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Conclave of the Brats
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The 2005 Election in 3-D
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Lynching Ward Churchill
James Reiss
On Hearing About a Plot to Assassinate President Bush
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The Gray Line
February 23,
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Werther
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W. John Green
A Salvador Option for Iraq? How Negroponte Changes the Ground
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James Petras
A New Face to Bush Foreign Policy?
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Cornering the Dragon: the Return of the China Lobby
Joe Pietri
Cannabis: the Goose that Lays Golden Eggs (For Consumers and
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Louis Proyect
Hunter Thompson and the "New" Journalism
Alexander Cockburn
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S. Thompson and Gonzo
Website of
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Did You Make the Blacklist? Why Not?
February 22,
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Naseer Aruri
The
Politics of the Hariri Assassination: Remapping the Middle East
Richard Manning
The
Economy of Hunger: Starvation is Part of the Economic Plan
William A.
Cook
Righteous
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Paul Craig Roberts
The Agents of Instability
Ken Krayeske
Dr. Thompson is Out
Dave Zirin
How the Owners Destroyed the NHL
Kirkpatrick
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February 21,
2005
Hunter S. Thompson
"He
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John Ross
Mexico:
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Ward Churchill
What Did I Really Say? Why Did
I Say It?
Dr. Teresa
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David Swanson
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Dave Lindorff
All the News That's Fit to Fake
Stew Albert
Fear and Loathing: HST
Michael Neumann
Strategies
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February 19
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Alexander Cockburn
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Kathleen Christison
Struggling
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Ted Honderich
On Being Persona Non Grata
Gary Leupp
Self-Hating Gays: Welcome to the White House & Welcome to
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Don Santina
Reparations for the Blues
Jennifer Roesch
John Negroponte: Dirty Warrior
Scott Richard
Lyons
Ward
Churchill and the Identity Police
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Ward Churchill and Liberal Outrage
George Beres
Censorship in the Land of Wayne Morse: Gagging W. Churchill in
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Harry Browne
The Belfast Heist: the Plot Unravels
Manuel García,
Jr.
Who Killed Rafik Hariri?
Mark Scaramella
Lessons from the Hidden Afghan War
Michael Donnelly
Whatever Happened to John Edwards?
John Pilger
First, They Attack the Past
Norman Madarasz
Death Wish for Reform in Brazil?
Surendra Devkota
The Monarchy in Nepal
Deborah Rich
How Anti-GMO Ballot Measures May Miss the Mark
Fred Gardner
When Dr. Tod Met Merle Haggard
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Richard Oxman
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February 18,
2005
Ben Moxham
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Dave Lindorff
The
Scum Also Rises: the Bloody Career of John Negroponte
Larry Birns
Negroponte: a Resume of Death Squads, Deceptions and Bribery
Gregory Elich
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Nicole Colson
Shock and Awe on Civil Liberties: From Lynne Stewart to Ward
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Suzan Mazur
Whose National Security Are We Talking About?
Mickey Z.
"One
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February 17,
2005
Joshua Frank
Hogtying
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Paul Craig
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Bush's
Willing Sychophants: the Conservative Media
Robert Fisk
Under
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Christopher
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Where
Time Stands Still: Kinsey and Darwin in Cobb County, GA
Dr. Teresa
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Military
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Alison Weir
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Ahrar Ahmad
A Review of Shahid Alam's "Is There an Islamic Problem?"
Saul Landau
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the Laws It Wrote"
Website of the Day
Petition to Support Ward Churchill
February 16,
2005
Robert Fisk
Lebanon:
a Battlefield for the Wars of Others
Kevin Zeese
Creating a Real Ownership Society: Share the Wealth; Protect
Retirement
Gary Leupp
Meanwhile, in Nepal...
Ron Jacobs
Why the Iranian Opposition Should Not Trust the Bush Administration
Jessica Leight
Oil-Flush Chavez Begins to Strut His Stuff
Greg Moses
Houston, You've Got a Problem: Documenting Voting Irregularities
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Mark Engler
The Last Porto Alegre
Jack McCarthy
Where's the Outrage About Pat? Buchanan Does a Churchill
Bill Christison
US
Foreign Policy Dangerously Slanted Toward Israel
Website of the Day
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World is Melting: a Photo Survey by Gary Braasch
February 15,
2005
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Robert Fisk
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Uri Avnery
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Stan Cox
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Mickey Z.
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Dave Zirin
Bashing Bush: Jose Canseco Comes Clean
Nadia Martinez
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Lila Rajiva
"Little Eichmanns" and the 'Harijan': the Danger of
Magical Thinking in Politics
Paul Craig
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The
American Job Sell Out
February 14,
2005
Robert Jensen
Ward
Churchill: Right to Speak Out; Right About 9/11
Brian Cloughley
Kuwait's Freedom, Bush-style
Patrick Cockburn
Outcome
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Gary Leupp
Post-election Iraq: What Next?
Michael Donnelly
Sacred Nature: Just Another Commodity?
Dave Lindorff
When Bush Came to My Neighborhood
Elaine Cassel
The
Lynne Stewart Verdict
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Alexander Cockburn
Ward
Churchill's Genes
Saul Landau
Alarcon
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Paul Craig
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John Feffer
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Mickey Z.
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Kurt Nimmo
Viva la Cucaracha!
Fred Gardner
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Dave Zirin
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John Chuckman
Hiroshima, Mon Amour
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A Leftist on the Bush Payroll
Carol Norris
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Robert Fisk
No Middle East Peace Without Justice
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Weekend Edition
February 26 / 27, 2005
Pot Shots
AARP
Gets Pot-Baited
By
FRED GARDNER
AARP The Magazine, a bimonthly that
reaches some 25 million Americans, is under attack by prohibitionists
and rightwing flacks for having commissioned an article on medical
marijuana and the elderly. AARP The Magazine has been "holding"
the article -not publishing it- for more than six months. The
man who wrote it, L.A. Times reporter Eric Bailey, asked AARP
The Magazine for a release this week so he could try for publication
elsewhere. AARP editor Steve Slon assured Bailey that his piece
is still being considered (i.e., no release). Slon denies that
he's been holding the piece in response to political pressure
or on orders from AARP's CEO, Bill Novelli.
AARP the organization is under
attack by corporate interests out to privatize Social Security.
Chris LaCivita and other p r. strategists who orchestrated the
vile "Swift Boat" ad campaign against John Kerry, are
now working for an outfit called USA Next, which, according to
the New York Times 2/21, "plans to spend as much as $10
million on commercials and other tactics assailing AARP...'They
are the boulder in the middle of the highway to personal savings
accounts,' said Charlie Jarvis, president of USA Next and former
deputy under secretary of the interior in the Reagan and first
Bush administrations. 'We will be the dynamite that removes them.'"
USA Next has "spent millions
in recent years vigorously supporting Bush proposals on tax cuts,
energy and the Medicare prescription drug plan," according
to the Times piece by Glen Justice. There is nothing illegal
about a lobby and the White House coordinating to push legislation;
as the Times reports, "Several huge business lobbies, like
the Business Roundtable, have become closely linked to Mr. Bush's
plans for Social Security and have assembled coalitions to promote
the proposals across the country." The fact that USA Next
is maintaining its distance from the White House suggests that
their tactics will be execrable.
AARP The Magazine features
editor Ed Dwyer has made some big tactical blunders that fanned
the flames of disapproval. Asking Eric Bailey to write it was
not one of them. Bailey is a neutral observer, not an advocate.
When he began covering the medical marijuana story for the L.A.
Times, he had no special interest in the subject. The straightness
of his reporting has won him the trust of activists, doctors,
and patients as well as cops, DAs and politicians. When he got
the AARP assignment he could call on a wide range of contacts,
including Dr. Philip Denney (who has approved cannabis use by
thousands of patients), and stockbroker Irvin Rosenfeld (who
gets his medical cannabis from the U.S. government), and Republican
Congressman Dana Rohrbacher (who co-sponsored legislation that
would make the feds honor state medical-marjuana laws), and many
others. By late June Bailey had completed a 6,000 word piece.
Dwyer suggested some edits and cuts, Bailey made them, and by
early August he considered the piece finished and publication
assured.
Some of the people Bailey interviewed
told others that the piece was in the works and word ricocheted
around the movement that there would soon be an article in AARP
The Magazine. Your correspondent wrote an item in early September,
concluding "There's no more appropriate readership for a
story on this subject than AARP's."
Bailey was led to believe,
initially, that the piece would appear in October '04, in the
issue dated November-December. Then Dwyer informed him that it
would be held till the January-February '05 issue. (One can infer
that the higher-ups at AARP did not want to run a piece that
might influence the election. Editor Slon says no, late-arriving
ads reduced the number of pages available for editorial content.)
In November Dwyer arranged
for AARP The Magazine to commission a survey in which 1,706 adults
aged 45+ expressed opinions on medical marijuana. Nationally,
72% agreed that "adults should be allowed to legally use
marijuana for medical purposes if a physician recommends it."
Dwyer publicized the results, which he said would appear in the
March-April issue, along with an article on medical marijuana.
The AP picked it up and Jay Leno based a joke on it: "Nearly
75 percent of elderly Americans approve of the legalization of
medical marijuana. And you thought grandpa used to forget stuff
before!"
In December, High Times Magazine
published its 30th anniversary issue, which contained recollections
by former staffers, including... Ed Dwyer, who was an editor
there from 1974-1978. What was the man thinking? By recalling
his "dope-fueled mission" in fond terms, in print,
Dwyer played directly into the hands of the prohibitionists who
-alerted by the publicity around the medical-marijuana poll-
had it in for AARP The Magazine. Once they started Googling,
the righties learned that Dwyer had written for Playboy and his
boss, Slon, once worked for Penthouse
Cliff Kincaid of Accuracy in
Media wrote a hit piece Dec. 29 shifting the focus from Bailey's
forthcoming article to Dwyer's ancient behavior ("From Pot
to Porn to AARP: How the Seniors Magazine is Aiding the Dope
Lobby"). And Drug Watch International, Joyce Nalepka and
other prohibitionist operatives launched a postcard writing campaign
effectively pressuring AARP not to run Bailey's piece.
In a phone interview Feb. 25
Slon said, "We're not going to run it at the moment. We
still hope to run it, uh, soon." His explanation of why
the piece didn't appear in March-April made little sense. "When
it came time for that issue, we kind of felt that we had scooped
ourselves. We had gotten the attention for the idea, therefore
that weakened the case for that story going into the next issue."
In other words, having successfully publicized the Bailey piece,
AARP The Magazine didn't have to actually run it.
Slon feels the self-pity of
the centrist. "AARP gets attacked all the time. We're being
attacked as pro-gay marriage, as anti-gay, as pro-war, as anti-war.
The left attacks us for signing up for the prescription drug
bill. We get it from all sides and we're used to that."
He reiterated that editorial decisions are made without consulting
CEO Novelli (a former p.r. man who once wrote a forward for a
book by Newt Gingrich). "Holding this is not a political
decision," Slon declared. "It's a terrific story, fair
and balanced, and we hope to run it. I have an inventory of two
years' worth of stories that we haven't run for one reason or
another... The only problem I have with the story is that it's
sort of been done. The story of people who are suffering and
not getting their medicine, that's been done."
But not in AARP The Magazine.
Ethan Nadelmann of the Drug
Policy Alliance on Feb. 25 addressed a strong, cogent letter
directly to Novelli. "... the organizations involved in
this assault on AARP may be loud but they are also tiny and lie
at the fringes of the drug policy debate. They lack any credibility
in the medical and scientific communities, and their positions
are at odds with the conclusions and recommendations of the National
Academy of Sciences and other distinguished scientific organizations.
Please do not buckle under pressures of this sort. "I urge
you and the editors of AARP The Magazine to run the medical marijuana
article soon. I know that AARP has much bigger fights on its
hands right now and that this dispute over the medical marijuana
article may feel like a costly and unnecessary diversion. But
the issue of whether or not AARP The Magazine decides to delay
a reportedly fair minded and balanced article because of attacks
by fanatics raises larger ethical issues...."
It would not only be ethically
right for AARP The Magazine to run Bailey's piece, it would be
tactically smart. As their own poll shows, 72 percent of their
readers know generally that marijuana has medicinal effects,
and presumably they'd appreciate learning more. Medical marijuana
is unlike every other topic about which the government is lying,
in that the American people know the reality. Most people don't
know for sure whether democracy is being established in Iraq
or whether privatizing social security will benefit them or whether
the Kyoto accords will slow global warming. But most people do
know, first-hand or from someone they trust, that marijuana is
safe and effective medicine.Only by publishing Bailey's piece
can AARP The Magazine shift public attention away from their
editors' swinging youth and onto the health benefits that older
Americans might obtain from cannabis.
Fred Gardner can be reached at journal@ccrmg.orgFred
Gardner can be reached at journal@ccrmg.org
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