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Vol. 077 Issue 009 (September 1 2013)
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••Cover Page••
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••Contents••
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EDITOR'S NOTE
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Editor’s Note Matthew Rothschild Transitions September 11 marks the fortieth anniversary of one of the most shameful events in the history of U.S. foreign policy. I’m referring to the support...
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NO COMMENT
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No Comment And He’s the Liberal? Fox News host Bob Beckel, the network’s resident liberal, is calling for a ban on all new mosques “until we got it worked out who is not a terrorist.” Rid My...
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LETTERS
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Letters to the Editor You Blew It on Wind Power Your article on wind power (“Wind Takes Iowa by Storm,” Erik Lorenzsonn, July issue) was way too light on the negative impacts that wind...
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COMMENT WILL OBAMA DELIVER?
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Comment Will Obama Deliver? President Obama has been out on the stump lately giving mostly progressive-sounding speeches on the economy. Yet tucked into his texts he has also given hints of his...
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ON THE LINE
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On the Line Women Stand Tall in Texas San Francisco 10 ?? September 2013 Austin Prompted by State Senator Wendy Davis’s thirteen-hour filibuster of a harsh anti-abortion bill, women in Texas...
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A NATION OF DETROITS
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Conniff, Ruth
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Political Eye Ruth Conniff A Nation of Detroits The rightwing argument that public employees bankrupted Detroit is incredible on its face. But it is part of an ominous national push to raid...
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MISSING CHARLIE, 40 YEARS LATER
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Horman, Joyce
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Missing Charlie, 40 Years Later Finding a Modicum of Justice in Chile By Joyce Horman Illustration by Heath Hinegardner FORTY YEARS AGO IN SANTIAGO, Chile, my dear, smart,...
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TROUBLE IN THE NAIL SALON
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Mullenneaux, Lisa
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Trouble in the Nail Salon By Lisa Mullenneaux Illustration by Tara Jacoby YOU ARE AT THE AIRPORT with two hours between flights. Spending that down time at XpresSpa getting your feet...
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LESS ENERGY, MORE LIFE
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Berry, Wendell
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Less Energy, More Life By Wendell Berry Illustration by Dushan Milic LIKE A LOT OF PEOPLE I KNOW, I am concerned about mountaintop removal and climate change. But when we delay our concern...
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CHINESE DISSIDENT: "DON'T BE FOOLED"
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Handal, Nathalie
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Chinese Dissident: “Don’t Be Fooled” By Nathalie Handal Illustration by Kelly Mudge DURING THE TIANANMEN Square uprising in 1989, a student on a hunger strike and dressed in his hospital gown...
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THE DARING EXPLOITS OF THE ONE AND ONLY ZIMMERMAN
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Murphy, Ian
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The Daring Exploits of the One and Only Zimmerman Ian Murphy ZIMMBQMAN, WHO CM Aiie&eoLY 5Ave people fpom vernetz WQBOCA&e, THeeeey 0E8UNWNG U&ePAUSM.,, SOMBHOW.., yes, \vs ^\ ziMMeemN... ...
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A TRIAL IN BLACK AND WHITE
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Gray, Kevin Alexander
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A Trial in Black and White First Person Singular by Kevin Alexander Gray AFRIEND ASKED ME IF I’D BEEN KEEPING UP WITH THE GEORGE Zimmerman trial. My immediate answer was, “Not really. Watching...
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COSTA-GAVRAS
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Rampell, Ed
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Costa-Gavras THE PROGRE S S IVE INTERVI EW by Ed Rampell Costa-Gavras is arguably the world’s greatest living political filmmaker. Born in Arcadia, Greece, in 1933, to the son of a blacklisted...
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POEM
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Eisenberg, Susan
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Poem Power While her classmates cut in panels, bent pipe, worked from blueprints, the black girl ran for coffee, rustled stock, drilled ceiling anchors by the mile, and swept the shanty out;...
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EDGE OF SPORTS
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Zirin, Dave
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Edge of Sports Dave Zirin Athletes and Black Rage Unless it’s commodified, laid out over a beat, and marketed to suburban white teens getting their ghetto fix, there is no freedom to be...
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LIKE MY NEW APP
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Clinton, Kate
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Unplugged Kate Clinton Like My New App Sometimes I look at all the Apple products in our house— iPads, iPods, minis, iBooks, laptops, desktops, tangled balls of cords—and I have iGuilt. How...
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BOOKS
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Whitney, Jake
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Books Washington’s Pepe LePew This Town: Two Parties and a Funeral—Plus Plenty of Valet Parking!—in America’s Gilded Capital By Mark Leibovich Blue Rider Press. 386 pages. $27.95. By Jake...
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THE MEAN TEAM
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Hightower, Jim
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Vox Populist Jim Hightower The Mean Team The new slogan of the rightwing nuts is “Come on team, let’s get mean!” They’re pumping up Team GOP to pound the bejeezus out of America’s millions...
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