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Commentary Schechter: Newman's Own PR War (On Nuclear War)

Commentary, June, 11 2000 Danny Schechter
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When he took off his sunglasses, you knew it was screen star Paul Newman. Those blue eyes always give him away. One day last week, I found myself staring into them from behind a video camera, as Newman recorded a message beginning with a recollect...

Commentary Landau: "POOR PINOCHET"-- AN UPDATE ON THE TRIALS OF THE TYRANT

Commentary, June, 10 2000 Saul Landau
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The Santiago Appeals Court apparently voted 13-9 to revoke General Augusto Pinochet's parliamentary immunity. This makes Pinochet vulnerable to prosecution in Chile for allegedly ordering his subordinates to carry out a mass murder campaign - whic...

Commentary Solomon: AD INDUSTRY: GIVING WOMEN SPECIAL TREATMENT

Commentary, June, 09 2000 Norman Solomon
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Last fall, when Jean Kilbourne's new book "Deadly Persuasion" was arriving on shelves, Publishers Weekly praised it as "a wake-up call about the damaging effects of advertising in our media-saturated culture." But six months later, the mass media'...

Commentary Author: AN EMBARGO TOO FAR

Commentary, June, 08 2000 Guest Author
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Mariam Hamza has beautiful eyes, a loving personality and immense courage. She is also a symbol of one of the greatest human rights abuses of our time. This four year old Iraqi leukaemia patient hit the headlines in 1998 when George Galloway, MP f...

Commentary Weisbrot: Labor in 2000: No Place to Go?

Commentary, June, 07 2000 Mark Weisbrot
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In the movie version of Steven King's classic, "The Dead Zone," Christopher Walken reads the mind of the mother of a demonic serial killer. His psychic powers discern that she had long been aware of her son's vicious murders. His eyes widen with s...

Commentary Wise: Rebels Without a Clue: Neo-Confederacy and the Ironies of White Supremacy

Commentary, June, 06 2000 Tim Wise
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We Southerners are famous for wishful thinking: in fact, you could say it's something of a regional pastime. This should come as no surprise given our interminable heat in the summer which leaves nearly all wishing for rain to cool things down, an...

Commentary Author: Militant Mood Moving Black Youth To Fight For Change

Commentary, June, 05 2000 Guest Author
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On April 4, 1968 Martin Luther King was gunned down as he stood on a hotel balcony in Memphis. He was in Memphis to support a strike by sanitation workers who carried bold signs proclaiming, I AM A MAN. At the time of his

Commentary Bonpane: Delegation to Colombia

Commentary, June, 05 2000 BlasŽ Bonpane
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What does Medellin mean to a U.S. citizen? Narco-terrorists, sicarios (hired assassins) and drug lords. It is actually a beautiful and mountainous city located at many altitudes, all of them comfortable.

Commentary Solomon: U.S. NEWS MEDIA: A SECURITY ZONE FOR ISRAEL

Commentary, June, 03 2000 Norman Solomon
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One phrase -- "security zone" -- sums up an entire era of media spin about Israel's 22-year occupation of southern Lebanon.

Commentary Hightower: HUNGER REPORT BITES BUSH ON BUTT

Commentary, June, 02 2000 Jim Hightower
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At the 1988 Democratic convention in Atlanta, I gave a podium-pounding speech in which I characterized George Bush the Elder as "a man who was born on third and thought he'd hit a triple."

Zmag Article Tokar: Gathering RAGE

Zmag Article, June, 01 2000 Brian Tokar
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One important feature of the actions in Seattle and Washington, DC was many activists’ focus on a serious new threat to our food and health: The rise of genetic engineering as the technology-of-choice in countless new areas of co...

Zmag Article Solomon: The Media Big Six

Zmag Article, June, 01 2000 Norman Solomon
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The push by federal regulators to break up Microsoft is big news. Until recently, the software giant seemed untouchable—and few people demanded effective anti-trust efforts against monopoly power in the software industry. Th...

Zmag Article Street: The Anti-Sweatshop Movement

Zmag Article, June, 01 2000 Paul Street
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For nearly three years now, American campuses have been experiencing a resurgence of student activism. This new college activism targets the $2.5 billion collegiate licensing industry, which includes companies like Nike, Champion...

Zmag Article Herman: Krugman On Economists As Hacks

Zmag Article, June, 01 2000 Edward Herman
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Following up his April attacks on the critics of the World Bank and IMF as economic illiterates, and after being criticized by them in turn as an establishment spokesperson, Paul Krugman offered readers of his New York Times colu...

Zmag Article Hahnel: Speaking Truth To Power: Speaking Truth To Ourselves

Zmag Article, June, 01 2000 Robin Hahnel
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First in December in Seattle and then in April in Washington, DC the movement against corporate sponsored globalization spoke truth to power. Thousands of young people said they were sick of corporate arrogance, greed, and callou...

Zmag Article 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...

Zmag Article Carter: Review Round-Up

Zmag Article, June, 01 2000 Sandy Carter
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From the first half of the year, some of the good and better releases not yet getting their due. Marianne Faithfull, Vagabond Ways (Instinct) For better and for worse, Marianne Faithfull’s best work usually d...

Zmag Article Bronski: Bully Pulpit Indeed

Zmag Article, June, 01 2000 Michael Bronski
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John Cardinal O’Connor, who died last month, was perhaps the most influential Catholic leader in America, known as much for his just-folks manner as his strongly worded moral leadership. People didn’t always agree with ...

Zmag Article Lazaroff: Steelworkers Face Off Against Kaiser

Zmag Article, June, 01 2000 Leon Lazaroff
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Like most workers at Kaiser Aluminum Corp.’s plant in Gramercy, Louisiana, Ray Scroggs never thought he’d still be out of work 20 months after talks between his union, the United Steelworkers of America, and company man...

Zmag Article Gardner: Lori Berenson

Zmag Article, June, 01 2000 Tom Gardner
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On November 30, 1995, Lori Berenson, an American citizen, was arrested while riding on a bus in downtown Lima, Peru. She was charged with treason against the state of Peru—a legal absurdity, since Lori is not a citizen of Pe...

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