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Commentary Cagan: Philadelphia: Sunday, July 30

Commentary, August, 01 2000 Leslie Cagan
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As the several thousand delegates to the Republican PartyÕs Nominating Convention were arriving in Philadelphia this weekend, protests were already in full swing. There is too much happening for me to report on it all, but the Independent Media Ce...

Commentary Hightower: Three from Hightower

Commentary, July, 31 2000 Jim Hightower
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"The truth will come out. They are killing me tonight. They are murdering me." These were the final words of Gary Graham, number 135 on the list of death row inmates executed in rapid-fire order on the watch of George W. Bush, who has averaged ...

Commentary Herman: THE HACK STRIKES AGAIN!: KRUGMAN ON NADER

Commentary, July, 29 2000 Edward Herman
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In his op-ed column of July 23rd entitled "Saints and Profits," Paul Krugman shows once again why the New York Times put him on as a regular (for a more extended discussion, see my "Krugman On Economists As Hacks: Or, 'Mirror Mirror on the Wall',"...

Commentary Russell: ADA Celebration, Protest and Dirty Harry

Commentary, July, 28 2000 Marta Russell
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July 26, 2000 marks the 10th anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), a landmark disability civil rights bill intended to improve the lives of disabled Americans. Reactions and planned ADA 2000 events are mixed as to what the law ...

Commentary Chomsky: "Peace Process" Prospects

Commentary, July, 27 2000 Noam Chomsky
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The latest AP report from Camp David (evening, July 25) begins: "The Middle East peace talks at Camp David collapsed Tuesday over rival claims to East Jerusalem. Disappointed, President Clinton said he tried several approaches but could not come u...

Commentary Landau: THE 47TH ANNIVERSARY OF FIDEL'S ATTACK ON MONCADA

Commentary, July, 26 2000 Saul Landau
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July 26, 1953. Fidel Castro leads 158 men to attack Fort Moncada, in Santiago de Cuba, the island's second largest military installation. Flashback. 1860. John Brown's raiders hit Harper's Ferry. Brown, like Castro, lost the battle. Both of these ...

Commentary Wise: Bill of Whites: Historical Memory Through the Racial Looking Glass

Commentary, July, 24 2000 Tim Wise
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In 1992, white supremacist Jared Taylor lamented the ostensibly growing influence of people of color in the U.S. when he wrote:"The old, standard history united Americans...It emphasized one point of view and ignored others. It was history about w...

Commentary Schechter: Long Live Chairman Levin!

Commentary, July, 23 2000 Danny Schechter
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A long time ago, in the days when evil empires threatened freedom-loving peoples everywhere, there were a few men we were taught to fear. They led massive, top-down international networks of true believers committed to infiltrating our minds and w...

Commentary Mokhiber: Which Way, CFA?

Commentary, July, 22 2000 Russell Mokhiber
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The Consumer Federation of America is at a crossroads. Set up in 1968 to advocate in Washington, D.C. for consumer interests, the Federation is being consumed by Washington's corporate culture. Will it seek to reverse course and get back to its co...

Commentary Naiman: SOFT STEP FOR CONGRESS: STRONG SLAP FOR THE WORLD BANK

Commentary, July, 21 2000 Robert Naiman
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Representative Sonny Callahan, the Chair of the Foreign Operations subcommittee of the House Appropriations Committee, and Representative Nancy Pelosi, his Democratic counterpart, disagree on a lot of issues. But they do agree that Congress shoul...

Commentary Chomsky: National Missile Defense

Commentary, July, 20 2000 Noam Chomsky
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Taking into account the results of the recent test, should President Clinton ask the Pentagon to go ahead with the national missile defense system?I would prefer to respond to a slight reformulation of the question. The most hopeful prospect for t...

Commentary Guellec: The dark side of the Canadian Healthcare system’s decline

Commentary, July, 19 2000 Dorothy Guellec
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My wise uncle told me that the real meaning of Globalization “is to make the world safe for the American and other multinational corporations to penetrate and take over as much as the world’s economy, country by country, as possibl...

Commentary Weisbrot: Trade Trumps Human Rights in Supreme Court Decision

Commentary, July, 18 2000 Mark Weisbrot
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The Supreme Court's unanimous decision yesterday to strike down the Massachusetts Burma law says more about the pro- business bias of the present Court than it does about the legal principles involved in the case.

Commentary Bond: A Political Economy of South African AIDS

Commentary, July, 17 2000 Patrick Bond
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Johannesburg, South Africa Up to a point, Danny Schechter is absolutely right to focus on the power and the appalling discursive-policy mistake of a single personality, SA president Thabo Mbeki, in this country's recent HIV-AIDS fiasco ("Mbeki'...

Commentary Prashad: The Hunt for Mexicans

Commentary, July, 16 2000 Vijay Prashad
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On 16 February 2000, the American Federation of Labor-Coalition of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO) which represents 13 million US workers dropped a bombshell. Vice President Linda Chavez-Thompson said that 'the current system of immigration enf...

Commentary Reinhart: LAND FOR APPARTHEID (The Camp David summit)

Commentary, July, 15 2000 Tanya Reinhart
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Barak went to the summit with a magic formula: 10-90. 10 percent annexation, and in the rest - a Palestinian state. No previous Israeli plan ever offered so much land to the Palestinians. Where do these numbers come from?

Commentary Schechter: MBEKI's MUDDLE South Africa's Aids Debate

Commentary, July, 13 2000 Danny Schechter
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Durban, South Africa: What was Mbeki going to say? That's what the press and the crowd packed into the Kingsmead Cricket stadium were buzzing about as they waited May 9th under an African sky threatening rain for South Africa's second democratical...

Commentary Landau: WATCH OUT FOR THE FOX IN THE MEXICAN HEN HOUSE

Commentary, July, 12 2000 Saul Landau
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US pundits and government figures gush over Vicente Fox's victory last Week as if Mexicans had elected Abraham Lincoln's reincarnation as their new president. Fox represents the right of center PAN, National Action Party. He stands for NAFTA, corp...

Commentary Solomon: THE CASE FOR CORPORATE-GIVEN NAMES

Commentary, July, 11 2000 Norman Solomon
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A public-interest group is urging sportswriters to resist a free-enterprise wave of the future. "Corporations are seizing the names of our beloved parks and stadiums, and replacing these with their own," Commercial Alert complains in a letter that...

Commentary Dowd: NEITHER A BORROWER NOR A LENDER BE

Commentary, July, 10 2000 Douglas Dowd
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Anyone giving that advice today would be seen as deranged; but, as some oldies will remember, such was once the received truth, as proclaimed by Founding Father Ben Franklin (along with "Waste not, want not" and "A penny saved is a penny earned").

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