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Adbusters #78 JULY/AUG 2008

Media Democracy

America’s Slippery Slope

“We recognize the debasement of standards, we see the signs of intellectual decay. Yet we do nothing.” A look at what happens when we refuse to pay attention to what’s important.

The End of Childhood

Exposure to nature benefits kids in more than one way.

Val Plumwood’s Natural Death

A portrait of Australia’s pioneer environmentalist who battled a crocodile and called for the end of environmental abuse.

Thought Control in Economics

Are economics students, and everyone else for that matter, being cheated out of the truth?

Media Democracy

What it means to Dan Rather, Arianna Huffington, Amy Goodman and more.

Selected Articles

Selected articles from the print edition of Adbusters Magazine.

Thought Control In Economics

A high level of conformity in academic institutions makes it difficult for economists to tackle the world's most pressing problems.

Tom Green
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18 August 2008
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29 Comments

Feminism and the Mastery of Nature

Val Plumwood saw the danger of the western attitude towards nature decades before eco-consciousness went mainstream.

Shira Bick
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28 July 2008
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9 Comments

Net neutrality has become a rallying cry for a new generation of media activists. A new media democracy movement is spawning from these Big Telecom acts of aggression, and the movement is having a surprising level of success.

Steve Anderson
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21 July 2008
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3 Comments

Essay

The Death of Nature

Minds bend and break under the strain of a cultural disconnection from the natural world.

Elecia Chrunik
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14 July 2008
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22 Comments

Slideshow

Hollow Land

Israel’s Architecture of Occupation.

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10 July 2008
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8 Comments

News

It's The Blowback, Stupid!

The 1953 coup is widely seen as having set the conditions for the 1979 Islamic Revolution. It is a consequence the US and Iran are still dealing with today.

Cecil Jones
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2 July 2008
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9 Comments

Slideshow

Psychodesign

What if design stood up for itself? What if instead of bowing immediately to our demands, design gently pushed back?

Sarah Nardi
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27 June 2008
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21 Comments

Editorial

Rage

What will it take to make this generation passionate about change?

Kalle Lasn
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25 June 2008
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44 Comments

Commentary

American journalism is in a crisis

The idea of news being operated as a public trust in the public interest has virtually disappeared.

Dan Rather
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23 June 2008
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11 Comments

Fiction

Perpetual War

London is entombed in ice, New York submerged underwater and Paris burnt to a crisp. But the artists remain silent.

Douglas Haddow
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20 June 2008
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9 Comments

News

What You Don’t Know About Cuba

Cuba was known as the whorehouse of the Caribbean and it gained a reputation as the capital of American vice shortly after the start of Prohibition in 1920.

Christopher Guly
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17 June 2008
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7 Comments

Essay

The End of Childhood

Children who spend more time inside than in the wilderness experience poorer health in adulthood. We must let them roam free.

Paul Cooper
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16 June 2008
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19 Comments

News

America’s Slippery Slope

"We recognize the debasement of standards, we see the signs of intellectual decay. Yet we do nothing." A look at what happens when we refuse to pay attention to what’s important.

Sarah Nardi
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9 June 2008
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7 Comments

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