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Administrator: Hitler Analogies Betray Past and Present
Commentary, August, 28 1999
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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.
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
Albert: Prison Policy
Commentary, August, 10 1999
Michael Albert
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About 25 years ago I was at a dinner party with a bunch of leftist economics faculty and grad students, and I posed a hypothetical question to engender some dinner debate. If you had only two choices, I asked, would you open all prison doors and l...
Peters: Give em Ritalin
Commentary, July, 31 1999
Cynthia Peters
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Although there is no medical proof that there is such a thing as Attention Deficit and Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), over 3.5 million children in the United States are diagnosed as having some form of it.
Administrator: Labor Law and the Heavy Hand of the State
Commentary, July, 23 1999
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There is one remarkable exception to the deregulatory trend in the United States. While politicians happily hack away at regulation, protective legislation, standards and governmental's ability to action on behalf of the whole community, one organ...
Peters: Children: Their Deficiencies,
Commentary, July, 13 1999
Cynthia Peters
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We are at my 7-year old daughter's annual check-up. After a peering in her ears and mouth, palpating her glands, and listening to her heart, the Doctor points at Zoe's crotch and asks abruptly, "Does anyone ever touch you here?" Zoe is taken aback...
Peters: Chicken Pox?!
Commentary, June, 25 1999
Cynthia Peters
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Providing temporary immunity to children could drive chicken pox disease into the older adult population where it can cause many more deaths and complications.
Albert: Pacifica, Pacifica!
Commentary, June, 23 1999
Michael Albert
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The current crisis at Pacifica was unleashed with recent firings of prominent and appreciated employees leading to irate listeners and employees demonstrating their opposition widely and militantly. Any progressive alternative institution has to u...
Peters: Mentoring Toward Revolution
Commentary, June, 08 1999
Cynthia Peters
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Do you have mentors in your life? Are you anyone's mentor? Could we positively affect social change movements by building mentoring relationships into our political work? I think we could.
Administrator: The Right to Organize - A Week of Action
Commentary, June, 06 1999
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For seven days in June, from the 19th to the 25th, unions and their allies all over the US will be organizing hearings and forums, rallies and actions aimed at drawing public attention to the dismal state of labor rights, especially the most funda...
Administrator: REFUGEES
Commentary, June, 03 1999
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Ethnic Albanians are reportedly unique in one respect: they do not run away from bombing. The small province of Kosovo has been turned into a proving ground for advanced U.S. weaponry, but the Albanian inhabitants would not think of taking the kid...
Peters: Historically
Commentary, June, 02 1999
Cynthia Peters
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At a recent birthday, my daughter became the proud owner of the much coveted American Girl doll. We had vaguely supported her strong desire to have an American Girl doll. We knew that the doll would come with books that told the girl's story, that...
Albert: Lend Me Your Ear
Zmag Article, June, 01 1999
Michael Albert
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Lend Me Your Ear
Administrator: The Milosevic Indictment
Commentary, May, 29 1999
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Following World War II, a war crimes tribunal was held in Tokyo to try Japanese political and military leaders.
Administrator: The Restive Allies
Commentary, May, 24 1999
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The florid and reckless war rhetoric of British Prime Minister Tony Blair and his Foreign Secretary Robin Cook is the stuff British tabloids are made of.
Administrator: Organized Labor and the War in Kosovo
Commentary, May, 14 1999
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It's an alarming signal of the declining influence of organized labor that with the start of the bombing of Yugoslavia and the war in Kosovo, that neither the media nor the public at large demand to know labor's position on the conflict.
Peters: What She Really Wants
Commentary, May, 10 1999
Cynthia Peters
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Take a look at that face. It's true. She really could use a little help with her complexion. It may be that with all that mothering work she's been doing she hasn't had time to properly wash, rinse, clarify, tone, moisturize, and treat twice a wee...
Albert: The Kosovo/NATO Conflict
Zmag Article, May, 01 1999
Michael Albert
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The Kosovo/NATO Conflict
Administrator: The Growing Wealth Gap
Zmag Article, May, 01 1999
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The Growing Wealth Gap
Peters: On Knowing and Responding
Commentary, April, 29 1999
Cynthia Peters
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On this the liberal and the right-wing columnists seem to agree: Adults are responsible for not controlling the behavior of Littleton, ColoradoÕs Òtrench coat mafiaÓ killers. Eileen McNamara, liberal columnist for the Globe, suggests that the pare...


