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Today's Stories November 3, 2008 Patrick Cockburn October 31 , 2008 Alexander Cockburn Jeffrey St. Clair Douglas Valentine Ismael Hossein-Zadeh Dr. Ignacy Nowopolski Alan Maass William P. O’Connor Patrick Irelan Brian Cloughley Mats Svensson Binoy Kampmark Steve Conn Alan Farago Morton Skorodin Robert Bryce Wajahat Ali David Yearsley Dennis Loo Pam Martens Stephen Martin Richard Rhames Ramzy Baroud Missy Beattie Howard Lisnoff Richard Neville Saul Landau / Kim Nicolini Lorenzo Wolff Poets' Basement Website of the Weekend October 30, 2008 Cockburn / St. Clair Vijay Prashad Paul Craig Roberts Glen Ford Stanley Heller William Loren Katz Joshua Frank James McEnteer Felice Pace Jonathan Cook Reza Fiyouzat Website of the Day
October 29, 2008 Arno J. Mayer Eric Toussaint Matt Gonzalez Steven Conn Jonathan Cook Patrick Bond Ramzi Kysia Douglas Valentine Stephen Martin Margaret Dooley-Sammuli Amee Chew Website of the Day
October 28, 2008 James G. Abourezk Andy Worthington Gary Leupp Paul Craig Roberts Mike Whitney Gregory V. Button Ralph Nader P. Sainath Martha Rosenberg Charles R. Larson Website of the Day October 27, 2008 Michael Hudson Barbara Rose Johnston John Dinges Mike Whitney Mary Lynn Cramer Greenspan's Higher Power Alan Farago David Michael Green Andy Worthington George Wuerthner Niranjan Ramakrishnan Website of the Day October 24 / 26, 2008 Alexander Cockburn Ishmael Reed Mike Whitney Don Santina Scott Boehm Saul Landau Ron Jacobs Binoy Kampmark Linn Washington Jr. Nicole Colson Bernard Chazelle Brian Jones Christopher Brauchli Benjamin Dangl Val Strange Steve Early David Macaray Allison Kilkenny Richard Rhames Jim Bell Kris De Welde Barry Clemson Adam Engel Mark Scaramella Tuli Kupferberg Lorenzo Wolff Poets' Basement Website of the Weekend October 23, 2008 Allan J. Lichtman Todd Chretien John Ross Peter Morici Mats Svensson Marlene Martin Robert Jensen / Margaret Kimberley Deepak Tripathi David Morris Website of the Day October 22, 2008 Brian Cloughley Heather Gray Jeff Birkenstein Ralph Nader DC Larson David Swanson Keeanga-Yamatta Taylor Race and the Election: When the "Real" America Enters the Voting Booth Larry Everest Robert Fantina Martha Rosenberg Stephen Martin Website of the Day October 21, 2008 Vijay Prashad Paul Craig Roberts Corey D. B. Walker Steve Breyman Eric Toussaint Wajahat Ali Robert Weitzel Brendan Cooney Dave Lindorff Marqueece Harris-Dawson / Bob Wing Patrick B. Barr Omar Barghouti Website of the Day October 20, 2008 Michael Hudson Anthony DiMaggio Tariq Ali Uri Avnery Bill Quigley Ben Rosenfeld David Michael Green William S. Lind Chris Genovali Stephen Martin Howard Lisnoff David Yearsley Website of the Day October 17 / 19, 2008 Alexander Cockburn Jeffrey St. Clair Pam Martens Paul Craig Roberts Mike Whtney Michael D. Yates Suzanne Smith Carl Boggs Ralph Nader Fidel Castro Dave Marsh Saul Landau Jo Guldi Kevin Zeese Larry Everest Steve Early David Macaray Ben Terrall Missy Beattie Don Monkerud Helen Redmond Dan Bacher Wajahat Ali Farzana Versey Vladimir Frolov Kim Nicolini Poets Basement Website of the Day
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November 3, 2008 WCarl Bernstein's New Deep ThroatNader and the Youth VoteBy STEVE CONN Carl Bernstein says he heard it from Karl Rove, so it must be true. Rove is Bernstein’s new Deep Throat. Is he that desperate for a fresh Watergate to jumpstart his career? He says Ralph Nader’s progressive presidential campaign is dangerous for the young and poor voter in America. Nader’s campaign translates their needs into a political agenda that may get Nader some votes. It is subversive because it operates under the radar, but that's only because it has been ignored by Big Media, already satiated with millions from the major party campaigns. Bernstein should know that. While his Watergate Partner, Bob Woodward, has gone on to write a stream of books first flattering, then trashing Bush and his administration, Bernstein can’t be bothered by the mountain of facts that have emerged from the research by others to explain the many and complex reasons why Gore lost Florida in 2000. A new book suggests when Gore refused to commit to stop an extension of an airport into the Everglades National Park, local environmentalists decided to teach him a lesson. We forget Gore’s caution at matters environmental in 2000 and his silence on global warming during his campaign. The aggressive Republican Party post-elections strategy to put operatives on the ground to win at all costs and the feckless Democratic retreat in 2000 has been detailed. Most of us know the US Supreme Court decided a presidential election and got away with it. In their White House shouting match about Election 2000, Gore blamed Clinton’s shenanigans with Monica and Bill blamed Gore’s failure to run on Clinton’s record. But Bernstein still blames Nader and sees danger ahead because Karl told him so. He claims Nader has a personality disorders that requires that he persist in his call to demand a living wage, repeal of Taft Hartley, single payer health care, prosecution of Wall Street crooks, a new Israeli peace policy, an end to the wars without end and all the rest. He is bad because he influences the young in Ohio and Missouri with this crazy thinking, issues rejected entirely by Obama and McCain as unsafe at any political speed.Even the polls which predict an Obama landslide don't faze Bernstein. Moving from the 2000 lie to the next lie about 2008, the Ralph Nader Bernstein likes should be like Carl Bernstein. He should accept his deserved rewards and become a Cable Talking Head. Don’t get me wrong. Carl Bernstein was very good as Dustin Hoffman in his movie. But Ralph Nader played a great Ralph Nader in "An Unreasonable Man" and still does Ralph Nader well on the campaign trail. After the inauguration, Nader promises that his 2008 grassroots campaign organization will press the new President and his Congress to return to a Progressive agenda, the Democratic candidate and his advisors either let slide or disavowed during the Presidential campaign. A vote for Ralph Nader is a vote to hold true to a detailed progressive agenda, not a cabal. If it bothers Carl Bernstein that Nader is reaching out to a new generation with a precise definition for the change Obama predicts in the abstract, well, that’s democracy for you, dangerous because it is still alive. Steve Conn lived in Alaska from 1972 until 2007. He is a retired professor, University of Alaska. His e mail is steveconn@hotmail.com.
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