Quiz: Are You Obsolete?; Brazil Builds the Better City, in Curitiba; Spotlight on Apple's iPod and the iWaste campaign; Good Bye: An Honest Obituary for George Wackenhut, FBI spook turned private security billionare; The Politics of Poop.

FEATURES & INTERVIEWS

• Litterbug World: an interview with Heather Rogers by Ariane Conrad Hyde
  Waste-by-design, planned obsolescence & capitalism, oh my!
  
• Addicted to Waste: Harm Reduction, Disposability & The Myth of Activist Purity
  Brian Awehali interviews environmental activist Julia Butterfly Hill
  
• What's the Matter With White Folks? Racial Privilege, Electoral Politics
  and the Limits of Class Populism" by Tim Wise
  
• In Good Conscience: conscientious objector Aidan Delgado speaks to Scott Fleming
  about his experiences in Iraq and the atrocities of Abu Ghraib that he witnessed.
  
• The End of Single-Site Protest, by Brendan O'Sullivan
  How labor is being outflanked, and why
  
• Profiting off Disposability: the Gaia Deception, by Kari Lydersen
  Reduce, Re-use, Recycle... Racketeer?
  

• "Disposable People and the New Slavery in Brazil," by Kevin Bales
  
• No Waste: Photos from Cuba
  
• Voltairine de Cleyre on The Much-Making of Things & The One Great Idea of Our Time

BOOKS

• The Political Edge, edited by Chris Carlsson
• Homeland, by Dale Maharidge & Michael Williamson
• Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found, by Suketu Mehta
• The Flouride Deception, by Christopher Bryson & Theo Colborn
• Don't Think of an Elephant, by George Lakoff

MUSIC

• Jazz in the Age of Empire by Jeff Conant
• Brazilian queercore band Dominatrix on music and politics; by Abby Sewell
• From Monuments to Masses
• This Bike is a Pipe Bomb

FILM

• Tarnation; The Fog of War; Peaceable Kingdom; The Future of Food; The Century of the Self

PLUS: What if you dropped a Good (non-lethal) Bomb instead of protesting?; suitably inappropriate editorial cartoons; obliquely hilarious side matter; and other rewarding nuggets for those who dig.

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