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May 17, 2002
Lori Berenson
In Defense
of Political Prisoners
Rep. Cynthia McKinney
Terrorist Warnings
Hussein Ibish
Clarifying
the Obstacles
to Peace in Palestine
Alexander Cockburn
Israel and "Anti-Semitism"
May 16, 2002
Marylin Robinson
A Garden
in Tent City, But Where Do You Bathe?
Paul de Rooij
Worse than CNN?
The BBC and Israel
David Krieger
The Bush/Putin
Agreement:
Nuclear Dangers Remain
Steve Perry
Unsafe at Any Speed:
Youth, Sex and the Heresies
of Judith Levine
May 15, 2002
Ahmad Faruqui
Revisiting
Camp David
Rick Giombetti
Spiderman v. Pentagon:
Working Class Hero Battles Corrupt Defense Contractors
Stanton / Madsen
When the
War Hits Home:
Planning for Martial Law, Telegovernance and Suspension of Elections
May 14, 2002
Jacob Levich
Leaving the Truth Out?
Alternative Online Publication
Tells the Big Lie about Palestine
Michael Colby
Bush's
Cuba Blunder
Dave Marsh
Scapegoats: the Music Industry's War
on Cassettes
Jensen / Mahajan
US Power
Mideast Power Plays
May 13, 2002
Robert Fisk
Why Does John Malkovich
Want to Kill Me?
Mokhiber / Weissman
IMF
and World Bank:
Out of Control
Dean Baker
Will Darth Vader do Time?
The Enron Saga Continues
Nelson Valdés
American
Democracy:
A Lesson for Cubans
May 12, 2002
Bernard Weiner
Why Is America Acting Like This? A
Letter to European Friends
John Patrick Leary
Aiding Colombia
Kathleen Christison
Israel
and Ethics
May 11, 2002
Joady Guthrie
The Holy Lands:
A Peace Vision
Patrick Cockburn
Bombing
Iraq:
the Pentagon Prepares a Prolonged Campaign
George Sunderland
CounterPunch Special
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The New Crusade:
America's War on Terrorism
By Rahul Mahajan
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Six Decades of Memphis Music Photographs
Photos by Ernest Withers
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May
17, 2002
Bush as the Energizer
Bunny
by Phillipe Dambournet
It all figures now.
Once you realize GWB is really the Energizer
Bunny, it explains:
- Why he called his political autobiography
'A Charge to Keep'
- Why the Republicans saw such potential in him
- Why the Supreme Court thought he had the 'volts' in Florida
- How he just 'volted' to the presidency
- Why the Democrats were so shocked
- Why he's now so polarizing
- Why he's so close to the 'energy bidness'
- Why he approves of the electric chair
- Why so many people think he's a sot with battery
- Why he's always so upbeat
- Why his middle name is Walker
- Why his last name is Bush
- Why he's always running for office
- Why he enjoys sports where people run as fast as they can
- How he can outrun everybody on the jogging trail
- Why he's so bright-eyed and bushy-tailed
- Why his parents had so many children
- Why the tip of his nose wiggles when he speaks
- Why his ears keep sticking out
- Why he keeps watching replays of Starsky and Hutch
- Why he choked on a pretzel
- Why he never drinks alcohol
- Why he had to bring his own chef from Austin
- Why his daughters are so attracted to anything with hops in
it
- Why he zigzags when he's spooked, as on 9-11
- Why he always tries dangling carrots in front of potential
opponents
- Why he clearly prefers rural habitats
- Why he's such a lightweight
- Why he fluffs most of what he does
- Why he hangs out as much as he can around small children
- Why he has to nap in the afternoon
- Why he can't stay up late at night
- Why he cannot dance
- Why it's so easy to get him hopping mad
- Why he can't count
- Why he's dyslexic
- Why he mispronounces everything
- Why he begins so many sentences with 'Lettuce...'
- Why he thinks he can speak 'Spinach'
- Why he's had so many jobs that involved
drilling holes
- Why he's run a string of companies into the ground
- Why Dick Cheney disappeared down a hole never to reappear
- Why he's reactivating every single underground government facility
- Why the Budget and Social Security are now full of holes
- Why he's in the dark about so many subjects and wants to keep
us there, too
- Why he's so feverishly trying to bury his mistakes
- Why his worst enemy spends most of his time underground
- Why he's never traveled in a Greyhound
- Why his closest European ally is from the country of fox-hunting
- Why Vincente Fox keeps chasing after him
- Why he believes everything in the Warren Report
- Why he's so close to the Rabbit Right
- Why he has such an affinity for greenbacks
- Why he ran into trouble in the Iowa straw polls
- Why he carried all the rural states
- Why the rich are now living their salad years
- How the Green Party actually helped him get elected
- Why he's so big on 'Lawn order'
- Why he's always meeting his guests in the Rose Garden
- Why he's so gung-ho on 'Star Warrens'
- Why he keeps defiling the White House
- Why he doesn't understand the 'Middle
Yeast'
- Why Muslims and Jews won't touch him
- Why he's uncomfortable with the Chinese
- Why he'll never, ever, travel to France
- Why he refuses to believe in Evolution
- Why his policies are completely harebrained
- Why he is dead against any form of cloning
- Why, finally, he sincerely believes
we can all eat shit.
Phillipe Dambournet can be reached at pdambournet@mac.com
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