February 16, 2004
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Feature
Letter From Arizona
Where to go if Dean pulls out of the race? Marc Cooper reports from Arizona.
Marc Cooper
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Letter From South Carolina
The greatest threat to hopes of defeating Bush remains Democratic business as usual.
Bruce Shapiro
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The Trouble with RFID
Instead of being used to track boots and books, these systems could be used to track us.
Simson L. Garfinkel
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Pursuing the Millennium
The Zionist-colonial enterprise has always had a built-in propensity to gravitate towards its most extreme expression.
David Hirst
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A Stealth Tax on Wages
The White House is trying to radically restructure the federal government’s revenue-raising activities.
Eric Laursen
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The Internet School Scam
A questionable plan to wire poor schools has turned into a business boondoggle.
Todd Oppenheimer
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The New ‘Great Game’
In Central Asia, powerful players are competing for influence and energy sources.
Lutz Kleveman
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Editorial
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India Hosts the World
To the beat of drums by India’s Dalits (former Untouchables) and Adivasis (forest-dwelling tribes) celebrating indigenous popular movements that refuse to be subdued, the World Social Forum
Praful Bidwai
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Kerry’s Army
Click here for info on Bruce Shapiro’s Shaking the Foundations: 200 Years of Investigative Journalism in America, recently released by Nation Books.
Bruce Shapiro
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Accountability on WMDs
As an MSNBC analyst before the war, former United Nations weapons inspector David Kay often seemed more like a cheerleader for the Bush Administration’s Iraq policy than he did an impartial
The Editors
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New Hampshire Populists
Don’t forget about David Corn’s new book, The Lies of George W. Bush: Mastering the Politics of Deception (Crown Publishers). For more information and a sample, check out the book’s website: www.bushlies.com
David Corn
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Column
The Lies That Bind Us to Iraq
Using the ends to justify the means repeats the folly of Vietnam.
Robert Scheer
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‘Sorry’ Seems to Be the Hardest Word
Read Slate‘s symposium of “liberal hawks” reassessing their support for the Iraq war.
Eric Alterman
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A Response From Cloud Cuckoo Land to David Kay’s Departing, Weaponless
They’d said that David Kay would list
The weapons that the UN missed.
Now David Kay tells Bush and Blair
The weapons simply were not there.Calvin Trillin
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Books & the Arts
What Are They Reading?
For a man ostensibly telling us what narcissism means to him, Tony Hoagland sure lets his friends do a lot of the talking. But maybe that’s the point. In other people, he sees himself.
Megan Marz
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Our Man in Chile
When Chilean President Salvador Allende was overthrown in a bloody coup on September 11, 1973, the Nixon Administration declared its support for the “preservation of Chilean democracy.” In
Nina Englander
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Men in Black
Several generations of doomy, bookish youth have grown up listening to the Cure.
Douglas Wolk
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Willi the Red
“This act of incendiarism is the most monstrous act of terrorism so far carried out,” reported a 1933 Berlin newspaper.
Russell Jacoby
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The Business of Theory
The last decade or two have witnessed an insidious shift in American culture, one that goes to the heart of the way we talk about our society.
William Deresiewicz
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The New ‘Great Game’
In Central Asia, powerful players are competing for influence and energy sources.
Lutz Kleveman
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Europa, Europa
Considered as a subset of the road movie, the post-Holocaust, return-to-Poland documentary has been a dismayingly static genre. Most of these films are journeys in only the physical sense.
Stuart Klawans
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