May 15 , 2000 Collateral Damage BY JOHN PILGER Ten years of sanctions in Iraq Under Siege BY ANTHONY ARNOVE Hans von Sponeck steps down The IMF: Kill It or Fix It? BY G. PASCAL ZACHARY How to Fix the IMF BY DAVID MOBERG First, do no harm Water Fallout BY JIM SHULTZ Bolivians battle globalization ICANN: Secret government of the Internet? BY STEVEN HILL The fight over who will control the Web The Big Payback BY SALIM MUWAKKIL African-Americans renew the call for reparations News & Views Editorial BY JASON VEST Capital crimes Appall-O-Meter BY DAVID FUTRELLE A Terry Laban Cartoon No Justice for Janitors BY DAVID BACON L.A. workers take the first step toward a nationwide strike Wal-Martyrs BY KARI LYDERSEN Unionizing means job cuts at the world's largest retailer Fishy Business BY JEFF SHAW Washington State is failing to protect endangered salmon Wasted BY JEFF ST. CLAIR Russia moves ahead with shady nuclear scheme Profile BY DAVID MOBERG Luis Alfonso Velasquez: Wanted man Culture The Culture Vultures BY LAURA BRAHM BOOKS: Art as instrument of foreign policy Left in the Dust BY TED KLEINE BOOKS: A HIstory of the Small & the Invisible Queer Godfather BY DOUG IRELAND BOOKS: Martin Duberman, intellectual No Jacket Required BY JOSHUA ROTHKOPF FILM: American Psycho Rememberance of Things Trashed BY CALEB MASON

Queer Godfather By Doug Ireland Left Out: The Politics of Exclusion Essays 1964-1999 By Martin Duberman Basic Books 466 pages, $30 One would be hard-pressed to name a more admirable contemporary American example of the intellectual engage than Martin Duberman. Historian, playwright, memoirist, biographer, social commentator, teacher, activist and assured podium performer, Duberman is an unapologetic, uncategorizable and nonsectarian radical whose constant questioning of conventional wisdoms - even on the left - has made him one of this country's pre-eminent participants in the political and cultural wars that have riven public life. Martin Duberman The prolific Duberman has written or edited some 35 books, and yet has still found time to churn out a remarkably wide-ranging series of occasional pieces that embody much of the passion and action of our time, some of which he has assembled in his new volume Left Out. They reflect his convictions about "the baleful influence of corporate culture, the iniquity of many aspects of American foreign policy, the tenacity of white racism, the nonpathological nature of same gender desire, the crippling falsity of the traditional male/female binary." Duberman has been unshakably on the left for all of his adult life, and out of the closet as a gay male for the better part of it. Having survived the tortures of anti-gay psychotherapists (movingly recounted in his 1991 memoir, Cures: A Gay Man's Odyssey), Duberman was the first important intellectual to embrace the gay liberation movement that was born in the wake of the 1969 Stonewall riots. In the early '70s, Duberman was one of the moving spirits behind the founding of both the Gay Academic Union and of what is now the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force - and even then he was raising remarkably prescient questions that disturbed and provoked more staid same-sexers and single-issue separatists. Doug Ireland is a contributing editor of In These Times.   TOP HOME SUBSCRIBE MAIL   In These Times © 2000 Vol. 24, No. 12