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 Vol. 073 Issue 008 (August 1 2009)
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••Cover Page••
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••Contents••
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 Rearview Mirror
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Rothschild, Matthew
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Editor’s Note Matthew Rothschild Rearview Mirror For the final offering from our 100th anniversary conference, we’re presenting you with Naomi Klein’s provocative speech. It was almost impromptu....
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No Comment
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No Comment Hazardous Waste “An independent commission investigating waste and fraud in wartime spending has found the Pentagon has failed to provide adequate oversight over tens of billions of...
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Letters
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Letters to the Editor Dubro Is Preposterous My God, where did you come up with that doozy Alec Dubro (“The Myth of the Efficient Car,” May issue)? “Cars don’t move people, cars move cars,” he...
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The Iranian Example
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Comment The Iranian Example Reg IE egardless of how things ultimately pan out in Iran, the protests against the election results in that country provided us yet another example of the use of...
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On The Line
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On the Line United Against Chevron San Ramon, California Activists shut down the main entrance to the headquarters of Chevron during its annual shareholders meeting in late May. They wanted to...
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Where We Don't Rub Shoulders
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Rodríguez, Luis J.
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Writing to America Luis J. Rodriguez Where We Don’t Rub Shoulders When I attended school in the 1960s and ’70s, integration was hotly contested, even bloody. Court decisions and federal mandates...
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A License to Fight
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Ehrenreich, Barbara
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Flip Side Barbara Ehrenreich A License to Fight The dean gave me some very strict instructions about what to say today. One, no whining and no crying at the podium. No wringing of hands or...
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Capitalism, Sarah Palin-Style
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Klein, Naomi
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By Naomi Klein Illustration by Zina Saunders Capitalism, Sarah Palin-Style WE ARE IN A PROGRESSIVE moment, a moment when the ground is shifting beneath our feet, and anything is possible. What...
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"Throwing Dust in the Eyes of Our People"
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Joya, Malalai
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Throwing Dust in the Eyes of Our People” The Afghan Election Is Just for Show By Malalai Joya IN THE NAME OF DEMOCRACY and peace, dear friends, I’m thankful to Norwegian PEN and the Freedom of...
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Get Rid of Your Nukes
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Gorbachev, Mikhail
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By Mikhail Gorbachev Illustration by Sako Shahinian Get Rid of Your Nukes ONE OF THE MOST URGENT problems of today’s world is the danger of nuclear weapons. The unexpected nuclear test by North...
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Lethal Sting
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Beiser, Vince
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By Vince Beiser Illustration by Rama Hughes Lethal Sting You’d think she would have been scared, in that last half-hour before she was murdered. But mostly, Rachel Hoffman, a slim, pretty...
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True Peace
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Hamill, Sam
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Poem True Peace Half broken on that smoky night, hunched over sake in a serviceman’s dive somewhere in Naha, Okinawa, nearly fifty years ago, I read of the Saigon Buddhist monks who stopped the...
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William Greider
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Conniff, Ruth
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THE PROGRESSIVE INTERVIEW by Ruth Conniff William Greider In his new book, Come Home, America: The Rise and Fall (and Redeeming Promise) of Our Country, William Greider distills decades of...
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Green Day Never Gives Up
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D'Ambrosio, Antonino
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Green Day Never GivesUp They’re playing the song of the century of panic and promise and prosperity Tell me a story into that goodnight These are lyrics from the opening track, “Song of the...
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Summer of Love
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Clinton, Kate
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Unplugged Kate Clinton Summer of Love Forty years ago this August, the Woodstock Nation met for four days of music in the mud and muck of an upstate New York farm. Despite war protests, race...
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Pentagon Takes Over PE
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Zirin, Dave
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Edge of Sports Dave Zirin Pentagon Takes Over PE On the East Coast, when we think of San Francisco, we often imagine a progressive oasis where ideals of peace and community take precedent over...
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What Passes for Progress
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Bayoumi, Moustafa
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Books What Passes for Progress Engaging the Muslim World By Juan Cole Palgrave Macmillan. 288pages. $26.95. Sowing Crisis: The Cold War and American Dominance in the Middle East By Rashid...
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The New Oil Cheats
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Hightower, Jim
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Vox Populist Jim Hightower The New Oil Cheats A covey of tongue-clucking industry analysts assures us that nothing can be done about rising oil prices. It’s simply the law of supply and demand in...
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