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Landau: THE PINOCHET CASE: LEGAL COURAGE; POLITICAL COWARDICE

Commentary, March, 09 2001 Saul Landau
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It finally happened. On January 29, Judge Juan Guzman Tapia charged Geralissimo Augusto Pinochet, former dictator, President, chief of the armed forces, with 75 counts of murder and kidnapping. Five years ago, even most optimists had abandoned hop...

Pond-mcpherson: Same Old New Economy

Graphic, March, 08 2001 Scott Pond-mcpherson
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economy, unions, homeless, recession, technology, poverty, unemployment, employment

Said: The only alternative

Commentary, March, 08 2001 Edward Said
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I first visited South Africa in May 1991: a dark, wet, wintry period, when Apartheid still ruled, although the ANC and Nelson Mandela had been freed. Ten years later I returned, this time to summer, in a democratic country in which Apartheid has b...

Deutsch: Military Intelligence At Work

Graphic, March, 07 2001 Barry Deutsch
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Star Wars, NMD, Missiles, National Missile Defense, Missile Defense, army

Edwards: BIG BROTHER'S BAD INFLUENCE

Commentary, March, 07 2001 David Edwards
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December 2001 will see London hosting the first conference exploring the extent to which radical writing tends to incorporate, and be corrupted by, mainstream prejudices, emphases and ethical presumptions.

Mokhiber: Corporations: Different Than You and Me

Commentary, March, 06 2001 Russell Mokhiber
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Corporations are fundamentally different than you and me. That's a simple truth that Big Business leaders desperately hope the public will not perceive. It helps companies immeasurably that the law in the United States and in many other countrie...

Rosenberg: Dr. Ruth Said

Graphic, March, 05 2001 Martha Rosenberg
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Dr. Ruth, Dr. Laura

Shah: The Curious Politics of Milk

Commentary, March, 05 2001 Sonia Shah
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Part OneOne night, a small American boy slipped into bed with his mother and suckled at her breast for a few minutes before dropping off to sleep. The next day, he told his babysitter he wanted to stop doing so, but "Mommy wouldn't let me." The ch...

Monbiot: How the Superstores Gave Us Foot and Mouth

Commentary, March, 04 2001 George Monbiot
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"You enterprised a railroad through the valley," John Ruskin charged the railway companies in 1889. "The valley is gone, and the gods with it; and now every fool in Buxton can be at Bakewell in half-an-hour, and every fool in Bakewell at Buxton." ...

Author: SHAKY GROUND

Commentary, March, 03 2001 Guest Author
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By Paul Loeb Last week, I ran into a friend I worked with twenty years ago at a senior center. Lately, he's been working on emergency preparedness--helping Seattle retrofit its homes, businesses, and schools to withstand major earthquakes. Suppor...

Burchill: The East Timorese of Western Sahara

Commentary, March, 02 2001 Scott Burchill
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1975 was an extraordinary year for revolutionary upheavals in the Third World. The Khmer Rouge marched into Phnom Penh in April just two weeks before the US puppet regime in Saigon collapsed. The Pathet Lao took control of Laos the following month...

Burchill: The East Timorese of Western Sahara

Znet Article, March, 02 2001 Scott Burchill
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1975 was an extraordinary year for revolutionary upheavals in the Third World. The Khmer Rouge marched into Phnom Penh in April just two weeks before the US puppet regime in Saigon collapsed. The Pathet Lao took control of Laos the following month...