October 2007 Volume 31, Issue 10

October 2007

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Viewpoint

Inside the Secret Facility H. Candace Gorman

Let’s Pry Open Those Cold, Dead Hands Laura S. Washington

Burned by Flame Retardants Terry J. Allen

Twilight of the Market’s Idols Susan J. Douglas

Earth to Bush Bernie Sanders

Smearing Israel’s Critics Salim Muwakkil

Feature

A Campaign of Ones Own Chelsea Ross

Tobacco Stains Bryan Farrell

Floating Utopias China Mieville

An Unholy Alliance Carrie Kilman

Unionbusting Confidential Art Levine

Holy Toyland Stephen T. Asma

Obama’s in the Eye of the Beholder David Moberg

Trending Toward Inanity Ezra Klein

On Strike Without a Union Kari Lydersen

Dispatch

Funding Indonesia’s Abusive Military Ben Terrall

Ehud Barak’s Second Coming Ralph Seliger

AFRICOM: Round One in a New Cold War? Christopher Moraff

The Crime Against Debbie Almontaser Robert Hirschfield

Why Iraq is Getting Worse David Enders

Culture

Can Brazil’s Quilombos Survive? Anne Kogan

Chain Stores, Picket Fences and Tanks Adam Doster

No Happy Endings Achy Obejas

A Campaign of Ones Own

Connie Schultz talks about her column, feminism, endorsing Hillary, and her lovely husband, Ohio senator Sherrod Brown

Chelsea Ross

The global footprint of a deadly crop

Bryan Farrell

Floating Utopias

On the degraded imagination of the libertarian seasteaders.

China Mieville

An Unholy Alliance

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

Carrie Kilman

Unionbusting Confidential

To keep out organized labor, you need the union-busting law firm Jackson Lewis

Art Levine

The mega toy retailer, Wal-Mart- is now selling Biblical toys like the talking Jesus

Stephen T. Asma

Obama’s in the Eye of the Beholder

Can the junior senator from Illinois be both a stalwart progressive and a post-ideological unifier?

David Moberg

Trending Toward Inanity

Mark Penn's new book, Microtrends, is so epically awful that it could take the entire polling industry down with it

Ezra Klein

On Strike Without a Union

Cygnus employees prove they are a 'pea that weighs a pound'

Kari Lydersen

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

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

Can Brazil’s Quilombos Survive?

Quilombo Country documentary reveals the modern-day challenges faced by Brazil's runaway slave communities

Let’s Pry Open Those Cold, Dead Hands

To defeat the gun lobby, gun-control activists need to get out of late-night local cable and embrace the Internet

Laura S. Washington

Ehud Barak’s Second Coming

In Israel's current political atmosphere, the onetime dove returns dressed in a hawk's feathers

Burned by Flame Retardants

The EPA does almost nothing to regulate the PBDEs we Americans eat, absorb and breath every day

AFRICOM: Round One in a New Cold War?

Two dozen military bases in Africa will help the United States compete for influence with China in the otherwise forgotten continent

Christopher Moraff

Chain Stores, Picket Fences and Tanks

American-style sprawl is adversely affecting the outposts of our global empire

Twilight of the Market’s Idols

Not Larry Craig, but George Bush and his careless economic policies, have left the Republican party cornered in a bathroom stall

Susan J. Douglas

While the prez pats himself on the back, 5 million more Americans have slipped into poverty, hunger and homelessness

The Crime Against Debbie Almontaser

Even Bloomberg now admits that the victim of the New York "Intifada" t-shirt hysteria is no terrorist

Robert Hirschfield

No Happy Endings

Escape from North Korea, the world's most repressive regime

Smearing Israel’s Critics

Former DePaul professor Finkelstein joins a growing list of academics censored for criticizing the Holy Land's foreign policy

Why Iraq is Getting Worse

A new civil war between Shiites erupts within the old civil war between Sunnis and Shiites

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