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AND CRIME IN DC
BLACK
DC HISTORY
THE
CLUB: HOW WASHINGTON REALLY WORKS
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& nature
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BEST
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CORPORATE CURSE How
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THE
CORPORADOS
WATCHLIST
DERIVITIVE
AMERICA & THE ENRON GENERATION
Freedom
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LETTER
TO A SPOOK
ESSAYS
ON CIVIL LIBERTIES & JUSTICE
FREEDOM INDICATORS
HOW
TO STAY FREE
WHOSE
LAND IS IT, ANYWAY?
SECURING
THE HOMELAND: FREEDOM AS A LOCAL OPTION
FEMA
THE
CASE FOR FIREARMS INSURANCE
TALK
ON CIVIL LIBERTIES TO A HIGH SCHOOL
THE CREEPING
COUP
CLUES
YOUR COUNTRY MAY BE TURNING INTO A FASCIST STATE
HOW
YOU BECAME THE ENEMY
NOTES
ON FASCISM
MISSION
CREEP:
The growth of the military
in American politics
MARTIAL
LAW
THE REAL HOLOCAUST DENIAL
HOW
MUCH DO WE LEARN FROM EVIL?
MINUTES
OF THE WANSEE CONFERENCE
WAR ON DRUGS
DRUG
NEWS, ARTICLES & LINKS
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WAR ON MARIJUANA
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CONTRAS & COCAINE
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Party
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DOWN THE MAINSTREAM
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I RAN
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Hidden
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PRESERVATION
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FORECLOSURES
ECOLOGICAL
COST OF TRAVEL
ELECTED
ATTORNEY GENERAL
INSTANT
RUNOFF VOTING
HOLISTIC ECONOMICS
JURY
RIGHTS
MARTIAL
LAW
MASS BLACK INCARCERATION
POPULATION
GROWTH
PRINTING
MONEY
PUBLIC
CAMPAIGN FINANCING
RESTORATIVE
JUSTICE
SHARED
EQUITY HOME PURCHASES
SINGLE
WOMEN
URBAN
STATEHOOD
USURY
WAR
ABOLITION
WAR
ON DRUGS
YOUTH
RIGHTS
Idea
mill
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IDEA
MILL STORIES
BRINGING DEVOLUTION TO THE 'HOOD
CARE & FEEDING OF THEORIES
CATO
& EB WHITE ON THE VIRTUES OF OLD AGE
ESSAYS
ON A VARIETY OF THINGS
GETTING
THROUGH THE BAD TIMES
GLOBAL
DUMBING: THE POLITICS OF ENTROPY
HANDLING
THE BULLIES
LOSING
TIME, LOSING SPACE
HIDDEN
ISSUES
INVENTION
OPPOSING
& CREATING
PARIAH
ECONOMY AND THE RISE OF SOCIAL BIGOTRY
POCKET
PARADIGMS: A few words
about a lot of stuff
PRACTICING
ANTHROPOLOGY WITHOUT A LICENSE
PRESERVING CULTURE & COMMUNITY AS WELL
AS WE DO HISTORY
PUNK
AND PROTEST
QUIET
STORM: THE COLLAPSE OF OUR CULTURE
RUNNING
OUT OF CHANGE
THINGS
TO DO IN THE BAD TIMES
WHAT'S
A HUMANITIES?
WHAT
LAWYERS & JUDGES WON'T TELL YOU ABOUT JURIES
WHERE'S
THE COUNTER CULTURE WHEN WE NEED IT?
WHY BANNING HUMAN NATURE DOESN'T WORK
Issues
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FINANCING
COMMUNITY
LAND TRUSTS
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COMMONWEALTH
DEVOLUTION
DRUG
WAR
ECOLOGICAL COST OF TRAVEL
FULLY INFORMED JURIES
GAY MARRIAGE
GETTING ALONG WITH OTHER AMERICANS
HEALTHCARE
HIDDEN
ISSUES
HOLISTIC ECONOMICS
IDEOLOGY OF SCALE
IMMIGRATION
LOCAL CURRENCIES
LOSING
TIME, LOSING SPACE:
MARTIAL
LAW
MILITARIZATION
OF AMERICA
NEIGHBORHOOD DEVOLUTION
POPULATION
GROWTH
PUBLIC
CAMPAIGN FINANCING
RELOCALIZING
AMERICA
ROBBER
BARON ECONOMICS
ROLE OF RESPECT IN PEACE
SAVING
THE CITY FROM ITSELF
SMALL
SCHOOLS
SMART
GROWTH
STAYING
FREE:
SUSTAIN
YOURSELF
UNIVERSAL
HEALTH CARE
URBAN
STATEHOOD
USURY
WAR ABOLITION
WHO
PRINTS THE MONEY?
YOUTH
RIGHTS
John
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MCCAIN
THE DANGEROUS MYTH OF JOHN McCAIN
SUNDAY TALK SHOWS HAVE STRONG CONSERVATIVE
BIAS
MCCAIN:
WE LOSE WAR AND 'THEY WILL FOLLOW US HOME'
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POST LITERATE AMERICA
CLICHE
CHALLENGE
JACK
ANDERSON: A MEDIA ORIGINAL
WHY
JOURNALISM ISN'T A PROFESSION
FLOGGING
THE BLOGS WON'T CLEAR THE FOG
JOURNALISM:
WHAT GOOD OLD DAYS?
THE
REAL KATHERINE GRAHAM
WORDS
AND MEANING
LETTER
TO DONALD GRAHAM
USA
TOMORROW
Middle
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IRAQ
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WAR ONE
THE
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ON THE ROAD TO ABU GHRAIB
"I
KILLED INNOCENT PEOPLE FOR MY GOVERNMENT"
COSTS
OF THE IRAQ WAR
THE
COALITION OF THE SHILLING
HOW
TO TELL WHEN YOU'VE WON
Iran
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Israel
& Palestine
AIPAC
OUTSOURCING
FOREIGN POLICY TO ISRAEL
MIDEAST
WATER
Mix
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MISSISSIPPI
SUMMER 1964
A
FEW KIND WORDS FOR THE WHITE AMERICAN MALE
A
SHORT HISTORY OF BLACK WASHINGTON
THE
SOUND OF SEGREGATION:
Rare recording of a confrontation
at one of the first sit-ins
THINGS
IRISH-AMERICAN PROTESTANTS SHOULD KNOW ABOUT IRELAND
WHEN WAS THE LAST TIME A MEXICAN CUT YOUR
PENSION?
WHO'S AN AMERICAN?
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ON MUSIC
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uncertainty.
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REALLY HAPPENED TO THE WORLD TRADE CENTER?
THE
CRASH OF TWA 800
SPY
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OBAMA BINGO CARD
OBAMA
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COOPERATIVE
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ESSAYS
ON POLITICS
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CENTER
GETTING LIBERALS & PROGRESSIVES TO THINK
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MEMO
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GROWING
GREEN
FINDING
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RAFTING
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Rebuilding
America
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AMERICA
2.0
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POLITICS HOME
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COMMONWEALTH
FINDING
GREENER PASTURES & GREENER VOTERS
GETTING
THROUGH THE BAD TIMES
HANDLING
THE BULLIES
HOW
TO STAY FREE
MUSIC
& CHANGE
NON-POLITICAL
SIDE OF POLITICS
OPPOSING
& CREATING
PUNK
AND PROTEST
SECURING
THE HOMELAND: FREEDOM AS A LOCAL OPTION
THINGS
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THE COUNTER CULTURE WHEN WE NEED IT?
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SEX
AND CRIME IN THE CAPITAL
HOW
AMERICA'S CITIES BECAME BLACK
MISSISSIPPI
SUMMER 1964
BUCKING THE SYSTEM: Crash course on American
freedoms
JUNE
7, 1968: Sam Smith on
the death of RFK
MOB POLITICS: Three decades of political racketeering
in chart form.
MINUTES
OF THE WANNSEE CONFERENCE
THE
REAL EFFECT OF REAGANISM AND EXTREME CAPITALISM
SKULL
& BONES
WHAT
LIFE WAS REALLY LIKE UNDER PROGRESSIVE PRESIDENTS
WHAT POPULISM WAS ALL ABOUT
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GROWING
GREEN
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RAFTING
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Useful
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WEB
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ESSAYS
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THE
U.S. AND TORTURE
AN
ALTERNATIVE 9/11 REPORT
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MOVEMENT
MURDER
CAPITAL
THE ANTIWAR SPEECH C-SPAN DIDN'T LIKE
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BIN BEEN?
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NEW
WORLD ORDER
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REAL WAR: BETWEEN MYTH & REALITY
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IMF
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The online
Progressive Review is the latest version of one of America's
longest lasting alternative journals, begun by Sam Smith in 1964
as The Idler when there were just a handful of such publications
in the U.S. It morphed into the DC Gazette and then became the
Progressive Review.
Sam Smith
has the longest running act on the off-Broadway of Washington
journalism, editing alternative journals longer than almost anyone
in the country and covering Washington for almost as long as
anyone in the capital.
He started
in 1957 as a 19 year old radio reporter covering everything from
fires and murders to the White House and Capitol Hill. He has
also written four books - - three of them at the request of editors
- and helped to start six organizations including two political
parties (the national Green Party and DC Statehood Party).
He has
appeared on nearly 700 radio and TV talk shows ranging from NPR
and Pacifica to the Bill O'Reilly Show. He has been an elected
neighborhood commissioner, school parents' association president,
Coast Guard officer, semi-professional musician, and plaintiff
in seven public interest law suits, three of them successful
and one of them reaching the Supreme Court.
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Your editor has been a
musician for many decades. He started the first band his Quaker
school ever had and played drums with bands up until 1980 when
he switched to stride piano. He had his own band until the mid-1990s
and has played with the New Sunshine Jazz Band, Hill City Jazz
Band, Not So Modern Jazz Band and the Phoenix Jazz Band.
NOTES
ON THE MUSIC
Here are a few tracks:
SAM SMITH'S DECOLAND BAND
'SHINE'
JELLY ROLL
PHOENIX JAZZ BAND
APEX BLUES  Sam
playing with the Phoenix Jazz Band at the Central Ohio Jazz festival
in 1990. Joining the band is George James on sax. James, then
84, had been a member of the Louis Armstrong and Fats Waller
orchestras and hadappeared on some 60 records. More
notes on James
WISER MAN Sam
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OH MAMA Sam piano & vocal
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