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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.
 

BLIND FAITH IN DRONES

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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.