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Commentary Edwards: Mobile Phones, Health Effects and the Problem with Advertisers

Commentary, June, 26 2000 David Edwards
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Jim Mochnacz worked for British Telecom's Cellnet for eight years, initially siting and installing mobile phone transmission masts, before managing installations throughout a third of Britain. At the end of this period, Mochnacz fell seriously ill...

Commentary Bond: Zimbabwe's Election: Who's Right, Who's Left?

Commentary, June, 25 2000 Patrick Bond
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On Saturday and Sunday, Zimbabweans cast their vote for members of parliament in the most important election here since the country's first democratic poll, in 1980. It won't be a truly democratic, free-and-fair poll, thanks to intimidation and th...

Commentary Dowd: Capitalism and Technology: To whose benefit, at what costs?

Commentary, June, 24 2000 Douglas Dowd
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In 1917, as war ripped Europe apart, Einstein wrote to a friend that "Our much-praised technological progress, and civilization gene rally, could be compared to an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal." Subsequently, in showing that E=MC2,...

Commentary Herman: KOSOVO ONE YEAR LATER: FROM SERB REPRESSION TO NATO-SPONSORED ETHNIC CLEANSING

Commentary, June, 23 2000 Edward Herman
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Now a little more than one year after the ending of Nato's 78- day bombing of Yugoslavia and the beginning of Nato control of Kosovo (June 10-12, 1999), the mainstream media have been exceedingly reticent in offering the public serious retrospecti...

Commentary Wise: Membership Has It's Privileges: Thoughts on Acknowledging and Challenging Whiteness

Commentary, June, 22 2000 Tim Wise
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Being white means never having to think about it. James Baldwin said that many years ago, and it's perhaps the truest thing ever said about race in America. That's why I get looks of bewilderment whenever I ask, as I do when lecturing to a mostly ...

Commentary Author: Is globalization dangerous to our health?

Commentary, June, 21 2000 Guest Author
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When asked about globalization, Margaret Thatcher, the former Prime Minister of Great Britain, replied, "There is no alternative." Her reply was shortened to "TINA," which some people think is a newly discovered law of nature. Yet, public resistan...

Graphic Anderson: Reality Television

Graphic, June, 20 2000 Kirk Anderson
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reality television, reality tv, reality-based programming, survivor

Commentary Rebick: Pitch battle is at doors of Ontario legislature

Commentary, June, 20 2000 Judy Rebick
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The Ontario Coalition against Poverty wanted to be heard. Ever since right-wing Ontario Premier Mike Harris was elected, the organization has tried everything to get the government to pay attention to the desperate straits facing poor and homeles...

Graphic Anderson: Hou$ing-rising tide

Graphic, June, 19 2000 Kirk Anderson
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housing, poverty

Graphic Anderson: Missile Decoys

Graphic, June, 19 2000 Kirk Anderson
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national missile defense, nmd, sdi, star wars, missile defense, missile decoys, missile technology

Commentary Solomon: VIRTUAL COMMANDMENTS OF THE DOT-COM FAITH

Commentary, June, 19 2000 Norman Solomon
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Inside the temples of true believers, ardent faith has a way of prevailing. And so, in the Dot-Com year of 2000, vast numbers of followers seem eager to fulfill a sacred digital future.

Graphic Group: My Way

Graphic, June, 18 2000 Contagion Media Group
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homophobia, Brian Souter, Scotland, Stagecoach, Coach USA, evangelical christians

Commentary Gonsalves: Stubborn facts versus thick skulls

Commentary, June, 18 2000 Sean Gonsalves
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Sean Gonsalves Whoever coined the phrase Òfacts are stubborn thingsÓ has apparently never come across drug war advocates Ð a self-righteous bunch, undeterred by trivial matters of fact.

Graphic Anderson: Drug war in black & white

Graphic, June, 16 2000 Kirk Anderson
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drug war, war on drugs, racial disparity, drugs, race

Commentary Chomsky: Credibility

Commentary, June, 16 2000 Noam Chomsky
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At a talk earlier this year, Chomsky was asked -- "KosovoÑwhat are the interests driving intervention? What do you foresee for the people of the region?"

Graphic Anderson: Southern Baptists

Graphic, June, 15 2000 Kirk Anderson
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southern baptist convention, southern baptist

Graphic Anderson: Southern Baptists

Graphic, June, 15 2000 Kirk Anderson
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southern baptist convention, southern baptist

Commentary Author: The Sport of Business/The Business of Sport in Media Ethics

Commentary, June, 14 2000 Guest Author
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It is often asserted by conservatives, and widely taken as a fact by the general public, that the American news media are Òanti-business.Ó ItÕs a rather silly claim, given the capitalist/managerial framework in which U.S. journalists work, but it ...

Commentary Glick: History and Communications

Commentary, June, 13 2000 Ted Glick
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A few weeks ago I received a letter from someone who quoted Karl Marx as having once said, "History moves with the speed of communication." This quote struck me.

Graphic Group: An Offer You Can't Refuse?

Graphic, June, 12 2000 Contagion Media Group
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prison labor, death penalty, imperialism, Uncle Sam

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