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July 3, 2006
The Editors write that the US should stop bullying the UN, Alexander Cockburn asks why the left is so afraid of the incompetent Karl Rove, Stuart Klawans reviews The Road to Guantánamo and Crossing the Bridge.
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Subject to Debate
KATHA POLLITT |
In South Dakota, prochoicers are fighting back with a bipartisan
initiative challenging the abortion ban and a grassroots effort
that has put progressive Native American women on the ballot.
Beat the Devil
ALEXANDER COCKBURN |
Under Karl Rove's deft hand, Bush has been maneuvered from one
catastrophe to another. Why is the left obsessed with him?
Deadline Poet
CALVIN TRILLIN |
Another winning strategy for Team Bush and its war on terror.
The Liberal Media
ERIC ALTERMAN |
Five years into the Bush Administration, the press corps still can't figure out how to handle the White House's primary media management tactic: lying.
Diary of a Mad Law Professor
PATRICIA J. WILLIAMS |
In a New York courtroom, a jury must decide whether a hip-hop-loving young white man who beat a young black man with a baseball bat is guilty of assault or a hate crime.
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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Dave Zirin & John Cox
| Soccer's not for sissies, but Team America and its fans have brought a
decidedly militarist mindset to the World Cup.
Kevin McCarthy
| The War Tapes, a documentary shot by US soldiers and sanctioned by the military, may turn out to be the most powerful statement against the war to date.
Robert Scheer
| What is the born-again East Texas word for chutzpah? Whatever it is, Tom DeLay displays enormous amounts, as he exits Congress and faces corruption charges.
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DEAN POWERS |
The X factor in the midterm elections may well be the English language--specifically, the biased terminology that seeps unchallenged into mainstream media political coverage.
SIMON MAXWELL APTER |
Why does the FBI find it necessary to spy on Portand's City Council?
ANJA TRANOVICH |
As conditions worsen in Darfur, the nascent International Criminal Court, whose mandate is to bring genocidaires to justice in a chaotic environment hostile to the rule of law, is facing a daunting challenge.
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Bring Them Home
Few in the Senate will vote today to support a measure to leave Iraq by July 2007. But if the American people were casting ballots, our soldiers would come home. Ari Berman writes on how the public is ahead of the lawmakers.
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The Media Challenge
The Editors write that progressives must chart a course of activism that confronts the increasing concentration of ownership among the Big Media powerhouses.
National Entertainment State, 2006
After a decade of strategic mergers, impulsive couplings and messy divorces the national media landscape still bears the oversized footprints of a handful of giant corporations.
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Katrina vanden Heuvel | 99% of GOP House members are playing class warfare, favoring the already wealthy and powerful.
Ari Berman | New polling shows public stands with Kerry-Boxer-Feingold's plan to leave Iraq within a year.
John Nichols | Six senators--Boxer, Byrd, Feingold, Harkin, Kennedy, Kerry--side with the soldiers and refuse to play Karl Rove's game.
Peter Rothberg | ActNow is on vacation and will return on June 24.
David Corn | But the evidence is undeniable: Rove leaked classified information to discredit a leaker, and the White House stonewalled to protect him.
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Kiwis Have Turned Sour on Americans
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David Cohen/Christian Science Monitor
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How to Fix Our Health Care Mess
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Jim Hightower/Hightower Lowdown/AlterNet
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Media Ignore Memo from U.S. Embassy on Deteriorating Situation in Iraq
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J.K./Media Matters
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Tanker Inquiry Finds Rumsfeld's Attention Was Elsewhere
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R. Jeffrey Smith/Washington Post
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Human Rights: Where is the U.S.?
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Nancy Rubin/International Herald Tribune
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Method Behind Missile Madness
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Bruce Klingner/Asia Times
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Without DeLay, Has the GOP Lost Its Moral Compass?
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Molly Ivins/Truthdig
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Missing Soldier's Uncle Criticizes U.S.
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Lynn Brezosky/AP/Houston Chronicle
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Southpaw
DAVE ZIRIN & JOHN COX |
Soccer's not for sissies, but Team America and its fans have brought a
decidedly militarist mindset to the World Cup.
TruthDig
ROBERT SCHEER |
What is the born-again East Texas word for chutzpah? Whatever it is, Tom DeLay displays enormous amounts, as he exits Congress and faces corruption charges.
Howl
NICHOLAS VON HOFFMAN |
Exhausted and overused American forces could become so unglued that staying in Iraq may well
become impossible. Then what?
Sweet Victories
KATRINA VANDEN HEUVEL & SAM GRAHAM-FELSEN |
Progressive organizations are learning to use ballot propositions to promote bold, innovative policy on the minimum wage, renewable energy, stem cell research and voting reform.
Moral Compass
RICHARD PARKER |
At a memorial service for John Kenneth Galbraith at Harvard
University's Memorial Church, economist and biographer Richard Parker
eulogized an extraordinary man.
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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Richard Kim
| The Alliance Defense Fund and other right-wing legal eagles go global.
Mark Crispin Miller
| The press that once went hoarse over Monica Lewinsky's dress is largely
silent over the Bush regime's vast abuses of power.
Larry Cohler-Esses
| The debunking of a PR agency that circulated a bogus story about
persecution of Jews in Iran exposed the moving parts of a media machine
bent on preparing the American public for another war.
Eric Klinenberg
| Americans overwhelmingly oppose media consolidation, but the FCC is poised to further relax media ownership rules.
Philip Weiss
| Politics trumped academic integrity when a neocon network torpedoed
the appointment of Mideast scholar and blogger Juan Cole to a faculty
position at Yale.
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Stuart Klawans
| Reviews of The Road to Guantanamo and
Crossing the Bridge: The Sound of Istanbul.
David Rieff
| When liberals and conservatives discuss the United States' role in the
world, they are really talking about the narcissism of small
differences. Two new books show how both sides share a conviction in
American exceptionalism.
Ana Marie Cox
| Corporations used to disguise their attempts to masquerade as
"indie," but now they've become invisible to the naked eye.
Jacqueline Rose
| As the founding father of the Zionist right, Vladimir Jabotinsky rejected Diaspora existence. Yet in his 1935 novel The Five he tenderly evoked it, offering a glimpse of something darker.
Peter Canby
| As the planet warms and global catastrophe beckons, what changes are we willing to make to adjust to a brave new world? Tim Flannery and Elizabeth Kolbert seek answers in two provocative new books.
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John Nichols
| Six senators--Boxer, Byrd, Feingold, Harkin, Kennedy, Kerry--side with the soldiers and refuse to play Karl Rove's game.
Jeremy Brecher & Brendan Smith
| In a remarkable, media-savvy protest, First Lieut. Ehren Watada has
refused orders to go to Iraq, claiming the war and the occupation
violate the Constitution, international law and Army regulations.
Nicholas von Hoffman
| Exhausted and overused American forces could become so unglued that staying in Iraq may well
become impossible. Then what?
Ken Miller
| High levels of uncertainty, poor management and an $800 billion expenditure on a venture that has put America's brand at risk all conspire to make the Street pretty skittish about Iraq.
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Kevin McCarthy
| The War Tapes, a documentary shot by US soldiers and sanctioned by the military, may turn out to be the most powerful statement against the war to date.
Stuart Klawans
| Reviews of the Human Rights Watch International Film Festival, A
Prairie Home Companion and The Da Vinci Code.
Stuart Klawans
| "The Road to Damascus" explores the strange, the beautiful
and the uncanny in Syrian cinema.
Stuart Klawans
| Reviews of four stellar films: Three Times, Art School
Confidential, Lady Vengeance and Army of Shadows.
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Victor Navasky
| The new generation of academics and scholars is challenged to join, elevate and improve the national conversation and persuade the public to come back to politics.
Patricia J. Princehouse
| If you can lie about science and get away with it, you can lie about anything. That's why we must say no to ideological zealots who are waging war against science and against democracy itself.
Samantha Power
| Confronting the forces of war, genocide and lawlessness begins with the
belief that individual citizens have the power--and the
responsibility--to focus our government's mind, change its priorities
and save lives.
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Fareed Taamallah
| Israel's "convergence" plan will maintain control over most of
Palestine's water supply--dimming hopes for peace and a viable
Palestinian state.
Ian Williams
| UN Deputy Secretary Mark Malloch Brown's measured reprimand of the Bush Administration was not an attack. It was a call for real US leadership instead of the bullying tactics of John Bolton.
Christian Parenti
| Evo Morales and his Movement Toward Socialism party face two formidable
foes: a far left discontented with neoliberalism and a combative rancher-based right wing.
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Liza Featherstone
| Far-right meltdown over the Brangelina baby.
Forrest Church
| A Father's Day remembrance of a courageous politician who, in an earlier era, challenged America to resist the apostles of fear who would barter liberty for false security.
Laila Lalami
| Like radical Islamists and American interventionists, Ayaan Hirsi Ali's The Caged Virgin and Irshad Manji's The Trouble With Islam Today express great concern for Muslim women. But the trouble is not necessarily with Islam.
Dave Zirin
| The Colorado Rockies recruit Christian players and claim God is at work on their game. Major League Baseball woos evangelicals with special "Faith Days at the Park." Something's going on here, but it has nothing to do with God.
Ned Sublette
| As hurricane season began in earnest, Ray Nagin, who famously declared New Orleans a "chocolate city," began his second term as mayor. What better time to appreciate the way George Clinton, America's should-be poet laureate, has funked up politics?
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Access of Evil
| Amy Goodman
The Death of News
| Mark Crispin Miller
Hey Guys, It's Just a Game
| Dave Zirin & John Cox
Burning Cole
| Philip Weiss
The National Entertainment State, 2006
The Missionary Position
| Laila Lalami
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