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Peters: On Breakfast, Kids and Common Sense
Commentary, December, 11 2000
Cynthia Peters
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Ivy League institutions, major hospitals, and corporate money teamed up recently to make the startling revelation: kids should eat breakfast. You may be forgiven for thinking that you already knew eating in the morning was a good idea for kids, a...
Chomsky: Propaganda and Indoctrination
Commentary, December, 10 2000
Noam Chomsky
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This is the first of three Chomsky Commentaries I will send this month...each answers one or more queries from David Barsamian (DB) and all are excerpted from a still to be published interview... DB: Lets talk about a theme that we return to peri...
Bond: South Africa's municipal elections: Finally, basic services for the masses?
Commentary, December, 06 2000
Patrick Bond
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Tuesday, December 5, is a national election in South Africa, as nearly 9,000 councilors in 284 municipalities seek the support of ten million voters. The African National Congress (ANC), which since 1994 has won three national, provincial and loca...
Schechter: The Media And HIV/AIDS: What Should We Do?
Commentary, December, 02 2000
Danny Schechter
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Sorry. So sorry if you were given "unnecessary offense." So sayeth the BBC as part of an apology for a stunt concocted for a TV show that plays practical jokes on the public. "Aunty," as the Beeb is known, hired a child actor to pose as an Afric...
Cohen: Toxic Waste As Strategy, Part 2
Zmag Article, December, 01 2000
Mitchel Cohen
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The trade in toxic waste is more than a lucrative industry; it is also a central strategy of the New World Order, an intentional way of enclosing lands and resources—the very air we breathe—previously held in common and setting up trade in “pollut...
Albert: Election Lessons
Zmag Article, December, 01 2000
Michael Albert
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Election Lessons
Monbiot: The Massacre Starts Tomorrow
Commentary, December, 01 2000
George Monbiot
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There's an odd component of globalisation, which I find myself at a loss to explain. We are, we're assured, living in a global village, whose people are daily brought closer together. Yet we hear ever less about what is happening in distant parts ...
Edwards: THE CLIMATE KILLERS
Commentary, November, 29 2000
David Edwards
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An anonymous US official once advised, "We must counter, both in the UN and within the framework of the North-South dialogue, any discussion of global problems which questions the validity of the free market and of free enterprise in the countries...
Jensen: Even Now We Lie To Ourselves About Vietnam
Commentary, November, 27 2000
Robert Jensen
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Bill Clinton has always been keen on apologizing, for himself and on behalf of the nation. He has apologized not only for a sex scandal, but for U.S. support of repression in Guatemala and for slavery.
Peters: Children's Museums A Rant
Commentary, November, 25 2000
Cynthia Peters
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Question: What do you get when you cross "generous funding" from bloated financial institutions with a culture that picks on parents? Answer: Children's Museums.
Herman: LIBERAL APOLOGETICS FOR IMPERIALISM
Commentary, November, 21 2000
Edward Herman
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Edward S. HermanThe American Prospect (TAP) magazine, edited by Robert Kuttner and Paul Starr, with Robert Reich as "National Editor," is a liberal magazine par excellence, and has frequent articles on domestic policy issues that represent the bes...
Monbiot: Reality Re-Asserts ItselfT
Commentary, November, 14 2000
George Monbiot
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Just as floods and tornadoes were laying waste to our homes, we earthlings watched the launch of an exciting new venture. Three cosmonauts were blasted into orbit, to pioneer the permanent inhabitation of space. Humanity is already making plans fo...
Albert: Election Issues
Commentary, November, 13 2000
Michael Albert
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The election fiasco is an unexpected spur to progressive prospects. Lots of people are thinking hard about what good government is. This could yield positive political vision, not just a list of things we donÕt like.The coming assault on the Elec...
Raptis: Yugoslavia: The Birth of a U.S Client State
Commentary, November, 12 2000
Nikos Raptis
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"Client state: a country that is economically, politically, or militarily dependent on another country" (Webster's 10th). That was a rather polished definition by the political elite around 1918. In today's real world the expressions "vassal state...
Herman: NADER, OR DISENFRAN-
Commentary, November, 11 2000
Edward Herman
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It is well understood that this electoral system is sick for reason of the great importance of money. The two dominant parties are even recognized in the mainstream media to have two conventions: the nominal and heavily featured one where the publ...
Weisbrot: Still Hasn't Found What He's Looking For
Commentary, November, 06 2000
Mark Weisbrot
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Star power had boosted the movement to cancel the debt of the world's poorest countries, even if there is still little to show for its efforts. At the International Monetary Fund and World Bank meetings in Prague last month, the most interesting s...
Herman: CENSORSHIP AS A PACIFICA MANAGEMENT TOOL
Commentary, November, 02 2000
Edward Herman
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Studying the recent history of Pacifica over the past several weeks, I have been once again impressed with how important a role censorship has played in the tactics and apparent strategy of the Pacifica management. Censorship by the use of gag r...
Street: The Economy is Doing Fine, It's Just the People That Aren't
Zmag Article, November, 01 2000
Paul Street
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The Economy is Doing Fine, It's Just the People That Aren't
Sargent: 37.7 Seconds, Part IX
Zmag Article, November, 01 2000
Lydia Sargent
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By Lydia Sargent I have been writing in this column for the last 10 months about the experience of reading current “feminist” sociobiology and evolutionary psychology where the hot topic is the differences that have been discove...
Baker: none
Zmag Article, November, 01 2000
Dean Baker
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University of Chicago Press, 2000 Review by Edward Herman This fine book contends, and demonstrates compellingly, that the only “crisis” Social Security faces is posed by its enemies, who have created a phony one to provide...
