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Chomsky: Hegemony or Survival Part One
Commentary, July, 03 2001
Noam Chomsky
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At the end of June,, the UN Conference on Disarmament concludes the second of its year 2001 sessions. Prospects for any constructive outcome of disarmament efforts are slim. Discussions have been blocked by US insistence on pursuing ballistic miss...
Herman: HITCHENS ON "BODY COUNT IN KOSOVO"
Commentary, June, 19 2001
Edward Herman
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An important public relations bonanza for the U.S. and other NATO powers' actions across the globe has been the accommodation of many leftists to the priorities and channeled benevolence of their leaders. These "New Humanitarians" have been furiou...
Prashad: Shooting Stars
Commentary, June, 15 2001
Vijay Prashad
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On 21 April 1988, Mikhail Gorbachev turned to Colin Powell, then an aide of the US National Security Advisor, and said "What are you going to do now that you've lost your best enemy?" Gorbachev's unilateral disarmament of Soviet nuclear forces in ...
Herman: Israel's Approved Ethnic Cleansing, Part 3
Zmag Article, June, 01 2001
Edward Herman
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Israel's Approved Ethnic Cleansing, Part 3
Author: Britain's Manmade BSE Disaster: Boundless and Without Borders
Commentary, May, 30 2001
Guest Author
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In 1985, a mystery disease now known as Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy [BSE or mad cow disease] first appeared in a dairy cow from Kent, England. Within the space of three years, the annual number of BSE-infected cattle in Britain rose to 731. B...
Pilger: The big threat in the Middle East is Israel, not Iraq
Commentary, May, 27 2001
John Pilger
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As George Bush escalates the new cold war begun by his father, the attention of his planners is moving to the Middle East. Stories about the threat of Iraq's "weapons of mass destruction" are again appearing in the American press, this time concen...
Herman: Israel's Approved Ethnic Cleansing
Zmag Article, May, 01 2001
Edward Herman
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Israel's Approved Ethnic Cleansing
Barsamian: Liberating the Mind from Orthodoxies
Zmag Article, May, 01 2001
David Barsamian
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Liberating the Mind from Orthodoxies
Pilger: Academia is silent on imperialism, as German universities were during the rise of the Nazis
Commentary, April, 29 2001
John Pilger
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The other day, I attended a conference at the University of Sussex on the "new imperialism". What was extraordinary was that it took place at all. Julian Saurin, who teaches in the school of African and Asian studies at Sussex, said that, in ten y...
Mokhiber: Stop the Torture Trade
Commentary, April, 23 2001
Russell Mokhiber
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Torture predates the development of the corporation. But corporations are entangled in the modern-day commerce in devices of torture. In a new report, Amnesty International shines a spotlight on the makers of law enforcement equipment and how the...
Herman: Israel's Approved Ethnic Cleansing, Part 1
Zmag Article, April, 01 2001
Edward Herman
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Israel's Approved Ethnic Cleansing, Part 1
Herman: THE MEDIA-RIGHTWING POLITICAL CORRECTNESS GAMBIT RENEWED: HOROWITZ AND REPARATIONS
Commentary, March, 24 2001
Edward Herman
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The heavy media attention being given to rejections of David Horowitz's ad on reparations for slavery is a throwback to the rightwing and "liberal media" political correctness campaign of 1991. In that earlier campaign, it was the alleged free spe...
Glass: The first casualty
Commentary, March, 22 2001
Charles Glass
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IN 1984 I filed a report to ABC News on Israeli death squads in south Lebanon that was never broadcast. My camera crew and I had spent a week travelling the roads of south Lebanon in the tracks of plainclothes assassins whom United Nations sold...
Herman: THE GODFATHER AS "HONEST BROKER"
Commentary, March, 20 2001
Edward Herman
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The Palestinians have repeatedly called for a UN or other international presence to protect them against the brutalities of the Israeli occupation force in their land, and the UN high commissioner for human rights, Mary Robinson, as well as Amnest...
Solomon: OBSTINATE MEMORY AND PURSUIT OF THE PRESENT
Commentary, March, 15 2001
Norman Solomon
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Henry Kissinger usually has an easy time defending the indefensible on national television. But he faced some pointed questions during a recent interview with the PBS "NewsHour" about the U.S. role in bringing a military dictatorship to Chile. ...
Said: The only alternative
Commentary, March, 08 2001
Edward Said
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I first visited South Africa in May 1991: a dark, wet, wintry period, when Apartheid still ruled, although the ANC and Nelson Mandela had been freed. Ten years later I returned, this time to summer, in a democratic country in which Apartheid has b...
Gonsalves: Facts on the ground
Commentary, March, 01 2001
Sean Gonsalves
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JERUSALEM -- I was humbled by my ignorance. But even the ignorant quickly learns that studying maps and learning the lay of the land is central to understanding the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Mokhiber: Marc Rich's Hidden History as a Union-Buster
Commentary, February, 26 2001
Russell Mokhiber
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Longtime fugitive from justice Marc Rich has become the most notorious recipient of a presidential pardon since Richard Nixon. President Clinton issued a pardon for the commodities trader in the final hours of his tenure in office.
Author: Visiting Gaza
Commentary, February, 22 2001
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I don't want to be overly dramatic, but I was sort of shot at yesterday. I say "sort of" because I don't think the Israeli soldiers in their tower were trying to hit me, or the people with me... if that had been their purpose I have no doubt that ...
