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Issue 75 The Big Ideas of 2008

The Big Ideas of 2008

Economic Conversion

Some of the world’s top economists speak about shifting our priorities to save the planet.

Changing Climate

Mark Lynas is cautious of accepting that big business has changed its stripes on climate change.

Return to the Source

A visual tour of food’s evolution from the organic to the synthetic.

Journalism’s State of Emergency

How journalism turned from a watchdog to a lapdog of power.

Bush on the Couch

Matt Taibbi delves into the psyche of America’s sickest president.

Plus opinion and analysis by Evo Morales, Bill Moyers, Timothy Garton Ash, Linda McQuaig, Herman Daly, Zbignew Brzezinski, Clive Spash, Guy Rundle, Gilles Raveaud, Lourdes Beneria…

Images by Peter Funch, Sas Christian, James Nachtwey, Miles Aldridge, Ed Kashi, Corey Arnold, Brian Ulrich, Delia Brown, Craig Cameron Olsen, Oleg Dou, Ricardo Barcellos, Bruce Davidson…

from Culture Shop

Towards what kind of future are we being led by savage, fanatical capitalism?”

Selected articles

Whispers

Everyone’s up. My arms stiffen at my sides. I clench my fists. The voices begin. It’s time. You have to go.

Holy Betrayal

Pope Benedict’s silence on sexual abuse in the Catholic Church is a betrayal to both justice and Jesus.

A Will for Change

Fed up with destructive economic theories, a growing number of economists are forging a new path for our monetary future.

How I Learned to Love the Wall

The security wall separating Israel and Palestine keeps the “beautiful” from having to look at the “hideous.”

The Rich Stand Accused

We must ‘bring down the rich’ rather than pull up the poor…”

From Peacekeeper to Combatant

After creating United Nations peacekeepers, Canada is leaving its legacy behind to support the most lethal military machine in history.

Fighting For Air

As Adbusters heads back to court, we give an update and some background about our fight for commercial airspace.

Editorial

When the Center Collapsed

The year 2007 may well be remembered as the year the Earth tipped, but Adbusters is taking a firm hold of the planet in 2008 to try and balance things out.

State of Emergency

With journalism on its deathbed and desperately clinging for life, the media needs to atone for its sins if it has any chance for survival.†

The Myth Maker

Alan Greenspan’s thick weave of lies and deceit may mean the American economy never recovers.

Meet The New Boss

A new class of kings has taken over Wall Street and they’re ravishing everything that lies before them.†

The Upside Down Under

Kevin Rudd may have knocked off John Howard to become Australia’s Prime Minister, but now the hard part comes in trying to lead a country that has never had a sense of direction.

Economic Indoctrination

The neoliberal indoctrination of young economics students in universities around the world all starts with one textbook - N. Gregory Mankiw’s Principles of Economics.

The Digital Pitch

The rise of the digital media gives advertisers unprecedented access to your personal life. With billions of dollars at stake, corporations are using this powerful medium to hone their ads precisely to your interests and unconsciously influence your ideas and values.

Changing Climate

Once the preserve almost exclusively of environmentalists and scientists, 2007 was the year when climate change went big business. But this corporate volte-face raises some serious problems about† whether we should accept this overture or steer clear of what still looks like industry greenwashing.

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