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Peters: An S30 Victory Six Weeks in Advance
Commentary, August, 16 2001
Cynthia Peters
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In a joint statement released on August 14, 2001, the IMF/World Bank reported that their annual meeting, originally scheduled to run for two weeks, would be reduced to two days. (The normal two-week meeting had previously been shortened to one wee...
Rebick: The New Politics Initiative: Towards a Living Democracy
Commentary, August, 14 2001
Judy Rebick
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What is participatory democracy? It is government that involves citizens at every level of decision-making. The form of participatory democracy we know best in Canada involves consulting citizens about policy. While experiences like the citizens c...
Pilger: Liberal elites have always disguised their innate conservatism
Commentary, August, 13 2001
John Pilger
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At the Hay-on-Wye literary festival in May, leading members of the media and cultural elite assembled in the fine gardens of a Regency house to await the arrival of the great man. They included broadsheet editors, deputy editors, literary editors,...
Choudry: Bringing It All Back Home
Commentary, August, 03 2001
Aziz Choudry
Choudry's ZSpace page
"We are faced with a two-fold challenge, to struggle as best we can to deal with the immediate consequences of globalisation. Secondly, and more difficult, to contextualise those problems within the 500-year-and-more history of the culture of colo...
Brecher: The Road from Genoa
Commentary, August, 03 2001
Jeremy Brecher
Brecher's ZSpace page
In the year-and-a-half from the Battle of Seattle to the Battle of Genoa, the WTO, World Bank, IMF, and G-8 have provided spectacular "targets of opportunity" for the transnational movement challenging top-down globalization. The movement has refr...
Kissenger: Government Targets Mumia for Death: Outrageous New Court Ruling
Commentary, August, 01 2001
Clark Kissenger
Kissenger's ZSpace page
In yet another step in the governmentÕs plan to railroad Mumia Abu-Jamal into the death chamber, a federal court has refused to take testimony from a man named Arnold Beverly, who has come forward to state that he is the person who actually shot P...
Russell: Eroding the Employment-At-Will Doctrine
Commentary, July, 31 2001
Marta Russell
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Opportunities to make revolutionary change sometimes go unrecognized and are missed. When too few people fully grasp the potential of what is before them there is a failure to present a powerful societal force to secure reform. As Vijay Prashad no...
Glick: The Difference a Month Can Make
Commentary, July, 29 2001
Ted Glick
Glick's ZSpace page
Think back for a moment to last December and January. There was tremendous outrage over the 5-4 Bush victory in the Supreme Court. Large numbers of people, the largest since the Vietnam War, demonstrated in D.C. on January 20th, inauguration day, ...
Podur: A Way out for Colombia
Commentary, July, 28 2001
Justin Podur
Podur's ZSpace page
I didn't go to Colombia looking for understanding, although it was there for me in the form of razor-sharp analysts who do their work under fire. I didn't go looking for hope either, although I found some of that too, in the very same people. What...
Bond: Blue Planet targets PRIVATE commodification of world's water
Commentary, July, 28 2001
Patrick Bond
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The July 5-8 "Blue Planet" conference in Vancouver opened with a call by Maude Barlow to promote "a global water revolution. This is the first of many international civil society meetings to take back control of our water." The host Council of Can...
Solomon: DANCING - OR YAWNING - ON THE GRAVE OF CARLO GIULIANI
Commentary, July, 27 2001
Norman Solomon
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After a police officer shot Carlo Giuliani in the head, Time magazine published a requiem of sorts -- explaining that the 23-year-old Italian protester pretty much got what he deserved.
Monbiot: Stealing Europe The great European dream has been subverted by corporate power
Commentary, July, 25 2001
George Monbiot
Monbiot's ZSpace page
"If people did not sometimes do silly things," Wittgenstein observed, "nothing intelligent would ever get done." In a world in which intelligence is banned from public life, baring our buttocks at George Bush is one of the few means we possess of ...
Rebick: The Spirit of Quebec City comes home
Commentary, July, 22 2001
Judy Rebick
Rebick's ZSpace page
In early June, antipoverty activists trashed the constituency office of Ontario Finance Minister Jim Flaherty. They overturned desks, smashed glass and threw a microwave oven out of the building in what they called a Òmock eviction.Ó They were pro...
Starhawk: Genoa 7/20
Commentary, July, 21 2001
Starhawk
Starhawk's ZSpace page
At this point itÕs still not clear to me how many are actually dead. IÕve heard one young man, IÕve heard two, four. IÕve heard that the police shot into the crowd, that someone was clubbed to the ground and, unconscious, run over by a car, IÕve h...
Author: Knowledge, Power, Banking
Commentary, July, 20 2001
Guest Author
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"Knowledge is power" isn't just a slogan tossed around by polo-necked post-modernists. It's a maxim by which international capital lives. Want proof? Later this month, the World Bank will launch a prototype website that demonstrates amply their ai...
Author: Riding the Reparations Bandwagon: A White Woman's Perspective
Commentary, July, 18 2001
Guest Author
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I admit it. I, a middle aged white woman, have jumped on the Reparations "band wagon". When I was asked several years ago if I thought reparations for the enslavement of African Americans were in order, I stammered and shuffled my feet and said, "...
Raptis: Genoa and (Persistent) Resistance in the Balkans
Commentary, July, 17 2001
Nikos Raptis
Raptis's ZSpace page
Genoa: The G8 Summit What follows is a short report on the situation in Genoa as of July 8, 2001. The coordinator of the protest movement against the G8 Summit at Genoa is the Italian organization Genoa Social Forum (GSF).
Mokhiber: You Don't Know Jack
Commentary, July, 15 2001
Russell Mokhiber
Mokhiber's ZSpace page
The clock is running out for Jack Welch, CEO of General Electric. It is also winding down for Don Morrison, a dairy farmer in upstate New York.
Pilger: Trivial and Serious Violence
Commentary, July, 14 2001
John Pilger
Pilger's ZSpace page
The young people who have had the courage to take to the streets on every continent, and were among the 20,000 protesters at Gothenburg (June 25), should take satisfaction from the panic of new right politicians like Blair and Berlusconi. Abuse an...
Reinhart: OUT NOW!
Commentary, July, 13 2001
Tanya Reinhart
Reinhart's ZSpace page
In contrast to the spirit of blood and revenge which is now dominating the Israeli public discourse, there has been for years a wide consensus in the Israeli society that peace with the Palestinians requires withdrawal from the occupied territorie...
