During the recent protests in Washington against the World Bank and International Monetary Fund, the leading cable news network became fascinated with "independent media." Journalism free of huge economic interests -- what a concept!...
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13 April 2000
AUSTIN, Texas -- It's got to stop! This continual flood of apologies
plaguing our national political life has become a menace. Two, three times a
day, they're out there apologizing for this, that or the other -- showing
contrition,...
13 April 2000
Converging on the nation's capital in mid-April, thousands of protesters
set out to do more than simply disrupt high-level meetings of the World
Bank and the International Monetary Fund. Demonstrators were eager to help
build a movement...
12 April 2000
At the end of April, we'll have arrived at the 25th anniversary of the end
of the Vietnam War, when the last fugitives clambered into helicopters at
the U.S. Embassy compound in Saigon. Gays are planning a big march on
Washington for April...
11 April 2000
Capitalism, as we all know, is a dandy system for creating wealth, but it
doesn't do squat for social justice. No reason to expect it to -- that's not
its job. Its moral imperative is: "Buy low, sell high."
Of course, there are...
09 April 2000
I know -- one more opinion on Elian Gonzalez and you're going to urp. This
case has been sliced and diced from points of view legal, psychological,
political and international. It involves family values, family law, the Cold
War, the...
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