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October 8, 2007 Issue

Alexander Cockburn on Alan Greenspan, Byron Dobell on a memoir of postwar France, J. Hoberman on the literary left.

Cover art by: Cover design by Gene Case & Stephen Kling/Avenging Angels

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Editorial

Politicize the War

By sending Petraeus to Capitol Hill, the White House tried to smuggle in a radical war agenda under the mantle of an outstanding soldier. And people fell for it.

Column

‘Jena Is America’

Jena, Louisiana, has become a national symbol of racial injustice, as civil rights activists converge on the town to protest a miscarriage of justice against six black teens.

Letters

Letters

Readers write back about Bob Moser's report on a grassroots revolution in Kentucky and Liza Featherstone's coverage the Service Employees International Union. Plus, an exchange wit...

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Feature

Order 17

A closer look at the US rule that gives military contractors like Blackwater a free pass to murder, terrorize and pillage their way through Iraq.

A Plea From the Iranian People

Iran's leading dissident implores UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon to reprimand the Iranian government for its human rights abuses and provide moral support for the suffering Irani...

Books & the Arts

Abalone

Abalone Rumsen aulón
Aristotle auriform Costanoans
cultivated, Brueghel painted,
awabi Osahi dove for
on September 12, 425 A.D.

Class Acts

The left's literary canon has neglected the contributions less-celebrated writers have made to the political significance of literature.

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