Table of Contents - May 2007

The Distored Populism of the Christian Right by Chip Berlet

B efore and after the midterm elections in 2006, our oligarchic pundocracy declared that white Christian evangelicals had abandoned “moral values” for other issu... More / Printer Friendly Version

Hear No Evil, See No Evil, Don’t Make Porn Films  by Michael Bronski

T here are no second acts in American life” noted F. Scott Fitzgerald, but obviously he was wrong. Fitzgerald was writing about the idea of redemption—not, as is... More / Printer Friendly Version

Kicking Away the Ladder, Part 1 by Noam Chomsky

M y days are often full of interviews on all sorts of topics, ranging from literal threats to human survival, which are quite real, to catastrophes all over the world, some kn... More / Printer Friendly Version

Cointelpro as a Family Business by Ward Churchill

L IKE MOST THINGS, the old adage “like father, like son” takes on some very curious characteristics in the twisted and secretive netherworld of counterin- telligen... More / Printer Friendly Version

Battle of the Beagles by Site Administrator

I n case you hadn’t heard, FBI Deputy Assistant Director John Lewis has identified the number one domestic terrorist threat to the U.S. and it’s not radical Muslims. ... More / Printer Friendly Version

$100 Billion to Continue the War by Larry Everest

O n Friday, March 23 the Democrats in the House of Representatives pushed through the “U.S. Troop Readiness, Veterans’ Health, and Iraq Accountability Act&rdqu... More / Printer Friendly Version

Wobbly City:  An interview with Alex von Schaick  by Andrej Grubacic

A lex von Schaick is a worker at Starbucks Coffee Corporation and an organizer with the IWW Starbucks Workers Union.  GRUBACIC : Tell me a bit abou... More / Printer Friendly Version

Inhumanitarian Intervention by Edward Herman

O ne of the really depressing features of the Democratic political advance is that it forwards the career of Richard Holbrooke, widely thought to be the most likely Secre... More / Printer Friendly Version

War on Immigrants by Sharat g. Lin

A s the controversy over undocumented immigration mounted after the House of Representatives passed the immigration “reform” bill HR 4437 on December 16, 2005, Immigrati... More / Printer Friendly Version

New Bedford Crackdown on Undocumented Workers by Lisa Mullenneaux

I t was months in the planning and over in minutes: 600 agents of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) stormed a New Bedford, Massachusetts leather manufacturer in the e... More / Printer Friendly Version

Trade by Stuart Neatby

C orporate and government leaders across North America have been busy since the advent of NAFTA. Hardly satisfied with the current stranglehold of corporate globalizatio... More / Printer Friendly Version

ReadNext Poetry Squad by John Pietaro

R ap music and Hip-Hop culture grew up much as any folk form does: through the ingenuity of a people living in oppressive surroundings and creating art through economic con... More / Printer Friendly Version

The Ground Truth by Mike Reizman

F or a few tips on making a good documentary, I interviewed Patricia Foulkrod, the director/producer of The Ground Truth , which was on the short list of 15 do... More / Printer Friendly Version

Bootilicious! by Lydia Sargent

W elcome to Hotel Satire, where gals come to learn their true purpose on this earth, i.e., to service men. Take sports. Gals still seem to think that they are entitled t... More / Printer Friendly Version

Stephen Kinzer's Overthrow by Site Administrator

I n the last installment of a multi-part series, entitled “The Partisans of Ali,” NPR correspondent Mike Shuster noted, in regards to Shia and Sunni conflict i... More / Printer Friendly Version

Democrats Debate Universal Coverage by Kip Sullivan

T he U.S. has entered a new phase in its everlasting debate about how to fix the health care mess. As Drew Altman, president of the fastidiously nonpartisan Kaiser Family Foun... More / Printer Friendly Version

HIV/AIDS in Africa: Bush’s Broken Promise by Aaron Sussman

D uring his 2003 State of the Union address, President Bush proposed the AIDS Leadership Act, claiming that “this comprehensive plan will prevent seven million new AID... More / Printer Friendly Version

Trans Inclusion by Site Administrator

W hile the lives and struggles of transgender people remain largely invisible to the mainstream, trans people have long been an active part of feminist organizing and progress... More / Printer Friendly Version

Journal of the 20th Year by Z Staff

S ince 1992, the Z office has been located in Woods Hole, Massachusetts, a town famous for its oceanographic institutions. Z moved here from Boston in order for the ageing s... More / Printer Friendly Version