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Raptis: The Archbishop
Commentary, March, 16 2001
Nikos Raptis
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The Greek word "orthodox" is a compound word from "orthos" (meaning : right) and "doxa" (meaning : opinion). Therefore, an "orthodox" is a person that has the "right opinion", as opposed to the rest of humanity who have the "wrong opinion".
Solomon: OBSTINATE MEMORY AND PURSUIT OF THE PRESENT
Commentary, March, 15 2001
Norman Solomon
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Henry Kissinger usually has an easy time defending the indefensible on national television. But he faced some pointed questions during a recent interview with the PBS "NewsHour" about the U.S. role in bringing a military dictatorship to Chile. ...
Choudry: New Zealand Plays “Follow the Leader†on spylaws
Commentary, March, 14 2001
Aziz Choudry
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New Zealanders often brag that their country is a world leader. They claim it was first to create a welfare state and give suffrage to women. The 1984-1990 Labour Government declared the country nuclear-free, while, according to the Economist, it ...
Choudry: New Zealand Plays ÒFollow the LeaderÓ on spylaws
Commentary, March, 14 2001
Aziz Choudry
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New Zealanders often brag that their country is a world leader. They claim it was first to create a welfare state and give suffrage to women. The 1984-1990 Labour Government declared the country nuclear-free, while, according to the Economist, it ...
Peters: Punishing and Prescribing Sexuality
Commentary, March, 13 2001
Cynthia Peters
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ItÕs practically clichŽ to say that the marketplace uses sex to sell. Not only do the commercials feature attractive female hands caressing gear shifts, but the shows themselves feature instant sexual gratification, without so much as a nod toward...
Kagarlitsky: Globalization and Russia
Commentary, March, 12 2001
Boris Kagarlitsky
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As often happens with such terms, the word ÒglobalisationÓ has become popular in our country (Russia) only belatedly. To be exact, it has become popular among us at the very moment when people around the world have ceased talking about the rise of...
Shalom: The Sinking of the Ehime Maru and U.S. Bases in Okinawa
Commentary, March, 11 2001
Stephen1 Shalom
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On February 9, the U.S. nuclear attack submarine, the USS Greeneville, with visiting civilians in the control room, surfaced rapidly under a Japanese fishing vessel, the Ehime Maru, sinking it, apparently with the loss of nine lives. The Japanese ...
Guellec: Violence is a Public Health Problem
Commentary, March, 10 2001
Dorothy Guellec
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According to the FBI there are 240 million firearms in America today. Former U.S. Surgeon General C. Everett Koop identified violence as a public health issue in 1991. The Centers for Disease Control tells us "the United States may be a more viole...
Landau: THE PINOCHET CASE: LEGAL COURAGE; POLITICAL COWARDICE
Commentary, March, 09 2001
Saul Landau
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It finally happened. On January 29, Judge Juan Guzman Tapia charged Geralissimo Augusto Pinochet, former dictator, President, chief of the armed forces, with 75 counts of murder and kidnapping. Five years ago, even most optimists had abandoned hop...
Said: The only alternative
Commentary, March, 08 2001
Edward Said
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I first visited South Africa in May 1991: a dark, wet, wintry period, when Apartheid still ruled, although the ANC and Nelson Mandela had been freed. Ten years later I returned, this time to summer, in a democratic country in which Apartheid has b...
Edwards: BIG BROTHER'S BAD INFLUENCE
Commentary, March, 07 2001
David Edwards
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December 2001 will see London hosting the first conference exploring the extent to which radical writing tends to incorporate, and be corrupted by, mainstream prejudices, emphases and ethical presumptions.
Mokhiber: Corporations: Different Than You and Me
Commentary, March, 06 2001
Russell Mokhiber
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Corporations are fundamentally different than you and me. That's a simple truth that Big Business leaders desperately hope the public will not perceive. It helps companies immeasurably that the law in the United States and in many other countrie...
Shah: The Curious Politics of Milk
Commentary, March, 05 2001
Sonia Shah
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Part OneOne night, a small American boy slipped into bed with his mother and suckled at her breast for a few minutes before dropping off to sleep. The next day, he told his babysitter he wanted to stop doing so, but "Mommy wouldn't let me." The ch...
Monbiot: How the Superstores Gave Us Foot and Mouth
Commentary, March, 04 2001
George Monbiot
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"You enterprised a railroad through the valley," John Ruskin charged the railway companies in 1889. "The valley is gone, and the gods with it; and now every fool in Buxton can be at Bakewell in half-an-hour, and every fool in Bakewell at Buxton." ...
Author: SHAKY GROUND
Commentary, March, 03 2001
Guest Author
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By Paul Loeb Last week, I ran into a friend I worked with twenty years ago at a senior center. Lately, he's been working on emergency preparedness--helping Seattle retrofit its homes, businesses, and schools to withstand major earthquakes. Suppor...
Burchill: The East Timorese of Western Sahara
Commentary, March, 02 2001
Scott Burchill
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1975 was an extraordinary year for revolutionary upheavals in the Third World. The Khmer Rouge marched into Phnom Penh in April just two weeks before the US puppet regime in Saigon collapsed. The Pathet Lao took control of Laos the following month...
Burchill: The East Timorese of Western Sahara
Znet Article, March, 02 2001
Scott Burchill
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1975 was an extraordinary year for revolutionary upheavals in the Third World. The Khmer Rouge marched into Phnom Penh in April just two weeks before the US puppet regime in Saigon collapsed. The Pathet Lao took control of Laos the following month...
Bronski: Christian Queer Sex Radicals?
Zmag Article, March, 01 2001
Michael Bronski
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Christian Queer Sex Radicals?
