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Edwards: THE MEDIA ELECTION 2001: LOW FARCE

Commentary, June, 18 2001 David Edwards
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Traditionally, general elections in Britain are a time for much quasi-religious talk of the blessed gift of democracy - so recently won at such high cost, we are told - and the importance of paying due homage to that great principle at the busines...

Mokhiber: A Call to Defy Corporate Domination

Commentary, June, 17 2001 Russell Mokhiber
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Since 1953, the percentage of unionized workers in the United States has declined from 26 percent to less than 14 percent. Yet, given the choice of joining a union or not, 48 percent of workers in this country say they would join. So, why isn't ...

Monbiot: Big Business vs Big Ideas

Commentary, June, 16 2001 George Monbiot
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If Gordon Brown was serious yesterday about creating an environment for "business dynamism" like that of the United States, he could do no better than to champion the entrepreneurial work of Conwy Council in North Wales. Conwy has done as all busi...

Prashad: Shooting Stars

Commentary, June, 15 2001 Vijay Prashad
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On 21 April 1988, Mikhail Gorbachev turned to Colin Powell, then an aide of the US National Security Advisor, and said "What are you going to do now that you've lost your best enemy?" Gorbachev's unilateral disarmament of Soviet nuclear forces in ...

Solomon: AT COMMENCEMENT, JOURNALISM HAS A HAZY FUTURE

Commentary, June, 14 2001 Norman Solomon
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Today, departing from an institution steeped in modernity, you say farewell to a fine journalism school. Honored to address this graduating class, I will speak with uncommon candor about the wisdom of your training and the opportunities that lie a...

Jensen: Rich America, Unfair America

Commentary, June, 13 2001 Robert Jensen
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THE BIGGEST THREAT to democracy in the United States today is economic prosperity. That observation isn't motivated by a desire to see people suffer, but rather is a challenge to the celebration of a certain kind of prosperity, distributed in a c...

Deutsch: The U.S. Global Warming Strategy

Graphic, June, 12 2001 Barry Deutsch
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global warming, environment

Anderson: Rationales for terrorist acts

Graphic, June, 11 2001 Kirk Anderson
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mcveigh, terrorism, iraq

Anderson: Ashcroft's death penalty data

Graphic, June, 11 2001 Kirk Anderson
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ashcroft, death penalty, capital punishment, race, minority

Podur: Mexico's 'Modern Right'

Commentary, June, 11 2001 Justin Podur
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In March, while they were on the March of Indigenous Dignity, on their way to Mexico City to press for the passage of the law on indigenous rights and culture, the Zapatistas berated the 'hardliners' in the government who called them terrorists an...

Russell: Abuse: Sanctioning Societal Violence

Commentary, June, 10 2001 Marta Russell
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Long time disability scholar Professor David Pfeiffer stated (in a New Political Science review of Beyond Ramps) that he "ha[s] never met a former inmate of a state school or a state hospital who was not repeatedly raped, men and women."

Flanders: Beltway Brinkmanship - Nothing to risk our rights on

Commentary, June, 08 2001 Laura Flanders
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My grandmother's spirits were downcast last week because of baseball (the Red Sox lost lead of the American League.) But they soared when she remembered the Senate: "Just thinking about Jeffords cheers me up," she beamed. And this Memorial Day, sh...

Cromwell: INCREASING TRADE=CORPORATE PLUNDER

Commentary, June, 07 2001 David Cromwell
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SOUTHAMPTON, UK. The modern-day story of Southampton's docks encapsulates the ever-increasing conflict between the corporate demand for economic growth on the one hand, and environmental protection coupled with people's quality of life on the othe...