Southern Exposure is an award-winning print journal and magazine published by the Institute for Southern Studies, publisher of Facing South, from 1973 until 2011. Southern Exposure earned a national reputation and won several awards, including a National Magazine Award and two George Polk Awards, for its writing and investigative reporting on a broad range of political, economic, and cultural issues in the South.

Vol. 31 No. 3/4 - Winter 2003/2004
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Magazine cover with photo of child standing on top of rubble. Text reads "Making a Killing: U.S. corporations see opportunity in a devastated Iraq—SE investigates the new war profiteers."

Making a Killing

  • Front Porch: Letter from the Publisher

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  • Readers' Forum

    4

  • Southern News Roundup

    6

  • Statehouse Watch

    14

  • Driven to Misery

    How Wall Street, major lenders, and "megadealer" chains fuel price gouging, racial discrimination, and fraud at your local car lot. By Michael Hudson

    16

  • "They Try to Take You for What You Don't Have"

    The fast-growing J.D. Byrider used-car chain faces allegations that the company manipulates and harasses customers with less-than-perfect credit. By Taylor Loyal and Michael Hudson

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  • Remembering the Saltville Massacre

    Can the public acknowledgement of Civil War atrocities against African-American soldiers help heal racial divisions? By Tonia Moxley

    34

  • The New War Profiteers

    The venerable tradition of profiting off war, and what we can do about it. By Chris Kromm

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  • Occupation, Inc.

    War profiteers in Iraq pursue quick fixes and high profits by overcharging for shoddy work, while Iraqis protest that they could do the work better and cheaper. By Pratap Chatterjee and Herbert Docena

    40

  • Concealed Weapons: Washington's Corporate War Lobby

    Influence peddlers and defense contractors see dollar signs in military privatization and a bellicose foreign policy. By Jason Vest

    51

  • Five Ways to Stop War Profiteering

    by the Campaign to Stop the War Profiteers and End the Corporate Invasion of Iraq

    57

  • Review

    59
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