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July 21. 2002
Dave Marsh
Mr. Big Stuff:
Alan Lomax, Great White Fraud
James T. Phillips
"I'll
Tell You No Lies"
The Human Rubble of War
July 20, 2002
Gavin Keeney
The Grave
New Urbanism
World Trade Center Burlesque
Jacob Levich
"I
Was Schooled in Hate"
Confessions of a
Summer Camp Terror Tot
Thomas Croft
Augusta,
GA
Growing Up in the Deep South
Alexander Cockburn
The
Market Hogwallow:
Popgun Populism Isn't Enough
July 19, 2002
Abe Bonowitz / SueZann
Bosler
A Discussion
with Jeb Bush on the Death Penalty
Jonathan Power
No Need
for War Against Iraq
Rick Giombetti
Qwest
Death Watch
Kurt Nimmo
Of Mice,
Bullets & Bombs
M. Shahid Alam
Through
Racist Eyes:
Is Eurocentrism Unique?
July 18, 2002
Mokhiber / Weissman
Business
As Usual
Jerre Skog
I Spy: Now
Let's be Fair,
the USA Ain't East Germany
Ralph Nader
The CEO
Crimewave:
Corporate Socialism
Mahbubul Karim (Sohel)
The Rising Tensions
Between Spain and Morocco
Alexander Cockburn
Drivel
and Squawk:
Can the Times' Jeff Gerth
Save the White House?
July 17, 2002
Philip Farruggio
The
New Role Model:
Remember Jesus, George?
Zara Gelsey
Who's
Reading Over
Your Shoulder?
Behzad Yaghmaian
9/11 and
Fotress Europe:
the Drama of the New
Moslem Diaspora
Mike Ferner
War, Incorporated
Gary Leupp
Bush, Burqas
and the Oppression of Afghan Women
July 16, 2002
Pierre Tristam
Faith--based
Capitalism in
the Ruins of the Market
Kurt Nimmo
How My
35mm Camera Almost Became a Tool of Treason
Robert Fisk
The Kashmir
Distraction
Salam al--Marayati
When
is Terrorism
Not Defined as Terrorism?
Kathleen Christison
The
Image Problem:
Anti--Palestinian Bias
from Wilson to Bush
July 15, 2002
Gavin Keeney
In One
of Safire's Ears,
Out the Other
CounterPunch Wire
Nader in
Cuba
Ralph Nader
The Secret
World of Banking
Dave Marsh
Vincible:
Michael Jackson, Racism and the Music Cartel
Rahul Mahajan
Justice
for Bhopal
Jeffrey St. Clair
Seduced
by a Legend
The Return of Jimmy T99 Nelson
July 14, 2002
Bill Christison
The
DOA (Poem)
David Vest
I'll Never
Get Out of This Band Alive
July 13, 2002
M. Junaid Alam
A Process
of Dehumanization
Gavin Keeney
Go Tell
Karl Rove!
Matt Vidal
Corporate
"Ethics" Red Herrings
Ed Whitfield
Lessons
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July
22, 2002
Special Counsel
Needed to Investigate Army Secretary Thomas White's Role in the
California Energy Scams
by Joan Claybrook
In testimony last week before the Senate Commerce
Committee, Army Secretary Thomas White stated that he has not
been contacted by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC)
about his possible involvement in the manipulation of California's
deregulated energy market while he headed Enron Energy Services.
He also confirmed that he has not been contacted by the Securities
and Exchange Commission (SEC) about whether he profited from
the sale of Enron stock because of insider information.
Given these statements by Mr. White,
it does not appear that these regulatory agencies, both headed
by appointees of President Bush, are serious about determining
whether the Army secretary committed any wrongdoing during his
tenure at Enron. We, as many others, are concerned about the
diligence with which these agencies are pursuing those corporate
leaders whose actions have been called into question during
the evolving corporate crime wave.
If the SEC launches an insider trading
investigation of Martha Stewart based on the fact that she made
one or two phone calls to an insider at ImClone and then sold
her 4,000 shares of stock, it seems obvious that if Mr. White
had 77 conversations with Enron employees and sold $12 million
in stock prior to the company's collapse, someone should look
into it.
In addition, documents have been made
public that raise serious questions about whether Enron Energy
Services, the Enron unit headed by White between 1998 and 2001,
was involved in schemes, with nicknames such as "Fat Boy"
and "Get Shorty," to manipulate California's deregulated
energy markets during an electricity crisis that cost consumers
and the state treasury billions of dollars and drove the state's
largest electricity utility into bankruptcy. FERC records show
that despite White's testimony that his Enron division was a
retail seller of electricity, Enron Energy Services was registered
as a wholesale energy trader and did conduct trades with other
Enron units that served to drive up prices.
President Bush should call for, and Attorney
General John Ashcroft should appoint, a special counsel to investigate
whether White participated in or knew about possibly illegal
market manipulation and whether he benefited from stock sales
based on insider knowledge or committed any other crimes.
Joan Claybrook
is director of Public
Citizen.
Today's Features
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Mr. Big
Stuff:
Alan Lomax, Great White Fraud
James T. Phillips
"I'll
Tell You No Lies"
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