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Commentary Administrator: THE BERLIN TRIBUNAL: MORE SERIOUS THAN THE HAGUE

Commentary, June, 30 2000 Site Administrator
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Last June 3, two tribunals reached opposite conclusions concerning accusations of war crimes brought against NATO for its 1999 bombing campaign against Yugoslavia. In The Hague, Carla Del Ponte, chief prosecutor at the "International Criminal Trib...

Commentary Administrator: ANTI-CORPORATE PROTECTION MARKET

Commentary, March, 30 2000 Site Administrator
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One of the more entertaining pieces of email to cross my screen in the last few weeks, was a cover letter with a "Guide to the Seattle Meltdown: A Compendium of Activists at the WTO Ministerial." The letter noted that the "perceived success" of th...

Commentary Administrator: The OSCE Report: THINGS TOLD AND THINGS SEEN

Commentary, December, 27 1999 Site Administrator
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The recent Report of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) on Kosovo is subtitled: "As Seen, as Told". The part of the report covering the mayhem that went on during the NATO bombing, between March 24 and June 10, is "as t...

Commentary Administrator: Tha Battle for Seattle

Commentary, December, 09 1999 Site Administrator
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CAMBRIDGE, Mass.-In spite of what you may have read or heard about the anti-WTO protests last week, the people on the streets of Seattle weren't opposed to globalization. Their cause is an example of globalization, with protests in solidarity wit...

Commentary Administrator: A Short Guide to the WTO

Commentary, November, 24 1999 Site Administrator
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The World Trade Organization (WTO) is coming to Seattle at the end of November and tens of thousands of labor, environmental, and progressive activists are organizing to give them a hot reception.

Commentary Administrator: Nazi Nostalgia in Croatia

Commentary, September, 26 1999 Site Administrator
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When I visited Croatia three years ago, the book most prominently displayed in the leading bookstores of the capital city Zagreb was a new edition of the notorious anti-Semitic classic, "The Protocols of the Elders of Zion".

Commentary Administrator: International Labor Solidarity Puts Pressure on Indonesia

Commentary, September, 17 1999 Site Administrator
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In contrast to organized labor's division over what should be done about the Kosovo crisis, the current mayhem and mass killing in East Timor has galvanized a powerful and unified response from unions internationally. Organized labor, and most esp...

Commentary Administrator: Hitler Analogies Betray Past and Present

Commentary, August, 28 1999 Site Administrator
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The war was launched to protect an oppressed ethnic minority, to punish a massacre, and to secure a New World Order. Which war was that? Why, Hitler's war of course, which came to be known as World War II.

Commentary Administrator: Labor Law and the Heavy Hand of the State

Commentary, July, 23 1999 Site Administrator
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There is one remarkable exception to the deregulatory trend in the United States. While politicians happily hack away at regulation, protective legislation, standards and governmental's ability to action on behalf of the whole community, one organ...

Commentary Administrator: The Right to Organize - A Week of Action

Commentary, June, 06 1999 Site Administrator
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For seven days in June, from the 19th to the 25th, unions and their allies all over the US will be organizing hearings and forums, rallies and actions aimed at drawing public attention to the dismal state of labor rights, especially the most funda...

Commentary Administrator: REFUGEES

Commentary, June, 03 1999 Site Administrator
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Ethnic Albanians are reportedly unique in one respect: they do not run away from bombing. The small province of Kosovo has been turned into a proving ground for advanced U.S. weaponry, but the Albanian inhabitants would not think of taking the kid...

Commentary Administrator: The Milosevic Indictment

Commentary, May, 29 1999 Site Administrator
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Following World War II, a war crimes tribunal was held in Tokyo to try Japanese political and military leaders.

Commentary Administrator: The Restive Allies

Commentary, May, 24 1999 Site Administrator
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The florid and reckless war rhetoric of British Prime Minister Tony Blair and his Foreign Secretary Robin Cook is the stuff British tabloids are made of.

Commentary Administrator: Organized Labor and the War in Kosovo

Commentary, May, 14 1999 Site Administrator
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It's an alarming signal of the declining influence of organized labor that with the start of the bombing of Yugoslavia and the war in Kosovo, that neither the media nor the public at large demand to know labor's position on the conflict.

Commentary Administrator: Branislav Canak and the Independent Unions in Yugoslavia

Commentary, April, 04 1999 Site Administrator
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With all the bleak news out of Kosovo and Yugoslavia, IÕve been trying to make contact with the independent union federation Nezavisnost.

Commentary Administrator: Nato's Humanitarian Trigger

Commentary, March, 24 1999 Site Administrator
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Nato's Humanitarian Trigger

Commentary Administrator: The Triangle Fire and Anti-Sweat Activism

Commentary, March, 09 1999 Site Administrator
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Two weeks ago on Sunday, February 21st, at the fine age of 107 Bessie Cohen died. She was the last living survival of the horrific Triangle Shirtwaist Fire of 1911.

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