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Holding Obama’s feet to the fire by Doug Henwood, Gary Younge, Jo-ann Mort, Betsy Reed, Ta-Nehisi Coates (August 2008)

With his appointment of a series of Clintonite economic and foreign policy advisers, Barack Obama has attracted fire from the American left. But does this mean that hope in his campaign for the presidency is misplaced? Doug Henwood, Gary Younge, Jo-ann Mort, Betsy Reed and Ta-Nehisi Coates debate the politics of Obama’s candidacy and the huge mobilisation of support behind it

Attack Iran? Yes they can by Phyllis Bennis (August 2008)

With US threats, Israeli military exercises and Iranian missile tests, it seems like a carefully choreographed build up to the next Middle East conflagration is under way. But can the US really risk a strike on Iran? Phyllis Bennis weighs up the evidence in conversation with Oscar Reyes

George Bush’s joint by Rebecca Schoenkopf (July 2008)

In this extract from her new book, Commie Girl in the OC, Rebecca Schoenkopf, the ‘queen bee/black widow of alternative journalism’, goes inside the federal propaganda machine against marijuana

Redrawing the map of US politics by Frances Fox Piven, Lorraine C Minnite (April 2008)

Barack Obama’s campaign for the US presidency may still have a long way to go, but the levels of participation by African-American and young voters in this year’s primaries have the potential to transform the shape of US politics. In particular, they could neutralise the racist ‘southern strategy’ that has produced such an inbuilt conservative bias since the 1960s. Frances Fox Piven and Lorraine C Minnite investigate

American interest by Richard Kuper (December 2007)

John Mersheimer and Stephen Walt’s The Israel Lobby and US Foreign Policy offers a brilliant account of US economic and military support to Israel, writes Richard Kuper. Its flaws lie not in an alleged anti-semitism, but in overstating the influence of the lobby over a US administration that is out of step on a broad range of foreign policy issues

Blue grits and the Penthouse Party by  (December 2007)

As Hillary Clinton sews up the Democrats’ election campaign at the top, on the streets the ‘blue grits’, as Laura Flanders calls grass-roots Democrat and ex–Democrat activists, are reinventing electoral politics

Another US is rising by Judy Rebick (August 2007)

The first Social Forum in the US was bound to be, by its very happening, a historic occasion. But the grass-roots working class participation and the energy, solidarity, generosity of spirit and organisational skill it mobilised made it something special, writes Judy Rebick

The ‘black ops’ of America by Oscar Reyes (July 2007)

The US military spends $30 billion annually on classified military programmes, ranging from spy satellites to ‘extraordinary rendition’. These secret ‘black operations’ leave a mark on our everyday landscapes and legible traces in public data. Trevor Paglen is an artist and experimental geographer working to create visual representations of these secret worlds. He spoke to Oscar Reyes

Truth revealed by Pablo Navarrete (June 2007)

Pablo Navarrete interviews the campaigning journalist and documentary maker, John Pilger, whose first film for the cinema comes out in June 2007

Keeping it in the family by Lucia Green-Weiskel (March 2007)

Now it’s official. Big spending Hillary Clinton is seeking to take the US presidency back from one dynasty to another. Lucia Green-Weiskel reports

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