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Commentary Georgakas: East Timor, Phillips Petroleum, & Norman, Oklahoma

Commentary, December, 11 1999 Dan Georgakas
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During the height of the massacres in East Timor, Phillips Petroleum paid the Indonesian government $2.9 million in royalties for oil that had been taken out of East Timor. That scandal was not uncovered by any "investigative" reporter in mass med...

Zmag Article Herman: Clinton Is The World's Leading Active War Criminal

Zmag Article, December, 01 1999 Edward Herman
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S. Herman I use war crimes to encompass the commission of all acts declared illegal under international rules of war as enumerated in the various Hague and Geneva agreements and conventions and pronounced in the Nuremberg and Tokyo tribunals. ...

Zmag Article Bacon: Dried Garlic And A Busted Union

Zmag Article, December, 01 1999 David Bacon
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David Bacon & Bill Berkowitz King City, California is a tough agricultural town about an hour south of Salinas. In King City, vegetables are king—people mostly work in the fields picking them, or in the huge Basic Vegetable Products p...

Zmag Article Ellner: President Hugo Chavez Of Venezuela

Zmag Article, December, 01 1999 Steve Ellner
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Ellner Venezuela’s president Lt. Col. Hugo Chávez frequently makes public appearances in military fatigues and tells his audience that he is "dressed for battle." He adds that his words are ammunition and his targets are those a...

Commentary Dominick: Georgia On My Mind: Hard Thoughts on Closing the SOA

Commentary, November, 22 1999 Brian Dominick
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It's been a long time since I last wrote in depth about the US Army's School of the Americas, and the movement to shut it down. But living in Syracuse, a major anti-SOA hotbed, this time of year it's hard not to write or at least think about the t...

Commentary Shah: Our Deeply Twisted Understanding of the World 

Commentary, November, 21 1999 Sonia Shah
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"Do people in India leave their dead in the street?" This was the question posed to my family by a coworker invited for dinner. (She wasn't invited back.)

Commentary Peters: East Timor: Reparations and Responsibility

Commentary, November, 17 1999 Cynthia Peters
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The New York Times reported on October 25 the claim that the United States had "poured billions" into East Timor. The next day the Times ran a "correction," saying that in fact "Washington's foreign aid" to East Timor "has not amounted to billions."

Commentary Peters: East Timor: Reparations and Responsibility

Commentary, November, 17 1999 Cynthia Peters
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The New York Times reported on October 25 the claim that the United States had "poured billions" into East Timor. The next day the Times ran a "correction," saying that in fact "Washington's foreign aid" to East Timor "has not amounted to billions."

Commentary Herman: The Times and East Timor

Commentary, November, 14 1999 Edward Herman
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Seth Mydans's October 31 piece on the Indonesian departure from East Timor, "A Calamitous Era Plays Out Quietly For East Timorese," with its admission that 200,000 had died in Indonesia's 24 year failed pacification effort, including its final "ra...

Commentary Bonpane: Wars No More

Commentary, November, 11 1999 BlasŽ Bonpane
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Just as a battered spouse who enables her partner to continue his abusive ways, so we, the people of Americas continue to enable the United States to be an incurable serial killer. The victims of the holocaust of the Third Reich have rightfully ta...

Commentary Landau: More Nuclear Disasters

Commentary, November, 08 1999 Saul Landau
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"We have contained the spread of radiation from last week's nuclear accident," Japanese authorities assured their citizens. They blame the chain reaction on improper handling of materials by low level workers.

Commentary Raptis: The Pnyx

Commentary, November, 07 1999 Nikos Raptis
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Pnyx is the name of a low (357 feet high) hill about 450 yards to the west of the Acropolis in Athens. The word "Pnyx" means "tightly crowded together." The "crowding" refers to the male citizens (also known and as "demos") of classical Athens, wh...

Commentary Burchill: A Fresh Start

Commentary, November, 05 1999 Scott Burchill
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Sometimes statistics tell a grim tale. In the first weeks of September this year, 70% of all public buildings and private residences in East Timor were destroyed. At least 75% of the population of the territory was displaced, with over 260,000 peo...

Zmag Article Pilger: Hidden Agendas

Zmag Article, November, 01 1999 John Pilger
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Pilger NY: New Press, 1999, pbk. 424 pp. Review by Anthony Arnove John Pilger is perhaps best known in the United States for his documentary Death of a Nation, a stunning expose on the genocide in East Timor. He has wri...

Commentary Weisbrot: Time to End Debt Slavery

Commentary, October, 31 1999 Mark Weisbrot
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It has become a truism that "there are no easy answers" to the world's most pressing economic and social problems. The phrase is often repeated by academics, policy wonks, and others whose occupation immerses them in the details of real or imagine...

Commentary Landau: Will it Be NATO or the UN

Commentary, October, 28 1999 Saul Landau
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Who should lead the world toward peace in the 21st Century? NATO or the UN.

Commentary Author: Pakistan's Pathos

Commentary, October, 16 1999 Guest Author
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Pakistan is, once again, in the throes of a serious crisis. The country is under martial law. The elected prime minister, Nawaz Sharif, his brother, Shahbaz and General Ziaudin, the head of Inter Services Intelligence (ISI) are under house arrest....

Commentary Author: Pakistan's Pathos

Commentary, October, 16 1999 Guest Author
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Pakistan is, once again, in the throes of a serious crisis. The country is under martial law. The elected prime minister, Nawaz Sharif, his brother, Shahbaz and General Ziaudin, the head of Inter Services Intelligence (ISI) are under house arrest....

Commentary Shalom: Political Correctness and the Desert Storm Law

Commentary, October, 13 1999 Stephen1 Shalom
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Conservative pundits and their frequent liberal allies have been complaining for years about "Political Correctness" -- the intrusion of left-wing ideology into the academy, supposedly subverting academic standards.

Commentary Herman: How the media have protected U.S. Appeasement- Collusion with Indonesia in East Timor

Commentary, October, 12 1999 Edward Herman
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The mainstream U.S. media have performed a semi-miracle in reporting on the East Timor crisis, providing us with a model case of apologetics in the service of state policy.

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