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Commentary Chomsky: East Timor

Commentary, October, 04 1999 Noam Chomsky
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The events of the past weeks in East Timor should elicit shame as well as horror. The crimes could easily have been stopped.

Zmag Article Herman: The "Permanent Interests" Budget

Zmag Article, October, 01 1999 Edward Herman
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S. Herman What James Madison in the Federalist Papers referred to as the "permanent interests" of society—i.e., property owners, or Veblen’s "substantial citizens"—are doing extremely well in the New World Or...

Zmag Article Chomsky: World Order and its Rules

Zmag Article, October, 01 1999 Noam Chomsky
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Chomsky Despite the desperate efforts of ideologues to prove that circles are square, there is no serious doubt that the NATO bombings further undermine what remains of the fragile structure of international law. The U.S. made that clear in th...

Zmag Article Chomsky: East Timor Questions & Answers

Zmag Article, October, 01 1999 Noam Chomsky
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Stephen R. Shalom, Noam Chomsky, & Michael Albert This issue of Z was being prepared as the situation worsened in East Timor. The following Q&A is intended to give readers background information on the situation and U.S. interests in the area....

Zmag Article Chomsky: East Timor Questions & Answers

Zmag Article, October, 01 1999 Noam Chomsky
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Stephen R. Shalom, Noam Chomsky, & Michael Albert This issue of Z was being prepared as the situation worsened in East Timor. The following Q&A is intended to give readers background information on the situation and U.S. interests in the area....

Commentary Herman: The Western Betrayal of East Timor

Commentary, September, 28 1999 Edward Herman
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Led by Australia, U.N.-sponsored peacekeepers continue to arrive in East Timor, where they are finding a staggering level of destruction. Reconnaissance flights over the half-island territory report scenes of Biblical dimensions, where the "Lord r...

Commentary Herman: Russian Corruption

Commentary, September, 12 1999 Edward Herman
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With the discovery of the massive laundering of Russian money-- some of it compliments of the IMF, and U.S. taxpayers--through the Bank of New York, the issue of Russian corruption is now "in." But it presents the establishment with a problem.

Commentary Herman: Inhumanitarian Nonintervention in East Timor

Commentary, September, 08 1999 Edward Herman
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Coming so soon after the NATO devastation of Yugoslavia in the alleged interest of humanitarianism and protection of human rights, the performance of the NATO powers in the East Timor crisis strikingly confirms the views of those who questioned th...

Commentary Shiva: Stopping Biopiracy

Commentary, September, 06 1999 Vandana2 Shiva
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The patents on the anti-diabetic properties of karela, jamun, brinjal once again highlight the problem of Biopiracy - the patenting of indigenous biodiversity related knowledge.

Commentary Zinn: Beyond the Soviet Union

Commentary, September, 02 1999 Howard Zinn
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In the spirit of killing two obligations with one effort, I offer as my Commentary a response I just made to a letter by a retired professor in California, who wrote: "As a great admirer of Howard Zinn [should he have said "as a former great admir...

Commentary Chomsky: Eight Question on Kibbutzim: Answers from Noam Chomsky Questions from Nikos Raptis

Commentary, August, 24 1999 Noam Chomsky
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The origins were in part European libertarian socialist thought. In part they were in a kind of romantic "back to the land" movement, suffused sometimes with Tolstoyan anarchism, in other cases part of a (very conscious) effort to reverse the "inv...

Commentary Herman: Resisting Illegitimate Autbority

Commentary, July, 26 1999 Edward Herman
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My feeling that the government in Washington represents illegitimate authority ebbs and flows, but it has gathered strength over the past few years, and even months. One reason is the blatant further dollarization of the electoral process, with Bu...

Commentary Shiva: Monsanto's Expanding Monopolies From Seed to Water

Commentary, July, 17 1999 Vandana2 Shiva
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Over the past few years, Monsanto, a chemical company, has positioned itself as an agricultural company through control over seed the first link in the food chain. Monsanto now wants to control water, the very basis of life.

Commentary Zinn: Inspire Please

Commentary, July, 16 1999 Howard Zinn
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The order came from above (I will not reveal the name, unless tortured) ): "Write something inspirational." The exact words were: "Inspire, please."

Commentary Herman: The Importance of a Left Media

Commentary, July, 05 1999 Edward Herman
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A jarring moment in the Philadelphia area propaganda outpouring in support of the bombing of Yugoslavia was a passionately prowar Op Ed column in the Philadelphia Inquirer by long-time local antiwar activist Mark Sacharoff ("NATO did what it had t...

Commentary Herman: Kosovo and Doublespeak

Commentary, June, 15 1999 Edward Herman
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War, propaganda, and the proliferation of doublespeak have always gone hand-in-hand. As was the case during the Persian Gulf war, the NATO war against Yugoslavia witnessed a collapse of mainstream media integrity and a new surge of doublespeak in ...

Commentary Herman: 'Balance' Sickness at The Nation

Commentary, June, 05 1999 Edward Herman
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The Nation has not distinguished itself in its coverage of the Kosovo crisis. It has had some good editorials and articles, but these are nicely balanced by pro-war pieces. It should embarrass the editors that its UN Correspondent Ian Williams is ...

Commentary Herman: Bomb the NYT

Commentary, May, 31 1999 Edward Herman
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NATO spokespersons have justified the bombing of Serbian TV and radio on the grounds that these broadcasters are an "instrument of state propaganda," tell lies, spew forth hatred, provide no "balance" in their offerings, and thus help prolong the ...

Commentary Zinn: Whose Atrocity Is Bigger

Commentary, May, 25 1999 Howard Zinn
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Milosovic has committed atrocities. Therefore it is okay for us to commit atrocities. He is terrorizing the Albanians in Kosovo. Therefore we can terrorize the population of cities and villages in Yugoslavia.

Commentary Chomsky: Moral Principles and International Law

Commentary, May, 09 1999 Noam Chomsky
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I'm afraid the first question is not a "genuine question," though there is a huge literature, for thousands of years, attempting to say at least something about these topics, without much success.

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