magazine December 8, 2003

Resisting Globalization

The South American consensus on the FTAA

By David Moberg   

Autism in a Needle?

The toxic tale of vaccinations and mercury poisoning

By Annette Fuentes   

Eli Lilly and Thimerosal

Thimerosal is an organic compound that is 49.6 percent ethylmercury. Eli Lilly and Co., the Indianapolis-based drug giant, developed… more

By Annette Fuentes   

Bolivia Offers Cautionary Tale for FTAA Negotiators

South American leaders participating in November talks on the Free Trade Area of the Americas should look to recent… more

By Adam Saytanides   

Vicious Circle

Shedding light on a cycle of abuse

By Kari Lydersen   

The Candidates on Health Care

Given the long and sordid history of GOP connections to the pharmaceutical industry, health care and, especially, prescription drugs… more

By Williams Cole   

No Pepperoni, Please

Tyson workers and community demand more than ‘chicken feed’

Still Watching

Private industry moves in to compile personal data

Boiling Oil

ChevronTexaco faces Ecuador’s courts

Health Scare

Medicare privatization debate reaches boiling point

Scandalous Measures

States might lose controls on corporate crooks

books

Stale Air and Dearest Freshness

Four decades ago, Dwight Macdonald rued the impending triumph of “Midcult,” an “agreeable ooze” of denatured high culture produced… more

By Eugene McCarraher   

music

We Sold Our Soul for Rocanrol

In March 1989, University of Texas at Austin premed student Mark Kilroy disappeared during a drunken spree that led… more

The Beehive Collective

Images of human beings don’t appear in the world conjured in the posters of the Beehive Design Collective. But,… more

By Hank Hoffman   

Worthy of the Land of Lincoln

Obama’s legacy is likely to ignite a progressive firestorm. It better.

Seed of Destruction

Attacking Howard Dean because he isn’t Dennis Kucinich won’t get us one step closer to peace and justice for the world.

Post-Feminist Swill Redux

When the real story is capitalism run amok, it’s commonplace to turn it into a story about the failure of feminists.

Wall Street Windfall

Despite the president’s pledge after the collapse of Worldcom “to usher in a new era of integrity in corporate America,” Wall Street knows a good investment when it sees one.