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FBI AND FREE SPEECH AT BERKELEY A timely reminder of the danger to civil liberties when the FBI targets dissidents comes in a riveting series of articles in the San Francisco Chronicle that describe J. Edgar Hoover's 1960s vendetta against the Free Speech Movement at UC Berkeley and its president, Clark Kerr. Information released under FOIA after a reporter's seventeen-year fight reveals the bureau plotted with the CIA to harass student protesters, gave false background information about Kerr to the White House and mounted a disinformation campaign against the school (see www.sfgate.com). BUSH AND FREE SPEECH AT OSU President Bush's June 14 speech on the "culture of service" at the Ohio State commencement was said by his flacks to have been inspired by Adam Smith, James Madison, Alexis de Tocqueville and Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics. OSU's civics lesson to grads was to tell them if they protested the President's talk they'd be arrested. When Bush arrived at the event, ten students rose and turned their backs; some were expelled by police. NOT IN OUR NAME A little-reported statement by prominent writers, actors and academics protests that the United States has "declared a war without limit and instituted stark new measures of repression." Titled "Not in Our Name," the statement enumerates US depredations against peace and human rights (see [email protected]). We reported on the founding of the Jewish Alliance for Justice and Peace (Brit Tzedek v'Shalom). The first meeting of the New York City chapter will be June 24, 7-9 pm, New School University, 66 West 12th Street ([email protected]).
Jun 20, 2002 / The Editors
Company Men Company Men
Although car chases are formulaic, they needn't be standard issue. One of the many substantial pleasures that The Bourne Identity offers is a thoughtful car chase, a loving car ch...
Jun 20, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
DYNASTIES! DYNASTIES!
How their wealth and power threaten democracy
Jun 20, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Kevin Phillips
Ashcroft [heart] Iran Ashcroft [heart] Iran
What would the world look like if women had full human rights? If girls went to school and young women went to college in places where now they are used as household drudges an...
Jun 20, 2002 / Column / Katha Pollitt
Jewish Media Stranglehold? Jewish Media Stranglehold?
Nixon thought so; Otis Chandler doesn't. Maybe it depends on where you stand.
Jun 20, 2002 / Feature / Cliff Rothman
In Martha Stewart’s Kitchen In Martha Stewart’s Kitchen
The camera pans across the room To see what she has made: An omelette or a spring bouquet Or just an inside trade.
Jun 20, 2002 / Column / Calvin Trillin
Letters Letters
GOULD & SCIENCE FOR THE PEOPLE Cambridge, Mass. In his excellent June 17 piece on Stephen Jay Gould, John Nichols mentions the Science for the People mo...
Jun 20, 2002 / Our Readers
Flicking Fallen Angels Off the Head of a Pin Flicking Fallen Angels Off the Head of a Pin
Never did I expect to feel sorrow and pity for the Catholic Church, yet I confess that I do.
Jun 19, 2002 / Column / Robert Scheer
Hightower for President, er, no, Jackson for President Hightower for President, er, no, Jackson for President
To hear Texas populist Jim Hightower and U.S. Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. tell it, one of them should be running for president in 2004. Trouble is that each one says the other guy woul...
Jun 17, 2002 / John Nichols
ExxonMobil-Sponsored Terrorism? ExxonMobil-Sponsored Terrorism?
Why are villagers in the Aceh province of Indonesia--or their lawyers--worrying about contributions from Exxon Mobil to George W. Bush and the Republicans?
Jun 14, 2002 / David Corn