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Weisbrot: World Bank Can't Seem to "Think Different"
Commentary, September, 07 2000
Mark Weisbrot
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The World Bank spends millions of dollars each year on public relations, promoting the idea that the organization is well-run, accountable, transparent, and working for "a world free of poverty" (the slogan on their web site). This effort has grow...
Schechter: Looking Back: "Leave It To Lieberman"
Commentary, September, 06 2000
Danny Schechter
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Don't say independent media analysts can't get on the air. On Wednesday might, hours before Joe Lieberman would speak to the Democratic Convention, Seth Ackerman was invited to have his say. Seth, who works with Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting ...
Russell: Just Getting to the Protests - Still a Struggle
Commentary, September, 05 2000
Marta Russell
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On Monday, the first day of the Democratic Convention, I was sitting in my wheelchair in the shade at Pershing Square, waiting for my compadres to join me for the ÒPeople Before ProfitsÓ march when a fellow activist recognized me and came over to ...
Mokhiber: Toast
Commentary, September, 04 2000
Russell Mokhiber
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About six years ago, a friend gave us a toaster. It was a present. The friend bought the toaster from Williams-Sonoma, the San Francisco-based kitchen store, with outlets in upscale malls throughout the United States.
Naiman: Banning Imports from Burma
Commentary, September, 03 2000
Robert Naiman
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In Burma - "Myanmar" to its military regime - Aung San Suu Kyi, leader of the democracy movement, sits in her car, blocked by the military dictatorship from meeting her supporters.
Dowd: ROTTING AWAY; THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF CORRUPTION AND DECADENCE
Commentary, September, 02 2000
Douglas Dowd
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History is replete with corrupt and decadent societies, including (but not beginning with) that of 1st Century Rome, where decadent/corrupt Nero fiddled as corrupt/decadent Rome burned. Iniquity -- and inequality -- in ancient and medieval societ...
Albert: What's Napster'and Freenet?
Zmag Article, September, 01 2000
Michael Albert
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The New York Times business pages have lately featured reports of a music industry crisis. Many leftists don’t read these pages, but this is big news for everyone, perhaps especially for the left. Napster Napster is a computer p...
Edwards: THIS SPORTING LIE: THE 'GREEN' OLYMPICS
Commentary, September, 01 2000
David Edwards
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A month before the great 'Green Games' in Sydney were due to open, a group of international scientists arrived at the North Pole to find, not ice, but a stretch of open water at least one mile wide - the first time the North Pole has not been ice-...
Marable: Racism, Prisons and the Future of Black America
Commentary, August, 31 2000
Manning Marable
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There are today over two million Americans incarcerated in federal and state prisons and local jails throughout the United States. More than one-half, or one million, are black men and women. The devastating human costs of the mass incarceration o...
Anderson: Colombia's allowance money
Graphic, August, 30 2000
Kirk Anderson
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colombia
Prashad: The Affirmative Action Election
Commentary, August, 30 2000
Vijay Prashad
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As we approach the calendar end of the Christian millennium, we, as progressives, are posed with an electoral choice that has begun to startle me. So much commentary seems to go by these days on what appears to be the only election worth anything,...
Anderson: US's Pinochet files
Graphic, August, 29 2000
Kirk Anderson
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pinochet, cia, chile
Wise: Gore-Vey!: Joe Lieberman, Jewish Mobility, and the Politics of Race in America
Commentary, August, 29 2000
Tim Wise
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I am a Jew. And according to what others of my faith tradition tell me, I should be beaming with pride at the fact that Al Gore--a Southern Baptist whose denominational leaders once said God didn't answer the prayers of folks like me--has picked a...
Glick: Respecting Your Elders?
Commentary, August, 28 2000
Ted Glick
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Respect for elders is a tradition deeply rooted within most cultures in this world. This is as it should be; older people, generally speaking, have accumulated the wisdom gained from years of experience. Does the progressive movement have any uniq...
Pond-mcpherson: Back to School
Graphic, August, 27 2000
Scott Pond-mcpherson
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school, education, media, advertising, youth
Guellec: Investing in Death Benefits – Exploiting AIDS patients
Commentary, August, 27 2000
Dorothy Guellec
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Once the domain of the terminally ill, viatical settlements or arrangements – the reassignment of a life insurance policy to a third party in return for a cash settlement – are set to explode in the next decade as the market evolve...
Guellec: Investing in Death Benefits Ð Exploiting AIDS patients
Commentary, August, 27 2000
Dorothy Guellec
Guellec's ZSpace page
Once the domain of the terminally ill, viatical settlements or arrangements Ð the reassignment of a life insurance policy to a third party in return for a cash settlement Ð are set to explode in the next decade as the market evolves to include hea...
Peters: Same-Sex Domestic Partnership Benefits Represent a Limited Gain
Commentary, August, 25 2000
Cynthia Peters
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Since when did we imagine that the countryÕs top automakers, Disney Corporation, AT&T, Nike, and the Gap had the interests of gays and lesbians in mind?
Cagan: Toys, the Death Penalty and the Gay Movement
Commentary, August, 24 2000
Leslie Cagan
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In case you missed it, the Week in Review section of the 7/23/00 Sunday New York Times ran a most incredible piece. Instead of summarizing from it, let me just quote a few choice sentences:"Never Say Die, Just Execute.
Bond: Can Thabo Mbeki change the world?
Commentary, August, 22 2000
Patrick Bond
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In a formidable recent speech, South African President Thabo Mbeki, quoting Shakespeare, publicly attacked not only a senior white politician for alleged racism and arrogance over the AIDS treatment tragedy. He also castigated the section of the "...
