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Mokhiber: Cop Killer
Commentary, August, 22 2000
Russell Mokhiber
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Cop killer. No, we are not talking about Mumia Abu-Jamal. After a trial that the National Journal's Stuart Taylor called "grotesquely unfair" and that included "fabricated evidence," Abu-Jamal was convicted of killing a Philadelphia police office...
Albert: Lesser Evil?
Commentary, August, 21 2000
Michael Albert
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The general anti-Nader argument is very simple. To vote/work for Nader means not voting/working for Gore. That's uncontestable. In states with close Gore/Bush ratings, Gore could lose enough votes to Nader for Bush to win the state, and ultimately...
Schechter: Speaking Back to the Media
Commentary, August, 20 2000
Danny Schechter
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There used to be something called equal time and the right to reply to TV editorials and coverage. I am reminded of this by the publication, in a thin booklet called Poems for the Nation, of the text of a previously unpublished television address ...
Weisbrot: Verizon Workers Defend the Right to Organize
Commentary, August, 19 2000
Mark Weisbrot
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Workers at Verizon Communications had a lot of reasons to go out on strike against the nation's largest provider of local telephone and wireless services: loss of jobs to non- union sub-contractors, forced overtime, overbearing management. And a...
Anderson: Bush-Gore Pepsi-Coke
Graphic, August, 18 2000
Kirk Anderson
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bush, gore, election, pepsi, coke
Anderson: Al Gore photo album
Graphic, August, 18 2000
Kirk Anderson
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gore, al gore, convention, election
Zinn: Downfall
Commentary, August, 18 2000
Howard Zinn
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I am surprised that my friend Hans Koning, a stalwart protester against the war in Vietnam, seems to have been taken in by the argument of Richard Frank, in his review of Frank's DOWNFALL. Yes, we must all be willing to reconsider our most hardene...
Gonsalves: Creating jobs and expanding opportunity
Commentary, August, 17 2000
Sean Gonsalves
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Ask anyone what was the major event of the post-Civil War period and they'll tell you: the Emancipation Proclamation - the freeing of America's black slaves.
Burchill: Heroes and Villains
Commentary, August, 16 2000
Scott Burchill
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In his first lecture on Indonesian soil after being banished for 26 years, Benedict Anderson spoke about the bewildered expression on the faces of his Indonesian students over the years at Cornell University whenever he asked them "who in Indonesi...
Author: Local Energy, Local Democracy
Commentary, August, 15 2000
Guest Author
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In their 1996 book "Who Owns the Sun?", solar energy campaigners Daniel Berman and John O'Connor rightly declared that "democracy is a false promise if it does not include the power to steer the energy economy". It's a crucial point that not even ...
Naiman: Gun Control, Burma and Corporate Rule
Commentary, August, 14 2000
Robert Naiman
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Robert Naiman Remember the "New Federalism"? State and local governments were supposed to be "laboratories of democracy," where new ideas could be tried out to address social problems, where government would be more responsive to citizen input at...
Weisbrot: Police Abuses Won't Stifle Protests
Commentary, August, 13 2000
Mark Weisbrot
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"When protest becomes effective, governments become repressive." Tom Hayden summed it up in an axiom three decades ago, while describing his own trial on conspiracy charges for organizing protests against the Vietnam War.
Solomon: HOLY SMOKE AND MIRRORS: THE RISE OF CENTRIST THEOCRATS
Commentary, August, 12 2000
Norman Solomon
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It's always dangerous when politicians claim to be doing God's will. So, as the novelty fades from Al Gore's selection of Joseph Lieberman, journalists should ask some probing questions about the ticket's conspicuous piety.
Herman: ROGUE REMOVAL AS OFFICIAL U.S. FOREIGN POLICY
Commentary, August, 11 2000
Edward Herman
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In her August 1 speech before the Republican National Convention, Bush foreign policy adviser Condoleezza Rice explained to the audience that Bush "recognizes that the magnificent men and women of America's armed forces are not a global police for...
Anderson: Carnivore
Graphic, August, 10 2000
Kirk Anderson
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carnivore, fbi, privacy
Landau: THE DRUG WAR IS AS AMERICAN AS APPLE PIE AND COCAINE
Commentary, August, 10 2000
Saul Landau
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One of my friends mocks the drug war and sneers at President Clinton's request that Congress fund a new $1.2 billion military aid package for Colombia, so the Colombian military can better engage the iniquitous narco-traffickers. "You don't unders...
Anderson: Buchanan's Reform fight
Graphic, August, 09 2000
Kirk Anderson
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buchanan, reform
Dominick: Zapatismo, Anyone?
Commentary, August, 09 2000
Brian Dominick
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Not since the Zapatista uprising in January, 1994, has my hope for radical social change been so reinvigorated as by the recent uprisings here in the North around the World Trade Organization, the IMF/World Bank, and the Organization of American S...
Deutsch: Swallow, Damn You, Swallow
Graphic, August, 08 2000
Barry Deutsch
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conventions, political conventions, two-party system, third parties, media bias, media, election
Mokhiber: Big Ideas on Corporate Accountability and Global Sustainability
Commentary, August, 08 2000
Russell Mokhiber
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Sometimes, it is important to think big.In an era where corporations trample across the globe with minimal restraint, and citizen movements around the world are on their heels, it is natural -- and necessary -- for those trying to check corporate ...
