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Bohmer: Cuba Today
Commentary, April, 26 2001
Peter Bohmer
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Forty years ago on April 16th , 2001, in the Vedado section of Havana, Fidel Castro announced to the Cuban people and beyond that the Cuban revolution had become a socialist revolution. On April 16th, 2001 in the same place, Fidel reaffirmed CubaÕ...
Prashad: Hindutva For a Few Dollars a Day
Commentary, April, 25 2001
Vijay Prashad
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Bangru Laxman asks the intrepid tehelka.com journalists to bring him $30,000 to their next meeting. He has already taken Rs. 1 lakh. "You can give dollars," said the President of the BJP. "You talk to us directly. We normally turn to [National Sec...
Mokhiber: Stop the Torture Trade
Commentary, April, 23 2001
Russell Mokhiber
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Torture predates the development of the corporation. But corporations are entangled in the modern-day commerce in devices of torture. In a new report, Amnesty International shines a spotlight on the makers of law enforcement equipment and how the...
Weisbrot: Why We Need Free Trade for Life-Saving Medicines
Commentary, April, 22 2001
Mark Weisbrot
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The story of the decade, and perhaps the century, has finally made it to the front pages: millions of people who could be saved are dying from AIDS. The reason for their unnecessary, premature, and often agonizing deaths is now becoming clear: it ...
Wise: 15 Dead in Ohio: The Black and the Blue in Cincinnati
Commentary, April, 17 2001
Tim Wise
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Sometimes, folks don't even bother hiding their racism. Take Keith Fangman, President of the Cincinnati Fraternal Order of Police. In the wake of this past week's uprising to protest the killing of Tim Thomas and fourteen other black men by his co...
Landau: Bay of Pigs Lessons
Commentary, April, 15 2001
Saul Landau
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What have we learned from what historian Arthur Schlesinger Jr dubbed "the perfect failure?" Schlesinger, who served as a high level adviser to president John F. Kennedy, opposed the CIA backed invasion of Cuba's Bay of Pigs by a brigade of anti C...
Hoodbhoy: OUR BLIND NUCLEAR PROPHETS
Commentary, April, 12 2001
Pervez Hoodbhoy
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Having thrown away several hundred, I still have in my possession about a hundred newspaper articles on the nuclear issue written in Pakistan and India over the past decade. The authors, overwhelmingly, are establishment nuclear "experts" and "str...
Herman: UNCLE CHUTZPAH GETS BACK INTO THE RING
Commentary, April, 09 2001
Edward Herman
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Now that the humanitarian warrior Bill Clinton has been replaced by a compassionate conservative extremely close to the oil industry, military-industrial-complex, and Christian Right/"pro- life" (fetal, that is, not post-fetal) forces, what may we...
Peters: Solidarity with East Timor: New Challenges, New Opportunities
Commentary, April, 08 2001
Cynthia Peters
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U.S. activists' contribution to the effort to end Indonesia's brutal 25-year occupation of East Timor paid off. In August 1999 a vast majority of East Timorese - after years of immense suffering and patient organizing -- courageously voted for ind...
Solomon: U.S.-CHINA DISPUTE: FROM OTHER SIDE OF MEDIA WINDOW
Commentary, April, 06 2001
Norman Solomon
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It's not easy to look at ourselves as others might see us. For a Êcountry, the need is especially acute in times of international crisis -- Êbut that's when nationalism and other reflexive biases are most likely to Êbecome pivotal. One of the way...
Herman: Israel's Approved Ethnic Cleansing, Part 1
Zmag Article, April, 01 2001
Edward Herman
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Israel's Approved Ethnic Cleansing, Part 1
Wilayto: The Bradley Foundation
Zmag Article, April, 01 2001
Phil Wilayto
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The Bradley Foundation
Flanders: Taxes for Terrorists?
Commentary, April, 01 2001
Laura Flanders
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The promoters of Faith-based action appear to be divided: Don Eberly, deputy Êdirector of the of White House Office of Faith-based and Community ÊInitiatives told the Washington Post March 11 that the Administration is Êdelaying its plan to funnel...
Russell: What's Wrong with "Charitable Choice"?
Commentary, March, 28 2001
Marta Russell
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President Bush is assembling his Òarmies of compassionÓ under the banner of Charitable choice -- a decisive move to contract out federal social service functions such as counseling for alcohol and drug substance abuse, shelter and food services fo...
Guellec: Cuba offers free medical education to US minority students
Commentary, March, 27 2001
Dorothy Guellec
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ItÕs all about altruism man, not politics. It would be unthinkable in the US to offer much of anything for nothing, let alone a 6-year medical education, but the Cubans have been doing this for many countries in the past, and now Americans may app...
Albert: Not Free Speech
Commentary, March, 24 2001
Michael Albert
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Ed Herman has laid waste the pretensions of those bleating over the plight of poor abused David Horowitz that they are sincerely concerned about free speech. But there is more to the situationÉso letÕs address another aspect. Setting aside mainst...
Gonsalves: The sky is falling?
Commentary, March, 23 2001
Sean Gonsalves
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The sky is not falling. That used to be something you said to Armageddon aficionados as an antidote to their end-of-the-world predictions. It appears that clichŽ is in need of some revision. The Russian MIR space station is slated to crash land o...
Glass: The first casualty
Commentary, March, 22 2001
Charles Glass
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IN 1984 I filed a report to ABC News on Israeli death squads in south Lebanon that was never broadcast. My camera crew and I had spent a week travelling the roads of south Lebanon in the tracks of plainclothes assassins whom United Nations sold...
Prashad: Magical Realism in the Fabulous World of the Indian Economy
Commentary, March, 21 2001
Vijay Prashad
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Magical Realism is an Indian habitus discovered accidentally by Latin American fiction. Gabriel Garcia Marquez, may his recent illness be as painless as possible, wrote in a style that evokes for me the social relations of the Indian subcontinent....
Herman: THE GODFATHER AS "HONEST BROKER"
Commentary, March, 20 2001
Edward Herman
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The Palestinians have repeatedly called for a UN or other international presence to protect them against the brutalities of the Israeli occupation force in their land, and the UN high commissioner for human rights, Mary Robinson, as well as Amnest...
