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Commentary Burchill: Australia & East Timor: Senate Passes Judgement

Commentary, December, 22 2000 Scott Burchill
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Largely unnoticed last week amongst the publicity splash produced by the release of a new Australian Defence White Paper, another significant parliamentary report quietly entered the public domain. The Australian Senate Committee enquiry into Aust...

Commentary Wise: White Christmas?

Commentary, December, 21 2000 Tim Wise
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Well it's that time of year again. Time for all good Americans to focus on what really matters. Not family, community, or world peace, but that national sacrament of late-stage capitalism known as Holiday shopping. Whether you do it online, or dra...

Commentary Mokhiber: Busted: the Genentech/American Heart Association Connection

Commentary, December, 20 2000 Russell Mokhiber
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For years, Genentech Inc.'s clotbuster drug tPA has been used to treat heart attacks.Last year, the American Heart Association published guidelines for physicians advising that tPA be used to treat strokes. Whether these new guidelines will help ...

Commentary Hutchinson: Terror Over Bush’s Supreme Court Picks May Not Be Justified

Commentary, December, 19 2000 Earl ofari Hutchinson
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Nothing stirs greater terror among civil rights and women’s rights groups than the prospect of Bush making politically disastrous picks to the U.S. Supreme Court. During the presidential campaign, Jesse Jackson, NAACP President Kweisi M...

Commentary Brecher: Draft of an Alternative Program for the Global Economy

Commentary, December, 18 2000 Jeremy Brecher
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Commenting on the Battle of Seattle, Newsweek wrote, "One of the most important lessons of Seattle is that there are now two visions of globalization on offer, one led by commerce, one by social activism." Globalization from below's vision has bee...

Commentary Zinn: TENNIS ON THE TITANIC

Commentary, December, 16 2000 Howard Zinn
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As the prize of the presidency lurched wildly back and forth in the last days of the year, with the entire nation hypnotized by the spectacle, I had a vision. I saw the Titanic churning through the waters of the North Atlantic toward an iceberg lo...

Commentary Chomsky: Overcoming Orthodoxies

Commentary, December, 16 2000 Noam Chomsky
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David Barsamian: I want to come back to the idea of what individuals can do in overcoming orthodoxies. Steve Biko, the South African activist who was murdered by the apartheid regime while he was in custody, once said, The most powerful weapon in ...

Commentary Raptis: Hitler : The (Strange) Elser Case

Commentary, December, 16 2000 Nikos Raptis
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Johann Georg Elser was born in the German Village of Hermaringen in 1903. At the age of fourteen he was apprenticed as a (lathe) turner in a local iron factory. In 1922 he passed his journeyman's exam as a cabinet-maker and became a specialist in ...

Commentary Landau: THE PRIZZI BUSHES WILL OCCUPY THE WHITE HOUSE

Commentary, December, 15 2000 Saul Landau
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Maureen Down has cleverly labeled them the Kennebunkport Corrleones. But I Êthink of the Bushes as the Texas Prizzis, that Mafia branch that has moved Êto cowboy country and have successfully filched the 2000 election. Recall Êin Prizzi's Honor ho...

Commentary Author: CONNECTIONS OF CANF'S TREASURER

Commentary, December, 15 2000 Guest Author
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The Cuban American National Foundation is well-represented on the GOP's list of presidential electors from Florida by CANF's treasurer, Feliciano M. Foyo, who happens to be a good friend of Florida Governor Jeb Bush. Foyo has another friend named...

Commentary Dowd: A TALE OF TWO CITIES

Commentary, December, 14 2000 Douglas Dowd
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The two cities are Bologna and Venice. The environmental problems threatening both, despite well-publicized "remedies," have not improved but worsened in recent decades; the cities, their problems, and their failure to deal with them exemplify all...

Commentary Flanders: A Racist Elephant in Our Living Room

Commentary, December, 13 2000 Laura Flanders
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There's an elephant in our electoral living room that Democratic leaders want Êto hide. In all the talk about cranky voting machines, chads and butterflies, Êthis is one topic the Gore camp has not touched. It will hurt them. It has Êalready. In t...

Commentary Podur: Mexico's New President Vicente Fox and the Zapatistas

Commentary, December, 12 2000 Justin Podur
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Mexico's New President Vicente Fox and the Zapatistas

Commentary Peters: On Breakfast, Kids and Common Sense

Commentary, December, 11 2000 Cynthia Peters
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Ivy League institutions, major hospitals, and corporate money teamed up recently to make the startling revelation: kids should eat breakfast. You may be forgiven for thinking that you already knew eating in the morning was a good idea for kids, a...

Commentary Chomsky: Propaganda and Indoctrination

Commentary, December, 10 2000 Noam Chomsky
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This is the first of three Chomsky Commentaries I will send this month...each answers one or more queries from David Barsamian (DB) and all are excerpted from a still to be published interview... DB: Lets talk about a theme that we return to peri...

Commentary Cromwell: FALLOUT FROM THE CLIMATE TALKS

Commentary, December, 08 2000 David Cromwell
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The planet is burning, while politicians fiddle the books. If yet more proof was needed that capitalist society is rotten to the core, then just look to the recently collapsed climate talks in The Hague. No agreements, paltry or otherwise. Just bi...

Commentary Prashad: Beauty Queens and the Capitalist Beast

Commentary, December, 07 2000 Vijay Prashad
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All the men are computer programmers, all the women are beauty queens, and some of us are humorless. So it seems in the land of Silicon(e) India. Bill Gates says that Indians are the second smartest people on the planet, and the international cons...

Commentary Bond: South Africa's municipal elections: Finally, basic services for the masses?

Commentary, December, 06 2000 Patrick Bond
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Tuesday, December 5, is a national election in South Africa, as nearly 9,000 councilors in 284 municipalities seek the support of ten million voters. The African National Congress (ANC), which since 1994 has won three national, provincial and loca...

Commentary Hightower: The Uncounted Majority

Commentary, December, 05 2000 Jim Hightower
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Not all computer errors involve vote counts in Florida. Writing in Funny Times, Richard Lederer tells about a computer glitch that caused the publisher of an economics report to have to issue an apology to subscribers: "Instead of the figures on t...

Commentary Wise: Of Monsters and Vampires: People Who Kill People (and the People Who Kill Them)

Commentary, December, 04 2000 Tim Wise
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My mother lied to me. She told me when I was a boy, so as to allay my fears to the contrary, that there were no such things as vampires; that there were not, in real life, those whose lust for human blood drove their every waking moment. And this ...

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