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July 10, 2002
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
July 6, 2002
Gavin Keeney
Loose
Lips:
Liberty, Democracy & Bush
Michael Neumann
What's
So Bad About Israel?
Steve Baughman
Ashcroft's
Vendetta:
Lynching John Lindh
July 5, 2002
Ahmad Faruqui
Bush Freezes Peace Process
Todd May
Independence
and Terrorism
Rahul Mahajan
Why I
Won't Celebrate the Fourth of July This Year
July 4, 2002
S. Brian Willson
What
the Flag Means to Me
Philip Farruggio
Independence Day and
the Working Poor
Tom Gorman
The Uncommon
Pledge
of Allegiance
Chris Floyd
Jungle
Fever:
Bush's Bolivian Mercenaries
July 3, 2002
Francis Boyle
The Death
of the Oslo Accords
Mokhiber / Weissman
Cracking
Down on Corp. Crime
Robert Jensen
Lynne
Cheney's Primer
Behzad Yaghmaian
An Alternative
to the G-8s Africa Initiative
Toward a Global AIDS Fund and a Living Wage
John Borowski
Public
Schools Under Seige
Norman Madarasz
Brazil,
the Workers' Party and the Financial Times
July 2, 2002
Leah Wells
The Wedding
Was a Bomb
CounterPunch Wire
Trial of
the SOA 37
Edward Hammond
Bombing
the Mind:
The Pentagon's Drug Warfare
Sam Bahour
Ramallah
Occupied:
Uninvited Guests Become Neighbors
July 1, 2002
Norman Madarasz
Brazil's
Triumph
June 28/30, 2002
Kathleen Christison
The True Story of Resolution
242 or How the US Sold Out
the Palestinians
Cockburn / St. Clair
Death,
Juries and Scalia
Tarif Abboushi
Bush's
Double Standard
on Israel
N.D. Jayaprakash
Seething
with Rage:
The Palestinian Saga
Michael Yates
Taking
the Pledge:
Teachers and the Flag
Stephen Zunes
Bush's
Speech a Setback
for Peace
Walt Brasch
The Pledge
v. The Constitution
Cockburn / St. Clair
Strikers
as Terrorists?
Tom Ridge Calls Longshoremen
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July
10, 2002
Third Party Woes
Is Politics
or Race Behind SC's Decision to Keep Kevin Alexander Gray Off
Ballot?
CounterPunch Wire
The South Carolina United Citizens decided in
a democratic process to put Kevin Alexander Gray on their ballot
as their candidate for Governor in this fall's election. Mr.
Gray accepted the nomination. But according to the State Election
Commission, South Carolina voters won't see him on the UCP ballot
on November 5th.
The bone of contention is Mr Gray's Statement
of Intention of Candidacy. According to Garry Baum of the SC
Election Commission, " Mr. Gray would have had to file for
this office between noon, March 16 and noon, March 30, 2002.
Because Mr. Gray did not file for this office in a timely manner,
the State Election Commission cannot place his name on the ballot."
For a major party that has primaries
and needs time to print ballots, that rule makes sense. But the
UCP chooses its candidates at its nominating convention. The
rule that should protect it is likely to prevent its members
from exercising their constitutional right to voice their beliefs.
To add to Gray's troubles, the Commission
initially indicated that he would be able to appear on the UCP
ballot. Supporters had already collected 5,000 signatures on
a petition to have him listed as an Independent candidate. When
they heard the "good news", they understandably slowed
their efforts. With only five days left before the deadline,
there may not be time to collect the required 10,000 signatures.
Gerald Rudolph, the party's State Treasurer
and a key member of Gray's campaign, believes the Commission's
decision is based on more than bureaucratic inflexibility: "The
Hodges appointee, Marlon Kimpson, decided to ignore the published
opinion of the Supreme Court of the United States and deprive
African-Americans, poor, and working class people of the rights
of assembly that are guaranteed by our constitution. These are
the same African-Americans, poor, and working class people that
the Democratic party has been ignoring as they courted the favor
of the wealthy and powerful. It is no wonder they don't want
a third party candidate for governor."
United Citizens Co-Chair Mike Avey has
requested a formal hearing and ruling from the State Election
Board and has reminded the Commission that there have been many
recent court decisions upholding the right of political parties
to choose their candidates without interference from the State.
Mike Avey
can be reached at aveym@greenwood.net.
Kevin Alexander Gray can be reached at: kagamba@bellsouth.net
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Ain't That
America:
A Strange Kind of Freedom
Nassar Ibriham &
Majed Nassar
Bush's
Middle East Plan: Always Changing, Never Changing
Dave Marsh
The Return
of CREEP:
Record Cartel Accounting
Bernard Weiner
Hope and
Despair in
the Body Politic
Gary Leupp
Europeans
and Bush's Terror War
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