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Miami New Times
South Florida's lawless exotic rental car industry keeps rolling.
By Gus Garcia-Roberts
Houston Press
In Texas, restitution for victims is nothing but a state-sanctioned sham.
By Chris Vogel
Seattle Weekly
If you thought Seattle couldn't fetishize coffee any more, you haven't been to a "cupping" yet.
By Jonathan Kauffman
It's Not OK to Hit, Man
Published on May 28, 2008 at 4:23am
You hear stories about them: The military contractors, the private armies, the paracapitalist danger boys. Sometimes they're portrayed as heroes in action movies. But John Perkins used to be one of them, albeit a business-oriented one, not a missile-launching one, and he wrote a book about the experience called Confessions of an Economic Hit Man. Ugh. We'd all like to ignore them, but the wiser we get about the unsavory systems that use them to keep the little guy down, the better. At this talk, the author, (who also wrote The Secret History of the American Empire) also offers some of his ideas for making things more equitable.
Tue., June 3, 6:30 p.m., 2008