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HOLLYWOOD AND THE CIA — Film historian Ed Rampell details Hollywood’s entangled relationship with the CIA and the Pentagon; HOUSES OF THE DEAD: Nancy Kurshan exposes the cruel human rights offenses taking place inside America’s vast gulag of Control Unit Prisons; BROTHERHOOD OF SUMMER: David Macaray charts the history of the most powerful union in the US: the Baseball Players Association; TAR SANDS COME TO AMERICA: Steve Horn explains how the Keystone Pipeline debates have diverted attention from Big Oil’s other plans to transport Alberta’s oil into the US. PLUS: Jeffrey St. Clair on CONSTITUTIONAL ENTROPY; Mike Whitney on HOW THE BANKS TARGETED BLACKS; Chris Floyd on THE RISE OF BRITAIN’S TEA PARTY; Kristin Kolb on THE NEEDLE AND THE DAMAGE DONE; Kim Nicolini on the FILMS OF WILLIAM FRIEDKIN; and Lee Ballinger on POETS VS. THE ONE PERCENT.
Archives from January 2002
The new ergonomically-designed subway cars in New York City are all festooned with American flag decals. They are shiny and unmolested in stark contrast to the irrepressible graffiti and busy scratching of every surface in this city. The flags receive a kind of diplomatic...
Don’t expect anyone in the White House to confirm it, but Tom Ridge could replace Dick Cheney as George W. Bush’s vice- presidential running-mate in the 2004 election. Ridge was on Bush’s “short list” in the 2000 election but n...
Don’t expect anyone in the White House to confirm it, but Tom Ridge could replace Dick Cheney as George W. Bush’s vice- presidential running-mate in the 2004 election. Ridge was on Bush’s “short list” in the 2000 election but n...
In a year marked not only by the now-standard forms of corporate marauding but also by brazen wartime profiteering, it was no easy chore to identify Multinational Monitor’s 10 corporations of 2001. The competition was even tougher than usual. But choi...
Suppose you are a modern-day Roman emperor, the leader of the most powerful country in a world of sovereign states and international markets. What sort of framework of international political economy arrangements do you create so that without having to throw your...
Under the Patriot Act the U.S. Government can use a “new charge” to arrest Mob members. The Act-redefined “Terrorist Association” as any criminal activity that may “relate” to supporting terrorists. The Act defines terror...
It has become fashionable in some circles after September 11 to excoriate Islam as the source of the problems facing the Islamic world. The air is thick with theories which claim that Islam has been paralyzed by a deadening obscurantism since the twelfth century, ...
(The following transcript in a plain brown envelope was slipped under my door sometime in the middle of the night. The transcript bears all the earmarks of authenticity, but I leave it to readers to decide.) Excerpts from: THE CHAIRMAN’S TAPES: BEING ...
Everything became a kind of everything else in 2001. New York City turned into Pearl Harbor. Bob Dylan turned into Vincent Price. By year’s end, Dan Rather looked and even sounded exactly like Jerry Falwell. It was incredible. Even the hair. Perhaps it was th...