July 10 , 2000


The End Is Near
BY RICK ROCKWELL
Can the Mexican opposition topple the PRI?

Temp Slave Revolt
BY DAVID MOBERG
Contingent workers of the world unite.

Locked Down
BY KRISTIN ELIASBERG
Prison cutbacks leave inmates hopeless.


News & Views

Editorial
BY SALIM MUWAKKIL
Just say no to the war on drugs.

Forgotten America
BY JUAN GONZALEZ
Enemies of the state.

Appall-O-Meter
BY DAVID FUTRELLE

A Terry Laban Cartoon

Bully Culprit
BY JAMES B. GOODNO
Estrada is leading the Philippines into crisis.

Three's Company
BY JOHN NICHOLS
Third parties strategize for the November elections

Don't Drink the Water
BY ERIK MARCUS

Did a factory farm cause a deadly E. coli outbreak?

Eight Is Enough
BY DAVE LINDORFF

Judge restricts freedom of anti-death penalty activists

Pass the Petition
BY TED KLEINE

In Michigan, a Republican leads a campaign to legalize marijuana

Profile
BY TRAVIS LOLLER

Irina Arellano: on strike and in style.


Culture

Botched Burbs
BY SANDY ZIPP
BOOKS: How the suburbs happened.

Harrington's Way
BY KIM PHILLIPS-FEIN
BOOKS: The Other American.

Slaughterhouse Live
BY JEFF SHARLET
BOOKS: Absolute oral history

Shakespeare Inc.
BY BEN WINTERS
FILM: Something is definitely rotten in Denmark.

Post-Feminist Smackdown!
BY JANE SLAUGHTER

 
Bully Culprit

By James B. Goodno

Manila's massive malls usually provide respite from the city's heat and pollution, especially during the hot, dry spring. These days, however, the crowds stay away, afraid of being the next victims of a series of bombings that has swept the Philippines.
Phillippine President Joseph Estrada (center). Credit: Romeo Gacad/AFP.

The sparsely populated shopping centers have become a symbol of a deepening political crisis. After years of inching toward stability, the Philippines' fragile democracy is in danger. Bombs have exploded in malls, airports and bus terminals. Kidnappings and warfare are ripping apart the south. Complaints of corruption and cronyism at the highest levels of government have resurfaced. And confidence in the government of former actor Joseph Estrada has collapsed. "He is the worst calamity that ever hit the nation," says Popoy Lagman, leader of a militant labor federation.

 

 


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