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Russell: Government Example Setting Not Enough
Commentary, December, 05 1999
Marta Russell
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Despite a growing economy and a 29-year low official unemployment rate, potential workers with disabilities remain chronically unemployed. Nine years after the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), national employment surveys show ...
Herman: Clinton Is The World's Leading Active War Criminal
Zmag Article, December, 01 1999
Edward Herman
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S. Herman I use war crimes to encompass the commission of all acts declared illegal under international rules of war as enumerated in the various Hague and Geneva agreements and conventions and pronounced in the Nuremberg and Tokyo tribunals. ...
Bacon: Dried Garlic And A Busted Union
Zmag Article, December, 01 1999
David Bacon
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David Bacon & Bill Berkowitz King City, California is a tough agricultural town about an hour south of Salinas. In King City, vegetables are kingpeople mostly work in the fields picking them, or in the huge Basic Vegetable Products p...
Ellner: President Hugo Chavez Of Venezuela
Zmag Article, December, 01 1999
Steve Ellner
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Ellner Venezuelas president Lt. Col. Hugo Chávez frequently makes public appearances in military fatigues and tells his audience that he is "dressed for battle." He adds that his words are ammunition and his targets are those a...
Dominick: Georgia On My Mind: Hard Thoughts on Closing the SOA
Commentary, November, 22 1999
Brian Dominick
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It's been a long time since I last wrote in depth about the US Army's School of the Americas, and the movement to shut it down. But living in Syracuse, a major anti-SOA hotbed, this time of year it's hard not to write or at least think about the t...
Shah: Our Deeply Twisted Understanding of the World
Commentary, November, 21 1999
Sonia Shah
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"Do people in India leave their dead in the street?" This was the question posed to my family by a coworker invited for dinner. (She wasn't invited back.)
Landau: The Old Populist Gag
Commentary, November, 18 1999
Saul Landau
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Exciting! Pat Buchanan, presidential candidate, opposes corporate globalization which, he claims, benefits a handful of multi national giants and leaves crumbs for the poor. Buchanan says he stands for elementary justice for working people. He bla...
Peters: East Timor: Reparations and Responsibility
Commentary, November, 17 1999
Cynthia Peters
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The New York Times reported on October 25 the claim that the United States had "poured billions" into East Timor. The next day the Times ran a "correction," saying that in fact "Washington's foreign aid" to East Timor "has not amounted to billions."
Peters: East Timor: Reparations and Responsibility
Commentary, November, 17 1999
Cynthia Peters
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The New York Times reported on October 25 the claim that the United States had "poured billions" into East Timor. The next day the Times ran a "correction," saying that in fact "Washington's foreign aid" to East Timor "has not amounted to billions."
Herman: The Times and East Timor
Commentary, November, 14 1999
Edward Herman
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Seth Mydans's October 31 piece on the Indonesian departure from East Timor, "A Calamitous Era Plays Out Quietly For East Timorese," with its admission that 200,000 had died in Indonesia's 24 year failed pacification effort, including its final "ra...
Bonpane: Wars No More
Commentary, November, 11 1999
BlasŽ Bonpane
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Just as a battered spouse who enables her partner to continue his abusive ways, so we, the people of Americas continue to enable the United States to be an incurable serial killer. The victims of the holocaust of the Third Reich have rightfully ta...
Landau: More Nuclear Disasters
Commentary, November, 08 1999
Saul Landau
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"We have contained the spread of radiation from last week's nuclear accident," Japanese authorities assured their citizens. They blame the chain reaction on improper handling of materials by low level workers.
Raptis: The Pnyx
Commentary, November, 07 1999
Nikos Raptis
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Pnyx is the name of a low (357 feet high) hill about 450 yards to the west of the Acropolis in Athens. The word "Pnyx" means "tightly crowded together." The "crowding" refers to the male citizens (also known and as "demos") of classical Athens, wh...
Burchill: A Fresh Start
Commentary, November, 05 1999
Scott Burchill
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Sometimes statistics tell a grim tale. In the first weeks of September this year, 70% of all public buildings and private residences in East Timor were destroyed. At least 75% of the population of the territory was displaced, with over 260,000 peo...
Marable: The Black Radical Congress: Moving On Up To Congress 2000
Commentary, November, 04 1999
Manning Marable
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On June 19, 1998, over two thousand African Americans gathered in Chicago to participate in the founding conference of the Black Radical Congress (BRC).
Pilger: Hidden Agendas
Zmag Article, November, 01 1999
John Pilger
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Pilger NY: New Press, 1999, pbk. 424 pp. Review by Anthony Arnove John Pilger is perhaps best known in the United States for his documentary Death of a Nation, a stunning expose on the genocide in East Timor. He has wri...
Mokhiber: The Criminal Element
Commentary, November, 01 1999
Russell Mokhiber
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The criminal element has seeped deep into every nook and cranny of American society. Forget about the underworld -- these crooks dominate every aspect of our market, culture, and politics. They cast a deep dark shadow over life in turn of the cent...
Weisbrot: Time to End Debt Slavery
Commentary, October, 31 1999
Mark Weisbrot
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It has become a truism that "there are no easy answers" to the world's most pressing economic and social problems. The phrase is often repeated by academics, policy wonks, and others whose occupation immerses them in the details of real or imagine...
Kissenger: Update on Mumia
Commentary, October, 29 1999
Clark Kissenger
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Mumia's legal team and the attorneys for the state of Pennsylvania were asked to a meeting this past Tuesday morning with federal judge William Yohn in his chambers to "get acquainted." This was expected and is usually the way a major case like th...
Landau: Will it Be NATO or the UN
Commentary, October, 28 1999
Saul Landau
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Who should lead the world toward peace in the 21st Century? NATO or the UN.


