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• • Features
  • 23 Nov 07

  Kids LOL @ Navy Recruiters

  Millennials, explained Arthur Mitchell, director of strategic planning for the Navy's Accelerate Your Life campaign, are "narcissistic praise junkies" and "a somewhat alien life force" more

  vol. 31, iss. 12    military, military, technology, youth

• • Features
  • 31 Aug 07

  Creating the 21st Century Library

  The Prelinger Library eschews the Dewey Decimal and Library of Congress systems, and is organized instead by what Megan Shaw Prelinger calls "a map of my brain" more

  vol. 31, iss. 09    books, media, theory

• • Views
  • 12 Apr 07

  A Win for the Coalition of Immokalee Workers

  In the face of a giant protest, McDonald's caves into farmworkers' demands for a penny per basket raise. more

  web only    activism, agriculture, labor

• • Culture
  • 19 Dec 06

  Cholera and the City

  A review of Steven Johnson's new book The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Terrifying Epidemic-and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World more

  vol. 30, iss. 12    books, europe, medical & health

• • Features
  • 01 Dec 06

  Witnessing Extraordinary Rendition

  Nonprofit organization Witness uses video like the new film Outlawed, to document human rights abuses worldwide. more

  vol. 30, iss. 11    activism, movies, social justice

• • Features
  • 27 Sep 06

  Tracking the CIA Torture Flights

  In their new book Torture Taxi: On the Trail of the CIA's Rendition Flights, A.C. Thompson and Trevor Paglen detail how the CIA transports detainees worldwide. more

  vol. 30, iss. 10    books, criminal justice, prison, war on terror

Latest Comments view all 3

• • 10 Mar 06
  • 2:00 pm

  Why?

  Posted to Louder Than a Bomb: an Interview with Chicago Hip-Hopper Kevin Coval

• • 18 May 05
  • 3:40 pm

  That is not Zinn's point. The Declaration of Independence was signed on July 4, 1776. No one disputes that. The point is the judgement to talk about that fact instead of any other fact. What is the motivating factor behind the facts you choose to present? The newspapers today leave out the facts of the Iraqis who have been killed, they leave out the fact that perhaps 100,000 Iraqis have been killed in the present war. If they just give you facts about what the Americans are doing about bringing good things to the Iraqis, they have made a judgment about …

  Posted to Howard Zinn Gets to the Source

• • 18 May 05
  • 5:09 pm

  A fact can be selected for it brute usefulness in solving a problem. The non-selection of all other facts, simply means they weren’t as useful and that can be the only motivating factor. But history is not a physics problem. Other facts may not to be useful to you, but that's from your perspective. As they say history is written by the victors. Who determines what is useful? Zinn is trying to present history from a variety of perspectives that are not normally heard. There is not one answer or fact to the broad questions of history. On another note I …

  Posted to Howard Zinn Gets to the Source