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Podur: 'We mean Dead or Dead'
Commentary, October, 30 2001
Justin Podur
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'If Osama bin Laden were hiding in the jungles of Colombia instead of Afghanistan, whose help would we enlist to find him? U.S. Army Special Forces? The Colombian Army? I don't think so.
Reinhart: Stop Israel!
Commentary, October, 30 2001
Tanya Reinhart
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For a whole week now, The Israeli army has been terrorizing cities and villages in the West Bank. As in the darkest days at the beginning of the present Intifada, desperate voices and reports pour through the internet, telling of massive shelling,...
Hartmann: The Return of Relevance
Commentary, October, 29 2001
Betsy Hartmann
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Trying to stay afloat in the turbulent wake of September 11, I was full of fear like most people, fear of another attack, fear of the U.S. war machine, fear of racist assaults on Arab-Americans and South Asians, fear of further erosion of civil li...
Weisbrot: Protecting Pharmaceutical Companies from the Threat of Bio-Terrorism
Commentary, October, 29 2001
Mark Weisbrot
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Some principles are so important that they cannot be violated even in a time of national emergency. One of those, it now appears, is the principle of patent rights for multi-billion dollar pharmaceutical companies.
Kagarlitsky: Facing WTO Life Sentence
Commentary, October, 28 2001
Boris Kagarlitsky
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The attacks in New York and Washington have provided the impetus for a new round of rapprochement between the United States and Russia. After several years of cool relations and confrontational rhetoric, the Russian government is demonstrating a w...
Wise: Who’s Being Naïve? War-Time Realism Through the Looking Glass
Commentary, October, 28 2001
Tim Wise
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To hear those who support the current air assault on Afghanistan tell it, those of us who doubt the likely efficacy of such a campaign, and who question its fundamental morality are not only insufficiently patriotic but dangerously naïve.
Choudry: Prising Open The Pacific: New Trade Deals Reflect Old Agendas
Commentary, October, 27 2001
Aziz Choudry
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The winds of change, so the clichŽ goes, are blowing across the Pacific. Yet looking at the background to two regional trade agreements launched in August makes me think that sometimes the more things change, the more they stay the same.
Burchill: Corrected: Mad, Bad, Dangerous To Know
Commentary, October, 26 2001
Scott Burchill
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WASHINGTON'S decision to renew friendships with the Northern Alliance for its war against al-Qa'ida and the Taliban provides clues as to what George W. Bush, Tony Blair and John Howard mean by "our values".
Solomon: War Needs Good Public Relations
Commentary, October, 26 2001
Norman Solomon
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For some people, war is terror, disaster and death. For others, it's a PR problem.
Landau: Fast trick on fast track
Commentary, October, 25 2001
Saul Landau
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While Congress remains in its bipartisan spasm, Bush Administration fast talkers try to pass fast track on free trade by placing it into their national unity package. Fast track gives the President power to negotiate broad trade agreements like NA...
Guellec: If You Can't Pay For Chemotherapy - You'll Die!!
Commentary, October, 24 2001
Dorothy Guellec
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It is a shame that we all can't, or won't, see what is going on! Taxol, a drug discovered by the government and used for many of the 100 or so different kinds of cancers has gone generic.
Peters: Where are the Afghan Women?
Commentary, October, 23 2001
Cynthia Peters
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In my previous commentary, I used Cynthia Enloe's question, "Where are the women?" to explore how gender politics are being used to ignite patriotism on the domestic front. What happens when we apply the same question to the country the U.S. is cu...
Lusane: In Memory of Lisa Sullivan
Commentary, October, 22 2001
Clarence Lusane
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On October 1, to the shock of most of her friends and supporters, progressive activist and youth leader Lisa Yvette Sullivan passed suddenly due to congestive heart failure.
Jensen: Constricting critical inquiry in universities
Commentary, October, 21 2001
Robert Jensen
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Each year on our annual reports, University of Texas faculty members are asked to list grants we have received, one of the many ways we demonstrate to the bosses that we have been Òproductive.Ó
Podur: Review of ‘The Activist’s Handbook’ and ‘Rules for Radicals’
Commentary, October, 20 2001
Justin Podur
Podur's ZSpace page
‘The Activist’s Handbook’ by Randy Shaw compares itself to all the self-help and managerial expertise how-to books out there, lamenting the absence of similar books designed to help people win social change.
Albert: What’s So Complex About It?
Commentary, October, 19 2001
Michael Albert
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In the past few weeks I have minutely explored, often with Stephen Shalom, multifold concerns about September 11 and the “war on terrorism.†With him I have tried to calmly and soberly respond to all kinds of concerns people feel. ...
Klein: Mike Harris’s Ontario?
Commentary, October, 18 2001
Naomi Klein
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For almost a year, I carried Premier Mike Harris's $200 tax cut in my wallet. Its edges frayed and the ink began to smudge. I looked at it from time to time, then put it away.
Brecher: Collateral Damage: Neo-Liberalism
Commentary, October, 17 2001
Jeremy Brecher
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Even as they were planning military action in Afghanistan, US leaders were struggling with the contradictions of capitalism. One can almost hear them sighing, ah, if only we could bomb the recession!
Pilger: A war in the American tradition
Commentary, October, 16 2001
John Pilger
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The Anglo-American attack on Afghanistan crosses new boundaries. It means that America's economic wars are now backed by the perpetual threat of military attack on any country, without legal pretence.
Healy: Our "globalisation" against yours
Commentary, October, 14 2001
Sean Healy
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Dear Guy Verhofstadt, Prime Minister of Belgium, President of the European Union,
