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Commentary Dominick: Anarchy, NonViolence, and the Seattle Demonstrations

Commentary, December, 06 1999 Brian Dominick
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One of the most contentious points likely to arise out of the past week's actions is older than the concept of world trade itself: the question of tactics in demonstration and direct action - in particular, violent vs. nonviolent.

Commentary Russell: Government Example Setting Not Enough

Commentary, December, 05 1999 Marta Russell
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Despite a growing economy and a 29-year low official unemployment rate, potential workers with disabilities remain chronically unemployed. Nine years after the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), national employment surveys show ...

Commentary Prashad: IMF: Advance Guard of the WTO

Commentary, December, 04 1999 Vijay Prashad
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In 1997, Bangkok's Rafabhat Institute Suan Dusit took a poll of 1,648 Thai children under the age of 15. The survey asked the children to identify the IMF, the International Monetary Fund. A quarter knew what the IMF was. About 30% believed that t...

Commentary Solomon: Free Trade's Happy Face Peels Off

Commentary, December, 03 1999 Norman Solomon
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SEATTLE -- After enjoying a free ride in American news media for many years, the World Trade Organization just hit a brick wall. The credit should go to a vast array of civic activists -- represented by tens of thousands of protesters from every c...

Commentary Hartmann: Women's Health Advocates Win a Victory in the Fight Against Chemical Sterilization

Commentary, December, 02 1999 Betsy Hartmann
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On November 13, the Board of Directors of Planned Parenthood of America (PPFA) turned down a motion from its own Medical Committee which have put the organization in the position of supporting unethical human experimentation. The drug in question ...

Commentary Herman: Questioning Henwood on Globalization

Commentary, December, 01 1999 Edward Herman
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For some reason Doug Henwood feels called upon to play down globalization. Others on the left, some associated with MONTHLY REVIEW, have done the same, warning that any acceptance of the globalization thesis will discourage leftists and breed "def...

Commentary Guellec: Things Are Never As They Seem and yet They Are Always As They Seem

Commentary, November, 29 1999 Dorothy Guellec
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What this title suggests is that we have to look between the lines and live between the lines. Life is almost always terribly complex. Readers of this commentary may feel convinced that the business model does not fit healthcare, so I need not pre...

Commentary Wise: The Trouble With Tolerance

Commentary, November, 27 1999 Tim Wise
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They came in the mail again, even though I never ordered them: those personal address labels that say "teach tolerance" -sent out by the Southern Poverty Law Center: America's favorite civil rights group. The one run by Morris Dees: America's favo...

Commentary Henwood: What is Globalization, Anyway

Commentary, November, 26 1999 Doug Henwood
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If there's one thing that analysts and activists across the political spectrum agree on today it's that we live in an era of economic globalization. This is taken by both critics and cheerleaders as self-evident and largely unprecedented. We shoul...

Commentary Zinn: On Rewarding People for Talents and Hard Work 

Commentary, November, 25 1999 Howard Zinn
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There are two issues here: First, why should we accept our culture's definition of those two factors? Why should we accept that the "talent" of someone who writes jingles for an Advertising agency advertising dog food and gets $100,000 a year is s...

Commentary Zinn: On Rewarding People for Talents and Hard WorkÊ

Commentary, November, 25 1999 Howard Zinn
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There are two issues here: First, why should we accept our culture's definition of those two factors? Why should we accept that the "talent" of someone who writes jingles for an Advertising agency advertising dog food and gets $100,000 a year is s...

Commentary Administrator: A Short Guide to the WTO

Commentary, November, 24 1999 Site Administrator
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The World Trade Organization (WTO) is coming to Seattle at the end of November and tens of thousands of labor, environmental, and progressive activists are organizing to give them a hot reception.

Commentary Solomon: Nearing Global Summit, WTO On High Media Ground

Commentary, November, 23 1999 Norman Solomon
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When thousands of protesters converge on Seattle at the end of this month to challenge the global summit of the World Trade Organization, they're unlikely to get a fair hearing from America's mass media.

Commentary Dominick: Georgia On My Mind: Hard Thoughts on Closing the SOA

Commentary, November, 22 1999 Brian Dominick
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It's been a long time since I last wrote in depth about the US Army's School of the Americas, and the movement to shut it down. But living in Syracuse, a major anti-SOA hotbed, this time of year it's hard not to write or at least think about the t...

Commentary Shah: Our Deeply Twisted Understanding of the World 

Commentary, November, 21 1999 Sonia Shah
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"Do people in India leave their dead in the street?" This was the question posed to my family by a coworker invited for dinner. (She wasn't invited back.)

Commentary Shah: Our Deeply Twisted Understanding of the WorldÊ

Commentary, November, 21 1999 Sonia Shah
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"Do people in India leave their dead in the street?" This was the question posed to my family by a coworker invited for dinner. (She wasn't invited back.)

Commentary Brecher: There's An Alternative

Commentary, November, 20 1999 Jeremy Brecher
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When world leaders meet in Seattle after Thanksgiving for the "pre-millennial" session of the World Trade Organization, many will sincerely believe that there is no alternative to the present direction of globalization. But all over the world, act...

Commentary Solomon: The Twain Most Americans Never Meet

Commentary, November, 19 1999 Norman Solomon
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With the start of 2000 less than two months away, I've been thinking about a beloved American writer who stuck his neck out the last time people went through a change of centuries.

Commentary Landau: The Old Populist Gag

Commentary, November, 18 1999 Saul Landau
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Exciting! Pat Buchanan, presidential candidate, opposes corporate globalization which, he claims, benefits a handful of multi national giants and leaves crumbs for the poor. Buchanan says he stands for elementary justice for working people. He bla...

Commentary Peters: East Timor: Reparations and Responsibility

Commentary, November, 17 1999 Cynthia Peters
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The New York Times reported on October 25 the claim that the United States had "poured billions" into East Timor. The next day the Times ran a "correction," saying that in fact "Washington's foreign aid" to East Timor "has not amounted to billions."

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