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 Vol. 073 Issue 007 (July 1 2009)
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••Cover Page••
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••Contents••
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 The Light of Scrutiny
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Rothschild, Matthew
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Editor’s Note Matthew Rothschild The Light of Scrutiny On my desk lies a heavy black paperweight, shaped like a baseball, with the continents carved into it. This globe belonged to my beloved...
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Letters
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Letters to the Editor Gaza Coverage I appreciated Matthew Rothschild’s Editor’s Note “Hurlers of the Slur” (May issue). It seems that there is a new McCarthyism in the United States regarding the...
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A Bankrupt Move
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Comment A Bankrupt Move This isn’t socialism—not even close. When Barack Obama drove GM into bankruptcy and announced that the government would own 60 percent of the company, the rightwing...
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No Comment
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No Comment Hunting People for Jesus Video footage obtained by Al Jazeera shows U.S. soldiers have been encouraged to spread the message of their Christian faith among Afghanistan’s predominantly...
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Pardon the Disturbance
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Galeano, Eduardo
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The Upside-Down World Eduardo Galeano Pardon the Disturbance I want to share a few questions, a few flies buzzing in my head. Is justice just? In this upside-down world, is she still on her...
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Jim Brown Rushes to the End
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Zirin, Dave
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Edge of Sports Dave Zirin Jim Brown Rushes to the End Th "'here is only one former athlete I was truly nervous about interviewing. His nar e is Jim Brown. I wasn’t nervous because of who he was,...
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The FBI Goes to Iowa City
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Rothschild, Matthew
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McCarthyism Watch Matthew Rothschild The FBI Goes to Iowa City He was very well dressed. He claimed he’d been in the military but that he refused to go to Iraq and was granted conscientious...
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On the Line
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Stop Global Warming On the Line Seattle A few thousand people gathered on the Seattle waterfront to call for action on global warming. The rally occurred as the Environmental Protection Agency...
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A Just Cause # A Just War
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Zinn, Howard
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By Howard Zinn Illustration by Craig LaRotonda A Just Cause ^ A Just War I want to talk about three holy wars. They aren’t religious wars, but they’re the three wars in American history that are...
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Off on Vacation
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Dinovella, Elizabeth
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By Elizabeth DiNovella Illustration by Nick Craine on Vacation This summer I’ll be vacationing in Italy. One of my cousins there is getting married. I’ll spend seventeen days in the hilly...
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Gandhi's Grandson
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Pal, Amitabh
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By Amitabh Pal Illustration by Earl Barrett-Holloway Gandhi’s Grandson It isn’t easy being the grandson of a global icon, but Rajmohan Gandhi has been able to come through just fine. In his long...
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A Literary Bust in Jerusalem
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Rothschild, Matthew
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By Matthew Rothschild Illustration by Koren Shadmi A in Stephanie Saldana, an American writer living in Jerusalem, was excited about going to the Palestinian National Theatre on the evening of...
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Don't Ask Permission
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Ellison, Representative Keith
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By Representative Keith Ellison Don’t Ask Permission Let’s be clear on our history. Martin Luther King never asked Lyndon Baines Johnson to inspire him. Martin Luther King never called up John...
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Our Progressive Vision
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Kucinich, Representative Dennis
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By Representative Dennis Kucinich Our Progressive Vision We need to carry the tradition of American progressivism forward for the next 100 years, and we also need to focus on the next 100 days. To...
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We've Got the Power
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Huerta, Dolores
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We’ve Got the Power By Dolores Huerta So much of what we need to do is plain old-fashioned organizing. How can rightwingers have more power than we do, when we’re the majority in this country?...
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Marcy Kaptur
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Conniff, Ruth
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THE PROGRESSIVE INTERVIEW by Ruth Conniff Marcy Kaptur Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur, from Ohio’s Ninth Congressional District, is serving her fourteenth term in the U.S. House of Representatives....
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War Nursing
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Foote, Frederick
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Poem War Nursing (for Cassandra) Another bizarre moment (and to this day I scarce believe I really witnessed this) You clapping leading the shattered Iraqi men around the prison ward in...
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The 183rd Time's the Charm
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Durst, Will
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Off the Map Will Durst The 183rd Time’s the Charm I’m sick of torture. The fact that we’re one of the countries way up there on the J.D. Powers annual “torture reliability” list makes me unwell....
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Rediscovering Frances Perkins
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Greenwald, Richard
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Books Rediscovering Frances Perkins The Woman Behind the New Deal: The Life of Frances Perkins, FDR’s Secretary of Labor and His Moral Conscience By Kirstin Downey Nan A. Talese/Doubleday...
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The Spark of Populism
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Hightower, Jim
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The Lowdown Jim Hightower The Spark of Populism The media are at it again. They’re calling anyone a populist who barks a lot. Rush Limbaugh is a populist, we are told. So is Newt Gingrich, and...
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