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Commentary Schechter: Our Profile and Theirs

Commentary, July, 11 1999 Danny Schechter
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When Dr. W.E.B DuBois predicted the question of color would become the problem of the twentieth century, he was writing before the advent of television, the proliferation of the mass media, and the many uses (and abuses) of the idea of racial prof...

Commentary Landau: Indictments of Kissenger and Bush

Commentary, July, 10 1999 Saul Landau
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The US government has released the first batch of documents relating to the violence unleashed between 1973-1990 by General Augusto Pinochet's dictatorship in Chile. Reading some of the memos, cables and intelligence reports, I was shocked -- the ...

Commentary Weisbrot: Fed Preemptive Strike

Commentary, July, 09 1999 Mark Weisbrot
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The Fed launched a "pre-emptive strike" this week against an unseen enemy -- inflation -- by raising interest rates one-quarter percentage point. With inflation at its lowest level in 30 years (2.1%), why would the Fed want to start down a path th...

Commentary Carter: Buena Vista Social Club

Commentary, July, 08 1999 Sandy Carter
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Because nearly all music heard in the United States is driven by dreams of fame and fortune, the sounds of the Cuban ensemble known as the Buena Vista Social Club are immediately startling. The melodies, rhythms, and songs of the group pull you in...

Commentary Author: The Saga of the Missing Footnote

Commentary, July, 06 1999 Guest Author
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On June 3, the Serb Parliament voted 136-73 to ratify the terms of a cease-fire with NATO. The document had been hand-delivered to Slobodan Milosevic the previous day by the Finnish President Martti Ahtisaari and the Russian Special Representative...

Commentary Herman: The Importance of a Left Media

Commentary, July, 05 1999 Edward Herman
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A jarring moment in the Philadelphia area propaganda outpouring in support of the bombing of Yugoslavia was a passionately prowar Op Ed column in the Philadelphia Inquirer by long-time local antiwar activist Mark Sacharoff ("NATO did what it had t...

Commentary Wise: Whiteness and the Recollection of History

Commentary, July, 03 1999 Tim Wise
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For the writer, there's nothing so frustrating as to sit in front of a keyboard and find oneself at a loss for words. To know there are a million things which need saying, and yet, you can't think of even one. Having experienced this often, I've d...

Commentary Solomon: Big Name Candidates Bow To Media Power

Commentary, July, 02 1999 Norman Solomon
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Every modern presidential contest generates a lot of discussion about how the nation's most prominent journalists cover major candidates. But there's not much analysis of how candidates get along with the media conglomerates that employ those jour...

Commentary Lusane: Defending the New Klan

Commentary, July, 02 1999 Clarence Lusane
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It is perhaps a sign of millennium madness that the century will end with the bizzare phenomena of an African American lawyer defending in court the right of a member of the Ku Klux Klan - whose name ironically is Black - to burn crosses. However,...

Commentary Bronski: The Crime That Dare Not Speak Its Name

Commentary, July, 01 1999 Michael Bronski
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The ferocity of the New York City police assault against Haitian immigrant Abner Louima in the summer of 1977 was so striking that, even in the current context of urban police brutality, it became emblematic of the sustained, sanctioned violence o...

Commentary Hightower: The Money Primary

Commentary, June, 30 1999 Jim Hightower
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What-you say the election's not until next year? Yeah, well, technically that's true. The caucuses and primaries don't begin until February of 2000, but there are about 70,000 Americans who get an extra special vote, casting their ballots this yea...

Commentary Landau: Kosovo Lesson

Commentary, June, 29 1999 Saul Landau
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What lessons have emerged from NATO'S self-proclaimed victory in Kosovo? Bombing supporters chanted "stop ethnic cleansing." Indeed, ethnic cleansing demanded a strong response. But those who shunned the flawed law and the UN backed a campaign to ...

Commentary Halimi: The Left and European Elections

Commentary, June, 27 1999 Serge Halimi
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Now we know for sure that Ç Europe È does not exist. At least not in the hearts and minds of Europeans. Only two days after they concluded a war against Yugoslavia, decided and fought by the United States, the fifteen countries of the European Uni...

Commentary Bohmer: A Graduation Day to Remember

Commentary, June, 26 1999 Peter Bohmer
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Mumia Abu-Jamal gave a memorable speech, recorded from Pennsylvania death row, to 8000 attendees, including more than 1200 graduating students, at the Evergreen State College graduation on June 11, 1999.

Commentary Peters: Chicken Pox?!

Commentary, June, 25 1999 Cynthia Peters
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Providing temporary immunity to children could drive chicken pox disease into the older adult population where it can cause many more deaths and complications.

Commentary Bonpane: Office of the Americas Delegation Visits Lori Berenson

Commentary, June, 24 1999 BlasŽ Bonpane
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"Put off your visit until the Organization of American States leaves Peru," said the U.S. Embassy in Peru. But we decided to go anyway.

Commentary Albert: Pacifica, Pacifica!

Commentary, June, 23 1999 Michael Albert
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The current crisis at Pacifica was unleashed with recent firings of prominent and appreciated employees leading to irate listeners and employees demonstrating their opposition widely and militantly. Any progressive alternative institution has to u...

Commentary Cagan: Report from the Front Line: Challenges to Proposed Millennium March for Gay Rights Growing

Commentary, June, 22 1999 Leslie Cagan
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This month marks the 30th anniversary of the Stonewall Riots in Greenwich Village, NY. ... But what has grown into one of the major civil rights struggles is riddled with serious political problems.

Commentary Shalom: Lessons -- and Hope -- from Kerala

Commentary, June, 21 1999 Stephen1 Shalom
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Are there alternatives to the dominant economic model that consigns increasing numbers of people to lives of misery? One such alternative is offered by the state of Kerala in southern India which has been the site of fascinating social experimenta...

Commentary Wise: The Threat of a Good Example

Commentary, June, 20 1999 Tim Wise
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Occasionally when I'm speaking to college students, attempting to inspire at least a few to commit themselves to social justice as a way of life and perhaps career, I'm asked the question for which there is no easy answer; the one that goes: "What...

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