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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...
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...
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?
Landau: The APEC Meeting
Commentary, September, 27 1999
Saul Landau
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I just returned from New Zealand, the host of the APEC and anti-APEC conferences over last week. Until Indonesian army thugs started their violent cleansing in East Timor, New Zealand wits had called the Asian Pacific economic cooperation group Al...
Weisbrot: Growing Concerns Over WTO
Commentary, September, 25 1999
Mark Weisbrot
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In just a couple of months thousands of environmentalists, steel workers, longshoremen, AIDS activists, farmers, and others will descend upon Seattle in a "mobilization against globalization." They will hold marches, protests, teach-ins, and confe...
Hartmann: Cross Dressing Malthus
Commentary, September, 23 1999
Betsy Hartmann
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October 12, 1999 has the dubious distinction of being both Columbus Day and 'Day of 6 Billion,' ostensibly the day world population will pass the six billion people mark.
Raptis: European Labor
Commentary, September, 19 1999
Nikos Raptis
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The German word "Reichstag" means parliament. In colloquial German it also means the parliament building. It is not an exaggeration to say that this building, the Reichstag, is a very important part of the history of the 20th century.
Shalom: The State of the World
Commentary, September, 14 1999
Stephen1 Shalom
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This summer, the United Nations Development Programme issued its annual Human Development Report. The document is a stinging indictment of globalization and its horrific impact on the well-being of so many of the world's people.
Herman: Russian Corruption
Commentary, September, 12 1999
Edward Herman
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With the discovery of the massive laundering of Russian money-- some of it compliments of the IMF, and U.S. taxpayers--through the Bank of New York, the issue of Russian corruption is now "in." But it presents the establishment with a problem.
Mokhiber: An Outsider's View of the One-Sided Class Warfare in the U.S.
Commentary, September, 11 1999
Russell Mokhiber
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"While in theory U.S. law provides for workers to have freedom of association, the right to join trade unions and participate in collective bargaining is in practice denied to large segments of the American workforce in both the public and the pri...
Shiva: Stopping Biopiracy
Commentary, September, 06 1999
Vandana2 Shiva
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The patents on the anti-diabetic properties of karela, jamun, brinjal once again highlight the problem of Biopiracy - the patenting of indigenous biodiversity related knowledge.
Weisbrot: What Everyone Should Know About the Budget Debate
Commentary, September, 03 1999
Mark Weisbrot
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This commentary is for those who really want to understand the debate that has been raging over what to do with the projected Federal budget surpluses over the next 10 years. It's not as difficult as it seems.
Chomsky: Eight Question on Kibbutzim: Answers from Noam Chomsky Questions from Nikos Raptis
Commentary, August, 24 1999
Noam Chomsky
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The origins were in part European libertarian socialist thought. In part they were in a kind of romantic "back to the land" movement, suffused sometimes with Tolstoyan anarchism, in other cases part of a (very conscious) effort to reverse the "inv...
Peters: Teacher, There's a Brand Name in My Math Problem
Commentary, August, 23 1999
Cynthia Peters
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Teacher, There's a Brand Name in My Math Problem
Author: For the Good of us All, Just Focus on Yourself
Commentary, August, 22 1999
Guest Author
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It took some time, but I think I've come to understand why so many people favor school vouchers. I was hung up on the separation of church and state and worried about decreased funding for inner- city schools. But I've seen the light. My only ques...
Weisbrot: Trade Wars: Where's the Beef
Commentary, August, 16 1999
Mark Weisbrot
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Should countries have the right to set health and safety standards for the food that their citizens eat? Should they be allowed to exclude foreign-produced foods that don't meet national standards? Or should these questions be decided by the World...
Brecher: Review of Panic Rules
Commentary, August, 05 1999
Jeremy Brecher
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A funny thing happened on the way to the New Millenium: the Old Millenium crashed. According to economist Paul Krugman, "Never in the course of economic events -- not even in the early years of the Depression -- has so large a part of the world ec...
Mokhiber: Biotech Untamed
Commentary, August, 02 1999
Russell Mokhiber
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When Secretary of Agriculture Dan Glickman wanted to address the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. to rave about the biotech industry and its wonders, he called Gene Grabowski.
Burchill: Marx on Globalization
Commentary, July, 24 1999
Scott Burchill
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In the 1850s, Karl Marx believed that the spread of capitalism, or what today we would call globalization, was transforming human society from a collection of separate nation-states to a world capitalist society where the principal form of conflic...
Shiva: Monsanto's Expanding Monopolies From Seed to Water
Commentary, July, 17 1999
Vandana2 Shiva
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Over the past few years, Monsanto, a chemical company, has positioned itself as an agricultural company through control over seed the first link in the food chain. Monsanto now wants to control water, the very basis of life.


