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Weisbrot: Can Haitian Democracy Survive?
Commentary, February, 17 2001
Mark Weisbrot
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As President Jean-Bertrand Aristide takes the reins of power in Haiti for the third time in ten years, a debate over his presidency is taking place in US foreign policy circles and the press. The discussion centers around whether Aristide is "full...
Solomon: REPORTING ON THE FIGHT AGAINST AIDS IN POOR NATIONS
Commentary, February, 16 2001
Norman Solomon
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In Africa, 17 million people have already died of AIDS. In Êdeveloping countries around the world, twice that many are now HIV Êpositive. Such statistics are largely unfathomable. And news accounts Êrarely explore basic options for halting the dea...
Shah: The Celebrated Immigrant: Labor Secretary Elaine Chao's Asian American Subterfuge
Commentary, February, 15 2001
Sonia Shah
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Labor and civil rights groups were outraged at Bush's nomination of anti-affirmative action, anti-minimum wage Linda Chavez for labor secretary. But strangely, when Bush quickly replaced Chavez with anti-affirmative action, anti-minimum wage (and ...
Naiman: The Economic and Social Toll of U.S. Policy Towards Iraq
Commentary, February, 13 2001
Robert Naiman
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Ten years after the United States and its allies imposed economic sanctions following Iraq's invasion of Kuwait, the embargo rremains largely in place. Theembargo continues to exact a heavy toll on Iraqi society, even after the passage of United N...
Wise: Motive and Opportunity: The Difference Between White and ÔOtherÕ Racism
Commentary, February, 12 2001
Tim Wise
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There are few points made about racism that get folks as upset as the oft-heard and repeated maxim by some, that only whites can be racist, because racism is a power relationship, and only whites have institutional power--at least in the United St...
Mokhiber: The Corporate Conservative Administration
Commentary, February, 11 2001
Russell Mokhiber
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Compassionate conservativism? Try corporate conservativism. It's corporate conservatism that is going to be the defining feature of the Bush White House. Pushing beyond the corporate corrupting frontiers blazed by the Clinton administration, the...
Ali: Porto Alegre
Commentary, February, 10 2001
Tariq Ali
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The World Social Forum in Porto Alegre, in the deep South of Brazil was more than a symbolic counter to Davos. The aim behind it was serious: to unite the Seattle generation with the Old Left and to think seriously about alternatives to neo-libera...
Herman: THE MEDIA NORMALIZE A RIGHTWING COUP D'ETAT
Commentary, February, 08 2001
Edward Herman
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We have just gone through a remarkable moment in U.S. history, in which a Republican activist-dominated Supreme Court has refused to allow a complete vote count in Florida which would have given Al Gore the presidency, and by judicial fiat simply ...
Prashad: The Ground Beneath Our Feet: Earthquake in India
Commentary, February, 07 2001
Vijay Prashad
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Never underestimate the power of the Earth. Vast, deep, unstable. Tectonic plates in motion beneath miles of sod and stone. And above, flora and fauna bursting forth. Of that lot the humans walk on the Earth at our own rhythm, divided by classes a...
Reinhart: THE VOTE THAT CAN DECIDE
Commentary, February, 05 2001
Tanya Reinhart
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Beneath the surface, there is deep anxiety in Israeli society: The media is full of reports of war preparations: "Home Front Command to stage 'mother of all exercises' " (JP, Jan 22); "Ministry tells purchasers to prepare for emergency" (Ha'aretz,...
Author: The PanAm 103 Verdict
Commentary, February, 03 2001
Guest Author
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The papers are filled with pictures of happy relatives of the victims of the 1988 bombing of PanAm 103. A Libyan, Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed al Megrahi, was just found guilty of the bombing by a Scottish court in the Hague, his co-defendant, Al Amin Kh...
Grossman: Aerospace Executives On Bush Star Wars Team
Zmag Article, February, 01 2001
Karl Grossman
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U.S. preparations to wage war in and from space will be getting a huge boost with the assumption of power of George W. Bush and Richard Cheney. They represent a confluence of corporate and right-wing political power pushing for expanded s...
Giroux: Zero Tolerance, Part 2
Zmag Article, February, 01 2001
Henry a. Giroux
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Zero Tolerance, Part 2
Bello: When Davos Meets Porto Alegre: A Memoir
Commentary, February, 01 2001
Walden Bello
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Porto Alegre, Brazil "Hemingway said that the rich are different from you and me. How can anyone expect the people in Davos to understand the crisis that globalization has visited on the lives of people like those of us here in Porto Alegre?" Tha...
Bond: Welcome to Jo'burg
Commentary, January, 26 2001
Patrick Bond
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If you had a choice, which host city would you choose for Rio+10, a.k.a. the 2002 `World Summit on Sustainable Development,' where 60,000 delegates will jawjaw about social and environmental problems, maybe in the process constructing more bits of...
Scipes: ROUND TWO: PEOPLE'S POWER IN THE PHILIPPINES REMOVES ANOTHER PRESIDENT
Commentary, January, 25 2001
Kim Scipes
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The government of Joseph "Erap" Estrada in the Philippines has just collapsed, with the president forced out by mass mobilization, and with Vice President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo replacing him as President on January 21. What might this mean for t...
Reinhart: BARAK'S VERSION OF SHARON
Commentary, January, 23 2001
Tanya Reinhart
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One of the lessons of the massive protest which followed Sharon's war in Lebanon appeared to be that it is no longer possible to drag the Israeli people into wars of choice. But Barak has managed where Sharon failed - He convinced at least the cen...
Jensen: Inauguration 2001: A Citizens' Oath of Office
Commentary, January, 22 2001
Robert Jensen
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On Inauguration Day 2001, standing on the steps of the State Capitol just a Êfew blocks from the governor's mansion that George W. Bush recently had Êvacated, about 1,000 Austin residents raised their hands as I administered Êa Citizens' Oath of O...
Flanders: Extremists? Which Extremists?
Commentary, January, 20 2001
Laura Flanders
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Critics are using the word "extremist" to describe John Ashcroft, Gale Ann ÊNorton, Tommy Thompson, and just about every GW Bush nominee. Sure enough, Êthe people Bush wants to install are more hostile to the idea of federal Êoversight of the envi...
Mokhiber: Pardon Me?
Commentary, January, 20 2001
Russell Mokhiber
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Sometime within the next two days, in the last hours of his presidency, Bill Clinton will exercise his Constitutional power to grant clemency to a lucky group of federal convicts.
