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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
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"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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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...
Bond: ÒSustainable" South Africa?
Commentary, July, 12 2001
Patrick Bond
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In South Africa, three interesting processes related to "sustainable development"--that ghastly phrase, denoting an allegedly more eco-friendly capitalism, often with a few "polluter-pays" regulations and social safety- net provisions added to ort...
Klein: The New Party Initiative
Commentary, July, 08 2001
Naomi Klein
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I've never joined a political party, never even been to a political convention. Last election, after being dragged by the hair to the ballot box, I was overcome by a wave of ennui more acute than the pain suffered by my friends who simply ingested...
Kagarlitsky: The Russian Left Today
Commentary, July, 07 2001
Boris Kagarlitsky
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To judge from opinion surveys, newspaper reports and simply from conversations on the street, Russian society is moving leftward. To judge from the statements of politicians and the relationship of forces within the elite, however, the country is ...
Bacon: Employer Sanctions
Zmag Article, July, 01 2001
David Bacon
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Employer Sanctions
Barsamian: Why Americans Still Donx92t Vote
Zmag Article, July, 01 2001
David Barsamian
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Why Americans Still Donx92t Vote
Bond: Zimbabwe Lurches Toward a Pauper's Burial
Zmag Article, July, 01 2001
Patrick Bond
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Zimbabwe Lurches Toward a Pauper's Burial
Russell: Market Steamroller
Commentary, July, 01 2001
Marta Russell
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Bush & Wall Street are about to turn a phony Social Security crisis into a real one. Part one, the tax cut, has already been accomplished. The combo of the $1.3 trillion tax cut and a lagging economy are shrinking federal surpluses available for...
Prashad: Red Star over West Bengal
Commentary, June, 28 2001
Vijay Prashad
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A few years ago I traveled around rural West Bengal to study the gains made by the Left Front government, notably as a result of the experiments in the devolution of power. By then I knew the statistical advances almost by heart. West Bengal has t...
