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Gonsalves: Stubborn facts versus thick skulls
Commentary, June, 18 2000
Sean Gonsalves
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Sean Gonsalves Whoever coined the phrase Òfacts are stubborn thingsÓ has apparently never come across drug war advocates Ð a self-righteous bunch, undeterred by trivial matters of fact.
Chomsky: Credibility
Commentary, June, 16 2000
Noam Chomsky
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At a talk earlier this year, Chomsky was asked -- "KosovoÑwhat are the interests driving intervention? What do you foresee for the people of the region?"
Glick: History and Communications
Commentary, June, 13 2000
Ted Glick
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A few weeks ago I received a letter from someone who quoted Karl Marx as having once said, "History moves with the speed of communication." This quote struck me.
Herman: WHAT IS LIBERALISM?
Commentary, June, 12 2000
Edward Herman
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In a May 22 editorial in the liberal The American Prospect (TAP), which he edits along with Paul Starr, Robert Kuttner lauds radicals, for keeping moral demands to the fore and for pioneering on major issues that were central to democratic advance...
Schechter: Newman's Own PR War (On Nuclear War)
Commentary, June, 11 2000
Danny Schechter
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When he took off his sunglasses, you knew it was screen star Paul Newman. Those blue eyes always give him away. One day last week, I found myself staring into them from behind a video camera, as Newman recorded a message beginning with a recollect...
Landau: "POOR PINOCHET"-- AN UPDATE ON THE TRIALS OF THE TYRANT
Commentary, June, 10 2000
Saul Landau
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The Santiago Appeals Court apparently voted 13-9 to revoke General Augusto Pinochet's parliamentary immunity. This makes Pinochet vulnerable to prosecution in Chile for allegedly ordering his subordinates to carry out a mass murder campaign - whic...
Solomon: AD INDUSTRY: GIVING WOMEN SPECIAL TREATMENT
Commentary, June, 09 2000
Norman Solomon
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Last fall, when Jean Kilbourne's new book "Deadly Persuasion" was arriving on shelves, Publishers Weekly praised it as "a wake-up call about the damaging effects of advertising in our media-saturated culture." But six months later, the mass media'...
Weisbrot: Labor in 2000: No Place to Go?
Commentary, June, 07 2000
Mark Weisbrot
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In the movie version of Steven King's classic, "The Dead Zone," Christopher Walken reads the mind of the mother of a demonic serial killer. His psychic powers discern that she had long been aware of her son's vicious murders. His eyes widen with s...
Wise: Rebels Without a Clue: Neo-Confederacy and the Ironies of White Supremacy
Commentary, June, 06 2000
Tim Wise
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We Southerners are famous for wishful thinking: in fact, you could say it's something of a regional pastime. This should come as no surprise given our interminable heat in the summer which leaves nearly all wishing for rain to cool things down, an...
Solomon: U.S. NEWS MEDIA: A SECURITY ZONE FOR ISRAEL
Commentary, June, 03 2000
Norman Solomon
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One phrase -- "security zone" -- sums up an entire era of media spin about Israel's 22-year occupation of southern Lebanon.
Hightower: HUNGER REPORT BITES BUSH ON BUTT
Commentary, June, 02 2000
Jim Hightower
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At the 1988 Democratic convention in Atlanta, I gave a podium-pounding speech in which I characterized George Bush the Elder as "a man who was born on third and thought he'd hit a triple."
Reinhart: WITHDRAWAL?
Commentary, May, 31 2000
Tanya Reinhart
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Is Barak determined to achieve peace, or is ÊÊhe exercising Sharon's plan to withdraw from Lebanon and return under 'better conditions'? The problem is that nobody knows, not even the government which has exempted him from the need to inform it on...
Chomsky: Unsustainable Non Development
Commentary, May, 30 2000
Noam Chomsky
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At a recent talk Chomsky was asked ÒWhat are the motivations of the U.S. push for sustainable development in the developing world?Ó Here was his answerÉ
Bond: New Film Projects South African Anti-Globalisation Struggle Onto Washington
Commentary, May, 29 2000
Patrick Bond
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Those in the Z community anxious to hear organic voices from the South debating global socio-economic injustice are probably aware that South African rhetoric is especially hot these days. For evidence, check out the documentary "Two Trevors Go To...
Peters: Robin Hood Was Right
Commentary, May, 28 2000
Cynthia Peters
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The Newtown Florist Club in Gainesville, Georgia was a group of African American churchwomen that brought flowers to the sick. After a while, they noticed that a lot of the sick had gotten that way because of environmental problems. The Newtown ch...
Naiman: Globalization: The Fat Lady Ain't Sung
Commentary, May, 27 2000
Robert Naiman
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Champagne corks are popping in Washington, as the corporate lobby celebrates its victory over democracy - bribing Congress into granting "Permanent Normal Trading Relations" to China. Corporations, not China, are the true beneficiaries - they have...
Dowd: THE FREE MARKET; AND ALL THAT JAZZ
Commentary, May, 26 2000
Douglas Dowd
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The rising tide of center/right socioeconomic policies in the United States (among other societies) appalls a goodly share of our people. Riding high on what is now a flood tide, propelled by and propelling it, has been the phenomenal Second Comin...
Edwards: CLIMATE WARS Paying The Ultimate Price For Corporate Control of Society
Commentary, May, 25 2000
David Edwards
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Declared 98% successful in destroying Iraqi Scud missiles during the Gulf War, the Patriot missile system was subsequently found to have achieved a success rate "close to zeroÓ by Professor Ted Postol of MIT. But by then the deception had done it...
Guellec: Death in America
Commentary, May, 24 2000
Dorothy Guellec
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Most people do not take hunger in America seriously, but add this to cutbacks in food stamps, the daily need for insulin, and low wages, and then we really have a life-threatening situation here. If diabetics donÕt eat, they can develop ketoacidos...
Solomon: OVERCOMING THE HAZARDS OF MEDIA
Commentary, May, 22 2000
Norman Solomon
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After the "Love Bug" virus struck millions of computer hard drives, many news outlets attributed the magnitude of the damage to overwhelming reliance on the same type of software. Suddenly, in the digital world, steep downsides of technical confor...
