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24 / 25, 2004
William
A. Cook
Tweedledee and Tweedledum: Kerry
and Bush Melt into One
April
23, 2004
Ron
Jacobs
The Only Solution is Immediate Withdrawal
Dave
Lindorff
Imagination Deficit Disorder
Mokhiber
/ Weissman
Contractors and Mercenaries: the Rising Corporate Military Monster
Norman
Solomon
Country Joe Band, 2004: "What Are We Fighting For?"
Cynthia
McKinney
All Things Are Not Equal: the Perils of Globalization
CounterPunch
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A Bitch Called Wanda
Karyn
Strickler
Sierra Club, Inc.
Hammond
Guthrie
Yellow Caked in the Face
Paul
de Rooij
Graveyard of Justifications: Glossary
of the Iraqi Occupation
April 22, 2004
Patrick
Cockburn
When Terror Came to Basra: "I
Saw a Minibus of Children on Fire"
Tanya
Reinhart
The Wall Behind Disengagement
Lance
Selfa
Why is Kucinich Still in the Race?
Josh
Frank
Street Fighting Man? Kucinich's Pulled Punches
Sen.
Robert Byrd
Bush Owes America Answers on Iraq
William
S. Lind
Why We Get It Wrong
Mickey
Z.
Undoing the Latches
Robert
Jensen
Why They Fast: Remembering the Victims of the World Bank
John
L. Hess
The New York Times from 30,000 Feet
April
21, 2004
Gary
Leupp
Yeats on Iraq
Alfredo
Castro
Colombia's Forgotten Prisoners
Dr.
Susan Block
Bush's Taliban Drug Deal
William
A. Cook
George 1 to George 2
Jack
Random
Iraq and Vietnam
Jean-Guy
Allard
Alarcon Meets the Editors
Mike
Whitney
Charade in the Desert
Bill
Christison
Only Major Policies Changes Can
Help Washington Now
April 20, 2004
Dave
Lindorff
Bush and Kerry Share a Problem
Stan
Cox
Wal-Mart's Magic Numbers
Bruce
Anderson
On Listening to Air America
Joseph
Kalvoda
Czech Mate for Condi
Greg
Moses
Yesterday's Intelligence
Stan
Goff
The Democrats and Iraq
Website
of the Day
Santorum Happens
April 19, 2004
Kurt
Nimmo
The "Central Hand" of the
Resistance
Mike
Whitney
Bob Woodward's Imperial Trifles
Douglas
Valentine
52 Pick-Up and the 100-to-1
Rule
John
Chuckman
The Sharon Annex: Evil Does Often
Triumph
Doug
Giebel
Welcome to the Club
Rahul
Mahajan
Hospital Closings and War Crimes
April
16 / 18, 2004
Robert
Fisk
Bush Legitimizes Terror
Saul
Landau
Subverting Brazil and Cuba
Dave
Lindorff
Paying for War: $2,150 per Family
and Counting
Brandy
Baker
Fallujah's Collateral Damage
Mickey
Z.
The Left Attacks from the Right
Bruce
Jackson
The Bush Press Conference: Gott Mit
Uns
Norman
Solomon
How the "NewsHour" Changed
History
Alexander
Cockburn
Bush, Kerry and Empire
April
15, 2004
Greg
Moses
Follow the Families, Not the Script
Virginia
Tilley
The Carnage According to Gen. Kimmitt:
Just Change the Channel
Ron
Jacobs
They Coulda Been Champions of the
World: Hurricane Carter and Ron Kovic
Michael
Neumann
A Happy Compromise: Hate Crimes
Reporting in the Toronto Globe and Mail
April
14, 2004
Tom
Reeves
Return to Haiti: an American Learning
Zone
Reza
Fiyouzat
Japan and Iraq
Ron
Jacobs
What Bush Really Said
Diane
Christian
The Real Passion
April 10 /
12, 2004
Alexander Cockburn
The
Greatest Radical Journalist of His Age
Patrick Cockburn
Ambush, Kidnap, Murder: Another Day in "Post War" Iraq
Ellen Cantarow
Health Under Siege on the West Bank
Tariq Ali
Iraqi
Resistance: a New Phase
Werther
Pseudoconservatism Revisited: When God is Pro War & Other
Delicacies
Robert Fisk
Bush's War Lords to Their Critics: "Just Shut Up"
Gary Leupp
Indian Wars, Vietnam and Orientalist Fantasy
Ron Jacobs
The Iranian Revolution, Cont.
Jorge Mariscal
Perils of the Bootstrap
Phil Gasper
Defying Stereotypes About Death Row
Dave Zirin
Bringing the Black Freedom Struggle Into Sports: an Interview
with Lee Evans
Brandy Baker
The Revolution is Playing at a Theater Near You
Mickey Z.
Underground Music is Free Media: an Interview with Twiin
Ali Tonak
Get Ready for the Million Worker March
Harry Browne
Asking the Wrong Question About Richard Clarke & 9/11
Gideon Samet
The Sharonizing of America
Conn Hallinan
Remote Control Warriors
Website of
the Weekend
Taboo
Tunes
April 9, 2004
Robert Fisk
This
War's Simple Truth: Iraqis Do Not Want Us
John L. Hess
The
Non-Confessions of a Warrior Princess: Condi on the Stand
Niranjan Ramakrishnan
Condoleezza's Condescensions
Christopher Brauchli
Holes in the Sky: Bush's Crazed Missile Defense Plan
Don Santina
Forget the Alamo!: Glorifying the Fight for Slavery in Texas
William S. Lind
The 4G Warfare Seminar, Cont.
Bill Christison
9/11
Commission is Bush's New Lapdog
Website of the Day
What We've Done to Fallujah
April 8,
2004
Wayne Madsen
Rice
(and the Record) Proves It: Bush Knew, But Failed to Act
Kurt Nimmo
Will
Bush Flatten Fallajuh?
Patrick Cockburn
Guided
Missile; Misguided War
Laura Flanders
Steamed
Rice
Larry Everest
What Condi Rice is Hiding
Adam Federman
Sacred Capitalism Hits Russia
M. Junaid Alam
The Iraqi Intifada Begins
Norman Solomon
The Quest for a Monopoly on Violence
Douglas Valentine
Echoes
of Vietnam: Phoenix, Assassination and Blowback in Iraq
Website of the Day
Xispas: Chicano Art, Culture and Politics
April 7, 2004
Alexander Cockburn
Those
Pulitzers!
Sen. Robert
Byrd
Deeper
into the Mouth of Hell: We Must Find the Exit from Iraq
Ron Jacobs
Tet
in Iraq: Closer to the Cosmic Disaster?
Patrick Cockburn
Battles
Across Iraq: US Death Toll Mounts
Kathy Kelly
Pacification: Worth the Price?
Sonali Kolhatkar
What Are You Doing About Afghanistan?
Rahul Mahajan
Report from Baghdad: Opening the Gates of Hell
Robert Fisk
US Airlifts Saddam to Qatar
Mike Whitney
America Out of Iraq, Now!
Sam Hamod
Bush, Pandora's Box and the Tiger
April 6,
2004
C.G. Estabrook
Mercenaries
and Occupiers
William Blum
The
Anti-Empire Report: the Israel Lobby
Col. Dan Smith
The
Language of Disbelief: 1.3 Billion Still Live in War Zones
Dr. Bulent Gokay
The Coming Islamic Republic of Iraq?
Lynn Landes
Faking Democracy: Americans Don't Vote; Machines Do
Sheila Samples
What Would Royko Write?
Jason Leopold
Condi's Blind Spot: Rice Never Mentioned al-Qaeda
Mickey Z.
A Reality Show with No End in Sight
Robert Fisk
Iraq on the Brink of Anarchy
April 5, 2004
John Farrell
Lessons
from El Salvador and Iraq
Robert Fisk
Bloodbath
a Bad Omen for Bush
Gary Leupp
Shiites Say No: Another "Nightmare
Scenario"
April 3 / 4, 2004
Alexander Cockburn
Anti-Depressants
a Problem? We're Shocked
Jeffrey St. Clair
How Neil Bush Succeeded in Business
Without Really Trying
Gary Leupp
On Jefferson, Diderot and the Political Uses of God
Lawrence Davidson
Orwell and Kafka in Israel / Palestine
Frederick B.
Hudson
Condi Rice: the Family Retainer
Phillip Cryan
The Magic of Coca-Cola: Colombian Workers, Civil Rights and Advertising
Dave Zirin
Lester Speaks: an Interview with Lester "Red" Rodney
Ben Tripp
Talking Dirty: Obscene But Not Heard
Bruce Anderson
Phony Liberals and Fake Concern for the Homeless
Bill Fletcher, Jr.
Justice and Legitimacy in Haiti
Mark Scaramella
Do You Have What It Takes to Be Sec. of Defense? Take the Rumsfeld
Quiz
Sharon Smith
Do Most Iraqis Really Want the US to Stay?
Rick Giombetti
Melissa Ann Rowland: a Witch for Our Time
Nader/Kerry
Quandary
Stephen Gowans
Communists
for Capitalism?
Frank Bardacke / Doug Lummis
Support Nader; Dump Bush: an Election Manifesto
Mickey Z
Turn ON
Saul Landau
Kerry: a Less Dangerous Imperialist?
Richard Oxman
Nader and/or Death?
Poets' Basement
Holt, LaMorticella, Davies, Albert and Tripp
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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
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Fernando Suarez
del Solar
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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
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Milt Bearden
Mired in the Tracks of Alexander the Great
Marjorie Cohn
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April 24 / 25, 2004
Tweedledee and
Tweedledum
Kerry and Bush
Melt into One
By WILLIAM A. COOK
It occurred to me after Kerry's performance
on Meet the Press this weekend that Americans have a choice this
coming November between George Walker Bush or George Kerry Bush,
the Tweedleddumb and Tweedledeedumb proffered to us by the Republicrats
Party. How clever: one party with two candidates playing at politics
for the amusement of the world. John pretends to have disagreements
with George on taxes and outsourcing of jobs while he obsequiously
crawls behind the President when asked about Israel, and, in
that shadowed place, regurgitates the policies of Bush that have
locked the US into a "war" of terror. Lewis might have
altered his verse a bit to accommodate these twins:
Georgie Bush and John Kerry
Agreed to have a battle,
For Johnny thought that Georgie
Did nothing but war and prattle.
Just then appeared a monstrous
terror,
As evil as a tar-barrel,
Which evaporated our heroes' valor,
So they quite forgot their quarrel.
When asked by Russert if he agreed with the President's position
on Israel as displayed at the Sharon and Bush entertainment special
this past week, Kerry, quicker than a click of the mouse, answered,
"Absolutely!" followed by the obligatory line: "Israel
has a right to defend itself against terrorists." Now considering
that Bush had just unilaterally extinguished the policy of the
preceding four US presidents as it applied to the UN's demands
that Israel return stolen land to the Palestinians, that he had
erased the universally accepted right of dispossessed people
to return to land taken from them illegally, that he had, hand
cradled in Ariel's, granted license to anyone anywhere, Hamas
leaders included, to murder any individual determined by that
person to be a terrorist (laws of the land be damned), that he
had shoved the "road map" up the respective noses of
its co-authors without mentioning to them that he was about to
rip it up, that he had jumped blindly into bed with the man considered
by the vast majority of the people of the world to be the greatest
threat to peace in the world (outside of himself) thus shoving
his finger you know where at world opinion (see "Eurobarometer"
November 2003), that he had rejected even the semblance of understanding
that hatred of America has a source of greater depth than his
hollow cry that these fanatics hate our "freedoms"
negating by his obsequious fawning before Sharon the statements
by bin Laden (see ABC 1998 interview with Miller) and the people
of Palestine, Syria, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Iran, and Jordan that
America's blind support of Sharon is the primary cause of unrest
and attacks against the US, and, finally, that he had failed
once again to distinguish between legitimate fighters against
oppression and occupying forces that exists in Palestine and
now Iraq, and terrorists that attack western interests around
the world because they find fault with western values and impositions
on their cultures, you'd think Kerry would have ruminated a bit
before answering. But no such thoughtful moments intervened;
he had the answers programmed into his head: "Israel has
a right to defend itself against terrorists." Then, as the
cannibal said to the civilized man chewing on his nails, "Perhaps
you should defend yourself against yourself," for that is
the position Israel finds itself in; it is its own enemy isolating
itself from the world community as it walls into a ghetto a defenseless
population whose land it stole in 1948 and in 1967. The world
cannot comprehend this behavior nor can honest Jews around the
world including vast numbers in America who protest at every
opportunity Sharon's policies and Bush's capitulation, and now
Kerry's, to this shameless victimization of a people that did
no harm to the Jews before 1947. Listen to the words of Gerald
Kaufman, veteran Labour MP, "Sharon is a 'war criminal'
who ordered his troops to use methods of barbarism against the
Palestinians ... It is time to remind Sharon that the Star of
David belongs to all Jews and not to his repulsive government.
His actions are staining the Star of David with blood."
Bush's, and hence Kerry's,
capitulation to Sharon's new rules continues efforts by Israelis
to liquidate the indigenous population of Palestine. Sharon's
removal of 7,500 settlers from Gaza is a token gesture to obscure
the annexation of more than 150,000 settlers in the West Bank
to Israel proper, stealing in the process the land, the groves,
and the aquifers that exist there decreasing the remaining land
available to the Palestinians to approximately 10% of the pre-1948
land they had inhabited for more than 1900 years (Henry Siegman,
New York Review of Books), and this, Israel claims,
demonstrates their commitment to the peace process! Sharon's
"Wall of Fear" continues unabated, the largest open
air prison ever constructed in the history of humankind, entombing
millions in refugee camps and cramped ghettos cemented in by
the wall on the west and the Dead Sea on the east (how appropriate
an enclosure), and this, Israel claims, demonstrates their commitment
to the peace process! This Wall, that snakes through Palestinian
land as it encircles the Sharon protected settlements that rest
illegally on others' land, locks out a few hundred thousand Palestinians
from their groves, their villages, their families, their hospitals,
their friends and their Mosques, a population Sharon intends
to nudge out of their homes and "transfer" to the other
side of the wall thus enlarging Israel's land grab by an untold
percent, and this, Israel claims, demonstrates their commitment
to the peace process! All this Sharon does in our name blessed
by Bush and Kerry, thus demonstrating our commitment and Israel's
to the continued slaughter of our young men in uniform and the
agonizing unknown of terrorist attacks on innocent civilians
throughout the world for decades to come.
Sharon's actions follow those
of his predecessors that had commandeered Palestinian land then
rewrote history to tell the world that they legitimately acquired
it. Moshe Dayan, in an address to the Israel Institute of Technology
in 1969, stated openly, "Jewish villages were built in the
place of Arab villages. You do not even know the names of these
Arab villages, and I do not blame you because geography books
no longer exist, not only do the books not exist, the Arab villages
are not there eitherThere is not one single place built in this
country that did not have a former Arab population." Indeed,
369 Palestinian villages were destroyed and depopulated in the
1948 war (All That Remains, Walid Khalidi), a calculated
depopulation and forced "ethnic cleansing" of the indigenous
people, constituting 54% of the total Palestinian population
in Mandatory Palestine, as Benny Morris the Israeli historian,
has confirmed. Lest we overlook the obvious, consider what this
Israeli general accomplished with his tanks and bulldozers as
he slashed the homes in these villages, burying under the sand
and remnants of buildings the identity of the people whose birth
records, property deeds, business records, yea, the historical
evidence of their very existence, the memories of families, sank
beneath the blades of the dozers even as Rachel Corrie's life
was snuffed out a year ago beneath another bulldozer driven by
another merchant of death, Ariel Sharon. This "colonization"
of the Palestinian homeland took place in full glare of "civilized"
media continuing to this day, and no one cared, nor do they care
now, not even our only alternative to the new Pope, now resident
in Washington, Bush II, whose "crusade" on behalf of
God is now underway. Thus do we demonstrate our commitment to
continued slaughter of the innocent accepting as the crusaders
did that God's ways are unfathomable but surely just.
Having obliterated the villages
and massacred or forced out the people, the Israeli leaders moved
quickly to control the area designated by the UNGA as Israel's
by importing Jews from around the world. In 1948, 806,000 Jews
lived in Palestine, approximately 33% of the total population
and they owned about 6% of the land; by the time the Israeli
military completed its devastation of Arab villages, driving
almost 800,000 Palestinians out, the indigenous population had
been reduced to a minority; by 1972, the Jewish population had
increased to 2,450,000, and by 2003, to more than 5,400,000,
the vast majority immigrants. They now live in Arab homes or
in new settlements constructed on top of razed Arab villages
or in settlements illegally constructed in Palestinian territories
while the Israeli government controls 93% of the land with provisions
that prevent ownership by Palestinians. But those who lived in
Palestine, children of children of Palestinians who lived on
the land since the Roman Empire expelled the Jews in 70 CE, cannot
return to their homeland because Bush said so. No power given
to the President by our Constitution gives him that authority;
no provision in the Charter of the United Nations grants an American
President such power; nothing written into the Geneva Accords
provides such license. Yet having taken that authority unto himself
he has guaranteed that the nations of the world will react negatively
to America's arrogance and the Arab world will understand, and
rightly so, that this President has assumed the mantel of the
ancient Crusader, a veritable King Richard the Lionhearted, in
quest of the extermination of the Infidels, as he announces to
the world that he has a mission from God Himself to bring His
gifts to all of humankind. And Kerry, Catholic that he is, may
find comfort in that mission and in its comparison to the glory
days of the Medieval Church.
Both Bush and Kerry, by embracing
Sharon, have embraced the continuation of terrorism against America
for decades to come. Neither has thought out the causes of the
hatred that resides in the world against the west, nor have they
distinguished between legitimate freedom fighters struggling
to regain stolen homeland, land occupied and controlled by foreign
forces, and terrorists that rise in multiple countries around
the globe, including our own (witness the Oklahoma bombing),
who have ideologies that conflict with western ideology and find
need to assert their anger in random acts of retaliation for
perceived wrongs inflicted by the west including western control
of their leaders and western control of their oil and gas reserves.
Unfortunately, legitimate freedom fighters, deprived of military
resources and reduced to stones as weapons, ultimately resort
to the last expedient, the suicide bomber, to regain their lost
land. This is the case in Israel, which occupies illegally the
land of the Palestinians since 1967 and which defies more than
155 UN Resolutions demanding that they cease and desist Human
Rights violations and return stolen land; it is also the case
in Iraq because Bush's invasion of that country was as illegal
as it was stupid. The Arab world has made it clear that Sharon's
subjugation of a defenseless people in Palestine and America's
invasion of an Arab state on behalf of Israel are the primary
causes of anger in the Arab world. America's support of Israel's
oppression and occupation makes it, to use Bush's own logic,
an accomplice in the terrorism inflicted by Sharon on the Palestinians
and his acceptance of his Neo-Con Cabal's use of American forces
in the service of Israel adds fuel to the fire that resides in
the soul of the fanatic. America has gone awry, and Kerry remains
blind to that reality.
One would think that a man
educated at a prestigious university would meditate a moment
or two on issues like those above, and, if not on issues that
raise righteous indignation because they spotlight moral concerns,
then perhaps time might be spent on economics. Considering the
current cost to the American taxpayer, a modest 10 billion per
year if all costs are calculated including those paid out to
Egypt and Jordan to assure that they will continue to recognize
Israel, a citizen might expect a candidate for President to wonder
if it is worth it. After all, cannot the fourth largest military
in the world, defending a population of five million, care for
itself against a population that has no army, air force, or navy
but only the stones created by the demolition of homes by the
IDF? And should we, after all, pay for the removal of the Gaza
settlements as Sharon has requested after we paid for them to
be built in the first place despite whispering to Sharon that
he should cease building them? After fifty-seven years of support
to the 16th wealthiest nation in the world, couldn't America
consider cutting off its payments? Shouldn't some time be given
to calculate the cost of our invasion and occupation of Iraq
as it was done on behalf of Israel according to the Executive
Director of the 9/11 Commission, Phillip Zelikow. I believe the
cost has been calculated at roughly a billion a day. Since we
demanded that the UN take decisive action against one nation,
Iraq, for defying 16 of its Resolutions, should we continue to
support a nation that defies 155 of them? Since we demand that
all nations discontinue development of nuclear weapons or destroy
those they possess, shouldn't we consider demanding the same
of Israel that has in excess of 200? Fair is fair after all.
Wouldn't a common ordinary
citizen think that a man who studied law might find some problems
with the very concept of extra-judicial execution? Doesn't the
reality of it make moot the need for law? Shouldn't Kerry understand
this? Shouldn't he remember that assassinations are prohibited
by Article 23b of the Hague Regulations, 1907? Shouldn't he know
that American policy bans political assassinations and even if
credibility were given to Bush's repeal of that order, it would
be difficult to claim that Sheik Yassin was a political and not
a religious figure. In short, Yassin's assassination was a symbolic
act of destruction against the Palestinian culture. If those
who rise to power can determine right from wrong, and have the
power to impose their will, what need have they for courts of
law? I was under the impression that this reality, that existed
in the early middle ages and before, when barbarian hoards roamed
Europe at will inflicting their rule by might on all, gave rise
to the need for civilized societies to construct a system of
laws that would apply to all equally. Yet Bush and Sharon find
no need for courts, for lawyers, for juries, for laws drawn up
by the people's representatives; they are the law and apparently
Kerry agrees. Perhaps the belief that God has appointed Bush
as his emissary to the world to fulfill His mission makes Kerry
believe that he must assume that mantle when he defeats Bush
in the November joust.
Watching Kerry surrender his
intelligence to the mantra of Israel's demands on our representatives,
forces the citizen to resort to the UN for resolution of the
dilemma facing the American voter. There is no hope of change
in the future even if Kerry wins. Therefore, it is up to the
UN nations to bring the US to task before the UNGA for indictment
of all the international laws that have been decimated by this
administration in its illegal invasion of a sovereign nation
and in its support of the nation of Israel for its indiscriminate
exploitation of Human Rights violations against the Palestinians
and its defiance of UN Resolutions for over 30 years. Unless
it takes action, Sharon and Bush will have succeeded in returning
the purported civilized nations of the world back to barbarian
times as they plot their crusade against the Greater Middle East.
Riding with them, apparently in full agreement with their arrogance,
is John Kerry, the Tweedledee of the duo, chanting his mantra
beneath a banner that proclaims his allegiance to the ancient
Kings of Israel "Me Too, Me Too!"
William Cook is a professor of English at the University
of La Verne in southern California. His new book, Psalms
for the 21st Century, was just published by
Mellen Press. He can be reached at: cookb@ULV.EDU
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Anti-Depressants
a Problem? We're Shocked
Jeffrey St. Clair
How Neil Bush Succeeded in Business
Without Really Trying
Gary Leupp
On Jefferson, Diderot and the Political Uses of God
Lawrence Davidson
Orwell and Kafka in Israel / Palestine
Frederick B.
Hudson
Condi Rice: the Family Retainer
Phillip Cryan
The Magic of Coca-Cola: Colombian Workers, Civil Rights and Advertising
Dave Zirin
Lester Speaks: an Interview with Lester "Red" Rodney
Ben Tripp
Talking Dirty: Obscene But Not Heard
Bruce Anderson
Phony Liberals and Fake Concern for the Homeless
Bill Fletcher, Jr.
Justice and Legitimacy in Haiti
Mark Scaramella
Do You Have What It Takes to Be Sec. of Defense? Take the Rumsfeld
Quiz
Sharon Smith
Do Most Iraqis Really Want the US to Stay?
Rick Giombetti
Melissa Ann Rowland: a Witch for Our Time
Nader/Kerry
Quandary
Stephen Gowans
Communists
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Frank Bardacke / Doug Lummis
Support Nader; Dump Bush: an Election Manifesto
Mickey Z
Turn ON
Saul Landau
Kerry: a Less Dangerous Imperialist?
Richard Oxman
Nader and/or Death?
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