Politics
The Secret History of G.I. Joe (Part 1)
by Tom Engelhardt
Barbie, Joe, Darth Vader, and making war in children's culture.
Undercover Agents Infiltrated Tar Sands Resistance Camp to Break up Planned Protest
by Adam Federman
As activists and TransCanada face off, the Department of Homeland Security and local police make clear which side they're on: the oil industry's.
The Backyard Shock Doctrine
by Laura Gottesdiener
The landscape of Wall Street's creative destruction.
Investing in a Resilient Future
By Suzanne Lindgren
Slow Money founder Woody Tasch talks about investing in the future and Slow Money’s new offshoot, Gatheround.
Art Created From Undocumented Immigrants’ Discarded Objects
By Robert Neustadt, special to Utne Reader
Artist Valarie James repurposes the discarded objects of Latino undocumented immigrants in order to expose the humanitarian disaster in the U.S.-Mexico Border.
Climate Activists, Eco-Terrorism, and the Green Scare
By Adam Federman, from Earth Island Journal
Working directly with energy industry groups and private security firms, the government has broadened the legal definition of terrorism and now targets climate activists.
Armed Lifeboat: Government’s Response to Natural Disaster
By Sam Ross-Brown, Utne Reader
Whether Washington’s response to natural disaster caused by climate change will rely on social solidarity, or on militarized borders and government surveillance, depends on what happens now, says Christian Parenti.
Haiti After the Earthquake: Life in the Ruins
By Amy Wilentz, from The Nation
Sometimes you can’t help but be hit by the behavior of certain international organizations helping Haiti recover from the devastating January 2010 earthquake—hit, that is, by a wave of real physical nausea.
