October 2006 Volume 30, Issue 10

October 2006

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Viewpoint

The Abramoff Babies Christopher Hayes

Year of the Black Candidate Laura S. Washington

Counterfeit Drugs: Infected with Greed Terry J. Allen

The Importance of Not Getting Over It Joel Bleifuss

Route-Stepping? Our Way to WWIII Gregory D. Foster

The Neocons Lexicon Salim Muwakkil

9/11 Refracted Susan J. Douglas

Feature

Dueling Democrats David Sirota

Where the Seats Are Thomas F. Schaller

History We Can Use Alexander Gourse

Chinas Growing Desert Jehangir Pocha

Halliburton Hearts Congress Frida Berrigan

Is Diversity Enough? David Moberg

Cola Wars in Mexico Beverly Bell

Tracking the CIA Torture Flights Aaron Sarver

Why Pakistan Gets A Nuclear Pass Lakshmi Chaudhry

Dispatch

SOSing the Vote Phoebe Connelly

Starbucks Gets Wobbly Mischa Gaus

Teamsters Face a Contentious Election David Moberg

Culture

The Tragedy of Gary Webb Doug Ireland

Jesus Is Tragic Anthony Kaufman

YouTube in MeWorld Jessica Clark

Dueling Democrats

No matter what happens election day, Democrats are in for a wild ride in 2007

David Sirota

Where the Seats Are

The upcoming election guarantees gains for the Democrats. They won't be coming from the South.

Thomas F. Schaller

History We Can Use

The Lower Eastside Tenement Museum in New York City is a founding member of the International Coalition of Historic Sites of Conscience.

Alexander Gourse

Chinas Growing Desert

Overgrazing is stripping arable lands, creating the potential for ecological refugees

Jehangir Pocha

Halliburton Hearts Congress

Do partisanship and cronyism trump congressional oversight and corporate accountability?

Frida Berrigan

Is Diversity Enough?

Walter Benn Michaels asks us to consider the harm done when we worry about identity and forget about inequality

David Moberg

Cola Wars in Mexico

Tzotzil Indians in Mexico know the dangers of globalization and soda pop.

Beverly Bell

Tracking the CIA Torture Flights

In their new book Torture Taxi: On the Trail of the CIA's Rendition Flights, A.C. Thompson and Trevor Paglen detail how the CIA transports detainees worldwide.

Aaron Sarver

Why Pakistan Gets A Nuclear Pass

The Bush administration's pragmatic policy toward Pakistan suggests its foreign policy is less ideological than imperial

Lakshmi Chaudhry

The Abramoff Babies

Like the "Watergate Babies" of 1974, the new Democratic Congress will have to pick between sustanative or procedural reforms.

Christopher Hayes

SOSing the Vote

Secretaries of State are essential to making free and fair elections possible

Phoebe Connelly

Year of the Black Candidate

Many Black candidates sought and won office in the 2006 takeover by the Democrats.

Laura S. Washington

The Tragedy of Gary Webb

Hounded out of Journalism and pushed to suicide, the Gary Webb story is a cautionary tale about the dangers in speaking truth to power

Counterfeit Drugs: Infected with Greed

Counterfit drugs are flooding hospitals and markets worldwide.

Starbucks Gets Wobbly

Embattled baristas at the coffee giant turn to the Industrial Workers of the World for solidarity unionism

Jesus Is Tragic

The movie Jesus Camp by Heidi Ewing and Cahel Grady exposes the terrifying power the Christian Right has to indoctrinate and manipulate children.

Anthony Kaufman

The Importance of Not Getting Over It

A new Book Was the 2004 Presidential Election Stolen? suggests that doctored memory cards on electronic voting machines stole the election.

Teamsters Face a Contentious Election

As the AFL-CIO split and workers continue to lose ground, the teamesters face a contentious election.

YouTube in MeWorld

According to Anthropologist Thomas de Zengotita, Websites like MySpace and YouTube encourage socializing and self adolation.

Route-Stepping? Our Way to WWIII

Scare-tactic allusions to war allow Bush to push an extremist agenda.

Gregory D. Foster

The Neocons Lexicon

Republican term "Islamofacism" conflates the war on terro as a battle between the Enlightenment and Theocracy.

Post-9/11 reporting has been full of commercialization, ideology and manipulation, not unbiased reporting.

Susan J. Douglas

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