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Vol. 065 Issue 004 (August 1 2001)
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Guilty of Peace Making
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Rothschild, Matthew
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Editor's Note Guilty of Peace Making I spent two days in February in a federal courtroom in Madison, Wisconsin, that was packed with peace activists. Even Dave Dellinger was there, one of the...
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Letters
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Letters to the Editor Sam Day Made a Difference In the 1970s and early 1980s, Sam Day was my mentor, my editor, and, at times, my co-author on articles for The Progressive about the dangers of...
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Bush Bilks the Elderly
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Comment Bush Bilks the Elderly Once you wade through President Bush's rhetoric about "renewing the promise made to our seniors" and "enabling individuals to build financial wealth and security,"...
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No Comment
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No Comment Back to the Coliseum From an article in The Times of London on what office workers in Rome do during their off-hours to relieve stress: For a little more than $100, "bloodthirsty Romans...
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The People as Props
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Ehrenreich, Barbara
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Rip Side The People as Props George W. Bush formally launched his campaign for a $1.6 trillion tax cut with a little set piece of unusual dramatic interest. Assembled for his February 5 press...
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Democrats Search for Their Soul
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Conniff, Ruth
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The Word from Washington Democrats Search for Their Soul It's no picnic being a Democrat these days. Without control of the executive branch or either house of Congress, the Dems are constantly...
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Unblushable Bill
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Durst, Will
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Off the Map Unblushable Bill Hey Dubya. How JL JLya doing? California here. You know, the Golden State. Big, long, lanky plot of land hugging the left coast. Not as big as Texas, mind you, but...
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On the Line
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On the Line Prison Dharma Walk San Quentin, California On February 3, Buddhist nuns Jun Yasuda, left, and Senji, right, pray while Fred Short of the American Indian Movement sings and drums in...
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Cut Loose
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Cusac, Anne-Marie
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CUT LOOSE Companies Trick Retirees out of Health Benefits Fran Asbeck worked for IBM for thirty-two years. He retired at age fifty-six in 1994, secure in the knowledge that IBM would cover health...
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A Martyr for Aceh
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Brancaforte, Stephanie
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A MARTYR FOF ACEH Jafar Siddiq Hamzah enrolled as a graduate student at the New School for Social Research in New York in September 1999 to learn, according to his application, "what democracy is,...
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Giving the West Away
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Clair, Jeffrey St.
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Giving the West Away Back in early days of Reagantime, Interior Secretary James Watt hatched a dark fantasy to sell off millions of acres of public forest and parklands to private corporations....
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Arundhati Roy
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Barsamian, David
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THE PROGRESSIVE INTERVIEW Arundhati Roy T here is a high-stakes drama playing out in India these days, and the novelist Arundhati Roy is one of its most visible actors. Multinational companies, in...
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Corral
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Phillips, Carl
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Poem Corral for Percival Everett Fleetingly, the mule is neither justice nor injustice, but another muscled ourselves shall have learned of it. Until then, that which before was abbreviation...
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Bountiful Fields, Empty Stomachs
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Pal, Amitabh
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Books Bountiful Fields, Empty Stomachs The Third Freedom: Ending Hunger in Our Time by George McGovern Simon & Schuster. 173 pages. $22.00. Views from the South: The Effects of Globalization...
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Wake Me When We're Equal
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Ivins, Molly
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Small Favors Wake Me When We're Equal Excuse me, but this is the Marc-Rich pardon of tax cuts. Special, unmerited favor for rich people. At first, Citizens for Tax Justice claimed 43 percent of...
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