The Magazine Page

Beginning on February 19, 2006 and continuing at weekly intervals for seven weeks this website appeared in a magazine format. You can access the seven issues from this page. The following entries give the date of publication, the table of contents, and the cover graphic of each of them.

The cover graphic of the last issue is a slide show of 14 frames from the movie Ninotchka. As a link to this issue of the magazine I have selected slide 7 as the most politically significant.

Date and Table of Contents of the Issue	Cover Graphic
February 19, 2006 Cover story: The Nazi "Special Courts" and the Reichstag Fire Trial of Georgi Dimitroff. Featured essay: A response to the New York Times' negative comments about the Red Army in WW2. Featured graphic: A cartoon suggesting that George Bush is as much a war criminal as Adolf Hitler. Worth reading: A link to an essay in Counterpunch, Half-a-Dozen Questions About 9-11 They Don't Want You to Ask.
February 26, 2006 Cover story: The 1936 Olympics in Berlin. Featured essay: Nixon's propaganda about the Vietnam war in retrospect. Featured graphic: An impressionistic rendering of the Triboro Bridge in New York. Worth reading: A reprint of a five part essay on the US "war on terrorism."
March 05, 2006 Cover story: The WW2 bombing of Dresden. Featured essay: 'Human Rights' as a strategic weapon. Featured graphic: Goebbels stalks Condoleezza Rice at a Kiev press conference. Political cartoon: European reaction to the CIA's "extraordiary rendition" (torturing of prisoners). Worth reading: Covert German support of the US invasion of Iraq.
March 12, 2006 Cover story: A poster for the Bush regime's New World Order. Featured essay:The London hit play My Name Is Rachel Corrie gets nixed in NY by Israeli agents and Bush is AWOL when it comes to defending the Bill of Rights. Featured graphic: Devotees of Shiva in India create a remarkable likeness in sand. Political cartoon: Diplomacy as war by other means: A hypothetical conversation between two foreign ministers. Worth reading: Asking the unanswerable question: Why did the US destroy Iraq?
March 19, 2006 Cover story: Greta Garbo's first sound movie, Anna Christie, had its premier in 1930. The English and German versions are compared. Featured essay: The New World Order looks like it's on shaky ground. Featured graphic: The cover of Kurt Tucholsky's first book, Rheinsberg: A Picture Book For Lovers published in 1912. Political cartoon: An early view of the military industrial complex and how it gets its money. Worth reading: On the threshhold of the greatest catastrophe in world history, one opponent of war and fascism writes to another.
March 26, 2006 Cover story: In the aftermath of the Reichstag Fire and citing a national emergency Chancellor Adolf Hitler asks the German Parliament to grant his Government special powers. Featured essay: The Bush regime, the result of a judicial coup, has reduced US security to its lowest point in modern times. Featured graphic: Salka Viertel's former house in Santa Monica, California. Political cartoon: A parable called Circling the Wagons. Worth reading: A Kurt Tucholsky 1928 essay on the 'Quatsch' that passes for everyday verbal communication between people. The intervening 78 years haven't proved him wrong.
April 06, 2006 Cover story: Five months to WW2 and the Hollywood moguls are still obsessing over the Soviet Union and soft on Hitler. Featured essay: When the weather is changing fast you need a Weatherman to see which way the wind is blowing. Featured graphic: From the Ironical Chronicle's drawing archive. Political cartoon: A Red State Republican turns on the charm. Worth reading: A translation of an essay from the German weekly Freitag on the real meaning of the defeat of Hitler Germany. Its relevance for Americans is obvious.	Slide 7 of 14.