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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
Hartmann: Cracking Open Crack
Oct 22, 1999
We don't allow dogs to breed. We spay them. We neuter them. We try to keep them from having unwanted puppies, and yet these women are literally having litters of children..." These are the words of Barbara Harris, founder of the organization CRACK, Childr
Weisbrot: Budget Baloney
Oct 20, 1999
How much falsehood and stupidity should the media allow to go unchallenged in public debate? At what point do journalists and the press have an obligation to step in and supply the necessary facts and explanations, so that the public can have a chance to
Peters: Class Politics in America: A Fashionable Consumer Item
Oct 19, 1999
I spent $44.00 recently to see Dario Fo's farce about hunger, free-market injustice, sexism, and class injustice at the American Repertory Theater in Harvard Square. Dario Fo, "who emulates the jesters of the Middle Ages in scourging authority and upholdi
Albert: The WTO and Mumia Abu Jamal
Oct 18, 1999
The World Trade Organization treats working people in countries throughout the world as assets to manipulate in pursuit of private corporate profit. From Guatemala to South Africa and from Thailand to the South Bronx, this causes impoverishment, illness,
Cagan: Two, Three, Many Protests...But All On the Same Night?
Oct 17, 1999
George W. and his new friends in the leadership of the New York State Republican Party gathered at a fund raising dinner in mid-town Manhattan October 5th. They were all there: George W. Bush, George Pataki, Rudolf Giuliani, Al D'Amato and the rest of the
Schechter: Dung on All Their Houses - The New Censorship
Oct 16, 1999
On October l, thousands of New York artists, activists and politicians rallied outside the Brooklyn Museum against threats by the city's Mayor Rudolph Giuliani to defund one of the city's preeminent cultural institutions because of one painting on display
Author: Pakistan's Pathos
Oct 16, 1999
Pakistan is, once again, in the throes of a serious crisis. The country is under martial law. The elected prime minister, Nawaz Sharif, his brother, Shahbaz and General Ziaudin, the head of Inter Services Intelligence (ISI) are under house arrest. Ever since its foundation in 1947, the Pakistani state has been plagued by a failure to establish strong democratic institutions.
Author: Pakistan's Pathos
Oct 16, 1999
Pakistan is, once again, in the throes of a serious crisis. The country is under martial law. The elected prime minister, Nawaz Sharif, his brother, Shahbaz and General Ziaudin, the head of Inter Services Intelligence (ISI) are under house arrest. Ever si
Wise: Kill First, Ask Questions Later
Oct 15, 1999
It's been nearly four decades since the last execution in Tennessee. During that time, my state has resisted boarding the killing train engineered by folks in places like Florida and Texas, where execution has been refined to a near science, applied with
Gonsalves: A Letter to Mrs. Bush
Oct 14, 1999
I recently received a copy of a letter that was sent to the former First Lady, Barbara Bush. The letter was written by six mothers whose children are in jail because of the "war on drugs" - a "war" avidly supported by Barbara's son, George W., who is runn
Shalom: Political Correctness
Oct 13, 1999
Conservative pundits and their frequent liberal allies have been complaining for years about "Political Correctness" -- the intrusion of left-wing ideology into the academy, supposedly subverting academic standards.
Herman: How the media have protected U.S. Appeasement- Collusion with Indonesia in East Timor
Oct 12, 1999
The mainstream U.S. media have performed a semi-miracle in reporting on the East Timor crisis, providing us with a model case of apologetics in the service of state policy.
Solomon: Media Time Capsule
Oct 11, 1999
On the first day of January, many public ceremonies will feature time capsules -- sealed long ago, when "the year 2000" sounded incredibly futuristic. Those containers, intended for opening at the start of the new millennium, presumably hold evocative sym
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