AMERICAN REPORT REVIEW OF RELIGION AND AMERICAN POWER

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP88-01314R000100010062-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 6
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 22, 2004
• Sequence Number: 62
• Publication Date: November 1, 1972
• Content Type: MAGAZINE

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American
REPORT
review of religion
and american power
American Report examines the moral issues
of war, peace and social justice raised by
the misuse of American power at home and
abroad.
Our own independent worldwide news
sources provide factual reporting and in-
sightful commentary, often at great risk
and in the face of official silence: courage-
ous investigative journalism.
As the first national newspaper of respon-
sible dissent, in the form of a weekly tabloid,
American Report explores the real rela-
tionships between American power and the
moral imperatives of a truly free and equal
society.
American Report -
? Criticizes the "arrogance of power" in
all its forms, confronting political lead-
ers with the practical consequences of
their policies and platforms;
? Informs subscribers of the best and
most current thinking of recognized
spokemen for peace, including respon-
sible counter-argumentsto the military-
industrial establishment, and the posi-
tive statement of new values and social
goals;
? Surveys the range of social, cultural,
economic and political problems and
opportunities in the US and the Third
World, pinpointing ways for readers to
become engaged in a common struggle ;
? Reports specific activities of socially
concerned organizations nationally,
serving as the communications nerve
center of the movements for peace and
justice.
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Contributors to American Report show a rich
variety of viewpoints and backgrounds. Some
have personal knowledge of life under the rain
of American bombs, others are the originators
of important peace initiatives ... all are highly
readable and relevant.
John P. Adams
Saul D. Alinsky
John F. Backe
Robert Barkan
Richard Barnett
John Bennett
Michael Berger
Reber Boult
Fred Branfman
Balfour Brickner
John Pairman Brown
Steve Clapp
L. Miguel Colonnese
Steven d'Arazien
Jean Daridan
Richard De Camp
Jaques Decornoy
Jean Doyle
Ngo Cong Duc
Patricia Hicks Durston
John Egerton
Elaine Elison
Tom Engelhardt
Richard A. Falk
Cynthia Frederick
Frye Gaillard
Martin Gellen
Rudolph C. Gelsey
To me the valuable thing about American
Report is that it gives theothersideofthe
news-that is to say, the side that seldom
gets published.
Constant help ... civilized and yet tough.
James P. Shannon
American Report is the best way I know
as to the American people and the system
in which theN live. Your maXazine is amon,,v,
the finest examples of responsible dissent.
Ivan Mich
Bill Gorden
William E. Gramley
Francine Gray
Joyce Hamlin
Bill Haseltine
Edward S. Herman
Barbara and Leon Howell
William J. Hughes
Chris Jenkins
Robert E. Jones
Sam Kirk
Gabriel Kolko
Carroll Ladt
Barry Levine
Don Luce
Herbert Marcuse
Thomas Marlowe
David Marr
Paul Mayer
James R. McGraw
Charles Meyer
Herbert Mitgang
David Morris
Michael Morrow
Richard Neuhaus
Joe Nicholson, Jr.
Michael Novak
Pierre Noyes
Karl Purnell
Tran Tan Quoc
Ed Rasen
James Reif
Paul Ross
Yoshikazu Sakamoto
Orville Schell
Franz Schurmann
Leonard Siegel
Steven A. Sindell
John Spragens, Jr.
Ron Stone
Ross Terrill
Barry Weisberg
Rhea M. Whitehead
Harold Willens
Garry Wills
Earnest Young
Howard Zinn
Edward Zuckerman
It does provide in one place more material
than I find elsewhere on the war in Indo-
china, other foreign policy issues that are
related to the war, what is happening in
other Asian countries, and ecumenical
responses to this complex of issues.
John C. Bennett
For all the news that's fit to print-check
out the New York Times. What's more
important is to be a regular reader of one
of the few papers fit to print the news,
that's American Report!
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American Report delivers "the other
half of the news" in highly readable style.
Typical articles taken from recent issues
include the following, many of which
cover vital issues not reported elsewhere:
Harrisburg Eight Indictment: 'A Piece of Legal
Pathology'
Kent Students Wait for Nixon Response
Government Backgrounders, Leaks... And
Freedom of the Press
An Alternate State of the Union Message
Life Under The Bombs
A Depressing Story, Replete with X-Rays
U.S. Pilots Confirm Bombing Hundreds of
Laotian Villages
Soviet Jewry: A Quest for Freedom and Survival
Brazilian Dictator's Visit Ignored by U.S. Press
Church Investments: Lay Not Up Riches'
Gulf Boycott Campaign Registers Small Victory
Letter Stirs Controversy
Peace on Earth ... And Bombs Away!
When Most of the World Is Hungry
How the Religious Establishment Called for Peace
Unexploded Bombs
Rhodesian 'Settlement' Unsettling
Flying Clandestine Missions Over Laos
Vietnamese In France Anti-Thieu
Woodcutter's Strike, a Black and White Campaign
Against Racism in the South
Third World Objectives
The Fourth Government of Indochina
Community Needs Supercede Family, Individual
Japan Scholars Isolated From Policy Making
Sugar Industry Proclaiming It Has a Conscience
Violence Fails to Prevent Leftist Victory
An Army Chaplain: Crisis of Conscience
Catholic Bishops Expand C.O. Stand
Indiscriminate Bombing Increases Under Nixon
Administration
Nixon's Ongoing Air War
Some Comment on the Lack of Comment
(South Africa's Other Trials)
Summer Camp for Counterinsurgents
'Hit Him With a Club to Show Him Who's Boss'
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Robert S. Lecky
Editor
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