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Commentary Landau: The Pinochet Decision

Commentary, October, 09 1999 Saul Landau
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This week, a British magistrate will decide whether to extradite Augusto Pinochet to Spain or release him. England has detained the former Chilean dictator for eleven plus months. In that time, his case has brought to world attention the principal...

Commentary Schechter: Fighting for the Soul of the BBC

Commentary, October, 08 1999 Danny Schechter
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British television has become a battleground--literally. On Labor Day, an enraged intruder vaulted over the BBC's new upgraded security barriers, raced up a set of stairs, threw a table through the window of a newsroom, jumped inside and started t...

Commentary Shah: Young and Younger

Commentary, October, 06 1999 Sonia Shah
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As a child, on every birthday morning, I was meant to touch the feet of each of my parents to show my gratitude and respect. This simple and brief act would overwhelm me with its nakedness, its confession of my own powerlessness, its reference to ...

Commentary Hightower: Snapshots

Commentary, October, 05 1999 Jim Hightower
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Let's say you're at home one evening, sitting there in your La-Z-Boy, maybe with a cool one in your hand, when suddenly you feel a sharp pain in your chest, your left arm is tingly and sort of numb. Heart attack! Or it least it could be one. You g...

Commentary Chomsky: East Timor

Commentary, October, 04 1999 Noam Chomsky
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The events of the past weeks in East Timor should elicit shame as well as horror. The crimes could easily have been stopped.

Commentary Solomon: The Enduring Spirit of a Dissident Senator

Commentary, October, 03 1999 Norman Solomon
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The black-and-white TV footage is grainy and faded, but it still jumps off the screen -- a portentous clash between a prominent reporter and a maverick politician.

Commentary Guellec: Marketizing HMOs to Latin America

Commentary, October, 02 1999 Dorothy Guellec
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The number of for-profit health care organizations has quadrupled in the pas 17 years, a study by the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation said. For-profit HMO's were 18% of all plans in 1981 but increased to 74% by 1998. The proportion of enrollees ...

Commentary Russell: George W. Bush Y2000?

Commentary, October, 01 1999 Marta Russell
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In his "new" fight against poverty, Republican presidential candidate George W. Bush says he will issue a call to America's "armies of compassion" to end poverty, hunger, welfare and crime by donating to charity. The political goal of compassionat...

Commentary Marable: Race-ing Justice: The Prison-Industrial Complex

Commentary, September, 30 1999 Manning Marable
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Several months ago, 650 people attended the "Race-ing Justice" Conference in New York, sponsored by the Institute for Research in African-American Studies at Columbia University. In more than two dozen panels and workshops, black people examined t...

Commentary Weisbrot: The Looting of Russia

Commentary, September, 29 1999 Mark Weisbrot
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What were they thinking? When executives at the Bank of New York saw billions of dollars floating in from the home computer of a Russian businessman with ties to organized crime there, did they really believe that these were just ordinary profits?

Commentary Herman: The Western Betrayal of East Timor

Commentary, September, 28 1999 Edward Herman
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Led by Australia, U.N.-sponsored peacekeepers continue to arrive in East Timor, where they are finding a staggering level of destruction. Reconnaissance flights over the half-island territory report scenes of Biblical dimensions, where the "Lord r...

Commentary Landau: The APEC Meeting

Commentary, September, 27 1999 Saul Landau
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I just returned from New Zealand, the host of the APEC and anti-APEC conferences over last week. Until Indonesian army thugs started their violent cleansing in East Timor, New Zealand wits had called the Asian Pacific economic cooperation group Al...

Commentary Administrator: Nazi Nostalgia in Croatia

Commentary, September, 26 1999 Site Administrator
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When I visited Croatia three years ago, the book most prominently displayed in the leading bookstores of the capital city Zagreb was a new edition of the notorious anti-Semitic classic, "The Protocols of the Elders of Zion".

Commentary Weisbrot: Growing Concerns Over WTO

Commentary, September, 25 1999 Mark Weisbrot
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In just a couple of months thousands of environmentalists, steel workers, longshoremen, AIDS activists, farmers, and others will descend upon Seattle in a "mobilization against globalization." They will hold marches, protests, teach-ins, and confe...

Commentary Solomon: Big Media Applaud Big Media Merger

Commentary, September, 24 1999 Norman Solomon
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When the story about Viacom and CBS broke a few days ago, news accounts quickly depicted a match made in corporate heaven -- at more than $37 billion, the largest media merger in history. With the public kept outside the frame, it was a rosy picture.

Commentary Hartmann: Cross Dressing Malthus

Commentary, September, 23 1999 Betsy Hartmann
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October 12, 1999 has the dubious distinction of being both Columbus Day and 'Day of 6 Billion,' ostensibly the day world population will pass the six billion people mark.

Commentary Peters: Educational Philosophies and Power in the Classroom

Commentary, September, 21 1999 Cynthia Peters
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ItÕs that time of year. The yellow school buses are back on the road. The stores are stocked with Disney-theme lunch boxes, pencil cases and loose-leaf paper. Kids are wondering about their teachers. Parents are worrying about the quality of educa...

Commentary Kissenger: Summary of Mumia's Current Situation

Commentary, September, 20 1999 Clark Kissenger
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Because many people have requested an explanation of Mumia's legal situation, let me explain concisely why Mumia's case is at a critical point as we go into the September Mumia Awareness Week.

Commentary Raptis: European Labor

Commentary, September, 19 1999 Nikos Raptis
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The German word "Reichstag" means parliament. In colloquial German it also means the parliament building. It is not an exaggeration to say that this building, the Reichstag, is a very important part of the history of the 20th century.

Commentary Marable: The Battle for Ideas

Commentary, September, 18 1999 Manning Marable
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Political power always expresses itself as a body of ideas. If you can create and popularize the key ideas that define the general perceptions about public issues, you will largely determine what happens politically.

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