Adbusters #74, NOV/DEC 2007

The Quick & Dirty

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The Quick & Dirty Issue

TRUTH IN ADVERTISING

Marketing guru Bob Garfield defends his turf.

IT’S TIME TO RETHINK THE US-ISRAEL ALLIANCE

Chris Hedges on the troubled marriage that’s poisoning the planet.

THE ECONOMICS TEXTBOOK OF THE 21ST CENTURY

Why we are still making due with the last century’s economics, by Paul Ormerod.

EARTH, INC.

Stephen Leahy argues that staying in the black now means going green.

WHAT IS CANADA FOR?

A conversation with Michael Byers about Canada’s role on the global stage.

Plus opinion & analysis from David Brooks, Mousa Abu Marzook, Zetty Brake, Astra Taylor, Zoe Blunt, Vicky Husband, Kathleen Christison...

Images by Simen Johan, Bansky, Agus Suwage, Sharon Lockhart, Peter Menzel, Chris Jordon, Till Gerhard, Roland Schmid, Alexandra Boulat, Peter Funch, Cara Bloch, Misha Gordon...

Nothing To Do But Shop

Whether at home or abroad, shopping seems to have become the national pastime in regions around the world. Shopping for pleasure is not a new phenomenon: the trouble with it today is that our generation cannot afford the financial and environmental costs that come with it.

Maxim's Sex War

With photos of women in black bikinis striking provocative poses, Maxim magazine devoted five full pages in their July 2007 issue to answer the single most pressing question in the Middle East: "Are the women in the Israeli Defense Forces the world's sexiest soldiers?"

Elliott Abrams, Dual Loyalist and Neocon Extraordinaire

Elliott Abrams, an influential neocon and pro-Israel lobbyist par excellence, has been the principal Middle East adviser on the National Security Council staff throughout most of the Bush administration - all without most Washington observers even noticing.

They Shoot Media Moguls, Don't They?

He stalks, he pounces, he defies all the howls of anguish and protest and drags his prey down. Rupert Murdoch's hostile takeover of The Wall Street Journal dominated the business news for most of this year. And yet despite all that coverage, the real story never came out.