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Vol. 087 Issue 002 (April 1 2023)
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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 THE FOOLISH BUSINESS OF WAR Six months after the city of Izium, in northeastern Ukraine, was liberated from Russian invaders, life remains a living hell for those who survived....
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Comment
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Chomsky, Noam
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The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists’ Doomsday Clock has recently been set to ninety seconds to midnight, the closest it has come to termination. The analysts who set the clock cited the two most...
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Further Comment
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price, David
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FURTHER COMMENT by DAVID PRICE AMERICA’S SURVEILLANCE STATE: EVERYTHING, EVERYWHERE, ALL AT ONCE T he rapid growth of surveillance in the United States brings new threats to our independence,...
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No Comment
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NO COMMENT Proud Boy A Republican member of the Wisconsin Elections Commission has bragged about the party’s success in reducing the vote in “overwhelming Black and Hispanic areas.” Robert...
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Smoking Gun
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SMOKING GUN U.S. MILITARY SPENDING, BY THE NUMBERS
As the planet hurtles headlong into climate chaos and millions of people’s basic needs go unmet, there is one sector of the U.S. economy that...
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Letters
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LETTERS Voting While Rural Many responses to the February/March issue were about John Nichols’s “Further Comment: The Price of Ignoring Rural Voters.” Here is a sampling: John, I’m as...
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Blast from the Past
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BLAST FROM THE PAST Take the Profit Out of War BY ROBERT M. LA FOLLETTE La Follette’s Magazine, February 1915 I t is repugnant to every moral sense that governments should even indirectly...
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Retrospective
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JULY 1916 Who Wants War? The gentlemen who want war with Mexico are a very powerful lot. They own most of the United States and a good slice of Mexico. They are our Captains of Industry, our...
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On the Line
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Baker, Hank
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ON THE LINE by HANK BAKER DOWN AND OUT IN MOLDOVA
Moldova, one of Europe’s poorest countries, is surrounded on three sides by Ukraine. Russia’s most recent invasion of Ukraine a year ago has...
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Middle America
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Conniff, Ruth
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MIDDLE AMERICA by RUTH CONNIFF WISCONSIN’S HIGH-STAKES SUPREME COURT RACE
O n the last Saturday in February, just after a winter storm dumped freezing rain, snow, and ice across the Midwest,...
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Smart Ass Cripple
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Ervin, Mike
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SMART ASS CRIPPLE by MIKE ERVIN PLEASE DON’T MENTION MICROTRANSIT
D oor-to-door public transportation: Just imagine what that would be like, if you dare. Instead of trudging to a nearby bus...
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Work Won't Love You Back
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Jaffe, Sarah
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WORK WON’T LOVE YOU BACK by SARAH JAFFE WE WERE WARNED
I t was the workers’ nightmare come true. The Norfolk Southern freight train that derailed in East Palestine, Ohio, on February...
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First Things First
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LUEDERS, BILL
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FIRST THINGS FIRST by BILL LUEDERS LIES, DAMN LIES, AND SOCIAL MEDIA
E arlier this year, on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives, Congressman Jim Jordan, Republican of Ohio, accused...
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The Lingering Effects of Iraq War Lies
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Zunes, Stephen
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DB FEDERICO GAMBARINI/PICTURE-ALLIANCE/DPA/AP IMAGES The cumulative cost of the war for American taxpayers will end up at well over $3 trillion, adding to the national debt and giving...
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Will We Always Be This Way?
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Kelly, Kathy
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Will We Always Be This Way? Those who have an insatiable appetite for war seldom heed the wreckage they have left behind. BY KATHY KELLY
wenty years ago, in Baghdad, I shared quarters...
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PACT Act Problems
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Early, Suzanne Gordon and Steve
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BY SUZANNE GORDON AND STEVE EARLY
hen President Joe Biden braved Republican jeers and boos to deliver his State of the Union address in February, one of the few lines that received bipartisan...
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Mission Not Accomplished
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Krakow, Carly A.
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Mission Not Accomplished
Iraqi victims of war toxins deserve justice. BY CARLY A. KRAKOW
n February 7, just a month before the twentieth anniversary of the U.S. invasion and occupation...
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Kissinger’s Culpability
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Cords, Sarah
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Kissinger’s
Culpability
At 100, more than a half-century of blood is on the elder statesman’s hands. BY SARAH CORDS enry Kissinger is still alive and still in possession of the Nobel...
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Kissinger’s Legacy in Latin America
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Stockwell, Norman
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Kissinger’s Legacy in Latin America
Eight years of policy have left generations of damage. BY NORMAN STOCKWELL enry Kissinger is thought of mostly in relation to his role in the wars in...
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‘F’ Stands for Failure
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Meyer, Alfred
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On a broader scale, the F-35 is a U.S.-led international effort with sixteen other nations taking part in the design, manufacture, and use of the aircraft. The intent is to tie our allies into...
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One Question
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ONE QUESTION MIKE BRAND Adjunct professor of genocide studies and human rights at the University of Connecticut Imagine how you would improve our country. Universal health care, free...
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Yearning to Breathe Free
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Deslandes, Ann Louise
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Yearning to
Breathe Free
A new U.S. immigration policy
is leaving thousands of asylum
seekers stranded on a path
fraught with danger.
BY ANN LOUISE DESLANDES I n the center of the...
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Lifting Workers Out of Poverty
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Johnson, Sharon
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Lifting Workers Out of Poverty Ten years in, the movement to raise the minimum wage is gaining momentum across the country. BY SHARON JOHNSON K imberly Baker did everything right. She was at...
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First-Person Singular
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Evans, Jodie
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We’ll Stop When Wars Do As the perpetual war machine churns on, CODEPINK won’t stop fighting for an ‘economy of peace.’ Jodie Evans is co-founder of CODEPINK and the after-school writing...
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Where Climate Action Has Gone Mainstream
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NICHOLS, JOHN
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INTERVIEW Where Climate Action
Has Gone Mainstream
An interview with Katrín Jakobsdóttir,
prime minister of Iceland.
BY JOHN NICHOLS W hen Katrín Jakobsdóttir became prime minister of...
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Book Excerpt
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Crawford, Neta C.
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The Deep Cycle and Climate Change as an Existential Threat How the Pentagon became the world’s largest single greenhouse gas emitter and why it’s not too late to break the link between national...
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Book Reviews
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Confronting the Grim Truths of War
BY ERIK GUNN
By all rights, I should have grown up well versed in the work of seminal anti-war activist Staughton Lynd. At my Quaker high school in the...
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Hemming and Hawing
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Farsad, Negin
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HEMMING AND HAWING by NEGIN FARSAD CAUGHT BETWEEN ‘OZEMPIC FACE’ AND A HARD PLACE I ’m not exactly sure what women are supposed to be doing right now. I’m not even exactly sure if we (I’m a...
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For Gogol
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Melnyczuk, Askold
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POEM by TARAS SHEVCHENKO | Translated by Askold Melnyczuk For Gogol In the hive, words on words.
One chokes the heart,
The other tears it apart,
A third weeps softly
And God hasn’t...
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Vox Populist
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Hightower, Jim
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VOX POPULIST by JIM HIGHTOWER IS YOUR LUSH LAWN KILLING MOTHER NATURE?
G rowing up, I learned a lot of valuable lessons from the example set by my Ol’ Texas Daddy: a strong commitment to the...
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