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Jan.
31 / Feb 1, 2004
Conn
Hallinan
Nepal, Bush & Real WMDs
January
30, 2004
Saul
Landau
Cuba High on Neo-Con Hit List
Michael
Donnelly
Bush's Second Front: The War in
the Woods
Elaine
Cassel
Worse Than Jacko: Child Abuse at Gitmo
David Vest
More Halliburton News, Brought to You by Halliburton
Mike
Whitney
The Kay Report: Still Defending Aggression
David
Miller
The Hutton Whitewash
Sam
Husseini
How Many People Must Die Because of This "Mistake",
Senator Kerry?
January 29, 2004
Patricia
Nelson Limerick
John Ehrlichman, Environmentalist
Ron
Jacobs
Homeland Security and "Legalized"
Immigration
Rahul Mahajan
New Hampshire v. Iraq
Greg
Weiher
Bush Calls for Preemptive Strike on
Moon and Mars
Norman
Solomon
The State of the Media Union
Cockburn
/ St. Clair
Does NH Mean Anything?
January
28, 2004
Kathy
Kelly
Bearing Witness Against Teachers of
Torture and Assassination
January
27, 2004
Steve
Philion
Ritter Was Right: My Exchange with
CNN's Aaron Brown
Daniel
Ellsberg
Leak Against This War: Expose the
Lies from the Inside
C.G.
Estabrook
Can George Ever Really be Elected
President?
Josh
Frank
Hot Coals in Vermont: Dean's Smoke
Screens
Greg
Moses
Racism 101 All Over Again
Gilad
Atzmon
Blood, Soil and Art
Mike
Ferner
"We're All Lied To": an
Interview with Bruce Cockburn in Baghdad
Hammond
Guthrie
General Disorders of the Day
January
26, 2004
Sean
Donahue
The Toxic Career of Rand Beers: Kerry's
Drug War Zealot
Gary
Leupp
David Kay's Admission
January
24/5, 2004
Patrick
Cockburn
Iraq's Shia: "Our Day Has
Come"
Laura
Flanders
State of the Conservative Union
Simon Helweg-Larsen
Enter Berger: Signs of Hope in
Guatemala
Dave
Lindorff
Ground Control to Maj. George
Susan Davis
The Birdwatcher Menace
Alexander
Cockburn
The Fog of Cop Out: McNamara 10,
Morris 0
January
23, 2004
Yonathan
Shapira
An Israeli Pilot Speaks Out
Standard
Schaefer
Italian Philosopher Giorgio Agamben
Protests US Travel Policy
Josh
Frank
In Defense of Polluters: Howard Dean's
Vermont
William
A. Cook
Rule by the Corrupt and the Capricious
January
22, 2004
Sam
Smith
Howards End?
Patricia
Koyce Wanniski
Lost in Space
Alexander
Lukin
Putin and the Clans
Katherine
van Wormer
Dry Drunk Confirmed: O'Neill's
Revelations and Bush's Mind
Forrest
Hylton
The Prisoner, the President and the
Mafia
January 19, 2004
Justin E. H. Smith
Inside
America's Prisons: From Corrections to Retribution
Richard W. Behan
The GOP, Inc.
Ray McGovern
Bush's
State of the Union: Humility or More Hyperbole?
Werther
SOTUS:
the Stalin Moment of America's Nomenklatura
Phillip Cryan
Media Collusion in Colombia's War
Lee Sustar
A New Strategy to Reverse Labor's Decline?
Arthur Versluis
Great Lakes as Commodity: Privatizing Water
Uri Avnery
Anti-Semitism:
a Practical Manual
Steve Perry
Fresh Crack from Hawkeye State
January 17 / 18, 2004
Fadi Kiblawi and Will
Youmans
The
Use and Abuse of MLK Jr by Israel's Apologists
Joshua Muldavin
and Joseph Nevins
Blaming the Symptoms
Jeffrey St. Clair
Bad Days at Indian Point: Inside America's Most Dangerous Nuclear
Plant
Brian Cloughley
Iron Hammers in Iraq
Saul Landau
Fog of War: Vietnam and Iraq
M. Shahid Alam
Lerner, Said and the Palestinians
Richard Manning
Food Poisoning as Background Noise
Marjorie Cohn
The Guantanamo Concentration Camp
Mike Whitney
Scalia and Opus Dei: Radicals on the Court
Sadik Kassim
Meet Our New Saddam: Islam Karimov
Carol Norris
Arnold
and Bush's Numbers Don't Add Up
Joe Quandt
Suicide
Bombers: The Clash of Absurdities
David Krieger
Imagining MLK Jr at 75
Bruce Jackson
Making War, Making Movies
Ron Jacobs
Revolution in the Air: a review
Richard Edmondson
Rupert Murdoch and My Sister
Richard Forno
Apologizing for Preemption: Evil, Perle and Frum
Poets' Basement
Holt, Mickey Z, Albert & Guthrie
January 16, 2004
Kathy Kelly
A Visit
to Umm Qasr Prison
William S. Lind
More
Thoughts on 4th Generation Warfare
Gillian Russom
So.
Cal Grocery Strikers Speak Out: "We Need Action!"
Ari Shavit
Survival
of the Fittest? An Interview with Benny Morris
Adi Ophir
Genocide Hides Behind Expulsion: a Response to Benny Morris
Dave Lindorff
The General's Henchman: Michael Moore Smears Kucinich
Steve Perry
Iowa Death Trip 2
January 15, 2004
Veteran Intelligence
Professionals for Sanity
Memo
to the President: Your State of the Union Address
John Chuckman
Dry
Hole in the Oval Office: President from Podunk Drilling, Inc
Chris Floyd
Mind Over Matter
Gil-Scott Heron
Whitey on the Moon
Gary Leupp
The
Silk Road: Random Thoughts on the Bam Earthquake and Satan
January 14, 2004
Greg Moses
Happy
Birthday, Dr. King: To Write Off the South is to Surrender to
Bigots
Kurt Nimmo
Bush and the Supremes: Amputating the Bill of Rights
Dave Lindorff
Preview of Iowa? Pennsylvania Straw Poll Spells Trouble for Traditional
Dems (and Dean)
Jason Leopold
O'Neill Claims Backed by Rumsfeld / Wolfowitz War Letters to
Clinton
Alexander Cockburn
Bush,
Oil and Iraq: Some Truth at Last
January 13, 2004
William S. Lind
How 2004
Looks from Potsdam
M. Junaid Alam
Do Iraqis Have a Right to Resist?
Mickey Z
Snipers:
No Nuts in Iraq
Adolfo Gilly
Chonchocoro:
The Prisoner and the Presidents
Steve Perry
You Love God, Right?
January 12, 2004
Ben Tripp
No Stan
for the Kurds
Norman Solomon
The
Dixie Trap: Democrats and the South
Mike Whitney
O'Neill's Revenge
Jason Leopold
From the Very First Instant It Was About Iraq
Uri Avnery
Syria's
Peace Proposal
January 10 / 11, 2004
Alexander Cockburn
Bush
as Hitler? Let's Be Fair
Susan Davis
Dangerous Books
Diane Christian
On Lying and Colin Powell
Lisa Viscidi
Exhumations: Unearthing Guatemala's Macabre Past
Daniel Estulin
Destroying History in Iraq
Saul Landau
Homeland Anxiety
Elaine Cassel
Who's Winning the War on Civil Liberties?
Bruce Jackson
Making the Shit List
Christopher Brauchli
Baptizing Hitler's Ghost
Francis A. Boyle
The Deep Scars of War
Lee Ballinger
Cold Sweat: Sweatshops and the Music Industry
Patrick W. Gavin
Hillary's Slur: Mrs. Lott?
Ramzy Baroud
What Invaders Have in Common
Michael Schwartz
Inside the California Grocery Strike
Gary Johnson
An Interview with Former Heavyweight Champ Greg Page
Dave Zirin
An Interview with Marvin Miller on Unions and Baseball
Mark Hand
A Review of Resistance: My Life for Lebanon
Poets' Basement
Thomas, Daley, Curtis, Guthrie and Albert
January 9, 2004
David Lindorff
The
Misers of War: Troop Strength and Chintzy Bonuses
Kurt Nimmo
Saddam's Defense: Summon Bush Sr. to the Stand
Mike Whitney
Orange Jumpsuits for the Bush Clan?: The Carnegie Report on Iraq's
Non-existent WMDs
Deb Reich
Palestinians and Israelis: This War is Unwinnable
David Vest
Disabled
Vets Fire Back at Rumsfeld
January 8, 2004
Neve Gordon
Israeli
Refuseniks Sentenced to Jail
Lenni Brenner
Dr.
Dean and the Godhead
Ray McGovern
Bush: Driving Without Breaks
Mark Scaramella
Inside
the DA's Office: Lies, Errors and Tedium
Yves Engler
Bush's Mexican Gambit
James Hollander
Journalists
Under Fire: the Death of José Couso in Baghdad
January 7, 2004
Democracy Now!
Uncharitable
Care: How Hospitals are Gouging and Even Arresting the Uninsured
Greg Weiher
The
Bush Administration's Ongoing Intelligence Problem
Ben Tripp
The Word of the Year, 2003
Dave Lindorff
Dean and His Democratic Detractors
Michael Leon
The NYT Does Chomsky
Bob Boldt
God Talk
Ramon Ryan
Small
Victories and Long Struggles: the 10th Anniversary of the Zapatista
Uprising
January 6, 2004
Dave Lindorff
RNC
Plays the Hitler Card: MoveOn Shouldn't Apologize for Those Ads
Ron Jacobs
Drugs
in Uniform: Hashish and the War on Terrorism
Josh Frank
Coffee and State Authority in Colombia
Doug Giebel
Permanent Bases: Leave Iraq? Hell No, We Won't Go
John Chuckman
Sick Puppies: David Frum's New Neo-Con Manifesto
Rannie Amiri
The Politics of the Iranian Earthquake
John L. Hess
A Record
to Dissent From
Thacher Schmid
A Cheesehead's Musings on the Sunday NYT
David Price
"Like
Slaves": Anthropological Thoughts on Occupation
January 5, 2004
Al Krebs
How
Now Mad Cow!
Kathy Kelly
Squatting
in Baghdad's Bomb Craters
Jordy Cummings
The Dialectic of the Kristol Family: Putting the Neo in the Cons
Fran Shor
Mad Human Disease: Chewing the Fat Down on the Farm
Fidel Castro
"We Shall Overcome": On the 45th Anniversary of the
Cuban Revolution
Gary Leupp
North
Korea for Dummies
January 3 / 4, 2004
Brian Cloughley
Never
Mind the WMDs, Just Look at History
Vice Admiral Jack Shanahan
The Wrong War at the Wrong Time
William Cook
Failing to Respond to 9/11
Glen Martin
Jesus
vs. the Beast of the Apocalypse
Robert Fisk
Iraqi Humor Amid the Carnage
Ilan Pappe
The Geneva Bubble
Walter Davis
Robert Jay Lifton, or Nostalgia
Kurt Nimmo
Ashcroft vs. the Left
Mike Whitney
The Padilla Case
Steven Sherman
On Wallerstein's The Decline of American Power
Dave Lindorff
Bush's Taiwan Hypocrisy
William Blum
Codework Orange!
Mitchel Cohen
Learning from Che Guevara
Seth Sandronsky
Mad Cow and Main Street USA
Bruce Jackson
Conversations with Leslie Fiedler
Standard Schaefer
Poet Carl Rakosi Turns 100
Ron Jacobs
Sir Mick
Adam Engel
Hall of Hoaxes
Poets' Basement
Jones, Albert & Curtis
January 2, 2004
Stan Cox
Red Alert
2016
Dave Lindorff
Beef, the Meat of Republicans
Jackie Corr
Rule and Ruin: Wall Street and Montana
Norman Solomon
George Will's Ethics: None of Our Business?
David Vest
As the Top Wobbleth
January 1, 2004
Randall Robinson
Honor
Haiti, Honor Ourselves
David Krieger
Looking
Back on 2003
Robert Fisk
War Takes an Inhuman Twist: Roadkill Bombs
Stan Goff
War,
Race and Elections
Hammond Guthrie
2003 Almaniac
Website of the Day
Embody Bags
December 31, 2003
Ray McGovern
Don't
Be Fooled Again: This Isn't an Independent Investigation
Kurt Nimmo
Manufacturing Hysteria
Robert Fisk
The Occupation is Damned
Mike Whitney
Mad Cows and Downer George
Alexander Cockburn
A Great Year Ebbed, Another Ahead
December 30, 2003
Michael Neumann
Criticism
of Israel is Not Anti-Semitism
Annie Higgins
When
They Bombed the Hometown of the Virgin Mary
Alan Farago
Bush Bros. Wrecking Co.: Time Runs Out for the Everglades
Dan Bacher
Creatures from the Blacklight Lagoon: From Glofish to Frankenfish
Jeffrey St. Clair
Hard
Time on the Killing Floor: Inside Big Meat
Willie Nelson
Whatever Happened to Peace on Earth?
December 29, 2003
Mark Hand
The Washington
Post in the Dock?
David Lindorff
The
Bush Election Strategy
Phillip Cryan
Interested Blindness: Media Omissions in Colombia's War
Richard Trainor
Catellus Development: the Next Octopus?
Uri Avnery
Israel's
Conscientious Objectors
December 27 / 28, 2003
Alexander Cockburn
A
Journey Into Rupert Murdoch's Soul
Kathy Kelly
Christmas Day in Baghdad: A Better World
Saul Landau
Iraq
at the End of the Year
Dave Zirin
A Linebacker for Peace & Justice: an Interview with David
Meggysey
Robert Fisk
Iraq
Through the American Looking Glass
Scott Burchill
The Bad Guys We Once Thought Good: Where Are They Now?
Chris Floyd
Bush's Iraq Plan is Right on Course: Saddam 2.0
Brian J. Foley
Don't Tread on Me: Act Now to Save the Constitution
Seth Sandronsky
Feedlot Sweatshops: Mad Cows and the Market
Susan Davis
Lord
of the (Cash Register) Rings
Ron Jacobs
Cratched Does California
Adam Engel
Crumblecake and Fish
Norman Solomon
The Unpardonable Lenny Bruce
Poets' Basement
Cullen and Albert
Website of the Weekend
Activism Through Music
December 26, 2003
Gary Leupp
Bush
Doings: Doing the Language
December 25, 2003
Diane Christian
The
Christmas Story
Elaine Cassel
This
Christmas, the World is Too Much With Us
Susan Davis
Jinglebells, Hold the Schlock
Kristen Ess
Bethlehem Celebrates Christmas, While Rafah Counts the Dead
Francis Boyle
Oh Little Town of Bethlehem
Alexander Cockburn
The
Magnificient 9
Guthrie / Albert
Another Colorful Season
December 24, 2003
M. Shahid Alam
The Semantics
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William S. Lind
Marley's
List for Santa in Wartime
Josh Frank
Iraqi
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Cpt. Paul Watson
The
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Robert Lopez
Nuance
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December 23, 2003
Brian J. Foley
Duck
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Will Youmans
Sharon's
Ultimatum
Michael Donnelly
Here
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Uri Avnery
Sharon's
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December 22, 2003
Jeffrey St. Clair
Pray
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Patrick Gavin
What Would Lincoln Do?
Marjorie Cohn
How to
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The
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December 20 / 21, 2003
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How
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Saul Landau
Bush Tries Farce as Cuba Policy
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Empire and Resistance: an Interview with Tariq Ali
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Weekend
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January 31 / February 1, 2004
The Police Assault
on Labor and Anti-War Protesters in Oakland
Bushfires
on the Docks
By JACK HEYMAN
Last April 7, just as the morning sun was rising
over the hills east of San Francisco Bay, Darth Vader-clad riot
police in the port of Oakland opened fire on some 700 people
demonstrating peacefully against the war in Iraq. Police fired
lead-shot bean bags, wooden dowels, rubber bullets, tear gas
and stinger grenades. Dozens were injured. Twenty four demonstrators
and one longshore official were arrested.
A Bay Area group called Direct Action
to Stop the War that organized the "community picket line",
had specified that it was "not a civil disobedience action"
and the goal was "not to get arrested". But the bloody
police response turned the demonstration into what The New York
Times called "the most violent (clash) between protesters
and authorities anywhere in the country since the start of the
war" (NYT 4/8/03).
For more than 90 minutes the battle-geared
cops were charging on foot in military formation and simultaneously
in a phalanx of motorcycle cossacks, a policy long-since abandoned
by police forces of most major cities. The Times got it wrong.
This was not a bloody confrontation between two clashing forces.
Demonstrators were fleeing the police which is why so many were
shot,in the back, with so-called "less-than-lethal"
weapons. Peter Keane, former dean of the Golden Gate Law School
and TV legal consultant has said that "Prosecution of the
Oakland Port peace protestors is the most shameful threat to
political dissent in America since the brutal assaults and arrests
of civil rights marchers in 1960's Selma, Alabama."
The anti-war activists were not the only
victims of police violence. Despite a letter from the Pacific
Maritime Association, the employers' group, assuring that the
police would be "present to guarantee the safe passage of
employees", nine members of the International Longshore
and Warehouse Union (ILWU) reporting for work were hit when police
opened fire. Five were sent to the hospital, one with a painful
and bloody complex hand fracture when he was hit by a police
projectile. Police had not fired weapons against longshoremen
since the maritime strike of 1934, when six workers were killed,
one by a projectile to the head, similar to the one that hit
the longshoreman that morning . A much-touted "blue ribbon
committee", hand picked to investigate the actions of the
police, was disbanded before it even convened. Nevertheless,
ILWU Local 10, the injured longshoremen and other victims of
police terror have initiated a class action lawsuit against the
OPD.
But this was not a police riot--the authorities
had planned their bloody tactics well in advance. Maritime employers
had admittedly met with police and the Port Commission on April
4 to coordinate a plan to quash what was widely-known would take
place in the port 3 days later. Two days earlier, the California
Anti-Terrorist Information Center- a state agency quietly formed
two weeks after 9/11 by then-Governor Gray Davis and Attorney
General Bill Lockyer (both liberal Democrats)- had sent an ominous
bulletin to the Oakland police warning that "potential violence...may
be associated with the advertised protest," thus giving
a green light to police actions. Police plans included commandeering
the port's intermodal yard as a temporary prisoner detention
area and police headquarters where company executives and police
officers could be seen consulting. They also had been gathering
anti-war announcements on the internet and monitoring email messages
from the ILWU chat room. The ACLU has sharply criticized this
police spying as a violation of constitutionally protected free
speech.
After the police attack, then-spokesman
for the state anti-terrorism agency Van Winkle ripped into civil
liberties using a chilling justification: "If you have a
protest group protesting a war where the cause that's being fought
against is international terrorism, ... you can almost argue
that a protest against that is a terrorist act." He went
on to explain that terrorism can be "anything that has an
economic impact'" (Oakland Tribune 5/19/03), presumably
like a union picket line, a solidarity action or a civil rights
boycott.
The protest had targetted the Iraq war
profiteers, American President Lines (APL) and Stevedoring Services
of America (SSA). APL ships carry war materiel and SSA, closely
connected to the Bush administration, received a "no bid"
contract to run the port of Umm Qasr, newly-privatized by military
action, in large part by British troops. In a fallout amongst
thieves, the "no bid" port contract caused ruffled
feathers amongst "jilted" British companies who felt
well-qualified to take on Iraqi dockworkers.
On the Oakland homefront police moved
in, when according to Police Chief Word, "the two shipping
companies...had asked (OPD) to disperse the crowd because the
demonstration .... was disrupting business." (NYT 4/8/03)
Impending misdemeanor charges range from "trespassing"
to "creating a public nuisance" to "resisting
arrest" to "interfering with a business".
Oakland Mayor Jerry Brown, once a self-styled
"progressive" is now keen on promoting business. He
unabashedly hawks cars in TV ads for the city's "Buy Oakland"
campaign. Brown defended the police action saying protesters
wanted to stop port truckers and he wasn't going to let that
happen. Yet, in 1998, to acquire "labor credentials"
in his bid for mayor of Oakland, he joined a picket line in the
port in solidarity with sacked dockers in Liverpool, England,
stopping trucks at a terminal gate associated with the same company,
SSA. Obviously, he has abandoned even the political pretense
of sailing on labor's ship for the more profitable buccaneers:
business and "national security". Brown, who served
as governor of California from 1975 to 1983, is now reportedly
eyeing a bid as "law and order" candidate for Attorney
General under Governor Schwartzenegger.
As seen in the recent brutal police response
to anti-FTAA protesters in Miami, a repressive pattern is beginning
to emerge under the aegis of "protecting national security"
and global business interests, especially in ports. Like the
state's anti-terrorism agency, a Port Safety and Security Plan
for San Francisco Bay that's been drafted by a multi-agency committee
headed by the U.S. Coast Guard does not distinguish between terrorists,
labor unions and anti-war groups. (Oakland Tribune 6/29/03).
During the McCarthy period the ILWU, under the leadership of
Harry Bridges, was in the forefront of labor's fight against
the government's campaign of redbaiting and blacklisting on the
waterfront.
In 2002, again in the government's crosshair,
during the longshore union contract negotiations Defense Secretary
Rumsfeld and Homeland Security Czar Ridge threatened the union
that if there were any jobs actions on the docks, troops would
be called out to occupy the ports. Then, when for 10 days the
maritime employers shut down all of the ports on the West Coast
by locking out longshore workers, the Bush administration did
nothing. As soon as the lockout was lifted the Bush administration,
without a peep from the Democrats, invoked Taft-Hartley, the
slave labor act, forcing longshoremen back to work under conditions
demanded by employers. Such "iron heel" maneuvers only
show that "national security" like the Iraq war are
advanced to promote business interests and shackle those of the
working class.
If dockworkers don't have the right to
protest in ports because they're deemed to be "national
security zones", then international maritime companies,
regardless of union contracts, are given a "freehand":
free to hire whomever they want, pay as little as they want and
disregard any safety or environmental issues. Since World War
II, the ILWU has had a legacy of opposing U.S. imperial wars
like the one in Iraq and U.S.-backed military dictatorships like
Pinochet's in Chile, while supporting progressive struggles internationally
like the anti-apartheid struggle and the Cuban revolution. Attempts
by the Oakland police and the Bush administration to stop or
change the ILWU's progressive direction will not go unchallenged.
Jack Heyman
was the longshore union official arrested during the anti-war
demonstration in the port of Oakland. He has been active in ILWU
solidarity actions since the militant 1984 anti-apartheid action
in San Francisco. For more information visit: www.defendilwuba.com
Note: There
will be a noontime rally February 6, in front of the Superior
Court in Oakland (7th and Washington Sts.) to demand that the
bogus charges be dropped and to defend the Constitutional right
to protest. The hearing begins at 2PM in Department #115.
Weekend
Edition Features for January 10 / 11, 2004
Alexander Cockburn
Bush
as Hitler? Let's Be Fair
Susan Davis
Dangerous Books
Diane Christian
On Lying and Colin Powell
Lisa Viscidi
Exhumations: Unearthing Guatemala's Macabre Past
Daniel Estulin
Destroying History in Iraq
Saul Landau
Homeland Anxiety
Elaine Cassel
Who's Winning the War on Civil Liberties?
Bruce Jackson
Making the Shit List
Christopher Brauchli
Baptizing Hitler's Ghost
Francis A. Boyle
The Deep Scars of War
Lee Ballinger
Cold Sweat: Sweatshops and the Music Industry
Patrick W. Gavin
Hillary's Slur: Mrs. Lott?
Ramzy Baroud
What Invaders Have in Common
Michael Schwartz
Inside the California Grocery Strike
Gary Johnson
An Interview with Former Heavyweight Champ Greg Page
Dave Zirin
An Interview with Marvin Miller on Unions and Baseball
Mark Hand
A Review of Resistance: My Life for Lebanon
Poets' Basement
Thomas, Daley, Curtis, Guthrie and Albert
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