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LETTERS
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EDITORIALS
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COLUMNS
Bob McBride
Hans Koning
, ChristopherHitchens
ARTICLES
Kai
andBird
Max Holland
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Stanley Aronoyitz
Thomas J. Downey
Jonathan B . Tucker
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EDITORIALS.
Uncle Buttinsky
he menu for American intervention in the affairs
of smaller states contains a sumptuous array of
choices, from full-scale invasion to polite persuasion. The President makes his selection, and the
taxpayers pay the check. The courses may be hot or mild:
troops are sent for permanent war games in Honduras, or
money is given to elect convenientcandidates in El Salvador.
Big guns from the battleship New Jersey pummel Moslem
villages in Lebanon to shore up the Christian government,
or a propagandabarrage is loosed in West Germany to help
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elect a Christian Democratic chancellor. But whether the interventionists buy off labor unions, prqmote insurrections
or distribute disinformation, the effect is to interrupt the independent effort of people to make their 6wi-1 history.
A superpower has so many means of intervention at work
at one time that it is often difficult to see the system in its
full complexity, or to imagine what the world would be like
without it. In South Africa, the United States :has established such a significant business and financial presencebolstered by political, military and cultural' rdationshipsthat the withdrawal of the merest amount ?f moral~ormodetary support is in itself an act of,intervention, Israel is in
such a state of clientage with the United StateS tliat.debates
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February 8, 1986
Broken Heartland
February 8, 1986
The Nation.
At Home Abroad
London
toted a copy of the Sunday New York Times home
this morning, purchased from the one newsdealer
here who still carries it. Its not a thing youd do
everyweek, for itcosts f8.25, about $12; but on
an irregular basis it makes a worthwhile investment, if only
for the healthy shock it provides. It is not news to Nation
readers that,our newspaper of record has veered from its
once mildly liberal course t o a solidly right-wingone. What
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