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 Vol. 074 Issue 002 (February 1 2010)
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••Cover Page••
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••Contents••
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 EDITOR'S NOTE
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Rothschild, Matthew
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Editor’s Note Matthew Rothschild A Beautiful Voice The news was hard to believe. On November 16, several KPFA listeners informed me that their popular talk show host and our contributing writer...
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NO COMMENT
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No Comment Steele Trap On Fox News, Sean Hannity spoke with RNC chairman Michael Steele about his new book, Right Now: A 12-Step Program for Defeating the Obama Agenda. During the interview,...
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LETTERS
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Letters to the Editor Huffington a Bit Suspect I enjoyed Matt Pascarella’s interview with Arianna Huffington, but felt he let her off a little easy about her evolution from conservative to...
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COMMENT
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Comment Beware Anti-Muslim Hysteria The hysteria has begun. With the attempt to bring down that Northwest jet flying into Detroit on Christmas, the urge to profile Muslims and demonize Islam is...
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ON THE LINE
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On the Line Change the Politics, Not the Climate Copenhagen Grassroots activists from all over the world protested at the U.N. Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen to press governments for...
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NOT SO PRETTY IN PINK
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Ehrenreich, Barbara
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Not So Pretty in Pink \\77elcome to the W Women’s Movement 2.0. Instead of the proud female symbol— a circle on top of a cross—we have a droopy ribbon. Instead of embracing the full spectrum...
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DINNER PARTY DIPLOMACY
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Williams, Terry Tempest
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Dinner Party Diplomacy Andrea Lewis was a friend of mine. She passed away on November 15, 2009, from a heart attack. The last time we were together was for The Progressives 100th birthday party in...
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OBAMA GOES TO SCHOOL
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Conniff, Ruth
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Obama Goes to School It was a big, big day for the students at James C. Wright Middle School in Madison, Wisconsin, when the President came to town. “The President of the United States is here in...
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REPUBLICARE TALKING POINTS
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Feldman, Michael
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RepubliCare Talking Points 1. Malpractice will be repositioned as Malpa-tience, applying to all individuals habitually seeking unneeded medical attention. Office visits for unnecessary exams that...
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CAPITALISM NEEDS PERESTROIKA
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Gorbachev, Mikhail
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Capitalism Needs Perestroika Twenty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, it’s time to take stock. The Berlin Wall was one of the shameful symbols of the Cold War and the dangerous division of...
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TAKING TEA PARTIERS SERIOUSLY
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Berlet, Chip
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Taking Tea Partiers Seriously By Chip Berlet Illustration by Lisa Haney The people who brought you the tea bag and town hall protests are meeting at a Fuddruckers restaurant in Boise, Idaho,...
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BIBI AND THE SETTLERS
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Erlich, Reese
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Bibi and the Settlers Several dozen angry protesters shouted anti-Israeli government slogans and blocked police access to the West Bank settlement of Kiryat Arba late last year. But the...
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BEYOND THE GREEN NICHE
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Mark, Jason
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Beyond the Green Niche When the satiric website Stuff White People Like chose “coffee” as the first item for its list of the habits and hang-ups of trend-setting twenty- and thirty-somethings, the...
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AMY RAY
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Lewis, Andrea
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Amy Ray Amy Ray is one half of the folk sensation the Indigo Girls. IXmore than twenty years may have passed since they debuted their first album, Strange Fire, but they still sound fresh. Their...
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POEM
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Andersen, Jon
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Poem White Phosphorous There is nothing we will not do to one another and no word we will not use to deny it. —Alexander Taylor Insist on the truth: when white phosphorous drifts across a...
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A VOICE FROM SENEGAL: YOUSSOU N'DOUR
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Pascarella, Matt
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A Voice from Senegal: Youssou N’Dour Youssou N’Dour is one of the most famous musicians on the planet. “A singer with a voice so extraordinary,” Rolling Stone has said, “that the history of Africa...
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OBAMA'S YEAR ONE: A REPORT CARD
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Durst, Will
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Obama’s Year One: A Report Card I \V7hen asked how W he thought his first year as the forty-fourth President of the United States had gone, Barack Obama gave himself a B+. To say that some...
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AN ELOQUENT CHAMPION
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Zirin, Dave
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An Eloquent Champion In a recent column about Tiger Woods, I wrote the following: “Golf is not a sport. It’s a game. It’s darts. It’s billiards. It’s the World Series of Poker with walking.” As I...
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BOOKS
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Chang, Jeff
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Books Pop Music’s Moment By Jeff Chang 1989: Bob Dylan Didn’t Have This to Sing About By Joshua Clover University of California Press. 198 pages. $21.95. What can popular music really do? Can...
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WHAT ONE PERSON CAN DO
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Hightower, Jim
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What One Person Can Do I’ve been hearing many cries of despair " from you good folks about the timorous Obama Presidency On issue after issue (including the Wall Street bailout, health care, jobs,...
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