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Bond: ÒSustainable" South Africa?

Commentary, July, 12 2001 Patrick Bond
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In South Africa, three interesting processes related to "sustainable development"--that ghastly phrase, denoting an allegedly more eco-friendly capitalism, often with a few "polluter-pays" regulations and social safety- net provisions added to ort...

Deutsch: God Save Us from the Saviors

Graphic, July, 11 2001 Barry Deutsch
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Dubya, Bush, George W. Bush, Cheney, Dick Cheney, Social Security

Brutus: World Conference Against Racism: South Africa Between a Rock and a Hard Place

Commentary, July, 11 2001 Dennis Brutus
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IF YOU WERE planning a holiday in South Africa's east-coast resort of Durban before the warm winter season is over, you'd be well advised to steer clear of the city during the last few days of August and the first week in September.

Shah: Unveiling the Taleban Dress Codes Are Not the Issue, New Study Finds

Commentary, July, 10 2001 Sonia Shah
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While outrage over the Taleban's requirement that Afghan women wear a head-to-toe veil continues, a new comprehensive study shows that the majority of Afghan women consider the Taleban's dress codes a non-issue, and many choose to wear the burqa o...

Moore: A Most Complex Problem

Graphic, July, 09 2001 Kevin Moore
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AIDS, Africa, Kofi Annan

Wise: Fear and Loathing in Suburbia

Commentary, July, 09 2001 Tim Wise
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If intellectual gymnastics were an Olympic sport, we white folks would be the team to beat. Especially whites from the suburbs, who go to amazing and tortured lengths to convince others (and perhaps themselves) that their wish to steer clear of bl...

Klein: The New Party Initiative

Commentary, July, 08 2001 Naomi Klein
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I've never joined a political party, never even been to a political convention. Last election, after being dragged by the hair to the ballot box, I was overcome by a wave of ennui more acute than the pain suffered by my friends who simply ingested...

Kagarlitsky: The Russian Left Today

Commentary, July, 07 2001 Boris Kagarlitsky
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To judge from opinion surveys, newspaper reports and simply from conversations on the street, Russian society is moving leftward. To judge from the statements of politicians and the relationship of forces within the elite, however, the country is ...

Cromwell: DEMOLISHING GLOBAL MYTHS

Commentary, July, 06 2001 David Cromwell
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David Cromwell talks to John Pilger about his forthcoming television documentary, The New Rulers of the World, which examines the real meaning of the 'global economy', including the virtually unknown and bloody history of how globalisation took ro...

Herman: GODFATHERLY GLOBAL JUSTICE: MILOSEVIC, SHARON AND SUHARTO

Commentary, July, 05 2001 Edward Herman
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The politicization of the system of global justice has reached new heights over the past decade, with the U.S. Godfather asserting his firmer hegemonic position with an arrogance that is a throwback to Secretary of State Richard Olney's statement ...

Chomsky: Hegemony or Survival Part Two

Commentary, July, 04 2001 Noam Chomsky
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European observers find it "a paradox" that "a country willing to spend more than $100bn on an unproven project to blow up incoming nuclear warheads as they enter the atmosphere would opt not to pay less than a thousandth of that amount to help pr...

Chomsky: Hegemony or Survival Part One

Commentary, July, 03 2001 Noam Chomsky
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At the end of June,, the UN Conference on Disarmament concludes the second of its year 2001 sessions. Prospects for any constructive outcome of disarmament efforts are slim. Discussions have been blocked by US insistence on pursuing ballistic miss...

Moore: The Untouchables

Graphic, July, 02 2001 Kevin Moore
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war crimes, Kissinger, Saddam Hussein, Fujimori, Bob Kerrey

Raptis: Racism; The Greek Variety

Commentary, July, 02 2001 Nikos Raptis
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On October 21, 1999 my wife and I attended the presentation of the latest book of a friend, in downtown Athens. After the presentation, at around 12 midnight, the author invited five or six of us to dinner at a nearby tavern. My wife was not feeli...