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July 15, 2002
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
from Independence Day
July 12, 2002
Sean Donahue
The Other
Harken Energy Scandal: Oil, Death Squads
and Colombia
Walt Brasch
Sin Tax
Scam
"Psst. Cigarettes. A Buck Each."
Steve Perry
A Tale
of Two Twits
Wall Street Burns, Bush Fiddles, But Where's Wellstone?
July 11, 2002
Lloyd Marbet
Arrested
by the Chamber
of Commerce
David Krieger
Law vs.
Force
David Vest
Fountain
of Foo:
Strike Three Called
Irit Katriel
A Deep
Ideological Crisis
Richard Glen Boire
Dangerous
Lessons:
Public School Drug Testing
July 10, 2002
CounterPunch Wire
Third Party
Woes
South Carolina Denies Kevin Alexander Gray Ballot Status
Nassar Ibriham &
Majed Nassar
Bush's
Middle East Plan: Always Changing, Never Changing
Robert Fisk
Ain't That
America:
A Strange Kind of Freedom
Dave Marsh
The Return
of CREEP:
Record Cartel Accounting
Bernard Weiner
Hope and
Despair in
the Body Politic
Gary Leupp
European
Worries and
Bush's Terror War
July 9, 2002
St. Clair / Cockburn
The Atomic
Clock is Ticking:
All Roads Lead to Yucca Mtn.
Jack McCarthy
Florida:
a Terrorist Sanctuary for Bush's Bloody Pals?
Robert Fisk
How a Saudi
Billionaire
Does Beirut
Stanton and Madsen
God, Incorporated
Kurt Nimmo
IDF, Gangbanging
with Tanks
Bill Christison
Disastrous
Foreign Policies
of the US Part 3:
What Can We Do About It?
July 8, 2002
Rick Mercier
Yucca
Mountain Bound
Lev Grinberg
The
BUSHARON Global War
Tariq Ali
How Bush
Used 9/11 to Remap the World
Lori Allen
The Tugs
of War:
Palestinian Life Under Curfew
July 7, 2002
Alexander Cockburn
White
House Crooks
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July
15, 2002
Ralph Nader in Cuba
CounterPunch Wire Report
HAVANA -- Former U.S. presidential candidate Ralph Nader
stated that he is opposed to the concentration of power within
corporations that is impeding the development of democracy in
his country, and criticized his government's foreign policy on
the island which, he said, doesn't give Cubans a chance to breathe.
During an almost two-hour master lecture
in the University of Havana's Aula Magna, attended by President
Fidel Castro, Nader talked of the current relations between both
countries, suggesting that the United States give Cuba the chance
to breathe so that it can develop in its own way, without restrictions.
He also advocated that the island should
transmit its experiences in various experiences to the rest of
the world, and cooperation between the two nations, particularly
in the health sector.
Nader began by saying he would talk about
symbols and governments, the myths and realities of the United
States, some of whose past leaders had warned that a concentration
of wealth and power cannot co-exist with democracy.
He explained how commercial values have
overtaken the interests of the U.S. people, thus weakening their
civil rights to the point that freedom could be lost without
even amending the Constitution.
If the United States is the greatest
military power, why does it have the highest rate of child poverty
in western democracies, Nader asked, pointing out that the national
level stands at 20%, rising to 30% in the district of Columbia.
Why has the U.S. economy doubled but six million families are
unable to pay their rent?
Nader enumerated a series of questions
on the U.S. system, highlighting that in the wake of September
11, his country is now spending more on security than on healthcare
for its citizens.
The former presidential candidate, who
did not discount running again in 2004, also criticized the way
in which his country's two political parties establish barriers
to prevent other political groups participating in government
debates.
Wealth is currently concentrated in the
hands of the few, controlling elections, the Government and the
information media, he stated. Nader referred to civil rights
restrictions after September 11, affirming that this has become
the U.S. response every time it feels threatened, no matter how
distant that threat is.
He asked what would happen if his nation
were exposed to attacks, blockades and restrictions for 40 years.
What would happen? he repeated, leaving the answer open to imagination.
In his opinion, the blockade has not
managed to destabilize the Cuban government, but has strengthened
it, and he questioned the U.S. authorities' double standard on
that point, comparing it with the attitude of his country's citizens
who are increasingly calling for relations to be normalized.
He likewise believes that the U.S. press
should make more mention of Cuban society's achievements and
positive aspects.
Ralph Nader, Green Party candidate in
the 2000 presidential elections, visited the island at the invitation
of the National Assembly of People's Power, and was received
by President Fidel Castro.
He has also met with Rosa Elena Simeon,
minister of science, technology and the environment; Alfredo
Morales, minister of labor and social security; Felipe Perez
Roque, minister of foreign affairs; and Osvaldo Martinez, president
of the Parliamentary Economic Commission. The rector of the University
of Havana presented Nader with a commemorative plaque celebrating
the 270th anniversary of the founding of that center of higher
education.
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