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April 3 / 5, 2004
Alexander Cockburn
Anti-Depressants
a Problem? We're Shocked
Jeffrey St. Clair
How Neil Bush Succeeded in Business
Without Really Trying
April 2, 2004
Dave Lindorff
Barbaric
Relativism: the Press and Fallujah
Kurt Nimmo
Wherever
Bush Goes, Osama is Bound to Follow
Emma Miller
The
Role of the West in the Rwandan Genocide
Dr. Susan Block
Same
Sex Marriages: Just Say "No" to Prohibition
Norman Solomon
Media Strategy Memo for George & Dick
Sacha Guney
The Meaning of the Elections in Turkey
Christopher Brauchli
The
Disturbing Case of Cpt. Yee
Website of the Day
Mercenaries, Inc.
April 1, 2004
Ron Jacobs
Dying in Vain in Iraq
Harry Browne
No Smoke, Plenty of Fire: Ireland's Pubs Go Smokefree
Chris Floyd
Towel Boy: Bush Hits Workers with Chemical Weapons
Nicole Colson
Inside America's Concentration Camp: Tortured at Guantanamo
Charles Arthur
Haiti's Army Cracks Down on Workers
Laura Flanders
Elaine
Chao: a First Daughter for the First Son
March 31, 2004
M. Junaid Alam
Israel:
Suicide Nation?
John L. Hess
Condi
Under Oath: But What About the NYTs Reporters?
Fernando Suarez del Solar
A Year
Since My Son's Death in Iraq
Sofia Perez
Spain's
U-Turn on Iraq is Real Democracy in Action
David Vest
Stick 'Em Up: Put Cheney and Bush Under Oath
Tanya Reinhart
As in Tiannamen Square: Justice and the Yassin Assassination
Mike Whitney
Time to Dump the Pledge
Donald Kaul
Martha Stewart's Lesson: Never Talk to the FBI
Milt Bearden
Mired in the Tracks of Alexander the Great
Marjorie Cohn
The Illegal
Coup in Haiti: How the Kidnapping of Aristide Violated US and
International Law
Website of the Day
New Pentagon Papers Dropped at DC Starbucks
March 30, 2004
William S. Lind
An Occurrence
in Pakistan: the Battle That Wasn't
Ron Jacobs
Assassinations, Hate Mail &
Justice
Mickey Z.
Tommy Boy Friedman Does "Imagine"
Neve Gordon
Strategic Motives of the Yassin Assassination
Mark Scaramella
The Founding Scam: Insider Trading is the American Way
John Chuckman
The Countessa of Empire: Condi
Rice's Idea of Democracy
Greg Moses
Live from Pasadena: Silhouettes of New Order
Rai O'Brien
What Kind of Democracy to Expect if the Opposition Takes Power
in Venezuela
Bill Christison
The
9/11 Commission: Dangerous Harbinger for the Future
Website of the Day
Ghost Town: Riding Through Chernobyl
March 29, 2004
John Maxwell
Crisis
in the Caribbean: a Miasma Foretold
J. Michael Springmann
Email
Spying & Attorney Client Privilege
Robert Fisk / Severin
Carrell
Coalition
of the Mercenaries
The Black Commentator
Haiti's Troika of Terror
Doug Giebel
Candide in the Wilderness:
How Bush Policy Was Made
David Krieger
The Nuclear Non-Proliferation
Bargain
Mike Whitney
Rejecting the Language of Terrorism
Richard Oxman
The Pitts: a 9/11 Burrow of an American
Family
Kim Scipes
The AFL-CIO in Venezuela: Deja Vu All Over Again
Michael Donnelly
End Game for Northwest Forests
Norman Solomon
The Media Politics of 9/11
Kathy Kelly
Last Lines Before Vanishing
Website of the Day
Swans: Can Money Buy Everything?
March 27 / 28, 2004
Jeffrey St. Clair
Empire of the Locusts
Gary Leupp
The Yassin Assassination: Prelude to an Attack on Syria
William A. Cook
The Yassin Assassination: a Monstrous Insanity Blessed by the
US
Faheem Hussain
Some Thoughts on Waziristan: Once and Always a Colonial Army
Elaine Cassel
Is Playing Paintball Terrorism?
Larry Birns / Jessica
Leight
Disturbing Signals: Kerry and Latin America
John Ross
Bush Tells the World: "Drop Dead"
John Eskow
A Memo to Karl Rove from the Hollywood Caucus
Alan Maass
Who Are the Real Terrorists?
Dave Lindorff
Spineless of US Journalists
Joe Bageant
Howling in the Belly of the Confederacy
Dave Zirin
Reasonable Doubt: Why Barry Bonds is Not on Steroids
Craig Waggoner
Who Would Mel's Jesus Nuke?
The Kerry Quandry
Joel Wendland
Marxists
for Kerry
Josh Frank
Scary,
Scary John Kerry
Matt Vidal
Spoilers, Electability and the Poverty of American Democracy
Poets' Basement
LaMorticella, Hamod, Guthrie, Davies and Albert
Website of the Weekend
Say a Little Prayer
March 26, 2004
Christopher Brauchli
There's
a Chill Over the Country
Robert Fisk
The Man Who Knew Too Much: the Ordeal
of Mordechai Vanunu
Joe DeRaymond
Democracy in El Salvador? Think Again
Mike Whitney
Lessons on Apartheid from Ariel Sharon
Mickey Z.
Somalia and Iraq: Looking Back and Ahead
Chris Floyd
The Pentagon Archipelago
CounterPunch Photo Wire
Cheney's Close Shave?
John Breneman
Bush's Comic Bomb
Website of the Day
Dick
is a Killer
March 25, 2004
Lee Sustar
Who
is to Blame for Lost Jobs?
Standard Schaefer
An
Interview with Michael Hudson on Offshore Banking Centers
Roger Burbach
Lula vs. the IMF: Brazil Begins
to Throw Off the Austerity Planners
Jimmer Endres
Elections Without Politics: The Military Budget Is Not an "Issue"
Larry Tuttle
Acting in Your Name: Identity Theft and Public Interest Groups
Toni Solo
Misreporting Venezuela
Dan Bacher
A Memorial Wall for Iraq War's Dead and Wounded
Saul Landau
Is
Venezuela Next?
Website of the Day
The Spiral Railway
March 24, 2004
Gary Leupp
General
Musharraf's IOU
Richard Oxman
Shakespeare
for Kerry
William Lind
The Beginning
of Phase Three: 4G Warfare Hits Iraq
Rep. Ron Paul
Iraq One Year Later
Michael Dempsey
Killing Rachel Corrie Again
Alan Farago
The Bad Math of Mercury: Bush's War on the Unborn
Benjamin Dangl
and April Howard
Media
in Cuba
John L. Hess
No Lie Left Behind: Judy Miller Does Dick Clarke
Greg Weiher
Two Cheers for Dems: "We're Not as Bad as George"
Eva Golinger
An Open Letter to John Kerry on Venezuela
Grayson Childs
Where's Cynthia McKinney?
Steve Niva
Israel's Assassinations will Only
Fuel More Suicide Bombings
Website of the Day
The Bushiad and the Idiossey
March 23, 2004
Phillip Cryan
The
Drug War's Next Casualty: Colombia's National Parks
Ron Jacobs
They Shoot Men in Wheelchairs, Too?
Dave Lindorff
A Spanish Parallel: Scare Tactics and Elections
Mike Whitney
Richard Clarke and Teflon George
Brian McKinlay
Bush's Lil' Buddy in Trouble: John Howard Starts to Wobble
JG
Driving Mr. Koon: "Jim Crow Lives Next Door"
Phyllis Pollack
Gettin' Jigga with Metallica: the Battle Over the Double Black
CD
Ahmed Bouzid
Sharon's One-Way Track
Sean Carter
The G-Word Goes to Court: One Nation Under [Your Logo Here]
M. Shahid Alam
World's Greatest Country: Do the Facts Lie
March 22, 2004
Mazin Qumsiyeh
On Extrajudicial
Executions
Uri Avnery
The
Assassination of Sheikh Yassin is Worse Than a Crime
Gilad Atzmon
Sharon's Rampage
Mike Whitney
Guilty Until Proven Innocent: the Story of Captain James Yee
Jason Leopold
Firm With Ties to Cheney Faces Criminal Indictment in Cal Energy
Scam
Greg Moses
Stop
Walling and Stalling: a Report from Houston's Peace March
Phil Gasper
San Francisco: 25,000 March for an End to the Occupation
Lenni Brenner
Report
from NYC: Old and Young Parade for Peace
Julian Borger
The Clarke Revelations
Steve Perry
Karl Rove's Moment
Website of the Day
Enviros Against War
March 20 / 21, 2004
Alexander Cockburn
Gay
Marriage: Sidestep on Freedom's Path
Jeffrey St. Clair
Intolerable Opinions in an Age of Shock and Awe: What Would Lilburne
Do?
Ted Honderich
Tony Blair's Moral Responsibility for Atrocities
Saul Landau / Farrah Hassen
The Plot Against Syria: an Irresponsibility Act
Gary Leupp
On Viewing "The Passion of the Christ"
William A. Cook
Fence, Barrier, Wall
Phil Gasper
Bush v. Bush-lite: Chomsky's Lesser Evilism
Ron Jacobs
Fox News and the Masters of War
John Stanton
Which Way John Kerry? The Senator's Inner Nixon
Justin Felux
Kerry and Black America: Just Another Stupid White Man
Mike Whitney
Greenspan's Treason: Swindling Posterity
Augustin Velloso
Avoiding Osama's Abyss
Lawrence Magnuson
Eyes Wide Open: Is Spain Caving in to Terrorism?
Kathy Kelly
Getting Together to Defeat Terrorism
Tracy McLellan
Scalia & Cheney: Happiness is a Warm Gun
Kurt Nimmo
Emma Goldman for President!
Luis J. Rodriguez
The Redemptive Power of Art: It's Not a Frill
Mickey Z
The Michael Moore Diet
Jackie Corr
When Harry Truman Stopped in Butte
Niranjan Ramakrishnan
The Great Trial of 1922: Gandhi's Vision of Responsibility
Poets' Basement
Stew Albert & JD Curtis
Website of the Weekend
Virtual World Election
March 19, 2004
Jeffrey St. Clair
Zapatero
to Kerry: Back Off, Senator, Our Troops are Coming Home
Ann Harrison
So
Protesters, How Well Do You Know Your Rights?
William MacDougall
Fortress Britain's War on "Economic Migrants"
Greg Moses
Sold American: Cowboy Nation Gets Ready to Vote
Cynthia McKinney
Haiti and the Impotence of Black America: Roll Back This Coup,
Mr. Bush
Norman Solomon
Spinning the Past; Threatening the Future
John L. Hess
"Missing" Evidence and the NYTs
Vicente Navarro
The
End of Aznar, Bush's Best Friend
Website of the War
Naming the Dead
March 18, 2004
Gila Svirsky
Rachel
Corrie, One Year Later: She Never Lost Faith in Decency
Christopher Brauchli
Drilling a Hole in the Sanctions: How Halliburton Made $73 Million
from Saddam
William Kulin
Report from Iraq: Just Another Baghdad Car Bombing
Mike Whitney
Resistance: a Moral Imperative
Rep. Ron Paul
Broadcast Indecency Act: an Indecent Attack on the First Amendment
Josh Frank
The Nader Question
Jack Random
They Lied & They Lost: Madrid and the Lessons of Democracy
Greg Bates
What Makes a Nader Voter Tick? A Survey
Sam Hamod / Alfredo Reyes
Contempt of the World: Hastert, Bush and Cheney on Spain
Gary Leupp
The
Madrid Bombings: the Chickens Come Home to Roost
Website of the Day
Privatizing Armageddon: Buy Your Own Doomsday Key
March 17, 2004
Marjorie Cohn
Spain, the EU and the US: War on
Terror or Civil Liberties?
David MacMichael
Untruth
and Consequences
Michael Donnelly
Wear the Green, But Skip the Green Beer
Tom Stephens
"Steady Leadership": Let the Buyer Beware
Wayne Madsen
Sen. Kerry, Let Me Help You Out
Karyn Strickler
Who Owns the Sierra Club? Anonymous Donors and Rigged Elections
Peter Linebaugh
Bush:
Blanc Blanc
March 16, 2004
Lenni Brenner
James
Madison: the Anti-Clerical Father of the Bill of Rights
Scott Boehm
Madrid
Diary: How to Change World Order in Four Days
Alexander Lynch
From Franco to Aznar: the History
Behind the Spanish Elections
Sam Hamod and Alfredo
Reyes
The Truth About the Spanish Elections: Aznar Was Going Down Anyway
Elizabeth Weill-Greenberg
You Wouldn't Do a Dog This Way:
Executing David Clayton Hill
Mike Whitney
The Case for a Nuclear Iran
Robert Fisk
The Bloody Price of the "War
on Terror"
Bill Christison
The
Aftershocks from Madrid
CounterPunch Photo Wire
The Passion of St. Teresa
Website of the Day
Join the War on Art!
March 15, 2004
Harry Browne
Terror Nothing New to Europe
Mike Whitney
Justice
Not Murder: the Tragic Symmetry of Terrorism
Lidice Valenzuela
Haiti: a Coup without Consultation
Greg Moses
Lessons
from the Texas Primaries: Looking for a Coalition with Legs
Mickey Z.
Depraved Indifference: C-Sections, Patriarchy & Women's Health
Asaf Shtull-Trauring
AWOL
in New York: From Refusenik to Organizer
CounterPunch Wire
Gen. Gramajo Executed by Bees!
March 12 / 14, 2004
Gabriel Kolko
The
Coming Elections and the Future of American Global Power
Saul Landau
Oh, Jesus...It's the Movie!
William Blum
Neo-Con(tradictions)
William S. Lind
Why They Throw Rocks
Rahul Mahajan
The Meaning of Madrid: War on "Terrorism" Makes Us
All Less Safe
Neve Gordon
Demographic Wars
Kurt Nimmo
Kerry and the Progressive Interventionists
Mickey Z.
The "New" UN Blames the Poor
Mike Whitney
War Games: the American Media Leads the Charge
Helen Scott and Ashley
Smith
Aristide's Fall: What Led to the Coup?
Justin E.H. Smith
Loïc Wacquant: Against a Sociodicy
of the American Prison
Brandy Baker
Him Again? Al Gore Needs to Move On
Robin Philpot
Nobody Can Call It a "Plane Crash" Now: the Report
on the Assassination of Rwandan President Habyarimana
Mokhiber / Weissman
The Meat Monopoly Takes a Rare Pounding
Dave Zirin
She Turned Her Back on the War: an Interview with Toni Smith
Daniel Wolff
The Lord's Pier
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Alexander Cockburn
Behold,
the Head of a Neo-Con!
Subcomandante Marcos
The
Death Train of the WTO
Norman Finkelstein
Hitchens
as Model Apostate
Steve Niva
Israel's
Assassination Policy: the Trigger for Suicide Bombings?
Dardagan,
Slobodo and Williams
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20,000 Wounded Iraqi Civilians
Steve
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Prison Bitch
Sheldon
Rampton and John Stauber
True Lies: the Use of Propaganda
in the Iraq War
Wendell
Berry
Small Destructions Add Up
CounterPunch
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Cindy
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The
Erosion of the American Dream
Francis Boyle
Impeach
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April 3 / 5, 2004
Musical Chairs
Phony
Liberals and Fake Concern for the Homeless
By BRUCE ANDERSON
Former California State Assemblywoman Virginia
Strom-Martin (D-Napa) says she'll run for the 2nd District State
Senate seat presently occupied by that great statesman from Arcata,
Wes Chesbro, disco pimp as created by Wayne Newton! Get back,
here comes Wes and his girls! Swept back graying hair in an $80
snip-snip, pencil moustache, tanning salon skin tint, eyelids
by lizard-in-the sun. Eyelids, on the face of a man who'd do
anything and probably has. Chesbro's term in California's entirely
useless and wholly redundant State Senate expires in 2006. He'll
of course move on to some other tax-funded sinecure or, God save
us all, move on up to take Congressman Mike Thompson's bagman
chair in Congress. Newspapers like the Santa Rosa Press Democrat
will say of both Strom-Martin and Chesbro, "Senator Strombro's
many years of public service will be quite helpful on
California's newly-created, bi-partisan Cash Money Laundering
Oversight Committee. The position pays $140,000 and meets once
a month in Palm Springs."
Strom-Martin was appointed to the do-nothing
state Unemployment Insurance Appeals Board when she was term-limited
out of her Assembly seat. But Wes wasn't ready to leave his sinecure
in the State Senate and Mike Thompson couldn't leave Congress
until he made sure Northcoast wine growers got an extension for
the use of methyl bromide, the quickest means known to destroy
the ozone layer.
Strom-Martin was put on the shelf, so
to speak, by Governor Davis as a reward for her loyalty to the
destruction of America via the Democratic Party. When current
assemblywoman Patti Berg finally shuffles off stage after Strom-Martin,
no one except a dozen Democrats having noticed that she'd shuffled
on stage, Berg will get a seat on the Unemployment Insurance
Appeals Board while she waits for Strom-Martin to mop up as State
Senator. Chesbro by that time will be a United States Senator,
vacuity being the only standard for public office these days.
Incidentally, Strom-Martin, rakes in
something like $105,000 a year for a couple of meetings a month
while she waits for Chesbro to move out of his Sacramento view
office so she can move in as "champion of public education,"
i.e., more money for the worst K-12 system of public education
in the United States, which means it's the worst in the industrialized
world. Term limits were supposed to get these people permanently
off the public's back, but the hacks and hack-ettes of the Chesbro-Mike
Thompson-Strom-Martin type, non-competitive in any kind of private
job market, never leave office -- they simply move from
one well-paid public job to another. The Republicans, including
Bush Republicans, are so delighted with the Chesbro-Thompson-Strom-Martin-Berg
Axis that they put zero party money behind the occasional Republican
who takes the Axis on. The Democrats, of course, put in a lot
of overtime sabbing Northcoast Greens, most of whom are so goddamned
dumb or stoned they don't realize half their active membership
are full time Clintonoids. (The Democrat Party's local gofers
include Mendocino County supervisors David Colfax and Richard
Shoemaker; SEIU Rep. Paul Andersen and his wife; former SEUI
rep and current supervisor candidate Joe Louis Wildman; Demo
State Enviro Chair Rachel Binah; perennial Democrat convention
delegate Val Muchowski; Superior Court Judge David Nelson; public
radio KZYX; and the Santa Rosa Press Democrat.)
Supervisors Colfax and Shoemaker said
the other day that they were upset at what they described as
local solid waste management director Paul Caylor's "insensitivity"
to the homeless. Caylor's "insensitivity"? The County's
garbage guy told the supervisors he thought it would be a good
idea to post "no camping" signs at certain points along
the Russian River. Caylor also made the politically incorrect
error of referring to the year-round camp sites of multiple substance
abusers as "these people."
Shoemaker and Colfax said "these
people" demeaned the drug addicts, drunks and miscellaneous
derelicts who shit in the river and otherwise befoul it year
round. Every year, a valiant woman by the name of Rebecca Kress
organizes a Russian River clean-up. Shoemaker, who has a large
gang of derelicts camped near his house, and Colfax who has called
the cops on similar associations of derelicts legally resident
in his Upper Boonville neighborhood, are the kind of liberals
who will do anything for the halt and the lame but get off their
backs.
Before America lost its way, persons
who were unable or unwilling to care for themselves became the
responsibility of the general public. The general public placed
these persons in clean, well-lighted rehabilitation centers called
the State Hospital, aka The Nut House, aka The Looney Bin. Everyone
in the country was on the same page. The habitually drunk, the
drug addicted, the insane went to the hospital. They weren't
allowed to shit in the public's drinking water, or to be drunk
in public, or gather in gangs to shoot up drugs, or to destroy
public places by acting like lunatics, frightening the children
and little old ladies. Some of them got better and were able
to rejoin the sanctioned lunacy known as society, some of them
were locked up more or less permanently, as much for their own
welfare as ours. Most of us don't care what they're called, and
most of us pity them because they are pitiable, and most of us
want to see them helped to get better. It doesn't help *these
people* -- the drunks, the dopers, the bums, the nutballs --
to allow them to foul public or private property, and it certainly
doesn't help clarify matters when a couple of posturers like
our two alleged supervisors are more upset at descriptions of
the homeless than they are at the absence of will to do something
specific to get the drunks, the drug addicted, the loons some
help.
When last heard from on the homeless
issue, Ukiah Lib arranged for the most orderly among the drunk
and the deranged to be bused to a westside church after being
vetted for dope and drink at an eastside location. The homeless
were then bused to a few hours shelter on the condition they
got the hell out before the sight of them disturbed the neighbors.
Obviously, the homeless aren't the only
people doing their darndest to destroy the Russian River. Anyone
who drives south on 101 during summer weekends can't help but
see the appalling mounds of trash strewn everywhere along the
river, and strewn there presumably mostly by otherwise housed
persons.
All Caylor did was propose that Mendocino
County pass an ordinance giving local law enforcement the legal
muscle to roust the worst of nature's despoilers. Caylor said
that although the county posts "no camping" signs,
it has no ordinance with which to back them up. Last year, using
anti-roadside parking laws, Caylor organized a ticket-writing
campaign for cars parked along the bluffs over the Russian River
south of Hopland, thus significantly reducing the most egregious
slob-ism.
Which is when Shoemaker and Colfax went
in Croc Tear mode. According to the Ukiah Daily Journal, Colfax
demanded of Caylor, "You don't hear hard-core home owners
are responsible for the degradation of our environment."
Names, Colfax, names!
Phony Baloney Shoemaker seconded Colfax.
"I would hope we'd take a somewhat more holistic approach
than an ordinance..."
John McCowen, apparently restored to
lucidity after several years stalking my newspaper, the Anderson
Valley Advertiser, functions as a County planning commissioner.
He said the proposed ordinance was a "modest proposal,"
boldly adding that he could define "hard-core homeless"
then proceeded to do it: "These are the folks that will
not go to a shelter no matter what. Is it our responsibility
to give them a place to trash indiscriminately?"
Supervisor Michael Delbar, seconded by
Shoemaker, sent the ordinance back to staff to be purged of insensitive
language as if the drunks and the dope heads will appreciate
the upgrade. It'll be back for the phony libs to posture over
on April 6.
As is, the proposed ordinance bars camping
on public property between U.S. 101 and the Russian River at
Squaw Rock, on the Russian River Bridge off Talmage Road, near
the Ackerman Creek Bridge on North State Street, and at the West
Fork of the Russian River Bridge on Lake Mendocino Drive.
Bruce Anderson
is the publisher of the Anderson
Valley Advertiser, America's best newspaper.
Weekend
Edition Features for March 20 / 21, 2004
Jeffrey St. Clair
Empire of the Locusts
Gary Leupp
The Yassin Assassination: Prelude to an Attack on Syria
William A. Cook
The Yassin Assassination: a Monstrous Insanity Blessed by the
US
Faheem Hussain
Some Thoughts on Waziristan: Once and Always a Colonial Army
Elaine Cassel
Is Playing Paintball Terrorism?
Larry Birns / Jessica
Leight
Disturbing Signals: Kerry and Latin America
John Ross
Bush Tells the World: "Drop Dead"
John Eskow
A Memo to Karl Rove from the Hollywood Caucus
Alan Maass
Who Are the Real Terrorists?
Joe Bageant
Howling in the Belly of the Confederacy
Dave Zirin
Reasonable Doubt: Why Barry Bonds is Not on Steroids
Craig Waggoner
Who Would Mel's Jesus Nuke?
The Kerry Quandry
Joel Wendland
Marxists
for Kerry
Josh Frank
Scary,
Scary John Kerry
Matt Vidal
Spoilers, Electability and the Poverty of American Democracy
Poets' Basement
LaMorticella, Hamod, Guthrie, Davies and Albert
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