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Edwards: To The Mad House With Them
Commentary, April, 16 2001
David Edwards
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In his study of obedience in modern society, psychologist Stanley Milgram wrote, "There is always some element of bad form in objecting to the destructive course of events, or indeed, in making it a topic of conversation." Milgram noted that even ...
Drda: Elementary Economic Education
Graphic, April, 15 2001
Darrin Drda
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elementary, economic, education, free trade, Greenspan
Rosenberg: Back to the Arms Race
Graphic, April, 15 2001
Martha Rosenberg
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cold war, nuclear proliferation
Landau: Bay of Pigs Lessons
Commentary, April, 15 2001
Saul Landau
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What have we learned from what historian Arthur Schlesinger Jr dubbed "the perfect failure?" Schlesinger, who served as a high level adviser to president John F. Kennedy, opposed the CIA backed invasion of Cuba's Bay of Pigs by a brigade of anti C...
Healy: Is Globalization Inevitable
Commentary, April, 15 2001
Sean Healy
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ÒThe greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist.Ó Ñ Roger ÒVerbalÓ Kint (Kevin Spacey), The Usual Suspects, 1995. ÒM1 can be as big as it likesÓ, someone recently said to me, Òbut isn't opposing globalisati...
Thrupkaew: Going Geisha
Commentary, April, 14 2001
Noy Thrupkaew
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After returning from Japan a few years ago, I was surprised to see that the States was in a lather over "geisha chic"-which persists to this day. Chopsticks were stuck in heads fair and dark. Madonna, that fashion chameleon, appeared in a red viny...
Bond: The World Bank in the time of cholera
Commentary, April, 13 2001
Patrick Bond
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One of the most painful preventable diseases known to humankind, cholera, continues to spread in South Africa, affecting hundreds of people a day. More than 80,000 people have been infected over the last eight months, and approximately 180 have lo...
Group: Shoddy Workmanship
Graphic, April, 12 2001
Contagion Media Group
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blair, new labour, third way
Rosenberg: Start the e-covery
Graphic, April, 12 2001
Martha Rosenberg
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dot com meltdown, economy
Hoodbhoy: OUR BLIND NUCLEAR PROPHETS
Commentary, April, 12 2001
Pervez Hoodbhoy
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Having thrown away several hundred, I still have in my possession about a hundred newspaper articles on the nuclear issue written in Pakistan and India over the past decade. The authors, overwhelmingly, are establishment nuclear "experts" and "str...
Group: Kill 'Em All
Graphic, April, 11 2001
Contagion Media Group
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Blair, new labour, third way, foot and mouth, agribusiness
Anderson: China - Sorry
Graphic, April, 11 2001
Kirk Anderson
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china, bush, sorry, apology, apologize
Deutsch: The Campaign Financ e Monster
Graphic, April, 11 2001
Barry Deutsch
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McCain-Fiengold, campaign finance, campaign finance reform, soft money, soft money ban
Ali: CRISIS ON ANIMAL FARM
Commentary, April, 11 2001
Tariq Ali
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'Don't worry,' New Farmer Blair told a visiting delegation of over a hundred sheep when news of the plague first reached him. 'Everything is safe and under control. We will be tough on the plague and tough on the causes of the plague.'
Shah: The Curious Politics of Milk: Part Three
Commentary, April, 10 2001
Sonia Shah
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Anti-formula activists and development officials often claim that millions of infants die every year because they are not breastfed (this is probably based on the fact that millions of infants die of diarrhea from contaminated water every year--wh...
Rosenberg: Tons of Prevention
Graphic, April, 09 2001
Martha Rosenberg
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factory farming, hoof and mouth disease
Herman: UNCLE CHUTZPAH GETS BACK INTO THE RING
Commentary, April, 09 2001
Edward Herman
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Now that the humanitarian warrior Bill Clinton has been replaced by a compassionate conservative extremely close to the oil industry, military-industrial-complex, and Christian Right/"pro- life" (fetal, that is, not post-fetal) forces, what may we...
Peters: Solidarity with East Timor: New Challenges, New Opportunities
Commentary, April, 08 2001
Cynthia Peters
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U.S. activists' contribution to the effort to end Indonesia's brutal 25-year occupation of East Timor paid off. In August 1999 a vast majority of East Timorese - after years of immense suffering and patient organizing -- courageously voted for ind...
Monbiot: Mad Cows Are Back
Commentary, April, 07 2001
George Monbiot
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It should have been dead and buried years ago. But somehow the spectre of BSE keeps rising from the grave. In Britain, where billions of pounds have been spent and millions of cattle slaughtered to stamp out the disease, new cases continue to emer...
