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THIS PICTURE, READERS, COULD PERHAPS RELATE TO THE FIRST ITEM OF BUSINESS TODAY FROM YOUR CORRESPONDENT THIS MILD, YET BREEZY, MORNING here in the Minnwissippi--videlicet, an apology:

For a time last evening, Blogdrive's host server was swamped with so many requests from across the Information Stuporbahn for this weblog, it reached a point where it practically went offline, prompting some of you to see instead on screen a message to that effect explained above.

The problem, thankfully, has been rectified, and Your Correspondent regrets any inconvenience suffered.

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ANOTHER DESTRUCTIVE SWARM OF TORNADOES HIT KANSAS ON THE OVERNIGHT, bringing destruction to Goodland and parts of the Kansas State University campus in Manhattan.

In the latter instance, expect certain "academic freedom" Zealots and True Believers pushing the meme that such was a show of Divine Judgement on the "liberal academic tendencies" of land-grant universities like Kansas State--all the while, as per usual, lacking credible evidence.

But, on the other hand, how would you expect the Rev. Fred "Westboro Baptist Church" Phelps to respond to the tornadic destruction which Kansas has seen so far this year, what with his Zealotry and True Belief in explaining where such specimens of disaster are signs of Divine Judgement upon the targeted for excusing homosexuals and homosexuality (and Kansas, historically, not very tolerant about "sexual aberrations and perversions" to the point of attracting religious nut cases like the Phelps family)?

(Let alone flooding on Iowa's Cedar River as has devastated Waterloo/Cedar Falls and is now doing its work upon Cedar Rapids, with Iowa City/Coralville the next likely targets. Come to think of it, virtually all of Iowa's prominent rivers flowing into the Mississippi--the Cedar, Winnebago, Upper Iowa, Iowa, Wapsipinicon and Des Moines--are seeing substantial flooding risk.)

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AND STILL, THE GOP'S DICK DASTARDLY SQUADRON IS AS BUSY AS EVER WITH THEIR CAUTIOUS AND CAREFUL STUDY AND ANALYSIS of the "dirty tricks" campaigns by Zimbabwe's ruling ZANU-PF party ahead of the Presidential runoff to guarantee victory by one Robert Mugabe--unless it should happen that he suddenly snuffs it beforehand, throwing Zimbabwe into disarray.

Especially such involving the so-called "war veterans" brigands as never fought in the Zimbabwean War of Independence; come to think of it, Zimbabwe's "war veterans" are nothing short of a goon squad of the highest order, who can be counted upon to perform the most loathsome and "dethpickable" acts, deeds and exploits for Mugabe.

Especially so the kind as can be used to harrass or silence opposition supporters "by whatever means necessary," including "accidents" as were really "night-and-fog" disappearing acts.

Come to think of it, could the GOP be on to something in recruiting such exposed previously as sham "war veterans" of especially Vietnam and the First Gulf War in "redemption for value" scams involving The Old Ultraviolence against National Minorities to discourage their electoral participation based on flimsy pretexts of "identification documents not in proper form"?

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SINCE THE KUOMINTANG FLED MAINLAND CHINA IN THE WAKE OF THE COMMUNISTS' COMINGTO POWER IN 1949, SETTING UP SHOP ON TAIWAN, Beijing has long seen Taiwan as nothing less than a "renegade province" whose soverignty rightly belongs to the Chinese mainland.

And to back this up, has stopped @ nothing to threaten military action against Taiwan "just in case."

But could things be starting to cool for once?

I say this because of Beijing and Taipei having reached accords on greater access to trade and tourism, including establishment of direct flights between Taiwan and the People's Republic every weekend rather than on the likes of the Lunar New Year and the Fall Harvest Festival, among major holidays.

TT4N....  

THERE ARE SUCH AMONG THE ZEALOTS AND TRUE BELIEVERS OF NEOCONSERVATISM WHO ARE FOREVER SEEING IN SAN FRANCISCO the seeds of Clear and Present Moral Harm and Danger as could, under the right circumstances, "undermine our antient and pecuilar soverignty and soverign identity."

(As if suggesting that religiopolitical backwaters of poverty, fecundity and stupidity across the Bible Belt held the answer to its salvation and reclamation--never mind such adherents tending to be poor whites with little or no real prospects for anything beyond unskilled work, beer, DIY projects, NASCAR, Fox Prolefeed and "elegant poornoo."

On the other hand, Your Correspondent understands where, down South Africa way, a popular brand of instant coffee and chicory is Frisco Coffee Powder, made by the South African affiliate of Nestlé and described as having "rich and creamy coffee taste."

Also from Nestlé South Africa is Nescafé Ricoffy (for those liking a "fresh percolated taste" of blended coffee and chicory, howbeit in a granular form as opposed to Frisco's powdered approach).

Another South African company (I know not their name) markets Koffiehuis instant coffee and chicory, available in medium roast powder (yellow can) and full roast granules (salmon red can), depending on your taste.

In any case, I have to wonder whether there is much of a South African expatriate community in San Francisco as would be interested in having Frisco Coffee Powder available for purchase, never mind where the affectations for coffee in Baghdad-on-the-Bay (as the late Herb Caen was fond of referring to his adopted city) are seen by the Neoconservatives as "clear and present" danger of "elitist tendencies" among what they expect to be a Producerist base of support.

(IMPORTANT DISCLAIMER: The links for the several instant coffee-and-chicory products from South Africa mentioned in this item are to respective pages on the website of The African Hut, a Southern California-based online grocer as caters to homesick South Africans across the United States. Absent an affiliate programme on their part, please understand that if you choose to so order, I will not receive commission on said purchases. On the other hand, I present them for your information and interest, if you feel up to it. Whether or not you eventually order is up to you.)   

THE FOLLOWING VIRTUAL OP-ED FROM THE CAPITAL TIMES (MADISON, WI--AND, BY EXTENSION, CYBERSPACE) BY BILL BERRY may want to be considered "food for thought" about the possibility of having these same displaced workers consider the benefits of mutual self-help initiatives as an agency of empowering themselves in the face of, and against future, uncertainty:

The message is clear to American workers: You're on your own, suckers.

As General Motors announced last week it was closing the Janesville assembly plant and three others in North America, the workers in those plants didn't even merit a nod from the Bush administration, which hailed the job-cutting announcement as a demonstration of the virtues of the free market. White House spokeswoman Dana Perino said, "It's a sign that Detroit continues to adapt and evolve and address the change in consumer tastes and attitudes."

In this case, the "free market" means that thousands of workers at GM and related industries in south-central Wisconsin will be free to fend for themselves. Oh, there will be worker retraining and some rather generous termination benefits, at least for United Auto Workers union employees, but after that, see you later.

The free-market spin will blame union wages and benefits for the downfall of the auto industry. It's true that huge pension payrolls are a burden for the old-guard automakers, but then they furiously fought off union proposals in the 1960s to pool company pensions.

The modern-day history of UAW and many other unions can be summed up in one word: concessions. That has been the standard response to corporate power. Speaking to The Associated Press last week, UAW President Ron Gettelfinger said there was little the union could do about the latest changes at GM and Ford. So much for the big, bad unions.

Canadian Auto Workers President Buzz Hargrove, meanwhile, expressed shock and outrage over the closing of the Oshawa, Ontario, plant, which came only weeks after his union pushed through a concessions contract. Hargrove then went off on a nationalist tirade, saying, "This is an American company, controlled by Americans, and they are making decisions in tough times to protect American jobs." He denounced Mexican workers because GM had decided to build hybrid pickups there instead of in Canada.

The Canadian spin doesn't ring particularly well here in central Wisconsin, where a major sector in the area economy has been dismantled piece by piece. The Canadian-owned Soo Line Railroad was sold to a newly formed company called Wisconsin Central in the 1980s, and workers were immediately informed that their unions had no say in the matter. They were offered new jobs at lower pay and benefits, take it or leave it. Many took it. For a while, Wisconsin Central thrived. But a few years ago, it was sold to--surprise--the Canadian National railroad. Hundreds of Wisconsin jobs have been moved elsewhere in the wake of that change.

We have another example of the powerlessness of workers here in central Wisconsin. Locally owned Consolidated Papers was sold to the Finnish company Stora Enso less than a decade ago. In no time at all, Stora had pared about 2,000 jobs, and communities like Wisconsin Rapids and Biron were reeling. Their unions could do little to protect them.

Canadian union boss Hargrove's anger might have been misplaced, but you have to give it to him and his charges for showing some spunk. They picketed GM headquarters in Ontario and threatened to block the entrances to the Oshawa plant should GM seek to dismantle and move equipment.

It used to be that corporations would just send in some thugs and pound some heads at times like that. It's more sophisticated these days. The systematic dismantling of worker rights has been engineered in the bowels of government, the courts and the marketplace. The thugs do their work from behind radio microphones and on TV at night, in the employ of corporations that enjoy all of the legal rights of individuals but few of the responsibilities.

Unions have been an inconvenient impediment in this new age, but they're slipping off the radar one plant closing and one buyout at a time.

Meanwhile, workers in non-union settings pretty much fend for themselves. Layoffs, buyouts and terminations are at the will of the company and are borne in loneliness and despair by those who are cast off.

It would be dishonest and unfair to paint every corporation as a bad guy. Many, perhaps most, of them treat their workers with respect and offer excellent wages, benefits and workplace amenities. They play stellar roles in communities and support many charitable causes.

But when times get tough, in a country that fails to provide its citizens with affordable and accessible health care, that has stepped away from its responsibilities to protect worker health and safety because it was seen as anti-business, and where we now hear strident calls for dismantling Social Security and other safety nets for the average Joe and Jane, the message is quite clear: You're on your own, suckers.

(Actually, a bit of clarification: The lines which Soo Line, now Canadian Pacific, sold to Wisconsin Central, and subsequently sold to Canadian National, were actually duplicate routings, for the most part, of the former Milwaukee Road between Chicago, Milwaukee and the Twin Cities, and onward to the Twin Ports and the Upper Peninsula of Michigan; Soo Line was awarded The Milwaukee Road by the Federal bankruptcy court in 1985 to settle an outright bidding war between Chicago and North Western, since merged into Union Pacific, and Canadian National as threatened to get nasty.)

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IN ANY CASE, MIGHT I BE THE FIRST TO SUGGEST WHERE THE DISPLACED AMERICAN WORKER CONSIDER MODELS OF MUTUAL SELF-HELP based on the English friendly society, which was itself seen as social welfare before the welfare state came along, towards their empowerment against future economic insecurity.

With that in mind, might I recommend having representatives of the British Council and The Association of Friendly Societies (which represents the industry in Great Britain) come over to the United States and promote the concept, even establishing a few model such based on the Holloway Tables rather than the Fibonacci Sequences, with an eye towards such as a tool of empowering the working classes based on mutual self-help models. (Unless, however, the Zealots and True Believers in Neoconservatism can show valid cause that mutual self-help of this sort "tends to Communism" or otherwise "perpetuates dependency***incompatible with American economic models and experience.")

So what otherwise prevents? 

Need I say more?

WHICH MUST NO DOUBT BE THE REACTION ON BOTH SIDES OF THE WINONA INTERSTATE BRIDGE on the news just announced that said bridge will be reopen to passenger cars, vans and light trucks from about 08h Saturday.

And will remain closed to pedestrians, bicycles and heavy trucks until repairs on the bridge deck can be completed, which should begin sometime later in the summer; during said repair period, traffic will be reduced to one lane with flagger.

Which will also mean the discontinuance of an interim shuttle van and ferry service to accomodate Wisconsin employees in Winona businesses from Friday evening's last run.

In any case, Winona should no doubt breathe a little easier.

Now, if only someone were to launch a viable campaign to have Governor Pawlenty recalled from office on the grounds of mental incapacity....

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TO THE MINNWISSIPPI REGION--AND, FOR THE MOST PART, A GOOD CHUNK OF SOUTHEASTERN MINNESOTA, NORTHEAST IOWA AND WESTERN INTO SOUTHWESTERN WISCONSIN--such would likely be the plea in the rain department, what with substantial flooding over a number of streams and creeks.

Especially so the Kickapoo River in and around Gays Mills, Wisconsin.

Turtle Creek, Dobbins Creek and the Red Cedar River in and around Austin, Minnesota.

The Zumbro River and Bear Creek around Rochester, Minnesota.

And the Cedar River in the Waterloo/Cedar Falls connurbation of Iowa.

Now, we could use a serious dry spell for once to let all this rain water percolate into the topsoil and get things back to normal.

Not to mention some donations on your part to the Red Cross and/or The Salvation Army for helping flood victims. And, since our supposedly "morally superior" society is pretty much on the verge of socioeconomic collapse thanks to His Fraudulency's Great Within and their mad delusions of grandeur seeing America as Lord and Master of the World, the Universe and the 28 Known Galaxies, maybe some foreign aid, come to think of it.

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MEANWHILE, WITH REGARDS TO THE RECONSTRUCTION OF LAKE DELTON, Mein Innkeeper Friend is of the opine that the drainage period--so long as it's an extended period of dryness--might be as good an opportunity as any to allow the exposed lakebed to settle as part of its restoration.

Not to mention having a new dam constructed @ the newly-formed channel, with provision for generating hydroelectricity and a navigation lock to allow pleasure craft to move for once between Lake Delton and the Wisconsin River; this along with a bridge on County A over the new-formed channel.

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"TERRORISM SUSPECTS," 1; HIS FRAUDULENCY'S GREAT WITHIN, 0 AND RED CARD: Such the result of the Supreme Court's freshly-issued ruling which holdeth that so-called "terrorism suspects" in detention @ Guantanamo Bay's Camp Xray detention facility are subject to the same Constitutionally-mandated rights, privileges and powers entitled ordinary, run-of-the-mill criminal suspects in forthcoming criminal proceedings, or "reasonable" (to the Great Within's collective mind) facsimilies thereof.

Which, to the Great Within, could likely be as good a time as any to cook up "accidents" as can dispose of the remaining inmates there to try and get around the ruling--and cook up the most incredible of explanations in case suspicions are aroused in the blogosphere, let alone the Dark Satanic Mills of Conservative Propaganda.

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IMAGINE THE FOLLOWING SCENARIO OCCURING IN THE RUNUP TO INDECISION 2008 HERE IN THE "MORALLY SUPERIOR" UNITED STATES," as per the BBC:

The BBC has obtained documents suggesting that Zimbabwe's military is actively involved in running Robert Mugabe's re-election campaign.

The documents outline plans by ruling party Zanu-PF to harass and drive out opposition supporters, especially from rural areas.

A run-off presidential vote is due to take place later in the month.

More than 60 people have been killed, thousands beaten and many more driven from their homes in related violence.

Testimony from eye-witnesses and victims from across Zimbabwe as well as internal party documents show that violence and intimidation are being used to try to guarantee the re-election of Robert Mugabe against the challenger, Morgan Tsvangirai of the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC), on 27 June.

The documents suggest that the Joint Operations Command (JOC) is now running logistics and operations.

The JOC is made up of the heads of the military and state security organisations.

Another document lays out the party's tactics, including the use of scarce food supplies as a political weapon.

"Basic commodities should be sold from either people's shops or pro-Zanu-PF shops," it says. "Emphasis should be in party strongholds."

It talks about giving the notorious and feared war veterans, responsible for much of the violence in Zimbabwe, a "leading role in Zanu-PF campaigns".

Fight for survival

The document also outlines the use of covert operations against the MDC including harassing supporters and driving them out of Zanu-PF strongholds and declares a "no-go area" to rural constituencies for the MDC.

The BBC is banned from reporting in the country, which makes it difficult to authenticate some of this material but our investigations found that all of the tactics mentioned in the document are being used by Zanu-PF and its supporters.

The Zimbabwean Deputy Minister of Information, Bright Matonga, denied that the ruling-party is responsible for the violence and he refused to comment on what he described as "illegal documents."

But speaking anonymously, a Zimbabwean police officer confirmed to the BBC that officers had been given orders to support Zanu-PF and turn a blind eye to violence perpetrated against MDC supporters.

We met in a dark car park in Harare. He told me: "We're told to vote for Zanu-PF and they told us it's not now a secret vote, you have to vote in front of your commanding officer."

He complained that the police were no longer independent: "Our police is now politically motivated, whereas it is supposed to be an organisation that stands for not taking part." 

Zimbabwe's deputy information minister denies military involvement in the election

Posters supporting Robert Mugabe are plastered across the walls of the capital. The party has brought in private PR consultants to give the campaign a far more positive image.

It is a slick strategy that promotes sovereignty, independence and empowerment. But under-writing the campaign are the resources of the central bank and a monopoly of air-time in the state-controlled media.

Often the MDC and its supporters are portrayed as the perpetrators of much of the violence but all the evidence points the other way and that is also the conclusion of many observers.

The US ambassador to Harare insisted that Robert Mugabe wants "to retain power through any means possible".

He said Zanu-PF, the military and the war veterans were responsible for most of the violence against those who voted for the MDC in the first round, "ensuring that, number one, they'll be too afraid to vote and, number two, that they're not in their district and cannot vote".

I asked him whether there was any way you could conclude that this election was either free or fair. His answer was swift: "Absolutely none."

We met people across Zimbabwe who all had almost identical stories to tell. Many had been beaten or burnt, many had broken limbs, some had relatives killed, thousands had been driven from their homes.

They were all targeted because they voted for the opposition.

Robert Mugabe has called this an "all-out war". He and his supporters are engaged in a fight for survival and what is now clear is that they will use any means necessary to achieve that.

Now imagine the GOP--no, make that the Constitution Party--deploying the resources of so-called "citizen militias" and so-called "Christian Patriot" groups to harrass and intimidate would-be Democratic (as in Barack Obama) voters "by whatever means necessary" (including fear and violence), and then deny any and all knowledge thereof when asked in debriefings.

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FIRST, IT WAS THE AUSTRALIANS ... AND NOW, IT'S THE CANADIANS' TURN: As in officially apologising and expressing regret for official policies sanctioning the removal of indigenous children from their families and "resettling" such in "mission schools" under the guise of "assimilation" into the Canadian mainstream.

Only it turned out to be sanction for abuse, maltreatment and even episodes of LeTourneauism as an agency of maintaining power, control and fear. All excused in the name of G-d, Queen and Empire.

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AND WHAT DO THESE SO-CALLED "ISSUES" HAVE IN COMMON WHEN IT COMES TO INDECISION 2008:

• Abortion, contraception and family planning.
• "Defending the sanctity and purity of marriage."
• Homosexuality and homosexuals.
• "Defending Traditional Christian and Family Values."
• Die Kulturkrieg.
• High gas prices being complicated all the more by "environmental zealots***with known Communistic tendencies" "preventing" further oil and gas exploration in known environmentally-sensitive areas as would "promote energy self-sufficency."

Answer: They're all non-issues which the Zealots and True Believers in Neoconservatism (and their droogs @ the Elmer Gantry Institute for Religiopolitical Theology) want American voters to think about all the more for Indecision 2008.

Even @ the expense of More Pressing and Serious Issues such as:

• The consequences of His Fraudulency's misadventures in the ur-RAHOWA Against Terrorism, and their socioeconomic byproducts.
• The growing and worsening disparity between rich and poor.
• The inability of many high-school graduates to find work in a socioeconomic paradigm seeing free-market capitalism as Great White Father.
• The worsening fiscal deficit, made all the more so by the Great Within's misadventures.
• The inability of the poor to obtain a decent standard of health care, job security or even a standard of living within free-market paradigms and algorithms.
• Deteriorating and collapsing infrastructure, and its socioeconomic consequences.
• "Regulatory relief" for businesses @ the expense of consumers, especially such on limited incomes as have to live from paycheck to paycheck.

So: What "issues" would you base your electoral decisions on?

Those that really matter?

Or those manufactured only to distract attention from those that matter?

IF THERE'S ANYTHING THAT HISTORY TEACHES US, IT'S THAT IT PROVIDES LESSONS AND WARNINGS TO GENERATIONS WHICH FOLLOW in its footsteps.

In the case of the Dark Satanic Mills of Neoconservative Propaganda, perhaps the finest lesson/warning from history about the dangers of attacking otherwise harmless and blameless individuals, organisations and media outlets for suspicion of "disloyalty," "Fifth Column" activity and even "giving aid and comfort to terrorists and terrorism" would have to be this 1952 editorial from Collier's, a popular weekly magazine of the time, as took issue with Sen. Joseph McCarthy's attacks on leading magazines and newspapers for playing footsie with Communists and Communism--or so he thought:

McCarthy Cries Again

A couple of years ago Senator Joe McCarthy buckled on his armor and, like a twentieth-century Don Quixote, set out to slay the dragon of American Communism singlehanded. His intentions seemed noble as those of the good knight. But also like the good knight, who attacked a procession of monks and a flock of sheep under the impression that they were brigands and ogres, he got a little confused about the targets of his sallies.

Thus it has come to pass, as his crusade continues, that anyone who takes issue with him assumes the look of the Red dragon itself. Disagreement becomes lies or crookedness. An adverse editorial comment is automatically a "left-wing smear." And the senator charges treason against a countryman as recklessly as Don Quixote charged the windmill.

Mr. McCarthy has had a busy time of it, because there are a great many people who approve the purpose of his crusade, but object strongly to his methods. There are many publications which feel the same way. One of them is Collier's. Another is Time. And we at Collier's feel just a little discriminated against because, so far, the senator has ignored us while singling out Time and accusing it of "twisting and distorting the facts about my (McCarthy's) fight to expose and remove Communists from government."

This charge apparently grew out of a Time cover story on Senator McCarthy. The senator had earlier attacked it as a "vicious and malicious lie." But recently he employed a new tactic which was definitely not cricket.

Backed by the prestige of his office, he sent a letter to "practically all Time advertisers," according to his own statement, which, while it did not come right out and ask them to take their business elsewhere, suggested that they were doing their country a disservice by their continued support of the magazine.

Since some of these advertisers were "not aware of the facts," the letter stated, they were "unknowingly helping to pollute and poison the waterholes of information." Still swimming along in his aquatic metaphor, the senator said that "it is much more important to expose a liar, a crook or a traitor who is able to poison the streams of information flowing into a vast number of American homes than to expose an equally vicious crook, liar or traitor who has no magazine or newspaper outlet for his poison."

The source of the senator's "facts" was an article from the American Mercury and a reprint from the Congressional Record. On the basis of these, the gentleman who complains about distortions and smears virtually accused Time's editors of dishonesty and treason in so many words.

Naturally Mr. McCarthy anticipated some criticism. "I realize," he said, "that bringing these facts to the attention of Time's advertisers will cause some of the unthinking to shout that this is endangering 'freedom of the press.'" But, he added, "To allow a liar to hide behind the cry 'You are endangering freedom of the press' is not only ridiculous, it is dangerous."

To this we can only answer that when a man hides behind the cry "You are a liar" before anyone has accused him of endangering freedom of the press, he must be feeling rather insecure. And when he tries to intimidate a critical publication by seeking to alienate its chief sources of revenue, he is something less than courageous.

Senator McCarthy has set himself up as the final authority on loyalty and Americanism. He insists that his accusations are not to be doubted, and his judgment is not to be questioned. Yet, a few weeks after he wrote his letter to Time's advertisers, he testified in Syracuse, New York that the Washington Post and the New York (Communist) Daily Worker "parallel each other quite closely in editorials." And when he was asked whether he would consider the Christian Science Monitor a "left-wing smear paper," he replied, "I can't answer yes or no."

Those are the statements of a man who is either woefully unperceptive or wholly irresponsible. And when such a man asks that his wild-swinging attacks be accepted without question, he is, to borrow his own words, not only ridiculous but dangerous.

We are not concerned that, on the basis of this editorial, the senator may now add us to his company of "left-wing smearers," or that he may also warn our advertisers of the danger of supporting another publication which pollutes the waterholes of information. What does concern us is the real danger of Communist infiltration in government, and the fact that this danger is too serious to be obscured and clouded by Senator McCarthy's eccentricities, exaggerations and absurdities.

Meanwhile, in the good Senator's home state of Wisconsin, the likes of The Milwaukee Journal and The Capital Times of Madison were taking staunch and courageous anti-McCarthy editorial stands which risked their being looked upon as "local editions of the Daily Worker" by Sen. McCarthy, yet won considerable attention in The Fourth Estate.

Even if neither won a Pulitzer for their efforts.

As for Collier's, it would be the first of the great popular-interest weeklies to go out of business, coming out for the last time in January of 1957 after its publishers experienced serious financial problems for several years running as would be the undoing of its sister titles The American Magazine previously (June 1956) and Woman's Home Companion in due course (November 1957).

Look, a pictorial fortnightly, would take over some assets of Collier's, but would itself go out of business in October of 1971 ... and would be revived as a fortnightly between 1979 and 1982 after another publisher acquired the title and related assets and trademarks.

In February of 1969, The Saturday Evening Post discontinued weekly publication, but its title and assets would be acquired by an Indianapolis firm reviving same on a limited scale starting in 1971.

Life would end weekly publication @ the end of 1972, but would return as a monthly between 1978 and 1999.

In any case, Collier's had some good points to make as still ring true today--even if it's now Fox Prolefeed and AM talkback radio as are taking Sen. McCarthy's place in attack mode.