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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...

Commentary Peterson: Between the Guns and the Wall

Commentary, August, 29 1999 David Peterson
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Shortly before noon on April 6, several truckloads of the Red And White Iron militia rolled up outside a church where hundreds of people had fled seeking sanctuary. "Get out of the church!" the gun- and machete-wielding gangsters shouted. Then may...

Commentary Administrator: Hitler Analogies Betray Past and Present

Commentary, August, 28 1999 Site Administrator
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The war was launched to protect an oppressed ethnic minority, to punish a massacre, and to secure a New World Order. Which war was that? Why, Hitler's war of course, which came to be known as World War II.

Commentary Bronski: GOP = Gay Old Party

Commentary, August, 27 1999 Michael Bronski
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It is no news that the "news" appearing in the mass media is often manufactured. No where was this clearer than a front page story in The New York Times of August 11, 1999 whose headline announced: "Gay Voters Finding G.O.P. Newly Receptive to Sup...

Commentary Wise: The Kids are all White

Commentary, August, 26 1999 Tim Wise
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Let me get this straight: if people of color respond to an unjust verdict in a police brutality trial, not to mention years of racial and economic oppression, by taking to the streets, burning stuff, looting stores and engaging in assorted violenc...

Commentary Cagan: Thinking About Turkey

Commentary, August, 25 1999 Leslie Cagan
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I sit and watch in horror as the toll continues to rise from the earthquake in Turkey. Today they say over 12,000 dead and with 35 - 40,000 people still missing it's clear this number will grow in the coming days. The Turkish government has alread...

Commentary Chomsky: Eight Question on Kibbutzim: Answers from Noam Chomsky Questions from Nikos Raptis

Commentary, August, 24 1999 Noam Chomsky
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The origins were in part European libertarian socialist thought. In part they were in a kind of romantic "back to the land" movement, suffused sometimes with Tolstoyan anarchism, in other cases part of a (very conscious) effort to reverse the "inv...

Commentary Peters: Teacher, There's a Brand Name in My Math Problem

Commentary, August, 23 1999 Cynthia Peters
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Teacher, There's a Brand Name in My Math Problem

Commentary Author: For the Good of us All, Just Focus on Yourself

Commentary, August, 22 1999 Guest Author
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It took some time, but I think I've come to understand why so many people favor school vouchers. I was hung up on the separation of church and state and worried about decreased funding for inner- city schools. But I've seen the light. My only ques...

Commentary Solomon: In the Nation's Capital, Media Fixations Prevail

Commentary, August, 21 1999 Norman Solomon
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Few phrases in American politics have more negative connotations than "inside the Beltway." In this rarified and unreal zone, we often assume, the activities of politicians and bureaucrats are disconnected from the main concerns of most Americans....

Commentary Raptis: Life Complexities / Quakes

Commentary, August, 20 1999 Nikos Raptis
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In 1943 as the Nazis were rounding up the Jews of Salonica in a part of the city, a 16-year-old girl (not a Jew) stood by in the street watching with curiosity (and I hope with horror) as the Nazis were loading them on trucks.

Commentary Solomon: Broadcasting and Democracy: Oil and Water

Commentary, August, 18 1999 Norman Solomon
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Is it really possible for broadcasting and democracy to mix? In theory, yes. But right now, the prospects look bleak.

Commentary Landau: Pinochet and Valdez

Commentary, August, 17 1999 Saul Landau
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Juan Gabriel Valdes, Chile's new foreign minister, will meet with Secretary of State Madeline Albright to ask her to help return Augusto Pinochet to Chile. Since last October, British authorities have held Pinochet on a request from the Spanish Ju...

Commentary Weisbrot: Trade Wars: Where's the Beef

Commentary, August, 16 1999 Mark Weisbrot
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Should countries have the right to set health and safety standards for the food that their citizens eat? Should they be allowed to exclude foreign-produced foods that don't meet national standards? Or should these questions be decided by the World...

Commentary Halimi: Media Critics of the World Unite

Commentary, August, 15 1999 Serge Halimi
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Few countries publish as many books and articles on media criticism as the United States. Logically, all of this good work has little to no effect on the shaping and publication of news. Any adequate criticism, which describes media indoctrination...

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