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Davis: Have the Car-bombers Already Defeated the Surge?
Znet Article, March, 29 2007
Mike Davis
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Despite heroic reassurances from both the White House and the Pentagon that the six-week-old U.S. escalation in Baghdad and al-Anbar Province is proceeding on course, suicide car-bombers continue to devastate Shiite and Sunni neighborhoods, often ...
Davis: The Democrats After November
Znet Article, February, 16 2007
Mike Davis
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Was the November 2006 midterm election an epic political massacre or just a routine midterm brawl? In the week after the Democratic victory, partisan spinmeisters off...
Davis: Border Invaders
Znet Article, September, 19 2006
Mike Davis
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The visitor crossing from Tijuana to San Diego these days is immediately slapped in the face by a huge billboard screaming, "Stop the Border Invasion!" Sponsored by the rabidly anti-immigrant vigilante group, the Minutemen, the same truculent slog...
Davis: The Imperial City and the City of Slums
Znet Article, May, 12 2006
Mike Davis
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The Imperial City and the City of Slums
Davis: Humanity's Ground Zero
Znet Article, May, 09 2006
Mike Davis
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His short hair and mustache are heavily flecked with grey, but he still retains the stocky, powerful build of a butcher's son, who once, long ago, hauled animal carcasses for his father in the San Diego suburb of El Cajon. At a moment's notice, he...
Davis: Planet of Slums
Znet Article, May, 09 2006
Mike Davis
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FOR THE first time in history, a majority of the world’s population will soon live in cities. But large parts of this urban population endure dire poverty. MIKE DAVIS, the author and social activist, details these trends in his new book ...
Davis: Car Bombs with Wings
Znet Article, April, 14 2006
Mike Davis
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Car Bombs with Wings
Davis: The Poor Man's Air Force
Znet Article, April, 12 2006
Mike Davis
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The Poor Man's Air Force
Davis: Who Is Killing New Orleans?
Znet Article, March, 26 2006
Mike Davis
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A few blocks from the badly flooded and still-closed campus of Dillard University, a wind-bent street sign announces the intersection of Humanity and New Orleans. In the nighttime distance, the downtown skyscrapers on Poydras and Canal Streets are...
Davis: Gentrifying Disaster
Znet Article, October, 25 2005
Mike Davis
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In a recent email to Louisiana officials, FEMA curtly turned down the state's request for funding to notify displaced residents that they could cast absentee ballots in the city's crucial February mayoral election. FEMA also declined to share data...
Davis: The Other Hurricane
Znet Article, October, 05 2005
Mike Davis
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The genesis of two category-five hurricanes (Katrina and Rita) in a row over the Gulf of Mexico is an unprecedented and troubling occurrence. But for most tropical meteorologists the truly astonishing "storm of the decade" took place in March 2004...
Davis: The Mysteries of New Orleans
Znet Article, September, 28 2005
Mike Davis
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The Mysteries of New Orleans
Davis: The Struggle Over The Future Of New Orleans
Znet Article, September, 21 2005
Mike Davis
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THE CATASTROPHE on the Gulf Coast was the most widely anticipated “natural disaster†in U.S. history. Yet the response of the U.S. government was universally condemned as a failure. What happened? HURRICANE KATRINA occurred on the ...
Davis: The Coming Avian Flu Pandemic
Znet Article, August, 17 2005
Mike Davis
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The Coming Avian Flu Pandemic
Davis: Sinister Paradise
Znet Article, July, 15 2005
Mike Davis
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The narration begins: As your jet starts its descent, you are glued to your window. The scene below is astonishing: a 24-square-mile archipelago of coral-colored islands in the shape of an almost finished puzzle of the world. In the shallow green ...
Davis: The Scalping Party
Znet Article, June, 14 2005
Mike Davis
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[Introduction by Tom Engelhardt: It didn't take long for the war crimes to begin -- in Afghanistan, in Guantánamo, in Iraq. By November 2003, Mike Davis was writing about them for Tomdispatch. And in introducing his piece, "The Scalping Party," I...
Davis: Riotous Real Estate
Znet Article, April, 19 2005
Mike Davis
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Last February the sirens howled in Hollywood as the LAPD rushed reinforcements to the 5600 block of La Mirada Avenue. While a police captain barked orders through a bullhorn, an angry crowd of 3000 people shouted back expletives. A passerby might ...
Davis: The Burden Falls On The Poorest Societies
Znet Article, January, 07 2005
Mike Davis
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THE MAINSTREAM media only focus on the natural causes of disasters like the Indian Ocean tsunamis. What’s the wider context? THE INDIAN Ocean is already the epicenter of the environmental devastation that will be caused in the near fut...
Davis: The White House Rodeo
Znet Article, November, 10 2004
Mike Davis
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The White House Rodeo
