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Commentary Mokhiber: Cop Killer

Commentary, August, 22 2000 Russell Mokhiber
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Cop killer. No, we are not talking about Mumia Abu-Jamal. After a trial that the National Journal's Stuart Taylor called "grotesquely unfair" and that included "fabricated evidence," Abu-Jamal was convicted of killing a Philadelphia police office...

Commentary Albert: Lesser Evil?

Commentary, August, 21 2000 Michael Albert
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The general anti-Nader argument is very simple. To vote/work for Nader means not voting/working for Gore. That's uncontestable. In states with close Gore/Bush ratings, Gore could lose enough votes to Nader for Bush to win the state, and ultimately...

Commentary Schechter: Speaking Back to the Media

Commentary, August, 20 2000 Danny Schechter
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There used to be something called equal time and the right to reply to TV editorials and coverage. I am reminded of this by the publication, in a thin booklet called Poems for the Nation, of the text of a previously unpublished television address ...

Commentary Weisbrot: Verizon Workers Defend the Right to Organize

Commentary, August, 19 2000 Mark Weisbrot
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Workers at Verizon Communications had a lot of reasons to go out on strike against the nation's largest provider of local telephone and wireless services: loss of jobs to non- union sub-contractors, forced overtime, overbearing management. And a...

Commentary Zinn: Downfall

Commentary, August, 18 2000 Howard Zinn
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I am surprised that my friend Hans Koning, a stalwart protester against the war in Vietnam, seems to have been taken in by the argument of Richard Frank, in his review of Frank's DOWNFALL. Yes, we must all be willing to reconsider our most hardene...

Commentary Gonsalves: Creating jobs and expanding opportunity

Commentary, August, 17 2000 Sean Gonsalves
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Ask anyone what was the major event of the post-Civil War period and they'll tell you: the Emancipation Proclamation - the freeing of America's black slaves.

Commentary Burchill: Heroes and Villains

Commentary, August, 16 2000 Scott Burchill
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In his first lecture on Indonesian soil after being banished for 26 years, Benedict Anderson spoke about the bewildered expression on the faces of his Indonesian students over the years at Cornell University whenever he asked them "who in Indonesi...

Commentary Author: Local Energy, Local Democracy

Commentary, August, 15 2000 Guest Author
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In their 1996 book "Who Owns the Sun?", solar energy campaigners Daniel Berman and John O'Connor rightly declared that "democracy is a false promise if it does not include the power to steer the energy economy". It's a crucial point that not even ...

Commentary Naiman: Gun Control, Burma and Corporate Rule

Commentary, August, 14 2000 Robert Naiman
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Robert Naiman Remember the "New Federalism"? State and local governments were supposed to be "laboratories of democracy," where new ideas could be tried out to address social problems, where government would be more responsive to citizen input at...

Commentary Weisbrot: Police Abuses Won't Stifle Protests

Commentary, August, 13 2000 Mark Weisbrot
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"When protest becomes effective, governments become repressive." Tom Hayden summed it up in an axiom three decades ago, while describing his own trial on conspiracy charges for organizing protests against the Vietnam War.

Commentary Solomon: HOLY SMOKE AND MIRRORS: THE RISE OF CENTRIST THEOCRATS

Commentary, August, 12 2000 Norman Solomon
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It's always dangerous when politicians claim to be doing God's will. So, as the novelty fades from Al Gore's selection of Joseph Lieberman, journalists should ask some probing questions about the ticket's conspicuous piety.

Commentary Herman: ROGUE REMOVAL AS OFFICIAL U.S. FOREIGN POLICY

Commentary, August, 11 2000 Edward Herman
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In her August 1 speech before the Republican National Convention, Bush foreign policy adviser Condoleezza Rice explained to the audience that Bush "recognizes that the magnificent men and women of America's armed forces are not a global police for...

Commentary Landau: THE DRUG WAR IS AS AMERICAN AS APPLE PIE AND COCAINE

Commentary, August, 10 2000 Saul Landau
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One of my friends mocks the drug war and sneers at President Clinton's request that Congress fund a new $1.2 billion military aid package for Colombia, so the Colombian military can better engage the iniquitous narco-traffickers. "You don't unders...

Commentary Dominick: Zapatismo, Anyone?

Commentary, August, 09 2000 Brian Dominick
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Not since the Zapatista uprising in January, 1994, has my hope for radical social change been so reinvigorated as by the recent uprisings here in the North around the World Trade Organization, the IMF/World Bank, and the Organization of American S...

Commentary Mokhiber: Big Ideas on Corporate Accountability and Global Sustainability

Commentary, August, 08 2000 Russell Mokhiber
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Sometimes, it is important to think big.In an era where corporations trample across the globe with minimal restraint, and citizen movements around the world are on their heels, it is natural -- and necessary -- for those trying to check corporate ...

Commentary Albert: Anarchism Today

Commentary, August, 07 2000 Michael Albert
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In lieu of attending the North American Anarchist Conference (NAAC), I was asked: Òwhat do you think of anarchism as an existing and potential ideology and movement?Ó Well, I think if anarchism were an ecology, it would be a tropical rain forest--...

Commentary Edwards: Two on Iraq

Commentary, August, 06 2000 David Edwards
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August 6 is the tenth anniversary of sanctions on Iraq...and we have two commentaries on the broad topic to deliver...

Commentary Bronski: Violence and Gays in the Militaryby

Commentary, August, 05 2000 Michael Bronski
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It was, of course, to be expected. On July 17 an Army review concluded that no officers would be held responsible for the death of P.F.C..Barry Winchell who was murdered on July 5, 1999 by a fellow soldier at Fort Campbell, on the Tennessee-Kentuc...

Commentary Glick: Leftists and Popular Movements

Commentary, August, 04 2000 Ted Glick
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There are a number of reasons why some of those who are left of center in the United States have not yet decided to support the Ralph Nader/Winona LaDuke Green Party independent Presidential campaign. Some have the usual "lesser of two evils" argu...

Commentary Peters: Talking to Kids about Class

Commentary, August, 03 2000 Cynthia Peters
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My daughter had been studiously observing the Stop and Shop employee who was bagging our groceries. As she left the store, she seemed perplexed about something. Finally, she asked her father, ÒDad, is bagging groceries a really bad job?Ó

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