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Tilting at Media Windmills?

Jun 01, 2008; Douglas, Susan J ... IN APRIL, THE news media began a predictable turn to "image scandals" in the presidential campaign. And then it got worse. ABC's instantly scandalous April 16 "debate"-moderated by Charlie Gibson and George Stephanopoulos (who looked like newsmen, only smaller)-prompted an outpouring of ...

JUST THE FACTS

Jun 01, 2008; Anonymous ... 85 Number of U.N. member nations that consider homosexuality a crime. 58 Years since the founding of the Mattachine Society, the first modern gay-rights organization. 5 Years since Supreme Court's Lawrence v. Texas decriminalized homosexuality. 0 Number of openly lesbian, ...

QUID PRO QUO

Jun 01, 2008; Anonymous ... THE QUID: Imagine that you're a real estate developer in south Florida who owns 4,000 acres of land just east of a major highway, and that you could really benefit if the federal government would fund a nearby interchange. Thing is, persnickety local officials and whiny environmentalists ...

letters

Jun 01, 2008; Anonymous ... Don't bash Barack I was disturbed to come across a short piece by Cassandra West in your April issue ("Yes, We Can ... Do What?"). The main point of this article is certainly unobjectionable: We should demand a bit of steak with our sizzle, some specifics beyond the slogans. On ...

CORRECTION

Jun 01, 2008; Anonymous ... The May cover art was inspired by the logo of the Union of Union ...

Axle of Evil

Jun 01, 2008; Leary, John Patrick ... Drastic wage cuts drive UAW members to picket American Axle & Manufacturing FOR MORE THAN TWO months, 3,600 United Auto Workers (UAW) members have walked picket lines in Detroit, Three Rivers, Mich., and upstate New York. The strike at American Axle & Manufacturing (AAM), a major ...

The Push to Privatize PEMEX

Jun 01, 2008; Pupovac, Jessica ... HALLIBURTON IS LICKING its chops at the prospect of Mexico's state-owned Petroleos Mexicanos going private. Petróleos Mexicanos, or PEMEX, withstood a tsunami of privatizations of formerly state-owned companies in the late 1980$ and '90$. But now, with probusiness President Felipe ...

FAUX PHILANTHROPY

Jun 01, 2008; Eziquiel-Shriro, Natasha ... A new campaign aims to stop Starbucks' use of public interest for private profit. Early this year, the Truth About Ethos formed after a group of self-proclaimed Starbucks junkies in Denver agreed that the company is shortchanging the public with its bottled-water division Ethos ...

Supreme Court OKs Racial Profiling

Jun 01, 2008; Fortunato, Stephen J Jr ... EITHER RACIAL PROFILING is odious and unconstitutional, with personal and social consequences for communities of color-or it's not. On April 23, the U.S. Supreme Court, without any dissent, decided that it was not. The ruling obliquely, but forcefully, slammed the courthouse door on any ...

New Jewish Lobby Counters Neocons

Jun 01, 2008; Seliger, Ralph ... ON APRIL 15, after 18 months of planning, a new progressive Jewish lobby called J Street was launched as a counterweight to the increasingly conservative American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC). There is no physical J Street in Washington, D.C., but the name conjures up K Street, the ...

Red State, Green Campaign

Jun 01, 2008; Boyd, Sam ... THIS ELECTION YEAR, one of the greenest campaigns is being run not in blue Massachusetts or California, but in bright-red Oklahoma. State Sen. Andrew Rice (D-Oklahoma City) is challenging incumbent Sen. James Inhofe (R), 74. Congress' most vocal denier of global warming, and is doing so ...

appall-o-meter

Jun 01, 2008; Mulcahey, David ... 0.7 Hard Times for Bankers Thanks to the global credit crisis, banks have been forced to cut back on amenities long enjoyed by executives. The German finance titan Deutsche Bank-hard hit by its exposure to subprime mortgages-has issued a memo to its senior execs, ordering them to clear ...

snapshot

Jun 01, 2008; Anonymous ... A Tibetan activist shouts slogans from the back of a police vehicle following his arrest during an anti-Chinese demonstration in front of the Chinese Embassy ...

A Kinder, Gentler Torture

Jun 01, 2008; Gorman, H Candace ... WHILE STAYING AT his inlaw's village in Afghanistan in December 2001, Abdul Hamid Al-Ghizzawi, my client at Guantánamo, knew little of Bush and Cheney. Later, when vigilante thugs turned him over to the Northern Alliance for an American bounty, Al-Ghizzawi knew nothing of Donald ...

The Vendetta Against Black Men

Jun 01, 2008; Muwakkil, Salim ... DESPITE THE RISE of Sen. Barack Obama, black men remain in the bull's-eye of governmental repression and police brutality. The government is currently re-trying six black men who have already faced two hung juries in a case accusing them of planning to blow up both the Sears Tower in ...

Fox News' Criminal Pundits

Jun 01, 2008; Thindwa, James ... THE SENSATIONALIST MEDIA inquest into Sen. Barack Obama's associations has cheapened the national debate. It has also exposed the hypocrisy and double standard of the conservative media. Fox News, which has championed this "guilt by association," questions Obama's fitness for office ...

Obama Not Feelin' the Love from Smiley

Jun 01, 2008; Washington, Laura S ... NOW THAT SEN. Barack Obama has taken care of the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, Tavis Smiley appears to be the next black contender for an '08 smackdown with the presidential candidate. But this time, black folks are taking care of it on their own. Obama's April was a month full of stormy ...

Piling it High

Jun 01, 2008; Bleifuss, Joel ... The sewage sludge industry meets the light of day NANCY HOLT, A RETIRED nurse from Mebane, N.C., is beset by mysterious neurological problems. She blames the cause of her illness on the multiple unknown toxicities of the sewage sludge that has been spread since 1991 on the fields across ...

WHY DEMOCRATS WON'T STOP THE WAR

Jun 01, 2008; Sirota, David ... THE NATIONWIDE OPPOSITION TO the Iraq War is based on a host of populist impulses. Some people hate it because they think lives are being sacrificed to pursue the oil industry's agenda. Some despise it because, without a military draft, the US. casualties-4,000-plus and counting-are ...

No Strings Attached?

Jun 01, 2008; Bigwood, Jeremy ... How U.S. funding of the world press corps may be buying influence DOMESTIC PROPAGANDA CAMPAIGNS LIKE the "Pentagon Pundits" fiasco have been exposed and decried. Mainstream media outlets hired high-ranking military officers to provide "analysis" about the war in Iraq. Turns out they had ...