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Solomon: FINALLY, A HUGE MEDIA SPECTACLE THAT REALLY MATTERS?
Commentary, November, 28 2000
Norman Solomon
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By Norman Solomon After a decade filled with round-the-clock media sensations, we finally ended up with one that's truly portentous. The post-election battle for the White House has stood in sharp contrast to countless ersatz stories that gain...
Anderson: Election Pinata
Graphic, November, 27 2000
Kirk Anderson
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election, gore, pinata
Jensen: Even Now We Lie To Ourselves About Vietnam
Commentary, November, 27 2000
Robert Jensen
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Bill Clinton has always been keen on apologizing, for himself and on behalf of the nation. He has apologized not only for a sex scandal, but for U.S. support of repression in Guatemala and for slavery.
Anderson: Blinders
Graphic, November, 26 2000
Kirk Anderson
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blinders, technology, cell phone
Anderson: Gas Emissions
Graphic, November, 26 2000
Kirk Anderson
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kyoto, global warming, climate change
Author: Women in Gaza
Commentary, November, 26 2000
Guest Author
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It wouldn't be fair to repeat the argument which accuses the women's movement of being the sole paralyzed social movement in the current circumstances. If this is a correct observation, it pinpoints the crisis of all social movements in Palestine,...
Peters: Children's Museums A Rant
Commentary, November, 25 2000
Cynthia Peters
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Question: What do you get when you cross "generous funding" from bloated financial institutions with a culture that picks on parents? Answer: Children's Museums.
Glass: Ramallah, West Bank
Commentary, November, 24 2000
Charles Glass
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Most afternoons, the boys head from their schools down to the edge of town where Israeli tanks and soldiers are standing by to watch unarmed children wage war. A wide road heads from the center of Ramallah downhill towards a hotel, the City Inn, w...
Dowd: WHAT DO WE WANT? AND WHO ARE "WE"?
Commentary, November, 23 2000
Douglas Dowd
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Alongside and arising from "Seattle" and subsequent protests are questions such as the above -- by those participating in and supporting, and those against the protests. Those and related questions have always deserved serious answers; now more t...
Deutsch: America Wows the International Environmental Commu
Graphic, November, 21 2000
Barry Deutsch
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kyoto, kyoto protocal, hague, the hague, environmentalism, environment
Herman: LIBERAL APOLOGETICS FOR IMPERIALISM
Commentary, November, 21 2000
Edward Herman
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Edward S. HermanThe American Prospect (TAP) magazine, edited by Robert Kuttner and Paul Starr, with Robert Reich as "National Editor," is a liberal magazine par excellence, and has frequent articles on domestic policy issues that represent the bes...
Mchombo: FREE ENTERPRISE, PRIVATIZATION, CORRUPTION, ALL THAT
Commentary, November, 21 2000
Sam Mchombo
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On October 29, the people of the East African nation of Tanzania went to the polls to elect a new government. The elections returned the incumbent, Benjamin Mkapa, of the ruling party of Chama Cha Mapinduzi (CCM) to a second term in office. The el...
Sommers: Report from Kiev
Commentary, November, 20 2000
Jeffrey Sommers
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I am in Kiev as the pampered guest of a Baltic offshore company which helps CIS nations avoid taxation by incorporating in the Channel Islands, Cyprus, the Cayman Islands, or even the USÕs own outlaw banking state of Delaware. Granted, many of the...
Author: Viral Roulette: Malaria, Blood, and AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa
Commentary, November, 19 2000
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In a speech in Abuja, Nigeria on August 27th President Clinton came very close to identifying a taboo subject - the medical transmission of HIV. Mr. Clinton noted that both AIDS and malaria are increasing in Nigeria, but his staff failed to advise...
Author: No matter who wins, the president will be a bastard
Commentary, November, 18 2000
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Terry J. Allen The campaign was a minuet performed by robots; the post_election period is a bacchanal. What a relief. It's just too bad one of these mediocre men has to win. But the good news is that the victor will be perceived by much of the po...
Brutus: US election debacle
Commentary, November, 16 2000
Dennis Brutus
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The world still anxiously awaits the outcome of elections in the United States. But really, will it matter to the way we conduct our business, in a world economy that still imposes misery and inequality in the course of corporate-dominated trade, ...
Deutsch: Facinating Like A Train Wreck
Graphic, November, 15 2000
Barry Deutsch
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election, presidential election, Bush, Gore, George W. Bush, Al Gore, Florida
Prashad: Betrayed Redemption in Chile
Commentary, November, 15 2000
Vijay Prashad
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On Friday, 10 November, the Santiago (Chile) Court of Appeals refused to grant parole to retired army General Torres Silva. A few hours later, Judge Sergio Munoz indicted a general on active duty, Hernan Ramirez for the same crime. Both these lead...
Anderson: Nader factor
Graphic, November, 14 2000
Kirk Anderson
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election, nader, gore
Monbiot: Reality Re-Asserts ItselfT
Commentary, November, 14 2000
George Monbiot
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Just as floods and tornadoes were laying waste to our homes, we earthlings watched the launch of an exciting new venture. Three cosmonauts were blasted into orbit, to pioneer the permanent inhabitation of space. Humanity is already making plans fo...
