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Barsamian: Intifada 2000: The Palestinian Uprising
Zmag Article, December, 01 2000
David Barsamian
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Intifada 2000: The Palestinian Uprising
Richter: Revolutionary Afghan Women
Zmag Article, November, 01 2000
Kathleen Richter
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Most Americans are by now aware of the abysmal human rights abuses perpetuated in Afghanistan by the ultra fundamentalist Taliban regime—public amputation is the punishment for robbery, adulterers are stoned to death, and women and girl...
Weisbrot: Clinton in Colombia: The Ugly American
Commentary, October, 04 2000
Mark Weisbrot
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When President Clinton announced his trip to Colombia, he said his purpose was "to seek peace, to fight illicit drugs, to build its economy, and to deepen democracy."
Bond: South-South-North alliances
Commentary, September, 22 2000
Patrick Bond
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Here are two sentences in the concluding paragraph of Chomsky's September 17 ZNet Commentary (`Summits');, in which he champions the Havana South-South Summit of `G77' country leaders that took place in April: "African leaders pointed out that the...
Chomsky: Summits
Commentary, September, 17 2000
Noam Chomsky
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The United Nations Summit in New York in September was the second major gathering of government leaders marking the millennium. The first was the South Summit in Havana in April. The UN Summit received considerable national publicity, while the So...
Bond: Can Thabo Mbeki change the world?
Commentary, August, 22 2000
Patrick Bond
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In a formidable recent speech, South African President Thabo Mbeki, quoting Shakespeare, publicly attacked not only a senior white politician for alleged racism and arrogance over the AIDS treatment tragedy. He also castigated the section of the "...
Landau: THE DRUG WAR IS AS AMERICAN AS APPLE PIE AND COCAINE
Commentary, August, 10 2000
Saul Landau
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One of my friends mocks the drug war and sneers at President Clinton's request that Congress fund a new $1.2 billion military aid package for Colombia, so the Colombian military can better engage the iniquitous narco-traffickers. "You don't unders...
Chomsky: "Peace Process" Prospects
Commentary, July, 27 2000
Noam Chomsky
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The latest AP report from Camp David (evening, July 25) begins: "The Middle East peace talks at Camp David collapsed Tuesday over rival claims to East Jerusalem. Disappointed, President Clinton said he tried several approaches but could not come u...
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 ...
Schirmer: President Clinton, A Corporate Offensive, and Okinawan Bases
Zmag Article, July, 01 2000
Daniel Schirmer
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President Clinton, A Corporate Offensive, and Okinawan Bases
Chomsky: The Colombia Plan: April 2000
Zmag Article, June, 01 2000
Noam Chomsky
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In 1999, Colombia became the leading recipient of U.S. military and police assistance, replacing Turkey (Israel and Egypt are in a separate category). The figure is scheduled to increase sharply with the anticipa...
Gonsalves: Joseph Campbell's Mythical Soup
Commentary, April, 27 2000
Sean Gonsalves
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Joseph Campbell reminded us how important myths are in shaping human culture and our own individual world-views. Of course, mythology cannot be truly understood in the narrow way it is commonly (mis)used today. In contemporary popular lingo a myth...
Chomsky: Colombia – Part One of Two
Commentary, April, 24 2000
Noam Chomsky
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In 1999, Colombia became the leading recipient of US military and police assistance, replacing Turkey (Israel and Egypt are in a separate category). The figure is scheduled to increase sharply for the next two years. Through the 1990s, Colombia ha...
Reinhart: Mideast Apartheid? Peace?
Commentary, April, 14 2000
Tanya Reinhart
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Hundred and twenty Palestinian intellectuals issued a message addressed to the Israeli and Jewish public. "The majority of Palestinians, including the undersigned, believed that the time was ripe for concluding with the Israelis a historic agreeme...
Boutros-ghali: none
Zmag Article, March, 01 2000
Boutros Boutros-ghali
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Random House, NY, 1999, 352 pp, Review by Tom Gallagher Some will remember that before serving as spokesperson for the victims of erectile dysfunction, Senator Robert Dole was the 1996 Republican nominee for the United States preside...
Georgakas: Blacks in Antiquity
Commentary, February, 10 2000
Dan Georgakas
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A few years ago Martin Bernal's Black Athena stimulated considerable commentary about the role of blacks in antiquity. Many leftists applauded Bernal's perceptive analysis of the racism of many nineteenth century German scholars without understand...
Reinhart: This Ain't the Road of Peace
Commentary, January, 28 2000
Tanya Reinhart
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For many in Israel, it is already difficult to remember the joy and relief in which they received the news about the forthcoming peace with Syria, about a month ago. What was this joy about?
Chomsky: Four from the Forums
Commentary, January, 19 2000
Noam Chomsky
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On graduate unions, it's true enough that (ideally) "graduate teaching is pedagogical training," but that's incomplete. Any teaching, if done at all seriously, is also a way of learning -- about lots of things, including the subject you are teachi...
Schechter: Dung on All Their Houses - The New Censorship
Commentary, March, 16 1999
Danny Schechter
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On October l, thousands of New York artists, activists and politicians rallied outside the Brooklyn Museum against threats by the city's Mayor Rudolph Giuliani to defund one of the city's preeminent cultural institutions because of one painting on...
