Table of Contents - December 2003

Planetary Casualties: An interview with Adrienne Anderson by David Barsamian

Adrienne Anderson is professor of Environmental & Ethnic Studies at the University of Colorado at Boulder. She served as the Western Director of th... More / Printer Friendly Version

Somerville Projectionists Strike by Site Administrator

On August 4, 2003 the newly unionized Somerville Theater projectionists gathered with friends and community supporters to celebrate their ... More / Printer Friendly Version

When Nathaniel Met Herman: Lost Hawthorne memoir is published by Michael Bronski

Americans love happy endings. Yet in the world of great American literature, there are so very few. That’s so not only in novels—Moby Dick, T... More / Printer Friendly Version

Bilateral Trade and Investment Deals: BITs a serious challenge for global justice movements by Aziz Choudry

We cannot afford to bask in the movement successes at the World Trade Organization (WTO) talks at Cancun. With echoes of Bush’s “either with ... More / Printer Friendly Version

Web of Deceit: Britain's Real Role in the World by Mark Curtis (Vintage: London, 2003, 512 pp.) by David Edwards

On September 28, Tony Blair once again lied to the British public on the BBC’s “Breakfast With Frost” program, saying of Saddam: “W... More / Printer Friendly Version

The Obesity Epidemic: The business opportunities in obesity by Yves Engler

In early October there was a quirky report about U.S coffin makers increasing the size of their product. What this reveals is anything but funny. Obesi... More / Printer Friendly Version

Ashcroft’s Offensive by Jeffrey Frank

For the past few months, Attorney General John Ashcroft has been on a 19-city tour to convince the public that the USA Patriot Act (USAPA) is the essen... More / Printer Friendly Version

Executing Justice: An interview with Padre Javier Giraldo by Site Administrator

In 1988 Padre Javier Giraldo, a Jesuit priest, was instrumental in founding a human rights organization, originally Catholic and now ecumenical: the Co... More / Printer Friendly Version

Liberals In Search of a Foreign Policy: Imperialism as democracy? by Edward Herman

It is very interesting watching the liberals seek a foreign policy position that will differentiate them from the conservatives. After all, they can
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Attention LA Shoppers by Lee Siu hin

Since mid-October, 70,000 supermarket clerks from nearly 900 Vons, Albertsons, and Ralphs supermarkets in southern California have been engaged in a ro... More / Printer Friendly Version

Buying Hearts and Minds in Afghanistan: U.S. efforts to maintain imperial credibility by James Ingalls

The Christian Science Monitor (September 8, 2003) calls it “Nation Building, Redoubled.” A desperate new push by the Bush administration ... More / Printer Friendly Version

The National Writers Union Circus by Sue Katz

A cataclysmic National Writers Union (NWU) annual Delegates Assembly in September has brought profound changes to the NWU. The parent union UAW (United... More / Printer Friendly Version

American Empire: The REailities & Consequences of U.S. Diplomacy by Andrew J. Bacevich (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2002); Special Providence: American Foreign Policy and How It Changed the World by Walter Russell Mead (New York: Routledge, 2 by Joseph Nevins

Until recently, mainstream U.S. political pundits rarely applied the term “imperialist” to the United States. Such a term was unflattering to... More / Printer Friendly Version

Wesley Clark & Howard Dean by Josh Frank

Enthusiastic support for front- running Democratic presidential contenders Wesley Clark and Howard Dean from liberals and some progressives reveals the... More / Printer Friendly Version

The Weaker-thans Grow Strong by Jeff Shaw

While a member of the influential political punk group Propagandhi, John K. Samson played bass on progressive thrash tunes about veganism, U.S. militar... More / Printer Friendly Version

Brand Loyalty and the Absence of Remorse by Norman Solomon

Midway through this month, a Wall Street Journal headline captured the flimflam spirit that infuses so much of what passes for mass communications thes... More / Printer Friendly Version

An Interview with John Carlos by Dave Zirin

Thirty-five years ago this October, John Carlos became one half of perhaps the most famous (or infamous) moment in Olympic history. After winning the b... More / Printer Friendly Version