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Commentary Herman: UNCLE CHUTZPAH AND HIS MEDIA MINIONS ON THE YUGOSLAV AND OTHER ELECTIONS

Commentary, September, 29 2000 Edward Herman
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There is no better place than foreign elections to observe the brazenness of U.S. interventionism abroad, its crude double standard as between targets and client states, and the mainstream media's propaganda service in support of their country's i...

Commentary Schechter: From Sydney To Prague: Newspeak Clouds Global Coverage

Commentary, September, 28 2000 Danny Schechter
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LAUSANNE, SWITZERLAND: Poor NBC. They spent a small fortune to scoop up the rights to the Olympic Games, and now no one in the United States is watching. To get the games, they paid buckeroo bucks, even reportedly "donating" a cool million to the ...

Graphic Deutsch: International Debt Relief

Graphic, September, 27 2000 Barry Deutsch
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debt relief, debt forgiveness, global capital

Commentary Administrator: BEFORE AND AFTER YUGOSLAV ELECTIONS

Commentary, September, 27 2000 Site Administrator
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The first round of voting to elect the next President of Yugoslavia Presidential is to be held on September 24. If no candidate wins an absolute majority, there will be a runoff two weeks later. Because of the boycott by Montenegro, this will esse...

Commentary Weisbrot: Protests Keep Spotlight on IMF and World Bank Failures

Commentary, September, 26 2000 Mark Weisbrot
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PRAGUE, September 25-- With thousands of people converging from throughout Europe to demonstrate against the IMF and World Bank at their annual meetings, many people here in Prague are wondering what all the fuss is about. Security is tight, and r...

Graphic Group: Turn Off the Lights

Graphic, September, 25 2000 Contagion Media Group
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consumerism, xenophobia, right-wing dogma, corporate propaganda

Commentary Schechter: Surviving "Survivor" While Thinking Of Abbie

Commentary, September, 25 2000 Danny Schechter
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Wonder what Mr. Survival of the Fittest Charles Darwin would be thinking as the surreality show "Survivor" moves from the realm of television into the arena of TV legend. CBS has cashed in already, and all l6 of the "survivors" of this staged sitc...

Commentary Wise: Freeh's Blind Mice: A Critical Look at "Tolerance Training," FBI Style

Commentary, September, 24 2000 Tim Wise
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That I'm no Biblical scholar is an understatement of monumental proportions. And yet, recently I found myself--for reasons I'll explain shortly--thinking of the following verse from the book of Matthew, if memory serves:

Commentary Raptis: Anatomy of the Clinton visit to Athens (Part 1)

Commentary, September, 23 2000 Nikos Raptis
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Can a rather routine visit of a US President to a small country be so important to deserve an "anatomy"? I think that an analysis of the events and the behaviors of the participants in these events before, during, and after the Clinton visit to At...

Commentary 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...

Commentary Naiman: An "Underground Railroad" for Patented Drugs?

Commentary, September, 21 2000 Robert Naiman
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September 18th was the 150th anniversary of an infamous Act. In 1850, Congress passed the Fugitive Slave Act, making the federal government responsible for tracking down escaped slaves in the North and sending them back to slavery. The Act galvani...

Graphic Pond-mcpherson: Communist Cooties

Graphic, September, 19 2000 Scott Pond-mcpherson
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Bush, Gore, Castro, election, Clinton, press

Commentary Randall: A CULTURE OF RAGE

Commentary, September, 19 2000 Margaret Randall
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This weekÕs mail brought a letter quite suddenly and unceremoniously informing me that my health insurance provider is discontinuing my group policy. "Your existing QualMed health care coverage will end on October 31, 2000. . . this is the only no...

Commentary 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...

Commentary Glick: On Burnout and Recruitment

Commentary, September, 17 2000 Ted Glick
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I've been thinking about these two, opposite aspects of an activist's life and work while on vacation in the mountains of western North Carolina. It seemed appropriate that I spend some vacation time, in particular, considering the issue of "burno...

Commentary Mokhiber: Killing Africa with Kindness

Commentary, September, 16 2000 Russell Mokhiber
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With the announcement of a billion-dollar-a-year U.S. government loan program for African countries to buy AIDS drugs, the fight to deliver affordable drugs to people with HIV/AIDS in Africa and elsewhere in the developing world has entered its th...

Commentary Author: Let the Palestinians Go Home

Commentary, September, 15 2000 Guest Author
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President Clinton's renewed efforts to revive the Israeli-Palestinian negotiations focussed attention once again on what is conventionally held to be the key sticking point in the talks: the future of Jerusalem.

Commentary Hoodbhoy: THE MENACE OF EDUCATION

Commentary, September, 14 2000 Pervez Hoodbhoy
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From brain size and hair colour to the shape and texture of toe-nails, every characteristic of an individual is totally determined by just two twisted strands of human DNA. A similar cultural DNA - a society's education system - contains within it...

Commentary Herman: THE MONEY, MEDIA, AND LIBERAL-LEFT ROLE IN PLUTOCRATIC ELECTIONS

Commentary, September, 13 2000 Edward Herman
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In many ways the system is working beautifully right now. First of all, money dominates the initial selection and weeding out of presidential candidates, so that only those who will serve the corporate interest on the basics--advancing "free trade...

Graphic Deutsch: Lesser Evil Funnies!

Graphic, September, 12 2000 Barry Deutsch
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George W. Bush, Al Gore, Bush, Gore, election, elections, third parties, lesser evil, media, democrats, liberals

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