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Commentary Mokhiber: Moving Gently on East Timor

Commentary, September, 15 1999 Russell Mokhiber
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The Clinton administration's shamefully slow response to the savagery unleashed by the Indonesian military and militia on the people of East Timor allowed a vicious slaughter to take place.

Commentary Mokhiber: An Outsider's View of the One-Sided Class Warfare in the U.S.

Commentary, September, 11 1999 Russell Mokhiber
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"While in theory U.S. law provides for workers to have freedom of association, the right to join trade unions and participate in collective bargaining is in practice denied to large segments of the American workforce in both the public and the pri...

Commentary Mokhiber: Biotech Untamed

Commentary, August, 02 1999 Russell Mokhiber
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When Secretary of Agriculture Dan Glickman wanted to address the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. to rave about the biotech industry and its wonders, he called Gene Grabowski.

Commentary Mokhiber: Laurence Summers, The World Bank, and Humanity

Commentary, June, 18 1999 Russell Mokhiber
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"Just between you and me, shouldn't the World Bank be encouraging more migration of the dirty industries to the LDCs [least developed countries]?" So wrote Treasury Secretary-designee Lawrence Summers, then the chief economist at the World Bank, i...

Commentary Mokhiber: Killing Work

Commentary, May, 21 1999 Russell Mokhiber
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Want to kill somebody and get away with a slap on the wrist? You'd be hard pressed to find a better way than being a employer who endangers his or her employees.

Commentary Mokhiber: Drugs, Patents, and U.S. Policy

Commentary, May, 03 1999 Russell Mokhiber
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Thanks to new drug therapies, many people with HIV/AIDS in the United States are now able to live relatively healthy lives. "Triple drug" therapies, or "drug cocktails" allow HIV-positive people to reduce their HIV blood load in some cases to unde...

Commentary Mokhiber: Essential Information

Commentary, April, 19 1999 Russell Mokhiber
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There is a new breed of activist roaming the land. These are activists who believe that there is something fundamentally wrong with the large corporation itself -- that it is not what corporations do wrong that is the problem, it is corporations t...

Commentary Mokhiber: With Friends Like These

Commentary, March, 30 1999 Russell Mokhiber
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With friends like these, Africa certainly doesn't need any enemies. Africa's "friends" in Congress have again introduced a "NAFTA-for-Africa" bill. In early February, Representatives Philip Crane, R-Illinois, and Charles Rangel, D-New York, rei...

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