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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...
Anderson: ADA
Graphic, July, 26 2000
Kirk Anderson
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ada, americans with disabilities act, disability, handicapped
Landau: THE 47TH ANNIVERSARY OF FIDEL'S ATTACK ON MONCADA
Commentary, July, 26 2000
Saul Landau
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July 26, 1953. Fidel Castro leads 158 men to attack Fort Moncada, in Santiago de Cuba, the island's second largest military installation. Flashback. 1860. John Brown's raiders hit Harper's Ferry. Brown, like Castro, lost the battle. Both of these ...
Deutsch: Gotta Love that Two Party System! (again)
Graphic, July, 25 2000
Barry Deutsch
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debate, democrats, republicans, two-party, two-party system, third parties, green party
Said: Dark at the End of the Tunnel
Commentary, July, 25 2000
Edward Said
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From Al-Ahram Weekly / Issue No. 491 The media has been bursting with all sorts of rumours, speculation, and some news about the Camp David summit, its progress, outcome, and meaning. Whatever happens as an immediate result of the negotiations, ...
Wise: Bill of Whites: Historical Memory Through the Racial Looking Glass
Commentary, July, 24 2000
Tim Wise
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In 1992, white supremacist Jared Taylor lamented the ostensibly growing influence of people of color in the U.S. when he wrote:"The old, standard history united Americans...It emphasized one point of view and ignored others. It was history about w...
Schechter: Long Live Chairman Levin!
Commentary, July, 23 2000
Danny Schechter
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A long time ago, in the days when evil empires threatened freedom-loving peoples everywhere, there were a few men we were taught to fear. They led massive, top-down international networks of true believers committed to infiltrating our minds and w...
Anderson: Missile shield
Graphic, July, 22 2000
Kirk Anderson
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missile defense, national missile defense, missile shield, star wars, sdi
Mokhiber: Which Way, CFA?
Commentary, July, 22 2000
Russell Mokhiber
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The Consumer Federation of America is at a crossroads. Set up in 1968 to advocate in Washington, D.C. for consumer interests, the Federation is being consumed by Washington's corporate culture. Will it seek to reverse course and get back to its co...
Anderson: Genetics protest
Graphic, July, 21 2000
Kirk Anderson
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genetics, bioengineering, gene
Naiman: SOFT STEP FOR CONGRESS: STRONG SLAP FOR THE WORLD BANK
Commentary, July, 21 2000
Robert Naiman
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Representative Sonny Callahan, the Chair of the Foreign Operations subcommittee of the House Appropriations Committee, and Representative Nancy Pelosi, his Democratic counterpart, disagree on a lot of issues. But they do agree that Congress shoul...
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...
Guellec: The dark side of the Canadian Healthcare system’s decline
Commentary, July, 19 2000
Dorothy Guellec
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My wise uncle told me that the real meaning of Globalization “is to make the world safe for the American and other multinational corporations to penetrate and take over as much as the world’s economy, country by country, as possibl...
Guellec: The dark side of the Canadian Healthcare systemÕs decline
Commentary, July, 19 2000
Dorothy Guellec
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My wise uncle told me that the real meaning of Globalization Òis to make the world safe for the American and other multinational corporations to penetrate and take over as much as the worldÕs economy, country by country, as possibleÓ. He is right,...
Deutsch: Sensitivity Training
Graphic, July, 18 2000
Barry Deutsch
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cops, police, racism, police racism, brutality, police brutality
Weisbrot: Trade Trumps Human Rights in Supreme Court Decision
Commentary, July, 18 2000
Mark Weisbrot
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The Supreme Court's unanimous decision yesterday to strike down the Massachusetts Burma law says more about the pro- business bias of the present Court than it does about the legal principles involved in the case.
Bond: A Political Economy of South African AIDS
Commentary, July, 17 2000
Patrick Bond
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Johannesburg, South Africa Up to a point, Danny Schechter is absolutely right to focus on the power and the appalling discursive-policy mistake of a single personality, SA president Thabo Mbeki, in this country's recent HIV-AIDS fiasco ("Mbeki'...
Prashad: The Hunt for Mexicans
Commentary, July, 16 2000
Vijay Prashad
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On 16 February 2000, the American Federation of Labor-Coalition of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO) which represents 13 million US workers dropped a bombshell. Vice President Linda Chavez-Thompson said that 'the current system of immigration enf...
Pond-mcpherson: Homosexuals in the Scouts
Graphic, July, 15 2000
Scott Pond-mcpherson
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boy scouts, scouts, gay, homosexual, supreme court, homophobia
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?
