Volume 21 no 4

CounterPunch Magazine, April 2014

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In this Issue:

• Disasters of Oil: Joshua Frank probes the mounting swarms of earthquakes in fracking zones throughout the Midwest and the lengths big oil and state regulators have gone to conceal the obvious connections
• Revolutions from Below: Daniel Edwards reports from South America on the persistence of radical movements in the wake of Hugo Chavez’s death
• How the Banks Won the Foreclosure Crisis: Darwin Bond-Graham exposes how the banks continue to profit from the misfortune of homeowners
• Support the Troops, Support Yourself: Lee Ballinger on the plight of veterans in America
• Why Do We Need a Book Industry? M.G. Piety on the gatekeepers of publishing
• Life After the Bombs: Carmelo Ruiz-Marello returns to Vieques
• Magical Humanism: Cesar Chelala writes an intimate portrait of Gabriel Garcia Marquez
• Daniel Wolff on Jesse Winchester
• Chris Floyd on Russia, Ukraine and Shock Therapy capitalism
• Mike Whitney on why the Democrats deserve to lose the midterms
• JoAnn Wypijewski on Mexicali’s masters of the machine
• Jeffrey St. Clair on the economics of contempt