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Herman: HITCHENS ON "BODY COUNT IN KOSOVO"
Commentary, June, 19 2001
Edward Herman
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An important public relations bonanza for the U.S. and other NATO powers' actions across the globe has been the accommodation of many leftists to the priorities and channeled benevolence of their leaders. These "New Humanitarians" have been furiou...
Edwards: THE MEDIA ELECTION 2001: LOW FARCE
Commentary, June, 18 2001
David Edwards
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Traditionally, general elections in Britain are a time for much quasi-religious talk of the blessed gift of democracy - so recently won at such high cost, we are told - and the importance of paying due homage to that great principle at the busines...
Mokhiber: A Call to Defy Corporate Domination
Commentary, June, 17 2001
Russell Mokhiber
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Since 1953, the percentage of unionized workers in the United States has declined from 26 percent to less than 14 percent. Yet, given the choice of joining a union or not, 48 percent of workers in this country say they would join. So, why isn't ...
Monbiot: Big Business vs Big Ideas
Commentary, June, 16 2001
George Monbiot
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If Gordon Brown was serious yesterday about creating an environment for "business dynamism" like that of the United States, he could do no better than to champion the entrepreneurial work of Conwy Council in North Wales. Conwy has done as all busi...
Prashad: Shooting Stars
Commentary, June, 15 2001
Vijay Prashad
Prashad's ZSpace page
On 21 April 1988, Mikhail Gorbachev turned to Colin Powell, then an aide of the US National Security Advisor, and said "What are you going to do now that you've lost your best enemy?" Gorbachev's unilateral disarmament of Soviet nuclear forces in ...
Solomon: AT COMMENCEMENT, JOURNALISM HAS A HAZY FUTURE
Commentary, June, 14 2001
Norman Solomon
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Today, departing from an institution steeped in modernity, you say farewell to a fine journalism school. Honored to address this graduating class, I will speak with uncommon candor about the wisdom of your training and the opportunities that lie a...
Jensen: Rich America, Unfair America
Commentary, June, 13 2001
Robert Jensen
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THE BIGGEST THREAT to democracy in the United States today is economic prosperity. That observation isn't motivated by a desire to see people suffer, but rather is a challenge to the celebration of a certain kind of prosperity, distributed in a c...
Podur: Mexico's 'Modern Right'
Commentary, June, 11 2001
Justin Podur
Podur's ZSpace page
In March, while they were on the March of Indigenous Dignity, on their way to Mexico City to press for the passage of the law on indigenous rights and culture, the Zapatistas berated the 'hardliners' in the government who called them terrorists an...
Russell: Abuse: Sanctioning Societal Violence
Commentary, June, 10 2001
Marta Russell
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Long time disability scholar Professor David Pfeiffer stated (in a New Political Science review of Beyond Ramps) that he "ha[s] never met a former inmate of a state school or a state hospital who was not repeatedly raped, men and women."
Flanders: Beltway Brinkmanship - Nothing to risk our rights on
Commentary, June, 08 2001
Laura Flanders
Flanders's ZSpace page
My grandmother's spirits were downcast last week because of baseball (the Red Sox lost lead of the American League.) But they soared when she remembered the Senate: "Just thinking about Jeffords cheers me up," she beamed. And this Memorial Day, sh...
Cromwell: INCREASING TRADE=CORPORATE PLUNDER
Commentary, June, 07 2001
David Cromwell
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SOUTHAMPTON, UK. The modern-day story of Southampton's docks encapsulates the ever-increasing conflict between the corporate demand for economic growth on the one hand, and environmental protection coupled with people's quality of life on the othe...
Author: U.S. High School Textbooks: Perpetuating the Idea of Overpopulation
Commentary, June, 06 2001
Guest Author
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Ingrained into the U.S. popular imagination is the idea that the world is overpopulated. Americans talk not so much about "population" as "overpopulation," in the belief that the planet is burdened with too many people. Often, Americans think of t...
Pilger: Tweedledum and Tweedledee seek your votes
Commentary, June, 05 2001
John Pilger
Pilger's ZSpace page
The singular achievement of Tony Blair and his new right movement is the convergence of British parliamentary politics into two almost identical factions. While journalists try to offer the pretence of choice, the public is more aware than ever of...
Herman: GIVING THE PEOPLE BACK THEIR OWN MONEY
Commentary, June, 04 2001
Edward Herman
Herman's ZSpace page
One of today's most favored rightwing justifications of a massive tax reduction is the idea that taxes are a form of government theft, which take from individuals the fruits of their labor or rightful ownership, and without reasonable cause. As Pr...
Bickerton: Labour Looks Forward From Quebec City
Commentary, June, 03 2001
Geoff Bickerton
Bickerton's ZSpace page
As we look forward to planning future political actions in opposition to free trade and globalization, unions in English Canada can learn much from the People's Summit and the anti-FTAA protests held in Quebec City in April.
Solomon: SIMULATING DEMOCRACY CAN BE A VIRTUAL BREEZE
Commentary, June, 02 2001
Norman Solomon
Solomon's ZSpace page
Few media eyebrows went up when the World Bank recently canceled a global meeting set for Barcelona in late June -- and shifted it to the Internet. Thousands of street demonstrators would have been in Spain's big northeastern port city to confront...
Dowd: DOWN WITH THE BAH HUMBUG OF TAXES
Commentary, June, 01 2001
Douglas Dowd
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The flagrantly unjust and harmful policies for taxes, governmental spending and real and imagined surpluses in place or on their way had their beginnings in the last years of Carter's presidency -- prodded and facilitated by what Richard Du Boff t...
Klein: Give Me a Hug: When Multinationals Want to Be Our Friend
Commentary, May, 31 2001
Naomi Klein
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When I was 17, I worked after school at an Esprit clothing store in Montreal. It was a pleasant job, mostly involving folding cotton garments into little squares so sharp that their corners could take out your eye.
Author: Britain's Manmade BSE Disaster: Boundless and Without Borders
Commentary, May, 30 2001
Guest Author
Author's ZSpace page
In 1985, a mystery disease now known as Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy [BSE or mad cow disease] first appeared in a dairy cow from Kent, England. Within the space of three years, the annual number of BSE-infected cattle in Britain rose to 731. B...
Weisbrot: Don't Cry for the IMF, Argentina
Commentary, May, 29 2001
Mark Weisbrot
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How many times can the most powerful financial institution in the world -- the International Monetary Fund -- make the same mistake? The answer seems to be: as many times as it wants to. As Argentina teeters on the brink of defaulting on its $150 ...
