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16 August 2001
Globalization, Trucks, and Trade Treaties
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Molly Ivins
AUSTIN, Texas -- The Mexican truck debate is a pip because it reveals so much about globalization and its attendant problems.

I have a dog in this fight: I live nestled...
01 July 2001
Two tome picks for summer
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Molly Ivins
AUSTIN — What a glorious year for the summer reading list! Enough gems to stock any list — fiction and non-, funny and tragic, sometimes both simultaneously; plus a perfect plethora of peppy public policy books.

But there are two...

01 July 2001
Why is everybody always picking on US?
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Bob Fitrakis
In a five day period in early May, the United States was justifiably slapped around at the United Nations. It’s about time. While the mainstream media encourages U.S. citizens to angerly mutter “Why are they picking on us? We’re so...
01 July 2001
Overdue verdue: Media scrutiny of the 'White Bloc'
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Norman Solomon
As police fired rubber bullets through tear gas in Quebec City, many reporters echoed the claim that “free trade” promotes democracy. Meanwhile, protesters struggled to shed light on a key fact: The proposed hemispheric trade pact would...
01 July 2001
Freep Heroes - Summer 2001
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Free Press Staff
FREEP HERO

U.S. Senator Jim Jeffords

Not since the Nazi Party ascended to power with only a third of the vote in the early 1930’s has there been such a shameless political power grab as that of George W. Bush. Despite...

01 May 2001
On pies and Rhodes
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Bob Fitrakis
I still remember the shock of May 4, 1970 after hearing the news of the shootings at Kent State – the unnerving feeling that they were coming for me and my friends next -- as a Detroit 9th grade hippie greaser/MC5 listener/White Panther...

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