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July 3, 2006 Issue

The Editors write that the US should stop bullying the UN, Alexander Cockburn asks why the left is so afraid of the incompetent Karl Rove, S…

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Editorial

Danger in Paradise

It's hard to tell whether the US is conducting a war against terror or against Native Hawaiians, as the military uses parts of the Waianae coast as a live-fire training ground.

Mindy Pennybacker

Burning Cole

Politics trumped academic integrity when a neocon network torpedoed the appointment of Mideast scholar and blogger Juan Cole to a faculty position at Yale.

Philip Weiss

Bunkum From Benador

The debunking of a PR agency that circulated a bogus story about persecution of Jews in Iran exposed the moving parts of a media machine bent on preparing the American public...

Larry Cohler-Esses

The UN Bites Back

If the Bush Administration is serious about UN reform, it should replace Ambassador John Bolton and stop linking payment of dues to action on reform.

The Editors

Column

Hillary’s Hypocrisy

Hillary Clinton's dissembling on Iraq has become a fatal embarassment for her presidential ambitions and for anyone who looks to her for leadership.

Robert Scheer

Bush’s Baghdad Palace

The United States has made no headway quelling the insurgency or rebuilding Iraq, but one secret project is on target: construction of a palatial US Embassy inside the Green Zone. ...

Nicholas von Hoffman

Rebels With a Cause

A new generation of student activists is flexing its muscles, rolling back employment rules in France, demanding education reform in Chile and fighting for immigrant rights in the ...

Gary Younge

Prairie Grass Roots

In South Dakota, prochoicers are fighting back with a bipartisan initiative challenging the abortion ban and a grassroots effort that has put progressive Native American women on t...

Katha Pollitt

The Hot Air Factory

Under Karl Rove's deft hand, Bush has been maneuvered from one catastrophe to another. Why is the left obsessed with him?

Alexander Cockburn

After Forty-one Suicide Attempts at Guantánamo Bay, Three Prisoners Manage to Kill Themselves

Calvin Trillin

Letters

RAGE AGAINST THE (BUSH) MACHINE

Lawrenceville, Ga.

Our Readers

Feature

Hey Guys, It’s Just a Game

Soccer's not for wimps, but Team America and its fans have brought a decidedly militarist mindset to the World Cup.

Dave Zirin and John Cox

The Death of News

The press that once went hoarse over Monica Lewinsky's dress is largely silent over the Bush regime's vast abuses of power.

Mark Crispin Miller

The National Entertainment State, 2006

After a decade of strategic mergers, impulsive couplings and messy divorces--the birth of new media--this chart shows that national media landscape still bears the oversized foo...

The Nation

A Ten-Point Plan for Media Democracy

With Congress poised to pass legislation that rewrites the Telecom Act, here are ten action items for a media reform agenda.

Jeffrey Chester

Mega-merger Mania

Americans overwhelmingly oppose media consolidation, but the FCC is poised to further relax media ownership rules.

Eric Klinenberg

Bush World

In the guise of giving us what we want, media giants have created a culture defined by untrammeled greed, the worship of power and a ruthless disregard for the public good.

Lakshmi Chaudhry

Use the Tools

The fight over media consolidation is anachronistic. Progressives should focus instead on mastering the tools of new media--it's here, not in the corporate boardroom, where the new...

Markos Moulitsas

Stealth Media

Corporations used to disguise their attempts to masquerade as "indie," but now they've become invisible to the naked eye.

Ana Marie Cox

Local Media Left Behind

National media are increasingly catering to the highly mobile, globalized, mostly white middle class, leaving those who can't afford access to slip into a separate and unequal worl...

Ethan Michaeli

Digital Music Revolution

The music industry lives in fear of downloadable media, but artists have the vision to re-engineer our collective psyche.

Paul D. Miller

The Self-Expression Sector

New forms of participatory media have changed public discourse, enabling people to publish, share and disseminate their own media creations. But will only the affluent be able to p...

Rebecca MacKinnon

Co-opting Consumers of Color

Fewer minority-owned outlets means fewer minorities in the media. With such threats to public discourse, what will become of our voices, points of view and interests?

Makani Themba

Fight for a Free Press

The collapse of journalism and the rise of commercialism is sparking a reform movement that will fight to ensure the First Amendment endures in the digital age.

Robert W. McChesney

Access of Evil

Compliant coverage of the Iraq War proved the news business is morally compromised, no longer driven by creative people with something to tell but by global corporations with somet...

Amy Goodman

Brave New Media

We don't need to buy a network to get our message out--just creatively use an array of low-cost tools from the Internet to iPods, cellphones and whatever comes next.

Robert Greenwald

The National Entertainment State (Forum)

If the promise of new media is to be fulfilled, progressives must chart a course of activism that confronts the increasing concentration of ownership among the Big Media powerhouse...

The Nation