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June 13, 2004
Orwell meets Kafka The U.S. runs a global system of injustice, purposely mounted in the legal and moral dark. Contracting Justice Private contractors accused of abusing Iraqi prisoners are not in court, much less prison. 4:35 PM Court in the act 1:45 PM Rewriting Reagan 12:00 PM No (Moore) mercy 11:45 AM Undecided, unimpressed more...				The Paperless Chase By Sabrina Rubin Erdely College sophomores Nelson Pavlosky and Luke Smith rage against the electronic voting machine May/June 2004 Issue


		Number of U.S. service members killed in Iraq since Operation Iraqi Freedom began on March 19, 2003: 825 Number killed since George W. Bush declared an end to "major combat" on May 1, 2003: 687 Source: U.S. Department of Defense


		"You can't just be against something. [Voters] want a positive vision of where the country is going, and he has to provide that." -- John D. Podesta, White House chief of staff in the Clinton administration, on John Kerry's big challenge.

The End of Oil
Paul Roberts
By Nonna Gorilovskaya
Oil, besides being a whole lot of political trouble, is approaching its production peak. What to do?
June 8, 2004

Eating Away at Science
By Chris Mooney
The sugar industry is fighting findings that link its product to obesity. And U.S. officials are echoing the companies' line.
May/June 2004 Issue

M O R E N E W S :
Size Matters
Public Information, Private Profit?

George W. Reaganesque
By Mark Fiore
Searching for the heir to Ronald Reagan? Don't bother looking in the White House.
June 11, 2004

Closing a 40-Year Gap
By Rob Gurwitt
Even after four decades, Lyndon Johnson's vision of a new America remains vital, and achievable.
May 21, 2004

M O R E C O M M E N T A R Y :
Get Me Rewrite!
Good Soldiers and 'Bad Guys'

Is the Bush Administration on Steroids?
By Barry Blitt
May/June 2004 Issue

M O R E P S:
Next Season's Reality TV Shows
Let's Make 'em Really Hate Us

The Lie Factory
By Robert Dreyfuss and Jason Vest
Late last year, a special Mother Jones investigation detailed how, only weeks after 9/11, the Bush administration set up a secret Pentagon unit to create the case for invading Iraq. Here is the inside story of how they pushed disinformation and bogus intelligence and led the nation to war.
January/February 2004 Issue

M O R E A R C H I V E S :
The Thirty-Year Itch
West Wing Pipe Dream
A Spurious 'Smoking Gun'


		Filling the News Hole "Journalists are unhappy with the way things are going in their profession these days." So says a new report from the Pew Research Center for People and the Press. Another reason for outlets like Mother Jones, say we.