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Peck: Remilitarizing Africa for Corporate Profit
Zmag Article, October, 01 2000
John e. Peck
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Remilitarizing Africa for Corporate Profit
Wise: Freeh's Blind Mice: A Critical Look at "Tolerance Training," FBI Style
Commentary, September, 24 2000
Tim Wise
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That I'm no Biblical scholar is an understatement of monumental proportions. And yet, recently I found myself--for reasons I'll explain shortly--thinking of the following verse from the book of Matthew, if memory serves:
Chomsky: Summits
Commentary, September, 17 2000
Noam Chomsky
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The United Nations Summit in New York in September was the second major gathering of government leaders marking the millennium. The first was the South Summit in Havana in April. The UN Summit received considerable national publicity, while the So...
Author: Let the Palestinians Go Home
Commentary, September, 15 2000
Guest Author
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President Clinton's renewed efforts to revive the Israeli-Palestinian negotiations focussed attention once again on what is conventionally held to be the key sticking point in the talks: the future of Jerusalem.
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 ...
Wise: Gore-Vey!: Joe Lieberman, Jewish Mobility, and the Politics of Race in America
Commentary, August, 29 2000
Tim Wise
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I am a Jew. And according to what others of my faith tradition tell me, I should be beaming with pride at the fact that Al Gore--a Southern Baptist whose denominational leaders once said God didn't answer the prayers of folks like me--has picked a...
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.
Landau: THE DRUG WAR IS AS AMERICAN AS APPLE PIE AND COCAINE
Commentary, August, 10 2000
Saul Landau
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One of my friends mocks the drug war and sneers at President Clinton's request that Congress fund a new $1.2 billion military aid package for Colombia, so the Colombian military can better engage the iniquitous narco-traffickers. "You don't unders...
Chomsky: "Peace Process" Prospects
Commentary, July, 27 2000
Noam Chomsky
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The latest AP report from Camp David (evening, July 25) begins: "The Middle East peace talks at Camp David collapsed Tuesday over rival claims to East Jerusalem. Disappointed, President Clinton said he tried several approaches but could not come u...
Chomsky: National Missile Defense
Commentary, July, 20 2000
Noam Chomsky
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Taking into account the results of the recent test, should President Clinton ask the Pentagon to go ahead with the national missile defense system?I would prefer to respond to a slight reformulation of the question. The most hopeful prospect for t...
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?
Chomsky: Humanitarian Intervention
Commentary, July, 05 2000
Noam Chomsky
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At a public talk in February Chomsky was asked: "President Clinton recently said the U.S. has the right on humanitarian grounds to intervene, with force, in any country which it deems is abusing the human rights of its citizens. Do you agree ...
Schirmer: President Clinton, A Corporate Offensive, and Okinawan Bases
Zmag Article, July, 01 2000
Daniel Schirmer
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President Clinton, A Corporate Offensive, and Okinawan Bases
Solomon: U.S. NEWS MEDIA: A SECURITY ZONE FOR ISRAEL
Commentary, June, 03 2000
Norman Solomon
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One phrase -- "security zone" -- sums up an entire era of media spin about Israel's 22-year occupation of southern Lebanon.
Chomsky: The Colombia Plan: April 2000
Zmag Article, June, 01 2000
Noam Chomsky
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In 1999, Colombia became the leading recipient of U.S. military and police assistance, replacing Turkey (Israel and Egypt are in a separate category). The figure is scheduled to increase sharply with the anticipa...
Reinhart: WITHDRAWAL?
Commentary, May, 31 2000
Tanya Reinhart
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Is Barak determined to achieve peace, or is ÊÊhe exercising Sharon's plan to withdraw from Lebanon and return under 'better conditions'? The problem is that nobody knows, not even the government which has exempted him from the need to inform it on...
Hoodbhoy: EQBAL AHMAD: POST-POKHARAN DAYS
Commentary, May, 11 2000
Pervez Hoodbhoy
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He fought for Kashmiri self-determination in 1948, against French imperialism in Algeria in the early 60's, roused students on American campuses in the early 70's against their government's immoral war in Vietnam, dodged arrest by the CIA in a cas...
Herman: The NATO-Media Lie Machine
Zmag Article, May, 01 2000
Edward Herman
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NATO’s “humanitarian” enterprise in Kosovo was built on a structure of lies, many of them flowing from NATO headquarters and officials of the NATO powers, and uncritically passed along by the mains...
Chomsky: Colombia – Part One of Two
Commentary, April, 24 2000
Noam Chomsky
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In 1999, Colombia became the leading recipient of US military and police assistance, replacing Turkey (Israel and Egypt are in a separate category). The figure is scheduled to increase sharply for the next two years. Through the 1990s, Colombia ha...
