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 Vol. 072 Issue 007 (July 1 2008)
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••Cover Page••
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••Contents••
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 Human Disasters
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Rothschild, Matthew
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Editor’s Note Matthew Rothschild Human Disasters It’s been hard watching the news lately, what with the cyclone in Burma and the earthquake in China both claiming tens of thousands of...
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Letters
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Letters to the Editor Readers Respond to Reed The column by Adolph Reed on the Obama phenomenon was excellent (“Obama: Vacuous Opportunist,” May issue). Reed concisely summed up the reasons why...
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Mainstream Media Culpability
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Comment Mainstream Media Culpability An amazing thing happened on Anderson Cooper’s CNN program on May 28. He was rehashing the Scott McClellan story when CNN’s Jessica Yellin began to make a...
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No Comment
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No Comment Mommy Makeover Dr. Michael Salzhauer has written a children’s picture book for mothers having difficulty discussing plastic surgery to their kids. My Beautiful Mommy features “a perky...
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Loyalty Oaths Live
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Rothschild, Matthew
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McCarthyism Watch Matthew Rothschild Loyalty Oaths Live fendy Gonaver was hired by Cal State Fullerton last fall to teach American Studies and Women’s Studies. As part of her American Studies...
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Anti-Abortion Down the Line
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Conniff, Ruth
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Political Eye Ruth Conniff Anti-Abortion Down the Line Back in 2000, when John McCain was running against George W Bush, he attacked Bush in a debate for supporting the Republican Party platform’s...
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Hillary Sets a New Low
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Ehrenreich, Barbara
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Flip Side Barbara Ehrenreich Hillary Sets a New Low In a recent op-ed for The New York Times, Susan Faludi rejoiced over Hillary Clinton’s destruction of the myth of female prissiness and innate...
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Lies and More Lies
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Galeano, Eduardo
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The Upside-Down World Eduardo Galeano Lies and More Lies A Lie Until a short while ago, the major media were regaling us daily with cheery statistics about the international war against...
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Juvenile Injustice
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Rodríguez, Luis J.
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Writing to America Luis J. Rodriguez Juvenile Injustice Efren Paredes Jr., a former Michigan honor student who was arrested at fifteen and given two life-without-parole sentences and a parolable...
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Danica's Overexposure
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Zirin, Dave
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Edge of Sports Dave Zirin Danica’s Overexposure It has been quite a year for Danica Patrick. She became the first woman to win an Indy Car race, coming in first at the Indy Japan 300 on April 20....
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On the Line
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On the Line The International Longshore and Warehouse Union shut down twenty-nine ports on the West Coast to commemorate May Day and to protest the continuing U.S. occupation of Iraq. For more...
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A Shortage of Democracy, Not Food
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Lappé, Frances Moore
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By Frances Moore Lappe Illustration by Lisa Haney A Shortage of Democracy, Not Food Forty years ago, squirreled away in the basement “Ag” library at U.C. Berkeley, I wanted answers to one...
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The Christian Right's Staying Power
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Berlet, Chip; Ragsdale, the Reverend Katherine Hancock
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By Chip Berlet and the Reverend Katherine Hancock Ragsdale Illustration by Christopher Serra The Christian Right’s Staying Power Hopeful liberal pundits and consultants have been announcing the...
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Hawks Behind the Dove
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Shorrock, Tim
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By Tim Shorrock Illustration by Robin Eley Hawks Behind the Dove: Who Makes Obamas Foreign Policy? Cuba’s dramatic announcement last February that Fidel Castro was stepping down as head of the...
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Haditha Revisited
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Garcia, Maria
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Haditha By Maria Garcia Photos by Barney Broomfield Revisited When Nick Broomfield began researching his first narrative film, Battle for Haditha, he relied on his long experience as a...
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Scott Ritter
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Rothschild, Matthew
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THE PROGRESSIVE INTERVIEW by Matthew Rothschild Scott Ritter Scott Ritter has traveled an odd career path. An intelligence officer in the Marine Corps, he was gung-ho on the Gulf War and was an...
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Petition
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Farmer, Ashley Marie
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Poem Petition We riot at the bottom of the mountain. We raise our signs. Our voices hurtle upward and hit the window, Ineffective as rat-shot or messenger pigeons because there are only two of...
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What's in a Name?
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Clinton, Kate
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Unplugged Kate Clinton What’s in a Name? I’m a sixty-year-old white woman with the last name Clinton. How do you think I’m doing? You think * you’ve got Clinton fatigue? Puh-lease. I do and I am...
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The New Tycoonery
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Fraser, Steve
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Books The New Tycoonery The Big Con: The True Story of How Washington Got Hoodwinked and Hijacked by Crackpot Economics by Jonathan Chait Houghton Mifflin. 304pages. $25. Free Lunch: How the...
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Fencing Around Privilege
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Hightower, Jim
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The Lowdown Jim Hightower Fencing Around Privilege If good fences make good neighbors, what do bad fences do? You could ask the people along either side of the U.S.-Mexi-can border about that....
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