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Burchill: Kosovo and East Timor
Commentary, April, 20 1999
Scott Burchill
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The arrest of Care Australia's Steve Pratt and Peter Wallace by Serb authorities exposes more than the risks faced by aid workers in a war which masquerades as "humanitarian relief". It also reveals the perils faced by good people as a result of t...
Author: We Who Are About To Die
Commentary, April, 16 1999
Guest Author
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Two and a half years ago, I wrote the first of these columns for this paper, an attack on the pessimistic idea that the best we could hope for was Tony Blair. As a result, the following morning I was contacted by Robin Cook, who asked me to write ...
Solomon: American Journalist Have No Reason to be Smug
Commentary, April, 13 1999
Norman Solomon
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Ever since the start of NATO 's bombing blitz more than two weeks ago, the regime in Belgrade has maintained total control of Serbia's press -- and American journalists have scornfully reported on the propaganda role of Yugoslavian news media. But...
Dominick: Behind Enemy Lines
Commentary, April, 11 1999
Brian Dominick
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In a disturbing case of hypocritical Western propaganda tripping over its own distortions, the Associated Press recently reported that Turkish troops and warplanes have crossed into Northeastern Iraq in pursuit of Kurdish rebels presumably taking ...
Peters: Is There A Truth About Rigoberto Menchu
Commentary, April, 10 1999
Cynthia Peters
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My friend the anthropologist says there is no such thing as truth. She says that sheÕs interviewed people in the field who completely contradict each other. One says the volcano erupted and the other says it didnÕt. They both say it with equal con...
Bronski: Harassment
Commentary, April, 09 1999
Michael Bronski
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Several weeks ago I was walking with my lover in a quiet neighborhood in Cambridge Mass, on our way to a late afternoon movie. We were holding hands in an offhanded sort of way, chatting together when a group of young teens sitting on a front stoo...
Weisbrot: The Debacle in Kosovo
Commentary, April, 08 1999
Mark Weisbrot
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The bombing of Yugoslavia is turning out to be a foreign policy debacle of disastrous proportions, yet most of the chattering class insists that we can turn things around if we only commit more troops. We have heard that before.
Pozzi: Labor Repression in Argentina
Commentary, April, 03 1999
Pablo Pozzi
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On Monday, February 16, 1998, in Usuhuaia, the Argentina's southernmost city in Tierra del Fuego, the courts finally declared the innocence of steelworker leader Oscar Martinez.
Glass: Letter from London
Commentary, April, 02 1999
Charles Glass
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The war against Slobodan Milosevic was clearly lost when the London papers ran a front-page photograph of Defence Secretary George Robertson in Italy aboard a warplane.
Herman: All the Book Reviews Fit to Print
Zmag Article, April, 01 1999
Edward Herman
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All the Book Reviews Fit to Print
Giroux: Substituting Prisons for Schools
Zmag Article, April, 01 1999
Henry a. Giroux
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Substituting Prisons for Schools
Shalom: Terrorists and Madmen
Commentary, March, 27 1999
Stephen1 Shalom
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The official U.S. explanation for the missile strikes on the Sudanese pharmaceutical plant last summer was so transparently bogus that even the NEW YORK TIMES -- after its initial approving editorial -- was forced a few days later to run a skeptic...
Hahnel: The Great Global Asset Swindle
Commentary, March, 23 1999
Robin Hahnel
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Is it any surprise that the least noticed effect of the global economic crisis among Western economists is that Western multinational corporations and banks are busy buying up the most attractive economic assets the third world has to offer at bar...
Chomsky: A Farewell to Oscar
Commentary, March, 17 1999
Noam Chomsky
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On March 11, Oskar Lafontaine resigned his position as German Finance Minister and chair of the Social Democratic Party (SPD). His resignation elicited "euphoria" in "jubilant" financial markets, editorial offices, and news rooms.
Wise: Kill First, Ask Questions Later
Commentary, March, 15 1999
Tim Wise
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It's been nearly four decades since the last execution in Tennessee. During that time, my state has resisted boarding the killing train engineered by folks in places like Florida and Texas, where execution has been refined to a near science, appli...
Raptis: What if Colombus Had Not Discovered America
Commentary, March, 11 1999
Nikos Raptis
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ELEFTHEROTYPIA is a mainstream Greek daily (usually first or second in circulation). The title is a compound from ELEFTHEROS (free) and TYPOS (press), yet the modern Greek meaning of the title is not Free Press but Freedom of the Press.
Churchill: Wages of Cointelpro Still Evident
Commentary, March, 10 1999
Ward Churchill
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In 1980, former FBI Director L. Patrick Grey and Edward S. Miller, one-time head of Squad 47, the domestic counterintelligence unit in the FBI's New York Field Office, were convicted of having "conspired to injure and oppress the citizens of the U...
Herman: Transparency: Fad Word/Pseudo Remedy
Zmag Article, March, 01 1999
Edward Herman
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Transparency: Fad Word/Pseudo Remedy
Faber: Central America: A Disaster That Was Waiting to Happen
Zmag Article, January, 01 1999
Daniel Faber
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Central America: A Disaster That Was Waiting to Happen
Everest: Cops That Maim And Kill
Zmag Article, January, 01 1999
Dennis bernstein and larry Everest
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Cops That Maim And Kill
