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October 2, 2006
Mark Hertsgaard examines California's global warming initiative, Peter Kwong looks at China's burgeoning economy and growing social dysfunction, Ari Kelman reviews three books on the 1906 San Francisco earthquake.
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Robert Scheer
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Will anyone in the somnambulant White House press corps dare ask the President why he would "render" a Canadian to Syria to be tortured and imprisoned without charges?
Ian Williams
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President Bush's address to the UN General Assembly was less
disdainful than earlier speeches, but it shined a light on the President's willful blindness to the complexity of the problems facing the Mideast and the world.
Salim Lone
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The cease-fire between Uganda and the Lord's Resistance Army is only a
first step in resolving the humanitarian crisis. The West must push for the release of 2 million Acholis still languishing in government camps.
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The Liberal Media
ERIC ALTERMAN |
Why did the network humiliate its news division, ignore historians and
insult Americans with a 9/11 docudrama that it knew was a tissue of
lies?
Diary of a Mad Law Professor
PATRICIA J. WILLIAMS |
As Survivor races to the bottom by dividing this season's contenders into race-based tribes, perhaps we can look to Starbucks for new models of how to blend in.
Deadline Poet
CALVIN TRILLIN |
Don't worry--it only feels like you're drowning.
Subject to Debate
KATHA POLLITT |
If we really want to understand the Muslim world, we should start by
acknowledging that today's "fascists" were yesterday's freedom fighters.
Beat the Devil
ALEXANDER COCKBURN |
August Bebel once called anti-Semitism the socialism of fools. These
days, the 9/11 conspiracy fever is fast becoming the "socialism" of the
left.
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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Jonathan Blitzer
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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
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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
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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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Massachusetts Landslide
It was supposed to be a close race, but Deval Patrick won the Massachusetts Democratic gubernatorial primary in a landslide Tuesday. John Nichols profiles the former Clinton Administration official who, if victorious in November, could play a national role in the Democratic Party.
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Render Unto Syria
Robert Scheer asks whether anyone in the somnambulant White House press corps dares ask the President why he would
Read the Document
At the United Nations Tuesday, George W. Bush glowingly referred to the Declaration of Human Rights. David Corn writes his administration's record on torture shows no evidence he's ever read it or taken it to heart.
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Tom Engelhardt | Has the Bush Administration been using our money to thank itself for Iraq in the election season?
John Nichols | Deval Patrick's landslide win in a Democratic gubernatorial primary positions him as a progressive prospect for national office.
David Corn | But has he read the document--especially the clauses on torture, detention, trials, and privacy?
Katrina vanden Heuvel | The raw and wanton costs of GOP cronyism have played out in a tragic and obscene way in Iraq.
Peter Rothberg | The Bush Administration has neglected thousands of workers left sick by the September 11 attacks.
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TruthDig
ROBERT SCHEER |
Will anyone in the somnambulant White House press corps dare ask the President why he would "render" a Canadian to Syria to be tortured and imprisoned without charges?
Southpaw
DAVE ZIRIN |
New York Knicks point guard Stephon Marbury is getting props with a $14.98 sneaker designed to appeal to low-income kids. But the criticism he's endured over
sweatshop labor shows it's hard to do good.
Taking Liberties
DAVID COLE |
The Bush Administration's illegitimate use of renditions,
disappearances, torture and an illegal war has fostered the growth of a
loose-knit global band of fanatics willing to do unspeakable violence
against us.
Sweet Victories
KATRINA VANDEN HEUVEL & SAM GRAHAM-FELSEN |
Grassroots activists in Chicago have handed the living-wage movement
its most significant victory to date: The City Council agreed to
require "big box" stores to pay employees $10 per hour plus $3 in
benefits.
Howl
NICHOLAS VON HOFFMAN |
If you're depending on private savings accounts to get you through retirement, get ready for a bitter surprise, thanks to the crooks and incompetents charged with selling and running the funds.
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.
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Two days after the September 11 attach, Jonathan Schell wrote: On Tuesday morning, a piece was torn out of our world. A patch of blue sky that should not have been there opened up in the New York skyline. In my neighborhood--I live eight blocks from the World Trade Center--the heavens were raining human beings. Our city was changed forever. Our country was changed forever. Our world was changed forever. | September 13, 2001 issue
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The Editors
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Prime midyear election issues: Torture and eavesdropping are illegal. We are a nation founded on the rule of law.
Jeffrey Chester
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If Senator Ted Stevens defies mounting public opposition and succeeds in killing net
neutrality, expect the free flow of online content to be replaced by
corporate infotainment like Anheuser-Busch's lowbrow broadband Bud TV.
Jeremy Brecher & Brendan Smith
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The standoff between the Senate and the Bush Administration over
military tribunals, torture and war crimes tests core legal and moral
issues and will determine the kind of country America wishes to be.
Mark Hertsgaard
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California's global warming initiative shows how far ahead the state is
compared with the federal government. But it also reveals how America lags behind the rest of the world.
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David Yaffe
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John Gennari's Blowin' Hot and Cool looks at the intimate but fractious relationship between jazz luminaries and their critics.
Arthur C. Danto
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Andy Warhol's eye for significant banality transformed the familiar into art. Ric Burns's new American Masters documentary traces the roots of Warhol's smirking genius.
Kate Levin
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Claire Messud's The Emperor's Children is a superb comedy of
manners, a richly tragicomic view of three thirtysomething Ivy Leaguers in the days leading up to 9/11.
Ari Kelman
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Three new books reappraise the massive earthquake of 1906, which was felt across an area of 400,000 miles and leveled much of San Francisco.
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Katrina vanden Heuvel
| The raw and wanton costs of GOP cronyism have played out in a tragic and obscene way in Iraq.
Philip Weiss
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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.
Alexander Cockburn
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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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Some Democrats who say they support sharks' rights have been careful not to oppose the bill outright.
Director Of National Intelligence John D. Negroponte gives details.
He asks citizens "to quiet
down for just one minute" so he could have "a chance to think."
Scientists emerge exhausted but visibly excited Friday from a Pasadena Cheesecake Factory.
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Ross C. Anderson
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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.
Barney Frank
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Thanks to an acquiescent Congress, we are now being governed by an Administration that is radically trying to change the nature of our
democracy.
Stephen Lewis
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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?
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Jon Wiener
| A new documentary examines the power of music to change the world, from 1972 to 2006.
Stuart Klawans
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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
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Reviews of Little Miss Sunshine, Quinceañera,
My Country, My Country, The Pusher Trilogy and The
Bridesmaid.
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Ian Williams
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President Bush's address to the UN General Assembly was less
disdainful than earlier speeches, but it shined a light on the President's willful blindness to the complexity of the problems facing the Mideast and the world.
Salim Lone
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The cease-fire between Uganda and the Lord's Resistance Army is only a
first step in resolving the humanitarian crisis. The West must push for the release of 2 million Acholis still languishing in government camps.
John le Carré
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It was the strangest journey of my life, and it will always be. I was
looking for fictional characters I had invented, in a country I had
never visited.
Peter Kwong
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As China's economy surges forward, so does the pileup of social
contradictions: pollution, migration, crime and family dysfunction.
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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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Liza Featherstone
| You'd think after Andrew Young's humiliation, Wal-Mart defenders would stop playing the race card.
Gary Younge
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Gautam Malkani's new novel explores the cross-section of youth culture,
heritage and identity in London's polyglot, postcolonial
neighborhoods.
Marla Geha
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Pluto's demotion from a planet to a dwarf isn't the work of
mean-spirited Grinches. It is a necessary part of the same process that
got Pluto discovered in the first place.
Max Blumenthal
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How conservative zealot David Horowitz produced and promoted ABC's flawed docudrama, The Path to 9/11.
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What Can Sherrod Brown Do for the Democrats?
| John Nichols
Islamo-Fascism--Take Two
| Katha Pollitt
Torture and the Content of our Character
| Jeremy Brecher & Brendan Smith
Congo Journey
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Slow Food Nation
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Hard Labor
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