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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 April 2005
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Burlington, Vermont Once upon a ...
The ...
Chicago, Illinois "BITCH&qu...
There’s a quickening in the air, don’t you think? Oil shocks, the Warming, the Dimming, tectonic shifts, Torture Mania, War Without End, etc, which adds fuel to the religious revival. The death of a Pope is great spectacle, and the grief of his followe...
Istanbul, Turkey Im...
Seattle, Washington I’ve k...
Right next door to the apathy that is almost universal on U.S. campuses, there has been an amazing revival of student activism unseen for decades in Québec. Yet almost no U.S. students will know anything about it because of a virtually complete black-out in...
Missoula, Montana The cat is out...
New Zealand There is sometimes a...
San Francisco, California ...
New York City Is it me or is the...
Chicago, Illinois I admit that i...
I am Joaquin,
Lost in a world of confusion,
Caught up in a whirl of a gringo society,
Confused by the rules, Scorned by attitudes,
Suppressed by manipulations, And destroyed by modern society.
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Springfield, Missouri "All ...
San Diego, California When in th...
Brodnica, Poland As an economist...
Silver City, New Mexico ...
Bethesda, Maryland ...
Sydney, Australia During last ye...
Chicago, Illinois Now many Chica...
Missoula,
Montana
The economy of the Rocky Mountain West,
particularly in the states of the Northern Rockies, has thrived
because of our burgeoning middle class. For more than half a
century pe...
Pomona, CA / New York City Two n...
Albany, New York On Saturday Nov...
Washington, DC At the end of las...