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Bond: Africa's Progressive Movements
Commentary, December, 28 2000
Patrick Bond
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ZNet Commentator Patrick Bond (pbond@wn.apc.org) chats with South African poet/activist ZNet Commentator Dennis Brutus about the state of the African Left PB: Good to see you back in Johannesburg, comrade Dennis, even briefly, in the midst of you...
Deutsch: Why Libertarians Shouldn't Govern
Graphic, December, 27 2000
Barry Deutsch
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libertarians, california, deregulation, california deregulation, libertarian, libertarianism
Gonsalves: Star Wars: The Sequel
Commentary, December, 27 2000
Sean Gonsalves
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Back in September of 1999, at the Citadel military college in Charleston, South Carolina, president-elect George W. Bush gave a policy address that his Orwellian speech writer called: ÒDefense: A Period on Consequences.Ó
Guellec: Psst. The real scoop on Patient Assistance Programs
Commentary, December, 26 2000
Dorothy Guellec
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Drug companies are giving away medications if you know how to ask. This is the best-kept secret because it is not widely known. All of the top 30 pharmaceutical companies make prescriptions available free, and these programs are horribly underutil...
Cromwell: An Unholy Trinity: Truth, Market Forces and the Media
Commentary, December, 25 2000
David Cromwell
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Are you a regular newspaper reader? If so, you'll have noticed that many journalists and columnists include an email address at the bottom of their articles. They surely crave your feedback! So here's a fun experiment. Fire off an email to the com...
Monbiot: Big Business, As Seen On TV
Commentary, December, 23 2000
George Monbiot
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Our liberty could scarcely be entrusted to a more rackety bunch. Journalists are, quite rightly, almost universally reviled. But the freedom of a nation depends in large measure on the freedom they enjoy. If reporters are forced to show the world ...
Burchill: Australia & East Timor: Senate Passes Judgement
Commentary, December, 22 2000
Scott Burchill
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Largely unnoticed last week amongst the publicity splash produced by the release of a new Australian Defence White Paper, another significant parliamentary report quietly entered the public domain. The Australian Senate Committee enquiry into Aust...
Anderson: Enabler
Graphic, December, 21 2000
Kirk Anderson
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domestic abuse, domestic violence
Wise: White Christmas?
Commentary, December, 21 2000
Tim Wise
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Well it's that time of year again. Time for all good Americans to focus on what really matters. Not family, community, or world peace, but that national sacrament of late-stage capitalism known as Holiday shopping. Whether you do it online, or dra...
Deutsch: The War on Drugs. Or on Whatever.
Graphic, December, 20 2000
Barry Deutsch
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drugs, war on drugs, drug war
Mokhiber: Busted: the Genentech/American Heart Association Connection
Commentary, December, 20 2000
Russell Mokhiber
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For years, Genentech Inc.'s clotbuster drug tPA has been used to treat heart attacks.Last year, the American Heart Association published guidelines for physicians advising that tPA be used to treat strokes. Whether these new guidelines will help ...
Deutsch: Concise History of Black-White Relations in the US
Graphic, December, 19 2000
Barry Deutsch
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race, blacks, whites, white people, racism, affirmative action, african americans, race justice
Hutchinson: Terror Over Bush’s Supreme Court Picks May Not Be Justified
Commentary, December, 19 2000
Earl ofari Hutchinson
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Nothing stirs greater terror among civil rights and women’s rights groups than the prospect of Bush making politically disastrous picks to the U.S. Supreme Court. During the presidential campaign, Jesse Jackson, NAACP President Kweisi M...
Hutchinson: Terror Over Bush's Supreme Court Picks May Not Be Justified
Commentary, December, 19 2000
Earl ofari Hutchinson
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Nothing stirs greater terror among civil rights and womenÕs rights groups than the prospect of Bush making politically disastrous picks to the U.S. Supreme Court. During the presidential campaign, Jesse Jackson, NAACP President Kweisi Mfume, le...
Brecher: Draft of an Alternative Program for the Global Economy
Commentary, December, 18 2000
Jeremy Brecher
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Commenting on the Battle of Seattle, Newsweek wrote, "One of the most important lessons of Seattle is that there are now two visions of globalization on offer, one led by commerce, one by social activism." Globalization from below's vision has bee...
Anderson: How Grinch Stole Christmas
Graphic, December, 17 2000
Kirk Anderson
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christmas, consumerism, consume, grinch
Zinn: TENNIS ON THE TITANIC
Commentary, December, 16 2000
Howard Zinn
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As the prize of the presidency lurched wildly back and forth in the last days of the year, with the entire nation hypnotized by the spectacle, I had a vision. I saw the Titanic churning through the waters of the North Atlantic toward an iceberg lo...
Chomsky: Overcoming Orthodoxies
Commentary, December, 16 2000
Noam Chomsky
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David Barsamian: I want to come back to the idea of what individuals can do in overcoming orthodoxies. Steve Biko, the South African activist who was murdered by the apartheid regime while he was in custody, once said, The most powerful weapon in ...
Raptis: Hitler : The (Strange) Elser Case
Commentary, December, 16 2000
Nikos Raptis
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Johann Georg Elser was born in the German Village of Hermaringen in 1903. At the age of fourteen he was apprenticed as a (lathe) turner in a local iron factory. In 1922 he passed his journeyman's exam as a cabinet-maker and became a specialist in ...
Landau: THE PRIZZI BUSHES WILL OCCUPY THE WHITE HOUSE
Commentary, December, 15 2000
Saul Landau
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Maureen Down has cleverly labeled them the Kennebunkport Corrleones. But I Êthink of the Bushes as the Texas Prizzis, that Mafia branch that has moved Êto cowboy country and have successfully filched the 2000 election. Recall Êin Prizzi's Honor ho...
