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 Vol. 070 Issue 002 (February 1 2006)
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••Cover Page••
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••Contents••
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 Condolences
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Rothschild, Matthew
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Editor's Note Matthew Rothschild Condolences George Bush started off the new year the way he ended the old one, lying about the NSA spying program. Speaking to wounded soldiers at the Brooke Army...
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Letters to the Editor
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Letters to the Editor Sanders Just Another Politician I started reading the December 2005 interview with Bernie Sanders and was favorably impressed (Interview by Ruth Conniff). It wasn't until the...
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King George
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Comment King George There comes a time when the nakedness of the emperor can no longer be denied. Such a time is now. George Bush's policy of eavesdropping on U.S. citizens without a warrant...
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No Comment
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No Comment English Only From AP: "Superintendent Bobby Allen of the Turner School District in Kansas City has issued a personal apology to a high school junior suspended for speaking Spanish in...
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Accomplices in Torture
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Hentoff, Nat
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Bill of Rights Watch Nat Hentoff Accomplices in Torture On December 6, the American Civil Liberties Union filed the first lawsuit directed at former CIA director George Tenet for crimes against...
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Snooping Bosses
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Ehrenreich, Barbara
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Flip Side Barbara Ehrenreich Snooping Bosses Hi George! Since learning of the White House's electronic surveillance program, I'm adding a little greeting to the President in all my e-mails, phone...
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Fables
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Galeano, Eduardo
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The Upside-Down World Eduardo Galeano Fables An old biblical proverb says that it is better to teach a man to fish than to give him a fish. Bishop Pedro Casal-daliga, who was not born in America...
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Impeachment Buzz
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Conniff, Ruth
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Political Eye Ruth Conniff Impeachment Buzz Why is it that Republicans, somberly intoning about the "rule of law," could muster the political will to impeach a President over a semen-stained...
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On the Line
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On the Line Stop Global Warming Montreal Tens of thousands of people protested in thirty cities around the world on December 3 to demand governments do more to stop global warming. Activists held...
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Weighed Down by Heating Bills
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Hukill, Traci
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Weighed Down by Heating Bills By Traci Hukill Illustration by Ray Bartkus FIRST CAME THE $900 CAR REPAIR BILL. Then the post-Katrina spike in gasoline prices. Then around the first of October, as...
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Beyond Iraq's Elections
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Enders, David
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By David Enders Illustration by Eric Fortune Beyond Iraq's Elections Khalid Kareem, a truck driver from Hit, a city in western Al-Anbar province, voted in Iraq's parliamentary elections in...
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Fear Rules Fish and Wildlife Service
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Vanderpool, Tim
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Tear Rules Fish and Wildlife Service By Tim Vanderpool Illustration by MK Perker Blooming ironwood trees climb a rocky slope, their flowers carpeting the desert in lavender. Out in these...
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A New Weavers' Song Why I protest Israeli pilicies
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Gilbert, Ronnie
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A New Weavers' Song Why I protest Israeli policies By Ronnie Gilbert IN 1949, I LOVED THE SHINING IDEAL OF the new State of Israel, a brand new democracy, a spark of hope in the developing...
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Wal-Mart Send-Up
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Dinovella, Elizabeth
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By Elizabeth DiNovella Wal-Mart Send-Up The debate about Wal-Mart took on new life in 2005. A December poll by Zogby International found 38 percent of Americans have a negative opinion of the...
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Sydney Pollack
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Esther, John
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THE PROGRESSIVE INTERVIEW by John Esther Sydney Pollack Director Sydney Pollack has been in show business for more than four decades. His films resonate with politics: They Shoot Horses, Don't...
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Sizing Up The Cost of War
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Major, Devorah
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Poem sizing up the cost of war what is left but the shoes shoes scuffed and torn no longer having feet to carry them shoes empty now work boots still bearing mud from the last field that...
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The First Green President
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Durst, Will
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Off the Map Will Durst The First Green President In the middle of the President's midwinter publicity tour, NBC's Brian Williams asked if the federal government's faltering response to Hurricane...
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A Plenitude of Poetry
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Rothschild, Matthew
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Books A Plenitude of Poetry Given By Wendell Berry Shoemaker Hoard. 152 pages. $22. Directed by Desire: The Collected Poems of June Jordan Foreword by Adrienne Rich Copper Canyon. 649 pages....
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The Testy Kid
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Ivins, Molly
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Small Favors Molly Ivins The Testy Kid Uh-oh. Excuse me. I'm so sorry, but we are having an hon-est-to-goodness constitutional crisis as the Testy Kid violates his oath to uphold the laws and...
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