BLIND FAITH IN DRONES
Tom Barry on the proliferation of drones, from the CIA to the military to the drug warriors; BIG BANG THEORY IN NORTH KOREA: Peter Lee on how the latest nuclear weapons tests might change the power dynamics on the Korean peninsula; AFGHANISTAN: THE GARDEN OF EMPIRES: Julien Mercille on opium, guns and counter-insurgency in Afghanistan; TALES OF A HOLLYWOOD SCREENWRITER: John Eskow gives an inside look at the decline of the American movie industry. Plus JEFFREY ST. CLAIR on How Not to Stop a Pipeline; KRISTIN KOLB on “Girls,” MIKE WHITNEY on Chavez’s economic legacy; RON JACOBS on Capitalism and Crime Fiction and LEE BALLINGER on Prison Music. IN THE DIGITAL EDITION: Darwin Bond-Graham on the MYTHS (Left and Right) of GUNS and INSURRECTION; Mustafah Bakhtary: An Afghan’s Lament: America Didn’t Give a Damn.











