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Today's
Stories
February 25,
2008
Anthony DiMaggio
Military
Bases, the Media and the Democrats
February 23
/ 4, 2008
Alexander Cockburn
The
Mushrooming Clouds That Hang Over McCain
Paul Craig
Roberts
Obama
and Global Trade
Wajahat Ali
Omissions of the Commission: an Interview with Phillip Shenon
on the 9/11 Commission
Ralph Nader
Neutering the FDA
Jürgen
Vsych
"What Was Ralph Nader Thinking?"
Fidel Castro
Watching the US Presidential Campaign from Havana
Andy Worthington
Britain's Guantánamo
David Macaray
Unions Under Assault
Jeremy Scahill
The Real Story Behind Kosovo's Independence
David Krieger
Stanley Sheinbaum
Caging the Cold War Monster
Ron Jacobs
Building for the Future
Michael Garrity
The Last, Best Hope for the Northern Rockies
Brian McKenna
Higher Ed's "Civic Engagements" Get Dumbed Down
Missy Beattie
Over the Hill with John McCain
Fred Gardner
American College of Physicians Takes Pro-Cannabis Stand (Mostly)
Boris Kagarlitsky
The Growth of the Russian Labor Movement
Mike Ferner
Kick That Barrel
Dan Bacher
On the Trail with the Border Angels
Christopher
Ketcham
Hillary Goes Where Obama Fears to Tread
Poets' Basement
Davies and Buknatski
Website of
the Weekend
Obama
Mariachi
February 22,
2008
Mike Whitney
The
Bonfire of Capital
Jason Hribal
Elephants and the Circus: The Story of Janet
Liaquat Ali Khan
Arresting Musharraf
Joshua Frank
That Obama Glow: the Nuclear Industry's Golden Child
Dave Lindorff
Vicki's John: Ask Not What She Did for Him, Ask What He Did for
Her!
Liliana Segura
When Torture is Old News: McCain's Blonde Diversion
Robert Fantina
Castro, Bush and Cuba: a Fiasco Waiting to Happen?
Yifat Susskind
The ABCs of Death: Bush vs. Africa's Women
Norm Kent
Pushing 60 with Pot
Website of
the Day
Bush Gets Down in Liberia
February 21,
2008
Saul Landau
Fidel
Steps Aside
Elizabeth Schulte
Left Behind, With No End in Sight: America's Long-Term Unemployed
Helen Redmond
Health Care as a Human Right
Benjamin Dangl
Undermining Bolivia
Michael Levitin
Kosovo's Dilemma
Liam Leonard
Fear and Loathing on the Emerald Isle
Patrick Irelan
Land and Food in Venezuela
Linn Cohen-Cole
Poor Ohio: a Second Letter to Hillary on Her Ties to Monsanto
Michael Simmons
Daydream Believer: John Stewart, the Miles Davis of Folk Music
CounterPunch
News Service
A Message from the Women of Okinawa to US GIs
Website of the Day
Cop Abuse in Shreveport
February 20,
2008
Paul Craig
Roberts
Lies
and Spies
Paul Krassner
My
Brief Encounter with Fidel Castro
Fawzia Afzal-Khan
The
Pakistani Elections
Farzana Versey
The
Great Dictator: Musharraf, Peace and the Autumn of the Patriarch
Allan Nairn
Dying for a Second Round: Israel's
New Plan to Attack Lebanon
John V. Whitbeck
If Kosovo, Why Not Palestine?
Niranjan Ramakrishnan
A Balcony Seat to Our Own Balkanization?
Steve Eckardt
Cuba Sans Fidel: No News is Big News
Lee Sustar
Union-Busting at Freightliner
Mike Ferner
How Sick of It are You?
Website of the Day
The US Military Index
February 19,
2008
Uri Avnery
Blood
and Champagne
Paul Craig
Roberts
Paying
Insurgents Not to Fight
Gary Leupp
The Independence of Kosovo
Fidel Castro
The Moment Has Come
David Macaray
Management's Dirty Little Secret
Reza Fiyouzat
Buck the Circus! The Left and the Elections
Valerie Morse
The New Zealand Terror Raids: Land of the Long White Lie
Walter Brasch
Bush on Safari
Website of the Day
Don't Think Twice, It's Alright
February 18,
2008
Wajahat Ali
Free
Pakistan: an Interview with Imran Khan
Diana Johnstone
NATO's
Kosovo Colony
Paul Craig Roberts
What Do We Stand For?
Andy Worthington
Gitmo: "We're Making This Up as We Go Along"
Debbie Nathan
Bernie Ward's Sex Tapes
Anthony DiMaggio
Following the Money Trail: the Democratic Party and the Business
of Elections
Bill Simpich
Ten Years Ago, People Power Stopped Clinton in Iraq
Eva Liddell
A Short History of Super-Delegates: Hope, Yes! But Pay in Cash
Christopher Brauchli
The President Who Couldn't Keep His Word: Short-Changing Veterans
Stephen Soldz
Wikileaks is Under Attack!
Johann Rossouw
The Ouster of Thabo Mbeki: South Africa and the Costs of Neoliberalism
Website of
the Day
Sick of It Day!
February 16
/ 17, 2008
Alexander Cockburn
The
Terrorists Still at Ground Zero, 7 World Trade Tower, Lower Manhattan
Ralph Nader
We
the Corporations ...
David Macaray
The Big Buy Out: Did GM Drive Another Nail in Labor's Coffin?
William J.
Peace
Wheelchair Dumping
Ron Jacobs
War on the Psyche: Shellshock and Redemption
Diane Christian
War Corrupts
Alan Maass
Oil, Blood and Greed: Taking Upton Sinclair to the Big Screen
(and Beyond)
Ramzy Baroud
Iraq and the US Elections
Michael Donnelly
Genitalia First! Old Guard Feminists Play the XX Card
Cpt. Paul Watson
The Art of Finding Whalers
James L. Secor
China Diary: Spring Festival and New Year 2008
Eve Bachrach
Bush Returns to Africa
Nikolas Kozloff
Hugo Chávez's Anti-Imperialist Army
Stephen Gowans
Steven Spielberg, Faux-Humanitarian
Missy Beattie
To Vote or Not to Vote?
David Michael
Green
Warming Slowly to Obama
Wajahat Ali
Attack of the Info-tainment Circus
Poets' Basement
Gibbons, Willson, Mickey Z., Orloski and Reuther
Website of the Day
Yellowstone's Bison Need Your Help--NOW!
February 15,
2008
George Szamuely
The
Absurdity of "Independent" Kosovo
Patrick Cockburn
Ground-Truthing the Surge: Is the US Really Bringing Stability
to Baghdad?
Wajahat Ali
Pakistan is Burning: an Interview with Steve Coll on the Taliban,
Bin Laden and the Bush Administration
Mike Whitney
Henry Paulsen's Wild Ride on the Economic Hindenberg
Alan Farago
God and the Democrats
Chris Genovali
Alberta's Black Gold Rush
Jacob Hornberger
Courting Injustice: Scalia on Torture
Dave Lindorff
Snoops Always Ring Twice: Bush's Protect America Bill Bull
Website of the Day
Live From the Land of Hopes and Dreams
February 14,
2008
Kathleen and
Bill Christison
Palestine
in the Mind of America
Mike Whitney
Swan Song for NATO
Clancy Sigal
Strike Notes from a Screenwriter
George Wuerthner
A Bloody Sham: the Yellowstone Bison Slaughter
Peter Morici
Is Bernanke Headed for the Exit?
John Ross
Drug War Mayhem Boils Over from Border to Border
Allan Nairn
Mafia Rules in the Middle East: If You're Big Enough, You Can
Whack Anyone
Rannie Amiri
Lebanon's Warmongers
Niranjan Ramakrishnan
The New Tractatus: Where Wittgenstein Meets Feinstein
Donna Volatile
Be Careful What You Vote For, You Just Might Get It
Seth Sandronsky
The Student Squeeze: Fighting California's Tuition Hikes
Website of
the Day
Conventions: the Land Around Us
February 13,
2008
Nikolas Kozloff
Meet
John McCain: Mr. Big Stick in Latin America
Alan Farago
Hell to Pay: Warren Buffett on the Goal Line
Christina Kasica
King's Dream Foreclosed: the Subprime Crisis in Black America
Vicente Navarro
How to Read the U.S. Primaries
Hall Greenland
Australia's Finest Hour
Lee Sustar
Strange Stimulation: Too Little for Those Who Need It Most
David Macaray
The Writers' Strike Finally Ends
Roderick Frazier
Nash
Celebrating Wilderness
Patrick Irelan
Hugo Chávez and High Anxiety at the NYT
Anthony Papa
Mean Mister Mukasey: AG Tries to Block Crack Cocaine Releases
Carl Finamore
Another Parade Passes Me By: Don't Let Your Movement be Coopted
by Politicians
Website of
the Day
John He Is
February 12,
2008
Frank J. Menetrez
The
Case Against Alan Dershowitz
Paul Craig
Roberts
War Without End
Dr. Trudy Bond
The Elephant at Gitmo: Camp 7 and the Torturer's Shrink
Andy Worthington
The Guantánamo Six: Why Charge Them Now? What About the
Torture?
Col. Dan Smith
The Psychology of Killing: Close In or Far Away?
Ronnie Cummins
Globalization: Standing at the End of the Road
Ralph Nader
Open the Government
John V. Walsh
Antiwarriors, Divided and Conquered
Dave Lindorff
Obama and Progressive Change: Let's Hope the Movement Transforms
the Candidate
Michael Donnelly
Who's Pimping Whom? The Clintons' Selective No Talk Rules
Ron Jacobs
La Lucha Continua: Castro's "Life"
Ben Tripp
Beggars Collide
Website of the Day
Springsteen and Youngstown
February 11,
2008
Cockburn /
St. Clair
Lessons
for Obama: When is a Delegate Not a Delegate?
Wajahat Ali
A Discussion with Walt and Mearsheimer on the Israel Lobby
Ray McGovern
Waterboarding for God and Country
Allan Nairn
The Shooting of Jose Ramos Horta
Uri Avnery
An End Foreseen?
Chris Floyd
American
Psycho: the Meaning of Mitt Romney's Exit Speech
Martha Rosenberg
School Lessons in a Lunchbox: Lunchmeat from Tortured Cows
Stephen Fleischman
The Bonnie and Clyde of American Politics
Marc Lamont Hill
Not My Brand of Hope
Liliana Segura
Obama and Torture: the Sounds of Silence and Equivocation
Peter Morici
Challenges for the New President
Christopher
Brauchli
A Drug Rant from a Former Taker
Website of the Day
Annie vs. the Blue Angels
February 8
/ 10, 2008
Paul Craig
Roberts
Does
the GOP Have Aces Up Its Sleeves?
Patrick Cockburn
Will Moqtada al-Sadr's Truce Hold?
Mike Whitney
The Great Bust of '08
Anthony DiMaggio
How the Press Covers Waterboarding
Andy Worthington
The Guántanamo Trials: Where are the Terrorists?
Linn Cohen-Cole
Hillary, Will You Renounce Your Ties to Monsanto?
Firmin DeBrabander
Notes from the Foreclosure Front: Suing Your Way to Solvency
Cpt. Paul Watson
The Other Whaling Industry: How Greenpeace Cashes In on the Suffering
and Deaths of the Great Whales
Kenneth S. Pope
Why I Resigned from the American Psychological Association
Jacob G. Hornberger
American Soldiers Will Pay the Price for Bush's Torture Policy
Robert Bryce
Beyond Group Think on Climate Change: If More CO2 is Bad ...
Then What?
P. Sainath
The Last of the Buccaneer Editors
Allan Nairn
Give Me Back My Land
Fred Gardner
/
Pebbles Trippet
"The District Attorney of Shasta County Doesn't Know the
Law!"
Andrew Wimmer
Growing Up Catholic: Ignorance is Death
Robert Fantina
America's Disgrace: the Case of Omar Khadr
David Michael Green
Partycide in Six Easy Steps: Watch the Democrats Destroy Themselves
Kevin Zeese
Is Dennis Kucinich Being McKinney'd?
Peter Morici
Wall Street Gives Bernacke a Vote of No Confidence
Chris Driscoll
Could Nader be the Come-Back Kid of 2008?
Prairie Miller
Black August: Bringing George Jackson's Life to the Screen
Poets Basement
Davies and Buknatski
February 7,
2008
Patrick Cockburn
Why
Baghdad Will Explode Again
Bill Christison
Potholes Bigger Than Ever for Palestinians
David Anderson
NBC's "To Entrap" a Predator: Perverting Justice for
the Sake of Ratings
Ron Jacobs
Innocent Flesh: Recruiting Kids to Kill
Nikolas Kozloff
Hugo Chávez's Coca: It's the Real Thing
Jane Rockefeller
The Moral Economy of an Anti-Poverty Foundation
Andy Worthington
On Waterboarding: Two Questions for Michael Hayden
Dave Zirin
Instep Intifada
Saul Landau
The "Honestest" Candidate Since Lincoln
Susie Day
Our Blob in the White House
Website of the Day
George Carlin on Voting
February 6,
2008
Cockburn /
St. Clair
Super
Tuesday's Vote for Chaos
Ben Rosenfeld
Informant Games: The Disturbing GreenScare Case of Briana Waters
Vijay Prashad
An Intellectual Hustler Lays It All Out
Joe Bageant
Nine Billion Little Feet on the Highway of the Damned
Michael Donnelly
What White Women Do In Private Voting Booths
Allan Nairn
Does the US Need a Civilizing Mayan Invasion?
Kathryn Gray
Wilderness on Edge: The Fate of Donner Summit
Ray McGovern
Powell's UN Fiasco
Sheldon Richman
The Whining Empire
Paul Cantor
/ Roger Sparks
A
Presidential Aptitude Examination
John Chuckman
Political Bits and Pieces
Website of
the Day
Save the Albatross
February 5,
2008
Winslow T.
Wheeler
The
Chaos in America's Vast Security Budget
Tariq Ali
Why I Will Not Participate in the Turin Book Fair
Stephen Soldz
The Secret Rules of Engagement in Iraq: Did Rumsfeld Authorize
War Crimes?
Chris Floyd
Strange
Fruit: America's Gulag and the Good War
William S. Lind
Saddam's Secret War Strategy: Die and Win
Martha Rosenberg
Live From the Killing Floor
Heather Gray
Conversations with Georgia Voters
Ayesha Ijaz
Khan
Obama, Bhagwandas and the Battle for a Secular Politics
David Macaray
Unions Need to Stop Being So Nice
Eliza Ernshire
Making Music and Laughing Till the Tears Run
Brenda Norrell
Hated Nation
Website of
the Day
The Things I Used to Do
February 4,
2008
Marc Levy
Winter
in America
Patrick Cockburn
The Bird Market Bombings
Saree Makdisi
Strangling Gaza
Uri Avnery
From Stalingrad to Winograd
Alan Farago
Let's Get Bambi! Someone is Slaughtering Florida's Key Deer
Ben Tripp
Spare Change: the Whine of the Progressive Voter
Paul Wolf
Civil Wars North and South
Paul Craig
Roberts
Why Were the 9/11 Tapes Destroyed?
Joshua Frank
MoveOn's Obama Endorsement: Why There's No Hope for Change
John Halle
Whither Progressive Democrats?
Website of the Day
How to Cheat in School
February 2
/ 3, 2008
Alexander Cockburn
Hot
Democratic Properties
Pam Martens
Bankers
Gone Bonkers: Global Finance and the Insanity Defense
Ralph Nader
The Great Clinton-Obama Debate: Questions They Weren't Asked
John Ross
Hilaria
vs. "El Moreno"
Wajahat Ali
Hillary, Obama and the Clash of Civilizations: an Interview with
Imam Zaid Shakir
Robert Fantina
A Colony by Any Other Name: Iraq as Stepchild of the American
Empire
B. R. Gowani
Not All Veils and Guns
James L. Secor
China in Winter: On the Western Edge of the Great Snow
John V. Walsh
The Invisible Green Primary
Niranjan Ramakrishnan
Barack's Bubble, Bubba's Trouble
Dave Zirin
Who Stole the Super Bowl's Soul?
Jeremy Scahill
Blackwater and Blood
Fidel Castro
Reflections on Lula
Joe Allen
Tet Reconsidered: the Turning Point in the Vietnam War
Stephen Lendman
Life in Occupied Gaza
Patrick Irelan
What Happened to the Streetcars?
Andrej Grubacic
Ziga Vodovnik
Caligula's Horse: the USA, New Europe and Kosovo
Josh Karpoff
Dead Soldiers and the Antiwar Movement
Ron Jacobs
Carl Oglesby's War
Paul Krassner
Tom Waits Meets Super-Joel
Website of the Weekend
Company Woman: Hillary and Wal-Mart
February 1,
2008
Ray McGovern
The
Iniquities and Inequalities of War
Diane Farsetta
The Wild Career of James "Dow 36,000" Glassman
Patrick Cockburn
The
Most Dangerous Country in the World for Journalists
Tariq Ali
Et
Tu, New York Times?
Allan Nairn
Eating Dirt for Lunch in Haiti
Rannie Amiri
Collective Punishment in Beirut
Ramzy Baroud
People Power in Gaza: They Simply Did It
Kenneth Couesbouc
The Mother of All Snowballs
Peter Morici
Recession Looms
Mumia Abu-Jamal
Witha "Brutha" Like This: Bill Clinton as White Negro
Rosemary Jackowski
27 Reasons Nader Should Run for President
Scott Campbell
Direct Action to Stop the War Re-emerges
Website of the Day
Betes et Hommes
January 31,
2008
Saul Landau
Return
to Afghanistan
Andy Worthington
Horror at Guantánamo
Mike Whitney
Rate Cut as Dagger: America's Teetering Banking System
Jeff Ballinger
Sustainability for Dictators Initiative? Clinton Praises the
"Suharto of the Steppe"
Tiffany Ten
Eyck
The Saga of the Freightliner Five
William Loren
Katz
Waterboarding:
Torure or Mystery?
Alan Farago
Why the Republicans are in Deep Trouble
Col. Dan Smith
Oh Say Can You See the 2009 Budget?
China Hand
Slouching Toward Islamabad
Dave Lindorff
The Usual Suspects Once Again
Wadner Pierre
Fake Democracy in Haiti
Website of the Day
One Big Union
January 30,
2008
Cockburn /
St. Clair
McCain
vs. Clinton?
Christopher
Ketcham
The Genius of the Development Industrial-Complex
Robert Weissman
America By the Numbers: The Shameful State of the Union
Neve Gordon
An Experiment in Famine
Paul Craig Roberts
Regulation or Deregulation, Which is Worse?
Joanne Mariner
How Anti-Terror Laws Threaten Free Speech
David Macaray
Labor's Only Real Weapon
Liaquat Ali
Khan
Is NATO Committing Genocide in Afghanistan?
Raymond J. Lawrence
Prankster-in-Chief: Bush's Troubling Non-Verbal Communication
Dan Bacher
The Collapse of the Central Valley Salmon
Website of the Day
Onward Through the Fog
January 29,
2008
Franklin C.
Spinney
Bush's
New War Budget: the $70 Billion Hand-Off
Mike Whitney
The Great Credit Unwind of 2008
Alan Farago
Buyer Beware: Florida, the Candidates and the Latin Builders
Association
Patrick Cockburn
"The Americans Bring Us Only Destruction"
Gary Leupp
"We Can't Afford to Let Them Spill the Beans:" a Sibel
Edmonds Timeline
R. F. Blader
A
World Without Abortion: USA v. Romania
Ahmad Faruqui
Musharraf's Post-Electoral Prospect
Fran Shor
Obama, the Kennedys and "Change We Can Believe In"
Jeremy Scahill
Secret Trials and Criminal Convictions: the Ordeal of the Blackwater
Protesters
Allan Nairn
Bush's
SOTU: Entitlement, Justice and the War of All Against All
Website of the Day
The Ghost of Rambo
January 28,
2008
Patrick Cockburn
Return
to Fallujah
Paul Craig
Roberts
The End of American Liberty
Allan Nairn
The Breaking of the Gaza Wall
Eyad al-Sarraj
/ Sara Roy
Ending the Stranglehold on Gaza
Martha Rosenberg
Obit for the "Front Page" City
Corporate Crime
Reporter
How They Rip Us Off
David Michael Green
Kristolizing Iraq: What a Great Freakin' War
Jennifer Van
Bergen
What's Left?
Nancy Oden
Survival Tips for Hard Times
Divya Karnad
Saving India's Sea Turtles
James L. Secor
Pissed About Pistorious: Why the Olympics Needs a Gimp
Website of
the Day
Yellow Journalism?
January 26
/ 27, 2008
Uri Avnery
Worse
Than a Crime
JoAnn Wypijewski
How the Clintons Lost It, Whatever the Outcome in S. Carolina
Ralph Nader
Ambition, Power and the Clintons
Paul Craig
Roberts
How Bush Destroyed the Dollar
Paul Watson
I'm Proud to be a Pirate!
John Ross
Murder and Cover-Up in Mexico
Fred Gardner
Ross v. Raging Wire: Employer's Right to Fire Workers Held Sacred
by California Supreme Court
Allan Nairn
Little Hands with Fever: Some Consequences of Poverty Death
Joshua Frank
Why Bush Wants to Legalize the Nuke Trade with Turkey
Binoy Kampmark
Société Générale and the Economic
Meltdown
James T. Phillips
America's Sick Comedy: Bringing the War Home
Stan Cox
The Depressing Truth About Anti-Depressants
Eamonn McCann
Hillary's Lie: "I Brought Peace to Northern Ireland"
Ron Jacobs
The Horizons of History: What's at Stake in Bolivia
Seth Sandronsky
California's Health Care Crisis
Ben Terrall
The Future is Unwritten
Poets' Basement
Tripp, Gardner, Gibbons and Davies
Website of
the Weekend
City of Immigrants
January 25,
2008
Douglas Valentine
Operation
Two-Fold: How the CIA Infiltrated the DEA
Patrick Cockburn
US Troops Will Be In Iraq for 10 More Years: an Interview with
Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari
JoAnn Wypijewski
Down to the Wire in South Carolina
Heather Gray
Are We Seeing a Racial Shift in the South? Conversations with
South Carolina Voters
Marjorie Cohn
Senate Democrats Poised to Fold to Cheney on FISA
Erica Rosenberg
Environmentalists Out on a Limb: the Perils of Collaboration
Alan Farago
Jeb Bush Goes Nuclear
Robert Weissman
Reclaiming Economic Freedom
Laura Carlsen
Wild Cards: Mining the Hispanic Vote in Nevada
Stephen Lendman
Israeli Repression in the Hebron
Website of the Day
The FIX is In
January 24,
2008
JoAnn Wypijewski
Obama
as Anthologist of Uplift
Paul Craig
Roberts
President Hillary
Alexander Cockburn
Hillary Wants to Talk About Dirty Legal Dealings? Remember Her
Nursing Home Scam?
Kathleen Christison
One and Two State Solutions and the Myth of International Consensus
Jeff Halper
Power to the (Palestinian) People!
Stanley Heller
The Siege of Gaza is Broken
George Wuerthner
The Moronic Sport: ORVs on the Public Lands
Patrick Cockburn
Desperate Iraqi Farmers Turn to Opium
Jeff Sher
Just How "Good" is Your Health Insurance?
Patrick Irelan
Musharraf, the Steadfast Ally?
Charles Modiano
Restoring the Anti-War King
Website of
the Day
An Illustrated History of Trepanation
January 23,
2008
David Rosen
The
Great Disappearing Act: the Presidential Candidates and the Politics
of Sex
David Isenberg
Is
It Really So Hard to Believe That Iran Stopped Its Nuclear Weapons
Program?
Farzana Versey
Hillary's
Harem
Paul Craig
Roberts
The Empire That Must Be Obeyed
Alan Farago
Where Did All the Good Times Go?
Allan Nairn
Indonesian Intelligence Service Threatens to Kill Human Rights
Activist
Kenneth Couesbouc
Another Turn of the Screw
Niranjan Ramakrishnan
How the West was Re-Sold
Michael Donnelly
Obama Strikes Back
Norman Solomon
The Power of Love
Website of the Day
Rafah Today
January 22,
2008
Paul Craig
Roberts
Farewell
to Old Economic Nostrums
JoAnn Wypijewski
King Day in Columbia, South Carolina
Al Giordano
Divide and Conquer Politics: How the Clinton Campaign Armed a
Black-Latino Time Bomb in Nevada
Felice Pace
Power Politics in the Klamath: Water, Dams and Salmon
Paul Wolf
Bolívar's Sword
Robert Weissman
Deregulation and the Financial Crisis
Dave Lindorff
The Bush Dollar Trap
Marjorie Cohn
Cheney Impeachment Gains Traction
Richard Neville
Keeping Shakespeare in a Box
Don Fitz /
Zaki Baruti
St. Louis Mayor Booed Off MLK Platform
Ben Terrall
Cindy Sheehan and the Virtues of Divisiveness
Sam Husseini
Stoning Martin Luther King, Jr.
Website of
the Day
Defend the Mapuche!
January 21,
2008
Kevin Alexander
Gray
Playing
the Race Card
Linn Washington,
Jr.
Deferring Dreams, Delusions of Democracy
Pam Martens
How Wall Street Blew Itself Up
David Macaray
Labor's Grim Dilemma: Do We Need a Labor Party?
Uri Avnery
Look Who's Talking
Omar Barghouti
Europe's Collusion in Israel's Slow Genocide
Joe DeRaymond
Protest and Trial in D.C.
B.R. Gowani
Why Islam Should Tolerate Images
Shepherd Bliss
The False U.S. Economy
Jean-Guy Allard
Philip Agee Versus the CIA
Dan Bacher
Leaping Steelhead!
Website of
the Day
Destroyed
By a Rising Flood
January 19
/ 20, 2008
Alexander Cockburn
The
Campaign in Black and White
Saul Landau
Good Time Charlie's War
China Hand
Endgame for Pakistan?
Conn Hallinan
Desert Mirage: What Was the Bombing of Syria Really About?
Ron Jacobs
No Retreat
Dave Lindorff
A Tax Rebate Won't Fix This Mess
Andy Worthington
Canada's Humiliating Double Standard on Torture
Paul Armentano
What's the Going Price for a Joint? More Than You Might Think
Seth Sandronsky
High Crimes and Economics
Michael Donnelly
Dodging Ecocide
Patrick Irelan
The Ordeal of Dr. Safdar Sarki
Martha Rosenberg
The Drug Industry Takes Another Hit
Sherwood Ross
Making the World Safe for Despots: Bush's Global Arms Trade
David Michael
Green
So You Want to be My President, Eh?
James Rothenberg
Unimpeachable: Under House Protection
Daniel Gross
Starbucks Shortchanges Dr. King
Peter N. Carroll
In Memory of Milton Wolff
Susie Day
Croakin' on Hudson
Paul Krassner
Woody Allen Meets Tongue Fu
Poets' Basement
Wolff, Buknatski and Orloski
Website of the Day
Rocky Mountain
Blues
January 18,
2008
Allan Nairn
Killing
Civilians, Carefully
Ralph Nader
When
the Big Boys Get in Trouble, Who Pays the Ultimate Bill?
Joanne Mariner
Terrorism and Preventative Detention
Alan Farago
The Stimulus and the Meltdown
P. Sainath
Pity the Brahmins
R.F. Blader
Beyond Steinem's Feminism
Andy Worthington
A Letter from Guantánamo
John Jonik
Private Insurance is Bad for Your Health
Brian McKenna
Where Even Sharing is Prohibited: Notes from Inside a Michigan
Women's Prison
Daoud Kuttab
This Time Next Year?
Website of the Day
Those South Carolina Voting Machines
January 17,
2008
Paul Craig
Roberts
Leader
and Vassal
Christopher
Brauchli
The FBI's Bills Come Due
Robert Fantina
Leadership, Bush and the New York Times
Patrick Irelan
Eternal War
Paul A. Moore
When the Rich Pay No Taxes
Stephen Lendman
Institutionalized Spying on Americans
Beena Sarwar
Bhutto and the "State Within a State"
Walter Brasch
Buzzwords in the Echo Chamber: Change and the Establishment
Brenda Norrell
Bush Legacy in Texas Sours
Adam Federman
End of the Left?
Website of the Day
Democrats for Romney
January 16,
2008
Jeffrey St.
Clair
Return
of the Native
Franklin Lamb
The Bombing at Qarantina
Julian Sanchez
David Weigel
Who Wrote Ron Paul's Newsletters?
Sharon Smith
Ron Paul and the Left: a Slippery Slope?
Allan Nairn
Economic Indicator: No Free Lunch, No Free Market
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February
25, 2008
The Meet the Press
Transcript
Why
I'm Running
By RALPH NADER
The following is a transcript
of Ralph Nader's appearance on Meet the Press on Feb. 24, 2008.
MR. RUSSERT: Will you run
for president as an independent in 2008?
MR. NADER: Let me put it in
context, to make it a little more palatable to people who have
closed minds. Twenty-four percent of the American people are
satisfied with the state of the country, according to Gallup.
That's about the lowest ranking ever. Sixty-one percent think
both major parties are failing. And, according to Frank Luntz's
poll, a Republican, 80 percent would consider voting for a independent
this year. Now, you take that framework of people feeling locked
out, shut, shut out, marginalized, disrespected and you go from
Iraq to Palestine/Israel, from Enron to Wall Street, from Katrina
to the bungling of the Bush administration, to the complicity
of the Democrats in not stopping him on the war, stopping him
on the tax cuts, getting a decent energy bill through, and you
have to ask yourself, as a citizen, should we elaborate the issues
that the two are not talking about? And the--all, all the candidates--McCain,
Obama and Clinton--are against single payer Health insurance,
full Medicare for all. I'm for it, as well as millions of Americans
and 59 percent of physicians in a forthcoming poll this April.
People don't like Pentagon waste, a bloated military budget,
all the reports in the press and in the GAO reports. A wasteful
defense is a weak defense. It takes away taxpayer money that
can go to the necessities of the American people. That's off
the table to Obama and Clinton and McCain.
The issue of labor law reform,
repealing the notorious Taft-Hartley Act that keeps workers who
are now more defenseless than ever against corporate globalization
from organizing to defend their interests. Cracking down on
corporate crime. The media--the mainstream media repeatedly
indicating how trillions of dollars have been drained and fleeced
and looted from millions of workers and investors who don't have
many rights these days, and pensioners. You know, when you see
the paralysis of the government, when you see Washington, D.C.,
be corporate-occupied territory, every department agency controlled
by overwhelming presence of corporate lobbyists, corporate executives
in high government positions, turning the government against
its own people, you--one feels an obligation, Tim, to try to
open the doorways, to try to get better ballot access, to respect
dissent in America in the terms of third parties and, and independent
candidates; to recognize historically that great is sues have
come in our history against slavery and women rights to vote
and worker and farmer progressives, through little parties that
never ran--won any national election. Dissent is the mother
of ascent. And in that context, I have decided to run for president.
MR. RUSSERT: As you know,
Ralph Nader, they'll be Democrats all across the country who
are going to find this very disturbing news, and they'll point
again to 2000. This was the vote count. Al Gore winning the
popular vote, but you've got 2.7 percent, nearly three million
votes, in 2000. Then Florida, Florida, Florida. As you remember,
George Bush won Florida by 537 votes. You've got 97,488. Democrat
after Democrat says to this day, Ralph Nader, if your name had
not been on that ballot, Al Gore would've carried Florida. Exit
polls show he would've carried Nader voters 2-to-1. Gore would've
been president and not George Bush. You, Ralph Nader are responsible
for what has happened the last seven years.
MR. NADER: Not, not George
Bush? Not the Democrats in Congress? Not the voters who voted
for George Bush? But there were Democrats in Florida, 250,000
of them. You know, I wish we'd have Al Gore on this program
someday Tim and ask him, "Why did you not become president
in 2000?" And I think what he's going to tell you is he
thought he did win Florida, but it was taken from him before,
during and after the election from Tallahassee. Katherine Bush--you
know the secretary of the state ...
MR. RUSSERT: Katherine
Harris.
MR. NADER: Harris, rather,
and Jeb Bush, all the way to that terribly politicized Supreme
Court decision. But the, the political bigotry that's involved
here is that we shouldn't enter the electoral arena? We, all
of us who, who, who think that the country needs an infusion
of freedom, democracy, choice, dissent should just sit on the
sidelines and watch the two parties own all the voters and turn
the government over to big business? What's really important
here is, if you want to look at it analytically, is there--Mr.
Gore would, would tell you if he won Tennessee, anything else
being equal, he would've been president. It's his home state.
If he won Arkansas, everything else being equal, he would've
been president. The mayor of Miami sabotaged the Democrats because
of a grudge, didn't bring thousands of votes out. Quarter of
a million Democrats voted for Bush in Florida. There is all
kinds of thievery in Florida.
So why do they blame the Greens?
Why do they blame the people all over the country who are trying
to have a progressive platform, not just the environment. What
was their crime? Why, why, why isn't there tolerance for candidates'
rights the way there is a building tolerance over the last 50
years for voter rights? Because without voter rights, candidate
rights don't mean much. And without candidate rights--more voices
and choices--voter rights don't mean much. I--I'm amazed at
the liberal intelligencia here. They are analytic and they deal
with all kinds of variables, but when it comes to 2000 election,
it's just one variable.
And I might add that Solon
Simmons and other scholars--he teaches at George Mason--have
shown that by pushing Gore to take more progressive stands, he
got more votes than the votes he allegedly--were withdrawn from
for the Green party. Twenty-five percent of my vote, according
to a Democratic pollster, exit poll, would've gone to Bush.
Thirty-nine percent would've gone to Gore and the rest would've
stayed home. Every major--every third party in Florida got more
votes than the 537 vote gap. So let's get over it and try to
have a diverse multiple choice, multiple party democracy the
way they have in Western Europe and Canada. This bit of, of
spoiler is really very astonishing. These are the two parties
who've spoiled our electoral system, money, they can't even count
the votes, they steal--the Republicans steal the votes, and the
Democrats knock third party candidates off the ballot. That's
their specialty these days.
MR. RUSSERT: Barack Obama
was asked about your announcement ...
MR. NADER: Mm-hmm.
MR. RUSSERT: ... which
you're going to--just made this morning on MEET THE PRESS and
yesterday.
MR. NADER: Mm-hmm.
MR. RUSSERT: This is what
Obama had to say. Let's watch.
(Videotape)
SEN. OBAMA: He had called
me, and I think reached out to my campaign--it--my sense is that
Mr. Nader is somebody who, if you don't listen and adopt all
of his policies, things are not substantive. He seems to have
a, a pretty high opinion of, of his, his own work. In many ways,
he is a heroic figure, and I don't mean to diminish him. But
I do think there's a sense now that, you know, if, if somebody's
not hewing to the Ralph Nader agenda, then you, you must be lacking
in some way.
(End videotape)
MR. NADER: Well, first of
all, compare my Web site, votenader.org, and all the issues that
Mr. Obama and Senator Clinton and Mr. McCain are not addressing
that are supported by a majority of the American people. A majority
of the American people support these issues. They want foreign
and military policy not to just be an aggressive military situation.
But Senator Obama is a person
of substance. He's also the first liberal evangelist in a long
time. He's run a brilliant tactical campaign. But his better
instincts and his knowledge have been censored by himself. And
I give you the example, the Palestinian-Israeli issue, which
is a real off the table issue for the candidates. So don't touch
that, even though it's central to our security and to, to the
situation in the Middle East. He was pro-Palestinian when he
was in Illinois before he ran for the state Senate, during he
ran--during the state Senate. Now he's, he's supporting the
Israeli destruction of the tiny section called Gaza with a million
and a half people. He doesn't have any sympathy for a civilian
death ratio of about 300-to-1; 300 Palestinians to one Israeli.
He's not taking a leadership position in supporting the Israeli
peace movement, which represents former Cabinet ministers, people
in the Knesset, former generals, former security officials, in
addition to mayors and leading intellectuals. One would think
he would at least say, "Let's have a hearing for the Israeli
peace movement in the Congress," so we don't just have a
monotone support of the Israeli government's attitude toward
the Palestinians and their illegal occupation of Palestine.
MR. RUSSERT: But would
you prefer, as an American citizen, to have Barack Obama or John
McCain as president?
MR. NADER: What I prefer as
an American citizen?
MR. RUSSERT: Yes.
MR. NADER: You're asking me?
I'm running for president, for heaven's sake.
MR. RUSSERT: But as a citizen.
MR. NADER: I would prefer
that the American people organize, that whoever is in president--is
president, they give that person backbone.
MR. RUSSERT: How would
you feel, however, if Ralph Nader's presence on the ballot tilted
Florida or Ohio to John McCain and McCain became president, and
Barack Obama, the first African-American who had been nominated
by the Democratic Party--this is hypothetical--did not become
a president and people turned to you and said, "Nader, you've
done it again"?
MR. NADER: Not a chance.
If the Democrats can't landslide the Republicans this year, they
ought to just wrap up, close down, emerge in a different form.
You think the American people are going to vote for a pro-war
John McCain who almost gives an indication that he's the candidate
of perpetual war, perpetual intervention overseas? You think
they're going to vote for a Republican like McCain, who allies
himself with the criminal, recidivistic regime of George Bush
and Dick Cheney, the most multipliable impeachable presidency
in American history? Many leading members of the bar, including
the former head of the American Bar Association, Michael Greco,
absolutely dismayed over the violations of the Constitution,
our federal laws, the criminal, illegal war in Iraq and the occupation?
There's no way. That's why we have to take this opportunity
to have a much broader debate on the issues that relate to the
American people, as, as, as a fellow in Long Island said recently,
M . Sloane, he said, "These parties aren't speaking to me.
They're not speaking to my problems, to my family's problems."
MR. RUSSERT: But you do
see differences between Barack Obama and John McCain on the war,
on tax cuts, on the environment, on a lot of issues?
MR. NADER: Yeah. There are
differences, obviously. The question is not whether their differences
verbally or what they put on their Web site, the question is
what is their record? Senator Obama's record has not been a
challenging one. He's not been a Senator Wellstone or Senator
Abourezk or Senator Metzenbaum by any means. He has leaned,
if anything, more toward the pro-corporate side of, of policymaking.
The issue is, do they have the moral courage? Do they have
the fortitude to stand up against the corporate powers and get
things done? Yes, get things done for the American people?
1950, President Truman proposed
universal health care. We still don't have it. We have the
worst tax system, perverse incentives that rewards the speculators
on Wall Street. Why aren't we taxing speculation on Wall Street
instead of heavily taxing human labor and sales taxing necessities
like food and appliances and furniture and clothing? There's
no debate on this. William Hartung, the independent military
analyst, wrote an article the other day saying there's no debate
on the bloated military budget, on how best to defend this country
without breaking the federal budget and putting huge deficits
on the backs of our children and their grandchildren. We need
to shift the power from the few to the many. And always in American
history, every social justice movement was a shift of power from
the few to the many. Maybe the slogan should be "Power to
the babies."
MR. RUSSERT: On Wednesday
it's your birthday. Happy birthday.
MR. NADER: Thank you.
MR. RUSSERT: You'll be
74 years old. You would be the oldest man ever elected president
of the United States. You're older than John McCain.
MR. NADER: Thank you very
much, Tim. I really like that.
MR. RUSSERT: It's an issue
that has been discussed about John McCain, and I'm presenting
it to you.
MR. NADER: First of all, I
thought David Letterman was very unfair in the way he made fun
of John McCain's age. Very, very--I mean, really overboard.
I mean, humor has no limits, obviously. But second, someone
once said the only true aging is the erosion of one's ideals,
and I want the people out there just to look at our Web site
and see how exciting it's going to be. I've been assured by my
computer/Internet literate associates--I grew up in the Underwood
typewriter age, you know--that this is going to be the most exciting,
informative, participatory Web site of any presidential campaign,
votenader.org. And on that Web site now, Tim, is a declaration
that we will receive no money from commercial interests, no money
from political action committees, only from individuals. And
I'll take it from any individuals--Democrat, Republican, Libertarian,
independent, Green party. And, and we are very frugal. They've
labeled me Mr. Frugal, my, my associates. We know how to use
it. None of this huge waste on political consultants who have
really messed up Hillary Clinton's campaign.
MR. RUSSERT: You heard
Barack Obama say that in many ways, you're a heroic figure.
You were first on MEET THE PRESS in 1966, you said that you would
never run for elective office back then. This is your third
run for the presidency. Are you concerned now, when people look
back at Ralph Nader, they'll consider him the Wendell Willkie
of his generation, someone who kept running and running for president
with no chance of winning, which will diminish the legacy that
you tried to carve out as a consumer advocate.
MR. NADER: No, Tim. My concern
doesn't proceed from that. I came to Washington over 40 years
ago to help improve my country and, and started a lot of citizen
groups who did that. That was a time you had a hearing in Congress,
regulatory agencies like the Food and Drug Administration would
be more responsive--Auto Safety Agency, EPA. That's a time Nixon,
because he heard the rumble of the people, and he was the last
president to really fear liberals enough to change his position,
signed OSHA, signed EPA, had a health plan that he didn't really
believe in, had a minimum income plan to abolish poverty, and
then it started. Around 1979, the doors started closing on the
citizen groups. So my concern, Tim, comes from, to give you
statistics quickly, 58,000 workers who die every year from work-related
diseases and trauma on the job; 65,000 people according to EPA
who die from air pollution; over 100,000 people who die from
adverse effects of medicines; 250 people a day who die from hospital-induced
infections; and all the fraud, waste and abuse that's eating
at the heart of the family budget, aggravating them. They can't
get answers to their questions. They're thrown into huge debt.
Now they're losing their houses while White House--while Wall
Street speculators laugh all the way to the bank. That's where
my concern comes from. And I hope it's shared by a lot of people
around the country. I hope a lot of people will be gathered
around the country to establish Congress watchdogs in every district,
a thousand people--we want to hear from very congressional district--to
show the American people how easy it is to turn the Congress
around if people are organized. Fifteen hundred corporations
get their way by--from a majority of 535 members of Congress.
We're millions of people out there, and we simply have to, for
the sake of our children and grandchildren, and the state of
our nation in the world, we have to mobilize in that manner,
and that's what that, that Web site is all about. It's not just
a Web site. It's a gathering center, votenader.org.
MR. RUSSERT: Ralph Nader,
we thank you very much for joining us, making your announcement
and sharing your views.
MR. NADER: Thank you very
much, Tim. Thank you.
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