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Washington’s White Market/Blackwater’s Black Market

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Blogging Blackwater and Support for Southern Progressives

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The Children’s Crusade

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Merc is the New Crack

America's deadly dependence on private security contractors in Iraq

Lindsay Beyerstein

Buy ‘Em Up One Justice At A Time

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Hedges Takes On Saint Clinton

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Flickr Faux Pas

Erin Polgreen

Viewpoint

Inside the Secret Facility

In an Orwellian twist, the U.S. government monitors all correspondence between a Guantánamo attorney and her client

H. Candace Gorman

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Tobacco Stains

The global footprint of a deadly crop

Bryan Farrell

Get Everybody Out By Midnight

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Floating Utopias

On the degraded imagination of the libertarian seasteaders.

China Mieville

Viewpoint

Running, With Scissors

The Republican drive to cut off voters is the sleeper issue of 2008

Hans Johnson

“Anger and passion slipped inside a fun cartoon coating.”

Erin Polgreen

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An Unholy Alliance

Across the Deep South, religion, culture and politics collide to make 'abortion' a dirty word.

Carrie Kilman

Dispatch

Funding Indonesia’s Abusive Military

Despite numerous human rights abuses, the United States continues to pump money into the Indonesian military under the guise of the war on terror

Ben Terrall

Ways to Fight Unionbusting

Erin Polgreen

America: “A Pants-Piddling Mess”

Brian Cook