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November
26, 2004
Liaquat
Ali Khan
The Devil's Work: Bush's Minority Appointments
Paul
Craig Roberts
Whatever Happened to Conservatives?
November
25, 2004
Willliam
Loren Katz
Giving Thanks to Whom?: "Thanks
to God We Sent 600 Heathen Souls to Hell Today"
Mitchel
Cohen
Why I Hate Thanksgiving
Mike
Ferner
An Uncommon Mom
November
24, 2004
Gila
Svirsky
License to Kill: the Example of Violence
is Set by the State
Winslow
T. Wheeler
The
Other Mess in Congress
Christopher
Brauchli
The Company He Keeps: the Syndicate of Tom Delay
Dave
Lindorff
Double Standards on Exit Polls: Hypocrisy Sans Irony
Ron
Jacobs
The Occupation of Iraq is the Root of t he Problem
Ken
Sengupta
Witnesses: War Crimes in Fallujah
Diana
Barahona
The Final Holocaust or Why I Voted for Ralph Nader
John
L. Hess
Safire the Shameless
Jason
Leopold
Did Harvard Hire (Another) War Criminal?
Jeffrey
St. Clair
The Mark of McCain: the Senator Most Likely to Start a Nuclear
War
Map
of the Day
Now and Then: 2004 v. 1860
November
23, 2004
Forrest
Hylton
Bush and Uribe at the Beach
November
22, 2004
Dave
Zirin
Fight Night in the NBA: Selective Outrage
in Detroit
Paul
Craig Roberts
On to Iran: We Won't Get Fooled Again?
Michael
Mandel / Gail Davidson
Why Bush Should be Banned from Canada
Kathie
Helmkamp
Our Son: a Marine Who Won't Kill
Ken
Sengupta
The Triangle of Death: "This is Now the Most Dangerous Place
in Iraq"
Mike
Whitney
Greenspan's Hammer
Roger
Burbach
Why They Hate Bush in Chile
Website
of the Day
Fed Up with Government Lies and Corporate Spin?
November
20 / 21, 2004
Alexander
Cockburn
The Poisoned Chalice
Todd
May
Religion, the Election and the Politics of Fear
Abbas
Ahmed Ibrahim
The Horrors of Fallujah: a First-Hand Account
Kevin
Zeese
Mishandling Nader
Landau
/ Hassen
After Arafat
Tom
Barry
The Vulcans Consolidate Power: The Rise of Stephen Hadley
Fred
Gardner
Pot Shots: Ask Dr. Todd
Justin
E.H. Smith
Triumph of the Will: the Sequel
Carl
Estabrook
Where We Are Now
Gary
Leupp
Imperial History-Making vs. Reality-Based Thought: a Dialogue
Dave
Lindorff
Apocalypse Soon
Jenna
Michelle Liut
Plans Colombia and Patriota: Wanton Wastes of Money, Manpower
and Lives
Mickey
Z.
The Granma Moses of Radical Writing: an Interview with William
Blum
Greg
Moses
The Same Old Struggle Against Imperial America
Sharon
Smith
Abortion Rights and the Election: What Now?
Ron
Jacobs
Sandwiches and Car Bombs
Ben
Tripp
Raising d'Etre: Finding Money in Hollywood These Days
Richard
Oxman
Basketbrawl Two Pointer: Iraq Rules!
Gilad
Atzmon
Politics and Jazz
Poets'
Basement
LaMorticella, Albert, Ford, & Anon.
Website
of the Day
Voice of the Forest
November
19, 2004
Cockburn
/ St. Clair
Mementos You Won't Find in the Clinton
Library: Back in the 90s When We Were Happy
Kevin
Alexander Gray
Soul Brother: the Exhibit You Won't
See at the Clinton Library
Paul
Craig Roberts
There's No One to Stop Them Now
Jack
Z. Bratich
Digging Out Kerry and Burying the Bones(men)
Greg
Bates
The Implosion of the Dems and the Death of Pragmatism (Hurray!)
Christopher
Brauchli
Terror by Night: Waking Up to Darfur?
Forrest
Hylton
At a Loss: for Margaret Hassan
James
Petras
The Crushing of Fallujah
November
18, 2004
Brian
Cloughley
Iraq War as Video Game: "I
Got My Kills...I Just Love My Job"
Hugh
Urban
America, "Left Behind": Bush,
the Neo-Cons and Evangelical Christian Fiction
Luis
A. Gómez
The Bolivian Crisis Deepens
Robert
Fisk
The Murder of Margaret Hassan
Suzan
Mazur
The New York Times Fesses Up to a Rip Off
Prof.
Francis Boyle
Dems Cave on Gonzales: War Criminal as Attorney General?
Mike
Ferner
Sign Here, Kid
November
17, 2004
Christian
Harleman / Jan Oberg
Who and What Killed Our Friend Margaret
Hassan?
Dave
Lindorff
Bring Them Home Before They Kill
Again
Larry
Birns
Condi Rice and Latin America: She Sees
Enemies Everywhere
Toni
Solo
Rumsfeld in Nicaragua
Omar
Barghouti
Snuff Films and War Crimes in Iraq
Clancy
Sigal
"How to Take a Beating": Gen. Stilwell's Lessons for
Iraq
Brita
May Rose
America's Radioactive War: DU in Iraq
Ben
Terrall
"We Must Kill the Bandits!": Lula's Troops in Haiti
Sam
Hamod
The New Mongols
David
Krieger
An Open Letter to the Regents of
the University of California on Nuclear Weapons Research
Pierre
Tristam
It Has Happened Here
John
Marciano
Oppose the War and the Warriors:
"Iraqis are a Cancer. An We're the Chemotherapy"
Website
of the Day
Fallujah: the Real Story
November
16, 2004
Paul
Craig Roberts
Declining Superpower Act: the Coming
Currency Shock
Mike
Whitney
The Goss Purge: Night of the Long Knives at CIA
Uri
Avnery
Rejoice Not: Arafat's Funeral
Andrew
Buncombe
Murder in a Fallujah Mosque
Dr.
Teresa Whitehurst
On Refusing to be Silenced: Sen. Bill Frist v. John Quincy Adams
Rudy
Rimando
Cousins of Color: Black Soldiers in the Philippines, 1899
Jordan
Green
Fighting Jim Crow in Cincy: The Old South Lives ... Across the
River
Hugh
Urban
The Ohio "Vote": Ken Blackwell Has Some Explaining
to Do
Steve
Breyman
Challenges for the Peace Movement
John
Ross
Bush in Rapture
Website
of the Day
We
Doomed?
November 15, 2004
Larry
Birns
A Resignation Without Meaning: Powell
and Latin America
Walt
Brasch
On the (Far) Right Hand of God
John
Pilger
The Greatest Political Scandal of
Our Time
John
Chuckman
Welcome to Ripley's Believe It or Not of Christianity
Francis
A. Boyle
Obliterating Fallujah: War Crime in Real Time
Georgy
/ Sengupta
Fallujah in Ruins: The Air is Polluted with the Stench of Death
Ralph
Nader
Voters v. Sports Fans
Neve
Gordon
The "No Partner" Myth
Donna
J. Volatile
So What Are You Going to Do About It?
Werther
On Reading the Duelfer Report
November
13 / 14, 2004
Alexander
Cockburn
"Let Them Drink Sand!"
David
Domke
Bush, God and the Election: a Theology
of War?
James
Petras
The Politics of Imperialism: Neoliberalism and Latin America
Carl
G. Estabrook
How to Stop the GWOT: "Tell the Truth and Shame the Devil!"
Stan
Goff
Torture and the Cinema
Dave
Lindorff
The Ruins of Fallujah
Mike
Whitney
Fallujah and the Erosion of American Power
Ron
Jacobs
Waiting for the Last War to End
Alan
Maass
The Rise and Fall of Gingrich: a Parable for Our Times
Lenni
Brenner
"Next"...a Prison Tale
Gary
Leupp
France's Little Vietnam: Imperialist France Destroys an African
Air Force
Jessica
Leight / Larry Birns
Haiti: the New Regime Shows Its Colors
Heather
Gray
Whistling Dixie: Bush's Reelection, a Perspective from the South
Jordan
Green
Ohio's Provisional Ballots: the State of Play
Robert
Fisk
Arafat Ruled by Emotion and Cronyism
Omar
Barghouti
The Death of Arafat and the Two-State SOlution
Fred
Gardner
Marijuana: an Election Scorecard
Christopher
Brauchli
When a POW Isn't a POW: the Other Torture Memo
Joanne
Mariner
A Preview of the Scalia Court
Dr.
Susan Block
Blue Values
Patrick
Timmons
Violence at the Ballot Box: the War on Gay Rights
Mickey
Z.
Rumor Club
Poets
Basement
Hasan, Albert, Kent, St. Clair
Website
of the Weekend
The Hand of God?
November
12, 2004
Forrest
Hylton / Sinclair Thomson
Insurgent Bolivia: the Roots of Rebellion
November
11, 2004
Peggy
Thomson
Encounters with Arafat
Joe
Bageant
Hung Over in the End Times: Heaven's
Foot Soldiers Escape the Dog Patch
Ben
Tripp
The Squeaky Wheel Gets the Grief
Edwin
Krales
Cuba's Response to AIDS: a Model for
the Developing World
Jordan
Green
How They Tried to Suppress the Black
Vote in South Carolina
Gary
Leupp
Guzman's Fist
Mike
Whitney
Meet Your New AG: Alberto Torquemada
Sam
Bahour
Palestine is Bigger Than Arafat
Sylvia
Shihadeh and Robert Jensen
The Irony of Arafat
Russ
Wellen
Why Do They Laugh at Us?
Mark
Scaramella
Kerry's Enablers: the Clinton
Cult Factor
November
10, 2004
Joshua
Frank
The Bright Side of Bush's Reelection
Mickey
Z.
The Worst President Ever?: Bush +
Clinton = Bubya
Stan
Goff
Debating a Neo-Con
Mike
Whitney
Exit Ashcroft
Dave
Lindorff
Taking a Leak on the Bush Bulge
Ghada
Karmi
After Arafat
Fr.
Gerard Jean-Juste
Letter from a Haitian Jail
Rev.
Bob Jones, III
A Letter to President Bush: "God Has Granted America a Reprieve"
Bernestine
Singley
Tampa Vote: Dispatches from the Ground
Website
of the Day
Free Camilo Mejia
November
9, 2004
Meredeth
Kolodner
Rebuilding the Anti-War Movement
Saul
Landau
The Appeal of George W. Bush: a Mystery for the World to Solve
Brian
Cloughley
Diego Garcia and Freedom, Bush-Style
Charles
Glass
US is Failing the Test of History in
Iraq
Robert
Fisk
Arafat Died Years Ago
Paul
Craig Roberts
The American Century is Over
Adam
Federman
Witch Hunt at Columbia: Middle East Profs Smeared as Anti-Semites
M.
Junaid Alam
The Discredited Logic of ABB
Tony
Kevin
Fallujah and the Making of a War Crime
Pierre
Tristam
Zealots on the Mount: Get Voltaire on Speed Dial!
Patrick
Cockburn
Crushing Fallujah Will Not End the
Iraq War
Website
of the Day
Don't Blame the Voters!
November
8, 2004
Roger
Burbach
Out of the Ashes: Bush Win is a Defeat
for Democrats, Not the Left
Dave
Lindorff
Lessons from a Quagmire: Fallujah, the Hue of Iraq
Greg
Moses
After the Morning After: On the Homefront of the Civil War
Greg
Bates
Nader's Election Legacy: Something to Stand On
Michael
Donnelly
The Hit-and-Run Left: From ABB to CYA
Nick
Schwellenbach
Gutting FOIA: the Harm of Too Much Secrecy
Adam
Jones
Men vs. Civilians in Fallujah
Amelia
Peltz
Note from Palestine: This Is Not the Time for Despair
David
Swanson
The Media Black Out on Vote Fraud
Brian
Rainey
The Devil Made Them Do It? Elections, Religion and the American
People
Poets'
Basement
Albert, Landau, Hamod
Website
of the Day
A Report on the US Supply of Toxic Weapons to Iraq
November
6 / 7, 2004
Alexander Cockburn
Don't
Say We Didn't Warn You
Jeffrey
St. Clair
Green Out
Carl
G. Estabrook
Who Killed Cock Robin?
Saul
Landau
Che: the Man and the Movie
Gary
Leupp
Let There Be Conflict!
Ben
Tripp
You Call This a Party?
Paul
Craig Roberts
The October Numbers: Continuing Stress on the Jobs Front
Jordan
Green
Heroin, Cocaine and Espanola, NM
Fred
Gardner
Haul of Justice
J.A.
Miller
Cults of the Jealous God: the Balfour Decision Reconsidered
Ramzy
Baroud
Life Without Arafat
Dave
Zirin
Out at the Ballgame: Pro Sports and the Gay Athelete
Ron
Jacobs
The Arrow on the Doorpost
Robert
Oscar Lopez
How White Liberals Became a New Racial Minority
Niranjan
Ramakrishnan
The November Surprise
Dave
Lindorff
Silver Linings
Richard
Oxman
Invitation to the Bodily Snatched
John
Whitlow
Value Wars: the View from Lexington, Kentucky
Rahul
Mahajan
Fallujah and the Reality of War
Leila
Matsui
Political "Ju-On": Carrying a Grudge
November
5, 2004
David
Vest
The Not-Bush Brothers: a Fond Farewell
Elizabeth
Boylan
The Dems and Faith-Based Politics
Conn
Hallinan
War Crimes and Iraq
David
Zonsheine
Poetry and the Courage to Refuse
Cynthia
McKinney
It's a New Day!
Elaine
Cassel
Running from the Religious Right
Chris
Geovanis
First Protect Your Vote: Lessons for Democrats on Fixing Elections
from Chicago
Rob
Ritchie
Election 2004 by the Numbers
Jo
Guldi
The Beast of History is In
November
4, 2004
Sharon
Smith
The Self-Fulfilling Prophesy of Lesser-Evilism
CounterPunch
Wire
Bush Voters: 2000 v. 2004
Ben
Tripp
My Fellow Americans...Get Stuffed!
Michael
Donnelly
Why Not Blame Rosie?
Vijay
Prashad
An Election of Homophobia and Misogyny
Jules
Rabin
De Profundis: the Morning After
Robert
Jensen
Politics and Professions of Faith:
"Your Rich Men are Full of Violence"
Zoltan
Grossman
Blue State Secession: the Only Solution?
Jonah
Birch
1968 and Today
Dave
Lindorff
What Went Wrong?
Jack
McCarthy
I Knew It Was Over When Michael Moore Showed Up: He Was For Nader...Before
He Was Against Him
Donna
J. Volatile
Ahoy Kerrycrats! Welcome to Our Nightmare
Paul
Craig Roberts
The Bright Side of Black Tuesday
November
3, 2004
James
Hodge / Linda Cooper
The CIA and Abu Ghraib: 50 Years of
Training Torturers
Ann
Harrison
The Ghost Votes in the Machine: Voting Snafus Across the Nation
Greg
Moses
Blues for Fallujah
Anis
Memon
The Moral (Values) of This Election
Mickey
Z.
Post Mortem
Josh
Frank
The Dems Should be Ashamed
Chris
Floyd
No Ways Tired: Defeat, Dissent and the Bush Machine
spArk
Smoke Signals from Portland: Karmic Blowback and the Democrats
Friedrich
von Schiller
Folly, Thou Conquerest
Cockburn
/ St. Clair
Democrats in End Time: Who to Blame
Now?
November
2, 2004
Gary
Leupp
Democratic Elections in Historical
Perspective: The Wrong Side Wins
Lance
Selfa
Selling the War on Terror
Laura
Carlsen
The US Elections and Latin America: Can the US Ever be a Good
Neighbor?
James
Davis
To Control the Event: Attention Bicyclists
Richard
Oxman
Getting Up with Osama
Dr.
Ira Kay
A Mental Map of the Bush Presidency
Jesse
Walker
Frankenstein v. Chucky: the Halloween Election
Thomas
C. Mountain
Election '24, Deja Vu?: LaFollette, Nader, & the "Most
Important Election of Our Lifetimes"
November
1, 2004
Cockburn
/ St. Clair
How Bush Was Offered Bin Laden and
Blew It
Dave
Lindorff
Bulgegate Confirmed; Press Yawns
Greg
Bates
Nader Voter Survey Results
Roger
Morris
Novel Politics: Only Fiction Can Do
This Election Justice
Diane
Christian
Death Tolls
Lenni
Brenner
Secularists Be Warned: Christlike Kerry Roams Spiritual Universe
Christopher
C. Conway
Can the Left Sink Any Lower?
Francis
Boyle
Legal Elites and the Iraq War: the Nazis Had Their Law Professors,
Too
Jason
Leopold
Rummy's Failed War Plan
Website
of the Day
Dylan Resurrects "Masters of War"
October
30 / 31, 2004
JoAnn
Wypijewski
The Long March and the Million Worker
March
Winslow
T. Wheeler
Spartacus Tells All
Bruce
Anderson
Notes from the Big Empty: When the Hippies Invaded NoCal
Vicente
Navarro
They Worked for Franco: How Sec. of State Cordell Hull and Nobel
Laureate Camilo Jose Cela Collaborated with the Fascist Regime
Robin
Blackburn
How Monica Lewinsky Saved Social Security
Greg
Bates
A Question of Character: What Makes Nader Tick?
Nancy
Welch
The American Health Care Crisis: an Interview with Dr. David
Himmelstein
William
Lind
Election Day: Which Menendez Brother Will You Vote For?
Brian
Cloughley
Uzbekistan and Bush Hypocrisies
Suzan
Mazur
Oops They Did It Again: the NYTs the Paper of Record and Rip-Offs
Greg
Moses
Standing at the Graves of Iraq
John
Chuckman
Osama's Endorsement
Richard
Oxman
Why Not Accept Osama's Offer?
Ken
Avidor
Landscape of Fear: When Ugly is Suspicious
Niranjan
Ramakrishnan
Bush, Ba'ath and Beyond
Hope
Bastian
Strangling Cuba's Economy
P.
Sainath
Tower of Gabble: Toward a Sustainable Rhetoric
Dave
Zirin
Bush League: Why MLB Owners Support the Prez
Jon
Swift
The Dry Drunk Thang: Put a Cork in It
Ron
Jacobs
The Joke's on Me: a Review of Bob Dylan's Chronicles Vol. 1
Alexander
Billet
Taking Theatre Back: Are the States Ready for "Stuff Happens"?
Poets'
Basement
Jones, Laymon, Norris, Ford and Albert
Website
of the Weekend
The Origins of Halloween
October
29, 2004
Harry
Browne
No Justice for Peace Activist in County
Clare
October
28, 2004
Forrest Hylton
"The Gas is Ours:" Bolivia's
Ghosts of October
Col. Dan Smith
Rebellion
in the Ranks
Alan Maass
Jon Stewart v. the Pundits
Ron Jacobs
Ecstasy
in Red Sox Nation
Alexander
Cockburn
Kerrycrats and the War
October
27, 2004
Jules
Rabin
Crammed with Distressful Politics
Dave
Lindorff
Bulgegate: the Lies Continue
Katherine
Van Tassel
On the Home Front: Both Parties
Ignore Working Parents
Jeffrey
St. Clair
The Bi-Partisan Politics of Oil
October 26,
2004
Brian Cloughley
Three
Weddings and Lots of Funerals: Atrocities in Iraq and Afghanistan
William Blum
Fear
Factors
Lenni Brenner
The
1964 Berkeley Free Speech Movement: Lessons for 2004
Ben Tripp
The
Chicken Salad Election
Fidel Castro
After the Fall
Greg Bates
The Nation's Flawed Calculus
Walter Brasch
Gag the Public: the War on Dissent
Niranjan Ramakrishnan
An Open Letter to Pat Buchanan
Mickey Z.
Rumble in the Jungle at 30: Ali, Foreman and the Congo
Amir Taheri
The Boom in Conspiracy Theories
Alexander Billet
Say It Ain't So, Bruce!: the Boss Endorses Kerry
Doug Giebel
The Religion of G.W. Bush
Kathleen Christison
Why
I Liked Thomas Friedman's Latest Column Before I Didn't
October 25,
2004
Ralph Nader
Letter
from a Minnesota Highway
Werther
West
Texas Wahabbism
Dave Zirin
Boston's Killer Cops: Death of a Fan
Fred Gardner
Pot Shots: Oregon Revokes Dr. Leveque's License
Omar Barghouti
Executing Another Child in Rafah
William J. Nottingham
Lori Berenson's Story
John Chuckman
A Foolish Consistency
Uri Avnery
On
the Road to Civil War
October 22
/ 24, 2004
Alexander Cockburn
You
Can't Blame Nader for This
Rev. William Alberts
On Bended Knee: Faith-Based Deceptions
Willliam A.
Cook
Killing for Christ
Saul Landau
George W. Bush: a Man of His Words?
Bill Quigley
I Held the Bullet in My Palm: Masked Haitian Police Shoot Children
While Arresting Priest
Christopher Brauchli
Seal It With a Frown: What Compassionate Conservativism Really
Means
William S.
Lind
Fallujah and the Moral Level of War
Sharon Smith
Guilt Trippers for Kerry
Greg Bates
Kerrynomics: "Hurt the Ones Who Vote for Us"
Justin E.H. Smith
Is Lesser Evilism a Compromise with Evil?
Rebecca Evans
Tarnished Legacy: Pinochet and the Chilean Military
Mike Whitney
Al Hurra TV: the Second Invasion
M. Junaid Alam
Purchasing Individuality in America
David Krieger
Nuclear Non-Proliferation: Examining the Policies of Bush and
Kerry
David J. Ledermann
The Emperor's New Crumbs
Lawrence Reichard
Same Old FBI Story
Website of
the Weekend
Lie Girls: the Real Coalition of the Willling
October 21,
2004
Ben Tripp
The
Undecided Voter Examined
Joshua Frank
Kerry
and the Environment:
It's Not Easy Pretending to be Green
Stan Cox
What
the Left Doesn't Get About Small Businesses
Bill Martinez
State
Depart and Cuban Visas: Only Anti-Castro Agitators Need Apply
Mark Engler
The War and Globalization
Lina Britto
and Lucia Suarez
Bolivia:
a Year After the October Insurrection
Website of the Day
Two Pampered Children of Wealth
October 20,
2004
Yitzhak Laor
"Did
You Two Squabble?": a Bullet Fired for Every Palestinian
Child
Jason Leopold
Sinclair
Broadcasting's Air War: a Long History of Journalistic Deception
Jesse Sharkey
A
Teacher's Account of How Military Recruiters Prey on High School
Students
Col. Dan Smith
Choking
Free Speech About the Draft
Dr. Teresa Whitehurst
Using My Religion
David Vest
If
Bush Wins, Blame Me
Jack Random
The Jackson 17: Reflections on a Mutiny
Ron Jacobs
Time
to Kick It Up a Notch
James Brittain
Plan Patriota and the FARC: a Change in the Countryside?
Christopher
Dols
Bombing Madison: Michael Moore's Fright Fest
Dave Lindorff
First They Came for the Nurses...
Website of
the Day
Banana Republican Catalogue
October 19,
2004
Jeffrey St.
Clair
Party
Favors: the Political Business of Terry McAuliffe
Jeff Taylor
Confessions
of a Swing State Voter
Matt Vidal
American
Myopia: "More Money in Your Pocket"
Victor Kattan
"It's Not Who You're Against; It's Who You're For":
Palestine Takes Center Stage At Euro Social Forum
William Loren
Katz
What Goes Around Comes Around
Sean Carter
O'Reilly Should Shut Up About Extortion Claiims
CounterPunch Wire
Who's Really in Bed with Republican Funders: Kerry or Nader?
October 18,
2004
Saul Landau
Facts
and Lies; Slogans and Truth
Dave Lindorff
Bulletin
on the Bush Bulge
Diane Christian
Sheep
and Goats: On the Language of Goodness
Greg Bates / Dave Lindorff
Betting on War: a Wager on the Fallout of a Kerry Presidency
Uri Avnery
Ariel
Sharon's Philosophy
Peter LaVenia
Leaving the Greens So Soon? a Response to Josh Frank
Mike Whitney
O'Reilly at the Whipping Post
Elaine Cassel
The Other War: Civil Liberties Three Years After 9/11
October 16
/ 17, 2004
Alexander Cockburn
The
Free Speech Movement and Howard Stern
Leslie Brill
Unmerciful Judge, Merry Executioners: the Death Penalty as the
True Measure of Bush's Character
Jules Rabin
Reckoning Deaths in an Agitated World
Dave Lindorff
About the Bush Bulge: Was There a Pucker in That Jacket or Was
the President Just Glad to be There?
Peter Linebaugh
Judging Judges: a Few Pages from The Mirror of Justices
Gary Leupp
Iran and Syria: How to Effect Regime Change and Expand the Empire
M. Shahid Alam
America, Imagine This!
Ron Jacobs
Trying to Cross Lake Champlain
Fred Gardner
The Flu Vaccine Question: How Bush Blew It
Jenna Orkin
The Toxic Legacy of 9/11
Dave Zirin
Name the DC Baseball Team: Contest Results
David Hamilton
Alone and Exposed: Bush as a Strong Leader?
Ralph Nader
Criticizing Israel is Not Anti-Semitism
Doug Giebel
Thinking the Unthinkable
Mark Engler
Crimes in Freedom's Name: Dick Cheney's El Salvador
Derek Tyner
Blacks Didn't Get the Vote by Voting: an Interview With Clarence
Thomas on the Million Worker March
Evan Jones
Gimme That Ole Time Religion: Cash and "The Mind of the
South"
Poets' Basement
LaMorticella, Klipschutz and Albert
Website of
the Weekend
No More Bush Girls
October 15,
2004
Paul Craig
Roberts
Where
Did These "Conservatives" Come From?: The Brownshirting
of America
Laura Carlsen
Wal-Mart
vs. the Pyramids of the Sun and Moon
Greg Bates
Empire of Insanity: Kerry's Iraq Troop Numbers
Michael Donnelly
News from a Swing State: Does Anyone Here Have a Spine?
Katherine Lahey
The Venezuelan "Threat": Why Do Kerry and Bush Fear
Hugo Chavez?
Robert Jensen
/ Pat Youngblood
Election Day Fears
Leah Caldwell
From
Supermax to Abu Ghraib: the Masterminds of Torture and Abuse
Website of
the Day
An Anti-Billionaire Policy? Why That Would Be Economic Racism
October 14,
2004
Darcy Richardson
The
Other Progressive Candidate: the Lonely Crusade of Walt Brown
Willliam A.
Cook
Turning
Myths into Truth
Laura Santina
Water, Women and War
Evelyn Pringle
Free Speech Banned by Big Pharma: What You Can't Say About Drug
Importation
Alan Farago
Lessons
from Nature
Rep. Maxine Waters
A Letter to Colin Powell on Haiti
Nicole Colson
Maimed
for Oil and Empire
October 13,
2004
Bishop Thomas
Gumbleton and Bill Quigley
Aftermath
of a Coup: The Other Disaster in Haiti
Sharon Smith
Barak
O-Bomb-a?: Democrats Target Iran
Christopher Brauchli
God and the Bush Administration
Mike Whitney
The Real Meaning of the Hamdi Case
Paul de Rooij
Amnesty
International: a False Beacon?
Website of
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Ari Shavit
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"There
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Paul de Rooij
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Bush's Credibility Gap
Paul Craig
Roberts
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Greg Bates
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November 26, 2004
A Memo to Canada's
Ministry of Immigration
Why
Bush Should be Banned from Canada
By
MICHAEL MANDEL and GAIL DAVIDSON
The Honourable Judy Sgro, P.C.,
M.P.
Minister of Citizenship and Immigration
Ottawa Canada K1A 1L1
Tel: 1 613 954 1064
Fax: 1 613 957 2688
Minister@cic.gc.ca
sgro.j@parl.gc.ca
Dear Minister Sgro,
Re: President George W.
Bush proposed November 30th 2004 visit to Canada.
We wrote to Prime Minister
Martin on November 19 2004 protesting the invitation of President
Bush to Canada on the grounds of the President's flagrant commission
of the most serious crimes against international law. Our letter
is enclosed.
As that letter indicates, many
of the crimes of which President Bush stands accused are crimes
under Canadian law, specifically under the Crimes Against
Humanity and War Crimes Act.
We are writing to you now to
remind you that these crimes render President Bush inadmissible
to Canada under our immigration laws. Because responsibility
for the operation and enforcement of the Immigration and Refugee
Protection Act lies with you and your Ministry, we are calling
on you to advise the Prime Minister of this fact and to insist
that he rescind this invitation out of respect for our laws.
As you know, section 35 of
the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act, 2001 2001
provides as follows:
35. (1) A permanent resident
or a foreign national is inadmissible on grounds of violating
human or international rights for
(a) committing an act outside
Canada that constitutes an offence referred to in sections 4
to 7 of the Crimes Against Humanity and War Crimes Act;
Paragraph 2 of section 35 allows
for exceptions to be made for other classes of inadmissible foreign
nationals 'who satisf[y] the Minister that their presence in
Canada would not be detrimental to the national interest.' However,
these exceptions specifically do not apply to those who have
committed acts constituting offences referred to in sections
4 to 7 of the Crimes Against Humanity and War Crimes Act.
Section 6 of the Crimes
Against Humanity and War Crimes Act incorporates by reference
all international crimes against humanity and war crimes, and,
explicitly, all crimes enumerated in Articles 7 and 8(2) of the
Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court. Section 7 of
the Act places special responsibility on 'military commanders'
and other 'superiors' for crimes committed by their subordinates
that they knew of, or were criminally negligent in failing to
know of, and with respect to which they did not take necessary
and reasonable steps to prevent.
Section 33 of the Immigration
and Refugee Protection Act specifically provides that
'facts that constitute inadmissibility
under sections 34 to 37 include facts arising from omissions
and, unless otherwise provided, include facts for which there
are reasonable grounds to believe that they have occurred, are
occurring or may occur.'
The evidence of President Bush's
past and ongoing criminality is overwhelming. A recent editorial
in the Washington Post commented on some of the now well known
facts regarding the chain of memoranda from the President and
white house White House counsel Alberto R. Gonzales, now Attorney
General, that led to the use of torture by the US Armed Forces.
These memoranda clearly establish the President's culpability
for the torture used on detainees at Guantanamo Bay and Abu Ghraib
prisons. We also refer you to the many careful reports prepared
by respected human rights organizations, journalists and scholars
and also to recent decisions by US Courts, some of which are
referenced in our letter to the Prime Minister and others we
have listed below. These clearly provide far more than 'reasonable
grounds to believe' in President Bush's legal and moral responsibility
for the gravest crimes under numerous provisions of the Crimes
Against Humanity and War Crimes Act.
We are sending a copy of this
letter directly to the Interdepartmental Operations Group (IOG),
the agency through which, we have been given to understand, Citizenship
and Immigration Canada, the Department of Justice and the RCMP
investigate all allegations of crimes against humanity and war
crimes.
We remind you of the proud
claim made by Canada's War Crimes Program in its 2003-2004 report
that,
The policy of the Government
of Canada is unequivocal. Canada will not be a safe haven for
persons involved in war crimes, crimes against humanity or other
reprehensible acts.
The time is short before President
Bush's intended visit, so we are asking that you or your representative
meet with us immediately to explain the action you intend to
fulfill your obligations under the Immigration and Refugee
Protection Act.
Sincerely,
Michael Mandel and Gail Davidson
on behalf of Lawyers against the War (LAW) a Canada-based committee
of jurists and others with members in thirteen countries. They
can be reached at: law@portal.ca
cc. Interdepartmental Operations
Group, war_crimes-crimes_de_guerre@rcmp-grc.gc.ca
Contacts:
Michael Mandel, Professor,
Osgoode Hall Law School,
York University,
4700 Keele Street,
Toronto, Ontario, M3J 1P3.
Tel: 416 736-5039, Fax: 416-736-5736,
Email: MMandel@osgoode.yorku.ca
Gail Davidson,
Tel: 604 738 0338; Fax: 604 736 1175,
Email: law@portal.ca
SELECTED LIST OF REPORTS
DOCUMENTING CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY AND WAR CRIMES FOR WHICH
PRESIDENT BUSH IS CRIMINALLY REPSONSIBLE
HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH, Report
Off Target: The Conduct of the War and Civilian Casualties
in Iraq http://hrw.org/reports/2003/usa1203/usa1203.pdf
AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL
Report, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA Human dignity denied Torture
and accountability in the 'war on terror'
http://hrw.org/reports/2003/usa1203/usa1203.pdf
MDE 16/11/2004 Iraq: Urgent
action needed to prevent war crimes
MDE 14/057/2004 12/11/2004
Iraq: Fears of serious violations of the rules of war in Falluja
MDE 14/055/2004 04/11/2004
Iraq - Falluja: assurances needed for the protection of civilians
MDE 14/049/2004 17/09/2004
Iraq: Urgent inquiry needed into civilian killings by US troops
MDE 14/043/2004 30/07/2004
Iraq: Violence must stop - rule of law must prevail
AMR 51/102/2004 18/06/2004
Iraq: Clarification needed on status of prisoners after 30 June
Open letter to the Permanent Representative of the United States
of America to the United Nations
NWS 21/005/2004 28/05/2004
Iraq: Incommunicado detention/Fear of torture, Mohammad Jassem
'Abd al-'Issawi
MDE 14/027/2004 28/05/2004
Open letter to state members of the Coalition in Iraq
MDE 14/021/2004 11/05/2004
Iraq: Killings of civilians in Basra and al-'Amara
MDE 14/007/2004 11/05/2004
Iraq: Civilians killed by UK Armed Forces and armed groups
MDE 14/019/2004 07/05/2004
An open letter to President George W. Bush on the question of
torture and cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment
AMR 51/078/2004 07/05/2004
USA: Pattern of brutality and cruelty -- war crimes at Abu Ghraib
ORG 10/004/2004 30/04/2004
Iraq: Torture not isolated -- independent investigations vital
MDE 14/001/2004 04/03/2004
Iraq: Incommunicado detention/Fear of torture
MDE 14/179/2003 20/11/2003
Iraq: Amnesty International seeks clarification on house demolitions
by US troops in Iraq
MDE 14/177/2003
MDE 14/101/2003 25/04/2003
Iraq: Stripped naked and humiliated by US soldiers
MDE 14/078/2003 08/04/2003
Iraq: Civilians under fire.
MDE 14/071/2003 08/04/2003
Iraq: Civilians under fire
MDE 14/072/2003 03/04/2003
Iraq: Condemnation of British use of cluster bombs
IOR 41/011/2003 02/04/2003
Iraq: Use of cluster bombs -- Civilians pay the price
IOR 41/010/2003 01/04/2003
Iraq: US must investigate civilian deaths
MDE 14/058/2003 30/03/2003
Iraq: In the shadow of war: backlash against human rights
MDE 14/056/2003 27/03/2003
Iraq: Risk to civilians if landmines and cluster bombs used
MDE 14/045/2003 26/03/2003
Iraq: Fear of war crimes by both sides
MDE 14/044/2003 26/03/2003
Iraq: Bombing of Iraqi state television
RELEVANT PROVISIONS OF THE CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY AND WAR CRIMES
ACT.
OFFENCES OUTSIDE CANADA
6. (1) Every person who, either
before or after the coming into force of this section, commits
outside Canada
(b) a crime against humanity,
or
(c) a war crime,
is guilty of an indictable
offence and may be prosecuted for that offence in accordance
with section 8.
(1.1) Every person who conspires
or attempts to commit, is an accessory after the fact in relation
to, or counsels in relation to, an offence referred to in subsection
(1) is guilty of an indictable offence.
Punishment
(2) Every person who commits
an offence under subsection (1) or (1.1)
(a) shall be sentenced to imprisonment for life, if an intentional
killing forms the basis of the offence; and
(b) is liable to imprisonment for life, in any other case.
Definitions
(3) The definitions in this
subsection apply in this section.
"crime against humanity" means murder, extermination,
enslavement, deportation, imprisonment, torture, sexual violence,
persecution or any other inhumane act or omission that is committed
against any civilian population or any identifiable group and
that, at the time and in the place of its commission, constitutes
a crime against humanity according to customary international
law or conventional international law or by virtue of its being
criminal according to the general principles of law recognized
by the community of nations, whether or not it constitutes a
contravention of the law in force at the time and in the place
of its commission.
"war crime" means
an act or omission committed during an armed conflict that, at
the time and in the place of its commission, constitutes a war
crime according to customary international law or conventional
international law applicable to armed conflicts, whether or not
it constitutes a contravention of the law in force at the time
and in the place of its commission.
(4) For greater certainty,
crimes described in articles 6 and 7 and paragraph 2 of article
8 of the Rome Statute are, as of July 17, 1998, crimes according
to customary international law, and may be crimes according to
customary international law before that date. This does not limit
or prejudice in any way the application of existing or developing
rules of international law.
ARTICLE 7
Crimes against humanity
1. For the purpose of this
Statute, "crime against humanity" means any of the
following acts when committed as part of a widespread or systematic
attack directed against any civilian population, with knowledge
of the attack:
(a) murder;
(e) imprisonment or other severe
deprivation of physical liberty in violation of fundamental rules
of international law;
(f) torture;
(g) rape, sexual slavery, enforced
prostitution, forced pregnancy, enforced sterilization, or any
other form of sexual violence of comparable gravity;
(i) enforced disappearance
of persons;
(k) other inhumane acts of
a similar character intentionally causing great suffering, or
serious injury to body or to mental or physical health.
2. For the purpose of paragraph
1:
(a) "attack directed against
any civilian population" means a course of conduct involving
the multiple commission of acts referred to in paragraph 1 against
any civilian population, pursuant to or in furtherance of a State
or organizational policy to commit such attack;
(e) "torture" means
the intentional infliction of severe pain or suffering, whether
physical or mental, upon a person in the custody or under the
control of the accused; except that torture shall not include
pain or suffering arising only from, inherent in or incidental
to, lawful sanctions;
(i) "enforced disappearance
of persons" means the arrest, detention or abduction of
persons by, or with the authorization, support or acquiescence
of, a State or a political organization, followed by a refusal
to acknowledge that deprivation of freedom or to give information
on the fate or whereabouts of those persons, with the intention
of removing them from the protection of the law for a prolonged
period of time.
PARAGRAPH 2 OF ARTICLE 8
War crimes
2. For the purpose of this
Statute, "war crimes" means:
(a) grave breaches of the Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949,
namely, any of the following acts against persons or property
protected under the provisions of the relevant Geneva Convention:
(i) wilful killing;
(ii) torture or inhuman treatment, including biological experiments;
(iii) wilfully causing great suffering, or serious injury to
body or health;
(iv) extensive destruction and appropriation of property, not
justified by military necessity and carried out unlawfully and
wantonly;
(vi) wilfully depriving a prisoner
of war or other protected person of the rights of fair and regular
trial;
(vii) unlawful deportation or transfer or unlawful confinement;
(b) other serious violations
of the laws and customs applicable in international armed conflict,
within the established framework of international law, namely,
any of the following acts:
(i) intentionally directing attacks against the civilian population
as such or against individual civilians not taking direct part
in hostilities;
(ii) intentionally directing attacks against civilian objects,
that is, objects which are not military objectives;
(iv) intentionally launching
an attack in the knowledge that such attack will cause incidental
loss of life or injury to civilians or damage to civilian objects
or widespread, long-term and severe damage to the natural environment
which would be clearly excessive in relation to the concrete
and direct overall military advantage anticipated;
(vi) killing or wounding a
combatant who, having laid down his arms or having no longer
means of defence, has surrendered at discretion;
(ix) intentionally directing
attacks against buildings dedicated to religion, education, art,
science or charitable purposes, historic monuments, hospitals
and places where the sick and wounded are collected, provided
they are not military objectives;
(xi) killing or wounding treacherously
individuals belonging to the hostile nation or army;
(xiv) declaring abolished,
suspended or inadmissible in a court of law the rights and actions
of the nationals of the hostile party;
(xxi) committing outrages upon
personal dignity, in particular humiliating and degrading treatment;
(xxv) intentionally using starvation
of civilians as a method of warfare by depriving them of objects
indispensable to their survival, including wilfully impeding
relief supplies as provided for under the Geneva Conventions;
[As a result of Security Council
Resolution 1546 of 8 June 2004, it is arguable that the conflict
ceased as of that day to be 'of an international character'.
In that case, crimes committed from that day forward would fall
under the following provisions:]
(c) in the case of an armed
conflict not of an international character, serious violations
of article 3 common to the four Geneva Conventions of 12 August
1949, namely, any of the following acts committed against persons
taking no active part in the hostilities, including members of
armed forces who have laid down their arms and those placed hors
de combat by sickness, wounds, detention or any other cause:
(i) violence to life and person, in particular murder of all
kinds, mutilation, cruel treatment and torture;
(ii) committing outrages upon personal dignity, in particular
humiliating and degrading treatment;
(e) other serious violations
of the laws and customs applicable in armed conflicts not of
an international character, within the established framework
of international law, namely, any of the following acts:
(i) intentionally directing attacks against the civilian population
as such or against individual civilians not taking direct part
in hostilities;
(ii) intentionally directing attacks against buildings, material,
medical units and transport, and personnel using the distinctive
emblems of the Geneva Conventions in conformity with international
law;
(iv) intentionally directing
attacks against buildings dedicated to religion, education, art,
science or charitable purposes, historic monuments, hospitals
and places where the sick and wounded are collected, provided
they are not military objectives;
(vi) committing rape, sexual
slavery, enforced prostitution, forced pregnancy, as defined
in article 7, paragraph 2(f), enforced sterilization, and any
other form of sexual violence also constituting a serious violation
of article 3 common to the four Geneva Conventions;
(ix) killing or wounding treacherously
a combatant adversary;
(f) paragraph 2(e) applies
to armed conflicts not of an international character and thus
does not apply to situations of internal disturbances and tensions,
such as riots, isolated and sporadic acts of violence or other
acts of a similar nature. It applies to armed conflicts that
take place in the territory of a State when there is protracted
armed conflict between governmental authorities and organized
armed groups or between such groups.
[President Bush's 'command
responsibility derives from the following provisions of Section
6 of the Crimes Against Humanity and War Crimes Act:]
Breach of responsibility by
military commander
7. (1) A military commander
commits an indictable offence if
(a) the military commander, outside Canada,
(i) fails to exercise control properly over a person under their
effective command and control or effective authority and control,
and as a result the person commits an offence under section 4,
or
(ii) fails, before or after the coming into force of this section,
to exercise control properly over a person under their effective
command and control or effective authority and control, and as
a result the person commits an offence under section 6;
(b) the military commander knows, or is criminally negligent
in failing to know, that the person is about to commit or is
committing such an offence; and
(c) the military commander subsequently
(i) fails to take, as soon as practicable, all necessary and
reasonable measures within their power to prevent or repress
the commission of the offence, or the further commission of offences
under section 4 or 6, or
(ii) fails to take, as soon as practicable, all necessary and
reasonable measures within their power to submit the matter to
the competent authorities for investigation and prosecution.
Breach of responsibility by
a superior
(2) A superior commits an indictable
offence if
(a) the superior, outside Canada,
(i) fails to exercise control properly over a person under their
effective authority and control, and as a result the person commits
an offence under section 4, or
(ii) fails, before or after the coming into force of this section,
to exercise control properly over a person under their effective
authority and control, and as a result the person commits an
offence under section 6;
(b) the superior knows that the person is about to commit or
is committing such an offence, or consciously disregards information
that clearly indicates that such an offence is about to be committed
or is being committed by the person;
(c) the offence relates to activities for which the superior
has effective authority and control; and
(d) the superior subsequently
(i) fails to take, as soon as practicable, all necessary and
reasonable measures within their power to prevent or repress
the commission of the offence, or the further commission of offences
under section 4 or 6, or
(ii) fails to take, as soon as practicable, all necessary and
reasonable measures within their power to submit the matter to
the competent authorities for investigation and prosecution.
Conspiracy, attempt, etc.
(2.1) Every person who conspires
or attempts to commit, is an accessory after the fact in relation
to, or counsels in relation to, an offence referred to in subsection
(1) or (2) is guilty of an indictable offence.
Jurisdiction
Punishment
(4) Every person who commits
an offence under subsection (1), (2) or (2.1) is liable to imprisonment
for life.
Definitions
(6) The definitions in this
subsection apply in this section.
"military commander" includes a person effectively
acting as a military commander and a person who commands police
with a degree of authority and control comparable to a military
commander.
"superior" means
a person in authority, other than a military commander.
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