How to Bridge the Cultural Gap

How to Bridge the Cultural Gap

In this print edition...

• Bridging the Cultural Gap: Interview with Lisa Duggan

• Resistance is not Futile: Labor and the Struggle for Iraq

• Imperial Intrigues

• Back (door) Stabbed

• Stories: The Wolf and The Choo Choo Train

• April's Letters

• April's Poetry

• Nobody Asked Me, But...

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I have a problem with the idea that people are simply being duped or that they have "false consciousness." This is the wrong approach, because so-called cultural issues are real.

Now that elections in Iraq have produced a representative interim government responsible for constructing new legal and political structures, there is no longer any excuse to postpone US troop withdrawal.

With every passing day it becomes increasingly apparent that the crisis of US imperialism is deepening.

President Bush created the back-door draft in Executive Order 13223 on September 14, 2001, three days after 9/11. It implemented the stop loss program.

Searching without map or compass for the tracks of his platoon that led behind the Soviet front lines, Lechner lost his way in the white night in which harmless snowdrifts.

The tsunami that erupted in the Indian Ocean from the massive 9.0 earthquake on 26 December 2004 was incredibly powerful, immensely destructive, and very deadly, perhaps killing a quarter of a million people or more. Tsunamis come in many forms.