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Author: More Human Than We Are
Commentary, October, 28 2000
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London: The location of the boundaries of our humanity is perhaps the key moral question of our age. Whether a test tube baby should be selected so that his cells can be used to save the life of his sister, whether one conjoined twin should die so...
Mcchesney2: Will Gore Throw the Election to Bush?
Commentary, October, 27 2000
Bob2 Mcchesney2
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This past Friday a dozen former "Nader's Raiders" held a press conference and told Ralph Nader to drop out of the presidential race and throw his support to Vice-President Al Gore. Concerned about Gore's faltering numbers in the polls, they argued...
Chomsky: Al-Aqsa Intifida
Commentary, October, 26 2000
Noam Chomsky
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After three weeks of virtual war in the Israeli occupied territories, Prime Minister Ehud Barak announced a new plan to determine the final status of the region. During these weeks, over 100 Palestinians were killed, including 30 children, often b...
Deutsch: Don't Stop Believing
Graphic, October, 25 2000
Barry Deutsch
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free trade, globalization, growth, washington consensus
Author: The Supreme Court of India and the Narmada Valley
Commentary, October, 25 2000
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The law follows politics. The decisions made in a Supreme Court are not the disinterested, enlightened application of universal truths enshrined in a country's legal code but the congealment of power relations and interests in that country.
Cromwell: Silent Democracy
Commentary, October, 24 2000
David Cromwell
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"It's sociologically interesting, though scary", said the actor Anthony Sher in a recent interview, "that you can be inside an evil system and be somehow unaware of it." South African by birth, Sher was talking about the former system of apartheid...
Cromwell: Silent Democracy
Commentary, October, 24 2000
David Cromwell
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"It's sociologically interesting, though scary", said the actor Anthony Sher in a recent interview, "that you can be inside an evil system and be somehow unaware of it." South African by birth, Sher was talking about the former system of apartheid...
Reinhart: GREEN LIGHT TO SLAUGHTER
Commentary, October, 23 2000
Tanya Reinhart
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In the Sharm-al-Sheikh summit last week, Barak got from the US his green light to slaughter. To judge by the Israeli media, what we have seen so far is just the prelude. "The most important will come in the middle of next week, when...Israel will ...
Mokhiber: Oversight?
Commentary, October, 22 2000
Russell Mokhiber
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The American Political Science Association's annual convention recently came through town, filling up Washington, D.C. hotels with thousands of academics ready to present their latest research findings.Browsing through the convention's program, we...
Scipes: Building Labor Solidarity
Commentary, October, 21 2000
Kim Scipes
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To many people in the United States, the AFL-CIO is a progressive organization, joining unions across the country to fight for higher wages, better working conditions and progressive social programs for workers and people in our communities. Howe...
Bond: The African grassroots and the global movement
Commentary, October, 19 2000
Patrick Bond
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In a ZNet commentary last month, Noam Chomsky observed South-South-North alliances "taking shape at the grassroots level--an impressive development, rich in opportunity and promise, and surely causing no little concern in high places." I want to f...
Deutsch: Do Not Anger the Great TV God
Graphic, October, 18 2000
Barry Deutsch
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presidential campaign, media, Bush, George W. Bush, Gore, Al Gore, George Bush
Ratner: Labor Rights, Free Trade Zones & The Chentex Struggle in Nicaragua
Commentary, October, 18 2000
Michael Ratner
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(see: www.humanrightsnow.com) In mid-September I traveled to Nicaragua as part of a delegation organized by the National Labor Committee (NLC), an organization that fights sweatshops and supports labor rights around the world. Charles Kernaghan a...
Pond-mcpherson: Tweedledum and Tweedledee
Graphic, October, 17 2000
Scott Pond-mcpherson
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Bush, Gore, Nader, election, vote,
Gonsalves: Selling with Shrink Think
Commentary, October, 17 2000
Sean Gonsalves
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Life is good. Psychologists are supposed to make it better, or at least help individuals reach a certain level of maturity. Much has been written about psychology and much of that is simply verbose foolishness. I'm especially turned off by those ...
Guellec: Billions Spent Marketing Drugs to Consumers
Commentary, October, 16 2000
Dorothy Guellec
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In the two years since the FDA began an experiment to let the mass media broadcast the prescription-drug message directly to consumers, the pharmaceutical industry has shelled out a whopping $1.3 billion per year on consumer ads. That dwarfs the $...
Schechter: RED STAR OVER THE UN: The Media Downplays Human Rights in China
Commentary, October, 15 2000
Danny Schechter
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As the United Nations opens its Millennial Summit in New York September 6 with an expected 150 heads of state in attendance, the world organization is trying to refocus its mission and revive its credibility. (Never mind the cost of staging the wo...
Solomon: MEDIA SPIN REMAINS IN SYNC WITH ISRAELI OCCUPATION
Commentary, October, 14 2000
Norman Solomon
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The formula for American media coverage of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is simple: Report on the latest developments in the fragile "peace process." Depict U.S. officials as honest brokers in the negotiations. Emphasize the need for restraint ...
Bronski: Heterosexuality: A Romance of the Right
Commentary, October, 13 2000
Michael Bronski
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Imagine my appalled surprise when I discovered that I was quoted as a "radical advocate of same-sex marriage" in, of all places, this month's Commentary -- the last place where I expect to be noticed. Also Ð and this is a telling detail Ð I am not...
Chomsky: Chomsky Comments on Milosevic Ouster, etc.
Commentary, October, 12 2000
Noam Chomsky
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A number of people in the ZNet forum system and elsewhere have raised questions about the prominent role they see assigned to US-NATO in the flood of commentary on recent events in Yugoslavia, "gloating over the victory of the opposition in Yugosl...
