packed meeting organised by People and Planet at the University of Warwick. "And we, I mean us here, can begin to make that revolution Ð right after this meeting by..." He paused. What ...
Sommers: Small States and Neoliberalism: Latvia’s
Commentary, January, 02 2001
Jeffrey Sommers
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The time is long overdue for a reassessment of Latvia’s economic development. A decade after economic reforms, and nine years after independence, in Orwellian fashion this Baltic nation’s failures are somehow presented as achieveme...
Sommers: Small States and Neoliberalism: LatviaÕs
Commentary, January, 02 2001
Jeffrey Sommers
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The time is long overdue for a reassessment of LatviaÕs economic development. A decade after economic reforms, and nine years after independence, in Orwellian fashion this Baltic nationÕs failures are somehow presented as achievements, as was the ...
Mokhiber: The Real Thing: Democracy as a Contact Sport
Commentary, January, 01 2001
Russell Mokhiber
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A few weeks ago, we received an invitation to attend an event at the Library of Congress. Coca-Cola was about to make an "historic contribution" to the Library of Congress, and the Library, and Coca-Cola, were inviting reporters to cover the even...
Chomsky: Escaping Orthodoxies
Commentary, December, 31 2000
Noam Chomsky
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DB: Talk in concrete ways about liberating the mind from orthodoxies. Take for example, humanitarian intervention.
