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Commentary Guellec: Healthcare according to Ralph Nader

Commentary, September, 12 2000 Dorothy Guellec
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Ralph Nader is the only candidate who supports Universal Healthcare for all as a human right. Health, not merely illness should be a public concern. We could save at least $36 billion a years if we had a "paperless hospital system." As Business We...

Commentary Georgakas: Previewing Kosovo

Commentary, September, 12 2000 Dan Georgakas
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The only constant in American and NATO policy in the Balkans has been the breakup of a socialist, multi-ethnic state into a series of small, capitalist-oriented states based on narrowly defined religious/ethnic identity. Given that pattern, it is ...

Commentary Marable: Escaping From Blackness: Racial Identity and Public Policy

Commentary, September, 11 2000 Manning Marable
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The greatest struggle of any oppressed group in a racist society is the struggle to reclaim collective memory and identity. At the level of culture, racism seeks to deny people of African, American Indian, Asian and Latino descent their own voices...

Commentary Bonpane: The Death of the Dinosaur, the Saber Tooth Tiger, and Militarism

Commentary, September, 10 2000 BlasŽ Bonpane
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Take a look at the La Brea Tar Pits numerous millennia ago. The saber tooth tiger attempts to attack a wild horse. The tiger gets stuck in the tar. The most ferocious animals are generally on the endangered species list, the lions the tigers, the ...

Graphic Pond-mcpherson: Product Placement

Graphic, September, 09 2000 Scott Pond-mcpherson
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economics, advertising, youth, sales,corporation,

Commentary Landau: Pinochet naked -- at last!

Commentary, September, 09 2000 Saul Landau
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Picture Homer Simpson's boss, naked, a scrawny figure bent with age, covering his genitals with his general's hat. The caption: "You've stripped me, but don't take my hat!" Augusto Pinochet, former President, Generalissimo, King of the world, now ...

Commentary Author: Violence, Gender and Health

Commentary, September, 08 2000 Guest Author
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If one bothered to notice, we would see that most reports about "violence" are really stories about "violent males." That is not to say that females aren't violent. It is just that the male predominance is overwhelming. Yet we speak of these event...

Commentary Weisbrot: World Bank Can't Seem to "Think Different"

Commentary, September, 07 2000 Mark Weisbrot
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The World Bank spends millions of dollars each year on public relations, promoting the idea that the organization is well-run, accountable, transparent, and working for "a world free of poverty" (the slogan on their web site). This effort has grow...

Commentary Schechter: Looking Back: "Leave It To Lieberman"

Commentary, September, 06 2000 Danny Schechter
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Don't say independent media analysts can't get on the air. On Wednesday might, hours before Joe Lieberman would speak to the Democratic Convention, Seth Ackerman was invited to have his say. Seth, who works with Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting ...

Commentary Russell: Just Getting to the Protests - Still a Struggle

Commentary, September, 05 2000 Marta Russell
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On Monday, the first day of the Democratic Convention, I was sitting in my wheelchair in the shade at Pershing Square, waiting for my compadres to join me for the ÒPeople Before ProfitsÓ march when a fellow activist recognized me and came over to ...

Commentary Mokhiber: Toast

Commentary, September, 04 2000 Russell Mokhiber
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About six years ago, a friend gave us a toaster. It was a present. The friend bought the toaster from Williams-Sonoma, the San Francisco-based kitchen store, with outlets in upscale malls throughout the United States.

Commentary Naiman: Banning Imports from Burma

Commentary, September, 03 2000 Robert Naiman
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In Burma - "Myanmar" to its military regime - Aung San Suu Kyi, leader of the democracy movement, sits in her car, blocked by the military dictatorship from meeting her supporters.

Commentary Dowd: ROTTING AWAY; THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF CORRUPTION AND DECADENCE

Commentary, September, 02 2000 Douglas Dowd
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History is replete with corrupt and decadent societies, including (but not beginning with) that of 1st Century Rome, where decadent/corrupt Nero fiddled as corrupt/decadent Rome burned. Iniquity -- and inequality -- in ancient and medieval societ...

Zmag Article Albert: What's Napster'and Freenet?

Zmag Article, September, 01 2000 Michael Albert
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The New York Times business pages have lately featured reports of a music industry crisis. Many leftists don’t read these pages, but this is big news for everyone, perhaps especially for the left. Napster Napster is a computer p...

Commentary Edwards: THIS SPORTING LIE: THE 'GREEN' OLYMPICS

Commentary, September, 01 2000 David Edwards
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A month before the great 'Green Games' in Sydney were due to open, a group of international scientists arrived at the North Pole to find, not ice, but a stretch of open water at least one mile wide - the first time the North Pole has not been ice-...

Commentary Marable: Racism, Prisons and the Future of Black America

Commentary, August, 31 2000 Manning Marable
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There are today over two million Americans incarcerated in federal and state prisons and local jails throughout the United States. More than one-half, or one million, are black men and women. The devastating human costs of the mass incarceration o...

Graphic Anderson: Colombia's allowance money

Graphic, August, 30 2000 Kirk Anderson
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colombia

Commentary Prashad: The Affirmative Action Election

Commentary, August, 30 2000 Vijay Prashad
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As we approach the calendar end of the Christian millennium, we, as progressives, are posed with an electoral choice that has begun to startle me. So much commentary seems to go by these days on what appears to be the only election worth anything,...

Graphic Anderson: US's Pinochet files

Graphic, August, 29 2000 Kirk Anderson
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pinochet, cia, chile

Commentary Wise: Gore-Vey!: Joe Lieberman, Jewish Mobility, and the Politics of Race in America

Commentary, August, 29 2000 Tim Wise
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I am a Jew. And according to what others of my faith tradition tell me, I should be beaming with pride at the fact that Al Gore--a Southern Baptist whose denominational leaders once said God didn't answer the prayers of folks like me--has picked a...

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