Table of Contents - September 2008

Activism

ANTI-WAR: The March to War with Iran by Jeff Nall

August 2 protest against provoking war with Iran House Democrats joined H... More / Printer Friendly Version

MEDIA MATTERS: The Fight Over Maryland's WYPR by Gregg Mosson

When Maryland public radio station WYPR fired progressive radio host and station co-founder Marc Steiner on February 1, 2008, they declared in a press release that they did... More / Printer Friendly Version

FIGHTING BACK: Resistance at Angola State Prison by Jordan Flaherty

At the heart of Louisiana's prison system sits the State Prison at Angola, a former slave plantation where little has changed in several hundred years. Angola has been made notorious from books and... More / Printer Friendly Version

LABOR NOTES: The American Axle Strike by Wendy Thompson

The aftershocks of the late-May defeat of the American Axle and Manufacturing (AAM) strike will be felt in the unionized sections of the auto industry for y... More / Printer Friendly Version

Commentary

ATOM SPLITTING: The NRC's Warning by Harvey Wasserman

  A devastating blow to the much-hyped revival of atomic power was delivered by an unlikely source, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), which r... More / Printer Friendly Version

MILITARY COMMISSIONS: Habeas Schmabeas? by Clif Bennette

The United States Supreme Court decided on June 12, 2008 that Guantánamo Bay detainees Al Odah and Boumediene have the affirmative right to the G... More / Printer Friendly Version

FREEDOM RIDER: Death to Afghanistan by Margaret Kimberley

After eight years of U.S. occupation, the Afghan people live in terror, caused not only by bombs and bullets, but by no bid contracts, private mercenaries, theft of resources, and destruction of ... More / Printer Friendly Version

ZYMURGY: Recent Troubles? by Lydia Sargent

As someone who has been actively critical (protesting, committing civil disobedience, producing alternative media) of the U.S. government's imperial foreign policy (among other things), watching th... More / Printer Friendly Version

PARTIES: Green Party Nominates McKinney and Clemente by Cynthia Mckinney

On July 12, the Green Party nominated former U.S. Congressperson Cynthia McKinney and hip hop activist and journalist Rosa Clemente as presi... More / Printer Friendly Version

NUTHOUSE NUGGETS: The Law of the Conservation of Violence by Edward Herman

It is interesting and depressing to see that as Obama calls for some kind of withdrawal or at least substantial cutbacks of the U.S. occupation of Iraq, a... More / Printer Friendly Version

Culture

BOOK REVIEW: Dying To Live by Ben Terrall

By Josephn Nevins; City Lights Publishers, 2008, 225 pp. In his 2001 book, Operation Gatekeeper, Joseph Nevins focused on the Clinton administration's... More / Printer Friendly Version

BOOK REVIEW: Teaching Rebellion by Peter Gelderloos

The popular rebellion that broke out in the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca in the summer of 2006 caught the attention of people around the world e... More / Printer Friendly Version

BOOK REVIEW: Beyond (Straight and Gay) Marriage by Michael Amico

By Nancy Polikoff; Beacon Press, 2008, 272 pp. Same-sex marriage is an overwrought topic for debate. Should we have same-sex marriage? Is it similar to interracia... More / Printer Friendly Version

Features

CAPITALISM 101: The Global Food Crisis by William Tabb

In April 2008 Josette Sheeran, executive director of the UN World Food Program, spoke publicly of a silent tsunami, "that threatens to plunge m... More / Printer Friendly Version

ELECTIONS: Obama and McCain March Rightward by Laurence h. Shoup

Barack Obama and John McCain are moving to the right politically now that they are assured the presidential nomination of their respective parti... More / Printer Friendly Version

INTERVIEW: A Land of Wreck and Ruin by Wajahat Ali

Although mainstream media refuses him airtime, the New York Times states Chomsky remains one of the most "influential" intellectuals alive, consta... More / Printer Friendly Version

EUROPE: The Lisbon Treaty by Sean Dunne

Raymond Crotty, a Kilkenny farmer who had decided to study economics and become an academic and political activist, took the Irish government to court in Crotty ... More / Printer Friendly Version

ECONOMY: Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac by Jack Rasmus

Despite repeated efforts during the past year by the Federal Reserve (Fed), the U.S. Treasury, regulatory agencies, and global central banks, the current financi... More / Printer Friendly Version

Zaps

FREE LISTINGS: Zaps - September 2008 by Various submissions

Events   EXHIBITION - Cartoonist and artist Angelo Lopez will have work on display in Gallery Saratoga in Saratoga, California September 2 to Octob... More / Printer Friendly Version

Zymurgy

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