Volume 22 no 5

CounterPunch Magazine, June 2015

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In this Issue: 

• War By Other Means: David Macaray writes a short history of economic sanctions
• Purple Heart Nation: historian Jerry Lembcke on the fetishization of war wounds
• Argentine journalist Daniel Edwards assays the political influence of the late Eduardo Galeano on the imagination of the American Left
• in Free-Range Capitalism, journalist Stan Cox reports on the economic and environmental damage inflicted by corporate outsourcing
• Lee Ballinger reports on political street art.
• Mike Whitney on the dangerous confrontation between China and the US in the South China Sea
•  Jeffrey St. Clair on the forgotten political legacy of blues legend BB King
•  Kristin Kolb on the role of illness in the art of Frida Kahlo
• JoAnn Wypijewski on the senseless killing of  killing of Charlie Keunang
• Kim Nicolini surveys the films of Sofia Coppola
• Nathaniel St. Clair says farewell to “Mad Men.”