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Who Really Set the California Fires?

By Mike Davis, Tomdispatch.com. Posted November 1, 2007.


Seeing an opportunity for land development, conservative California politico Pete Wilson adds fuel to the wildfires -- and is honored for it.
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Mike Davis, who teaches urban history at U.C. Irvine, grew up in the now incinerated backcountry of San Diego County. His other articles about the recent Southern California fires will soon be published in the Nation and the London Review of Books. His most recent book is In Praise of Barbarians: Essays Against Empire (Haymarket 2007).

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