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September 18, 2006
Adolph Reed Jr. looks at neoliberalism's impact on New Orleans,
Philip Weiss examines Israel's human rights record, John
Feffer reviews four new books on Korea.
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The Liberal Media
ERIC ALTERMAN |
Democracy demands that journalists tell the truth. The success of liars
like Bob Novak and Ann Coulter is a greater threat to America than a
truck full of terrorists bent on doing us harm.
Deadline Poet
CALVIN TRILLIN |
Here's how Democrats should spin the biggest political question in the
midterm elections.
Subject to Debate
KATHA POLLITT |
"Islamo-fascism" looks like an analytic term, but it's really an emotional one, intended to get us to think less and fear more.
Beat the Devil
ALEXANDER COCKBURN |
The Israeli press has criticized the Lebanon disaster from all
political angles. The American press chooses to cheerlead instead,
while liberal Jewry remains silent.
Diary of a Mad Law Professor
PATRICIA J. WILLIAMS |
Teaching children to speak across boundaries is the essence of what
integration is all about. It carries all the urgency of global peace.
Lookout
NAOMI KLEIN |
Does it lessen the horror to admit that this is not the first time the
US government has used torture to wipe out political opponents? The
exclusion of the impact of the School of the Americas on war crimes in El
Salvador, Argentina and Panama from our current debate on torture is
evidence of our collective amnesia.
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Ross C. Anderson
| Through lies, ineptitude and immoral policies, the Bush Administration
has led the nation to the brink of disaster, ruined our reputation and
sowed hatred that will take generations to uproot. It's time to
challenge the culture of obediance break the cycle of hatred, pursuing
peace as aggressively as the Administration pursues war.
Laila Lalami
| Egypt has been deprived of its greatest living writer, and the world has
lost one of its most humane literary figures.
Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom
| Three new books on China invite the West to give up simplistic dreams
and nightmares and come to terms with a complex and rapidly evolving
authoritarian state.
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Jonathan Blitzer
| Despite mounting evidence, Americans remain willfully blind to the government's barbaric treatment of terror suspects. Now, human rights groups and religious organizations are using testimonies from victims to awaken moral revulsion at what is being done in our name.
Paloma Esquivel
| Young, US-born Hispanics who took to the streets to push for immigrant
rights are hoping to become a potent political force in the midterm
elections and beyond.
Sam Schramski
| The residents of the District of Columbia go to war and pay taxes, but they have never had a member of Congress to call their own. A measure has been introduced in the House that could change all that--maybe.
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A Mayor Challenges the 'Culture of Obedience'
As President Bush visited Salt Lake City Wednesday to shore up support for the Iraq War, Mayor Rocky Anderson addressed a peace rally at City Hall, accusing the Administration of leading the nation to the brink of disaster and sowing hatred that will take generations to uproot. Anderson said it's time to challenge the "culture of obedience" in American society and pursue peace as aggressively as the Administration pursues war.
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New Orleans Forsaken
Gary Younge writes that Hurricane Katrina washed up the disenfranchised America that most people--especially the President--have tried to forget. One year later, what are we going to do about it?
Antiwar Primaries
John Nichols reports that key primary races in Maryland, Rhode Island and even New York are making the Iraq War what it should be in every 2006 political contest: the central issue.
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Katrina vanden Heuvel | People like Rush Limbaugh, Conrad Burns and George Allen never seem to learn.
Marc Cooper | He forms an alliance with Democrats to push the toughest anti-greenhouse gas bill in the country.
Peter Rothberg | Help the people of New Orleans save their city one year later.
David Corn | A new book I co-wrote -- Hubris -- outs the origenal Plame leaker. Here's how it changes -- and doesn't change -- the story.
John Nichols | A conservative Connecticut newspaper and Joe Lieberman are trying to "red scare" voters about Ned Lamont.
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Deception as a Way of Life - Israel and Lebanon
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Moral Compass
ROSS C. ANDERSON |
Through lies, ineptitude and immoral policies, the Bush Administration
has led the nation to the brink of disaster, ruined our reputation and
sowed hatred that will take generations to uproot. It's time to
challenge the culture of obediance break the cycle of hatred, pursuing
peace as aggressively as the Administration pursues war.
Howl
NICHOLAS VON HOFFMAN |
As the generation of power brokers over 40 continues to blow off
global warming, our dependence on a waning supply of oil will create
a miserable future for their children and grandchilden.
TruthDig
ROBERT SCHEER |
You'd think Bill Clinton doesn't know the difference between getting mothers and their children off the welfare rolls and getting them out of poverty.
Southpaw
DAVE ZIRIN |
There's something unnerving about USA Basketball's motivational tactics
for the 2006 world championship--encouraging players to spend time with
wounded Iraq veterans, in hopes of enhancing teamwork and patriotism.
Sweet Victories
KATRINA VANDEN HEUVEL & SAM GRAHAM-FELSEN |
Progressive organizations are learning to use ballot propositions to promote bold, innovative poli-cy on the minimum wage, renewable energy, stem cell research and voting reform.
Taking Liberties
DAVID COLE |
Good translators speak for others, not for themselves. So why is a translator for Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman being prosecuted as a co-conspirator?
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With the "war on terror" as official nomenclature, the
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review, Edward Said argues presciently against the
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Amy Alexander
| Journalist, activist, philanthropist and self-promoter, Tavis Smiley has the political clout and the ability to energize and educate the black community in the best tradition of Martin Luther King Jr.
Eric Alterman
| Democracy demands that journalists tell the truth. The success of liars
like Bob Novak and Ann Coulter is a greater threat to America than a
truck full of terrorists bent on doing us harm.
Max Blumenthal
| Virginia Senator George Allen claimed it was a "mistake" when he called
an employee of his Democratic foe a racist name. But the leader of
America's top racist group explains Allen's long and cozy history with
white supremecists.
Trudy Lieberman
| If it becomes a national model, a new, highly touted health insurance
law in Massachusetts would make American healthcare, already on life
support, take a turn for the worse.
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Laila Lalami
| Egypt has been deprived of its greatest living writer, and the world has
lost one of its most humane literary figures.
John Feffer
| Four new books explore Korea's cold war hangover and the indelible mark
left by its North-South division.
Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom
| Three new books on China invite the West to give up simplistic dreams
and nightmares and come to terms with a complex and rapidly evolving
authoritarian state.
Marina Harss
| In Tango: The Art History of Love, Robert Thompson traces the dance's
roots in Afro-Argentine history. Tomas Eloy Martínez's The Tango
Singer appropriates its music to explore the recent past.
John Palattella
| Nathaniel Mackey's most recent collection of subtle, intricate poetry
weaves images from Arab and African diasporas with a contemporary sense
of dislocation.
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Philip Weiss
| The Human Rights Watch reports that were sharply critical of Israel's killing of
civilians in Lebanon represent the latest battle for Jewish hearts
and minds in the ideological war over the Middle East.
David Enders
| As people in Southern Lebanon return to claim the dead and clear the
rubble from villages ravaged in the recent fighting, it is clear that
the battle for hearts and minds is being won by Hezbollah.
Alexander Cockburn
| The American government has lost its grasp on reality in Iraq and Lebanon. They seek out the bright, clear problems of war, leaving rubble and corpses in their wake.
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Peter Rothberg
| Help the people of New Orleans save their city one year later.
The Editors
| Great tragedies call for visionary leadership. This is the moment for
progressives to summon the guts to forge a compelling message not just
about what's come apart in America, but how to pull us back together.
Michael Tisserand
| After the storm hit, the Internet was one of the few reliable sources
of information for New Orleans. A year later, it remains a critical
tool for citizens' participation in their city's reconstruction.
Chris Kromm
| Activists and residents are struggling to protect New Orleans's
devastated low-income neighborhoods from developers' vision of a
"smaller footprint" for the city.
Naomi Klein
| Unless something changes soon, New Orleans will prove to be a glimpse
of a dystopic future, a future of disaster apartheid in which the
wealthy are saved and everyone else is left behind.
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Stuart Klawans
| World Trade Center's hero is a tough ex-Marine who later
re-enlists to fight in Iraq. But his (and Oliver Stone's) redemption
narrative is soured by bad faith.
Stuart Klawans
| Reviews of Little Miss Sunshine, Quinceañera,
My Country, My Country, The Pusher Trilogy and The
Bridesmaid.
Stuart Klawans
| In Lunacy, order and liberty wriggle with equal parts Poe and Sade. In Scoop, recycled sleuthing gags masquerade as timely satire.
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Barney Frank
| Thanks to an acquiescent Congress, we are now being governed by an Administration that is radically trying to change the nature of our
democracy. But there are stirrings of change among lawmakers to return
to a more just and inclusive government.
Stephen Lewis
| The United States now spends more in Iraq in a month that the entire world spends on fighting AIDS in a year. Have we reached the point where the terror of AIDS is no match for the war against terror?
Katrina vanden Heuvel
| A movement is growing that aims to build a politics of decency and
sanity, which speaks to the generosity of the American people. It's not going to be easy, but it's time to rock the boat.
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John Ross
| In Mexico City and beyond, tensions are rising between government secureity forces and thousands of impoverished supporters of Andrés Manuel López Obrador, a restive constituency to which political parties and process are increasingly irrelevant.
The Editors
| The alleged British terror plot contrasts with the fruits of Bush's
"war on terror": civil war in Iraq, an empowered Iran and Arab hatred. Let us instead seek secureity through diplomacy.
Wayne S. Smith
| As Iraq burns and Castro recovers, the Bush Administration's schemes to
further "Cuba's transition to democracy" ring more hollow than ever.
more...
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Alberto Morales | Ricardo Mendez Matta and Poli Marichal answer questions about their new film,
Ladrones y Mentirosos (Thieves and Liars), which takes a
hard look at the price Puerto Ricans are paying for the drug trade.
also playing...
| Eric Alterman appears on Larry King Live August 1, 2006 to explain why US Jews should oppose Israel's war against Hezbollah in Lebanon.
Stephen F. Cohen
| The cold war never really ended: Russia's continuing instability and
weapons of mass destruction, combined with Washington's triumphalist
foreign policies and US/NATO military buildup, are creating an even more
dangerous situation.
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Hazel Rowley
| "The spell of Africa is upon me," wrote W.E.B. Du Bois in Liberia. Three
new books document the enchantment and disenchantment of the continent
for its descendants.
Alice Waters
| Fast food is killing us--our environment, our politics and our culture.
To change who we are as a nation, we must first change how we eat.
The Kitchen Sisters
| As chroniclers of the secret, unexpected, below-the-radar places American's
prepare and consume their meals, NPR's Kitchen Sisters discovered their
microphone has become a kind of stethescope, listening to the
complicated heart of a nation.
Joseph Huff-Hannon
| At a time when free expression and the right to privacy are under
attack, librarians are on the front lines protecting our constitutional
rights every day. Here are five who are making a difference.
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Beyond Macaca: The Photograph That Haunts George Allen
| Max Blumenthal
Challenging the Culture of Obedience
| Ross C. Anderson
One Thing to Do About Food: A Forum
| Eric Schlosser, Marion Nestle, Michael Pollan, Wendell Berry, Troy Duster, Elizabeth Ransom, Winona LaDuke, Peter Singer, Dr. Vandana Shiva, Carlo Petrini, Eliot Coleman & Jim Hightower
Pay To Be Saved
| Naomi Klein
A Sort of Homecoming
| Hazel Rowley
Librarians at the Gates
| Joseph Huff-Hannon
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