Shame

Shame

In this print edition...

• Race, Class and Katrina

• Class Warhorses

• Chile's Privatized Pensions: No Model for US

• A Gathering Storm: Anti-imperialism Brews Tempest

• Short Story: The Destroyers

• Current Letters (updated 10-27-05)

• Current Poetry

• Nobody Asked Me, But...

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“I hate the way they portray us in the media,” said hip-hop star Kanye West on a NBC fundraising telethon for the Red Cross relief efforts for victims of Hurricane Katrina. “You see a black family, it says, ‘They’re looting.’ You see a white family, it says, ‘They’re looking for food.’”

At eleven o’clock on any weekday morning, Rancho El Camino, an equestrian academy, training and boarding facility, is an oasis of hooves, hay and calm amid the alarmingly overdeveloped and still-overdeveloping rolling hills just east of Del Mar.

Since President George W. Bush launched his proposals to modify Social Security laws, Chile and its retirement system have been reference points in the debate. It is reported that Pinochet’s former cabinet minister, Jose Pinera, was one of the advisors of the Republican reform plan.

With every passing day it becomes increasingly evident that the criminal and illegal invasion of Iraq by US imperialism may very well be one of the major blunders committed by Washington in decades.

In the middle of that summer, when there had been no rain for weeks, and the forest was tinder dry, and the winds were high, a sheepherder built a cooking fire on the slope of Bear Sign Mountain.