Weekend Edition
May 25-27, 2012

ALEXANDER COCKBURN
It’s Back to 1980, With the JCS Auctioning Off the Presidency From the Pentagon Battlements

ESAM AL-AMIN
The Sacking of a Revolution

URI AVNERY
The Negation of the Palestinian State

VIJAY PRASHAD
The Elevation of Jeffrey Feltman

ROB URIE
Black Bloc Anarchists and State Terrorism

ANN ROBERTSON AND BILL LEUMER
Bankers and Forgiveness

ROBERT HUNZIKER
The Poverty of Nations

SAUL LANDAU
Do Reporters Read?

GARETH PORTER
Hard Line Failure in Nuke Talks

THOMAS LARSON
Book Critic Censored by San Diego Newspaper

DAN GLAZEBROOK
Libya, Africa and Africom

MARTHA ROSENBERG
The Mind Druggers

CHRISTOPHER BRAUCHLI
Papers, Please

JEFFREY ST. CLAIR
A Natural Eye

KEVIN CARSON
Why Corporate Capitalism is Unsustainable

LINH DINH
Strip Your Rights

RON JACOBS
The Tentacles of Empire

MISSY BEATTIE
It Wouldn’t Kill Me to Die

RITT GOLDSTEIN
Living in Sweden, Thinking of the Holocaust

ERIC TOUSSAINT
Hope Reborn at the Antifest

JULIA VON STADEN
Two Days in a Forbidden City

JACK A. SMITH
The Electoral Tunnel

MIKE GARRITY
Defending Montana Forests From Lawless Logging

BINOY KAMPMARK
NASA and Private Enterprise

KIM NICOLINI
Rebel Music

CHARLES R. LARSON
The Madwoman in the Leprosarium

DAVID YEARSLEY
Opening Obama Video of the Campaign

POETS' BASEMENT
The Lord of the Drones by Heathcote Williams

WEBSITE OF THE WEEKEND
Obama’s Hedge Funders

May 24, 2012

DAVE LINDORFF
Chicago Cops are the Terrorists

CONN HALLINAN
Asia’s Mad Arms Race

PATRICK BOND AND MUHAMMED DESAI
The Academic Boycott of Israel

ROBERT WEISSMAN
Learning From Facebook

SAMIR SONTI
Greece and Our Illusions

RAVI KATARI
David Brooks on American Capitalism

RANDALL AMSTER
Confessions of a Violent Consumerist

ISHMAEL REED
The Media’s Mysterious Non-Indians

JOANNE MARINER
Ending Prison Rape

MATS SVENSSON
“Take Him Out!”

WEBSITE OF THE DAY
The Only True Revolution in Syria

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Weekend Edition December 16-18, 2001

A Nation in Exile:

Afghan Refugees: 1983-2001

by Judith Mann

These photographs of Afghan refugees were taken in the Katchagiri Refugee Camp, Peshawar, Pakistan in 1983.

Eighteen years later, the two million Afghans left in dusty, sprawling camps in Pakistan after the Soviet war, are joined by new refugees fleeing their beleaguered country..

What struck me the most when photographing these star-crossed people, was their open and vibrant spirit, made even more exceptional by their strained living conditions and traumatic experiences.

The images are available as matted 16″x20″ color prints. For further information: jcmann@teleport.com

Judith Mann, Photographer All photos ? 1983 Judith Mann All Rights Reserved.

Judith Mann’s Afghan Journal is continued on page 2

All photos ? 1983 Judith Mann All Rights Reserved.

Selected and edited by Kimberly Willson-St. Clair

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