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The article presents a critique of the book "Paper Cadavers: The Archives of Dictatorship in Guatemala" by Kirsten Weld which addresses the political history of the nation, the Guatemalan National Police's archives, and the roots of Guatemalan violence during the Cold War. Counterinsurgency campaigns and then-investigator Edeliberto Cifuentes are mentioned, along with former Guatemalan President Jacobo Árbenz's regime. Weld's views regarding reivindicación (redemption) are examined.

Presents information on a white paper of the U.S. State Department on insurgent forces in a country in Central America. Appraisal of the power of communists in the country in the white paper; Information on social, political and civic movements in the country in Central America; Overview of various political forces that were involved in revolutions in the country in Central America.

Once Allende was overthrown, Kissinger became the leading enabler of Pinochet's repressive new regime. FEATURES AS HENRY KISSINGER REACHES 100 YEARS OF AGE ON May 27, Chileans are preparing to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the bloody military coup that the former US national security adviser helped orchestrate in September 1973. The declassified historical record leaves no doubt that Kissinger was the chief architect of US efforts to destabilize the democratically elected government of Socialist Party leader Salvador Allende. [Extracted from the article]

Comments on the U.S. Supreme Court lawsuit Folsom v. Marsh. Details of the suit which related to whether presidential papers of former U.S. president George Washington were owned by the public; Ruling made in by justice Joseph Story in 1841; Overview of the lawsuit; Arguments made by plaintiffs and defendants in the lawsuit; Issues that were raised during proceedings of the lawsuit.

This article focuses on the book "Wild Man: The Life and Times of Daniel Ellsberg," by Tom Wells. The Wild Man of the title is a disorganized and undisciplined "egomaniac" and "narcissist" with a voracious sexual appetite, overweening ambition and an overpowering craving for adulation and public attention. He is incapable of completing work or maintaining personal loyalties. He even unearths evidence that he didn't bring any means of paying when he invited one couple out to dinner and that another couple living below his apartment called him a noisy neighbor.

This article presents information on the book "The Raymond Chandler Papers: Selected Letters and Non-Fiction, 1909-1959," edited by Tom Hiney and Frank MacShane. In his letter to Erle Stanley, Raymond Chandler opines that the reading public is intellectually adolescent at best, and it is obvious that what is called "significant literature" will only be sold to this public by exactly the same methods as are used to sell it toothpaste, cathartics and automobiles. He opines that when a book, any sort of book, reaches a certain intensity of artistic performance, it becomes literature. That intensity may be a matter of style, situation, character, emotional tone, or idea, or half a dozen other things.

"VOX," is an independent newspaper written by and for Atlanta teenagers. It is one of a growing number of city youth papers that have been popping up across the country, bringing their readers the 411 on everything from contraception to homelessness to restrictive school dress codes. A University of Iowa survey of 149 city high school newspapers found that between 1983 and 1993 nineteen folded, mostly for lack of funding. A recent Freedom Forum study also noted that school administrators are less likely to respect their students' free speech when newspapers are poorly funded.

The article focuses on the books "The Cigarette Papers," by Stanton A. Glantz and John Slade and "Ashes to Ashes: America's Hundred-Year Cigarette War, the Public Health and the Unabashed Triumph of Philip Morris," by Richard Kluger. One is fittingly titled "The Cigarette Papers," because it does for the tobacco war have done what the Pentagon papers did for the Vietnam War. It confirms what every admirer of private enterprise should have surmised: that the tobacco manufacturers always, but always knew more about their product than their critics did. In "Ashes to Ashes: America's Hundred-Year Cigarette War, the Public Health and the Unabashed Triumph of Philip Morris," Kluger holds that if the tobacco executives were morally reprehensible, it was less for peddling a product commonly understood to be dangerous than for lying to reassure the clientele.

Evaluates who is the true owner of official records generated by public officers, the state or the public officer. Assertion of journalists and scholars that transcripts are public property and are subject to the Freedom of Information Act; Information on judgment of the U.S. Supreme Court case on the dispute of ownership of official papers; Details of the controversy surrounding official files of ex-U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger as of November 24, 1979.

The article reports on a loophole in a U.S. law that allows the paper industry to receive a tax credit meant to encourage environmentally sound behavior, even as it continues to burn polluting fossil fuels. The defect in the legislation was revealed in this magazine in April 2009. Efforts to correct the matter are discussed, as is opposition to ending the credit mounted by senators Olympia Snowe and Blanche Lincoln, who represent states where the paper industry prominent.

The poem "written on a paper bag" by Jess Mynes is presented. First Line: clover flowers fleck to dirt; Last Line: wobble pronged bobbing filaments.

The article looks at a tax provision which will require the United States government to pay up to $8 billion to the nation's ten largest paper companies. The author points out the this money will come from a transportation bill intended to reduce U.S. dependence on fossil fuels. Ironically, paper mills have decided to add unnecessary diesel fuel to their paper in order to qualify for the tax credit.

COLUMNS THE PANDEMIC HAS FORCED US TO SLOW down, if not to stop in our tracks. The first, Michigan: A Guide to the Wolverine State, was compiled during the Depression as part of the Works Progress Administration's Federal Writers' Project. During the summers of his early years, from 1899 to 1920, Hemingway, the son of a Chicago doctor, vacationed in Michigan's Northwoods. [Extracted from the article]

The article focuses on two books "The Hunter Gracchus and Other Papers on Literature and Art" and "The Cardiff Team: Ten Stories," by Guy Davenport. On the long march through the woods of the world, humankind seeks a lamp by which it will be led. Goodly guidance, then, is a thoroughly human need and in the world of arts and letters, Davenport, poet, painter, translator, fictionist and critic, has been for decades an indispensable guide in all the darkness. As an essayist, Davenport has treated a gallimaufry of subjects in his previous collections. Davenport's genius is in charting connections the invisible contiguities between continents of human make, the family resemblances between the far-flung forces.

Suzanne Rabe was a first-year student at the Arizona State University in 1971 when she came across "New Times," a newspaper started a year earlier by a group of students and dropouts to protect the war in Vietnam. One day, Rabe was working at the campus library when Michael Lacey walked in and introduced himself as a college dropout. anymore. From its rebellious roots, New Times Inc. has grown to a national chain that owns eight alternative newsweeklies stretching from Miami to San Francisco, plus an advertising group that represents six other papers. It hires lots of writers at salaries of $35,000 or more. It still takes on everyone from corporate polluters to corrupt politicians, but it also takes pains to distance itself from its radical past. INSET: The big six.

Presents the poem "Paper," by W.S. Merwin.

Presents the poem " The Paper Speaks," by Suzanne Noguere.

Lists books published in 1975 by writers who have appeared in 'The Nation' in 1976. 'Topics in American Studies,' by Lawrence Alloway; 'Food, Shelter and the American Dream,' by Stanley Aronowitz; 'Grief, Poems & Versions of Poems,' by Stephen Berg; 'Men in Battle,' by Alvah Bessie.

American papers typically assumed that the victims of lynchings were guilty and deserved their fate, publishing boldface headlines such as "NEGRO BRUTE LYNCHED" (The Washington Post, August 2, 1899); "A FEARFUL RIDE OF DEATH. Wells had written to the paper in response to a Post editorial criticizing her anti-lynching campaign. Newspapers Defended Slavery THERE ARE A FEW EXAMPLES, MOSTLY in the North and West, of long-lived newspapers that, as far as I can tell, did not publish ads for slaves, including The New York Times. Similarly lurid reports, which would have attracted curious readers and meant greater profits from newspaper sales, were also published and reprinted nationwide by the Associated Press, the Los Angeles Times, The Boston Globe, the Chicago Tribune, the San Francisco Examiner, and dozens of others. [Extracted from the article]

Columbia Broadcasting Systems lawyers spiked a 60 minutes interview with a former tobacco executive who wanted to criticize the industry, a door opened to a story that is only beginning to be told: the way Big tobacco has silenced critics and manipulated public information about its cancer causing product. As the 60 minutes episode faded into a Morley-is-mad-at-Mike story, several crucial aspects of the power of the tobacco corporations to control the news have gone unexamined. Brown & Williamson, the company CBS lawyers feared, didn't have to threaten, much less sue, the network to censor a story.

This article discusses on the contradictions between free expression and the rights of the newspapers to publish what it wants. In 1989, "The New York Times," champion of the First Amendment, declared in a review that Washington investigative reporter, Dan Moldea exhibited "too much sloppy journalism" in "Interference: How Organized Crime Influences Professional Football. Moldea wanted to respond in a letter, but the "Times" refused to let him which compelled Moldea to sue the "Times." It was found that "the trial court erred in ruling that the "Times" review could not be defamatory as a matter of law."

This article focuses on a case of a criminal Lori Berenson. During the nearly five years of her incarceration, much has been written in the United States about Lori Berenson, on how the daughter of liberal, academic parents turned a youthful concern for social justice into a committed passion. Although there have been some reports focusing on Berenson's work with leftist organizations in Central America, little is known about the circumstances of her arrest in Peru. But mention the name Lori Berenson to Peruvians, and the face most of them see in their minds is the one that appeared on their television sets on January 8, 1996, when she was presented to the press by the police, making her first public statement since her arrest.

The article offers commentary on the small mill town of Berlin, New Hampshire that suffered an economic setback when its sole manufacturer, the local paper mill, was decimated. A similar mill in a nearby town, the Wausau paper mill, was shut down, and U.S. presidential candidate John Edwards came there to aid the laid-off mill workers. This act of concern proves that Edward's populist politics set the domestic economic agenda for the 2008 U.S. presidential race.

The author complains about the quality and lack of readership of the "New York Sun," a conservative daily newspaper based in New York City. The author accuses the paper of using underhanded tactics to make sales figures look good. In reality, the author states, no one is reading the newspaper. The author also asks why conservatives would open the paper in such a liberal city. The author notes the efforts of editor-in-chief Seth Lipsky at promotion by condemning other papers in the city.

The article focuses in the organization Accuracy in Academia. The organization seeking to root out the dissemination of "disinformation or misinformation" by radical professors. The organization's first newsletter reported on an unidentified Midwestern professor whose lectures on Latin American history criticized U.S. policy in the region. The target of A.I.A.'s March newsletter, its third, was Linda Arnold, a historian at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in Blacksburg, Virginia. Although A.I.A. focused on Arnold as a result of a student complaint, the newsletter did not attack anything she said in class.

Press coverage of the "insurance crisis," or "civil liability crisis" is a mess. Reporters and editors seem perfectly happy to settle for two types of coverage: anecdotes and hysteria. They love anecdotes about judgments such as the nearly one million bucks given the woman who claimed she lost her psychic powers in a CAT scan. Or the $1.5 million awarded the families of three fishermen lost in a storm the National Weather Service failed to forecast. The idea in these stories is to convey the notion which is exactly what the insurance industry want the press to convey that juries everywhere have become gullible and insanely generous and must be sat on. The hysteria stories are built around a long and growing list of businesses that can no longer afford liability insurance because the rates have been jacked up by as much as 1 ,000 percent in the past couple of years.

The authors offers their views on progressive opinion journals at universities. They notes that political opinions are forming and campus newspapers are framing the debate. For students, the campus media are their first and often only news source while for progressive students, the alternative campus media are also an important rallying point. The authors also mentions that alternative campus papers can stimulate people to move their thinking in new directions, put topics on the campus agenda and shift campus discourse to the left. INSET: A Once-Bright Star Dims.

The article discusses the importance and evolution of Black media in the United States. It highlights the historical role of Black newspapers in exposing racial injustices and promoting the collective identity and self-worth of African Americans. The article also explores the challenges faced by Black media outlets in the digital age and the need for diverse and comprehensive coverage of issues affecting the Black community. It emphasizes the importance of Black media in empowering the Black community, controlling their image, and broadening America's vision of itself. [Extracted from the article]

The article discusses the growing power of tech giants like Google, TikTok, Facebook, Amazon, and Twitter, and their impact on the media industry. These companies have gained control over the country's media infrastructure, leading to a decline in resources for news organizations while they profit from their work. The article suggests that anti-monopoly measures and nondiscrimination laws could be effective tools in dismantling concentrated power and ensuring fair treatment for news organizations. It also emphasizes the importance of local news for democracy and proposes solutions such as the Journalism Competition and Preservation Act and antitrust actions against tech giants. [Extracted from the article]

The article discusses books like "Revolution of Conscience: Martin Luther King Jr., and the Philosophy of Nonviolence," by Greg Moses and "The Papers of Martin Luther King, Jr.," vol. 3, "Birth of a New Age, December 1955--December 1956," edited by Clayborne Carson. The guttings of King's philosophical and spiritual essence mean walking away from the man who said, "our government must depend more on its moral power than on its military power. One explanation for the nation's refusal to honor King the pacifist is that pacifism itself is not understood. It is rarely taught as a viable alternative to violence.

This article profiles the New York Sun, the conservative, upstart newspaper that many predicted would fold quickly after its formation in 2002. Although the paper loses money, it is not a concern for the wealthy benefactors who fund the paper purely on ideological grounds. The paper's publisher, Seth Lipsky, makes no apologies for his rough style that alienates many people.

BOOK & the ARTS NOW THAT WE KNOW HOW THE UNITED States' generation-long misadventure in depressing cer's Afghanistan in Craig experience The Whitlock's ended, Afghanistan in 2005, one excellent Army Papers: recounted and offiA Secret History of the War, takes on an elevated salience. From a counterterrorism perspective, the United States is now dependent on the Taliban to live up to their claim that they will not let Afghanistan be used again as a base for global terrorist attacks by Al Qaeda or some successor group. The United States would never have invaded Afghanistan simply to keep the Taliban at bay, but now it had to stay and fight them because it was already there. A decade and a half of grinding counterinsurgency warfare and expensive nation-building efforts later, President Donald Trump made a deal with the Taliban under which the United States would withdraw its forces in 2021. [Extracted from the article]

HENRY KISSINGER SHOULD HAVE GONE DOWN WITH THE REST OF them: Haldeman, Ehrlichman, Mitchell, Dean, and Nixon. Nixon and Kissinger were desperate to resume the talks that they had helped sabotage, and their desperation manifested itself in ferocity. Keying his performance to stir up Nixon's resentments, he depicted Ellsberg as smart, subversive, promiscuous, perverse - and privileged: "He's now married a very rich girl", Kissinger told Nixon. [Extracted from the article]

The author discusses 15-M, the May 15, 2011 protests by youths in Spain who rallied against the nation's 21 percent unemployment rate and the proposed spending cuts by Spain's Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero. He reports on the role played by newspapers such as "Público" and "El País" in the protest movement. He states that the 15-M protests, which were repeated several times in Spain in 2011, served as inspiration for other worldwide protests such as the Occupy Wall Street movement.

In the US, Uber hired Alan Krueger, a distinguished Princeton economist, to write a paper on the company and especially its "driver-partners" (Uber's term at the time). When I first read Krueger's paper, I was pained to see the economist - who died by suicide in 2019 - producing such propaganda. Krueger's coauthor was Jonathan Hall, an Uber staff economist, and the 2015 paper was based on a company-sponsored survey of its drivers. [Extracted from the article]

The article focuses on the book "The Vermont Papers: Recreating Democracy on a Human Scale," by Frank Bryan and John McClaughry. It is the guiding logic of the book, which goes something like this: Scale is an essential element of all social constructs, though one the Industrial Age has tried to ignore, "In governance," as Frank Bryan and John McClaughry say, "as with nearly everything else in this century, scale has been the forgotten ingredient." The result is the centralization and giantism of political and economic institutions and their inability to respond and function properly, "the collapse of the American center" and "the specter of a government that no longer works."

The article discusses the crisis relate to U.S. newspapers in 2016. Topics covered include the slow death of newspapers in the country due to the launch of online resources such as social networking sites. Also mentioned is the impact of the launch of advertising sites such as Craigslist on the demise of U.S. newspapers.

Criticizes the secret plot documented by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in clandestine with the U.S. administration to depose and kill leftist ruler Salvador Allende in El Salvador. Forgery operation of CIA in El Salvador; Efforts by CIA to distort the truth of Allende's murder; Support by the U.S. administration to CIA to weave the conspiracy to kill Allende.

Lists books published in 1976 written by authors whose work has been published in the U.S. periodical 'The Nation' in 1976. 'Open Doorways' by Philip Appleman; 'Lady Oracle' by Margaret Atwood; 'The Atomic Bomb: The Critical Issues' edited by Barton Bernstein.