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Guellec: Things Are Never As They Seem and yet They Are Always As They Seem
Nov 29, 1999
What this title suggests is that we have to look between the lines and live between the lines. Life is almost always terribly complex. Readers of this commentary may feel convinced that the business model does not fit healthcare, so I need not preach to t
Wise: The Trouble With Tolerance
Nov 27, 1999
They came in the mail again, even though I never ordered them: those personal address labels that say "teach tolerance" -sent out by the Southern Poverty Law Center: America's favorite civil rights group. The one run by Morris Dees: America's favorite cru
Henwood: What is Globalization, Anyway
Nov 26, 1999
If there's one thing that analysts and activists across the political spectrum agree on today it's that we live in an era of economic globalization. This is taken by both critics and cheerleaders as self-evident and largely unprecedented. We should think
Zinn: On Rewarding People for Talents and Hard Work
Nov 25, 1999
There are two issues here: First, why should we accept our culture's definition of those two factors? Why should we accept that the "talent" of someone who writes jingles for an Advertising agency advertising dog food and gets $100,000 a year is superior to the talent of an auto mechanic who makes $40,000 a year?
Zinn: On Rewarding People for Talents and Hard WorkÊ
Nov 25, 1999
There are two issues here: First, why should we accept our culture's definition of those two factors? Why should we accept that the "talent" of someone who writes jingles for an Advertising agency advertising dog food and gets $100,000 a year is superior
Administrator: A Short Guide to the WTO
Nov 24, 1999
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.
Solomon: Nearing Global Summit, WTO On High Media Ground
Nov 23, 1999
When thousands of protesters converge on Seattle at the end of this month to challenge the global summit of the World Trade Organization, they're unlikely to get a fair hearing from America's mass media.
Dominick: Georgia On My Mind: Hard Thoughts on Closing the SOA
Nov 22, 1999
It's been a long time since I last wrote in depth about the US Army's School of the Americas, and the movement to shut it down. But living in Syracuse, a major anti-SOA hotbed, this time of year it's hard not to write or at least think about the training
Shah: Our Deeply Twisted Understanding of the World
Nov 21, 1999
"Do people in India leave their dead in the street?" This was the question posed to my family by a coworker invited for dinner. (She wasn't invited back.)
Shah: Our Deeply Twisted Understanding of the WorldÊ
Nov 21, 1999
"Do people in India leave their dead in the street?" This was the question posed to my family by a coworker invited for dinner. (She wasn't invited back.)
Brecher: There's An Alternative
Nov 20, 1999
When world leaders meet in Seattle after Thanksgiving for the "pre-millennial" session of the World Trade Organization, many will sincerely believe that there is no alternative to the present direction of globalization. But all over the world, activists a
Solomon: The Twain Most Americans Never Meet
Nov 19, 1999
With the start of 2000 less than two months away, I've been thinking about a beloved American writer who stuck his neck out the last time people went through a change of centuries.
Landau: The Old Populist Gag
Nov 18, 1999
Exciting! Pat Buchanan, presidential candidate, opposes corporate globalization which, he claims, benefits a handful of multi national giants and leaves crumbs for the poor. Buchanan says he stands for elementary justice for working people. He blasts the
Peters: East Timor: Reparations and Responsibility
Nov 17, 1999
The New York Times reported on October 25 the claim that the United States had "poured billions" into East Timor. The next day the Times ran a "correction," saying that in fact "Washington's foreign aid" to East Timor "has not amounted to billions."
Peters: East Timor: Reparations and Responsibility
Nov 17, 1999
The New York Times reported on October 25 the claim that the United States had "poured billions" into East Timor. The next day the Times ran a "correction," saying that in fact "Washington's foreign aid" to East Timor "has not amounted to billions."
Cagan: Some Thoughts on Hate Crimes
Nov 16, 1999
The brutal murder of Matthew Shepard in Wyoming a little more than a year ago focused national attention on a long-standing reality for many lesbians, gay men, bisexuals and transgender people: the widespread fear and hatred of people outside the so-calle
Marable: The KKK: From Greensboro to NYC
Nov 15, 1999
Twenty years ago, on November 3, 1979, five principled and dedicated activists for social justice-Cesar Cauce, Dr. Mike Nathan, Bill Sampson, Sandi Smith, and Dr. Jim Waller-were brutally murdered in Greensboro, North Carolina by the Ku Klux Klan. History
Herman: The Times and East Timor
Nov 14, 1999
Seth Mydans's October 31 piece on the Indonesian departure from East Timor, "A Calamitous Era Plays Out Quietly For East Timorese," with its admission that 200,000 had died in Indonesia's 24 year failed pacification effort, including its final "rampage of
Schechter: The Media Channel
Nov 13, 1999
An IPO a day seems to keep the market in play as Internet deals continue to hit the jackpot throwing up new e-commerce driven sites and throwing off a new crop of instant gazillionaires. Business schools across the world report their best students droppin
Dec 01, 1999
For some reason Doug Henwood feels called upon to play down globalization. Others on the left, some associated with MONTHLY REVIEW, have done the same, warning that any acceptance of the globalization thesis will discourage leftists and breed "defeatism."