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Commentary Chomsky: East Timor Is Not Yesterday's Story

Commentary, October, 23 1999 Noam Chomsky
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According to recent reports, the UN mission in East Timor has been able to account for just over 150,000 people out of an estimated population of 850,000. It reports that 260,000 "are now languishing in squalid refugee camps in West Timor under...

Commentary Hartmann: Cracking Open Crack

Commentary, October, 22 1999 Betsy Hartmann
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We don't allow dogs to breed. We spay them. We neuter them. We try to keep them from having unwanted puppies, and yet these women are literally having litters of children..." These are the words of Barbara Harris, founder of the organization CRACK...

Commentary Weisbrot: Budget Baloney

Commentary, October, 20 1999 Mark Weisbrot
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How much falsehood and stupidity should the media allow to go unchallenged in public debate? At what point do journalists and the press have an obligation to step in and supply the necessary facts and explanations, so that the public can have a ch...

Commentary Peters: Class Politics in America: A Fashionable Consumer Item

Commentary, October, 19 1999 Cynthia Peters
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I spent $44.00 recently to see Dario Fo's farce about hunger, free-market injustice, sexism, and class injustice at the American Repertory Theater in Harvard Square. Dario Fo, "who emulates the jesters of the Middle Ages in scourging authority and...

Commentary Albert: The WTO and Mumia Abu Jamal

Commentary, October, 18 1999 Michael Albert
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The World Trade Organization treats working people in countries throughout the world as assets to manipulate in pursuit of private corporate profit. From Guatemala to South Africa and from Thailand to the South Bronx, this causes impoverishment, i...

Commentary Cagan: Two, Three, Many Protests...But All On the Same Night?

Commentary, October, 17 1999 Leslie Cagan
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George W. and his new friends in the leadership of the New York State Republican Party gathered at a fund raising dinner in mid-town Manhattan October 5th. They were all there: George W. Bush, George Pataki, Rudolf Giuliani, Al D'Amato and the res...

Commentary Schechter: Dung on All Their Houses - The New Censorship

Commentary, October, 16 1999 Danny Schechter
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On October l, thousands of New York artists, activists and politicians rallied outside the Brooklyn Museum against threats by the city's Mayor Rudolph Giuliani to defund one of the city's preeminent cultural institutions because of one painting on...

Commentary Author: Pakistan's Pathos

Commentary, October, 16 1999 Guest Author
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Pakistan is, once again, in the throes of a serious crisis. The country is under martial law. The elected prime minister, Nawaz Sharif, his brother, Shahbaz and General Ziaudin, the head of Inter Services Intelligence (ISI) are under house arrest....

Commentary Author: Pakistan's Pathos

Commentary, October, 16 1999 Guest Author
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Pakistan is, once again, in the throes of a serious crisis. The country is under martial law. The elected prime minister, Nawaz Sharif, his brother, Shahbaz and General Ziaudin, the head of Inter Services Intelligence (ISI) are under house arrest....

Commentary Wise: Kill First, Ask Questions Later

Commentary, October, 15 1999 Tim Wise
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It's been nearly four decades since the last execution in Tennessee. During that time, my state has resisted boarding the killing train engineered by folks in places like Florida and Texas, where execution has been refined to a near science, appli...

Commentary Gonsalves: A Letter to Mrs. Bush

Commentary, October, 14 1999 Sean Gonsalves
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I recently received a copy of a letter that was sent to the former First Lady, Barbara Bush. The letter was written by six mothers whose children are in jail because of the "war on drugs" - a "war" avidly supported by Barbara's son, George W., who...

Commentary Shalom: Political Correctness and the Desert Storm Law

Commentary, October, 13 1999 Stephen1 Shalom
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Conservative pundits and their frequent liberal allies have been complaining for years about "Political Correctness" -- the intrusion of left-wing ideology into the academy, supposedly subverting academic standards.

Commentary Herman: How the media have protected U.S. Appeasement- Collusion with Indonesia in East Timor

Commentary, October, 12 1999 Edward Herman
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The mainstream U.S. media have performed a semi-miracle in reporting on the East Timor crisis, providing us with a model case of apologetics in the service of state policy.

Commentary Solomon: Media Time Capsule

Commentary, October, 11 1999 Norman Solomon
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On the first day of January, many public ceremonies will feature time capsules -- sealed long ago, when "the year 2000" sounded incredibly futuristic. Those containers, intended for opening at the start of the new millennium, presumably hold evoca...

Commentary Zinn: A Larger Consciousness

Commentary, October, 10 1999 Howard Zinn
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Some years ago, when I was teaching at Boston University, I was asked by a Jewish group to give a talk on the Holocaust. I spoke that evening, but not about the Holocaust of World War II, not about the genocide of six million Jews.

Commentary Landau: The Pinochet Decision

Commentary, October, 09 1999 Saul Landau
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This week, a British magistrate will decide whether to extradite Augusto Pinochet to Spain or release him. England has detained the former Chilean dictator for eleven plus months. In that time, his case has brought to world attention the principal...

Commentary Schechter: Fighting for the Soul of the BBC

Commentary, October, 08 1999 Danny Schechter
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British television has become a battleground--literally. On Labor Day, an enraged intruder vaulted over the BBC's new upgraded security barriers, raced up a set of stairs, threw a table through the window of a newsroom, jumped inside and started t...

Commentary Shah: Young and Younger

Commentary, October, 06 1999 Sonia Shah
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As a child, on every birthday morning, I was meant to touch the feet of each of my parents to show my gratitude and respect. This simple and brief act would overwhelm me with its nakedness, its confession of my own powerlessness, its reference to ...

Commentary Hightower: Snapshots

Commentary, October, 05 1999 Jim Hightower
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Let's say you're at home one evening, sitting there in your La-Z-Boy, maybe with a cool one in your hand, when suddenly you feel a sharp pain in your chest, your left arm is tingly and sort of numb. Heart attack! Or it least it could be one. You g...

Commentary Chomsky: East Timor

Commentary, October, 04 1999 Noam Chomsky
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The events of the past weeks in East Timor should elicit shame as well as horror. The crimes could easily have been stopped.

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