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Bonpane: Wars No More
Nov 11, 1999
Just as a battered spouse who enables her partner to continue his abusive ways, so we, the people of Americas continue to enable the United States to be an incurable serial killer. The victims of the holocaust of the Third Reich have rightfully taken the
Guellec: Health Care Shouldn't Be Commercial
Nov 10, 1999
Certain things should be "off limits to commerce" Healthcare in my view can be compared to Education which, so far, has not been totally privatized. If shareholders must be satisfied, then patients' interests will be compromised. The way managed care work
Solomon: When Online Trading Offers a Reason to Believe
Nov 09, 1999
If you're watching much television these days, you've probably seen a lot of commercials for online investing. Many large brokerage firms are now urging people to play the stock market via the Internet. So, in routine fashion, TV spots dramatize cyber-tra
Landau: More Nuclear Disasters
Nov 08, 1999
"We have contained the spread of radiation from last week's nuclear accident," Japanese authorities assured their citizens. They blame the chain reaction on improper handling of materials by low level workers.
Raptis: The Pnyx
Nov 07, 1999
Pnyx is the name of a low (357 feet high) hill about 450 yards to the west of the Acropolis in Athens. The word "Pnyx" means "tightly crowded together." The "crowding" refers to the male citizens (also known and as "demos") of classical Athens, who assemb
Naiman: Clinton's Debt Relief: Too Generous or Too Stingy
Nov 06, 1999
After President Clinton announced that he supports 100% cancellation of the debts owed by the poorest countries to the United States, some poll data suggested that people thought Clinton was being too generous.
Burchill: A Fresh Start
Nov 05, 1999
Sometimes statistics tell a grim tale. In the first weeks of September this year, 70% of all public buildings and private residences in East Timor were destroyed. At least 75% of the population of the territory was displaced, with over 260,000 people bein
Marable: The Black Radical Congress: Moving On Up To Congress 2000
Nov 04, 1999
On June 19, 1998, over two thousand African Americans gathered in Chicago to participate in the founding conference of the Black Radical Congress (BRC).
Prashad: I'm Part of Today's Unions, Ask Me Why
Nov 03, 1999
I'm Part of Today's Unions, Ask Me Why
Russell: The Private Health Care Juggernaut Needs Jilting
Nov 02, 1999
Presidential hopeful Bill Bradley has placed health care reform on the national agenda as well it should be. However, the Bradley plan does not go far enough to resolve real need and it protects the insurance industry - the very culprit which is undermini
Mokhiber: The Criminal Element
Nov 01, 1999
The criminal element has seeped deep into every nook and cranny of American society. Forget about the underworld -- these crooks dominate every aspect of our market, culture, and politics. They cast a deep dark shadow over life in turn of the century Amer
Weisbrot: Time to End Debt Slavery
Oct 31, 1999
It has become a truism that "there are no easy answers" to the world's most pressing economic and social problems. The phrase is often repeated by academics, policy wonks, and others whose occupation immerses them in the details of real or imagined soluti
Raptis: The Harvard Lady
Oct 30, 1999
The U.S. (corporate or state) institutions that dominate the life of ordinary people in almost all countries, though impersonal, need some individuals who as part of a local elite promote the ideology and the goals of these institutions. The portrait of s
Kissenger: Update on Mumia
Oct 29, 1999
Mumia's legal team and the attorneys for the state of Pennsylvania were asked to a meeting this past Tuesday morning with federal judge William Yohn in his chambers to "get acquainted." This was expected and is usually the way a major case like this begin
Landau: Will it Be NATO or the UN
Oct 28, 1999
Who should lead the world toward peace in the 21st Century? NATO or the UN.
Mokhiber: Keep the Public in Public Health
Oct 26, 1999
The great thing about the American Public Health Association (APHA) is in its name -- it's about public health -- what we as a society do to assure the conditions in which people can be healthy.
Herman: Missing Bodies
Oct 25, 1999
A Reuters news dispatch of October 13 bylined Pristina, Kosovo, is entitled " Absolutely No Bodies Found in Supposed Mine Shaft Mass Grave in Kosovo." This follows an earlier report by a Spanish forensic team that went into a part of Kosovo allegedly rich
Hightower: Various Shorts
Oct 24, 1999
It's Goober Time again {Beanie-cap Breakdown} -- time to give the Hightower Radio "Gooberhead Award" to yet another public figure who's got his tongue going 100 miles an hour . . . but forgot to put his brain in gear.
Chomsky: East Timor Is Not Yesterday's Story
Oct 23, 1999
According to recent reports, the UN mission in East Timor has been able to account for just over 150,000 people out of an estimated population of 850,000. It reports that 260,000 "are now languishing in squalid refugee camps in West Timor under the eff
Nov 12, 1999
In the roiling sea of communications technology that threatens to engulf us--phone calls, email, voice mail, faxes, the internet, laptops, etc.--it's good to seek refuge every now and again in the tranquility of nature, where the chirping you hear is not