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Klein: After Genoa
Commentary, September, 06 2001
Naomi Klein
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Part of the tourist ritual of traipsing through Italy in August is marvelling at how the locals have mastered the art of living -- and then complaining bitterly about how everything is closed. ÒSo civilised,Ó you can hear North Americans remarkin...
Pilger: Liberal elites have always disguised their innate conservatism
Commentary, September, 04 2001
John Pilger
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At the Hay-on-Wye literary festival in May, leading members of the media and cultural elite assembled in the fine gardens of a Regency house to await the arrival of the great man. They included broadsheet editors, deputy editors, literary editors,...
Gonsalves: The Opposite of Racism Isn't Colorblindness
Commentary, September, 02 2001
Sean Gonsalves
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If St. Paul was right, that the wages of sin is death, is it a stretch to say that the wages of white supremacy is colorblindness? To suggest such a thing, I'm sure, makes a good number of white brothers and sisters uneasy, thinking perhaps Black...
Glick: White Progressives, Black Reparations
Commentary, September, 02 2001
Ted Glick
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How many white progressives "get it" when it comes to the issue of reparations for people of African descent? More to the point, how many are able to genuinely and rationally consider it?
Podur: A Way Out for Colombia
Zmag Article, September, 01 2001
Justin Podur
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A Way Out for Colombia
Street: Savage Inequality As No Big Deal
Zmag Article, September, 01 2001
Paul Street
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Savage Inequality As No Big Deal
Bronski: Queer As Your Folks
Zmag Article, September, 01 2001
Michael Bronski
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Queer As Your Folks
Herman: Propaganda System Number One
Zmag Article, September, 01 2001
Edward Herman
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Propaganda System Number One
Albert: What Are We For?
Zmag Article, September, 01 2001
Michael Albert
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What Are We For?
Landau: MURDER CHARGES AGAINST CASTRO?
Commentary, August, 31 2001
Saul Landau
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The June 8 conviction of a small group of Cuban spies in south Florida holds ominous news on the US-Cuba front. The South Florida US Attorney Guy Lewis hinted that he might indict Fidel Castro by stating that the conviction of spymaster Gerardo He...
Weisbrot: Return of the Lockbox
Commentary, August, 30 2001
Mark Weisbrot
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Just when you thought the debate over national budget and economic policy couldn't get any more confusing or silly, the "lockbox" is back. Big time. The Democratic National Committee is running TV ads asserting that "the Bush budget raids the Medi...
Albert: Responding to the Nation
Commentary, August, 29 2001
Michael Albert
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The NationÕs (Sept 3) unsigned editorial treats PacificaÕs management as if they have ÒworthyÓ aims but indulge in a bit too much coffee each morning. Yet PacificaÕs management has routinely lied, employed pink slips as a bludgeon, hired thugs, is...
Podur: Loincloths, Ski Masks, and Social Movements
Commentary, August, 27 2001
Justin Podur
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ÒCertainly a soldier, myself included, is an absurd and irrational man, because he has the ability to resort to arms in order to convince. In the end, thatÕs what a soldier does when he gives an order: convince by force of arms. ThatÕs why we say ...
Edwards: A CLIMATE OF PROFIT
Commentary, August, 22 2001
David Edwards
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To what extent is business a positive force for good in a world undergoing potentially devastating human-induced climate change? In the week that government leaders met in Bonn to discuss the rapidly-crumbling Kyoto Protocol, The Guardian took a l...
Edwards: A CLIMATE OF PROFIT
Commentary, August, 22 2001
David Edwards
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To what extent is business a positive force for good in a world undergoing potentially devastating human-induced climate change? In the week that government leaders met in Bonn to discuss the rapidly-crumbling Kyoto Protocol, The Guardian took a l...
Monbiot: Hell's Grannies
Commentary, August, 20 2001
George Monbiot
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Ariel Sharon's decision not to blast the Palestinians out of existence after last week's suicide bombings is, at first sight, mystifying. While jets blew up the Palestinians' police station in Ramallah and Israeli soldiers occupied their East Je...
Brecher: The Road From Genoa
Commentary, August, 18 2001
Jeremy Brecher
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The battle in Genoa was not only the key event in the summer of 2001, but also marked a watershed for the anti-corporate movement. From the outset, the Big Eight summit in Genoa was doomed to become nothing more than a pretext for widespread prote...
Peters: An S30 Victory Six Weeks in Advance
Commentary, August, 16 2001
Cynthia Peters
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In a joint statement released on August 14, 2001, the IMF/World Bank reported that their annual meeting, originally scheduled to run for two weeks, would be reduced to two days. (The normal two-week meeting had previously been shortened to one wee...
Rebick: The New Politics Initiative: Towards a Living Democracy
Commentary, August, 14 2001
Judy Rebick
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What is participatory democracy? It is government that involves citizens at every level of decision-making. The form of participatory democracy we know best in Canada involves consulting citizens about policy. While experiences like the citizens c...
Pilger: Liberal elites have always disguised their innate conservatism
Commentary, August, 13 2001
John Pilger
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At the Hay-on-Wye literary festival in May, leading members of the media and cultural elite assembled in the fine gardens of a Regency house to await the arrival of the great man. They included broadsheet editors, deputy editors, literary editors,...
