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 Vol. 066 Issue 004 (April 1 2002)
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••Contents••
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 Stubbornness Counts
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Rothschild, Matthew
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Editor’s Note Matthew Rothschild Stubbornness Counts As the great Molly Ivins points out, Republicans are trying their damnedest to muffle criticism of Bush’s runaway warmaking (what my dad calls...
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Letters
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Letters to the Editor Throwing Darts at Ashrawi Hanan Ashrawi’s voice is passionate but not compassionate (“Where We Went Wrong,” February issue). She claims the moral high ground while expressing...
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Target-Rich Environment
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Comment Target-Rich Environment Close your eyes, spin the globe, and point: You’re bound to land on a spot where George W. Bush and Donald Rumsfeld have dispatched U.S. troops. From Afghanistan to...
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No Comment
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No Comment Best Definition of Irony The union representing the National Labor Relations Board lawyers is considering filing an unfair labor practices claim against the board. “The union alleges...
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Free College for All
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Jr, Adolph L. Reed
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Class Notes Adolph L. Reed Jr. Free College for All In times when the right holds power and has political momentum, progressives tend, understandably, to hunker down—to think and act entirely in...
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They're Watching What You Read
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Hentoff, Nat
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Ashcroft Watch Nat Hentoff They’re Watching What You Read Except for a brief reference in Matthew Rothschild’s “The New McCarthyism” (The Progressive, January issue) and a story in the December 25...
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A Joke-Free Zone
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Ehrenreich, Barbara
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Flip Side Barbara Ehrenreich A Joke-Free Zone I must fit the profile, because this is the third time in one day I’ve been selected for a search. It was hard enough getting through the metal...
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On the Line
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On the Line_______________________ The Many Faces of Hunger Oakland Bay-area photographer David Bacon wanted to draw attention to the millions of people in America who don’t have enough to eat...
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The Prejudice Against Country People
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Berry, Wendell
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The Prejudice Against Country People By Wendell Berry On June 21, 2001, Richard Lewontin, a respected Harvard scientist, published in The New York Review of Books an article on genetic engineering...
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Adios Presidente
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Dudley, Steven
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£ Adi os Presldente? Will Chavez Go the Way of Allencte? In Venezuela, the only subject anyone talks about is President Hugo Chavez. And in cafes, restaurants, bars, taxicabs, universities,...
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The 50-year Swindle
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Bagdikian, Ben
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THE 50-YEAR SWINDLE Ben Bagdikian The Enron scandal is simply a case of the big guys making it easier to dramatize the bag of tricks that hundreds of members of the Fortune 500 dip into all the...
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A Riot Strikes Close to Home
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Pal, Amitabh
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A Riot Strikes Close to Home By Amitabh Pal I was at work on February 27 when an e-mail arrived with the news that Muslim extremists in the Indian state of Gujarat had immolated fifty-eight...
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The Progressive Interview
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Rolo, Mark Anthony
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THE PROGRESSIVE INTERVIEW by Mark Anthony Rolo Louise Erdrich Louise Erdrich once mused that Native American literature is often about coming home, returning to the land, the language and love of...
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A Jury of Lying Weasels
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Durst, Will
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Off the Map Will Durst A Jury of Lying Weasels San Francisco, California, where the restaurants continue to cry because patrons haven’t come back. Yet, they’re still charging dot com prices in a...
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Seder Plate
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Eisenberg, Susan
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Seder Plate This year even the charoses tastes bitter, salt water over everything. Enough rejoicing at plagues—as though God uproots olive groves and smites first-born sons. Let the shank bone...
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Ralph, Unrepentant
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Conniff, Ruth
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Books Ralph, Unrepentant Crashing the Party: How to Tell the Truth and Still Run for President by Ralph Nader St. Martins Press. 383 pdges. $24.95. By Ruth Conniff Finally, after the weirdest...
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US 1.5, Bush 0
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Ivins, Molly
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Small Favors Molly Ivins Us 1.5, Bush 0 A win for our side! The White House ix-nayed the proposed “Office of Strategic Influence” in the Pentagon. That was the lovely notion of having an office of...
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