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Choudry: Mike's Masquerades
Commentary, August, 25 2001
Aziz Choudry
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"The tide is high but I'm holding on, I'm gonna be your number one, I'm not the kind of guy who gives up just like that..." Mike Moore, two-thirds of the way through his stint as Director-General of the World Trade Organisation is crooning to the ...
Author: IMF'S FOUR STEPS TO DAMNATION
Commentary, August, 24 2001
Guest Author
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It was like a scene out of Le Carré: the brilliant agent comes in from the cold and, in hours of debriefing, empties his memory of horrors committed in the name of an ideology gone rotten.
Author: IMF'S FOUR STEPS TO DAMNATION
Commentary, August, 24 2001
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It was like a scene out of Le CarrŽ: the brilliant agent comes in from the cold and, in hours of debriefing, empties his memory of horrors committed in the name of an ideology gone rotten.
Wise: A New Round of White Denial
Commentary, August, 23 2001
Tim Wise
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In a time of multiple school and workplace shootings, middle-aged mass murderers, drug-saturated rave parties, and moms who drown their kids in tubs, lakes, or dump them in garbage cans, one question comes to mind. How long willÊsuburban white Ame...
Deutsch: Bloody Hands
Graphic, August, 22 2001
Barry Deutsch
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Iraq, Iraqi, Sanctions, Iraq sanctions, blood
Edwards: A CLIMATE OF PROFIT
Commentary, August, 22 2001
David Edwards
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To what extent is business a positive force for good in a world undergoing potentially devastating human-induced climate change? In the week that government leaders met in Bonn to discuss the rapidly-crumbling Kyoto Protocol, The Guardian took a l...
Edwards: A CLIMATE OF PROFIT
Commentary, August, 22 2001
David Edwards
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To what extent is business a positive force for good in a world undergoing potentially devastating human-induced climate change? In the week that government leaders met in Bonn to discuss the rapidly-crumbling Kyoto Protocol, The Guardian took a l...
Burchill: Megawati's Indonesia and US regional policy
Commentary, August, 21 2001
Scott Burchill
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Following the visit by U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell and Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, security issues in the East Asian region are starting to look much clearer. A widespread belief that Indonesia is edging towards disintegration s...
Moore: How a Bill Becomes Law
Graphic, August, 20 2001
Kevin Moore
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Patient's Bill of Rights, health care, Congress, legislation
Monbiot: Hell's Grannies
Commentary, August, 20 2001
George Monbiot
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Ariel Sharon's decision not to blast the Palestinians out of existence after last week's suicide bombings is, at first sight, mystifying. While jets blew up the Palestinians' police station in Ramallah and Israeli soldiers occupied their East Je...
Author: Reporting On Palestine
Commentary, August, 19 2001
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People look back on apartheid South Africa with horror and disgust. But you don't have to go to the history books to find out what apartheid is like. You only need to visit Palestine.
Brecher: The Road From Genoa
Commentary, August, 18 2001
Jeremy Brecher
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The battle in Genoa was not only the key event in the summer of 2001, but also marked a watershed for the anti-corporate movement. From the outset, the Big Eight summit in Genoa was doomed to become nothing more than a pretext for widespread prote...
Naiman: World Bank Grants Would Reduce Poor Country Debt Without Cost to U.S.
Commentary, August, 17 2001
Robert Naiman
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President Bush proposed in Genoa that up to 50% of the World Bank's lending to the poorest countries be converted to grants focused on education, health care, access to clean water, and sanitation. This would be a step towards addressing the unbea...
Naiman: Reparations Should Include Universal Access to Health Care and Education
Commentary, August, 17 2001
Robert Naiman
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At the end of August in South Africa, the United Nations will convene the "World Conference Against Racism." News reports say that the U.S. and European governments have opposed efforts by African countries to address demands for "reparations" for...
Peters: An S30 Victory Six Weeks in Advance
Commentary, August, 16 2001
Cynthia Peters
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In a joint statement released on August 14, 2001, the IMF/World Bank reported that their annual meeting, originally scheduled to run for two weeks, would be reduced to two days. (The normal two-week meeting had previously been shortened to one wee...
Deutsch: The Horror, The Horror
Graphic, August, 15 2001
Barry Deutsch
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globalization, the Gap, Gap, free trade, fair trade, third world, wages, shirts
Solomon: A GREEN PARTY CAMPAIGN FOR PRESIDENT IN 2004?
Commentary, August, 15 2001
Norman Solomon
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Two years from now, the national committee of the Green Party will make a big decision: Should the party run a candidate for president in 2004?
Rebick: The New Politics Initiative: Towards a Living Democracy
Commentary, August, 14 2001
Judy Rebick
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What is participatory democracy? It is government that involves citizens at every level of decision-making. The form of participatory democracy we know best in Canada involves consulting citizens about policy. While experiences like the citizens c...
Drda: Non-Tactics of the Inactivist
Graphic, August, 13 2001
Darrin Drda
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activism, activist
Moore: Shoot First, Ask Questions Later...
Graphic, August, 13 2001
Kevin Moore
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Middle East, Israel, assassinations, Palestinians, international law
