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Albert: Just Rewards
Commentary, January, 30 2000
Michael Albert
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In a desirable economy what income does each actor get to enjoy? What is the basis for remuneration?
Rebick: New Workers' Initiative
Commentary, January, 29 2000
Judy Rebick
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Always on the cutting edge of social change, the Canadian Auto Workers union has just launched an important new initiative. The CAW has set up "A Task Force on Working Class Politics in the 21st Century."
Reinhart: This Ain't the Road of Peace
Commentary, January, 28 2000
Tanya Reinhart
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For many in Israel, it is already difficult to remember the joy and relief in which they received the news about the forthcoming peace with Syria, about a month ago. What was this joy about?
Cagan: Life After Y2K
Commentary, January, 27 2000
Leslie Cagan
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The nineties opened with a bang. In August, 1990 the Iraqis invaded Kuwait and it was immediately clear that George Bush would do everything in his formidable presidential power to go to war.
Wise: Resolutions for Radicals
Commentary, January, 26 2000
Tim Wise
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I don't normally make New Year's resolutions, or use the new year as an excuse for significant reflection on the one just ended. But this year, I'm making an exception. After all, we have (arguably, I know) entered a new millennium: and the end of...
Landau: Contradictory Cuba Policies
Commentary, January, 25 2000
Saul Landau
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Explain US-Cuba policy, my friends ask. Last week's prison riot occurred in Louisiana where Cuban prisoners had served their sentences, yet remained locked up because they didn't qualify to stay in the US. They had committed crimes before gaining ...
Albert: Movement for a Participatory Economy: An Overview
Commentary, January, 23 2000
Michael Albert
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Besides immediate objectives, great social movements need long-run goals for inspiration and guidance. The abolitionist movement to end slavery and the movement for the eight-hour day both in the nineteenth century, the movement for women's suffra...
Marable: Seattle and Beyond
Commentary, January, 22 2000
Manning Marable
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It was immensely significant for black America that the last major public demonstration in the U.S. in the 20th century was a protest over global economics and trade.
Solomon: AOL / Time Warner: Calling the Faithful to Their Knees
Commentary, January, 21 2000
Norman Solomon
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And so, early in the year 2000, it came to pass that visions of a seamless media web enraptured the keepers of pecuniary faith as never before. A grand new structure, AOL Time Warner, emerged while a few men proclaimed themselves trustees of a hol...
Chomsky: Four from the Forums
Commentary, January, 19 2000
Noam Chomsky
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On graduate unions, it's true enough that (ideally) "graduate teaching is pedagogical training," but that's incomplete. Any teaching, if done at all seriously, is also a way of learning -- about lots of things, including the subject you are teachi...
Shalom: Humanitarian Intervention
Commentary, January, 18 2000
Stephen1 Shalom
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The issue of humanitarian intervention arises again, propelled by the crises in Kosovo and East Timor and by the memories of the 1994 Rwanda genocide. Some analysts have used these cases to support new principles of international relations. But to...
Schechter: Attica, Hurricane, and Mumia
Commentary, January, 17 2000
Danny Schechter
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ATTICA! It's a word I hadn't heard in a number of years. It was a word I will never forget, and not just because of Al Pacino's memorable invocation of the term in the movie Dog Day Afternoon. Attica was one of the first stories I dissected in my ...
Herman: The AOL Time Merger
Commentary, January, 16 2000
Edward Herman
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Each great technological advance in communication begins with claims of the dominance of public service aims and probable effects, which is then followed and concluded by a commercial takeover.
Albert: Internet Commercialism?!
Commentary, January, 15 2000
Michael Albert
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There is an old economic saying that "there is no free lunch." To get something out of an economy you have to put something in. Contrary to rumors, this holds for the Internet as well as for factories. To provide internet content takes labor, tool...
Peters: Porn Stars, Promise-Keepers, and "Pound Dawgs" A Comment on: Stiffed, by Susan Faludi
Commentary, January, 14 2000
Cynthia Peters
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Male porn stars get paid based on their ability to sustain an erection. Promise Keepers are told to look to God as a Father they can trust, and to stock up on Promise Keeper mugs, t-shirts, and other memorabilia. "Pound Dawgs" - extreme fans of th...
Chomsky: Millennial Visions and Selective Vision Part Two
Commentary, January, 13 2000
Noam Chomsky
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In fairness, it should be mentioned that the chorus of self-adulation that closed the millennium was disrupted by some discordant notes. Questions were raised about the consistency of our adherence to the guiding principles: the "new doctrine" tha...
Guellec: End of Century Musings
Commentary, January, 12 2000
Dorothy Guellec
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Malaysia is being pushed to modernize and this is attracting multinational companies and putting pressure of their healthcare system. The country's extensive public healthcare system can no longer provide free care on demand, promoting an expansio...
Wise: Springing the "Diversity Trap"
Commentary, January, 11 2000
Tim Wise
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You know you're in trouble when Ronald Reagan starts to sound progressive. And you really know you're in trouble when so-called progressives make him sound that way, thanks to their own pathetic gesticulations on one or another issue.
Chomsky: Millennial Visions and Selective Vision Part One
Commentary, January, 10 2000
Noam Chomsky
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The new year opened with familiar refrains, amplified by the numerology: a chorus of self-adulation, somber ruminations about the incomprehensible evil of our enemies, and the usual recourse to selective amnesia to smooth the way. A few illustrati...
Hightower: Four Vignettes
Commentary, January, 09 2000
Jim Hightower
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In a courtroom, an attorney asked the witness, "Sir, What's your IQ?" The fellow responded, "Well, I can see pretty well, I think."
