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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").

Commentary Glick: The Nader/Laduke Campaign The Nader/LaDuke Movement

Commentary, July, 08 2000 Ted Glick
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There is no question, absolutely none, that of the four "name recognition" Presidential candidates--Bush, Gore, Nader and Buchanan--Ralph Nader is far and away the most progressive. He will be on the ballot in almost all of the states. As distinct...

Commentary Herman: THE NEW YORK TIMES VERSUS NADER--AND DEMOCRACY

Commentary, July, 07 2000 Edward Herman
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In its editorial, "Mr. Nader's Misguided Crusade" (June 30), the New York Times assails Nader's candidacy and campaign on grounds that are partly fraudulent and misleading (as I describe below). But it is also clear that this attack is based ultim...

Commentary Burchill: The Problem With Panic Merchants

Commentary, July, 06 2000 Scott Burchill
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Some just never learn. From the same people who told us that East Timor should not and would not become independent, now comes the argument that the people of West Papua should also be denied the right to determine their political arrangements.

Commentary Chomsky: Humanitarian Intervention

Commentary, July, 05 2000 Noam Chomsky
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At a public talk in February Chomsky was asked: "President Clinton recently said the U.S. has the right on humanitarian grounds to intervene, with force, in any country which it deems is abusing the human rights of its citizens. Do you agree ...

Commentary Zinn: A Fourth of July Commentary

Commentary, July, 04 2000 Howard Zinn
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In this year 2000, I cannot comment more meaningfully on the Fourth of July than Frederick Douglass did when he was invited in 1852 to give an Independence Day address. He could not help thinking about the irony of the promise of the Declaration o...

Commentary Shalom: The Crash of the Osprey

Commentary, July, 03 2000 Stephen1 Shalom
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On April 8, a hybrid helicopter-airplane known as the V-22 Osprey crashed in Arizona, killing all 19 Marines aboard. It was, said Air Force Magazine, "one of the worst accidents in the history of Marine Corps aviation and one of the deadliest mili...

Commentary Ali: NUCLEAR PERILS IN SOUTH ASIA

Commentary, July, 01 2000 Tariq Ali
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The nuclear games being played by India and Pakistan are both dangerous and obscene. They are dangerous because there are Taliban-type elements within the Pakistan Army (and I'm sure their equivalents in India), who could, in extremis, press the d...

Commentary Administrator: THE BERLIN TRIBUNAL: MORE SERIOUS THAN THE HAGUE

Commentary, June, 30 2000 Site Administrator
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Last June 3, two tribunals reached opposite conclusions concerning accusations of war crimes brought against NATO for its 1999 bombing campaign against Yugoslavia. In The Hague, Carla Del Ponte, chief prosecutor at the "International Criminal Trib...

Commentary Guellec: A Single Payer System for the U.S.?

Commentary, June, 29 2000 Dorothy Guellec
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Americans are not correctly informed about the Canadian system. This may or may not be a conscious media effort, but I want to set the record straight. Healthcare delivery in Canada reflects the countryÕs principles, in particular universal entitl...

Commentary Russell: Noxious Earnings Restrictions

Commentary, June, 27 2000 Marta Russell
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My friend David just went through what could be termed an noxious and unproductive bout with the Social Security Administration(SSA). David was an understudy for Dustin HoffmanÕs Rainman character (autistic) and works for a large chain electronics...

Commentary Edwards: Mobile Phones, Health Effects and the Problem with Advertisers

Commentary, June, 26 2000 David Edwards
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Jim Mochnacz worked for British Telecom's Cellnet for eight years, initially siting and installing mobile phone transmission masts, before managing installations throughout a third of Britain. At the end of this period, Mochnacz fell seriously ill...

Commentary Bond: Zimbabwe's Election: Who's Right, Who's Left?

Commentary, June, 25 2000 Patrick Bond
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On Saturday and Sunday, Zimbabweans cast their vote for members of parliament in the most important election here since the country's first democratic poll, in 1980. It won't be a truly democratic, free-and-fair poll, thanks to intimidation and th...

Commentary Dowd: Capitalism and Technology: To whose benefit, at what costs?

Commentary, June, 24 2000 Douglas Dowd
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In 1917, as war ripped Europe apart, Einstein wrote to a friend that "Our much-praised technological progress, and civilization gene rally, could be compared to an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal." Subsequently, in showing that E=MC2,...

Commentary Herman: KOSOVO ONE YEAR LATER: FROM SERB REPRESSION TO NATO-SPONSORED ETHNIC CLEANSING

Commentary, June, 23 2000 Edward Herman
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Now a little more than one year after the ending of Nato's 78- day bombing of Yugoslavia and the beginning of Nato control of Kosovo (June 10-12, 1999), the mainstream media have been exceedingly reticent in offering the public serious retrospecti...

Commentary Wise: Membership Has It's Privileges: Thoughts on Acknowledging and Challenging Whiteness

Commentary, June, 22 2000 Tim Wise
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Being white means never having to think about it. James Baldwin said that many years ago, and it's perhaps the truest thing ever said about race in America. That's why I get looks of bewilderment whenever I ask, as I do when lecturing to a mostly ...

Commentary Rebick: Pitch battle is at doors of Ontario legislature

Commentary, June, 20 2000 Judy Rebick
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The Ontario Coalition against Poverty wanted to be heard. Ever since right-wing Ontario Premier Mike Harris was elected, the organization has tried everything to get the government to pay attention to the desperate straits facing poor and homeles...

Commentary Solomon: VIRTUAL COMMANDMENTS OF THE DOT-COM FAITH

Commentary, June, 19 2000 Norman Solomon
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Inside the temples of true believers, ardent faith has a way of prevailing. And so, in the Dot-Com year of 2000, vast numbers of followers seem eager to fulfill a sacred digital future.

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