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Commentary Peters: The Hand that Rocks the Cradle Generates the Statistics

Commentary, May, 06 2001 Cynthia Peters
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Once again, a lot of very smart scientists with significant institutional backing have spent a lot of time and a lot of money coming up with brainless conclusions and age-old solutions.

Commentary Klein: Talk to your neighbours

Commentary, May, 05 2001 Naomi Klein
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The idea of turning London into a life-sized Monopoly board on May Day sounded like a great idea. The most familiar criticism lobbed at modern protesters is that they lack focus and clear goals such as "Save the trees" or "Drop the debt." And yet...

Commentary Albert: New Targets

Commentary, May, 04 2001 Michael Albert
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We anti-globalists oppose imperial trade arrangements. We reject that the rich get richer. We repudiate that the poor get poorer. We laugh at pundits claiming that globalization positively entwines world centers via new modes of communication and ...

Commentary Mokhiber: Ari the Evader

Commentary, May, 03 2001 Russell Mokhiber
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Ari Fleischer is a nice guy. He likes baseball. We like baseball. That's about where the similarities end. Fleischer is the most recent in a long unbroken line of press secretaries of corporate presidents of the United States.

Commentary Russell: Craig Shirley Does the Disabled

Commentary, May, 02 2001 Marta Russell
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Craig Shirley is the guy whose PR firm created the newly formed Disabled Americans for Death Tax Repeal. Disabled Americans for Death Tax Repeal ran a full-page ad in The Wall Street Journal and Washington Times to lobby Congress to abolish the fe...

Commentary Herman: THE MEDIA AT THE BARRICADES IN SUPPORT OF "FREE TRADE"

Commentary, April, 30 2001 Edward Herman
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Back at the time of the struggle over the North American Free Trade Agreement (Nafta) in 1993, the mainstream media lined up in solid phalanx in its support, and Meg Greenfield, opinion editor of the Washington Post explained the one-sidedness of ...

Commentary Pilger: Academia is silent on imperialism, as German universities were during the rise of the Nazis

Commentary, April, 29 2001 John Pilger
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The other day, I attended a conference at the University of Sussex on the "new imperialism". What was extraordinary was that it took place at all. Julian Saurin, who teaches in the school of African and Asian studies at Sussex, said that, in ten y...

Commentary Naini: Profits Over People: The FTAA’s Negative Impacts on the People of the Western Hemisphere

Commentary, April, 29 2001 Ali Naini

Recently, the leaders of thirty-four nations in the Americas, representing every country except Cuba, gathered to discuss the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA), a proposed trade agreement encompassing 800 million people and eleven trillion do...

Commentary Naiman: Debt Cancellation, Not Corporate Trade Deals, Would Help the Poor

Commentary, April, 28 2001 Robert Naiman
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The verbal flubs of President Bush in Quebec City were widely reported to the amusement of the educated. He referred to the language of Mexico (Spanish) as "Mexican" and called the Canadian leader "amigo" (rather than using the French "ami.")

Commentary Glick: On Winning Hearts and Minds

Commentary, April, 28 2001 Ted Glick
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A year ago, on April 17th, 2000, I wrote a Future Hope column which likened both the forms of action and the relative organizational coherence of the April 16th actions in D.C. against the IMF/World Bank to a regular army without violent weapons, ...

Commentary Podur: Invisible Struggles in Colombia

Commentary, April, 27 2001 Justin Podur
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If you had the chance to see 'Traffic', you know the War on Drugs is a sham. There's a good chance you know that its domestic effects are to imprison thousands and thousands of non-violent offenders who aren't dangerous, cut them off from their fa...

Commentary Bohmer: Cuba Today

Commentary, April, 26 2001 Peter Bohmer
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Forty years ago on April 16th , 2001, in the Vedado section of Havana, Fidel Castro announced to the Cuban people and beyond that the Cuban revolution had become a socialist revolution. On April 16th, 2001 in the same place, Fidel reaffirmed CubaÕ...

Commentary Prashad: Hindutva For a Few Dollars a Day

Commentary, April, 25 2001 Vijay Prashad
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Bangru Laxman asks the intrepid tehelka.com journalists to bring him $30,000 to their next meeting. He has already taken Rs. 1 lakh. "You can give dollars," said the President of the BJP. "You talk to us directly. We normally turn to [National Sec...

Commentary Peters: Purchasing for your Poodle: Consumerism Unleashed

Commentary, April, 24 2001 Cynthia Peters
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A refugee from the Sudan is in a grocery store in Fargo, North Dakota. Orphaned by war, traumatized by loss and violence, and having survived most his life on minimal rations, this young man, Peter, is understandably amazed by the endless of aisle...

Commentary Mokhiber: Stop the Torture Trade

Commentary, April, 23 2001 Russell Mokhiber
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Torture predates the development of the corporation. But corporations are entangled in the modern-day commerce in devices of torture. In a new report, Amnesty International shines a spotlight on the makers of law enforcement equipment and how the...

Commentary Weisbrot: Why We Need Free Trade for Life-Saving Medicines

Commentary, April, 22 2001 Mark Weisbrot
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The story of the decade, and perhaps the century, has finally made it to the front pages: millions of people who could be saved are dying from AIDS. The reason for their unnecessary, premature, and often agonizing deaths is now becoming clear: it ...

Commentary Guellec: The Abandonment of the patient In profit-driven health care

Commentary, April, 21 2001 Dorothy Guellec
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Profit-driven healthcare is what we have today, but the end may be in sight, at least the former JAMA Editor George D. Lundberg (Journal of the American Medical Association) thinks so. In his explosive new book ÒSevered Trust: Why American Medicin...

Commentary Choudry: Battling to derail the TNCs in New Zealand

Commentary, April, 20 2001 Aziz Choudry
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The UNCTAD World Investment Report 2000 rated New Zealand as the most transnationalised economy in the OECD. Most of New Zealand's productive, financial, energy, retail, transport, media and communications sectors are now in the hands of transnati...

Commentary Administrator: Learning About Quebec and Canada

Commentary, April, 18 2001 Site Administrator
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In a few weeks, activists will be traveling to Quebec to protest the attempt by government leaders to negotiate a Free Trade Areas of the Americas (FTAA). ThereÕs been much talk about the security and anti-protest measures being taken by the Canad...

Commentary Wise: 15 Dead in Ohio: The Black and the Blue in Cincinnati

Commentary, April, 17 2001 Tim Wise
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Sometimes, folks don't even bother hiding their racism. Take Keith Fangman, President of the Cincinnati Fraternal Order of Police. In the wake of this past week's uprising to protest the killing of Tim Thomas and fourteen other black men by his co...

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