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August 2, 2002
Jeffrey St. Clair
Dark Deeds in the Black Hills:
Daschle Dooms the
Sacred Land of the Sioux
August 1, 2002
Steven Higgs
Activists
Under Siege
Anthony Gancarski
Draft
Picks:
Staffing the Latest War
Zeynep Toufe
Invisible
Children: AIDS,
Africa and Selective Vision
Alexander Cockburn
Drivel and Squawk:
Angelina Jolie, the NYT
and the Attack on McKinney
July 31, 2002
Amelia Peltz
Inside
Ramallah:
How Can the World Witness Such Suffering and Do Nothing?
M. Shahid Alam
The Academic
Boycott of Israel
Bernard Weiner
20 Things
We've Learned Since 9/11
Philip Cryan
Discourse
and War in Colombia
Neve Gordon
A Feast
of Bombs:
Sharon's Endgame for Palestine
July 30, 2002
Pierre Tristam
Branding September 11
PS Burton
Financial
Journalism:
A Very Small Cog
Tom Stephens
Hypocrites in the House:
Fast Track After Midnight
Dave Marsh
Censorship
Goes Global
July 29, 2002
Linda Belanger
Why Do They Do It?
Alfredo Castro
Colombia's
Disappeared
Anne Brodsky
Inside Pakistan and
Afghanistan with RAWA
Andrew George
The Fires
of Summer:
Don't Blame the Greens
David Vest
A Blind Mule and
a Box of Medals
July 28, 2002
Bob Geary
Our Dinner
with Fidel Castro
July 27, 2002
Ian Daoust
The New
Mahler, Seattle Style
Gavin Keeney
Zizek
and Lenin
Ralph Nader
Citigroup
Heal Thyself
M. Shahid Alam
American
Presidents (Poem)
Mokhiber / Weissman
Push Back: Women Take
on the Corporate Beasts
July 26, 2002
Jerre Skog
American
Dictatorship:
It Couldn't Happen...Could It?
Philip Farruggio
Lie,
Rob and Steal
Rep. Ron Paul
Monitor
Thy Neighbor
Ron Jacobs
Thinking
About the
Weather (Underground)
Walt Brasch
Ashcroft's War on Bookstores
July 25, 2002
Norman Madarasz
Paul
Krugman's Howl:
Populism, War and
the Melting Economy
Gavin Keeney
Van Morrison: In September
Rep. Cynthia McKinney
War
on Terrorism or
Police State?
July 24, 2002
Gary Leupp
An Islam Primer
July 23, 2002
Jeffrey St. Clair
The Battle
for Zuni Salt Lake
Ansar Ahmed
Am I with You, George?
Bill Christison
The
Disastrous Foreign Policies of the US: Oppression Abroad Means
Repression at Home
July 22, 2002
Rick Giombetti
Glaxo Raises White Flag
in Paxil Case
Wayne Madsen
Forbidden
Truth
The Press, Bush, Oil
and the Taliban
July 21. 2002
Francis A. Boyle
The Rogue Elephant
Jennifer Harbury
Why are
the FBI & CIA Targeting Me?
Joan Claybrook
Time
for a Special Prosceutor
for Thomas White
Gloria Bergen
The Struggle
of Workers
in Palestine
Dave Marsh
Mr. Big Stuff:
Alan Lomax, Great White Fraud
James T. Phillips
"I'll
Tell You No Lies"
The Human Rubble of War
July 20, 2002
Gavin Keeney
The Grave
New Urbanism
World Trade Center Burlesque
Jacob Levich
"I
Was Schooled in Hate"
Confessions of a
Summer Camp Terror Tot
Thomas Croft
Augusta,
GA
Growing Up in the Deep South
Alexander Cockburn
The
Market Hogwallow:
Popgun Populism Isn't Enough
July 19, 2002
Abe Bonowitz / SueZann
Bosler
A Discussion
with Jeb Bush on the Death Penalty
Jonathan Power
No Need
for War Against Iraq
Rick Giombetti
Qwest
Death Watch
Kurt Nimmo
Of Mice,
Bullets & Bombs
M. Shahid Alam
Through
Racist Eyes:
Is Eurocentrism Unique?
July 18, 2002
Mokhiber / Weissman
Business
As Usual
Jerre Skog
I Spy: Now
Let's be Fair,
the USA Ain't East Germany
Ralph Nader
The CEO
Crimewave:
Corporate Socialism
Mahbubul Karim (Sohel)
The Rising Tensions
Between Spain and Morocco
Alexander Cockburn
Drivel
and Squawk:
Can the Times' Jeff Gerth
Save the White House?
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August
2, 2002
Tony Mazzocchi's
Brave Fight
The Labor Party
by Ralph Nader
The Enron scandal--followed by revelations
about WorldCom and other corporate shenanigans--has produced
a lot of instant experts who for the first time are actually
finding fault with the ethics of the nation's biggest enterprises.
For Tony Mazzocchi this must seem a strange
turn of events. For decades, Mazzocchi has sounded the alarms
about corporate power and its damaging effect on the well-being
of low, moderate and middle income families. For the most part,
the media-and certainly the Republican and Democratic parties-have
taken a see no evil, hear no evil attitude about  the performance of the corporate giants
which dominate the economy. Six years ago in Cleveland, Ohio,
Mazzocchi was the prime mover behind the formation of the Labor
Party. Under Mazzocchi, the Labor Party has been a strong voice
for progressive causes ranging from universal health care to
worker safety and civil rights.
Mazzocchi's creation is a growing national
organization made up of international unions and hundreds of
local unions and AFL-CIO Councils and community organizations.
Mazzocchi is blunt in his criticism about the deleterious effect
of the unchecked power of corporations.
"We have witnessed an industrial
and social meltdown advanced by and for corporate and moneyed
interests," he said recently.
Mazzocchi isn't any kinder in his evaluation
of the performance of the major political parties. In his view
both the Democratic and Republican parties "have failed
working people." He sees the parties as too timid in facing
the nation's problems.
The Labor Party is specific about the
failure of politicians to face national problems. Here are some
of the Labor Party's often-stated criticisms:
Our decades-old health care crisis continues.
More than 44 million people lack access to health care and premiums
for health care continue to rise. The wave of corporate mergers
and acquisitions across national boundaries has continued unchallenged,
and as a result, the nation is facing a growing concentration
of global corporate power. The price for the North American Free
Trade Agreement (NAFTA): 400,000 jobs lost and 40 percent real
wage drop for Mexican workers. Rights guaranteed to all citizens-freedom
of speech, of assembly and association-are not fully available
to American workers under the restrictive anti-labor Taft-Hartley
Act. As a result, the nation has the smallest proportion of private
sector workers covered by union contracts of any western democracy.
The Labor Party has not run candidates
for public office. Instead, it has focused its efforts on generating
debate on the issues that affect working people. And Mazzocchi
hopes that the Labor Party's constant drumbeat will force the
major parties to take up the causes of working families despite
the parties' long and profitable links to corporate movers and
shakers.
While that may seem an optimistic goal
to many, certainly the Enron and Enron-like scandals have provided
credibility to the efforts of Mazzocchi and others who have sought
to rein in corporate excesses and free up resources to meet critical
social and economic needs. While Mazzocchi has never spared the
tough words, he and his Labor Party often exude a positive attitude
about the future. A recent Labor Party publication described
its vision of America in this manner:
"An America where everyone who wants
to work has a job at a living wage, where laws protect our rights
to organize and strike, where the wealthy and corporations pay
their fair share of taxes, where quality health care is a right
and where solidarity puts an end to bigotry."
In six short years, Mazzocchi has positioned
the Labor Party and its allies to reach for these goals. And
now-thanks to a greedy band executives--a few more people understand
what Mazzocchi is talking about when he warns about the dangers
of a nation and a political system which allows corporations
to usurp the power and rights of the people in a democracy.
(For more information about The Labor
Party visit www.thelaborparty.org)
Today's Features
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