Volume 22 no 3

CounterPunch Magazine, March 2015

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In this Issue:

• Fattening Wall Street: Mike Whitney reports on the metamorphosis of Fed Chair Janet Yallin into a lackey for the bankers, bond traders and brokers
• The New Religious Wars Over the Environment: Joyce Nelson charts the looming confrontation between the Catholic Church and fundamentalists over climate change, extinction and GMOs
• A People’s History of Mexican Constitutions: Andrew Smolski on the 200 year long struggle of Mexico’s peasants, indigenous people and workers to secure legal rights and liberties
• Spying on Black Writers: Ron Jacobs uncovers the FBI’s 50 year-long obsession with black poets, novelists and essayists
• O Elephant! JoAnn Wypijewski on the grim history of circus elephants
• Jeffrey St. Clair on birds and climate change
• Chris Floyd on the US as nuclear bully
• Seth Sandronsky on Van Jones’ blind spot
• Lee Ballinger on musicians and the State Department
• Kim Nicolini on the films of JC Chandor