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Commentary Solomon: When Online Trading Offers a Reason to Believe

Commentary, November, 09 1999 Norman Solomon
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If you're watching much television these days, you've probably seen a lot of commercials for online investing. Many large brokerage firms are now urging people to play the stock market via the Internet. So, in routine fashion, TV spots dramatize c...

Commentary Naiman: Clinton's Debt Relief: Too Generous or Too Stingy

Commentary, November, 06 1999 Robert Naiman
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After President Clinton announced that he supports 100% cancellation of the debts owed by the poorest countries to the United States, some poll data suggested that people thought Clinton was being too generous.

Graphic Anderson: Wall St. Pokemon

Graphic, November, 04 1999 Kirk Anderson
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stocks, stock market, wall st., pokemon

Commentary Prashad: I'm Part of Today's Unions, Ask Me Why

Commentary, November, 03 1999 Vijay Prashad
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I'm Part of Today's Unions, Ask Me Why

Commentary Russell: The Private Health Care Juggernaut Needs Jilting

Commentary, November, 02 1999 Marta Russell
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Presidential hopeful Bill Bradley has placed health care reform on the national agenda as well it should be. However, the Bradley plan does not go far enough to resolve real need and it protects the insurance industry - the very culprit which is u...

Zmag Article Hahnel: Going To Greet The WTO In Seattle

Zmag Article, November, 01 1999 Robin Hahnel
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Going To Greet The WTO In Seattle

Zmag Article Pilger: Hidden Agendas

Zmag Article, November, 01 1999 John Pilger
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Pilger NY: New Press, 1999, pbk. 424 pp. Review by Anthony Arnove John Pilger is perhaps best known in the United States for his documentary Death of a Nation, a stunning expose on the genocide in East Timor. He has wri...

Commentary Mokhiber: The Criminal Element

Commentary, November, 01 1999 Russell Mokhiber
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The criminal element has seeped deep into every nook and cranny of American society. Forget about the underworld -- these crooks dominate every aspect of our market, culture, and politics. They cast a deep dark shadow over life in turn of the cent...

Commentary Weisbrot: Time to End Debt Slavery

Commentary, October, 31 1999 Mark Weisbrot
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It has become a truism that "there are no easy answers" to the world's most pressing economic and social problems. The phrase is often repeated by academics, policy wonks, and others whose occupation immerses them in the details of real or imagine...

Commentary Mokhiber: Keep the Public in Public Health

Commentary, October, 26 1999 Russell Mokhiber
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The great thing about the American Public Health Association (APHA) is in its name -- it's about public health -- what we as a society do to assure the conditions in which people can be healthy.

Commentary Weisbrot: Budget Baloney

Commentary, October, 20 1999 Mark Weisbrot
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How much falsehood and stupidity should the media allow to go unchallenged in public debate? At what point do journalists and the press have an obligation to step in and supply the necessary facts and explanations, so that the public can have a ch...

Commentary Guellec: Marketizing HMOs to Latin America

Commentary, October, 02 1999 Dorothy Guellec
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The number of for-profit health care organizations has quadrupled in the pas 17 years, a study by the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation said. For-profit HMO's were 18% of all plans in 1981 but increased to 74% by 1998. The proportion of enrollees ...

Zmag Article Fitz: Genetic Engineering

Zmag Article, October, 01 1999 Don Fitz
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Fitz Monsanto claims that genetic engineering is necessary to feed the world’s growing population. But a growing coalition of environmentalists, farmers, and scientists is exposing this claim as a cover for grabbing control of world agri...

Zmag Article Herman: The "Permanent Interests" Budget

Zmag Article, October, 01 1999 Edward Herman
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S. Herman What James Madison in the Federalist Papers referred to as the "permanent interests" of society—i.e., property owners, or Veblen’s "substantial citizens"—are doing extremely well in the New World Or...

Zmag Article Chomsky: East Timor Questions & Answers

Zmag Article, October, 01 1999 Noam Chomsky
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Stephen R. Shalom, Noam Chomsky, & Michael Albert This issue of Z was being prepared as the situation worsened in East Timor. The following Q&A is intended to give readers background information on the situation and U.S. interests in the area....

Zmag Article Pollack: Nasdaq Japan

Zmag Article, October, 01 1999 Andy Pollack
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Andy Pollack Last week the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), operator of New York’s Nasdaq exchange, announced it would open a new "electronic stock market" in Tokyo in the last quarter of the year 2000,...

Zmag Article Whitman: The New South 1999

Zmag Article, October, 01 1999 Claudia Whitman
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Claudia Whitman Brian Baldwin took his final steps to Alabama’s electric chair on Thursday night, June 17, 1999. Twenty-two years earlier, on arriving on death row at the Holman Unit in Atmore, guards had pushed him in front of this omino...

Zmag Article Petras: NATO in Kosova

Zmag Article, October, 01 1999 James Petras
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James Petras Tony Blair, Madeline Albright, and Javier Solano all returned to Kosova to cheering Albanian crowds, praising NATO and the KLA for their efforts on behalf of peace and democracy. The triumphal returns and euphoric rhetoric...

Commentary Russell: George W. Bush Y2000?

Commentary, October, 01 1999 Marta Russell
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In his "new" fight against poverty, Republican presidential candidate George W. Bush says he will issue a call to America's "armies of compassion" to end poverty, hunger, welfare and crime by donating to charity. The political goal of compassionat...

Commentary Weisbrot: The Looting of Russia

Commentary, September, 29 1999 Mark Weisbrot
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What were they thinking? When executives at the Bank of New York saw billions of dollars floating in from the home computer of a Russian businessman with ties to organized crime there, did they really believe that these were just ordinary profits?

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