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September 4-6,
2004
Sasan Fayazmanesh
The
Holy Empire: Who Are and What We Do
William A.
Cook
The
Day of the Lemming
September 3,
2004
Jeffrey St.
Clair
High
Plains Grifter: Jesus Told Him Where to Bomb
Rahul Mahajan
Bush's RNC Speech: an Annotated Response
Carl Estabrook
The
Book of Slaughter and Forgetting
Joshua Frank
The Florida of the Northwest: Oregon Dems Sabotage Nader Again
Gary Leupp
Music to My Ears: Sunday's March
James Hollander
Deja Vu in Manhattan: Assisted Political Suicide?
Mark Engler
Republicans
Among Us: a Week at the RNC, Inside and Out
Jesse Sharkey
Making Students and Teachers Pay for the Crisis in Education
Jane Stillwater
Calling the Cops on Your Own Kid
Stephen Green
Serving
Two Flags: the Bush Neo-Cons and Israel
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Drugs & the Blues!
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September 2,
2004
Jeffrey St.
Clair
High
Plains Grifter: Part 3: More Pricks Than Kicks
Max Gimble
Et Tu, Menchu? Extrajudicial Killings and Clandestine Graves
in Guatemala
James Petras
President Chavez and the Referendum: Myths and Realities
Christopher
Brauchli
Bush and the Afghan Electoral Model: "If They Want to Vote
Twice, Let Them"
Todd Chretien & Jessie
Muldoon
Will the Democrats Expel Zell Miller?
Jack Random
Spite and Venom Day: the Turncoat and the Profiteer
Alan Maass
The Real Vietnam
Christa Allen
Contre Bush
Website of
the Day
[Redacted]
September 1,
2004
Alexander Cockburn
The
Stench of Doom
Kathleen and Bill Christison
Poor Larry Franklin
Dave Lindorff
Kerry's Litmus Test
Josh Frank
Protest in White: Not All of New York Rises Up
John L. Hess
Moles, Scoops and Flip Flops
Mike Whitney
Deconstructing Arnold
Jack Random
Kindergarten Night at the RNC
Andrew Wilson
War on the Pachyderms: Why Do Elephants Hate Us?
Jeffrey St.
Clair
High
Plains Grifter: Part Two: Mark His Words
August 31,
2004
Joseph Nevins
Escapism
and Global Apartheid: The Dominican Republic & the NYTs
Matt Vidal
Beyond
Bush's Rhetoric on the Economy
Neve Gordon
Kerry and the Middle East
Dave Lindorff
Bush
the Peace Candidate?
Mike Whitney
NPR Leads the Charge for War Against Iran
Jack Random
Opening Night: Playing the War Card
Jeffrey St.
Clair
High
Plains Grifter: the Life and Crimes of George W. Bush (Part One)
CounterPunch Photo of the Day
Pete Seeger in NYC
August 30,
2004
Justin Podhur
The
Disappeared Mayor
Shaun Joseph
The
Hypocrites at TheNaderbasher.com
Mike Whitney
Israeli Moles in the Pentagon: What More Could They Possibly
Want?
Ron Jacobs
Live, From New York: the Majority of Protesters Claimed No Candidate
David Lindorff
Sunday in Manhattan: the Sound of Marchin', Chargin' Feet, Boy
Dave Zirin
USA Basketball: The Team White America Loved to Hate
Sam Husseini
Israeli Spying on the US: a Long History
August 28 /
29, 2004
Alexander Cockburn
Zombies
for Kerry
Patrick Cockburn
Najaf Ceasefire Good for Iraq, But Weakens Allawi and US
Ray McGovern
Blowing Smoke on Intelligence
Dr. Juan Romagoza
From El Salvador to Abu Ghraib: Reflections of Torture Survivor
Ray Hanania
An Israeli Spy in the Pentagon? Ridiculous!
Fred Gardner
Eddie Lepp Busted by DEA: Facing Life for Growing Medical Pot
Diane Christian
Big Men: the Better Leader Lets You Live
William S. Lind
The Desert Fox
Paul D'Amato
The Left Takes a Dive for Kerry
Joshua Frank
Greens at the Crossroads
Mickey Z.
Media Declares War on Anti-War Protests
Winslow T. Wheeler
Sen. McCain's Pork Chops: an Exchange
Justin E.H.
Smith
The New Age Racket and the Left
Thomas St. John
Burning Slaves at the Stake: On "Sinners in the Hands of
an Angry God"
Ali Tonak
Help the NYPD?
Mark Engler
New York Says "No"
Justin Felux
Haiti: the Attica of the Americas
Poets' Basement
Gelman, Albert, Ford and Hamod
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"
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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Labor Day Weekend Edition
September 4-6, 2004
Feeling Clinton's
Pain
McBypass
Nation
By
MICKEY Z.
Are you shocked? William Jefferson Clinton,
poster boy for the American way of life (and death), has "significant
blockages in three or four coronary arteries" and, as a
result, will undergo triple or quadruple bypass surgery. Characterized
by the New York Times as "a cigar smoker who has had a lifelong
fondness for high-fat and fried foods and has often struggled
with weight problems," Clinton nonetheless blamed the problem
in part on "genetics."
In a telling passage, Times
reporter Robert D. McFadden explains, "As is the case with
many people, even those who have access to excellent health care
(MZ: three cardiologists were present for Clinton's exam), the
heart trouble appeared to come out of the blue" (MZ: despite
the fact that medical tests done in January 2001 showed signs
that Clinton was at risk of heart disease, with a raised cholesterol
level).
By the end of the Times article,
we've also learned that 516,000 heart bypass surgeries were performed
in 2001, the latest year for which data are available...and we
are reminded that Vice President Dick Cheney has suffered heart
attacks in 1978, 1984, 1988, and 2000, and underwent quadruple
bypass surgery in August 1988.
Welcome
to McBypass Nation:
* Bill Clinton lives on McDonald's,
rarely exercises, and was warned about heart disease more than
three years ago...but it was genetics that got him "out
of the blue." (Maybe Bubba was following the guidance of
another proud-but hardly svelte-Democrat, Michael McMoore, who
says: "Vegetarianism is unhealthy...(so) put down those
sprouts and pick up a T-bone!")
* Lucky for Clinton (and Cheney
and McMoore, for that matter), he had a battery of doctors to
step in...because the rest of us nobodies don't have "access
to excellent health care."
* With or without "excellent
health care," those at the mercy of Western medicine will
likely learn nothing about prevention and nutrition...and end
up as one of the half-million facing the knife each year. After
all, more Americans die from heart disease each year than all
the Americans killed in all the American wars combined. Seems
like the most dangerous weapon in the human arsenal just might
be the fork.
Howard Lyman, the former-cattleman-turned-vegan
who was sued-along with Oprah-for having the nerve to mention
Mad Cow Disease on national TV says: "To make our choices
informed ones, we have to start with the facts." Facts helped
Lyman and Oprah win the lawsuit; the only problem now is picking
which facts to squeeze into this article.
Should I tell you that amid
the election-year rhetoric about violence, 9 billion animals
will be murdered this year for food? Do I explain how at 98.7°
(body temperature), animal fat is solid (think: pork chop) while
plant fat (olive oil) is liquid? Not surprisingly, the risk of
death from heart attack for the average American is 50%; for
a vegan, 4%.
Here's one I couldn't resist:
Since our digestive tract is too long to efficiently digest meat,
that pork chop can sit there putrefying for weeks. Accordingly,
Americans consume more laxatives than anyone else. Think about
it, almost  all our legislative, judicial,
health-related, and military decisions are made by constipated
old white guys.
Is it helpful to articulate
that roughly 14 times as many people could be fed by using the
same land currently reserved for grazing and a main reason global
rain forests are disappearing is to make way to raise doomed
cattle? I'll bet you haven't seen anything on MTV lately about
how the water needed to maintain this bloody enterprise is drained
from rivers, depleting hydroelectric plants, and inspiring Westinghouse
to build more nuclear power plants to eventually leak and anoint
us with a plutonium aromatherapy.
Got milk? Before showing off
your mustache, consider that cow's milk has 3 times more protein
and 7 times more mineral content than human milk-which contains
10 times the essential fatty acids, 3 times the selenium, and
half the calcium. In other words, cow's milk is perfect...for
calves (which grow a lot faster for people).
Want more? Try the Mickey Z.
test: Each day, 27 American children die from poverty and starvation
while 15 million animals are slaughtered for food. Worldwide,
60 million people starve to death each year. Every 55 seconds,
an American dies of cancer. Every 45 seconds, an American suffers
a fatal heart attack. Every two seconds, on planet earth, a child
starves to death.
Go ahead, do the math. How
many have we lost while you read this article? How many will
we lose while Bill Clinton is on the operating table surrounded
by a team of overpriced and undereducated doctors?
Leave Bill Clinton, Dick Cheney,
and Michael McMoore to their burgers, their clogged arteries,
and their focus on which Yale-educated, warmongering millionaire
takes control of the imperialist agenda in November. It would
be far more revolutionary if Americans tuned out the propaganda
and took full responsibility for their health, their lives, and
their planet...before it's too late.
Mickey Z. is the author of
"The
Seven Deadly Spins: Exposing the Lies Behind War Propaganda"
(Common Courage Press). For more information, please visit http://www.mickeyz.net.
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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