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Zmag Article Arbuthnot: Depleted Uranium in the Balkans

Zmag Article, December, 01 2000 Felicity Arbuthnot
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Depleted Uranium in the Balkans

Zmag Article Berkowitz: RU-486

Zmag Article, December, 01 2000 Bill Berkowitz
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Shortly after Rev. John Earl, pastor at St. Patrick’s Church in Rochelle, Illinois, learned the Food and Drug Administration had approved the abortion pill RU-486, he paid an up-close- and-personal visit to a nearby health clinic. Rev. ...

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Edward S. Herman Pluto Press, 222 pages By Robert Jensen One of the most unpleasant moments for me, and I suspect for many other leftists and anti-war activists, during the NATO attack on Yugoslavia came when I realized that a s...

Commentary Monbiot: The Massacre Starts Tomorrow

Commentary, December, 01 2000 George Monbiot
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There's an odd component of globalisation, which I find myself at a loss to explain. We are, we're assured, living in a global village, whose people are daily brought closer together. Yet we hear ever less about what is happening in distant parts ...

Commentary Guellec: Assisted suicide and Euthanasia: the illusion and façade

Commentary, November, 30 2000 Dorothy Guellec
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Why are the long-standing ethics of our health care system suddenly so threatened? Maybe it is all about money, or is it? HMO’s already induce physicians to keep costs low, using a combination of financial rewards or punishments, which cre...

Commentary Guellec: Assisted suicide and Euthanasia: the illusion and faade

Commentary, November, 30 2000 Dorothy Guellec
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Why are the long-standing ethics of our health care system suddenly so threatened? Maybe it is all about money, or is it? HMOÕs already induce physicians to keep costs low, using a combination of financial rewards or punishments, which create in m...

Commentary Edwards: THE CLIMATE KILLERS

Commentary, November, 29 2000 David Edwards
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An anonymous US official once advised, "We must counter, both in the UN and within the framework of the North-South dialogue, any discussion of global problems which questions the validity of the free market and of free enterprise in the countries...

Commentary Solomon: FINALLY, A HUGE MEDIA SPECTACLE THAT REALLY MATTERS?

Commentary, November, 28 2000 Norman Solomon
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By Norman Solomon After a decade filled with round-the-clock media sensations, we finally ended up with one that's truly portentous. The post-election battle for the White House has stood in sharp contrast to countless ersatz stories that gain...

Commentary Jensen: Even Now We Lie To Ourselves About Vietnam

Commentary, November, 27 2000 Robert Jensen
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Bill Clinton has always been keen on apologizing, for himself and on behalf of the nation. He has apologized not only for a sex scandal, but for U.S. support of repression in Guatemala and for slavery.

Commentary Author: Women in Gaza

Commentary, November, 26 2000 Guest Author
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It wouldn't be fair to repeat the argument which accuses the women's movement of being the sole paralyzed social movement in the current circumstances. If this is a correct observation, it pinpoints the crisis of all social movements in Palestine,...

Commentary Peters: Children's Museums A Rant

Commentary, November, 25 2000 Cynthia Peters
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Question: What do you get when you cross "generous funding" from bloated financial institutions with a culture that picks on parents? Answer: Children's Museums.

Commentary Glass: Ramallah, West Bank

Commentary, November, 24 2000 Charles Glass
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Most afternoons, the boys head from their schools down to the edge of town where Israeli tanks and soldiers are standing by to watch unarmed children wage war. A wide road heads from the center of Ramallah downhill towards a hotel, the City Inn, w...

Commentary Dowd: WHAT DO WE WANT? AND WHO ARE "WE"?

Commentary, November, 23 2000 Douglas Dowd
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Alongside and arising from "Seattle" and subsequent protests are questions such as the above -- by those participating in and supporting, and those against the protests. Those and related questions have always deserved serious answers; now more t...

Commentary Herman: LIBERAL APOLOGETICS FOR IMPERIALISM

Commentary, November, 21 2000 Edward Herman
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Edward S. HermanThe American Prospect (TAP) magazine, edited by Robert Kuttner and Paul Starr, with Robert Reich as "National Editor," is a liberal magazine par excellence, and has frequent articles on domestic policy issues that represent the bes...

Commentary Mchombo: FREE ENTERPRISE, PRIVATIZATION, CORRUPTION, ALL THAT

Commentary, November, 21 2000 Sam Mchombo
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On October 29, the people of the East African nation of Tanzania went to the polls to elect a new government. The elections returned the incumbent, Benjamin Mkapa, of the ruling party of Chama Cha Mapinduzi (CCM) to a second term in office. The el...

Commentary Sommers: Report from Kiev

Commentary, November, 20 2000 Jeffrey Sommers
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I am in Kiev as the pampered guest of a Baltic offshore company which helps CIS nations avoid taxation by incorporating in the Channel Islands, Cyprus, the Cayman Islands, or even the USÕs own outlaw banking state of Delaware. Granted, many of the...

Commentary Author: Viral Roulette: Malaria, Blood, and AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa

Commentary, November, 19 2000 Guest Author
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In a speech in Abuja, Nigeria on August 27th President Clinton came very close to identifying a taboo subject - the medical transmission of HIV. Mr. Clinton noted that both AIDS and malaria are increasing in Nigeria, but his staff failed to advise...

Commentary Author: No matter who wins, the president will be a bastard

Commentary, November, 18 2000 Guest Author
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Terry J. Allen The campaign was a minuet performed by robots; the post_election period is a bacchanal. What a relief. It's just too bad one of these mediocre men has to win. But the good news is that the victor will be perceived by much of the po...

Commentary Brutus: US election debacle

Commentary, November, 16 2000 Dennis Brutus
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The world still anxiously awaits the outcome of elections in the United States. But really, will it matter to the way we conduct our business, in a world economy that still imposes misery and inequality in the course of corporate-dominated trade, ...

Commentary Prashad: Betrayed Redemption in Chile

Commentary, November, 15 2000 Vijay Prashad
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On Friday, 10 November, the Santiago (Chile) Court of Appeals refused to grant parole to retired army General Torres Silva. A few hours later, Judge Sergio Munoz indicted a general on active duty, Hernan Ramirez for the same crime. Both these lead...

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