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Commentary Landau: McCaffery (Goliath) v. Hersh (David)

Commentary, May, 21 2000 Saul Landau
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I found the May 15 NPR news very even-handed - as always. The host interviewed Seymour Hersh, who wrote for the May 22 New Yorker Overwhelming Force, an expose on General Barry McCaffery's Gulf War conduct. Hersh interviewed soldiers and officers ...

Commentary Russell: Why not Capitalism?

Commentary, May, 20 2000 Marta Russell
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Society still perceives disability as a medical matter. That is, society associates disability with physiological, anatomical, or mental ÒdefectsÓ and hold these conditions responsible for the disabled personÕs lack of full participation in the ec...

Commentary Marable: Why Diallo Had To Die

Commentary, May, 19 2000 Manning Marable
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For more than one year, the controversy surrounding the New York murder of Amadou Diallo has made headlines throughout the world. Most people have heard by now about the unarmed African immigrant who was fired on 41 times as he stood in the vestib...

Commentary Burchill: New Rules of Engagement

Commentary, May, 18 2000 Scott Burchill
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In the first weeks of September last year, 70% of all public buildings and private residences in East Timor were destroyed. At least 75% of the population of the territory was displaced, with over 260,000 people being driven across the border into...

Commentary Ali: London Defeats Tony Blair: The Consequences of Citizen Ken

Commentary, May, 17 2000 Tariq Ali
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In these times of political adversity for the left, Ken Livingstone's spectacular triumph against the culture and politics of New Labour marks an important turning point in English politics. Blair refused to accept Livingstone as the Labour candid...

Commentary Schechter: Rescuing The Children: Elián, AIDS, South Africa and Media

Commentary, May, 16 2000 Danny Schechter
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I can just hear some Hollywood exec wondering if it has "series potential" while watching the dramatic showdown in the latest episode of the Elián González tug-of-war. On April 22 federal agents in a long overdue and overdrawn response "rescued"...

Commentary Mokhiber: Sixteen Years for a Snickers Bar

Commentary, May, 15 2000 Russell Mokhiber
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Last month, a Texas jury recommended that Kenneth Payne, 29, spend 16 years in jail.Payne's crime? Stealing a Snickers bar from a Tyler, Texas grocery store on December 17, 1999. When Smith county Assistant District Attorney Jodi Brown was asked ...

Commentary Hightower: WHAT'S FOR DINNER?

Commentary, May, 14 2000 Jim Hightower
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Have you heard of the "Butterfly Effect?" Both a scientific concept and an ecological reality, its essence is that the flapping of a million butterfly wings in central Mexico can have consequences in New York City, Rome, or Hong Kong. The notion i...

Commentary Prashad: 'Just Say No to PepsiCo': So Say 101 Indian workers

Commentary, May, 13 2000 Vijay Prashad
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One hundred million people and sixty million cattle in India are in the midst of a crippling drought. The states of Gujarat, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Orissa and Andhra Pradesh have been hit with poor monsoon rain. According to the Union Minister...

Commentary Chomsky: Assaulting Solidarity -- Privatizing Education

Commentary, May, 12 2000 Noam Chomsky
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There has been a general assault in the last 25 years on solidarity, democracy, social welfare, anything that interferes with private power, and there are many targets. One of the targets is undoubtedly the educational system. In fact, a couple of...

Commentary Hoodbhoy: EQBAL AHMAD: POST-POKHARAN DAYS

Commentary, May, 11 2000 Pervez Hoodbhoy
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He fought for Kashmiri self-determination in 1948, against French imperialism in Algeria in the early 60's, roused students on American campuses in the early 70's against their government's immoral war in Vietnam, dodged arrest by the CIA in a cas...

Commentary Wise: "Seeing the System: Alan Greenspan, Unemployment, and the Validation of Radical Analysis

Commentary, May, 10 2000 Tim Wise
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"What's the difference between a radical and a liberal?" It is a question I'm regularly asked at lectures, usually by college students struggling with their own sense of the world, trying desperately to figure out where they stand on the seemingly...

Commentary Peters: Cure `em or Kill `em

Commentary, May, 09 2000 Cynthia Peters
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Disability rights activists have been waiting for Christopher Reeve to get over his ÒI-will-walk-againÓ thing. But itÕs been 5 years since the actor, best known for his role as ÒSuperman,Ó became a quadriplegic after a horse-riding accident, and h...

Commentary Landau: REPORT FROM SANTIAGO: DEJA VU

Commentary, May, 08 2000 Saul Landau
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History repeats itself, wrote Marx, first as tragedy and then again as farce. First time: Chile, November, 1970. In one photo, a helmeted officer just to the right of and behind Allende's car wears a bored, or maybe slightly pained, expression. Ge...

Commentary Zinn: THE HEROES AROUND US

Commentary, May, 07 2000 Howard Zinn
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Recently, meeting with a group of high school students, I was asked by one of them: "I read in your book, A PEOPLE'S HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES, about the massacres of Indians, the long history of racism, the persistence of poverty in the rich...

Commentary Dowd: THE GREAT BRAIN ROBBERY

Commentary, May, 06 2000 Douglas Dowd
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Let not young souls be smothered out before They do quaint deeds and fully flaunt their pride. It is the world's one crime its babes grow dull, Its poor are ox-like, limp and leaden-eyed. Set those words beside these: I am somehow less inte...

Commentary Weisbrot: Four Dead in Ohio: Thirty Years Later

Commentary, May, 05 2000 Mark Weisbrot
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May 4 will mark thirty years since four students protesting the Vietnam War at Kent State University were murdered by Ohio National Guardsmen. It is no exaggeration to call it murder, since the students were unarmed and-- given how far they were f...

Commentary Solomon: THE POWER AND LIMITS OF PHOTOJOURNALISM

Commentary, May, 04 2000 Norman Solomon
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Despite all the emphasis on new media, photography has never lost the power to move us. Some recent photo essays in major American magazines, focusing on the poor and dispossessed, are efforts to break through abstraction and indifference. They te...

Commentary Hightower: WHAT'S MISSING IN CAMPAIGN 2000

Commentary, May, 03 2000 Jim Hightower
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Well, there we have it: Gore-Bush. Dull versus dullard. The political establishments of the two-party duopoly successfully rose up to surround, defend, and shove forward their chosen ones, both girded with tens of millions of dollars from the exac...

Commentary Herman: THE LEFT AND ELECTORAL PARTICIPATION

Commentary, May, 02 2000 Edward Herman
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The left always has a problem at election time, and embattled left pens are already trying to demonstrate that we should: (1) forego voting; (2) vote for Ralph Nader; or (3) vote for the lesser evil (Gore). The fact that there is always such vigor...

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