The Brain Police To the Fifth Estate: The feature on the “Crisis in Health Care” (June FE) is O.K. However, I think it should include some coverage of the so-called mental health system. (The Brain Police wear white uniforms!)
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Letters to the Fifth Estate
by Various Authors
Fifth Estate # 339, Spring, 1992
Money, Money, Money Hi: In his review of Counterfeit Currency, E.B. Maple asserted that gold has served as money because of arbitrary human assignation, an analysis which treats money in general as a mere sign. (See Winter 1992 Fifth Estate.)
News & Reviews
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 339, Spring, 1992
James Koehnline’s inventive collages often grace our pages including this issue. His mixture of the ancient with the modern, sacred idols with the banal, and the improbable alongside the ordinary, are often ominously unsettling. The jarring juxtaposition creates a combination …
JFK: Cold Warrior
by Jack Straw
Fifth Estate # 339, Spring, 1992
“I shall never be able to forget where I was standing on that dramatic day when President John Fitzgerald Kennedy nearly killed me. It was during the nuclear confrontation that arose out of his war on Cuba.” —Christopher Hitchens in …
The Triumph of Capital
by George Bradford (David Watson)
Fifth Estate # 339, Spring, 1992
INTRODUCTION “Actually, as Winston well knew, it was only four years since Oceania had been at war with Eastasia and in alliance with Eurasia. But that was merely a piece of furtive knowledge which he happened to possess because his …
Letters
by Various Authors
Fifth Estate # 394, Summer 2015 - Technology
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Off Center
by Sol Plafkin
Fifth Estate # 61, Sept. 5-18, 1968
The rabid anti-Communist vultures are now having a field day. They are suddenly showing a concern for the people of Czechoslovakia which they never exhibited for the Blacks in Rhodesia and South Africa or the Orientals in Vietnam.
Ammunition Books
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 273, June 1976
A PRIMER OF LIBERTARIAN EDUCATION by Joel Spring, Free Life Editions, 157 pp. $3.95 Traces the tradition of libertarian opposition to established education from Rousseau and Godwin to Neill and Freire. “Spring places the radical challenge into its own tradition …
The Vietnam War
by David Watson
Fifth Estate # 394, Summer 2015 - Technology
INTRODUCTION When this essay first appeared in the Fifth Estate in Spring 1985, the Vietnam War already seemed to be receding into ancient history. Central America was at that time being battered with money and proxies, rather than with “American …
Bits of the World in Brief
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 312, Spring 1983
Harrises Freed Bill and Emily Harris, the Symbionese Liberation Army members who pleaded guilty to kidnapping newspaper heiress Patricia Hearst in 1974 and were imprisoned in 1978, will be paroled in June. Their attorney, Stuart Hanlon, said Bill Harris will …
Madness and Nuclear Drama on TV
by Norman Bates
Fifth Estate # 312, Spring 1983
Within the space of one week in March, two films dealing with different aspects of nuclear madness appeared on Network television. In “The China Syndrome,” a film which had been released right at the time of the Three Mile Island …
All Wars are Lies!
by Walker Lane (Peter Werbe)
Fifth Estate # 372, Spring 2006
War! Uh! What is it good for? Absolutely nothing! –Edwin Starr, “War” The Motown great Edwin Starr asked and answered this question in his 1970 song that became a best-selling record and the anthem of another in a series of …
Letters
by Various Authors
Fifth Estate # 374, Winter 2007
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Looking Back on the Vietnam War
by David Watson, Richard Drinnon
Fifth Estate # 346, Summer, 1995
This article first appeared in FE #320, Spring 1985 under the pen-name George Bradford. It is reprinted on the 20th anniversary of the defeat of the U.S. empire in Vietnam.
The Practical Marx
by John Zerzan
Fifth Estate # 299, October 22, 1979
FE Note: The following article, an attempt to come to grips with the implications of Karl Marx’s everyday life by long-time FE contributor John Zerzan, has stirred considerable controversy among those of us presently working on the paper and necessitates, …