Ideology Reloaded
There is something inherently naïve about taking the “philosophical” underpinning of The Matrix series seriously and discussing its implications.… more
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Neocon Convergences
A funny thing happened while following the money trail of the neoconservatives who have hijacked U.S. foreign policy. The… more
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Civil Liberties Take a Dive Post-9/11
Peaceful demonstrators shot and beaten. Students expelled for wearing T-shirts opposing the president. A Girl Scout threatened with arrest… more
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Right to Know
With no help from U.S., the world takes steps to find the “disappeared”
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Gangs of Orange County
At last year’s Sundance Film Festival, an angry audience member stood up after the third screening of a film… more
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The ABCs of Media Deregulation
As soon as most people see the words “duopoly,” “cross-ownership rules,” or “FCC” in the headlines their eyes glaze… more
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The Buddha’s Teardrop
For 20 years, the Tamil Tigers have fought a vicious, separatist war against the Sri Lankan government. Can a tenuous ceasefire last?
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Biowar and the Apartheid Legacy
Just as the threat of Iraqi weapons of mass destruction now seems a neocon-concocted mirage, word has begun leaking… more
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Privatizing Iraq
The Bush administration’s neoliberal blueprint for the post-Saddam state
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The Next Chapter
“If rap is to stand as not only the most significant cultural movement of our time but one of… more
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Isnt That Special
France has charged that U.S. media are publishing misinformation received from anonymous Bush administration officials who are orchestrating a… more
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What’s Your ‘Risk Score’?
A profiling system for all air travelers is just around the corner.
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How Much Democracy Is Too Much?
Democracy is not merely the “power of, by, and for the people.” It is not enough just to claim… more
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Operation Desert Mirage
Americans may have already forgotten about weapons of mass destruction, but the United Nations hasn’t—and it’s demanding answers
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Dry Drunk
Alcoholics Anonymous has a name for someone who is a drunk in every way except for the actual imbibing… more
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The War at Home
This lull between the war in Iraq and whatever adventure the Bush neocons next drag us into provides an… more
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What’s Next
Across the country, legions of newly motivated anti-war activists now turn ... to what?
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Strange Weather Lately
The following is adapted from a Clemens Lecture presented in April for the Mark Twain House in Hartford, Connecticut.… more
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You Call This Victory?
Dilip Hiro has written many books about the Middle East, but none as timely as this. Iraq: In the… more
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The Supply and Demand for Colombia’s Misery
Robin Kirk’s thoughtful and provocative book about Colombia, More Terrible Than Death, raises long overdue questions about America’s shared… more
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The Progressive War
Among the many effects of the terrorism attacks of September 11, 2001, was the ideological shift they provoked among… more
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The Court Takes on Gay Rights
Expectations are running high in the gay community as the United States Supreme Court will shortly hand down a… more
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When the Rainbow Isn’t Enough
“Everything we’ve done has been absolutely radical,” says Chris Smith, co-founder and current board president of Chicago’s Affinity Community… more
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Remembering Nina Simone
At Nina Simone’s funeral on April 25 at the Catholic church in Carry-le-Rouet, France, the legendary South African singer… more
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When Pigs Can Fly
Chicago was “the city of the century,” according to a recent PBS broadcast based on the book of the… more
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Stuck in the Middle
Colombia’s labor movement faces economic assault—backed up by deadly force.
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Throwing Away the Key
The Department of Homeland Security, the new cabinet post with the Teutonic inflection, was created last January to assuage… more
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Regime Change Begins at Home
How great it was. By most accounts—that is, what one sees on television and reads in the mainstream press—the… more
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No Justice, No Peace
The battle for Baghdad may be over, but the war is only getting more dangerous
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Loving To Hate Don DeLillo
Death, fame, suicide, Hitler, atomic warfare, terrorism, nuclear waste, theoretical mathematics, small rooms where smaller men smoke fiercely and… more
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Bush Can Be Beaten
Let’s face it: For now, Team Bush has won. What happens in Iraq over the next months and years… more
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The Price Isn’t Right
I believe we are at the threshold of a fundamental change in our popular economic thought,” Franklin Roosevelt announced… more
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