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Feature
Seeking Justice Where There Is No Peace
As conditions worsen in Darfur, the nascent International Criminal Court, whose mandate is to bring genocidaires to justice in a chaotic environment hostile to the rule of law, is facing a daunting challenge.
Anja Tranovich
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‘Why Can’t We?’
Confronting the forces of war, genocide and lawlessness begins with the belief that individual citizens have the power–and the responsibility–to focus our government’s mind, change its priorities and save lives.
Samantha Power
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Bitter Wine for Israel’s Bedouins
Israel’s plans for a series of farms and wineries designed to draw tourists to the Negev Desert is the latest insult to its marginalized Bedouin population.
Neve Gordon
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The Scramble for Oil
The Bush Administration’s warm embrace of the Equatorial Guinea’s despotic President Teodoro Mbasogo demonstrates how low it will go in pursuit of oil.
Cora Currier
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The Race to Replace Arnold: Running on Empty
The limp grassroots response to Democratic gubernatorial candidates reveals that the plummeting popularity of one party doesn’t automatically translate into support for the other.
Marc Cooper
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Target Ford
When the Ford Foundation came under pressure, it revised its grant-making standards, restricting the political activities of its grantees.
Scott Sherman
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Editorial
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In the Black(water)
Hurricane victims are still homeless in New Orleans, but thanks to the federal government’s $30 million contract bonanza, Blackwater USA’s profits are soaring.
Jeremy Scahill
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The Insecurity State
Americans are now caught in a security paradox: We expect the government to protect us, but its responses make us feel even more insecure.
Donald W. Shriver Jr.
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The False Bird Flu Scare
The United States has fueled a worldwide overreaction to the threat of a bird flu pandemic, putting AIDS, malaria, malnutrition and other crucial global health programs at risk.
Dr. Marc Siegel
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The Wiretapping Tango
The NSA surveillance scandal raises questions about whether phone companies will become pawns of an Administration bent on expanding its power.
Bruce Shapiro
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Phone Spies
Democrats in Congress must press for a full investigation of NSA phone call surveillance and prove that the rule of law is an asset, not an obstacle, to national security.
The Editors
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Column
Heckuva Job
Desperate to report progress in Iraq Bush boasts that the newest Iraqi leader has taken his phone call twice. Wow. And it only cost $200 billion and thousands of dead and maimed Americans.
Robert Scheer
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Surveillance for Sale?
It’s outrageous enough that the NSA is secretly monitoring Americans’ calling patterns. But has anyone considered what would happen if unscrupulous monitors sold that information to the highest bidder?
Nicholas von Hoffman
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George & Tony’s Not So Excellent Adventure
If democracy represents the will of the people, then there is either something wrong with democracy in the United States and Britain or something wrong with the people on both sides of the Atlantic.
Gary Younge
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The Red Flag, From Berlin to West Bengal
The left may be a dusty relic in Germany, but in the Indian state of Kerala, it has made formidable gains on a platform of reform and smart economic policies.
Alexander Cockburn
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Books & the Arts
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Wind From the Mideast
“The Road to Damascus” explores the strange, the beautiful and the uncanny in Syrian cinema.
Stuart Klawans
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Supersize Misha
Absurdistan is a stunning encore for novelist Gary Shteyngart, both the avatar of a new Jewish-American literature and an inveterate Eastern European trickster.
J. Hoberman
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Dead Souls
Juan Rulfo’s Pedro Páramo, written during the cultural renaissance that followed the Mexican Revolution, is a marvel of storytelling and testament to the power of the word.
Carmen Boullosa
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