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Vol. 063 Issue 009 (September 1 1999)
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••Cover Page••
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••Contents••
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Sacred Trusts
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Rothschild, Matthew
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Editor's Note Matthew Rothschild Sacred Trusts For the last several months, I’ve looked with dread on the conflict at Pacifica Radio, the fifty-year-old institution that owns five community...
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I FOR AN EYE
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Cronin, Brian
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I FOR AN EYE Brian Cronin Brian Cronin, an artist from Dublin, Ireland, resides in New York, where he works as an illustrator for many publications, including The New York Times, The Washington...
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LETTERS
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Letters to the Editor Kosovo, Right or Wrong Congratulations on your conscientiousness in dealing with the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia. Unlike most of the American press, The Progressive published...
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TOMORROW'S NEWS TONIGHT
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Brodner, Steve
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TOMORROW’S NEWS TONIGHT Steve...
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Stop the War on Colombia
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Comment 'The presence of U.S. aid in the military field is devastating.' —Father Javier Giraldo, author of ‘Colombia: The Genocidal Democracy’ Stop the War on Colombia Colombia is the next...
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No Comment
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No Comment Authority Figure From a news service article that appeared in the Nevada Appeal of Carson City, Nevada: “The daughter of former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet called attempts to...
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Galacto-Intolerance
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Clinton, Kate
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Unplugged Kate Clinton Galacto-Intolerance Lately, I’ve been feeling the way The New York Times looks on those days when the boys down in the print room don’t get the colors aligned exactly...
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ON THE LINE
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On The Line Storyteller for Human Rights Rangoon, Burma For eleven years, villagers in Burma braved malaria and military persecution to tell their stories to Ka Hsaw Wa. The man they met secretly...
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Words of Encouragement
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Zinn, Howard
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It Seems To Me Howard Zinn Words of Encouragement The order came from above: “Inspire, please.†The courteous approach concealed a certain desperation. For those not in the know, let me...
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From Stone Age to Phone Age
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Ehrenreich, Barbara
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Flip Side Barbara Ehrenreich From Stone Age to Phone Age I was struck by the primal force of my craving for a cell phone. Obviously, others must have felt this, too, since there are now an...
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Tax Cuts Hurt Children
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Wellstone, Paul
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Tax Cuts Hurt Children By Paul Wellstone The tax bill that the Republicans passed is Robin Hood in reverse. It is bad economics. And it represents the politics of illusion. According to Citizens...
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Courting the Gay Vote
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NICHOLS, JOHN
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Courting the Gay Vote By John Nichols When Vice President Al Gore showed up for a June meeting with young people at the Los Angeles Gay and Lesbian Community Center, he was confronted by a...
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Documented Complicity
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Komisar, Lucy
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Documented Complicity Newly released files set record straight on U.S. support for Pinochet By Lucy Komisar On June 30, the State Department declassified and made public 5,000 documents relating...
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Hog-Tied
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Cook, Christopher D.
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Hog-Tied Migrant workers find themselves trapped on the pork assembly line By Christopher D. Cook After five days of cutting pig fat in northern Missouri, Sergio Rivera is ready to go home. So is...
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Noam Chomsky
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Barsamian, David
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The Progressive Interview Noam Chomsky ‘Either you repeat the same conventional doctrines everybody is saying, or else you say something true, and it will sound like it's from Neptune.' By...
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The Life of the Mind
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Fiser, Karen
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Poem Karen Fiser The Life Of The Mind It might be a blessing, lying here, learning to see the light in these trees. Learning to love even more what slips away— philosophy, Latin, faces...
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My Stanley Kubrick
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McKissack, Fred
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In The Mix Fred McKissack My Stanley Kubrick Before I saw Stanley Kubrick’s last film, Eyes Wide Shut, I began to recount how several of his earlier films had made such an impact on me. As...
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BOOKS
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Books Slavery, Circa 2000 Disposable People: New Slavery in the Global Economy by Kevin Bales University of California Press. 288 pages. $24.95. by Silja J.A. Talvi Slavery is a thing of the...
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Chamber of Criminals
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Ivins, Molly
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SMALL FAVORS Molly Ivins Chamber of Criminals My favorite story of the month was a little gem you would have thought couldn’t cause controversy if it tried. The Clinton Administration was...
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