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Landau: Pinochet and Valdez
Commentary, August, 17 1999
Saul Landau
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Juan Gabriel Valdes, Chile's new foreign minister, will meet with Secretary of State Madeline Albright to ask her to help return Augusto Pinochet to Chile. Since last October, British authorities have held Pinochet on a request from the Spanish Ju...
Weisbrot: Trade Wars: Where's the Beef
Commentary, August, 16 1999
Mark Weisbrot
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Should countries have the right to set health and safety standards for the food that their citizens eat? Should they be allowed to exclude foreign-produced foods that don't meet national standards? Or should these questions be decided by the World...
Halimi: Media Critics of the World Unite
Commentary, August, 15 1999
Serge Halimi
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Few countries publish as many books and articles on media criticism as the United States. Logically, all of this good work has little to no effect on the shaping and publication of news. Any adequate criticism, which describes media indoctrination...
Shalom: Another Attack on Affirmative Action
Commentary, August, 14 1999
Stephen1 Shalom
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In the present dreary political climate, another court decision against affirmative action might not warrant special comment. But a ruling last month by a Federal District judge in Savannah, Georgia, is worth considering if only because it illustr...
Wise: Hate Crimes
Commentary, August, 12 1999
Tim Wise
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There is no question so irrelevant as the one to which all or nearly all can respond in like fashion. Thus, asking people their views on child molestation, or whether or not they'd like the schools to be "better" has always seemed absurd: like ask...
Albert: Prison Policy
Commentary, August, 10 1999
Michael Albert
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About 25 years ago I was at a dinner party with a bunch of leftist economics faculty and grad students, and I posed a hypothetical question to engender some dinner debate. If you had only two choices, I asked, would you open all prison doors and l...
Gonsalves: Aiding Africa
Commentary, August, 09 1999
Sean Gonsalves
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As part of a U.S. State Department special envoy, Tony Lake, former national security adviser to President Clinton, recently met with Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi, Eritrean President Isayas Afewerki and Organization of African Unity (OAU)...
Prashad: Behind the Front; Nuclear Deterrance Indo-Pak Style
Commentary, August, 04 1999
Vijay Prashad
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May, 1998. India and then, Pakistan, tested nuclear devices of questionable ferocity to launch themselves as nuclear power States. Both countries made diplomatic bids to join the discriminatory nuclear bargain currently being flogged to the world ...
Glass: Hacks Versus Flacks
Commentary, August, 01 1999
Charles Glass
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The London media world is under fire and taking shelter. Prime Minister Tony Blair's head flack, Alistair Campbell, has challenged the patriotism of the British press. It's as if Sid Blumenthal had questioned the loyalty under fire of the New York...
Georgakas: Hillary As Senator: Just Say No
Commentary, July, 28 1999
Dan Georgakas
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Hillary Rodham Clinton's campaign to become the senator for New York offers the New York Green Party a unique opportunity to focus national attention on truly progressive solutions to our health and environmental problems.
Bonpane: A Pilgrimage in Chiapas with Bishop Samuel Ruiz Garcia
Commentary, July, 19 1999
BlasŽ Bonpane
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In the wake of the Pope's visit to Mexico the press has been full of announcements about the death of liberation theology. Our recent experience in Chiapas indicated that such announcements are premature and marked by misinformation.
Schechter: Our Profile and Theirs
Commentary, July, 11 1999
Danny Schechter
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When Dr. W.E.B DuBois predicted the question of color would become the problem of the twentieth century, he was writing before the advent of television, the proliferation of the mass media, and the many uses (and abuses) of the idea of racial prof...
Landau: Indictments of Kissenger and Bush
Commentary, July, 10 1999
Saul Landau
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The US government has released the first batch of documents relating to the violence unleashed between 1973-1990 by General Augusto Pinochet's dictatorship in Chile. Reading some of the memos, cables and intelligence reports, I was shocked -- the ...
Author: The Saga of the Missing Footnote
Commentary, July, 06 1999
Guest Author
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On June 3, the Serb Parliament voted 136-73 to ratify the terms of a cease-fire with NATO. The document had been hand-delivered to Slobodan Milosevic the previous day by the Finnish President Martti Ahtisaari and the Russian Special Representative...
Solomon: Big Name Candidates Bow To Media Power
Commentary, July, 02 1999
Norman Solomon
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Every modern presidential contest generates a lot of discussion about how the nation's most prominent journalists cover major candidates. But there's not much analysis of how candidates get along with the media conglomerates that employ those jour...
Peterson: How The New York Times Protects Indonesian Terror In East Timor
Zmag Article, July, 01 1999
Edward s. herman and david Peterson
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How The New York Times Protects Indonesian Terror In East Timor
Bronski: The Crime That Dare Not Speak Its Name
Commentary, July, 01 1999
Michael Bronski
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The ferocity of the New York City police assault against Haitian immigrant Abner Louima in the summer of 1977 was so striking that, even in the current context of urban police brutality, it became emblematic of the sustained, sanctioned violence o...
Hightower: The Money Primary
Commentary, June, 30 1999
Jim Hightower
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What-you say the election's not until next year? Yeah, well, technically that's true. The caucuses and primaries don't begin until February of 2000, but there are about 70,000 Americans who get an extra special vote, casting their ballots this yea...
Landau: Kosovo Lesson
Commentary, June, 29 1999
Saul Landau
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What lessons have emerged from NATO'S self-proclaimed victory in Kosovo? Bombing supporters chanted "stop ethnic cleansing." Indeed, ethnic cleansing demanded a strong response. But those who shunned the flawed law and the UN backed a campaign to ...
