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 Vol. 073 Issue 002 (February 1 2009)
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••Contents••
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 A Day with Wendell Berry
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Rothschild, Matthew
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Editor’s Note Matthew Rothschild
A Day with Wendell Berry
O ne of the highlights of my job last year was visiting the writer, farmer, and environmentalist Wendell Berry at his home in Port...
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Letters
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Letters to the Editor
In Defense of Bottled Water David Barsamian’s interview with Maude Barlow in the December 2008 issue of The Progressive raises some provocative issues and ideas about...
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Restraining Israel
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Comment
Restraining Israel
W hat a way to end 2008 and to begin 2009. Even in the largely antiseptic coverage by the U.S. corporate media, the brutality and senselessness of Israel’s attack...
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No Comment
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No Comment Violence Is for Grownups The U.S. Marine Corps Reserve Toys for Tots program in Michigan requested “new, unwrapped toys that don’t have violent connotations,” reports the Ann Arbor...
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Dunking on Arne Duncan
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Zirin, Dave
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Edge of Sports Dave Zirin Dunking on Arne Duncan
“Ithink we are putting together the best basketball-playing cabinet in American history.” So said Barack Obama upon naming Arne...
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On the Line
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On the Line
Day Without a Gay On December 10, opponents of Prop 8 in California organized a “Day Without a Gay,” a national day-long strike. Activists asked gay rights supporters to boycott...
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What Is NorthCom Up To?
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Rothschild, Matthew
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By Matthew Rothschild Illustration by Alex Nabaum O N OCTOBER 1, THE PENTAGON, for the first time ever, dedicated an Army force specifically to secure not some foreign region but the United...
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Being Kind to the Land
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Berry, Wendell
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By Wendell Berry Illustration by Kelly Mudge Being Kind
to the Land
M Y FATHER DEVOTED much of his life to the politics of tobacco, which was the staple crop of small farmers here in...
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Latin America Breaks Free
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Dangl, Benjamin
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By Benjamin Dangl Illustration by Brian Stauffer Latin America Breaks Free F IVE YEARS AGO, WHEN EVO Morales was a rising political star as a congressman and coca farmer, I met him in...
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Careful with Your Old TV Set
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Scott, Julia
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By Julia Scott Illustration by Cristy C. Road Careful with Your Old TV Set F OR AMERICANS WHO ARE upgrading their televisions in time for the digital conversion on February 17, getting...
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To Kill or Not to Kill
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Boudreau, Tyler E.
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By Tyler E. Boudreau Illustration by Matthew Leake U .S. ARMY LIEUTENANT COLONEL John Nagl was an unlikely guest on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. One of the authors of the 2006...
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Naomi Klein
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Rothschild, Matthew
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THE PROGRESSIVE INTERVIEW
by Matthew Rothschild Naomi Klein
N aomi Klein inherited some of her politics. Her grand father was blacklisted by Joe McCarthy for being a union agitator at Walt...
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Tardy Hand-Off
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Durst, Will
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Off the Map Will Durst Tardy Hand-Off
U ntil Franklin D. Roosevelt’s first term in 1937, newly elected Presidents weren’t inaugurated un til March 4. This twentyweek sorbet between...
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Elegy for a Revolution
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Campo, Rafael
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Poem Elegy for a Revolution You, ghost of Cuba, vestige of a dream, what makes me pity you? Your stout cigar now trembles in your scaly hands, your beard is thin and gray like my Abuela’s hair....
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Interrogation Room of One's Own
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Pascarella, Matt
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A bu Ghraib captivated artist Coco Fusco. The presence of women in the images as victimizers—not victims—led her to explore the issue in her art. “I was particularly interested in how female...
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A New Shade of Green
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Mark, Jason
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Books A New Shade of Green
American Earth: Environmental Writing Since Thoreau Edited by Bill McKibben
The Library of America. 1,047 pages.
$40.
The Green Collar Economy: How One...
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Parting Shots
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Hightower, Jim
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The Lowdown Jim Hightower Parting Shots
F inally, our country is getting a new beginning, and maybe, just maybe, we can put our country back on the right path. As we head that way,...
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