magazine August 2008

Is the Fourth Estate a Fifth Column?

Corporate media colludes with democracy's demise

By Bill Moyers   

Let Them Eat Free Markets

How deregulation fuels the global food crisis

By David Moberg    economy food international trade

The Rat Trap

Death row exonerations expose failings of the 'snitch system'

By Christopher Moraff   

In Defense of the '60s

The pursuit of happiness is a dream for all generations

By Peter Marcuse   

All Guns, No Butter

Now retired, Thomas P. Christie has served the U.S. government as an influential military analyst and manager. After holding… more

By George Kenney   

Five Years on the Hotel Picket Line

Directly west of Chicago's iconic Buckingham Fountain sits the Congress Hotel. Itself an icon during its heyday of the… more

Poison Pill Slipped Into Indian Health Bill

Pro-life amendment used to derail legislation

EPA on Trial

For more than six years, Hugh Kaufman has been battling the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), his employer for 37… more

The Dark Side of the Toyota Prius

The National Labor Committee (NLC), a New York-based human rights group, has been investigating working conditions at Toyota Motor… more

Don’t Tase Me, GOP!

The St. Paul Police Department is arming itself with Tasers. Local activists and media say that the department ordered… more

books

Food Fights

Globally, 1 billion overweight people coexist with 800 million starving people. That's one of many perverse facts in Stuffed… more

By Jeremy Gantz    food international

books

Muqtada, the Future of Iraq

"Firebrand." It was the ubiquitous moniker used to describe Iraq's fiercely anti-American Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr when, in March… more

By Robert S. Eshelman   

books

Ivory Tower Inc.

For those of us who have flirted with a life in academia, Marc Bousquet's How the University Works: Higher… more

By Jon Whiten    corporations education labor

Culture

War Crimes Hunter

On the Trail of Atrocity in Vietnam

By Nick Turse    vietnam war war and peace war crimes

Holding Barack Accountable

Though many Democratic voters have made peace with their candidate's re-positioning -- reflecting their desire to turn the page from eight years of the Bush presidency -- we must demand accountability

Gun-toters in La-La Land

Obama touts his community organizing on Chicago's streets. He might recognize the blood of blacks and Latinos running in those streets

Chicago's Olympic Dreams Undeserved

Despite widespread awareness of torture provoked by excesses in the war on terror, little is said about the history of homegrown torture

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McCain's Aches and Pains

In a parody of openness, McCain allowed a few hand-picked news outlets three hours -- an average nine seconds a page -- to review 1,173 pages of medical records covering eight years

Promoting Incompetence in Iraq

How could the commanders of the world's greatest Army send soldiers into battle without the weapons and resources to accomplish their mission?