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August 28,
2004
Alexander Cockburn
Zombies
for Kerry
August 27,
2004
Gary Leupp
Neocon
Musings
Robin Cook
The
Ghosts of Abu Ghraib
Diane Christian
Disarming
Michael Donnelly
Situational Democracy: the Show Me the Green Party?
Jack Random
4F and Other Heroes: an Army of War Resisters
Mike Ferner
"To the Swift Boats!"
Mazin Qumsiyeh
7000 Palestinian Political Prisoners
Veronza Bowers, Jr.
"You Won't Be Leaving Tomorrow"
Sex, Drugs & the Blues!
Serpents in the Garden
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August 26,
2004
M. Shahid Alam
The
Clash Thesis: a Failing Ideology?
Diane Christian
War
Rules: Bush is No Sun Tzu
Derek Seidman
"They're As Bad As Wal-Mart:" Starbucks Workers Get
Organized
David Lindorff
Court to RNC Protesters: Drop the Rally
Christopher
Brauchli
Signs of Dissent: the Bush in the Bubble
Stew Albert
Reporting Suspicious Activity
Mark Donham
Judgement in Athens: Give the Koreans Their Day in Court
Saul Landau
Pinochet:
the Al Capone of the Southern Cone
Website of
the Day
The Kerry 527 Ad You'll Never See
August 25,
2004
Amelia Peltz
Can
I Have 9.8 Seconds of Your Time?
Noah Leavitt
Defining and Redefining Torture
Ron Jacobs
Takin' It to the Streets: It's Not About the Election, It's About
Democracy
James Brooks
Coronado Crosses the Jordan
Akiva Eldar
How to Win the Jewish Vote: Turn Gaza into a "Mini-Afghanistan"
Gemma Araneta
Chavez's New Brand of Populism
Philip Cryan
Uribe's Boys: the Death Squads of Colombia
CounterPunch Wire
Cheney Opens the Closet Door
August 24,
2004
Jeremy Scahill
John
Kerry: the Warchurian Candidate
Gary Leupp
"We
Want Them to Go Away"
David Domke
God
Willing: an Echoing Press and Political Fundamentalism
William Loren Katz
The Meaning of Hugo Chávez: Black and Indian Power in
Venezuela
Jonah Gindin
With Chavez? Reading the International Private Media
Fran Schor
Denying Atrocities: From Vietnam to Fallujah
Joe Bageant
Driving
on the Bones of God
Website of the Day
The Great America Lockdown: a Primer for the RNC
August 23,
2004
Winslow Wheeler
Don't
Mind If I Do: Porkbarrel and the War on Terror
John Pilger
Bush
May Be the Lesser Evil
Stan Goff
Swift
Boat Dogfight
Bill and Kathleen
Christison
Notes
from the West Bank: Build, Demolish, Rebuild
Mike Whitney
The Unraveling of Afghanistan
William Blum
Brave
New World of Iraqi Sovereignty
Ralph Nader
A Letter to the Washington Post: a Shameful and Unsavory Editorial
August 21 /
22, 2004
Cockburn /
St. Clair
"They
Want Blood:" The Bi-Partisan Origins of the Total War on
Drugs
Landau / Hassen
Failing
the Mission? Form a Commission
Brian Cloughley
The
Bush Team in Iraq: Moral Cowardice, as Practiced by Experts
Josh Frank
Nader as David Duke? The ADL Wants You to Think So
Mike Whitney
Reincarnating Mengele: the Torture Doctors of Abu Ghraib
Ron Jacobs
Day Labor Blues
Mickey Z.
Shooting at Whales: 40 Years After Tonkin
Fred Gardner
Dr. Wolman Comes Out: The Cannabis Consultants
Dave Zirin
Uprising in Athens: Iraqi Soccer Team Gives Bush the Boot
Josh Saxe
Witnessing Police Brutality in LA
Yanar Mohammed
Letter from Baghdad: a Democracy of Killings and Bombings
Helen Williams
Ali's Story: a Taste of Reality from Baghdad
Michael Donnelly
Elemental and NaturalForests, Fire and Recovery
Elizabeth Schulte
The Crisis in Affordable Housing
Poets' Basement
Adler, Albert, Virgil, Ford and Krieger
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
August 28 / 29, 2004
Greens
at Crossroads
Party
Fights for Its Future
By
JOSHUA FRANK
On Sunday, August 22nd, state delegates
of the Pennsylvania Green Party formally rejected the strategy
that their presidential candidate David Cobb should run a "safe
states" campaign.
"Pennsylvanians have collected
and filed the most signatures to get the Cobb/LaMarche ticket
on the ballot," reads the resolution which passed by a decisive
24 to 7 vote.
"Pennsylvania is one of
the top three states in elected Green Party officeholders ...
as Greens, we want to exert maximum possible pressure on the
Democratic and Republican Parties, forcing them to address our
issues; The Green Party of Pennsylvania asks that Cobb/LaMarche
run harder in Pennsylvania than in the so-called 'safe states,'
maximizing the strategic value of campaigning in this important
state.
The Green Party of Pennsylvania
encourages the National Green Party candidates to run vigorously
in Pennsylvania and in all states, regardless of projected electoral
outcomes; and The Green Party of Pennsylvania rejects any 'safe
states strategy,' and calls upon the national candidates and
all state Green Parties to do the same, and we call upon all
voters to reject any candidate that does not oppose the Iraq
War."
This was the second swing state
in which the Green Party has urged David Cobb to campaign harder.
In mid-August the Pacific Green Party of Oregon started the trend
by passing their own resolution which has virtually the same
wording as the Pennsylvania version.
"As to the latest decisions,
it is interesting to note, for example, that Pacific Green Party
resolution carried with a whopping 10 votes," contends David
Cobb's media coordinator Blair Bobier. "The combined 'no'
votes and abstentions were greater than the positive votes [in
Oregon]."
However, it is interesting
that Cobb and company are complaining about the legitimacy of
the resolutions despite the fact that their own campaign got
elected by an even smaller amount of votes in many states.
When asked if this turn of
events within the Green Party helps Ralph Nader's independent
bid, Nader's spokesman Kevin Zeese said, "Unfortunately
not, they will still be running Cobb -- and the sad reality is
that wherever Cobb runs he runs safe because he is an unknown
with no resources [and he] is not trying to get a lot of votes."
"The first states I campaigned
in after winning the Green Party's presidential nomination were
Pennsylvania and Ohio, two hotly contested swing states,"
responds David Cobb. "I'll be returning to Pennsylvania
next week and Ohio next month. I've been to Florida and will
be back there as well. Next month I go to Wisconsin, Michigan
and Maine, all swing states. I honestly don't know how anyone
who is paying even the slightest bit of attention can claim that
I am not campaigning in these states."
Cobb however, forgot to mention
that both Pennsylvania and Ohio were still in signature gathering
stages when he "campaigned" right after his endorsement
in late July. Nonetheless, we will see how hard Cobb campaigns
in other swing states like Michigan and Wisconsin, where he is
currently polling at well under 1%. Also it seems important to
ask what it is Cobb is saying about a vote for John Kerry in
those states. Is he still hoping Greens will "weigh their
options," as he has said before? If so, it still isn't clear
who it is Cobb is campaigning for in swing states, himself or
the Democrats.
Indeed the Green Party is at
a crossroads. There are internal issues at play that could alter
the course of the party's delicate future. Cobb is at one end
of the spectrum with Nader-Greens holding down the other. If
the Green Party is to regain its once formidable power, let us
hope the latter prevails.
Joshua Frank, a contributor to CounterPunch's forthcoming
book, A
Dime's Worth of Difference: Beyond the Lesser of Two Evils,
is putting the finishing touches on Left
Out: How Liberals did Bush's Work for Him, to be published
by Common Courage Press. He welcomes comments at frank_joshua@hotmail.com.
Weekend
Edition Features for August 7 / 8, 2004
James Petras
The
Anatomy of "Terror Experts": Meet the Mandarins of
Abu Ghraib
Fred Gardner
Run
Ricky Run: Football, Pot and Pain
Justin Delacour
Anti-Chavez Pollsters Panic: Fix Numbers; Reinvent Venezuela
Brian Cloughley
Persecuted by All; Supported by None: Who Would Be A Kurd?
Joshua Frank
The
Outsider: a Talk with Ralph Nader
Iain A. Boal
On "Shame": Warmed-Over Orientalism and Racist Projection
Chris Floyd
All About Eve: Open Season on Women in DC and Rome
Andrew Fenton
Fighting for Democracy and Justice in Haiti
Aseem Shrivastava
Saga of an Anguished Afghan
Neil Corbett
See Cuba: Sometimes a Cigar is Just a Cigar, Mr. Bush
Carol Miller
/ Forrest Hill
Rigged Convention; Divided Party: How David Cobb Won with Only
12% of the Vote
Tarek Milleron
Breaking the Principled Voter
Donald Macintyre
The
Battle of Najaf
Ron Jacobs
Spirits of The Dead: Why I Love My Petty Bourgeois Tendencies
Mickey Z.
Kid
Gavilan's Grave: Propaganda Scores a TKO
Poets' Basement
Adler, Ford and Albert
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