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Wise: Bill of Whites: Historical Memory Through the Racial Looking Glass
Commentary, July, 24 2000
Tim Wise
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In 1992, white supremacist Jared Taylor lamented the ostensibly growing influence of people of color in the U.S. when he wrote:"The old, standard history united Americans...It emphasized one point of view and ignored others. It was history about w...
Schechter: Long Live Chairman Levin!
Commentary, July, 23 2000
Danny Schechter
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A long time ago, in the days when evil empires threatened freedom-loving peoples everywhere, there were a few men we were taught to fear. They led massive, top-down international networks of true believers committed to infiltrating our minds and w...
Anderson: Missile shield
Graphic, July, 22 2000
Kirk Anderson
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missile defense, national missile defense, missile shield, star wars, sdi
Mokhiber: Which Way, CFA?
Commentary, July, 22 2000
Russell Mokhiber
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The Consumer Federation of America is at a crossroads. Set up in 1968 to advocate in Washington, D.C. for consumer interests, the Federation is being consumed by Washington's corporate culture. Will it seek to reverse course and get back to its co...
Anderson: Genetics protest
Graphic, July, 21 2000
Kirk Anderson
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genetics, bioengineering, gene
Naiman: SOFT STEP FOR CONGRESS: STRONG SLAP FOR THE WORLD BANK
Commentary, July, 21 2000
Robert Naiman
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Representative Sonny Callahan, the Chair of the Foreign Operations subcommittee of the House Appropriations Committee, and Representative Nancy Pelosi, his Democratic counterpart, disagree on a lot of issues. But they do agree that Congress shoul...
Chomsky: National Missile Defense
Commentary, July, 20 2000
Noam Chomsky
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Taking into account the results of the recent test, should President Clinton ask the Pentagon to go ahead with the national missile defense system?I would prefer to respond to a slight reformulation of the question. The most hopeful prospect for t...
Guellec: The dark side of the Canadian Healthcare system’s decline
Commentary, July, 19 2000
Dorothy Guellec
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My wise uncle told me that the real meaning of Globalization “is to make the world safe for the American and other multinational corporations to penetrate and take over as much as the world’s economy, country by country, as possibl...
Guellec: The dark side of the Canadian Healthcare systemÕs decline
Commentary, July, 19 2000
Dorothy Guellec
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My wise uncle told me that the real meaning of Globalization Òis to make the world safe for the American and other multinational corporations to penetrate and take over as much as the worldÕs economy, country by country, as possibleÓ. He is right,...
Deutsch: Sensitivity Training
Graphic, July, 18 2000
Barry Deutsch
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cops, police, racism, police racism, brutality, police brutality
Weisbrot: Trade Trumps Human Rights in Supreme Court Decision
Commentary, July, 18 2000
Mark Weisbrot
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The Supreme Court's unanimous decision yesterday to strike down the Massachusetts Burma law says more about the pro- business bias of the present Court than it does about the legal principles involved in the case.
Bond: A Political Economy of South African AIDS
Commentary, July, 17 2000
Patrick Bond
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Johannesburg, South Africa Up to a point, Danny Schechter is absolutely right to focus on the power and the appalling discursive-policy mistake of a single personality, SA president Thabo Mbeki, in this country's recent HIV-AIDS fiasco ("Mbeki'...
Prashad: The Hunt for Mexicans
Commentary, July, 16 2000
Vijay Prashad
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On 16 February 2000, the American Federation of Labor-Coalition of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO) which represents 13 million US workers dropped a bombshell. Vice President Linda Chavez-Thompson said that 'the current system of immigration enf...
Pond-mcpherson: Homosexuals in the Scouts
Graphic, July, 15 2000
Scott Pond-mcpherson
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boy scouts, scouts, gay, homosexual, supreme court, homophobia
Reinhart: LAND FOR APPARTHEID (The Camp David summit)
Commentary, July, 15 2000
Tanya Reinhart
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Barak went to the summit with a magic formula: 10-90. 10 percent annexation, and in the rest - a Palestinian state. No previous Israeli plan ever offered so much land to the Palestinians. Where do these numbers come from?
Anderson: Psychotic hockey parents
Graphic, July, 14 2000
Kirk Anderson
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youth athletics, youth sports, hockey
Bonpane: CIRCLES OF HOPE
Commentary, July, 14 2000
BlasŽ Bonpane
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With very short notice, the Director of Pastors for Peace, Tom Hansen, asked me to lead a delegation to the peace talks at San Andres Larrainzar in the state of Chiapas, Mexico. Picture an indigenous village in the highlands of Chiapas where cloud...
Schechter: MBEKI's MUDDLE South Africa's Aids Debate
Commentary, July, 13 2000
Danny Schechter
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Durban, South Africa: What was Mbeki going to say? That's what the press and the crowd packed into the Kingsmead Cricket stadium were buzzing about as they waited May 9th under an African sky threatening rain for South Africa's second democratical...
Landau: WATCH OUT FOR THE FOX IN THE MEXICAN HEN HOUSE
Commentary, July, 12 2000
Saul Landau
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US pundits and government figures gush over Vicente Fox's victory last Week as if Mexicans had elected Abraham Lincoln's reincarnation as their new president. Fox represents the right of center PAN, National Action Party. He stands for NAFTA, corp...
Solomon: THE CASE FOR CORPORATE-GIVEN NAMES
Commentary, July, 11 2000
Norman Solomon
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A public-interest group is urging sportswriters to resist a free-enterprise wave of the future. "Corporations are seizing the names of our beloved parks and stadiums, and replacing these with their own," Commercial Alert complains in a letter that...
