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Commentary Reinhart: Mideast Apartheid? Peace?

Commentary, April, 14 2000 Tanya Reinhart
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Hundred and twenty Palestinian intellectuals issued a message addressed to the Israeli and Jewish public. "The majority of Palestinians, including the undersigned, believed that the time was ripe for concluding with the Israelis a historic agreeme...

Commentary Guellec: HMO Execs Debate How to Heal Their Image

Commentary, April, 07 2000 Dorothy Guellec
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Quietly HMO top brass have been meeting in Texas to find ways to improve Òtheir battered public image.Ó They are divided as to how to do this. The three big ones United Health Group, Kaiser Foundation Health Plan and Humana suggest industry wide c...

Zmag Article Chomsky: In Retrospect

Zmag Article, April, 01 2000 Noam Chomsky
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The tumult having subsided, it should be possible to undertake a relatively dispassionate review and analysis of NATO’s war over Kosovo. One might have expected the theme to have dominated the year-end millennarianism, consi...

Zmag Article Loewenstein: Fighting the Lebanese War

Zmag Article, April, 01 2000 Jennifer Loewenstein
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On February 8, Israel Defense Forces (IDF) launched a series of air strikes against Lebanon as revenge against recent Hizbullah attacks in South Lebanon. Three power switching stations, the most vital electricity facilities in th...

Zmag Article Boutros-ghali: none

Zmag Article, March, 01 2000 Boutros Boutros-ghali
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Random House, NY, 1999, 352 pp, Review by Tom Gallagher Some will remember that before serving as spokesperson for the victims of erectile dysfunction, Senator Robert Dole was the 1996 Republican nominee for the United States preside...

Commentary Shalom: Green Lights and Red Herrings

Commentary, February, 11 2000 Stephen1 Shalom
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In December 1975, after receiving a green light from U.S. President Gerald and Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, Indonesian President Suharto launched an invasion of East Timor. The weapons for the attack came from the United States. "Of course ...

Commentary Reinhart: This Ain't the Road of Peace

Commentary, January, 28 2000 Tanya Reinhart
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For many in Israel, it is already difficult to remember the joy and relief in which they received the news about the forthcoming peace with Syria, about a month ago. What was this joy about?

Commentary Chomsky: Four from the Forums

Commentary, January, 19 2000 Noam Chomsky
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On graduate unions, it's true enough that (ideally) "graduate teaching is pedagogical training," but that's incomplete. Any teaching, if done at all seriously, is also a way of learning -- about lots of things, including the subject you are teachi...

Commentary Chomsky: Millennial Visions and Selective Vision Part Two

Commentary, January, 13 2000 Noam Chomsky
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In fairness, it should be mentioned that the chorus of self-adulation that closed the millennium was disrupted by some discordant notes. Questions were raised about the consistency of our adherence to the guiding principles: the "new doctrine" tha...

Zmag Article Gordon: Barak's Economic Program

Zmag Article, January, 01 2000 Neve Gordon
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Neve Gordon In 1992, it was still unclear that Bill Clinton’s election would mark the advent of a new breed of leaders. Yet a few years later Tony Blair was elected in England and Lionel Jospin in France. When Germany’s Gerha...

Zmag Article Herman: Hitchens on Serbia and East Timor

Zmag Article, January, 01 2000 Edward Herman
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Edward S. Herman In each U.S. war there are liberals and leftists who lend it support, and even larger numbers who don’t oppose it because the issues and stakes involved seem unclear. Both support and silence are encouraged by the...

Commentary Reinhart: With Barak No Withdrawal, No Peace

Commentary, December, 29 1999 Tanya Reinhart
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In Israel, there is a feeling of a great historical moment. Finally, after much pressure and diplomacy - the story goes - Asad agreed to turn to the road of peace. In the expected peace agreement, Syria will get back all of the Golan Heights, and ...

Commentary Herman: The Times and East Timor

Commentary, November, 14 1999 Edward Herman
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Seth Mydans's October 31 piece on the Indonesian departure from East Timor, "A Calamitous Era Plays Out Quietly For East Timorese," with its admission that 200,000 had died in Indonesia's 24 year failed pacification effort, including its final "ra...

Commentary Zinn: A Larger Consciousness

Commentary, October, 10 1999 Howard Zinn
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Some years ago, when I was teaching at Boston University, I was asked by a Jewish group to give a talk on the Holocaust. I spoke that evening, but not about the Holocaust of World War II, not about the genocide of six million Jews.

Zmag Article Albert: Mother Jones, Todd Gitlin, & Kosovo

Zmag Article, October, 01 1999 Michael Albert
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Michael Albert Many people were concerned during the Kosovo conflict that crimes against the Albanian Kosovars were so horrific that however painful it might be to undertake, NATO intervention was warranted. Such folks felt that genocide ...

Zmag Article Nurmela: Why Are We Still Researching Nuclear Weapons?

Zmag Article, October, 01 1999 Lillian Nurmela
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Lillian Nurmela In all the furor over insufficient security at our nuclear weapons labs and the claim that China has stolen our secrets, neither the media nor Congress has questioned why the U.S. is continuing to research nuclear weapons. Ther...

Commentary Administrator: International Labor Solidarity Puts Pressure on Indonesia

Commentary, September, 17 1999 Site Administrator
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In contrast to organized labor's division over what should be done about the Kosovo crisis, the current mayhem and mass killing in East Timor has galvanized a powerful and unified response from unions internationally. Organized labor, and most esp...

Commentary Chomsky: Eight Question on Kibbutzim: Answers from Noam Chomsky Questions from Nikos Raptis

Commentary, August, 24 1999 Noam Chomsky
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The origins were in part European libertarian socialist thought. In part they were in a kind of romantic "back to the land" movement, suffused sometimes with Tolstoyan anarchism, in other cases part of a (very conscious) effort to reverse the "inv...

Commentary Administrator: The Milosevic Indictment

Commentary, May, 29 1999 Site Administrator
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Following World War II, a war crimes tribunal was held in Tokyo to try Japanese political and military leaders.

Commentary Reinhart: The Israeli Elections

Commentary, May, 18 1999 Tanya Reinhart
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This is a translation of a column that appeared in the Israeli daily 'yediot' on May 16, 1999 (a day before the elections).

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