sed with the permission of <i>Final Edition</i>, Volume I, no. 1 (the last issue), Autumn 2004.
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<b>This piece first appeared at <a href="http://www.tomdispatch.com" target="new">Tomdispatch.com</a>, a web log of The Nation Institute.
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