Adbusters #76, MARCH/APRIL 2008

The Reconquest of Cool

COOL: THE RISE, FALL AND REBIRTH OF AN ATTITUDE

A visual essay on the rise and fall of cool.

NEW WAVE COFFEE

After years of Starbucks domination, indy coffee shops are fighting back.

SINS OF OMISSION

Economists who should have won the Nobel Prize, and those that should have theirs revoked.

THE QUESTION

An Algerian journalist's harrowing account about water torture gives a disturbing glimpse at US actions today.

THE PAIN OF OTHERS

North America's growing homeless crisis challenges our own empathy.

Plus opinion and analysis by Nick Turse, Stephen Lewis, J.M. Coetzee and Linda McQuaig and Tom Green...

Images by Joe Szabo, Larry Sultan, Wolfram Hahn, Jesper Ulvelius, Amani Willlet, Stefan Abrams, Lucy Levene...

Posts (14)

Showing 14 articles from the print edition of Adbusters Magazine

America's Confidence Crisis

After five years of lies, incompetence and disorder, the US is facing a moral crisis that it may not survive.

28 comments happy_new_year, 08 August 2008

Vulture Funds: A New Category in Capitalism

A new capitalism – brutal and conquering – is moving in. It's the capitalism of a new category of vulture funds: private equity funds with the appetite of an ogre that command colossal amounts of capital.

28 comments Ignacio Ramonet, 05 August 2008

Caracas

Venezuela's Hugo Chavez is lifting the Caracas barrios out of poverty and giving the slums a new kind of meaning.

46 comments #OCCUPYWALLSTREET: Make Wall Street Pay, 10 April 2008

Waiting for D-Day

Mary and Dave are getting divorced after 25 years of marriage. My question is, what's the rush? Why did they wait 25 years?

52 comments 1000 Years Soil, 10 April 2008

Witness

Whether it's the stills of Khmer Rouge victims or the portraits of dead American soldiers, we need to witness both sides of death to understand what war has wrought.

52 comments Caroline E. Winter, 10 April 2008

The Reconquest of Cool

Cockroach Herding

When marketers convince us to follow their trends, the difference between humans and insects gets a little blurrier.

0 comment Douglas Haddow, 25 March 2008

The Reconquest of Cool

Banksy Bombs

When street artist Banksy's pictures appeared on the West Bank "partition wall," they drew the world's attention to the barrier in ways that protest and op-ed pieces could not.

44 comments Dead Police, 25 March 2008

The Reconquest of Cool

Bare Bones

We've been sucked into a disgusting cycle: we pile on the pounds, chase them away on the treadmill, and then celebrate with junk food. Where is our balance?

24 comments Hurray The Butter is Gone, 25 March 2008

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