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Chávez Consolidates Power
With the opposition routed, Venezuela's "revolutionary process" seems set to accelerate
January 2007
COVER STORY
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Spoils of War
Oil, the U.S.-Middle East Free Trade Area and the Bush Agenda
Features
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Does Andy Stern Talk His Walk?
High-profile victories by SEIU often run counter to its president's rhetoric about the 'power of persuasion'
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A Dark Night in Iceland
Environmentalists decry the privatization of their country's clean energy resources
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Non-Lethal Weaponry: The Next Generation
Plasma clouds, microwave beams, electrified bullets--military contractors have been developing futuristic new combat technologies under the public radar.... more
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Love the Warrior, Hate the War
Why progressives have more in common with the military than they think
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Kiko Martinez: Watch Listed for Life
Shortly after the 9/11 attacks, Francisco "Kiko" Martinez, a Colorado civil rights attorney and long-time Chicano activist, was flying... more
News
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Street Battles in Oaxaca
At 8 a.m. on November 2, police came to remove the last barricade. After clearing away the rubble and... more
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MoveOn Members Call for Change
In the lead up to the midterm elections, MoveOn.org paid little attention to the Virginia Senate race,... more
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Portrait of the Activists as Young Women
It's been more than a year since the ads for 107.9 FM (La Ley) cropped up in Chicago--buses and... more
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Americas Slave Labor
Inmates are being forced to work in toxic 'e-waste' sweatshops
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The End of the School of the Americas?
The annual protests against the School of the Americas--the U.S. Army's training institute for Latin American military... more
culture
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Children of the Brand
As I sat in the café of a Borders bookstore in Chicago huddled over my laptop and... more
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books
Seeds of Hope: Gardening in Barren Times
The image of the Hortus conclusus--literally "enclosed garden"--has had a place in Western art and literature at... more
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film
The Spychopath Who Loved Me
If there's a pop cultural icon in dire need of being revisited--and revised--at this historical moment, it is... more
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film
Extreme Humanitarians
Handling Good Samaritans on film can be a daunting task. It's difficult not to have reverence for people... more
Columnists
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Voting Problems? In Florida? No Way!
Following the 2000 election a popular bumper sticker in Florida read, "If you think we can't vote, wait 'til you see us drive."... more
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The Caracas Consensus
Ch´vez's win energizes the global movement of South-South integration that has been picking up steam in recent years.
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Droppin' a Dime
Art Basel Miami Beach: A Whitewash
You would think you could find a bit of racial and ethnic diversity, especially in South Florida, America's gateway to Latin America.
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Outlawing Legal Bribery
According to a national exit poll, 42 percent of voters in November's election said that corruption was the most important factor in deciding... more
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Back Talk
I Hate to Say We Told You So, But
Remember, we were 'crazy leftists' who were accused of being 'with the terrorists.' Turns out we were also with 'reality.'
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Diary of a Guantánamo Attorney
Attorneys often return from the base with urgent news, but have to wait weeks for the government to clear their notes.
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Iraqi Health Care: Hostage to War
Zainab may be one of the 655,000 Iraqis who would be alive today if the Bush administration hadn't launched its criminally conceived and... more
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Blaming Hip-Hop for Imus
We must remember that the urge to censor is an authoritarian impluse. As Russell Simmons pointed out, we have to let rappers reflect what they see.
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Crocker's Kooky Economics
The long-anticipated joint congressional testimony of Gen. David Petraeus and Ambassador to Iraq Ryan Crocker is now history, and the event's few... more












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