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August 2000
Thursday, August 31
Rod Watson:
Labor Day? Let's Call It 'Corporations Day'
Mary Alice Davis:
Another Voice Calling For An End To Sanctions In Iraq
John Nichols:
Years Of Conservative Posing Could Hurt Gore
Norman Solomon:
When Watchdogs Have a Blind Spot - For Themselves
Taking Action:
Mongolian Diplomat's Crusade To Become A 'Nuclear-Free Zone'
Tom Turnipseed:
From Colombia to Columbia,
The 'War on Drugs' Is A War On Poor and Black People
George Monbiot:
UN Becoming A Villain As It Climbs Into Bed With Big Business
Boston Globe:
Justice for Lori Berenson
Wednesday, August 30
San Francisco Chronicle:
America's Entry Into The Colombian War Begins. The Time For Dissent Is Now
Mark Weisbrot:
Clinton in Colombia: The Ugly American
Andrew Marshall:
The US Is Thinking Itself Into A New Global Conflict
Naomi Klein:
Oh Those Krazy Kops! Will They Ruin The Quebec City Party?
Rhoda and Mark Berenson:
Release Lori Berenson
Derrick Jackson:
Exploiting Children: What Are Our Schools If Not To Turn Children Into Mindless, Monotonous Billboards?
Sheilla Jones:
Earthling, Go Home. You Pollute
Tuesday, August 29
Juan Gonzalez:
US Aid & Colombian Blood
Sean Gonsalves:
It Tastes Like Chicken
James Carroll:
The Planet Itself Is Ablaze Beneath Its Crust. We Just Don't See It Yet
Ali Abunimah:
If Looks Could Kill: Living With A 'Terrorist Profile' Just Because You're Arab
R. T. Naylor:
Copping A Profit: Civil Forfeiture In The U.S. Led To Police Profiteering And The Miscarriage Of Justice
Robert Frank:
Less Government Can Cost More
Karen Czapanskiy:
Reform Welfare Reform
Monday, August 28
Robert James Parsons:
As Globalization Continues, Working Conditions Will Be More And More Heatedly Debated
Jan McGirk:
Colombia Aid Means More Pain
Chi-Dooh Li:
American Political Landscape Barren Of Grand Ideas
Salim Muwakkil:
Black Anti-Semitism: Confronting Bigotry In The Shadows Of Ignorance
Sunday, August 27
Peter Kornbluh:
CIA Withholds Its Chile Files
Robert McElvaine:
The Democrats May Inherit a Windfall
Robert Kuttner:
If You Took An Airplane Recently, You Know Deregulation's A Loser
Friday, August 25
Naomi Klein:
Debates Are Raging: Street Protests Squandering The Energy Rather Than Building On It?
Polly Toynbee:
Hate Mail From The US
Andrew Gumbel:
US Politicians Now Pause Too Often For A Message From Their Sponsors
Derrick Jackson:
A Sham Of A Show: Why Not 'Helper' Instead Of 'Survivor'?
Jason Ziedenberg:
Continuing To Imprison Drug Users Is Fruitless, Expensive
H. Knox Thames:
Export Of Torture Device Fosters Torture Abroad
Thursday, August 24
Bruce Mirken:
The Democrats Have Lost Me
Norman Solomon:
Paying Homage To The Two-Party Media System
Mark Weisbrot:
Populism Sells: Now How About the Real Thing?
Going Forward:
Genetically Modified Crops Are Banned On Open Space In Boulder, Colorado
George Monbiot:
Biotech Has Bamboozled Us All
Wil Haygood:
The Pain And Passion Of Dick Gregory
Sheryl McCarthy:
Asian Americans Unite to Fight The Ugly Stigma of Stereotypes
Farai Chideya:
Mainstream Parties Can't Afford To Ignore Young Voters
Wednesday, August 23
Paul Wellstone: Throwing Money At Colombia Will Only Make Things Worse
Ana Carrigan: Clinton's 'Plan Colombia': Disturbing Questions Concerning The Real US Agenda
Linda Houser: Why Can't We Have Soul Survivors?
David Morse: Does Joe Lieberman Really Hold the Moral High Ground?
Andrew Marshall: The Crusade Against Terrorism Has Led American Officials Into Unacceptable Measures
Sara Brady: Bush Redux Will Empower the NRA
Derrick Jackson: Are They Speaking For The Forgotten?
Tuesday, August 22
Manchester Guardian: More Bombing In Iraq
Harley Sorenson: A Warning From The North Pole
Sean Gonsalves: Let's Get Ready To Rumble For International Criminal Court
John Passacantando: Collusion Between `Big Oil' And Congress Has Brought Us Skyrocketing Fuel Prices
Monday, August 21
Ralph Nader: Lethal Contribution:
70% Of The World's Fatalities From Smoking-Related Disease Occur In The Third World
Vanessa Daniel: Ralph Nader's Racial Blindspot
Going Backwards:
The Average California Family Saw Its Real Income Sink In The 1990s
Audrey Gillan: The Propaganda War: Trying To Find The Evidence For Mass Atrocities In Kosovo
Russ Baker: The Subversion Of Both Major Parties By The Big Money Contributions Of Large Corporations
Brian Halweil: Cultivating the Truth About Organics
Jeremy Rifkin: Where Napster Has Gone, Others Will Follow
Bob Herbert: This Is Class Warfare?
Sunday, August 20
Tad Szulc: The Ghost of Vietnam Haunts 'Plan Colombia'
Mokhiber/Weissman: Toast
Robert Kuttner: A Funny Thing Happened To Al Gore On The Way To His Durprisingly Effective Acceptance Speech. He Became A Liberal
Ruben Martinez: The Day Ravers and Immigrants Almost Danced
Paul Krassner: And Now, The Awards For Political Performances
Saturday, August 19
Gavin Esler: Mr Gore's Party Has Suddenly Metamorphosed Into The United States' Very Own Hezbollah
Karen Narasaki: Some Members Of Congress Are Denying The Importance Of Hate-Crimes Laws. They Should Meet Sandip Patel
Duncan Campbell: Only 50% Of Americans Vote For The President And The Protests Outside The Democratic Convention Explain Why
Martin Stockman 3d: Voters Won't Care Again Until They Matter Again
Breda O'Brien: Madcap Militarism No Solution For Colombia
Stephen Winn: 'Servicing' The Fat Cats
Bret Thiele: Whom Do Tax Cuts Really Help?
Friday, August 18
Molly Ivins: A Government Of, By, And For Corporate Special Interests
Derrick Jackson: The Republicratic Party Lives On
Susan Garrett: Health Care: How America Has Failed
Norman Solomon: The Deception Convention: Don't Stop Winking About Tomorrow
Meir Carasso: "Government Should Be...Whenever Possible, Market Based": Bush's Vision And Our Nightmare
Joan Ryan: Real Voices Lost In The Convention
Thursday, August 17
David Moberg: Labor's Love for Gore May Be Lost
George Monbiot: A Vote For Nader Is A Vote For Bush.
So Be It
Gal Alcorn: It's Easier For Politicians To Talk About The Corrupting Influence Of Hollywood Than The Corrupting Influence Of Money
Jerry Brown: Break The Embargo On Good Sense About Cuba
Michael Christ/Peter Zheutlin: Blame Russian Tragedy On Our Romance With Nuclear Weapons
Mike Tidwell: US Drug Policies Have Led To The Mess In Colombia
Mokhiber/Weissman: The Billionaire Mindset And Wealth Inequality
Wednesday, August 16
Ramona Ripston: Los Angeles 2000 Is On The Verge Of Becoming Chicago 1968
Jeff Milchen: Presidential Debates Should Serve -- Not Subvert -- Democracy
Naomi Klein: Clinton's Two Americas Came Crashing Together Outside The Democratic National Convention
Maude Barlow: The Fight For Liquid Assets: Transnational Corporations Are Taking Control Of A Basic
Element Of Life
San Jose Mercury News: America Is In An Arms Race With Itself
Rob Sullivan: Sex Is Banned From the National Agenda
Philadelphia Inquirer: Fat City:
Whether It's L.A. Or Philly, Conventions Show Politics Feeding At The Corporate Trough
Tuesday, August 15
Robert Scheer: Gore Is The Lesser Evil, But Not By Very Much
Paul Mulshine: SUVs: High Rollers, Licensed To Kill
Murray Dobbin: New Zealand's Vaunted Privatization Push Devastated The Country, Rather Than Saving It
Rev. Joseph A. Darby: Southern Heritage, After All, Means Different Things To Different People
Jim Wallis:
Amid Prosperity, Many Kinds of Poverty
Salah Hameid:
Voices In The American Wilderness
Sean Gonsalves:
'War On Drugs': Losing A Futile Fight
Senator Russ Feingold:
Turn Back Corporate Democracy
Robert Hilburn:
The Band Rage Against the Machine Confidently Takes Its Politically Infused Sounds To The Streets Outside Staples
Monday, August 14
Richard Goodwin:
Look In The Mirror, America
Salim Muwakkil:
Lieberman's Liabilities Boost Nader
William Pfaff:
It's Time for America's Military to Give Up Politics
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel:
Lift Sanctions Against Iraq
Ralph Nader:
Power To The People - At An Affordable Rate
Howard Altman:
On the Issues, Only The Shadow Knows
Thomas Oliphant:
Gore Gets Ugly In California
Sunday, August 13
Jeff Cohen:
Ghost Of 1968 Haunts Presidential Campaign
LA Weekly:
Liberty and Justice for All: The Democratic Party Platform You Won’t See
Robert Jensen:
Radicalized By US Disregard For Iraqi People
Robyn Blumner:
Gore Surrounds Himself By His Favorite Censors
Cecilia Zarate-Laun:
US Policy Makes It Part Of Colombia's Civil War
Maurice Isserman:
The Protesters of 1960 Helped Change the World
Robert Borosage:
Democratic Leaders And Activists Would Do Well To Listen To What The Protesters Are Saying
Saturday, August 12
Doug Saunders:
Democratic Gathering Is A Super Bowl Of Corporate Lobbying
Daniel Tsang:
Anarchistic Advice to LAPD
Vernon Loeb:
CIA Reneges On Making Public Chile Documents
Yolanda Leyva:
Justice Delayed: Mexican-Americans Win Stolen Oil Rights
Robert James Parson:
How Big Tobacco Fixed Its Problem With Pesticide Regulators
Friday, August 11
David Corn: Gores's Surrender
Denis Halliday:
UN Sanctions Against Iraq Only Serve US Ambition
Randy Hayes:
It Feels Like One Big Business Party
Susannah Sirkin/Gina Coplon-Newfeld:
US Should Sign Treaty Banning Land Mines
Gwen Wurm:
Defective Tires: Where Were the US Government's Watchdogs?
Jan Glidewell:
Economic Boom Hard To Spot At Ground Zero
Chris Rose:
Is The Golden Age Of Pressure Groups Coming To An Abrupt End?
Thursday, August 10
Rod Watson:
This Convention Sponsored By The Folks At Big Money
Norman Solomon:
Holy Smoke & Mirrors: Lieberman And The Rise Of Centrist Theocrats
Robert Scheer:
It's Always Wrong, Except When It's Their Daughter
Marjorie Cohn:
Cheney's Black Gold: Oil Interests May Drive US Foreign Policy
Mark Anderson:
We Must Stop Chasing The Orcas
David Cortright/George Lopez:
Lift The Embargo On Aid To Iraqi Civilians
Joshua Karliner/Kenny Bruno:
The United Nations Sits In Suspicious Company
Larry Frankel:
Bail for Protesters in Philly Is Way Out of Line
Wednesday, August 9
Robert Borosage:
Joe Lieberman's Nomination Is Likely To Make Al Gore's Election A Little More Difficult
Robert Levine:
Missile Defense Is Mostly About Politics, Not National Security
Lewis Diuguid:
Impact Of America Threatens World's Diversity
Mark Weisbrot:
Police Abuses Won't Stifle Protests
Tuesday, August 8
Madison Capital Times:
Conservative Lieberman Brings Less To The Democratic Ticket Than Cheney Did
Sean Gonsalves:
Ten Truths About Iraq
Ambalavaner Sivanandan:
The Casualties of Globalism
Fintan O'Toole:
Bush's Drug Hypocrisy
Monday, August 7
Rabbi Michael Lerner:
Joe Lieberman: Bad For The Jews, Bad For The Country
Mokhiber/Weissman:
Rats In The Grain
Patty Cantrell:
Who's Taking Whom In Property-Rights Fight?
Bernie Sanders:
Why Are Prescription Drugs So Expensive? Follow The Money In Politics
Sunday, August 6
Felicity Arbuthnot:
Silent Hiroshima Culls A Nation's Children
Mary Dejevsky:
Beyond The Republican And Democrat Song And Dance Shows, A New Style Of Politics Is Being Born
Robert Jensen:
Iraq Adds Its Weight to a Sad Day of Remembrance
Robert Cuddy:
Children Of The Manhattan Project
Rick Rockwell:
Chiapas: 6 Years Of War At Low Intensity
Saturday, August 5
Roberta Spivak:
Economic Justice Requires Unified Poor, Middle-Class
Ann Morrissett Davidon:
On Streets And At The Convention, Separate Realities
Friday, August 4
San Jose Mercury News:
Sanctions Against Iraq Should End
Carla Marinucci:
There's Something About Mary Cheney. She's Here, She's Queer
Martin Woollacott:
Clinton's Foreign Forays Were Dubious. Bush Would Be Worse
Sandra Kegel:
Internet's ICANN Has Reserved All The Best Seats For The Corporate Elite
Joan Vennochi:
The System Makes Bush And Gore More Of A Means To An End For Private Interests Than A Leader For The Masses
Thursday, August 3
Farai Chideya:
Cheney and Mandela: Reconciling The Truth about Cheney's Vote
Peter Preston:
Righteous Show Their Fangs In Philadelphia
Jim Stanford:
WTO's Next Challenge? Unfair Use Of Sushi
Robert McChesney:
Nader: Why I'm Voting For Ralph
James Weinstein:
Nader: Why I'm Not Voting For Ralph
Philadelphia Inquirer:
Out Of The Shadows: Other Convention Offers Substance On Issues
Wednesday, August 2
Norman Solomon:
The Pleasantville Party Floats On A Media Cloud
Denis Halliday:
Time To See The Truth About Ourselves And Iraq
Naomi Klein:
There's Nothing Like A Feel-Good Bowl Of Golden Rice. Or Not
Andrew Marshall:
Don't Be Fooled By Gush and Bore: Dissent Will Return To US Politics
Scott Shuger:
Nader's Ad Man With Humor Spells Trouble For Gore
Danny Schechter:
As Republicans Meet: Mainstream Media Doze While Indy Media Shine
Tuesday, August 1
Stephanie Salter:
The Story Was In The Streets
John Nichols:
'Billionaires' Mock GOP's Pro-Rich Slant
John Buell:
Vast Concentrations Of Wealth And Power Destroying Equal Economic Opportunity
David Horsey: The Legacy Of Newt Gingrich Alive In Philadelphia
St Petersburg Times: GOP Convention: A Debate-Free Zone
James Carroll: The Cruelest Month of All
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