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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...
Anderson: Missile test starting gun
Graphic, July, 10 2000
Kirk Anderson
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national missile defense, missile defense, missile test, star wars, sdi
Dowd: NEITHER A BORROWER NOR A LENDER BE
Commentary, July, 10 2000
Douglas Dowd
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Anyone giving that advice today would be seen as deranged; but, as some oldies will remember, such was once the received truth, as proclaimed by Founding Father Ben Franklin (along with "Waste not, want not" and "A penny saved is a penny earned").
Author: The New Eugenics: The Case Against Genetically Modified Humans
Commentary, July, 09 2000
Guest Author
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At the cusp of dot-com frenzy and the biotech century, a group of influential scientists and pundits has begun zealously promoting a new bio-engineered utopia. In the world of their visionary fervor, parents will strive to afford the latest geneti...
Glick: The Nader/Laduke Campaign The Nader/LaDuke Movement
Commentary, July, 08 2000
Ted Glick
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There is no question, absolutely none, that of the four "name recognition" Presidential candidates--Bush, Gore, Nader and Buchanan--Ralph Nader is far and away the most progressive. He will be on the ballot in almost all of the states. As distinct...
Herman: THE NEW YORK TIMES VERSUS NADER--AND DEMOCRACY
Commentary, July, 07 2000
Edward Herman
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In its editorial, "Mr. Nader's Misguided Crusade" (June 30), the New York Times assails Nader's candidacy and campaign on grounds that are partly fraudulent and misleading (as I describe below). But it is also clear that this attack is based ultim...
Burchill: The Problem With Panic Merchants
Commentary, July, 06 2000
Scott Burchill
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Some just never learn. From the same people who told us that East Timor should not and would not become independent, now comes the argument that the people of West Papua should also be denied the right to determine their political arrangements.
Chomsky: Humanitarian Intervention
Commentary, July, 05 2000
Noam Chomsky
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At a public talk in February Chomsky was asked: "President Clinton recently said the U.S. has the right on humanitarian grounds to intervene, with force, in any country which it deems is abusing the human rights of its citizens. Do you agree ...
Zinn: A Fourth of July Commentary
Commentary, July, 04 2000
Howard Zinn
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In this year 2000, I cannot comment more meaningfully on the Fourth of July than Frederick Douglass did when he was invited in 1852 to give an Independence Day address. He could not help thinking about the irony of the promise of the Declaration o...
Deutsch: Merit Badge in Logic
Graphic, July, 03 2000
Barry Deutsch
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Boy Scouts, gay, queer, gay rights, queer rights, Scouts, homosexual, homosexual rights
Shalom: The Crash of the Osprey
Commentary, July, 03 2000
Stephen1 Shalom
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On April 8, a hybrid helicopter-airplane known as the V-22 Osprey crashed in Arizona, killing all 19 Marines aboard. It was, said Air Force Magazine, "one of the worst accidents in the history of Marine Corps aviation and one of the deadliest mili...
Cunningham: DISCONTENT ON THE MOON
Commentary, July, 02 2000
Philip Cunningham
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The Moon river is the lifeline of Isan, bringing sustenance and irrigation to the poorest and most populous part of Thailand. The World Bank identified the Moon, the greatest of the Mekong's tributaries, as a suitable location for a giant dam, and...
Bronski: The Failure of Privacy
Zmag Article, July, 01 2000
Michael Bronski
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To most Americans, the right to privacy is a cornerstone in the grand constitutional structure, a right that guarantees a wide range of freedoms. We invoke it romantically in our self-righteous claims to freedom from social or legal intrusio...
Carter: Hip-Hop Uprising
Zmag Article, July, 01 2000
Sandy Carter
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Hip-Hop Uprising
Sargent: 37.7 Seconds
Zmag Article, July, 01 2000
Lydia Sargent
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In Part VI of this series, we looked at Natalie Angier’s Women: An Intimate Geography, an entertaining, very thorough examination/celebration of our bodies. We probed the intimate details of our eggs, our chromosomes, and our vaginas, e...
Bacon: Unions Take On Immigration-Related Firings
Zmag Article, July, 01 2000
David Bacon
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Unions Take On Immigration-Related Firings
Weiss: No-Fly Zones On Trial In Des Moines, Iowa
Zmag Article, July, 01 2000
Jeffrey j. Weiss
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Are the no-fly zones deployed by the United States and Britain over Northern and Southern Iraq a violation of international law? If so, is a citizen of the United States legally authorized to attempt to prevent their enforcement, even by tre...
