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Commentary Marable: The Battle for Ideas

Commentary, September, 18 1999 Manning Marable
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Political power always expresses itself as a body of ideas. If you can create and popularize the key ideas that define the general perceptions about public issues, you will largely determine what happens politically.

Commentary Administrator: International Labor Solidarity Puts Pressure on Indonesia

Commentary, September, 17 1999 Site Administrator
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In contrast to organized labor's division over what should be done about the Kosovo crisis, the current mayhem and mass killing in East Timor has galvanized a powerful and unified response from unions internationally. Organized labor, and most esp...

Commentary Peters: East Timor Activism in Boston

Commentary, September, 16 1999 Cynthia Peters
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The Sydney Morning Herald reported on Tuesday, September 14, 1999 that "Piles of bodies were burnt on the streets of Dili at the weekend and tens of thousands of refugees were without food or water as they fled the militias and the Indonesian Army...

Commentary Mokhiber: Moving Gently on East Timor

Commentary, September, 15 1999 Russell Mokhiber
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The Clinton administration's shamefully slow response to the savagery unleashed by the Indonesian military and militia on the people of East Timor allowed a vicious slaughter to take place.

Commentary Weisbrot: Washington Fiddles While East Timor Burns

Commentary, September, 15 1999 Mark Weisbrot
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The violence and crisis in East Timor has raised pointed questions about U.S. foreign policy and what we stand for in the world. It was only months ago that we bombed Serbia for 78 days, killing hundreds and perhaps thousands of innocent civilians...

Commentary Shalom: The State of the World

Commentary, September, 14 1999 Stephen1 Shalom
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This summer, the United Nations Development Programme issued its annual Human Development Report. The document is a stinging indictment of globalization and its horrific impact on the well-being of so many of the world's people.

Commentary Landau: Zany U.S. Rafting Policy

Commentary, September, 13 1999 Saul Landau
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It's hurricane time in the Caribbean, so we'll have a temporary respite from Cubans floating to Florida on inner tubes from that red island 90 miles away, and even from Cubans brought over in speedboats. Smugglers earn up to $8,000 per person they...

Commentary Herman: Russian Corruption

Commentary, September, 12 1999 Edward Herman
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With the discovery of the massive laundering of Russian money-- some of it compliments of the IMF, and U.S. taxpayers--through the Bank of New York, the issue of Russian corruption is now "in." But it presents the establishment with a problem.

Commentary Mokhiber: An Outsider's View of the One-Sided Class Warfare in the U.S.

Commentary, September, 11 1999 Russell Mokhiber
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"While in theory U.S. law provides for workers to have freedom of association, the right to join trade unions and participate in collective bargaining is in practice denied to large segments of the American workforce in both the public and the pri...

Commentary Peterson: Genocide 2?

Commentary, September, 10 1999 David Peterson
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With the United Nations seriously considering the final evacuation of the last members of its international staff from the capital city of Dili any day now, East Timor is threatened with being plunged into a black hole from which virtually no news...

Commentary Herman: Inhumanitarian Nonintervention in East Timor

Commentary, September, 08 1999 Edward Herman
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Coming so soon after the NATO devastation of Yugoslavia in the alleged interest of humanitarianism and protection of human rights, the performance of the NATO powers in the East Timor crisis strikingly confirms the views of those who questioned th...

Commentary Lusane: Clinton Escapes Again

Commentary, September, 07 1999 Clarence Lusane
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Each Summer the major civil rights organizations hold their annual gatherings. Attended by thousands, these events include workshops, plenaries, and major addresses by civil rights leaders, trade union officials, representatives from women and you...

Commentary Shiva: Stopping Biopiracy

Commentary, September, 06 1999 Vandana2 Shiva
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The patents on the anti-diabetic properties of karela, jamun, brinjal once again highlight the problem of Biopiracy - the patenting of indigenous biodiversity related knowledge.

Commentary Dominick: An Appeal for Continued Anti-War Efforts

Commentary, September, 05 1999 Brian Dominick
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Sept. 5, 1999 An Appeal for Continued Anti-War Efforts By Brian Dominick Did I just see what I think I saw? Has a growing anti-war movement suddenly become dormant, for the umpteenth time in the past few decades - in ...

Commentary Prashad: REd Salute: Comrade Uncle Ho

Commentary, September, 04 1999 Vijay Prashad
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In the late 1960s, the communists in Bengal allied with the left Congress to form a United Front government in the state. These were heady times for a region buffeted by two drought years, by the cataclysmic pressures of international finance, and...

Commentary Weisbrot: What Everyone Should Know About the Budget Debate

Commentary, September, 03 1999 Mark Weisbrot
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This commentary is for those who really want to understand the debate that has been raging over what to do with the projected Federal budget surpluses over the next 10 years. It's not as difficult as it seems.

Commentary Zinn: Beyond the Soviet Union

Commentary, September, 02 1999 Howard Zinn
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In the spirit of killing two obligations with one effort, I offer as my Commentary a response I just made to a letter by a retired professor in California, who wrote: "As a great admirer of Howard Zinn [should he have said "as a former great admir...

Commentary Marable: Chickens Coming Home to Roost

Commentary, September, 01 1999 Manning Marable
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Immediately following the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, Malcolm X was asked by the media for his response. Malcolm was not surprised by this tragic event, because white America had long fostered violence and racism throughout society...

Commentary Schechter: China on My Mind

Commentary, August, 31 1999 Danny Schechter
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In less than two months, on October 1st, the People's Republic of China turns fifty. Mao's long march liberated a country which in a half century has gone from championing world revolution to building "socialism with Chinese characteristics."

Commentary Gonsalves: America's Civilizing Efforts

Commentary, August, 30 1999 Sean Gonsalves
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"Reflecting growing alarm in Washington about leftist rebels strengthened by the cocaine trade, a leading US diplomat met with (Colombian) President Andres Pastrana (last week) to discuss drug trafficking and the country's civil war," Associated P...

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