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Commentary Cromwell: An Unholy Trinity: Truth, Market Forces and the Media

Commentary, December, 25 2000 David Cromwell
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Are you a regular newspaper reader? If so, you'll have noticed that many journalists and columnists include an email address at the bottom of their articles. They surely crave your feedback! So here's a fun experiment. Fire off an email to the com...

Commentary Zinn: TENNIS ON THE TITANIC

Commentary, December, 16 2000 Howard Zinn
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As the prize of the presidency lurched wildly back and forth in the last days of the year, with the entire nation hypnotized by the spectacle, I had a vision. I saw the Titanic churning through the waters of the North Atlantic toward an iceberg lo...

Commentary 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...

Commentary Prashad: Betrayed Redemption in Chile

Commentary, November, 15 2000 Vijay Prashad
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On Friday, 10 November, the Santiago (Chile) Court of Appeals refused to grant parole to retired army General Torres Silva. A few hours later, Judge Sergio Munoz indicted a general on active duty, Hernan Ramirez for the same crime. Both these lead...

Commentary Cromwell: Silent Democracy

Commentary, October, 24 2000 David Cromwell
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"It's sociologically interesting, though scary", said the actor Anthony Sher in a recent interview, "that you can be inside an evil system and be somehow unaware of it." South African by birth, Sher was talking about the former system of apartheid...

Commentary Cromwell: Silent Democracy

Commentary, October, 24 2000 David Cromwell
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"It's sociologically interesting, though scary", said the actor Anthony Sher in a recent interview, "that you can be inside an evil system and be somehow unaware of it." South African by birth, Sher was talking about the former system of apartheid...

Commentary Herman: THE MONEY, MEDIA, AND LIBERAL-LEFT ROLE IN PLUTOCRATIC ELECTIONS

Commentary, September, 13 2000 Edward Herman
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In many ways the system is working beautifully right now. First of all, money dominates the initial selection and weeding out of presidential candidates, so that only those who will serve the corporate interest on the basics--advancing "free trade...

Commentary Bonpane: The Death of the Dinosaur, the Saber Tooth Tiger, and Militarism

Commentary, September, 10 2000 BlasŽ Bonpane
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Take a look at the La Brea Tar Pits numerous millennia ago. The saber tooth tiger attempts to attack a wild horse. The tiger gets stuck in the tar. The most ferocious animals are generally on the endangered species list, the lions the tigers, the ...

Commentary Solomon: HOLY SMOKE AND MIRRORS: THE RISE OF CENTRIST THEOCRATS

Commentary, August, 12 2000 Norman Solomon
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It's always dangerous when politicians claim to be doing God's will. So, as the novelty fades from Al Gore's selection of Joseph Lieberman, journalists should ask some probing questions about the ticket's conspicuous piety.

Commentary Herman: ROGUE REMOVAL AS OFFICIAL U.S. FOREIGN POLICY

Commentary, August, 11 2000 Edward Herman
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In her August 1 speech before the Republican National Convention, Bush foreign policy adviser Condoleezza Rice explained to the audience that Bush "recognizes that the magnificent men and women of America's armed forces are not a global police for...

Commentary Edwards: Two on Iraq

Commentary, August, 06 2000 David Edwards
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August 6 is the tenth anniversary of sanctions on Iraq...and we have two commentaries on the broad topic to deliver...

Commentary Cagan: Philadelphia: Sunday, July 30

Commentary, August, 01 2000 Leslie Cagan
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As the several thousand delegates to the Republican PartyÕs Nominating Convention were arriving in Philadelphia this weekend, protests were already in full swing. There is too much happening for me to report on it all, but the Independent Media Ce...

Commentary Reinhart: LAND FOR APPARTHEID (The Camp David summit)

Commentary, July, 15 2000 Tanya Reinhart
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Barak went to the summit with a magic formula: 10-90. 10 percent annexation, and in the rest - a Palestinian state. No previous Israeli plan ever offered so much land to the Palestinians. Where do these numbers come from?

Commentary Herman: KOSOVO ONE YEAR LATER: FROM SERB REPRESSION TO NATO-SPONSORED ETHNIC CLEANSING

Commentary, June, 23 2000 Edward Herman
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Now a little more than one year after the ending of Nato's 78- day bombing of Yugoslavia and the beginning of Nato control of Kosovo (June 10-12, 1999), the mainstream media have been exceedingly reticent in offering the public serious retrospecti...

Commentary Author: AN EMBARGO TOO FAR

Commentary, June, 08 2000 Guest Author
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Mariam Hamza has beautiful eyes, a loving personality and immense courage. She is also a symbol of one of the greatest human rights abuses of our time. This four year old Iraqi leukaemia patient hit the headlines in 1998 when George Galloway, MP f...

Commentary Bonpane: Delegation to Colombia

Commentary, June, 05 2000 BlasŽ Bonpane
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What does Medellin mean to a U.S. citizen? Narco-terrorists, sicarios (hired assassins) and drug lords. It is actually a beautiful and mountainous city located at many altitudes, all of them comfortable.

Commentary Edwards: CLIMATE WARS Paying The Ultimate Price For Corporate Control of Society

Commentary, May, 25 2000 David Edwards
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Declared 98% successful in destroying Iraqi Scud missiles during the Gulf War, the Patriot missile system was subsequently found to have achieved a success rate "close to zeroÓ by Professor Ted Postol of MIT. But by then the deception had done it...

Commentary Landau: McCaffery (Goliath) v. Hersh (David)

Commentary, May, 21 2000 Saul Landau
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I found the May 15 NPR news very even-handed - as always. The host interviewed Seymour Hersh, who wrote for the May 22 New Yorker Overwhelming Force, an expose on General Barry McCaffery's Gulf War conduct. Hersh interviewed soldiers and officers ...

Commentary Zinn: THE HEROES AROUND US

Commentary, May, 07 2000 Howard Zinn
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Recently, meeting with a group of high school students, I was asked by one of them: "I read in your book, A PEOPLE'S HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES, about the massacres of Indians, the long history of racism, the persistence of poverty in the rich...

Commentary Solomon: THE POWER AND LIMITS OF PHOTOJOURNALISM

Commentary, May, 04 2000 Norman Solomon
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Despite all the emphasis on new media, photography has never lost the power to move us. Some recent photo essays in major American magazines, focusing on the poor and dispossessed, are efforts to break through abstraction and indifference. They te...

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