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 Vol. 072 Issue 009 (September 1 2008)
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••Cover Page••
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••Contents••
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 Untold Stories
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Rothschild, Matthew
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Editor’s Note Untold Stories When I was researching the McCarthyism Watch story this month, I downloaded forty-three pages of documents the ACLU had pried loose from the Maryland State Police. On...
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Letters
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Letters to the Editor Politics of Food As a longtime vegetarian, I’ve admired Frances Moore Lappe’s perspective on the politics and economics of food (“A Shortage of Democracy, Not Food,” July...
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Global Warming Challenge
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Comment Global Warming Challenge George Bush has committed so many criminal and derelict acts it’s hard to figure out which ones are the worst of all. There’s the Iraq War. There’s the illegal...
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No Comment
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No Comment Blackwater Goodies A Blackwater recruiter is creating a special care package for troops in Afghanistan, reports AH The package will include a “Microsoft Xbox video-game console, modem,...
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Women Losing Ground
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Conniff, Ruth
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Political Eye Women Losing Ground Forget about Michelle Obama, Cindy McCain, and the culture war over what a First Lady should look like: fist-bumping teammate or decorative sidekick. The biggest...
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Fat-Guzzling
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Ehrenreich, Barbara
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Flip Side Fat-Guzzling Everyone talks about our terrible dependency on oil—foreign and otherwise—but hardly anyone mentions what it is. Fossil fuel, all right, but whose fossils? Mostly tiny...
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Fists of Freedom
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Zirin, Dave
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Edge of Sports Fists of Freedom It lasted for only as long as it took to play the national anthem, and yet it has lasted for four decades. The image of Tommie Smith and John Carlos, their...
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Blinded by the Border
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Rodríguez, Luis J.
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Writing to America Blinded by the Border It seemed like a good idea. This past June, teacher Danielle Quin-to took twenty-five fourth grade students at Our Community School in North Hills to...
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The Activist and the Snoop
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Rothschild, Matthew
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McCarthyism Watch The Activist and the Snoop Max Obuszewski is a seasoned, nonviolent peace activist in Maryland. But to the Maryland State Police, he is suspected of committing the “primary...
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On the Line
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On the Line No to G8 Summit Sapporo, Japan Trade activists took to the streets at the G8 summit held in Sapporo, Japan. The protesters demanded that the Group of Eight industrialized nations deal...
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Iraq's Forgotten Refugees
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Dinovella, Elizabeth
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^ Illustration by Devon Bowman Iraq’s Forgotten Refugees When I walked into Samia Kouzah’s dingy two-room flat in Zarqa, Jordan, I almost didn’t recognize her daughter as human. Rahma, age...
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"It's Too Late for Me"
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Maury, Laurel
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Illustration by Francesco Bongiorni “It’s Too Late for Me” THE STORY OF ONE IMMIGRANT WHO DIDN’T SURVIVE DETENTION Francisco Castaneda came to the United States from El Salvador when he was ten....
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Filming Katrina
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Tisserand, Michael
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About halfway through the stunning new Hurricane Katrina documentary Trouble the Water, a blue-shirted Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) employee is sitting behind a table in a makeshift...
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John Cusack
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Swanson, Jim
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THE PROGRESSIVE INTERVIEW John Cusack John Cusack is an intense actor. He has starred in such films as The Grifters, True Colors, Being John Malkovich, High Fidelity, Cradle Will Rock, and Grace...
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Waterboarding, Restored
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Kumin, Maxine
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Poem Waterboarding, Restored Let’s take this one out, my editor said, my wise old editor, who rarely invoked her privilege, two years from now (it takes that long to go from manuscript to print)...
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Wii, the People
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Clinton, Kate
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Unplugged Wii, the People B Tn November 2006, ^ .Ljust after those life-changing midterm elections, Nintendo, J creator of Super Mario, ¦ '' introduced an interactive game called “Wii” [pr....
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Splitting Ranks
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Buhle, Paul
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Books Splitting Ranks Solidarity Divided: The Crisis in Organized Labor and a New Path Toward Social Justice By Bill Fletcher Jr. and Fernando Gapasin University of California Press. 324 pages....
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Legitimate Beef
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Hightower, Jim
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The Lowdown Legitimate Beef What is it with those kooky South Koreans? Tens of thousands of them rushed into the streets to protest—get this— beef. Specifically, beef imported from the United...
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