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February 28 / 29, 2004
Stephen Green
Serving Two Flags: Neo-Cons, Israel
and the Bush Team
Mike Whitney
Dismantle
the Military Goliath
February 27, 2004
Thomas C. Mountain
A
White Jesus During Black History Month?
Laura Carlsen
Americans
Abroad: Bush is Persona Non Grata
John B. Anderson
Nader's Campaign Brings Back Memories: Creating an Open Electoral
Process
Jason Leopold
Spying
on Kofi Annan
John Chuckman
Nader,
Risk and Hope
Standard Schaefer
An
Interview with Michael Hudson on Putin's Russia
Ray McGovern
Punished
for Honest Intelligence
Saul Landau
The
Haiti Redux
Website of the Day
Bush: Why I'm Running for Re-election
February 26, 2004
Brandy Baker
Is Nader
on to Something?
Jacques Kinau
AEI
to Colombia: "Can't Give You Anything But Guns, Baby"
Norman Solomon
Bugging Kofi Annan: UN Spying
and the Evasions of US Journalism
Greg Weiher
A Purloined Letter: the Zarqawi Gambit
Walt Brasch
Janet Jackson, Bush & No. 542: There are No Halftime Shows
in War
Shadi Hamid
The Music World Explodes in Anger
Norman Madarasz
As Canadian as Corruption
Chris Floyd
Bullets and Ballots
Virginia Tilly
The
Deeper Meaning of the Wall
Amy Goodman / Jeremy
Scahill
Haiti's
Lawyer Says US is Arming Haiti's Anti-Aristide Paramilitaries
Website of the Day
Clear Channel Sucks
February 25, 2004
Dr. Susan Block
Saddam's
Sex Therapist and the Rape of Free Speech
Bruce Anderson
Treacherous Bastards: The Greens and the Dems and Nader
Ron Jacobs
Our Power is on the Streets and
in Our Hearts
Mike Whitney
Bush
and Gay America: the Politics of Duplicity
Sam Husseini
Jesus in 100 Words
John L. Hess
Kick Off or Flub?
Sam Hamod
Bush's Newest Red Herring
Cockburn / St. Clair
Winning
with Nader
Website of the Day
VotePact
February 24, 2004
Ralph Nader
Why
I'm Running for President
Greg Moses
Rally
the Mob! Bush, Gay Marriage and the Constitution
Douglas O'Hara
The
Merchants of Fear: Smearing Nader
Phillip Cryan
Frozen in Time: The WSJ's Paranoid
Lens on Latin America
David Lindorff
John Kerry's China Connection
Jason Leopold
Cheney's Shame: Halliburton Faces New Charges
Gary Younge
Haiti: Throttled by History
Kromm, Masri & Purohit
Why No Democracy in Iraq?
Steve Perry
Tangled Up in Red and Blue: Beware the Electoral College
February 23, 2004
Neve Gordon
Israel's Apartheid Wall on Trial
at The Hague
Kurt Nimmo
Richard Perle, Executioner: "Heads Should Roll"
Jonathan Franklin
US Soldier Seeks Refugee Status in Canada
Al Krebs
The Liberal "Intelligentsia" v. Nader
Josh Frank
Nader's Nadir? Not a Chance
Bruce Jackson
Nader, Another View: "He's as Evil as Bush"
Gary Leupp
A Misguided
Attack, The Passion, Rabbi Lerner and the Gospels
February 20 / 22, 2004
Cockburn / St. Clair
Kerry:
He's Peaking Already!
Derek Seidman
Chasing
Judith Miller from the Stage: Watch Her Run!
Ghada Karmi
Sharon is not the Problem
Vanessa Jones
This Week in Redfern, a Boy Dies, Chased by Cops
Ben Granby
Anatomy of a Night Raid on Balad, Iraq
John Holt
An Air That Kills: Greed, Apathy, Dead People
Saul Landau
Entry from a White House Diary
Tom Jackson
Why They Couldn't Wait to Invade Iraq
Frederick B. Hudson
Slave Power and the Constitution: Jefferson, Slaves, Haiti and
Hypocrisy
Roger Burbach
Argentina Fights Back
Kate Doyle
Lessons on Justice from Guatemala
Mike Whitney
Operation Enduring Misery: the Afghanistan Debacle
Greg Moses
What Gives Texas A&M the Right to Trample the Civil Rights
Act?
David Krieger
US Elections: an Opportunity to Debate Nuclear Weapons
Sam Bahour
Palestinian Issue Riddles Bush's Budget
David Grenier
You Could Get 10 Years in Prison Just for Reading This
Charles Sullivan
Corporatism vs. Single Party Politics
Poet's Basement
Hilda White, Larry Kearney & Stew Albert
Website of the Weekend
The Rumsfeld Fighting Technique
February 19, 2004
Cecilie Surasky
Anti-Semitism
at the World Social Forum? That's Not What I Saw
Ray McGovern
Iraq
Hawks and Deceptive Intelligence: Did They Really Think They'd
Get Away With It?
Tariq Ali
How Far
Will Bush Go in Iraq?
Ralph Nader
Whither
the Nation?
Wayne Madsen
Would Kerry Purge the Neo-Cons?
Norman Solomon
The Collapse of Dean's Cyber-Bubble
Christopher Brauchli
Cheney, Halliburton and the NYT
Mike Whitney
Bush's Iraq Strategy: "I Hope They Kill Each Other"
Lewis Carroll
Bush the Mighty Helmsman from Yale
Website of the Day
Sex Toy Horoscope
February 18, 2004
William Wilgus
Bush:
AWOL and Dereliction of Duty
William Blum
Mush-Minded
Liberals
Dave Lindorff
Bush's China Syndrome
Greg Weiher
Why
is Kerry Getting a Pass?
Mike Griffin
Killing the Messenger: the AFL-CIO's Attack on Harry Kelber
Mark Hand
Kerry Tells Peace Movement to "Move On"
February 17, 2004
Mike Ferner
The
Countryside Murders in Iraq
Mokhiber / Weissman
Corporation
as Psychopath
Marjorie Cohn
DrakeGate:
a Victory for Free Speech
Kurt Nimmo
Bush's
Endgame: a Review of Chalmers Johnson's "Sorrows of Empire"
Greg Bates
Nader Ambush: a New Low for The
Nation
Ximena Ortiz
A Bush
Doctrine, of Sorts
Gary Leupp
Whatever Happened to Gen. Khazraji?
Sen. John Kerry
"The Cause of Israel is the Cause of America"
Steve Perry
Kerry
1, Drudge 0
February 16, 2004
James Johnston
Huddling
with the Cheeseheads in a NASCAR World
Sara Eltantawi
To
Wear the Hijab or Not
Bruce Anderson
Kevin
Cooper and the Midnight Needle
Elaine Cassel
Feds
on Campus: the Drake Subpoenas
Rahul Mahajan
Bush,
Is the Tide Finally Turning?
Kevin Cooper
The Ritual of Death
Stan Cox
Goodbye, Howard Dean
Larry David
My War
Steve Perry
Bush and the Guard: the Cover-Up's the Thing
Website of the Day
Prison Patriots: Help This Vital Film Get Made
Hot Stories
Alexander Cockburn
Behold,
the Head of a Neo-Con!
Subcomandante Marcos
The
Death Train of the WTO
Norman Finkelstein
Hitchens
as Model Apostate
Steve Niva
Israel's
Assassination Policy: the Trigger for Suicide Bombings?
Dardagan,
Slobodo and Williams
CounterPunch Exclusive:
20,000 Wounded Iraqi Civilians
Steve
J.B.
Prison Bitch
Sheldon
Rampton and John Stauber
True Lies: the Use of Propaganda
in the Iraq War
Wendell
Berry
Small Destructions Add Up
CounterPunch
Wire
WMD: Who Said What When
Cindy
Corrie
A Mother's Day Talk: the Daughter
I Can't Hear From
Gore Vidal
The
Erosion of the American Dream
Francis Boyle
Impeach
Bush: A Draft Resolution
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Weekend
Edition
February 28 / 29, 2004
Regime Rotation
Anybody
But Bush...Again?
By MICHAEL DONNELLY
It's been but a week since Ralph Nader declared
his candidacy for president. However, four years' worth of fear-based
venom has been unleashed under the empty rubric of "Anybody
but Bush" (ABB). And, the election is still nine months
away. Children will be conceived and born before we have a declared
Caesar in this fall's Skull and Bonesman selection.
Aside from the mindlessness of declaring
one's vote so far in advance and the ludicrous projections of
"egomaniac" hurled at Nader by some decidedly self-promotional
egoists, we've already had eight years experience of ABB - William
Jefferson Clinton. And, how did that work out for progressives?
ABB the First
We all know the drill: NAFTA, GATT; resumption
of Ancient Forest logging; free pass for toxic waste burners;
Class War on poor, single moms which the then-ABB called "welfare
reform;" huge ecologically critical areas of Alaska's North
Slope opened to oil drilling; failure to address the Kyoto Treaty;
Permanent Normal Trade Relations with China; slavish devotion
to the WTO; monumental abuse of campaign financing laws; complete
failure in Middle East diplomacy; setting back (for decades?)
the cause of universal health coverage; etc.
And, that's not even addressing the criminal
activities of the Clinton regime. Anybody but Bush the First
stated upon election, "I will have the most ethical administration
ever." Well, did he?
Not a chance. Under ABB I, we had the
most convictions and guilty pleas of members of any administration
ever; we had five Cabinet officials investigated for crimes,
more than any other administration -- even Reagan; dozens of
witnesses fled the country in order to avoid testimony; dozens
more pleaded the Fifth; more illegal campaign contributions than
any administration ever with the most foreign illegal contributions,
as well. Even up to the very end, the administration was debasing
democracy with pardons sold to the highest bidder, often with
Hugh Rodham, Sen. Clinton's brother being the bag man -- $400,000
to the Clinton Library from the pardoned Marc Rich's ex-wife
alone.
Yes, Clinton was correct when he breezily
said, "Sex scandals won't define my presidency." ABB
I's presidency will be defined by his complete gutting of the
Democratic Party agenda and calculated abandonment of its traditional
constituencies.
ABB the Second
And now, months before the first ballots
are cast, fearful liberals are urging another ABB on us. And,
just as Clinton was to the right of Nixon, top ABB II candidate,
John Kerry, is to the right of Clinton, having consistently voted
for "Free" Trade. Not a problem to James Hoffa's Teamsters.
Hoffa's been crowing all week how Kerry has said "we'll
drill all over" Kerry, himself, had this to say about Hoffa's
spin on CNN: "I think he ... I said exactly what my policy
has been all my life. Which is I'm for the natural-gas pipeline.
Absolutely. I voted for the natural-gas pipeline. I think it's
important to build it. And so do most Americans."
"I'm also for the drilling in the
95 percent of the Alaska oil shelf that's up for leasing now,"
he added. In fact, President Clinton put out the biggest lease
in American history in that part of the shelf. I'm not for drilling
in the Arctic Wildlife Refuge, and I haven't changed, and I won't
change."
Unfortunately Kerry can and does change
most positions at will. He's been running against the Iraq War/Occupation,
accusing the Bush Imperium of "misleading" the public.
Well, look who was "misleading" in his Senate speech
on October 9, 2002: "It is clear that in the 4 years since
the UNSCOM inspectors were forced out, Saddam Hussein has continued
his quest for weapons of mass destruction. According to intelligence,
Iraq has chemical and biological weapons as well as missiles
with ranges in excess of the 150 kilometer restriction imposed
by the United Nations in the ceasefire resolution. Although Iraq's
chemical weapons capability was reduced during the UNSCOM inspections,
Iraq has maintained its chemical weapons effort over the last
4 yearsa*|.Iraq has some lethal and incapacitating agents and
is capable of quickly producing and weaponizing a variety of
such agents, including anthrax, for delivery on a range of vehicles
such as bombs, missiles, aerial sprayers, and covert operatives
which could bring them to the United States homeland."
Much more on Kerry's duplicity on just
about every major issue will come out these next months. But,
no matter; some folks already have made up their minds.
For all those "Don't confuse me
with the facts. I've already made up my mind" ABBies; consider
what the first ABB administration brought with it: after having
democrat control of both the Senate and house upon election in
1992, the Democrats lost 49 seats in the House and eight in the
Senate during Clintontime. Democrats lost 11 governorships. The
Republicans gained over 1300 state legislative seats and ten
state legislatures went from majority Democrat to GOP control.
Some 500 elected Democrats switched sides during Clintontime
and even now elected Democrats like Sen. Zell Miller (D-GA) are
publicly backing Bush.
Nader Shows the Way
Out
Once again, Ralph Nader is a beacon of
sanity amidst all this backpedaling from the once-left. Nader
is the first candidate to go on national TV and bring up the
most likely solution to all our fears -- the "I" -word.
Once Karl Rove unleashes the dogs and dips into that obscene
war chest and Kerry and the ABBies plummet to well-deserved obscurity,
Nader's call for Impeachment will be the real end game.
ABBies and Democrats? They're still pro-choice
(aren't they?) The election's nine months off. It's still the
first trimester. Still time to quit fearfully flailing about
misplacing anger on Nader -- exercise that choice.
Michael Donnelly
can be reached at Pahtoo@aol.com
Weekend
Edition Features for February 20 / 22, 2004
Cockburn /
St. Clair
Kerry:
He's Peaking Already!
Derek Seidman
Chasing
Judith Miller from the Stage: Watch Her Run!
Ghada Karmi
Sharon is not the Problem
Vanessa Jones
This Week in Redfern, a Boy Dies, Chased by Cops
Ben Granby
Anatomy of a Night Raid on Balad, Iraq
John Holt
An Air That Kills: Greed, Apathy, Dead People
Saul Landau
Entry from a White House Diary
Tom Jackson
Why They Couldn't Wait to Invade Iraq
Frederick B. Hudson
Slave Power and the Constitution: Jefferson, Slaves, Haiti and
Hypocrisy
Roger Burbach
Argentina Fights Back
Kate Doyle
Lessons on Justice from Guatemala
Mike Whitney
Operation Enduring Misery: the Afghanistan Debacle
Greg Moses
What Gives Texas A&M the Right to Trample the Civil Rights
Act?
David Krieger
US Elections: an Opportunity to Debate Nuclear Weapons
Sam Bahour
Palestinian Issue Riddles Bush's Budget
David Grenier
You Could Get 10 Years in Prison Just for Reading This
Charles Sullivan
Corporatism vs. Single Party Politics
Poet's Basement
Hilda White, Larry Kearney & Stew Albert
Website of the Weekend
The Rumsfeld Fighting Technique
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